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April 12, 2015 - The Joe Rogan Experience
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Joe Rogan Experience - Fight Companion - April 11, 2015 (Part 1)
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brendan schaub
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eddie bravo
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joe rogan
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joe rogan
We are about to watch, we're watching UFC Fight Pass.
We're watching it on my computer, so I can't pull up who is fighting, but this is a lady fighter.
A lady.
There's so many fighters in the UFC now, even the employees of the UFC don't know who the fuck is who.
brendan schaub
It's tough.
joe rogan
It's getting crazy.
There's 500 signed fighters.
That far surpasses the Dunbar's number of 150. That's tough.
brendan schaub
Especially when it's international like this.
In Poland, it's tough, man.
eddie bravo
Remember back in the day when someone would try to get away with saying that they're a UFC fighter, and you'd say, fuck you!
Now, shit, you'd have to do some research.
joe rogan
Yeah, you can't just say, fuck you.
You gotta go, oh, okay.
brendan schaub
You might be like, yeah, he might be.
He might be.
joe rogan
And then you find out, oh, this dude, yeah, he fought.
This dude's 6-0.
unidentified
This dude's 6-0.
joe rogan
Even really good fighters.
How many people didn't know about Brendan Thatch until he fought Benson?
unidentified
Like, Thatch is fucking legit!
eddie bravo
His name sounded familiar.
I was like, Thatch, okay.
joe rogan
Dude, that guy's legit.
brendan schaub
He's big in Denver.
joe rogan
He's big.
He's fucking good.
eddie bravo
Oh, that's your boy.
joe rogan
Calderwood and Morose.
Is that her name?
Morose?
I don't know how to say it.
There's a lot of fighters from other countries now, too, man.
It's one of the cool things that we're seeing.
Jamie, give us a little volume so we can hear this, too.
So we can hear the fights.
No one's told us to not do that, so let's just keep doing that.
And I gotta take this fucking goofy lava lamp down.
I can't see shit.
brendan schaub
It's a big-ass lava lamp.
unidentified
Boom, boom, boom.
joe rogan
We're back.
brendan schaub
Is Hardy doing the commentating on this?
joe rogan
It doesn't sound like Hardy.
eddie bravo
Well, that's a play-by-play guy.
joe rogan
But I didn't hear him earlier.
Did you hear him?
brendan schaub
I haven't heard him.
joe rogan
Jamie, we lost it.
What happened?
What the fuck happened?
brendan schaub
Come on, Fight Path.
joe rogan
Oh, no.
We're fucked.
unidentified
Hmm.
joe rogan
Let me try this again.
brendan schaub
Well...
joe rogan
Take this off, because otherwise...
Take this off my desktop.
What are people seeing right now?
Just us?
Okay.
eddie bravo
Damn, look at that picture.
brendan schaub
Sucked if you're Anderson Silva.
eddie bravo
I know.
joe rogan
That was one of the greatest knockouts of all time.
eddie bravo
He could say no, no, that's when he missed.
joe rogan
Yeah, not because it was perfectly set up.
It was just crazy.
Like, as far as the result of a knockout, like...
The jolt it sends through your body?
brendan schaub
Yeah.
joe rogan
When Weidman connected on Anderson, it was like one of the greatest moments.
Like, not great, like, I'm happy Anderson got knocked out, or none of that.
Just like, the burst of, what the fuck?
brendan schaub
It's more like when Buster Douglas knocked out Tyson.
joe rogan
But crazier, because he came out of nowhere.
Like, Buster Douglas was whooping that ass.
Buster Douglas was hitting him with that long jab hook.
He was hitting him with that Larry Holmes-style jab and the hook behind it.
That was Buster Douglas' finest moment.
eddie bravo
I just saw that fight again within the last six months, and goddamn, even though Buster Douglas looked...
Amazing.
He looked flawless.
He was on fire.
And Tyson didn't train for it or whatever.
But if you look at Tyson, even though he didn't train, he looked good.
He looked good in that fight.
His head movement was there.
He was throwing big shots.
He was really trying to knock out Buster Douglas with everything he had.
He was throwing great shit.
And he did drop him in the eighth round.
Yes, he did.
unidentified
He finally dropped them.
brendan schaub
Did you hear Tyson speaking before that?
He was saying how he was just doing work on those...
Where was it?
Tokyo?
Is that right?
eddie bravo
Yeah.
brendan schaub
He was just doing work on some Asian ladies.
eddie bravo
He talked about that?
brendan schaub
Oh, yeah.
Doing work.
Really?
Oh, yeah.
eddie bravo
Like, what's work?
10?
More than 10?
brendan schaub
You're Mike Tyson.
joe rogan
He probably never took time off.
unidentified
All right, here we go.
joe rogan
Perfect timing.
We're back.
Fight Pass.
How dare you kick me off like that?
brendan schaub
It looks like an Atari game.
joe rogan
I work for you fucking guys.
brendan schaub
How dare you?
joe rogan
How dare you?
eddie bravo
I wonder how many half Mike Tyson kids there are in Japan.
joe rogan
Probably 70. Okay, we got Joanne Calderwood and Myrna Moroz.
Here we go.
We're gonna hear it.
unidentified
Damn, that bitch looks mean.
joe rogan
And I mean that with all due respect.
eddie bravo
Five foot tall?
brendan schaub
Oh no, that's five and O. Five and O, my man.
eddie bravo
I'm like, shit!
joe rogan
And I say bitch with all due respect.
Damn, Scotland does not play games.
I bet this chick is tough as fuck.
unidentified
Yeah.
eddie bravo
She is good.
brendan schaub
Joanne's about to whoop that ass.
eddie bravo
She does look like she's paralyzed right there.
brendan schaub
She looks terrified.
joe rogan
No, no, she looks terrified.
eddie bravo
That's the Carla Esparza effect, right?
It's not real?
brendan schaub
I don't know.
eddie bravo
Because Carla just does this.
And then she goes out there and whoops ass.
brendan schaub
Not that last fight, but yeah.
eddie bravo
Not that last fight.
joe rogan
That last fight, the striking was so outmatched.
eddie bravo
I think that chick is going to make, what was her name, Joanna?
joe rogan
There she is.
brendan schaub
She's the Ronda Rousey at 115. With better striking.
eddie bravo
She's going to make everybody look like Carla.
joe rogan
I bet they all look like Carla.
brendan schaub
I agree 100%.
eddie bravo
They're going to look lost.
They're not going to be able to take her down.
brendan schaub
She gives the shit out of me.
eddie bravo
They're not going to be able to take her down.
If Carla can't take her down, most fighters in that division are not going to be able to take her down.
joe rogan
Well, did you see her fight with Amanda Nunes?
It was a very close fight, and a lot of people actually thought that Nunes won the fight.
I think it was Nunes, right?
Was it Nunes?
eddie bravo
I'm wrong, man.
brendan schaub
She's a beast, though, man.
joe rogan
Oh, dude, she is wicked, man.
brendan schaub
You see her weighing pick?
unidentified
She's wicked.
brendan schaub
She's looking like that raptor.
She is intense, man.
joe rogan
I would Google her, but I don't know how to say her name on Google.
unidentified
I don't either.
brendan schaub
I couldn't even spell it if you gave me a million dollars right now.
joe rogan
I'm gonna try.
You want her?
eddie bravo
Man, Joanne got good striking.
unidentified
She throws it some power.
joe rogan
I just tried J-Y-Z. You want a J-Y-Z? And let's see if they figure it out.
eddie bravo
Dude, isn't it weird?
joe rogan
I can't do this while I'm not on my computer.
eddie bravo
Girls fight like dudes?
brendan schaub
I'm still not used to it.
eddie bravo
How long did we think that girls couldn't throw punches?
We believe that as a society.
Girls can't throw punches.
But then you look at Kathy Long.
Holy shit.
Have you seen her highlight reel?
brendan schaub
No.
eddie bravo
She's the best American female kickboxer in the 80s and 90s.
Holy shit.
brendan schaub
Old school.
eddie bravo
Went old school with it.
YouTube search Kathy Long highlight reel.
brendan schaub
Have you seen Holly Holm?
You've seen Holly Holm's highlights though?
joe rogan
You know what?
All that can stand down for a moment.
Have you guys seen Anne motherfucking Wolf?
unidentified
No.
eddie bravo
What's that?
joe rogan
Okay, we should stop watching this fight immediately and watch how Ann Wolfe used to knock chicks out.
eddie bravo
Look at that arm bar.
joe rogan
Nice, beautiful arm bar.
eddie bravo
Wow.
joe rogan
Beautiful arm bar.
What?
Damn, that was beautiful.
eddie bravo
Little Ukrainian.
Ukrainian in the house.
brendan schaub
She's a huge underdog, man.
joe rogan
That was beautiful.
brendan schaub
Huge underdog.
eddie bravo
I gotta see how that was all set up.
We were talking about Mike Tyson.
brendan schaub
They'll show the replay for sure.
We were talking about just girls whooping ass.
eddie bravo
Kathy Long, we were talking about.
joe rogan
No, we were just talking about Ann Wolfe.
unidentified
Let's see this.
eddie bravo
She pulled guard.
brendan schaub
Damn, pulled guard.
joe rogan
Wow, that's beautiful.
brendan schaub
I'm not mad at Joian's haircut.
joe rogan
Look at this.
Nice control.
eddie bravo
She pulled guard right into an armbar.
unidentified
Look at that.
joe rogan
She just can't get out of that.
That's crazy.
Control with her legs.
brendan schaub
Yeah, great control.
unidentified
Leg curls.
eddie bravo
Look at those leg curls.
joe rogan
Damn.
That is legit.
You know, Eddie, there's still people that say that you shouldn't cross your feet, and I don't agree with that.
Crossing your feet with the arm bar thing, that's like, people are pretending, some people pretend it's just like crossing the feet when you have someone's back.
eddie bravo
Well, it all depends.
If the guy's on their back and you're in spiderweb, if they're on their back, yeah, you cross your feet all the time, but if they're on top of you, it all depends on What's going on?
I mean, what's going on with the arm exactly?
And what's going on with the locking of the shoulder?
What angle?
Where is she putting all her weight?
joe rogan
Watch this.
This is Ann Wolfe.
brendan schaub
She's the American?
joe rogan
She's the black chick.
Check this.
brendan schaub
Just wait for some trauma.
joe rogan
Wait for some shit that's going to change your feeling about what would happen if a chick punched you.
You just gotta see this fucking KO. I think you'd be surprised.
Hold up, look at this.
eddie bravo
Boom!
unidentified
Oh, shit!
joe rogan
Dude, are you fucking shitting me?
Are you fucking shitting me?
Did she hit hard?
brendan schaub
She's like a little Mike Tyson.
joe rogan
Dude, she lifted her in the air.
That was ridiculous.
unidentified
Wow.
joe rogan
That girl went flying.
brendan schaub
God, Doug.
joe rogan
That girl, like, literally went flying.
Ann Wolfkin.
Bang!
And she trains James Kirkland.
Who's a high-level guy.
brendan schaub
I've seen her corner, yeah.
She's intense corner.
eddie bravo
Let's see what she says, hold on.
unidentified
I bet she does.
brendan schaub
Great speech.
joe rogan
Powerful Dan Hardy.
brendan schaub
Oh, I like Dan Hardy, man.
joe rogan
Love that dude.
brendan schaub
Great guy.
joe rogan
He's the best.
brendan schaub
He's good on the mic, too.
joe rogan
He's very good, very comfortable.
He's very smart.
brendan schaub
Damn, her walkout gear just says, Fight Night.
Just fuck it, Fight Night.
Is that Reebok?
joe rogan
I don't know what that is.
brendan schaub
There has to be a better campaign.
joe rogan
It says Reebok.
brendan schaub
Fight Night?
There has to be something better.
joe rogan
Is that what they're calling it?
brendan schaub
I hope not.
joe rogan
That better not be what they want people to buy.
brendan schaub
I'm not wearing that.
I'm gonna fucking throw on a big brown on the back.
joe rogan
Maybe it's, oh, you know what it probably is?
It's probably what they're wearing on fight night.
Like, that's why, does that make sense?
I should probably ask somebody since I work for them.
unidentified
Hold on.
joe rogan
Wow, that's beautiful.
Look at the control she has with her hands.
unidentified
Boom.
joe rogan
No capitalization, a small gap before the closure.
She didn't capitalize on that.
brendan schaub
For sure don't stand up and extend it.
For sure don't stand up and extend it.
joe rogan
She hung out in there.
eddie bravo
She should have squashed her.
joe rogan
She hung out in there when there was this one brief moment where she could have pulled her arm out.
Damn, look at her.
She's talking shit.
Damn.
brendan schaub
How do you say Joanna's last name?
Jura Dixon?
joe rogan
They're laughing at each other.
brendan schaub
They can't talk shit.
eddie bravo
Look, they're laughing.
joe rogan
Well, they know that that's where the money's at now.
Isn't that crazy?
eddie bravo
Fuck you, bitch.
brendan schaub
Damn powerful collared white shirt.
joe rogan
Beautiful.
brendan schaub
I think when you become champ, they should have a stylist for you right away.
You can't dress like an asshole anymore.
joe rogan
Well, what about Roy Nelson?
If Roy Nelson became champ and decided to wear...
unidentified
Give him a stylist!
brendan schaub
Oh, that mullet?
unidentified
See ya!
No way!
See ya!
joe rogan
No way!
You can't do that!
brendan schaub
GQ Roy Nelson would be sick!
joe rogan
Oh, you're so wrong.
eddie bravo
I think for women's MMA, they should be allowed to pull hair.
And that'd be part of the game.
joe rogan
Oh my god, that's so dark, Eddie.
unidentified
That's so dark!
How cool would that be?
eddie bravo
Come on, how cool would that be?
That's too much, bro.
joe rogan
That's too much, man.
Not cool at all.
Not cool.
unidentified
Why?
eddie bravo
Can you imagine the technique?
brendan schaub
Horrible.
eddie bravo
Dude, there would be all these different chokes you could do with the hair.
joe rogan
That's a good point.
Dude, I hear you, man, but this bugs me.
Here's Jinjecek taking out Esparza.
Dude, she's so lethal on the feet.
That's some real, legit, six-time world Muay Thai champion right now.
brendan schaub
Great technique.
joe rogan
Look at that beautiful elbow.
This is a goddamn firing gallery.
It's like she was just having sparring practice with pads that don't hit back.
This is what it's like.
She was hitting the mitts with some light defense work.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
Goddamn she's good.
Dude, the technique that you see there, that is as clean as it gets when it comes to striking in MMA. That's a scary girlfriend to have right there.
eddie bravo
She could fuck you up.
If you're not on your shit, if you slip and you're kind of drunk, she'll fuck you up.
brendan schaub
I'll tell you what, though.
No girlfriend of mine is walking out of the house with that business polo on.
eddie bravo
Brendan, if you guys were in a real fight, you'd win if she was your girlfriend.
unidentified
Brendan.
brendan schaub
I would snap her down to her.
eddie bravo
No, no, you would.
You would fuck her up.
But if you're kind of drunk, you're in your underwear, one, the lights dim, she'll rattle off a combination, she'll fuck you up.
joe rogan
That's the thing, though.
I think a girl like that needs a boyfriend like him.
She needs a giant gorilla that she can't just kick in the head.
eddie bravo
A savage.
Multi-billionaire dude who's like a little old man that she beats up and he loves it.
joe rogan
She only rides him.
You fucking little man.
I keep your life alive.
eddie bravo
He pays to have her beat her up.
Beat him up.
joe rogan
Dude, a woman like that, that takes a lot of man.
brendan schaub
You need an alpha male.
unidentified
You need a Cro Cop.
brendan schaub
Or you need a complete opposite.
eddie bravo
Cro Cop, right?
joe rogan
Yeah, Cro Cop would work.
brendan schaub
She's not hot enough for Cro Cop, let's be honest.
joe rogan
Well, how dare you?
How dare you?
I think she's beautiful.
brendan schaub
Oh, I'm sorry.
joe rogan
I think she's beautiful.
brendan schaub
She's beautiful.
unidentified
For Cro Cop, though, this motherfucker runs Croatia.
eddie bravo
Can you imagine the damage he's doing?
Jesus Christ.
joe rogan
Listen, he's married.
He's got a family.
eddie bravo
Before that, though.
When he was single.
joe rogan
I'm trying to Google this woman's name.
I've never had a harder time Googling a woman's name.
I basically know how to say it, but to spell it, I really need to learn how to spell it.
It's preposterous that they require that of you, though, I think.
Yeah, I know, man.
I'm trying to figure out.
Click on it and see.
What was her last fight?
Go to her Wikipedia.
brendan schaub
Besides Esparza?
joe rogan
Before Carla Esparza.
I want to say it was Nunez, but I'm doing this totally off of memory.
And I might...
Oh, that's who it was.
Split decision.
That's who it was.
It was Claudia Gedalia.
Okay, my apologies to Amanda Nunes.
brendan schaub
Boy, those women names are tough.
joe rogan
Because Amanda Nunes, I think, is a 135. Yeah, she is.
She is.
eddie bravo
Can we see the Kathy Long highlight reel on that?
Is that possible?
joe rogan
That Claudia Gedalia fight, that was a really fucking close fight.
A really close fight.
brendan schaub
Sometimes it's matchups, man.
Styles.
joe rogan
That's what I'm saying.
brendan schaub
She's going to be champ for a while.
joe rogan
Well, Klaja is very good, dude.
She's very good.
I mean, that was a really good fight between those two.
I think there's a lot of action in this division.
I really think that Johanna is above and beyond the rest of them when it comes to striking.
But there's some really good grapplers in that division.
And if they get a hold of her, who the fuck knows what happens?
eddie bravo
But if Carla can't take her down, that means every fighter is going to have a hard time.
No one's going to take her down easily.
joe rogan
But a striker with really good wrestling might be able to pull it off.
The problem with Carla was that the gap in the striking was so goddamn enormous.
brendan schaub
And the length, the reach was trouble.
joe rogan
It's just an enormous gap in the striking.
eddie bravo
But she still did get inside, and she got deep, and that's beyond the striking, and she couldn't finish it.
joe rogan
It's true.
She could have gotten tagged before that, though.
She definitely did.
She could have been diminished by that.
There's a lot of possibilities there.
If you saw the two of them, I would have to go back and watch it again.
But if you watch, anytime you see someone get tagged, there's a possibility that they're functioning in a diminished capacity, right?
unidentified
Hell yeah.
joe rogan
Hell yeah.
brendan schaub
We might try a brown fight.
I went from a legit jiu-jitsu guy to fucking two-stripe white belt.
I think he went back, mount, and I had no idea what was going on.
I thought I was fine, which is weird.
joe rogan
When you think about how good Joanna's hands are, she could have easily clipped Carla coming in, right?
unidentified
For sure.
brendan schaub
And then your memory, your mortar skills are slow.
You think you're moving at a good pace.
You're really not.
joe rogan
It's just a haze.
brendan schaub
There's a haze.
The distance, you seem like you're alright.
You're really not.
Everything's slow.
It's trouble, man.
joe rogan
Goddamn, dude.
brendan schaub
You just have some killer focus, not dazed.
Wanna be a fighter, huh?
joe rogan
Goddamn, dude.
Did you see the Jamie Varner shit?
The interviews Jamie Varner's been doing lately?
brendan schaub
No.
What's he talking about?
joe rogan
Very interesting.
He's talking about how he thinks fighters should spar way less than they do.
He's like, what you need to be doing is working on drills, hitting pads, working out on strength and conditioning, you know, do your wrestling, your jiu-jitsu.
But he's like, hardcore sparring should be done once a week at most, and only when you're preparing for a fight.
brendan schaub
I agree 100%.
joe rogan
He said maybe you could even stretch it out to even more than once a week.
Like once every two weeks.
He's like, what's really important is that you take care of your brain and you make sure you don't spar with bigger guys.
He was saying that he made mistakes by sparring with...
He's sparring with...
Who was it?
brendan schaub
He's with Bader and those guys?
joe rogan
He's with Bader.
I know he sparred with Bader.
I think he sparred with Buzinski, who's a little bit larger than him, too.
Yeah, all those guys are big.
CB Dalloway, who's larger than him, too.
And Bader's big, dude.
He's a big boy.
unidentified
Bader's a thick dude.
joe rogan
Big, thick motherfucker who throws haymakers.
unidentified
Power.
joe rogan
He's a hard puncher.
brendan schaub
I agree 100% with Jamie.
joe rogan
Jamie Varner's a 155er, and he's fighting a guy that literally fights in a division 50 pounds heavier than him.
And he's sparring with that guy.
I mean, that's pretty crazy.
Bader's a 205. You know, that's bananas.
eddie bravo
You think we'll ever see Bader striking like Conor McGregor?
joe rogan
Well, you know what I mean?
eddie bravo
What I mean by that is by...
Just utilizing every possible strike.
joe rogan
He would have to change a lot about the way he moves.
You know, I think Bader has gotten a lot better in his striking.
Like, no doubt.
Like, the Feijão fight is a perfect example of that.
Like, Feijão is a legit striker.
If you watch his fight with King Mo in Strikeforce, you see what kind of striking Feijão has when he's on point.
brendan schaub
Even Bader Glover's, he showed good striking.
He clipped him with the right hand.
joe rogan
Yes, he did.
He did.
brendan schaub
Glover's a monster.
joe rogan
Yeah, he heard him before he got caught when he was trying to close the deal.
That's totally true.
He's a really good...
He's getting much better, too.
He works hard.
You can totally tell.
eddie bravo
You see that...
There's a video going around, like a highlight of Capoeira MMA. Have we seen this?
joe rogan
No.
brendan schaub
No, they're doing spinning kicks and shit.
eddie bravo
Yeah, dude.
It's...
I don't know if it's fake.
It looks real.
It looks real.
joe rogan
Well, capoeira is just like wheel kicks.
brendan schaub
Yeah, super athletic.
eddie bravo
It's capoeira guys against capoeira guys, and that's what they're throwing.
They're just throwing massive double spinning wheel kicks.
They're doing all that shit.
And jiu-jitsu.
They go on the ground and choke each other out.
joe rogan
What I was going to say about Ryan Bader and that, like when you're saying, do you think you'll ever have a full arsenal, is the way he moves.
There's something wrong with the way.
brendan schaub
You think wrong.
See, I don't think wrong is the right word.
joe rogan
Not wrong.
brendan schaub
I don't think it's in his wheelhouse.
joe rogan
I mean, for kicking.
Do you know what I'm saying?
Like, I'm not even wrong with the way he moves, because obviously the way he moves is effective, but it's almost like his legs, like he keeps them close together.
If you watch like a Machida, or you watch like a Brandon Thatch, like that real strong, traditional karate type background, which is the one that allows you to get away with everything.
eddie bravo
Thatch is a karate type guy?
brendan schaub
Yeah.
eddie bravo
He throws a lot of wheel kicks.
joe rogan
He can throw everything.
Throw everything.
eddie bravo
That's what I'm talking about.
joe rogan
He's like Anthony Pettis at 170. You would have to have a wider stance.
So it's not something wrong with it.
It's something wrong if you wanted to throw all those kicks and all that other crazy shit.
You look at Anderson, there's a wider stance going on.
If you look at Taekwondo guys, there's a wide stance going on.
I think that's the only way you get to throw those kicks.
Like with Muay Thai, you can stand way closer.
Because with Muay Thai, you're throwing round kicks mostly and occasionally teeps.
But when you want to go off that back leg with anything where you're spinning, you want to have a little bit more space.
And I think if he wanted to have like Conor McGregor style, he would probably have to stand like McGregor.
Super wide.
brendan schaub
Super white.
eddie bravo
Would you think it's a good idea for every guy getting into MMA to try to emulate a style like that?
It's not for everyone.
joe rogan
The karate style works though, man, if you get good at it.
When it's hard to hit a guy, like if you ever watch a good point fighter fight like Raymond Daniels.
You've seen Raymond Daniels fight in Glory?
brendan schaub
Yes.
joe rogan
Only the super high level guys have been able to get past that.
The guys like Nicky Holtzkin, he's the guy who gets past it.
brendan schaub
Think about Wonderboy.
He's tough to hit, man, in the UFC. He's a phenomenal point scorer.
joe rogan
Joseph Vattellini.
He's a perfect example of a guy who gets past Raymond Daniels.
And he's the champ because he just kicked his legs out from under him.
He just used traditional, solid Muay Thai, hands up, kickboxing style, blocked, threw a lot of fucking leg kicks, took him out and then took him out with a head kick.
But everybody else, when Daniels fights a guy who can't deal with that kind of hopping in and out shit, it's lethal.
brendan schaub
It's lethal.
joe rogan
So to have a guy like a Conor McGregor style, or a guy like Lyoto or Thatch, a guy who throws those wild kicks, if Bader wanted to do that, he would definitely have to widen his stance.
brendan schaub
I don't think Bader's ever going to do that.
I also think the style you're describing is in those guys, Thatch, Connor, Machida, they're phenomenal athletes.
joe rogan
Phenomenal.
brendan schaub
And that might not be in Bader's wheelhouse.
joe rogan
You don't think Bader is?
You don't think Bader's a phenomenal athlete?
brendan schaub
Compared to Machida?
joe rogan
I don't think he's as skilled in karate or in stand-up as Machida is.
I mean, Machida's a sly, professional, high-level fighter.
brendan schaub
Explosive, quick, endurance.
unidentified
Machida caught him.
joe rogan
Yeah, well, Machida's pretty special.
He's pretty special.
brendan schaub
Fuck yeah, he's special.
All those guys are that we talked about.
Sometimes I think certain styles aren't in guys' wheels.
Does that make sense?
Like, Bob Sapp isn't gonna fucking adapt to the Taekwondo.
unidentified
Ever.
joe rogan
It's true.
Ever.
brendan schaub
There's just certain guys are made for it.
joe rogan
Too much mass there, right?
brendan schaub
Well, Bader's a massive dude, and big.
joe rogan
But he could do it, because Feijal can do those kind of kicks.
Feijal can throw wheel kicks.
He's a thick fucking dude, too.
Melvin Manhoof.
Who's thicker than that fucking guy?
brendan schaub
He's explosive and athletic.
joe rogan
But you know what?
Melvin, you don't see throw wheel kicks either.
You see them mostly with straight Muay Thai.
brendan schaub
All straight Muay Thai.
Leg kicks like a motherfucker.
joe rogan
Who the fuck is?
brendan schaub
It's different, man.
eddie bravo
Some guys just don't like throwing them.
unidentified
That's true too.
brendan schaub
I agree, some guys don't.
eddie bravo
Because they're no good at them because they don't practice them.
brendan schaub
100% I'm a victim of that.
I'm just saying certain guys, like a guy like Bader who comes from a wrestling background, the chances of him adapting, that's not good.
And you have to have the athletic ability to pick it up.
joe rogan
Well, I don't think Conor came from that background entirely.
You know, I think he's kind of picked that kicking style up more.
I think he started more as a boxer.
brendan schaub
Boxer, yeah.
But also taekwondo, karate.
joe rogan
Right.
He spends a lot of time with a homie in Iceland.
Gunnar Nelson.
eddie bravo
You know Machida?
joe rogan
Wicked.
eddie bravo
You know Machida single-handedly?
joe rogan
Everything great.
brendan schaub
Brought back karate.
eddie bravo
I mean, Machida, you can't say shit about karate.
Look at Machida.
joe rogan
You can't say shit about karate.
eddie bravo
You can't say shit.
You know what, man?
joe rogan
This is what I believe.
eddie bravo
But eventually we're going to have a capoeira guy in there.
joe rogan
Machida's the exception.
unidentified
Machida's the exception.
eddie bravo
There's going to be a guy in the UFC who comes out and is throwing all them crazy capoeira kicks.
brendan schaub
How come that hasn't happened already?
It has, though.
Cesar Mutante is a capoeira guy.
That's his background.
joe rogan
He really did start off with that.
He's a beast.
eddie bravo
Super good athlete.
There's a lot of guys who've trained in capoeira, who've done the UFC, I'm sure, but who actually go out there and stand like those capoeira guys and move like that.
brendan schaub
That would throw a guy off.
joe rogan
What do you guys think about Daniel Cormier and Bader?
eddie bravo
I would have to go with Cormier.
joe rogan
That's gonna be a great fight, man.
That's gonna be a great fight, man.
brendan schaub
I love Beta.
I love DC. DC helps me out a lot.
joe rogan
They're both really good dudes.
brendan schaub
They're good for the sport, man.
joe rogan
That's a good way of describing it.
brendan schaub
Yeah, they're great for the sport.
DC's from New Orleans.
It's in his hometown.
Dude, you look at DC's track record, there's not too many dudes beating him.
There's one guy on this earth who can beat him, it's Jon Jones.
I don't think he will ever beat Jon Jones.
joe rogan
Yo, how good is Jon Jones?
eddie bravo
What the fuck?
joe rogan
It's frustrating.
brendan schaub
We're watching greatness, man.
I don't think we'll ever get someone as good as Jon Jones.
I just don't.
joe rogan
You might be right, man.
brendan schaub
That motherfucker is bad.
joe rogan
He's something special.
brendan schaub
Oh, and guess what?
Now he's training full-time, moved to Albuquerque.
Have you seen his Instagram?
joe rogan
Yes.
brendan schaub
His Instagram where it's just this balling house in Albuquerque?
unidentified
Yeah.
brendan schaub
That means there's no distractions.
He's training full-time.
Oh, you thought he was good before?
joe rogan
Good.
brendan schaub
Enjoy that.
joe rogan
Beautiful.
Beautiful.
eddie bravo
You can say the same thing about Anthony Johnson.
joe rogan
Yeah, you can.
Yeah, you can.
brendan schaub
You know what?
We've seen Anthony lose, though.
We have seen Anthony lose.
We've seen issues in Anthony's game.
joe rogan
We have.
brendan schaub
We've never seen an issue in John Jones' game, ever.
joe rogan
That's true.
Well, you know what?
We have that one aspect of Anthony Johnson's game that you can't neglect when you talk about him.
That's the fucking extreme weight cut that he used to make.
He made the most extreme way cut in the sport ever.
We used to all see him walking around in hotels in between fights and he would be e-fucking-normous.
He would be like 220, 230. Even 240. I saw him at 240. Oh my god!
And then he would fight at 170. What?
unidentified
Why the fuck didn't someone sit him down like, bro?
brendan schaub
You're cutting 80 pounds.
Why don't we relax?
joe rogan
Homie, relax.
brendan schaub
Why don't you fight somewhere else?
joe rogan
What are you doing, dude?
eddie bravo
Yeah, what's the thought process then?
brendan schaub
He likes being a bully.
joe rogan
Is that what it is, man?
brendan schaub
I think.
Why the fuck else?
What are you doing?
joe rogan
Well, you know, there's also...
How about this?
Some guys think that they're not doing all they can do to be a champion unless they cut as much weight as they can to get to a lower weight as they can, and they think it's a part of the discipline.
How ridiculous is that?
They think it's a part of the discipline of being a fighter that you have to make that weight, and they look at it as a badge of courage.
They have to cut that weight.
brendan schaub
He's missed weight so many times, someone should have just been like, yo, my man.
joe rogan
Okay, well, how about Weidman then?
What do you think about Weidman?
Weidman has a hard cut to 185. He makes it.
He makes it pretty...
Well, he's obviously the most professional because he's the champion, right?
He always gets on weight, even in the fucking...
brendan schaub
He's never missed it, though.
joe rogan
That's the difference.
He almost missed it.
He didn't almost miss it, but he had a really hard time with it in the fight with...
What the fuck's his name?
Italian boxer?
brendan schaub
Oh, uh, Philippou?
joe rogan
No, no, no, no.
brendan schaub
Sakuraba.
Or, uh, uh...
Alessio Sakara.
joe rogan
Damn it.
Jesus Christ.
How could I not remember that?
Legionarius.
Alessio Sakara.
He took that fight, I think that was on, like, a real short notice.
brendan schaub
He took that fight and the Maya fight on super short notice.
joe rogan
That's what it was.
It was the Damien Maia fight.
brendan schaub
It was on TV, right?
unidentified
That was eight days, bro.
brendan schaub
That was eight days.
joe rogan
Yeah.
brendan schaub
That's different.
joe rogan
That was it.
brendan schaub
That's different.
joe rogan
The Legionnaires fight, he crushed him, right?
brendan schaub
Yeah, crushed him.
Maia went to decision, short notice.
joe rogan
And it was a stand-up fight most of the time.
That was when Ray Longo was yelling at his corner, I saw what you got through at the fucking weigh-ins.
If you can lose that kind of weight, kid, you can get through this.
Like, you can get in the pep talk.
brendan schaub
Yeah, during the fight, yeah.
joe rogan
How great is Ray Longo?
brendan schaub
The thing with Weidman, though, is, again, there's no holes in his game.
It's not like Anthony Johnson.
We've seen him cut weight and there's holes in his game.
Weidman, we haven't seen him, man.
That dude is a bad motherfucker.
joe rogan
He's an animal.
He's an animal.
He's a special type of Long Island animal that you never want to have a fight with at a bar.
brendan schaub
How about his boy, Iaquinta?
joe rogan
He's crazy.
unidentified
I love it.
brendan schaub
I love that.
joe rogan
I wish I was there to interview him, man, when he did that.
unidentified
I love that.
brendan schaub
When he was like, boo me?
joe rogan
No, fuck you.
unidentified
Boo me?
brendan schaub
Fuck you.
I loved it.
eddie bravo
He didn't get in trouble for that, right?
brendan schaub
I don't know.
joe rogan
I hope not.
They should give him a bonus.
brendan schaub
I agree.
$100,000.
joe rogan
I wanted to get, if I was there, I wanted to climb through the fucking screen and interview him.
I wanted to.
He was the best, man.
I wanted to, like, when he was saying, fuck you, I wanted to, like, first of all, it wasn't his fault.
brendan schaub
You don't boo the fighter.
He's not the judge.
He went out and gave it his all.
joe rogan
But John Anik was like, okay, looks like we've got some curse words here.
unidentified
See ya!
brendan schaub
Yeah, just shut up.
joe rogan
He was like, alright Al, take care.
You didn't even ask him to stay.
I would have congratulated him on a really tough fight.
It was a great fight.
eddie bravo
How did you score the fight?
joe rogan
I thought Masvidal probably edged him.
brendan schaub
Oh, I disagree.
joe rogan
Really?
brendan schaub
No, I had Al winning two and three.
joe rogan
I think I thought the first round was pretty dominant for Masvidal.
unidentified
I agree.
joe rogan
And I think the other two rounds, I thought Masvidal did just enough.
brendan schaub
Ooh, I disagree.
joe rogan
You know, I didn't think it was nearly as dominant as the first round.
I would like to go over again and watch it with you.
Let's do that.
Let's go over again.
We'll watch it after the fight.
That'll be cool to do.
brendan schaub
Would you say Meslodal is a 10-8 first round?
I could see it being a draw if you want to go that route.
I could see a draw if you give it 10-8 that first round.
joe rogan
Well, I think there definitely should be a wider disparity in scoring.
If that is a 10-9, but then the last two rounds were also 10-9, well, that's obviously right there.
That fight demonstrates it, right?
That fight demonstrates the difference between the first round, the domination that Masvidal showed in that first round, and then the really debatable second and third rounds.
brendan schaub
Masvidal kind of coasted though, especially the third round and the second round.
I thought he was losing it, man.
joe rogan
Kind of did.
And he hasn't...
Well, you know, who knows?
This is the thing, dude.
You know it as much as I knew it.
You never know what the fuck's going on with these guys when they get in there.
brendan schaub
He could have been clipped.
He could have been clipped in the second round.
We don't know.
And he was coasting because he just wasn't there.
joe rogan
Well, it could have been that he was hurt in training.
Oh, big knee, dude.
brendan schaub
Oh, shit.
Huge knee.
joe rogan
Oh, shit.
brendan schaub
Knee central.
joe rogan
We haven't mentioned this fight once.
brendan schaub
Not once.
unidentified
How rude.
joe rogan
How rude.
Let me find out what fight this is.
We're the worst commentators ever.
brendan schaub
The main event and co-main event is the bomb.
joe rogan
Yeah.
brendan schaub
Especially the co-main event.
That's the best fight on the card.
eddie bravo
Which one's that?
brendan schaub
That's Minnawa versus the Polish cat.
The Polish cat has beaten a lot of UFC guys that a lot of people don't know.
joe rogan
Yes.
brendan schaub
He beat Houston Alexander.
joe rogan
Jamie, can you put up the card, like the full card, so we can see what the whole main card is?
This is, we're right now, we're watching Paolo, Pawlok, and Sheldon Westcott.
Looks like a good fucking fight so far.
But we're talking about all kinds of other shit.
First of all, I gotta go back to this Roy Nelson thing and strongly disagree that he gets a fucking haircut.
brendan schaub
Bro, get a stylist, dress these guys proper, so they don't look like assholes.
joe rogan
No, he looks like Roy goddamn Nelson.
He's a fabulous human being.
Not everybody has to be Metro.
Not everybody has to be a beautiful, handsome cop.
brendan schaub
The UFC can hire me as a stylist.
The first thing I All I want to do is go to Joanna, the 115-pound champ.
I'm like, yeah, that business button-up you're wearing, let's get rid of that.
Let's ditch that.
You know what I'm saying?
joe rogan
That's hilarious.
brendan schaub
Roy, no more t-shirts, bellies, and jean shorts.
eddie bravo
I love Roy.
brendan schaub
I love Roy too, man.
He's a great guy.
What's next for him?
joe rogan
That's a good question.
brendan schaub
Because he lost over him.
eddie bravo
The more unique characters we have, the better.
brendan schaub
That's fine.
He can dress nice and be a character.
You don't have to look like fucking...
joe rogan
I feel like they just booked a fight for him.
unidentified
Goddammit.
eddie bravo
You see that documentary of the Sheik yet?
joe rogan
The Sheik?
eddie bravo
Yeah, the Iron Sheik documentary?
joe rogan
No, this documentary?
unidentified
Fucking good!
Is it?
brendan schaub
I love me some docs.
unidentified
You know, when you think, you know, I was into the WWF. I was into the WWF. I just watched Culture High, by the way.
joe rogan
It's pretty good, right?
brendan schaub
Fucking dope.
joe rogan
Yeah.
brendan schaub
If I could, I would do it, but I would, I mean, I was like, damn, I'm...
eddie bravo
I'm pro weed now.
The Iron Sheik story, dude, the Iron Sheik story is fucking amazing.
You know, he was an Iranian national champion wrestler who ended up being a bodyguard for the Shah.
brendan schaub
The Shah loved the wrestlers and the top Iranian wrestlers.
eddie bravo
And his main bodyguard dude, forget his name, but he was the best Iranian wrestler ever.
And he was his main bodyguard, the Shah.
That dude ended up committing suicide.
brendan schaub
So everyone thought, oh shit, he got killed.
eddie bravo
So the Iron Sheik, he was one of the bodyguards, he decided to bolt.
He bolted to Minnesota, dude.
brendan schaub
He has beautiful skin.
eddie bravo
But he was the second best wrestler in Iran.
And he started teaching the Olympic wrestling team.
joe rogan
Number one.
World champion.
World champion.
eddie bravo
And you know what's crazy?
You know why?
He wasn't even like...
You know how his character is the Iron Sheik with that...
What do they call those head pieces?
unidentified
Turbans?
brendan schaub
But it wasn't a turban.
eddie bravo
Iran was totally westernized.
He had nothing to do with any of that.
None of those guys are like that.
He was a wrestler.
He was an athlete.
He was a regular dude.
He wasn't like that.
But once he slowly started getting into pro wrestling in Minnesota, he would coach the college team there.
They were national champions five years in a row.
He was an amazing wrestler.
brendan schaub
At University of Minnesota?
eddie bravo
Yes, somewhere in Minnesota and for the Olympic team.
He was the man in wrestling.
And he started getting into pro wrestling, not as the Iron Sheet, just as an American Olympic coach type.
He was an American, but he was really Iranian.
So someone told him, his wife told him, he goes, you should...
His wife suggested that he uses that because...
brendan schaub
Because she likes money?
eddie bravo
Well, we were in that Iran...
unidentified
Exactly.
Right?
brendan schaub
Like, wrestling's great, why don't we make some fucking money and you get a personality.
eddie bravo
At that time, at that time, yeah.
unidentified
Right?
brendan schaub
Wrestlers are dead broke.
eddie bravo
That's when we were at, we were about to go to war with Iran back then, and everybody, you know, the whole terror hostages, the whole Iran hostages thing.
So, they took advantage of that.
They jumped on that.
joe rogan
How crazy is that to do?
unidentified
Smart, man.
joe rogan
For him, though.
eddie bravo
Yes.
joe rogan
In America...
unidentified
He loved it.
eddie bravo
He loved being the heel.
brendan schaub
Really?
eddie bravo
He started blowing up in Minnesota.
Then Vince McMahon heard about this.
The reason why he ended up being...
Listen, the reason why he ended up being...
He ended up getting the championship belt.
He beat Bob Backlund.
But the way that shit's decided, they talk about this openly about how Bob Backlund was the American WWF champion.
joe rogan
What the hell?
Again?
Dude, what is going on?
eddie bravo
They wanted to bring in Hulk Hogan.
How are we going to make him a champion?
Vince McMahon goes, well, he can't beat the American champion.
We need a villain to come in to beat Bob Backlund so then Hulk Hogan saves the day.
We have a villain champion for like a year or two.
Makes sense.
And then it blows up.
So they needed the perfect villain.
They fucking found it.
They found Iron Sheik.
brendan schaub
Perfect timing.
The crazy thing about Iron Sheik is he wouldn't lose.
eddie bravo
Because in reality, he knew he could beat everybody here.
brendan schaub
Because he's a real wrestler.
eddie bravo
Yes, exactly.
brendan schaub
Kind of like Brock.
eddie bravo
Even Hulk Hogan.
They all talk about this in the documentary.
brendan schaub
Yeah, Hulk wasn't a real wrestler.
eddie bravo
The reason why the Iron Sheik was...
The only one that would beat him was Hulk Hogan.
Because he was the best wrestler.
brendan schaub
He could fucking hole up.
eddie bravo
And they all know it.
They all knew it.
So he took...
And Hulk Hogan says this, you know, says Iron Sheet could have beat...
He could beat anybody in any room.
For real.
So for him to lay down for me and let me and pass the torch to me, that created Hulkamania.
Him passing the torch.
joe rogan
You ever seen Hulk Hogan's sex tape?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
If they actually had a wrestling.
You ever seen Hulk Hogan's sex tape?
eddie bravo
Yeah.
joe rogan
Oh, don't laugh and point me talking about the gentleman's sex tape.
brendan schaub
You've never seen it?
Have you seen it's sex tape?
It's the best.
joe rogan
There's so much sadness in that sex tape.
eddie bravo
That would have been no Hulkamania.
brendan schaub
Oh, I think it's glorious, man.
joe rogan
That's hilarious.
brendan schaub
Still looks good in shape.
joe rogan
I didn't watch it.
I watched a few seconds of it.
brendan schaub
He still yoked.
eddie bravo
He still yoked.
Dude, Hulk Hogan's arms are huge still.
unidentified
He fucking yoked.
Yote!
joe rogan
Brown skin?
unidentified
How old is he?
joe rogan
That's a weird love triangle.
Someone got betrayed in that weird love triangle.
brendan schaub
It was like his best friend's girl or something like that.
joe rogan
They have some weird thing.
brendan schaub
In the middle, he's like, hold on, Nick's calling while he's getting his dick sucked.
Checks his phone.
It's the Hulkster, man.
I'm not mad at him at all.
eddie bravo
That is hilarious.
No one gave a shit, right?
About a sex tape.
brendan schaub
I think real WWE fans were sad.
How dare you, Hulk?
joe rogan
What if you found out that Hulk did that on purpose?
brendan schaub
I'd be a bigger fan.
eddie bravo
Oh, and they talk about Iron Sheik being a massive coke head.
Like, he got busted with Hacksaw Duggan in a car.
They got pulled over, and they had a bunch of coke and weed on them.
brendan schaub
Think about the nights those two had.
eddie bravo
He partied hard.
Iron Sheik is a mad partier.
joe rogan
Did you see that ad for Stipe Miocic?
brendan schaub
That's a good fight.
joe rogan
Good googly moogly Brendan Shaw.
brendan schaub
That's a good fight.
That's a fucking fight.
joe rogan
Big, big fan of Stipe, man.
After that fight with Junior Dos Santos...
I was like, this guy, he's still getting better.
He's still getting better.
He's fucking really good and still getting better.
You're smiling, you heavyweight son of a bitch.
Competitive motherfucker.
brendan schaub
I think, don't get me wrong, Stipe's a fucking monster.
joe rogan
He's a monster.
brendan schaub
I think that fight was more of Dos Santos, the Cain Velasquez fights took its toll on him.
joe rogan
A lot of people believe that.
That's a little bit of speculation.
brendan schaub
He has like a surgery every other week.
joe rogan
Yeah, he's definitely beat up.
I've heard that.
I've heard that speculation.
brendan schaub
Your boy Noguero's fighting again.
joe rogan
Yeah.
brendan schaub
Struve.
unidentified
Wow.
eddie bravo
Why your boy?
Why do you say that?
brendan schaub
I don't know.
joe rogan
Well, we both love him.
brendan schaub
Yeah, love him.
joe rogan
All of us love him.
brendan schaub
Fuck yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah.
You have to love him.
Yeah, it's hard to watch the real legends like that.
brendan schaub
Breaks your heart.
joe rogan
Keep going out.
Like, the Roy Nelson fight was hard for me to watch.
brendan schaub
That was the worst fight I've ever seen.
That was the worst fight where I was like, oh my god.
It was like a shotgun going off.
joe rogan
Yeah, when he got KO'd, you know, it was tough to watch.
brendan schaub
I told you, man, when Little Nog fought Anthony Johnson, I was in the back, warming Pat Cummings up, because I was calling Pat for that fight, and he was just so beat up, and his body was so beat up, he couldn't even hit mitts.
He was just sitting down, like we are now.
joe rogan
Wow.
brendan schaub
Burt comes by.
You know how Burt goes.
Fire in the hole!
You're up!
No sweats.
Walks up.
Fucking prison stare.
Walks up, goes out there, gets fucking annihilated.
joe rogan
Do you think that he's just had too many fights?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Too much training time.
Too much.
brendan schaub
Too many wars in the gym.
Too many wars in the octagon.
You're talking about one of the best ever, man.
joe rogan
Yeah, so back to that Jamie Varner thing.
Jamie Varner was saying that he believes he's had about 30 concussions.
brendan schaub
30?
joe rogan
Yeah, or maybe more.
That's what his doctor had estimated.
I don't know how his doctor estimated that.
They did it through an MRI, a brain scan.
I don't know what they did.
But whatever it was, his doctor urged him to retire.
And, you know, then he started talking about cognitive issues, memory issues, things along those lines.
Then he sees a cognitive therapist once a week to deal with them.
eddie bravo
This guy's got good jiu-jitsu, man.
joe rogan
He's very good.
brendan schaub
I can't name too many fighters who have retired where I'm like, God damn, that guy's sharp.
You're doing really well, my man.
I can't name too many of my...
joe rogan
Randy seems fine, man.
When you talk to Randy, Randy Couture is very lucid.
He's fine.
And he had his last fight really late in life.
I think he was 48, his last fight.
brendan schaub
That's true.
And what, he started competing at, what, 42?
joe rogan
36, I believe.
It was his first UFC fight.
I was there.
That was in...
brendan schaub
That comb-over?
joe rogan
That was in...
My hair was luscious.
eddie bravo
Fucking dope.
Dude, he got a rear naked choke in his first UFC. Randy Couture.
joe rogan
Randy Couture, Tony Halma.
eddie bravo
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah, he choked out Tony Halma.
And he fought this other dude, too, that night that had real promise.
I forget the gentleman's name.
eddie bravo
Did he get his back?
He got his back as well, right?
joe rogan
I don't remember what he did to him.
He might have mounted him and ground and pounded him.
But the Tony Halma one was big right hand, ducked under it, took him down, had his will with him.
brendan schaub
Couture's a legend.
unidentified
Woo!
brendan schaub
What?
joe rogan
Stud.
brendan schaub
How about when Lyoto kicked his tooth out and he's like, you know what?
I'm done with this bullshit.
joe rogan
Yep.
He's like, enough.
brendan schaub
Front kick to the face.
joe rogan
Goddamn movies.
About to do some Expendables series.
brendan schaub
Expendables 67. Yeah.
joe rogan
He's an animal.
I feel real bad that he and the UFC had that falling out.
brendan schaub
Well, it's because of his son too, right?
Like he cornered his son or some shit like that, right?
joe rogan
Well, I don't know if you can quantify what started it out, but I think the thing that kicked it into overdrive, I think there was a few issues over the years, but the thing that kicked it into overdrive was him doing that Bellator show.
brendan schaub
Yeah, that'll do it.
joe rogan
Yeah, after they put him in the UFC Hall of Fame, he signed up to do that Bellator show.
The show was terrible.
You know what, man?
We all have different opinions about these things.
brendan schaub
You thought the show was good?
joe rogan
No.
brendan schaub
You tuned in every week like, I can't wait.
joe rogan
I didn't watch it, honestly.
I mean, different opinions about whether or not he should have been able to go into some rival organization and pump up the organization.
brendan schaub
Probably not.
joe rogan
It's, you know, debatable.
brendan schaub
It's tough, man.
joe rogan
He's a champion of one organization.
But you gotta do what you gotta do, man.
If people offer you some money, you know, and you have an opportunity like that.
unidentified
I agree.
brendan schaub
The UFC's not giving him a stipend after he's retired.
joe rogan
I got weird feelings on competitiveness in MMA right now.
Competition amongst organizations in MMA. And my weird feeling is, I don't think it's necessary.
And I think it'll be a lot less of this now that Scott Coker is over at Bellator.
brendan schaub
You think a lot less?
unidentified
Yeah.
brendan schaub
I think it goes up.
joe rogan
I don't think so, man.
brendan schaub
Oh, you're crazy.
joe rogan
I think the hostility is not going to go up.
brendan schaub
Ooh, I disagree.
Because Bellator's going to get bigger.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's going to get bigger.
brendan schaub
Because Scott Coker's legit.
joe rogan
He is legit.
But I think the UFC likes him.
They worked with him when he was the owner of Strikeforce, and it is possible.
unidentified
That was then.
joe rogan
Yeah, it is possible.
brendan schaub
It's all fun and games until Bellator's a legit threat.
Have you watched Bellator lately?
joe rogan
Yeah.
brendan schaub
I watched it last night.
I don't miss one.
I don't miss the UFC. Don't even matter how I'm UFC to the day I die, but I don't miss one.
joe rogan
Dude, I enjoyed it.
Marcin Held has got some fucking nasty jujitsu.
brendan schaub
Hell yeah.
joe rogan
Jesus Christ.
brendan schaub
How about your boy Joe Schilling?
joe rogan
How about Joe Schilling?
It was a good fight.
He thought he won the fight after it was over.
But Edgebrook...
Gotta do like this.
Gotta do like this.
You're gonna eat.
We gotta remember.
unidentified
Brooks.
joe rogan
He thought he won the fight, but it was a very close fight.
Super close.
brendan schaub
Takedowns are tough.
joe rogan
Yeah, Schilling did more damage, but the dude did get dominant position on him a bunch of times, which shouldn't mean as much, but oftentimes the way they score it, it does.
When the guy's on top of you and side control for a prolonged period of time, for whatever reason, that's worth a lot, even if he doesn't hurt you.
It is, but it probably shouldn't be.
unidentified
I agree.
joe rogan
We should probably figure out what is one thing where you're controlling a guy, but if you're controlling a guy and you're not getting any damage done, what difference does that make?
Is it 50% of controlling a guy and doing damage?
Is it less than that?
You've got to quantify it.
brendan schaub
The one positive thing I saw in Bellator is when homeboy Emmanuel fought.
He just lost to the Henzo Gracie guy.
Emmanuel Newton?
Emmanuel Newton.
Yeah, I didn't see that fight.
joe rogan
I missed that fight.
brendan schaub
If you watch that fight, Emmanuel took the guy down a ton and the guy was so active off his back, triangle, armbar, so active, and they gave him the win.
Because he was just threatening non-stop.
joe rogan
You know who does that?
Charles Oliveira.
unidentified
Yes.
joe rogan
You get that kid on his back and he's scrambling on his back.
unidentified
You know what?
brendan schaub
Cowboy's similar.
We don't see it a lot.
joe rogan
Very similar.
brendan schaub
Cowboy's guard game is nasty.
joe rogan
That's what I'm interested in seeing in this fight.
Can you imagine if Cowboy could submit Habib?
brendan schaub
Be sick.
joe rogan
Good googly moogly.
brendan schaub
I hope he does.
joe rogan
Good googly moogly.
That is a tough fucking fight.
brendan schaub
Tough fucking fight.
joe rogan
That's a tough fucking fight for both guys.
brendan schaub
Speaking of tough fights, I saw a fucking Machida yesterday spar five rounds like it was nothing.
Not shit.
He could go 10. Really?
That fight's in two weeks, too, man.
joe rogan
Goddamn!
How's he look?
brendan schaub
Best I've ever seen him.
Do you want to talk about a professional?
What?
The fuck?
joe rogan
Well, he has to be.
He doesn't have much time left, man.
brendan schaub
You know?
joe rogan
I mean, you think he's 36, 37 years old?
His athletic prime is probably, you know, right now is about maintaining the super high level he's at right now.
But, like, biologically...
In this day and age, without taking anything, you're going to start to experience that pretty significant diminishment.
brendan schaub
I'm telling you, man, though, there's no one more professional than him.
joe rogan
He's awesome.
brendan schaub
They need a documentary on Liotto just called The Professional.
That motherfucker's just...
He's a legit martial artist, 365 days a year.
joe rogan
Yeah, he's a super nice guy, too.
eddie bravo
Does he still drink urine?
joe rogan
Hey, how dare you?
brendan schaub
I don't think so.
joe rogan
How dare you bring that up?
No, I think someone schooled him on that.
brendan schaub
They're like, yo, you can't be drinking piss again.
unidentified
Hey, I'm not talking shit.
eddie bravo
I drank urine.
joe rogan
I drank my piss a couple times.
eddie bravo
I tried it for like a month.
brendan schaub
Did you really?
eddie bravo
Did you try it too, Joe?
joe rogan
Yeah, I tried it a few times.
brendan schaub
I tried it too.
After I saw Machido do it, I was like, shit, I'm just going to heat this shit up.
joe rogan
Really, it's not that big a deal.
You know, everybody makes it out that it's a big deal.
It's your own piss.
It's really...
I did it with a DJ on the radio and he almost threw up.
It was hilarious.
unidentified
Really?
joe rogan
This dude no name in San Francisco.
I don't think he thought I was going to do it.
brendan schaub
He was like, Joe, will you drink this piss?
joe rogan
Well, it's really stupid to do.
Don't do it, folks.
But there is some thought that certain vitamins or antioxidants...
I forget the rap.
I would never do it if I read about it today, but when I did it back in the day, I was a little bit more susceptible to...
The internet has schooled me on the reality of drinking your piss.
brendan schaub
I was in the UFC, I saw the cheetah do it, and I started drinking piss, man.
That's how it goes.
eddie bravo
This is the way I look at it.
I don't know shit about why I'm...
We can't just piss out of our asses.
Why do we need our dicks to get rid of liquid waste?
I mean, that's science.
joe rogan
Where is this coming from?
eddie bravo
It's science, bro.
What I'm thinking is your piss is designed to clean that important urethra out multiple times a day cleaning bacteria so that your piss can't be filled with bacteria.
It's cleaner.
It's cleaning your dick out.
Your body made cleaner for your dick to keep it clean.
So when you shoot out sperm, it's healthy and clean.
joe rogan
Dude, you should be a scientist.
unidentified
Right?
Straight up.
eddie bravo
That's my guess.
That's my guess.
brendan schaub
Straight up scientist.
eddie bravo
That's my guess.
I don't know.
joe rogan
I tuned out about ten seconds into that.
brendan schaub
Okay.
Yeah.
eddie bravo
You don't think that makes sense?
joe rogan
It does a little, I guess.
eddie bravo
It does!
There has to be a special reason for piss, or otherwise we just piss out of our asses.
joe rogan
Every animal does it that way, too.
But women don't ejaculate, and they pee out of their vaginas, too.
So, that throws a little monkey wrench into it.
No, no, no, because everyone's born a woman.
Everyone's not born a woman.
Everyone's hatched a woman.
unidentified
That's hard.
joe rogan
When you're an embryo, everyone's a woman.
brendan schaub
I did not know that.
joe rogan
That's why we have nipples.
brendan schaub
I did not know that.
Really?
That's why we have nipples?
joe rogan
Yeah, whatever the difference in the chromosomes are.
Obviously, I'm doing a shitty job of the biology here, but we're XY. That's what men are.
brendan schaub
I've always had a set of tits, man.
joe rogan
That Y gets established.
Testosterone kicks into gear.
And you become a boy.
But everything in the beginning, every embryo, whatever it is, every embryo starts out as a female.
eddie bravo
And then we're raised to be obsessed with as men.
brendan schaub
Dick size.
eddie bravo
No, when it comes to women, to less than nothing.
joe rogan
Yeah.
eddie bravo
There's a void.
There's nothing there.
It's nothing.
It's a hole.
It goes in and there's a void.
brendan schaub
Have you heard of that Lady Valor?
The Navy Seal?
unidentified
Hold on.
joe rogan
What do you mean?
I'm just trying to take a different route.
No, no, no.
I'm just trying to take a different route.
I'm just trying to figure out what you're saying.
eddie bravo
You know, when a girl likes a guy's private parts, there's actually six, seven, eight inches of a thing that they have to...
For some reason, they like the way it looks.
I don't like the way it looks.
But when it comes to...
When it comes to female genitalia, we are obsessed with a void.
There's nothing.
Not only is there no eight inches, but it goes eight inches deep of nothingness.
So there's just a void that we have to...
joe rogan
I don't know.
eddie bravo
We're obsessed with.
joe rogan
That doesn't make any sense.
unidentified
Exactly.
eddie bravo
It makes zero sense.
joe rogan
It's not a void.
unidentified
It is.
There's nothing there.
joe rogan
It grabs your finger, dude.
eddie bravo
That's the outer edges of the void.
joe rogan
No, the inside grabs your finger.
It squeezes.
That's like saying your mouth is a void.
unidentified
It is.
eddie bravo
It's a hole.
unidentified
What?
eddie bravo
The vacuum, bro.
joe rogan
The greatest stone biology rant of all time.
unidentified
Hold up.
brendan schaub
Why the fuck does that say Jacare versus Chris Camozzi?
Where's my boy fucking...
Oh, that's right.
joe rogan
You didn't hear?
Yeah, he got hurt.
brendan schaub
No fucking way.
unidentified
When?
joe rogan
Yeah, he got hurt.
He got hurt a couple days ago.
brendan schaub
Jacare and Camozzi already fought.
Jacare cemented him in like three seconds.
joe rogan
Camozzi gets a rematch on fucking Fox.
Good for him.
brendan schaub
Yeah, I like him, but he's a Denver boy.
He's a great dude.
joe rogan
I like that dude.
eddie bravo
Great opportunity.
brendan schaub
He brings it.
eddie bravo
One day.
Boom.
Big brown up in there.
brendan schaub
205. One day.
eddie bravo
Look at that.
unidentified
That look.
brendan schaub
Joe's on.
joe rogan
I'm trying to figure out the rankings here.
unidentified
Did you hear Big Brown mention 205?
joe rogan
Yeah.
What do you weigh right now?
brendan schaub
I'm about 247. I've lost six pounds in a week.
joe rogan
How does it feel to lose six pounds?
brendan schaub
Glorious.
joe rogan
Does it feel good?
brendan schaub
Yeah, I feel great, man.
joe rogan
You feel physically good?
brendan schaub
Great.
joe rogan
What did you do?
Would you change?
Just calories or the type of food?
unidentified
Calories.
brendan schaub
I was doing it myself, you know, for like two or three months, and you just can't do that, man.
So I hired a nutritionist.
joe rogan
And do they prepare the meals for you and everything?
brendan schaub
Yeah, drop them off every Sunday.
Meals, water, plan, everything.
I check in with them all the time.
eddie bravo
It's way easier that way, right?
brendan schaub
Way easier.
joe rogan
So do you get one of those body fat tests and a body composition test?
Do they do that stuff too?
brendan schaub
No.
joe rogan
No?
brendan schaub
He can.
I just don't want to drive out there and do all that shit.
joe rogan
The good thing with those is those are numbers.
You know, you get it down on paper.
You got to make sure that you're hydrated because those things, the equipment that they use, unless they're dunking you, It can be a little fuckery.
brendan schaub
There's always like a plus or minus 3% on those things, right?
unidentified
Yeah.
brendan schaub
Unless you go on those bod pods.
joe rogan
I think they say the calipers, the little pinchy things, are like the least effective.
The most effective is the flotation.
This is a bad motherfucker, Jimmy Manoa.
He is a bad motherfucker.
brendan schaub
His only loss is to Augusta.
joe rogan
Dude, he's only been doing MMA for like six years.
He's like a super athlete.
brendan schaub
Straight off the street, right?
joe rogan
Yes, super athlete.
brendan schaub
Good athlete, for sure.
joe rogan
He's a nasty striker, dude.
Serious fucking power.
brendan schaub
This Jan dude's no punk, man.
He's beat tougher guys than Jimmy.
joe rogan
Jimmy hasn't really beat anyone.
unidentified
I think you have to call him Jan.
joe rogan
Is his name Jan?
brendan schaub
Is it Jan?
joe rogan
How do they say it?
brendan schaub
Because in Denver, Colorado, we call him fucking Jan, alright?
joe rogan
Where's he from?
brendan schaub
He's from Poland.
This is his hometown.
joe rogan
Denver, Colorado.
brendan schaub
In Denver, Colorado, we call him Jan.
But it's probably Jan for sure.
joe rogan
Yeah, he said Jan.
brendan schaub
Yeah, so Jan's beat Houston Alexander.
He's beat Sokuju.
joe rogan
Yep.
brendan schaub
You remember that, what's his fucking name?
Relic?
You remember that dude, Goran Relic?
joe rogan
Yeah, Goran Relic.
brendan schaub
That badass Croatian?
joe rogan
Yeah.
brendan schaub
Beat him.
joe rogan
What happened to that dude?
That dude had mad potential.
brendan schaub
I don't know, right?
He had skills.
joe rogan
I think he got injured.
brendan schaub
I was just thinking about him today.
joe rogan
I think he got injured.
brendan schaub
His stand-up was nasty.
He was a mean dude.
joe rogan
Yeah, he was really good.
brendan schaub
I think Manawa's the favorite.
I'm taking my boy Yan, or as we call him in Denver.
joe rogan
Strong words.
Strong words for...
brendan schaub
I know, right?
joe rogan
Colorado kid.
brendan schaub
What?
I guess this guy's just a hero out there in Poland.
joe rogan
My feelings about this whole Bellator UFC thing is, there doesn't have to be some crazy fucking hatred between the organizations.
Everybody would benefit if everybody benefits.
I really believe that the sport of MMA still has room to grow.
And I think that a big organization that is alongside the UFC is not a bad thing.
And it's a very good thing for the athletes.
brendan schaub
It's great for the athletes.
It's better for the athletes than it is the UFC. It's very good for the athletes.
joe rogan
I think the UFC is obviously above and beyond in terms of the talent.
brendan schaub
It's not even close.
joe rogan
It's not even close.
But it's not a bad thing to have Bellator around.
I think they do a great job.
I enjoy the shit out of the fights.
brendan schaub
Yeah, I like them, man.
I don't miss them.
joe rogan
I enjoyed the shit out of Joe Schilling's fight.
That was a great fight.
brendan schaub
I like how Joe Schilling does glory and Bellator.
joe rogan
He's a fucking beast.
That dude is a straight-up savage.
He's a straight killer.
brendan schaub
Super talented.
joe rogan
And a real good dude, too.
Real good dude.
brendan schaub
How many of those Bellator guys do you think would come over to the UFC? They're champs and do well?
joe rogan
Not many.
You know what, man?
You really don't know until they get in there.
You don't know.
unidentified
Look at Eddie Alvarez.
joe rogan
Well, he fought Donald, and Donald was on point.
Just saying.
Donald was on point.
brendan schaub
But then he lost again.
joe rogan
Yeah, he did.
eddie bravo
Who'd he lose again to?
brendan schaub
Didn't he lose to Henderson?
eddie bravo
Look at all the fighters that came from Strikeforce and...
joe rogan
Hold on a second.
brendan schaub
Strikeforce is different!
joe rogan
Why do I feel like that fight got cancelled?
brendan schaub
Maybe you're right.
Did Eddie get hurt in that?
Because that's a hell of a fight.
joe rogan
Jesus Christ, why can I not remember that?
brendan schaub
I can't remember either.
unidentified
Headshots!
joe rogan
Alright, let's see, Ben Sutton.
brendan schaub
This is your best fight on the card right here.
joe rogan
Yeah, I agree.
Well, you know what?
I'm very curious to see what happens in the main event.
brendan schaub
I am too.
eddie bravo
It feels 2003. We're already at the co-main event?
brendan schaub
Yeah.
There's not that many fights.
eddie bravo
Is this a two hour show?
brendan schaub
No.
I don't think so.
eddie bravo
Man, we've been here one hour and we're already at the co-main event.
That's weird.
brendan schaub
It's also Fight Pass.
joe rogan
Yeah.
brendan schaub
Eddie Alvarez lost to Cowboy and they lost one more.
joe rogan
Okay, the last fights for Benson were Brandon Thatch, and then the Donald Cowboy Cerrone fight, and then Rafael Dos Anjos.
Rafael Dos Anjos before that.
brendan schaub
I'm making fights up, everybody.
joe rogan
Yeah.
I think that was a fight that was scheduled.
brendan schaub
It was supposed to happen, right?
joe rogan
It didn't take place.
brendan schaub
Who was Eddie's last fight?
Because he's lost two, I thought.
joe rogan
I didn't know that he lost two.
Why do I not remember that?
I love Google.
Oh, God, it's awesome.
Oh, Cerrone beat him, and then who beat him after Cerrone, though?
unidentified
He beat Michael Chandler?
brendan schaub
Chandler was in Bellator.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Who are you looking up, Jamie?
unidentified
Eddie Alvarez?
joe rogan
Yeah, he beat Michael Chandler to leave Bellator.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
I think he's only fought once, dude.
brendan schaub
And then he got hurt.
He's supposed to fight Ben, right?
joe rogan
Yeah, I don't think he's...
Fight Pass went down again?
Listen, Fight Pass.
brendan schaub
Fight Pass.
joe rogan
It keeps kicking me off and I have to re-log in.
This is really dumb.
I'm gonna sign in with Facebook.
See if it makes a difference.
Powerful Jimmy Manoa.
I love listening to the European commentators.
I love the way they talk.
brendan schaub
His only one fight was Donald.
joe rogan
You're trying to give him more losses because he's so handsome.
brendan schaub
Dude, his eyebrows are on point.
joe rogan
He's beautiful.
brendan schaub
He for sure gets those wags.
joe rogan
I'm really excited to see him adjust to the higher level of competition because I think he will.
brendan schaub
You do?
joe rogan
Yeah, I think he will.
brendan schaub
I think you'd be surprised.
joe rogan
He needs some work with his leg kick checking, obviously.
I just don't think he ever fought a guy who is as slick as Donald on his feet.
brendan schaub
When you say higher level guys, who are you talking about?
joe rogan
I don't know, man.
I don't know.
I see potential in him.
He's not young.
That's what I was just gonna say.
It all depends on how much damage he got through those Chandler fights.
brendan schaub
He's fighting in Japan forever?
joe rogan
He's had some hard fights.
Some really crazy, crazy wars.
He's a wild motherfucker.
I love watching him fight.
brendan schaub
Me too.
I love it, man.
joe rogan
Yeah, he's wild.
brendan schaub
He's great.
joe rogan
But you know as well as I know, when you have a wild style like that, there's only so much fucking area on the board.
Yeah, the Michael Chandler phrase.
brendan schaub
You get to a higher level where the pros go, okay, you're wild, check this out.
joe rogan
Yeah, well, just open yourself up, you know, and it makes it super exciting.
I mean, we all know those guys who just go to war at the beginning of every fucking round, and they're super exciting to watch.
brendan schaub
They're a fan favorite.
joe rogan
Yep.
brendan schaub
And then next thing you know, two years down the road, you're fucking three and six sitting at home watching these guys who were winning by wrestling and being smart.
joe rogan
And you can win that way.
That's what's kind of crazy.
Like, sometimes you can win that way.
And when you win that way, it's wild to watch.
unidentified
Mm-hmm.
joe rogan
So it's like no one, if you win that way, you did the right thing.
But if you want to look at it as a long-term proposition.
brendan schaub
Can't fight that way.
joe rogan
You can't fight that way.
brendan schaub
There's no way.
joe rogan
The long-term proposition is, yes, Leonard Garcia is a good example.
brendan schaub
Plus you gotta remember the amount it takes on your brain.
joe rogan
Yeah, Leonard was just a wild motherfucker.
brendan schaub
Fun to watch.
joe rogan
So down.
brendan schaub
This one's gonna be wild.
joe rogan
Fuck yeah it is.
How do you say Buckwaltz, how do you say his name?
Let's just call him Jan.
brendan schaub
Let's do this, Jan!
joe rogan
Jan, let's talk like we're in English.
brendan schaub
Jan went to the barber and said, can I just get that Chuck Liddell?
Is there any way you can just give me the Chuck Liddell?
joe rogan
Jan Blakovic.
Damn.
brendan schaub
Jan's beat some good guys, man.
You gotta remember, he beat that Latifi.
You remember Latifi?
joe rogan
Has Manawa fought since he fought Gustafson?
brendan schaub
Nope.
This is his first fight.
He said he's been working a lot of stuff.
Eating that jab.
joe rogan
Hard jab by Jan.
Hard jab.
Need a few more of those.
Jan too, hometown.
brendan schaub
He's fought here before.
I don't know, man.
I like his chances, although he's the underdog.
joe rogan
A good fucking jab is one of the most underrated weapons, man.
And the UFC, I think it's still the most underutilized tool.
brendan schaub
Even more than kicks?
joe rogan
Yeah, I think kicks are definitely underutilized as well, but man, there's something about a jab.
It's so quick and effective.
brendan schaub
Look at Musashi.
joe rogan
Look at GSP. Yeah, if you've got a real good jab, you can really disrupt a guy striking.
brendan schaub
Now, would you say Yen's stiff?
joe rogan
Do that.
No, I like the way he's throwing that jab, man.
brendan schaub
I love the jab.
joe rogan
I like the jab.
brendan schaub
I feel like Jimmy's a little more loose.
joe rogan
Oh, look at that left hook.
Look at that Manoa left hook.
That was pretty.
That left hook to the liver was nice.
unidentified
Ooh.
joe rogan
That's the thing about Manoa, man.
The amount of impact he puts on shit.
brendan schaub
Yeah, super explosive.
joe rogan
Very exciting to watch.
Motherfucker can pop.
brendan schaub
Like I said, though, you get to those higher levels, man.
joe rogan
Look at that knee to the body.
Yeah, I mean, look, Gustafson got him.
That was a good fight.
Gustafson showed what he's made of in that fight.
This is like Gustafson and Anthony Rumble Johnson stuff going back and forth on Twitter.
brendan schaub
The headbutt?
joe rogan
Well, no, it wasn't even that.
A lot of people have brought that up, though.
You absolutely positive that it was a headbutt?
brendan schaub
When you watch the tape, yes.
joe rogan
Yeah.
I want to watch it again.
brendan schaub
I'd like them to fight again, though.
joe rogan
It seemed to me like it was definitely a headbutt.
That's what it seemed like.
But still, I would like to watch it again.
Before I would say, you know, oh, it was a headbutt.
It was one of those ones where he was throwing the right hand at the same time.
brendan schaub
Yeah.
joe rogan
So I don't know what landed first.
brendan schaub
Man, when you watch the tape in slow motion, it looks like the head does land first.
But either way, he beat him.
I don't give a shit, headbutt or not.
joe rogan
Yeah, and the right hand did land behind the headbutt.
It did land.
brendan schaub
Yeah, so who knows?
joe rogan
It's a question of which one fucked him up first.
The headbutt definitely, if he did crack into him, which I believe he probably did, it looks like from the angle, it's not one of those definite ones.
You know, where you could see absolutely side-on.
brendan schaub
Have you seen it?
joe rogan
You could see the heads collide.
brendan schaub
Have you seen it?
joe rogan
Yeah, it's pretty good.
brendan schaub
It's definitely a headbutt.
joe rogan
We'll watch it again.
brendan schaub
Did you hear Alexander said he wanted to retire after that fight?
joe rogan
Yeah.
Hey man, it's a tough loss.
In front of your hometown, home country like that.
Tough loss.
brendan schaub
I can't wait to see him and Glover fight next.
joe rogan
That's a good fight.
brendan schaub
Great fight.
joe rogan
It's a good fight and both guys need it.
brendan schaub
And Glover is, you know, I usually walk around like 230, 240?
unidentified
Mm-hmm.
brendan schaub
220. That's good, yeah.
It's 220 right now.
joe rogan
Well, he realized in that last fight that he just didn't have the gas tank to deal with Phil Davis.
brendan schaub
And he also trained in, like, Connecticut in a garage.
unidentified
Mm-hmm.
joe rogan
Yeah.
I think that's all he had available.
brendan schaub
Is it?
joe rogan
Yeah, he had to stay.
He had to stay in town.
unidentified
Really?
joe rogan
This one for some reason.
I think it might have had something to do with family or something like that.
brendan schaub
Makes sense.
joe rogan
Yeah, I think that was the story behind it.
So he put together his own crew down there of good guys, but you know what, man?
I mean, how many dudes, I don't have to tell you, how many dudes don't have someone managing their training?
How many dudes don't have someone who's like a Mark Henry type dude?
96% of the UFC. Yeah, 96%.
I think that's the right number.
brendan schaub
The main event in this, Gabriel Gonzaga, a guy who just has trained out of Team Link.
He's the fucking Link.
He's the biggest dog in the gym.
Who knows the potential he could have had if he went to Greg Jackson's or American Top Team.
joe rogan
I agree.
brendan schaub
But he stays in Boston.
joe rogan
Well, he's got a family.
brendan schaub
I get all that.
I get all that.
Convenience.
joe rogan
I know what you're saying.
But you know what, man?
When Randy Couture beat him, he beat him when he was in his total prime.
That was when Gonzaga was in his prime.
And Randy just took it to him.
brendan schaub
Even Gonzaga out of his prime is a fucking beast, man.
He's been knocking a lot of dudes out.
That was the scaredest I've ever been for a fight, hands down.
I was so scared.
joe rogan
Really?
brendan schaub
Terrified.
joe rogan
Wow.
Just because of the power?
brendan schaub
The power.
World champion jiu-jitsu.
You know, he's knocked out some fucking monster.
Crow Cop.
He's been in there against the best.
joe rogan
That Crow Cop knockout was terrifying.
brendan schaub
That was the scaredest I've ever been.
joe rogan
Wow.
brendan schaub
I wish I could find that again.
Gotta be honest.
For reals.
I'm not scared anymore.
joe rogan
Do you think that's just because you've had so many experiences?
brendan schaub
Yes.
And in the training room, I go against scary dudes all the time.
So when I fight, I'm not as scared.
It's not good, man.
There's nothing like that fear of God in you to make you...
joe rogan
Wow.
So, yeah, I see what you're saying.
It becomes almost too confident or too comfortable.
brendan schaub
Yeah, I've been too comfortable.
There you go.
joe rogan
Jimmy Mano was throwing some nasty kicks, dude.
brendan schaub
Yeah, he is.
joe rogan
A lot of good power behind those kicks.
That was a good round.
brendan schaub
Give it to Jimmy.
joe rogan
Yeah, I hear what you're saying about Gonzaga.
Goddamn talented, huh?
unidentified
Fuck!
brendan schaub
What?
joe rogan
And he's really worked on his boxing his last few fights, and I think that could be a really interesting aspect in this fight.
brendan schaub
No, Gonzaga, you're a world champ.
Take him down, submit him, my man.
Gonzaga on top of you is some of the best jiu-jitsu in the UFC, man.
joe rogan
Why do you think he abandoned that and just decided to bang?
You think it was because of wrestlers?
brendan schaub
No, he took Shane Carwin down.
If you remember that, he was kind of whooping Shane's ass.
Yeah, it was 40 seconds, but he took Shane down, rocked him, took him down, and Shane got up and said, oh, cool story.
Boom, jab, knocked you out.
joe rogan
Well, he got a little careless.
He had Shane hurt, and he got careless, and he ran into a short punch that just kicked the fucking generator down the street.
I was like, oh my god.
unidentified
Bang!
joe rogan
It was a generator tumbling down the street with a cord following behind it.
That's what happened to his brain with that right hand connected.
brendan schaub
I also think Gonzaga has a mental issue with cardio.
So when you want to grapple a wrestler guy, especially in the UFC at this point, it's going to take a lot of energy.
A lot of energy, man.
I think he's worried about that.
joe rogan
Dude, Shane Carwin is probably the last guy you want to get hit with a short punch from.
unidentified
Ever.
brendan schaub
Ever in the history of fighting.
You guys fucking...
They don't make him like Shane, man.
joe rogan
There's still build on that fucker.
He's just so ridiculous.
brendan schaub
So much power.
joe rogan
And pretty loose with his fucking hands.
brendan schaub
Fuck, yeah.
Shane was an athlete, man.
joe rogan
Like that Frank Mir KO? Jesus fucking Louisus.
brendan schaub
I'll never forget that.
Frank Mir's corn's going...
He's not doing shit here, just rest.
I'm like, rest?
Shane has an underhook.
joe rogan
He has an underhook and he's smashing uppercuts through with fucking ferocious intention.
That was some of the best striking from the clinch in the heavyweight division I've ever seen.
That one fight.
brendan schaub
I don't think there's...
No, I don't think there's any other heavyweight who can hit like Shane from an underhook with that much power.
Name someone who's knocking dudes out like that.
joe rogan
No, he hits you so fucking hard, and he's fast and loose even for a big giant dude.
brendan schaub
And his leverage.
joe rogan
Yeah, and he throws perfect punches.
I mean, those are perfect power punches.
brendan schaub
All Shane did is box.
joe rogan
That's it.
I think his deal, Shane's deal, unfortunately, in the UFC will always have been the injuries that he sustained before he got to the UFC. 100%.
It's too bad because he was a real goddamn freak.
A real freak.
brendan schaub
Best I've ever seen.
I've seen a lot of guys.
Shane in his prime when he's getting ready for Gonzaga is the best fighter I've ever seen.
I've seen a lot of dudes, man.
joe rogan
That's strong words.
Goddamn, dude.
That's strong words.
brendan schaub
Oh, and he's a fucking engineer.
He's like a superhero.
joe rogan
Yeah, he's smart as shit.
brendan schaub
He's like a fucking thick Professor X, man.
joe rogan
When I hear about a dude like that, that's, you know, the back issues just ultimately ended it, and you think about all the hits that he probably took in football, and you could erase those and see a guy like that compete without coming in already fucked up to a certain extent.
brendan schaub
And wrestling, though, too.
Wrestling, he said.
joe rogan
That took a lot out of him, too.
unidentified
Yeah, man.
joe rogan
Gotta imagine.
He's wrestling these big, giant motherfuckers.
eddie bravo
What do you think of Todd Duffy, Frank Mayer?
joe rogan
Todd Duffy's a beast, man.
Todd Duffy throws some fucking heat, too.
brendan schaub
Todd Duffy's a beast.
Todd Duffy and I were training partners for a while.
I like Todd.
Todd's biggest problem has always been himself.
His mind.
If he's tentative against Frank, he's gonna get destroyed.
If Todd Duffy performs like he does in the training room, Todd Duffy's probably gonna be fighting for a title next year.
joe rogan
Wow.
brendan schaub
Strong words.
I also exaggerate everybody.
No, for reals though, anyone who's ever trained with Todd, ask DC, ask Kane, he's been at AKA, ask everyone down in Florida at ATT. He's been in Denver, he's been to fucking every gym in America.
But if Todd performs like he does in the training room, he's a fucking nightmare.
But when you see him in the octagon, it's just not there yet.
joe rogan
I hear you, man.
That makes sense.
You know, if you look at some of his finest moments, the Anthony Hamilton fight, goddamn, he throws some fucking fast power punches still.
brendan schaub
For sure.
Anthony Hamilton's not gonna fucking, you know?
joe rogan
Yeah, Anthony Hamilton's a big boy, too.
Those were crisp punches.
brendan schaub
Yeah, they were.
Straight down the pipe.
joe rogan
Yeah.
brendan schaub
Anthony just ate them.
unidentified
Mm-hmm.
brendan schaub
Which you can't do at heavyweight.
joe rogan
Well, Frank Mir, how about that fucking jab, left hook?
He landed on Bigfoot.
brendan schaub
Frank Mir looked fucking nasty.
joe rogan
It looked loose.
brendan schaub
There's never been a fight that Frank's fought besides Shane Carwin where I don't root for Frank Mir.
What he's done for the sport, I root for him every single time.
eddie bravo
And he switched his stance.
Now he's fighting...
brendan schaub
Traditional.
He used to be southpaw, traditional.
He threw that faint jab, left hook, knocked Bigfoot out.
joe rogan
Yeah.
brendan schaub
Bigfoot's a fucking nightmare, man.
joe rogan
Do you wonder though?
I mean, Bigfoot went down pretty quick against Orlovsky, and he went down pretty quick against Frank Mir, and we know for a fact that Bigfoot, if anybody needs testosterone replacement therapy, it's Bigfoot.
brendan schaub
I agree.
joe rogan
Bigfoot has a legit tumor on his pituitary gland.
Apparently, according to the interviews that he's done, he would have to get surgery, and he's going to eventually get surgery to have it removed.
You know, but his testosterone is not like normal persons.
brendan schaub
You can't fight in the UFC then, man.
I hate to be shitty about it because I love Bigfoot.
He's one of the nicest guys.
joe rogan
He's one of the nicest guys.
brendan schaub
But if you require that and you can't fight in the UFC. Right.
Because I want the same shit you're taking then.
joe rogan
Right.
That's a good point.
That's a good point.
brendan schaub
I need a bigger head.
Give me the same shit you're taking.
joe rogan
But you would have to, if you were going to do that, if you're going to let people do it, you would have to be monitoring them all times of the day to make sure they're not putting superhuman levels in, and then everybody would have a level of testosterone they're allowed to achieve.
brendan schaub
Never going to happen.
joe rogan
Maybe you wear a fucking iWatch.
brendan schaub
Yeah, right?
It reports back to the UFC headquarters.
joe rogan
Yeah, it checks in every day.
I mean, that's not outside the realm of possibility.
They have watches that tell your fucking heartbeat now.
brendan schaub
It's true.
It's kind of a good idea.
joe rogan
If they could figure out a way to test your testosterone, maybe just point your camera at your dick every day and it would know just by the way the dick's moving.
brendan schaub
But then your testosterone goes up real high, right?
Like, if I'm a ladies man, I'm just destroying chicks.
I'm like, goddamn, Schaub's testosterone was like nine times high this day.
You know what I'm saying?
joe rogan
Right, that could be.
Yeah, if you could be around a bunch of pretty ladies.
brendan schaub
Yeah, man.
joe rogan
Your body gears up.
brendan schaub
I'm in L.A. Someone in Idaho is probably not the same, you know?
joe rogan
You know, they say that that's true.
That men around attractive women, like literally, their bodies produce more testosterone.
brendan schaub
100%!
joe rogan
You know what else?
Engines.
Like a rumbling engine, like a V8, like your American muscle car.
For whatever reason, that makes your body produce more testosterone.
They have no idea why.
eddie bravo
Because it sounds like a fucking dragon.
unidentified
Manly.
joe rogan
War machine.
unidentified
I don't mean war machine, a fighter.
brendan schaub
Yeah, definitely not.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's crazy.
You think about things that actually make your body produce more hormones.
brendan schaub
Hot chicks in cars, man.
unidentified
What else?
eddie bravo
What else?
joe rogan
Isn't it funny, though, that you're criticized for being a foolish person?
unidentified
Oh, I know.
joe rogan
If you enjoy hot chicks and cars.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Oh, you.
brendan schaub
Such a meathead.
joe rogan
You fool.
brendan schaub
Oh, I'm sorry.
I'm sorry to my fucking DNA to love big-ass titties and Porsches.
My bad.
joe rogan
Yeah, you're sorry that you enjoy some of the most fun things ever.
unidentified
Ever.
joe rogan
You're sorry.
unidentified
Ever.
joe rogan
Because it makes you dumb.
Like, there cannot be one without the other.
brendan schaub
No, man.
joe rogan
What's going on here?
What's going on here?
unidentified
How come they haven't begun their own yet?
joe rogan
Do-do-do-do.
Powerful UK. Here we go, round two.
brendan schaub
Three.
joe rogan
Three?
Did I say two?
brendan schaub
Yeah.
joe rogan
We didn't even talk about the second round.
We just talked about titties.
brendan schaub
We did talk about titties and why we love them.
Not to judge us.
Jeez, man.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's funny that certain things are thought of to be for fools.
But cool cars are one of them, for whatever reason.
You're never going to see a science professional that drives a sick vet.
brendan schaub
No, it's weird.
A sick vet and just have a girlfriend with a blowout ass.
You know what I'm saying?
joe rogan
I mean, Neil deGrasse Tyson's probably the closest.
But he would have to put on a mask when he was driving around a Corvette.
You know?
People wouldn't take him seriously if he was ballin' in a sweet Corvette.
brendan schaub
Yeah, there's no college professors out there with Ferraris and girlfriends as big-ass dudes.
eddie bravo
Isn't that interesting?
Einstein was a wild motherfucker.
He was like a rock star.
unidentified
He...
joe rogan
That was pre-Twitter.
brendan schaub
Yeah, before he got judged by everyone.
eddie bravo
Oh, man.
He married his cousin.
joe rogan
That's pretty gangster.
eddie bravo
That's pretty weird.
He had a first marriage, had a couple kids.
Wasn't that great of a father, according to this documentary.
brendan schaub
And then ended up marrying his cousin, and she became like his manager, too.
eddie bravo
And he was allowed to see anybody he wanted.
And she was cool with it.
brendan schaub
Sounds awesome.
That's why he's the smartest guy ever.
joe rogan
What does his cousin look like?
eddie bravo
She's shlubby.
She was shlubby.
joe rogan
Damn.
eddie bravo
Really?
joe rogan
They just made a deal.
eddie bravo
But they were...
It was a deal.
They made a deal.
So the deal was when girls would come over, they'd have to bring her chocolates.
That was a requirement.
brendan schaub
That's it?
eddie bravo
Chocolates.
brendan schaub
Chocolates, now I'm going to go suck your man's dick.
eddie bravo
And then they jump in the car and disappear for a couple days.
joe rogan
That's a good deal.
eddie bravo
Einstein was a mad player.
joe rogan
Damn.
brendan schaub
Damn, I did not know that.
joe rogan
Jimmy Maniwa.
brendan schaub
I had no idea.
eddie bravo
He was a rock star.
brendan schaub
I like him even more.
eddie bravo
I hate him even more.
joe rogan
Yeah, you know who's allowed to that are sort of scientists?
Well, they're not scientists, but they're super geniuses.
They're allowed to get those kind of cars.
It's like video game designers.
brendan schaub
True.
joe rogan
Those super geniuses like the John Carmack type characters.
You know what that guy does in his spare time?
Oh, nothing.
Just makes rockets.
brendan schaub
Really?
joe rogan
Yeah, makes his own rockets.
unidentified
On the side?
joe rogan
Yeah, he's the lead software guy, the lead designer, whatever, the lead computer genius at Quake, at id.
brendan schaub
Fuck, man.
joe rogan
At id Game Crea- I don't know what the actual name of the studio.
It's just id.
But they created Doom, they created Quake 1, Quake 2, Quake 3, Quake 4. Yeah, they made a bunch of fucking crazy games.
That John Carmack guy, in his spare time, he turbo charges Ferraris.
He takes a Ferrari and he's like, mmm, not strong enough.
Have a solution.
And he bolts gigantic turbochargers to Ferraris.
brendan schaub
Good-looking dude, too?
joe rogan
He's not a bad-looking guy.
brendan schaub
Really?
joe rogan
Yeah, he does judo too.
brendan schaub
Shit!
joe rogan
Yeah, judo, jiu-jitsu.
Does he live in LA? No, he lives in Dallas, Texas.
He's a bad motherfucker.
He's a legit super genius.
Like, you know, I have a dull mind, as it were, but when I talk to, like, legit super geniuses, I'm usually okay.
Like, I can talk to them about things.
But when I'm with Carmack, I'm like, don't make mistakes.
Stay on road.
It's like, just nervous.
Totally nervous.
Say the wrong word.
eddie bravo
Don't talk about shit you don't know.
unidentified
Yeah.
brendan schaub
Stay in your lane.
eddie bravo
Don't pretend you know some shit, bro.
unidentified
Stay in your fucking lane.
joe rogan
Like if you're on a motorcycle and you're following a guy who's a motorcycle racer and you're trying to keep up with him and you know you shouldn't be driving this fast.
eddie bravo
Just be the student and ask questions.
brendan schaub
Yeah, man.
eddie bravo
Ask questions.
joe rogan
Yes, absolutely.
eddie bravo
Don't try to make statements.
joe rogan
Well, he would talk about programming and he would talk about code and coding.
brendan schaub
How old is he?
joe rogan
Carmack?
It's a good question.
unidentified
Is he like a Doogie Howser kid genius?
joe rogan
I believe he's like 40 now, because Quake has been around for a long time.
I mean, they created Quake, I think, in the early 90s.
I don't remember what year it was.
brendan schaub
Would you rather be a super athlete like Michael Jordan or a straight fucking genius like an Einstein or your boy at Quake?
joe rogan
See, I don't think they're mutually exclusive.
I think that the only way...
unidentified
Really?
joe rogan
I think genetically, I don't think they're mutually exclusive.
I think it's very possible that you can get a guy who has the physical talents of Michael Jordan and has an insanely powerful brain.
It's totally possible.
eddie bravo
You can have both.
joe rogan
No, it's not true.
unidentified
Which guy?
joe rogan
Who in the history?
It's possible.
But the thing is, in order to have that much knowledge in your head and that much data bouncing around your head, you're not going to be in the gym and you're never going to reach that level.
There's one or the other in terms of what you focus your attention on.
But in terms of having the brain that has the capacity to reach super genius levels, I don't think they're mutually exclusive.
unidentified
Wow.
joe rogan
I'm just guessing.
See, I think you're wrong.
eddie bravo
Do you take the hundred smartest guys in the world...
brendan schaub
Not very good athletes.
joe rogan
What do you think they would look like?
eddie bravo
You take the hundred smartest guys in the world.
brendan schaub
They look like Mr. Burns.
joe rogan
Low hit.
brendan schaub
They look like Mr. Burns.
unidentified
Is that it?
brendan schaub
They look like shit.
joe rogan
That was the end of the fight.
I thought it was a low shot.
I thought they were separating him.
brendan schaub
That was a war.
I didn't think that one was going to be a decision.
joe rogan
Jan Blakovic is a tough motherfucker.
Did I say his name right?
brendan schaub
It's going to be tough for Jimmy to get a decision win.
In Jan's hometown?
joe rogan
I think the UFC probably brought...
brendan schaub
Polish commission?
joe rogan
Is it a Polish commission?
brendan schaub
I would imagine, because they have big promotions out there.
Was it K-something?
It's a big promotion that Jan was a previous champ of.
joe rogan
How do you say, Blakowicz?
Blakowicz?
brendan schaub
Blakowicz.
joe rogan
He's tough as fuck, dude.
That guy can take a beating.
That was a good fight.
He's going to feel that one tomorrow.
As is Manawa.
brendan schaub
Not too bad.
joe rogan
Yeah, not too bad.
But I mean, a lot of shots to the body.
Manoa throws those nasty knees to the body man We weren't watching the second round close enough No, we weren't to judge it.
Because we were talking all kinds of shit about booties and Mustangs and shit.
brendan schaub
And geniuses.
joe rogan
Corvettes.
eddie bravo
Einstein.
joe rogan
That Lazar, that Bob Lazar guy.
Remember that guy?
That guy had a Corvette that was hydrogen powered.
He made it hydrogen powered.
brendan schaub
Damn.
joe rogan
He took a Corvette and converted the engine to run on hydrogen.
eddie bravo
What a crazy story it is.
Because of either way, what he's saying is...
An incredible story.
Either he's telling the truth or if he's lying, he's one of the greatest actors.
He's so smart.
You've got to be able to fake some genius shit.
joe rogan
Do you know about it?
brendan schaub
No.
joe rogan
Eddie, explain.
Tell them what Bob Lazar is.
eddie bravo
You're better at explaining that shit than I am.
brendan schaub
What's Bob done?
joe rogan
Bob Lazar was a former scientist, according to him, was a former scientist.
He worked at Area 51. They brought him in because he was a scientist and because he knew a lot about propulsion systems and theoretical propulsion systems.
He's like, I guess he's a physicist or something like that.
I don't know what his background is as far as his education.
Because it's in dispute.
There's a lot of people that say that he fudged his education.
brendan schaub
He says he's full of shit.
joe rogan
Who knows?
However, this guy says that he was working in Area 51. And he was working on something.
They brought him in to back engineer a UFO. They brought him in and they took him to some...
This is him right here.
They took him to some hangar...
brendan schaub
I bet that guy gets mad chicks.
joe rogan
Well, dude, it's not about that.
What I'm saying is this dude was working on what they were explaining to him, nothing.
But what he believed over time was that what he was working on was back-engineering a UFO from another world.
brendan schaub
Damn, do you believe him?
joe rogan
He is the most convincing of all the people that have ever heard discussed these things.
brendan schaub
Really?
joe rogan
The most convincing.
eddie bravo
He breaks it all down.
He breaks down anti-gravity and how it works and everything.
joe rogan
He doesn't seem like an idiot at all.
He definitely seems like a fucking very, very, very intelligent dude.
He doesn't seem like he's lying.
brendan schaub
Has he wrote lots of books?
joe rogan
No, I don't believe so.
I don't know how many books he's wrote.
But I'm too dumb to know whether or not he's stupid.
unidentified
Me too.
brendan schaub
I don't know.
joe rogan
You know what I mean?
Like, I'm too dumb.
Like, he sounds right, but it could be like some martial arts guy that's talking all kinds of mad nonsense about what his, you know, his chi gong is gonna do to you if you get near him.
brendan schaub
And if you're not in that world, you're like, shit, son!
joe rogan
Yeah, my friend knows a guy with a chi gong.
Fucking put it on your chest, man.
brendan schaub
That's where we're at right now.
joe rogan
There's guys that believe that.
So, and if someone speaks well enough, we sort of, like, assume they know what the fuck they're talking about.
And I listen to him talk, and he sounds like he knows what the fuck he's talking about.
It's a very compelling story.
brendan schaub
Has he made any money off saying any of this?
joe rogan
I'm sure he has.
I would imagine.
If you really want to get into it, you would have to Google it, because I haven't really read about it in about seven or eight years.
I kind of put it behind me.
I kind of decided somewhere along the line there was no fruit in this pursuit, because they couldn't figure out whether or not he had lied about his educational background.
They couldn't figure out whether or not he had actually worked for the government.
brendan schaub
It should be easy, right?
joe rogan
Well, they found out that he did work for one of the labs that he said he worked for.
He worked for, like, Los Alamos.
They did find out that that was true.
So how the fuck did he get that job if he didn't have, like, a super high-level education?
But who knows what the fuck he was doing there when he was working there?
unidentified
True.
joe rogan
People that are, like, real scientists have a lot of doubts about all the shit that he said.
That's pretty much enough for me.
But if I just want to have fun...
I want to pretend that it's true.
If I want to pretend, because it is fun to pretend it's some fucking dude.
eddie bravo
And there's so much footage of him being interviewed and explaining how it all works.
He's an amazing actor if he's full of shit.
joe rogan
I'm just too stupid to understand it.
eddie bravo
He could easily be full of shit, but fuck, this guy's good.
He's super smart.
It sounds like he knows what he's talking about when he's discussing anti-gravity, but who the fuck knows?
brendan schaub
But when you say all these other scientists are coming out, man, this dude's full of shit.
joe rogan
Well, when I say that, like Stanton Friedman, he's probably a bit of a hater, but he makes some good points, man.
When you say you graduated from, fill in the blank, MIT, whatever it is, you should be able to display a degree.
Do you have a degree?
Are you on their records?
And if you're not on their records, and if you can't display a degree, then Then I have to dispute everything you've said.
brendan schaub
I agree.
If you're lying about a degree.
joe rogan
But is it possible that, especially we're talking about something a long time ago, is it possible that someone could go back to the records at that school and scrub him from the records?
brendan schaub
Come on, man.
joe rogan
Here's why it's not possible.
Yearbooks.
brendan schaub
True.
joe rogan
Someone produced a yearbook.
brendan schaub
Why wouldn't one of just his classmates be like, yeah, I was in class with him.
joe rogan
Yeah.
brendan schaub
Someone would come out and be like, I was in class with that fucking dork.
joe rogan
Yeah, well, he should be able to name his professors.
Exactly.
brendan schaub
And he can't, huh?
joe rogan
I don't know.
I don't know.
I'm calling bullshit.
Yeah, from what I have read, I would say he hasn't, but who knows how much of what I've read is the truth or what Eddie was saying.
brendan schaub
Because I know if I graduate from Harvard, I have a fucking Harvard shirt on right now.
You guys would hear about it non-stop.
joe rogan
Do you ever hear the Eliza Schlesinger story about Yale?
brendan schaub
No, she's a friend of mine, though.
joe rogan
Google it.
Eliza Schlesinger.
brendan schaub
She's a friend of mine, though.
joe rogan
No, no, no, it's not bad for her.
She dated this guy that was pretending he was from Yale.
brendan schaub
Oh, she did tell me this story on the podcast.
joe rogan
Holy shit, it's ridiculous.
brendan schaub
She got catfished, and the dude said he was from Yale.
joe rogan
Not just catfished.
Like this dude made up a story about his mom having cancer.
This dude made up his job.
unidentified
House.
joe rogan
Made up his house.
Made up that he was rich when he's really like $100,000 in debt.
brendan schaub
Yeah.
joe rogan
He wasn't even broke.
eddie bravo
He made a Facebook profile or what?
joe rogan
I don't know what he did.
brendan schaub
It really wasn't even a catfish.
He's just a fucking compulsive liar.
And then he got a credit card to take her out to like fancy dinners and shit.
But he racked up all this money on a credit card where he didn't have the money.
joe rogan
Dude, he was on an airplane with her.
brendan schaub
Guy's a hero in my book.
Just kidding.
joe rogan
Well, she's not dumb, which is really weird.
brendan schaub
Hell no, she's a sharp girl.
joe rogan
Well, that's what's really weird about it.
It's like, how did you get caught with this?
I mean, I guess, this seems like so many lies.
You didn't get tripped up anywhere?
I mean, what was he telling the truth about?
brendan schaub
She said, though, he would lie about his mom being sick or dying, and so she didn't want to get too into it.
So it was like almost a wall.
joe rogan
No, it totally makes sense.
brendan schaub
You know, like you don't want to dive into someone's mom dying.
joe rogan
Right, but...
brendan schaub
The guy was smart.
joe rogan
But people were full of shit.
I mean, how good was this guy in regular conversation?
brendan schaub
Must've been great.
joe rogan
Raphael Torrey.
Rafael Tori, Eddie Bravo, and I both have a story about a guy that was completely full of shit.
He was a fake black belt.
brendan schaub
That's awesome.
joe rogan
A total fake black belt.
And when Eddie first introduced me to him, he was a reporter for websites.
He was going and doing the early MMA reporting.
And he would do like gonzo journalist questions, I think.
They were describing it as like you would ask dudes if they like fucking girls in the butt like weird weird weird questions and He was telling everybody that he was a black belt in jujitsu and then Eddie rolled with him and Eddie was like man, I don't know I mean maybe he's just like going really light No, no, he was smart.
eddie bravo
He was smart.
He said that he was half Brazilian, half Italian.
And his dad, who's Brazilian, was a black belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.
And that he knew all the old guys, but he came from the Judo side.
So he was smart.
He said, we were more Judo guys.
We were old school Jiu-Jitsu than my dad gave me a black belt when I was 18 or whatever.
And we're not as good as like nowadays.
brendan schaub
Jiu-Jitsu is so complex and so evolved.
eddie bravo
We're not that good.
I'll admit that.
I'm a black belt.
I'm a black belt, but I'm old school black belt.
So he was smart.
So it was believable.
brendan schaub
I bet he was so nervous when he had to roll with you.
Did you roll with him too, Joe?
joe rogan
No, I never rolled with him.
I wasn't really good friends with him.
Eddie was.
I mean, you weren't even good friends with him.
But I only hung out with him.
eddie bravo
We worked together.
On what?
He was a writer for...
The Underground.
unidentified
Oh, gotcha.
eddie bravo
The UG? Yeah, for the UG. And he was always at shows that I would commentate, like King of the Cage.
brendan schaub
Is he still a writer for him?
joe rogan
No.
eddie bravo
He's in jail.
joe rogan
He's in jail for murder.
This is where it gets really crazy.
brendan schaub
This really escalated.
joe rogan
Oh, dude.
This is where it gets really crazy.
So, I'll take you back to when Eddie exposed him.
And Eddie, we were driving back from, like, King of the Cage?
Where were we driving back from?
One of those MMA fights way out in the middle of nowhere.
eddie bravo
It wasn't that I exposed him.
Well, he was already exposed.
Yeah, he was already exposed.
I was the last one.
You know, dudes pulled me to the side and said this and that.
joe rogan
I mean, in a phone call to his face.
eddie bravo
Yes.
joe rogan
I mean, you basically, you confronted him.
unidentified
Yes.
I asked him about it.
joe rogan
It was pretty intense.
eddie bravo
Yeah.
joe rogan
But it was a pretty intense call.
We were driving.
I was driving, and Eddie was right next to me.
eddie bravo
I was like, oh.
joe rogan
At a Yukon Denali at the time.
eddie bravo
I barely remember the conversation.
I barely remember.
joe rogan
I was like, oh shit.
Oh shit.
Yeah, you were going, dude, dude, dude, stop lying to me.
Stop lying to me.
unidentified
Really?
joe rogan
You are not a black belt in jiu-jitsu.
brendan schaub
Did he admit it?
joe rogan
Dude, you are...
Listen to me.
Dude, listen to me.
You're a fucking liar.
You're lying.
brendan schaub
Damn, Eddie went hard on him.
joe rogan
You're lying.
You're lying.
You're not a black belt in jiu-jitsu.
Do you know how crazy it is that you tell me you're a black belt in jiu-jitsu?
It was pretty crazy and you could hear him like stammering and stuttering.
brendan schaub
For sure put that on speakerphone.
joe rogan
I wish I could remember all the shit that you said, but you broke it down in an undeniable way.
brendan schaub
So then he killed a guy.
joe rogan
You're a crazy person.
Eddie Bravo cuts the guy off.
He cuts him off, and then our friend Gerald Streben, who was Eddie's first black belt, right?
No, Denny Probogos was your first black belt.
eddie bravo
Gerald Streben was my first Before I even had a school, he was my first student that did MMA. Before, there was no thought of Tenth Planet.
I was just showing Gerald Streep in some jujitsu.
brendan schaub
I was commentator for King of the Cage, and that's how I met Gerald.
eddie bravo
He was...
He was...
Raphael's student.
joe rogan
Crazy.
Okay, so Eddie comes and teaches him some real shit, has a bunch of real fights.
He gets contacted by this guy because the guy wants him to kill his girlfriend's husband.
He tells Gerald he wants him to kill his girlfriend's husband.
He's gonna give him a certain amount of money.
Gerald's like, what the fuck?
So Gerald goes to the cops.
No, Gerald goes to the cops after he killed himself.
The guy killed himself, choked him.
Apparently, like, had him come meet him at the gym, choked him to death, killed him, and then was seen driving around in his car.
brendan schaub
What a dumbass.
joe rogan
Dude, it's crazy.
brendan schaub
Maybe he was a little.
joe rogan
Driving around in homeboy's car.
Well, I don't think so.
You don't have to be to know how to rear naked choke somebody.
You know, you sneak up behind some fucking fat ass who doesn't work out at all, and you get a hold of his neck.
I mean, he wasn't, like, completely inept as a martial artist.
You know, he's like kind of an amateur martial artist.
There's some videos of him throwing a spinning back kick on a pad.
They're kind of hilarious.
It's kind of hilarious.
It really is like, you know, you getting a hold of Duncan and teaching Duncan some spinning back kicks for a couple weeks and then having him hit the pad.
It's fucking...
It's fucking preposterous.
brendan schaub
Well, what's weird is this guy's been lying the whole time that he kills a guy with a jiu-jitsu move.
joe rogan
This is where it gets crazy.
He kills a guy, and then he gives Gerald a gun to bury.
eddie bravo
Before that, though, before the murder, he set up a fake fight in King of the Cage.
joe rogan
Oh, that's right, yeah.
eddie bravo
Against this big Samoan guy.
It was totally fake.
And they kept their mouth shut.
They made it happen.
So he ends up getting this big, giant Samoan guy like in a...
The shittiest knee bar ever.
unidentified
He just taps.
eddie bravo
It's like a knee bar that's like that, and the guy just starts tapping, and he won.
And this fight was his comeback fight.
He told everybody he was 14-0 in MMA, but they were all undocumented fights.
Dude, I commentated that fight, and I was saying, Rafael Torres returns to MMA to defend his undefeated record.
I said shit like that.
brendan schaub
He had everyone do it.
joe rogan
I'll take it to the next level.
unidentified
He had everybody do it.
eddie bravo
He wasn't 14-0.
He never fought ever.
joe rogan
I'll take it to the next level.
unidentified
That guy's awesome.
joe rogan
I'll take it to the next level.
He had a friend drive him out to the woods, and he brought with him a giant duffel bag.
Okay?
He told his friend, drive me out to the woods.
I'm about to compete in a no-rules kumite.
You know, if I win, I'm gonna make a lot of money, and I'll come back with first place.
eddie bravo
This is a true story.
joe rogan
Yeah, so he says to the dude, come back tomorrow.
Okay.
eddie bravo
This was a newspaper journalist, a newspaper writer.
He took the local guy, a newspaper writer, and goes, I haven't told anybody, but I'm going to, in the woods, there's going to be this kumate.
brendan schaub
Dude, what's wrong with this fucking kumate?
eddie bravo
He goes, but I need you, I want you to write the story on this, but you're going to drop me off.
I can't show you where it's going to be.
unidentified
So...
eddie bravo
So the newspaper writer drops him off like in the middle of nowhere in the woods, and he says, come back for me in two days, right?
And the guy had a big duffel bag with him, right?
With something long in it, right?
So the guy comes back two days later and picks him up.
So he was like camping out there, right?
He had like camping equipment.
He came out, and then he had this giant trophy.
He says, I won the Kumite.
brendan schaub
Oh my god, that motherfucker packed the trophy?
eddie bravo
So, so...
What does the writer do naturally?
He writes a story on it.
He takes that story, frames it, and puts it up out of school.
unidentified
Fuck.
joe rogan
That's so bananas.
unidentified
Proof.
joe rogan
Proof that it happened.
eddie bravo
It was in the newspaper.
joe rogan
That's so goddamn bananas.
brendan schaub
That's fucking crazy.
eddie bravo
He's a genius!
brendan schaub
At least you got a legit fighter coming out right now.
unidentified
He's a genius.
brendan schaub
With Crow Cop.
joe rogan
Crow Cop's got a lot of redness on his nose.
eddie bravo
First of all, we don't know if he didn't go to Akuma Tang.
No, we do.
brendan schaub
There's no evidence that he didn't.
But we do.
joe rogan
So let's...
Let me wrap this story up real quick.
So Gerald calls me and tells me that the guy gave him the gun or something like that.
I forget what the conversation was.
I was like, what?
Huh?
Jesus fucking Christ.
And then Gerald gets a hold of the cops.
And apparently they were tapping his phone.
So the cops call me.
And they want to know what I know about the murder.
And I explained to them.
I go, look, I know almost nothing.
What I know is what Gerald told me.
Because they were listening in on our conversation.
So to say, what I know is what Gerald told me.
I told him everything I know.
What Gerald told me, the guy's a crazy liar.
He's a fake black belt.
I don't know if he really killed the guy or not.
Like, it's very conceivable.
This guy's so fucking crazy, he made that up too.
He might not even have killed somebody.
At this point, at least I think this, it's pretty much proven that he killed the guy now.
brendan schaub
Fuck, man.
joe rogan
But, so, you know, I got involved in it too, man.
I thought, don't bring me to court.
brendan schaub
Dude, come on.
joe rogan
Don't bring me to court because I met Rafael Torre at Eddie's house.
unidentified
Don't make me do this, man.
brendan schaub
Don't drag me into this.
joe rogan
And then it gets even darker because Gerald killed somebody one day.
brendan schaub
For fuck's sakes, man.
joe rogan
Gerald killed somebody like a year ago in a traffic-related incident.
Some guy and him were having some road rage incident and it got physical.
Gerald was actually on the phone with 911 and he fucking shot this dude.
And now he's in jail and he's on trial right now.
unidentified
Dude.
eddie bravo
Some guy tried to run him off the road.
Some guy was drunk.
Gerald wasn't drunk.
I mean, the guy that was shot was drunk.
He rammed him.
Like, he stopped his car, pulled it in reverse, and rammed him.
Like, they were having, like, some road raid incident, and that guy was drunk.
Gerald gets out of his car.
He lives in Oregon.
He has a rifle.
He has his rifle, and the guy's talking shit, and he's coming for him, and Gerald starts...
He's, like, on the other side of the car, calling 911, said, you know, don't get near me.
Don't get near me, dude.
I'm calling 911. Don't get near me.
The guy's talking shit.
The guy came to him, and Gerald thought he had a gun, too, and he pulled it out, and he shot him.
joe rogan
Oh, God damn.
Is that what Gerald told you?
eddie bravo
Yeah.
joe rogan
That's what he told you?
That was a conversation you guys had?
unidentified
That's not self-defense, though?
eddie bravo
That is self-defense.
joe rogan
It seems like it should be.
eddie bravo
It is self-defense.
brendan schaub
How long is he in prison for?
joe rogan
I don't know.
eddie bravo
The guy was drunk.
He runs him off the road.
He rams him.
He gets out with his gun going, what the fuck?
This guy's nuts.
The guy's coming for him.
He was drunk.
Gerald shot him.
He was on 911 saying, I got this crazy guy who just tried to run me off the road.
I'm standing right here.
And the guy kept coming.
He goes, stand back, sir.
joe rogan
Stand back.
eddie bravo
Boom!
joe rogan
People are basing the possibility that Gerald might have been more of an instigator based on some of the things that he wrote on Facebook.
Apparently he had written something about, like, get out of my way when you're on the road, or something about...
And they'd been involved in some other sort of road rage type incident.
But who the fuck knows, man.
And also we have to deal with the fact that Gerald...
We know, for a fact, experienced a lot of action overseas.
eddie bravo
Oh, really?
joe rogan
He served, and then he came back and did some tours for one of those, what do they call them, contractors.
brendan schaub
Oh, like Blackwater shit?
joe rogan
Yeah.
He did a couple of those to finance his gym.
brendan schaub
Fuck, man.
joe rogan
So, there's that.
And that's undeniable, man.
That fucks with a person's head.
100%.
And when you're thinking about a person in an aggressive type situation and you've been in war before, you're used to people trying to kill you and you've got to kill them first.
And Gerald is in a different place.
He's in a different place than the average person.
So the average person that says, you know, hey, you can't consider the fact that he was, you know, in the war and he had PTSD. That's bullshit.
It does mean something.
brendan schaub
No, I'm saying it does.
joe rogan
100% should be like, listen, man.
brendan schaub
He's under a different set of rules.
joe rogan
I'm arguing with them.
eddie bravo
And there's some people that there's big misconceptions about martial artists that a true martial artist would have not used a gun, would have used his martial arts to handle the situation.
But that's all bullshit.
The more martial arts you learn, the more you know you need a goddamn gun in your house.
You need some guns because martial arts, the more you...
Learn it, you realize that's last resort when it's a life and death situation.
If it's in a sport or, you know, a controlled environment, that's one thing.
But, you know, Gerald thought the guy had a gun.
The guy tried to run him off the road.
He's got a gun.
You're not going to drop your gun and double leg him and try to arm him.
No, hell no.
brendan schaub
That's tough, man.
If that's how the story went, that's tough.
eddie bravo
If I have a gun and there's some crazy shit going down, guy's drunk, I'm gonna shoot you in the dick.
I'm gonna shoot you.
brendan schaub
I'm not gonna shoot you in the face.
There ain't gonna be no rear naked choke.
eddie bravo
Who knows if this guy has a gun?
You don't know.
brendan schaub
That's tough, man.
joe rogan
If that's exactly how it went down, I agree with you 100%.
Obviously, I'm not questioning anything, but I was not there.
I don't know enough about him.
eddie bravo
He was on 9-1-1 when this happened.
He was reporting the situation before the shot.
The shot is actually caught on 9-1-1 on the call.
So, I mean...
joe rogan
That's a crazy case, then.
Why do they have him in jail still?
If that's exactly how it was happening, if he really did deal with a madman...
brendan schaub
And as a veteran, you'd think they'd show him a little leeway.
eddie bravo
Well, who knows?
joe rogan
Maybe the other guy was a veteran, too.
eddie bravo
No, no, there is history of past road rage, but that has nothing to do with this.
Just because you have a history of past road rage, you know...
brendan schaub
It depends.
If he shot, like, six motherfuckers previous, then we have a problem.
If he's shooting people, yes, but there are no records of that.
Damn, 35 or 40?
joe rogan
Wow.
Alright.
This is it.
The main event, ladies and gentlemen.
brendan schaub
Main event.
eddie bravo
The fucked up shit is they got him in solitary confinement this whole time.
It's already been over a year and the trial don't start until January and he's in solitary.
It's fucking bullshit, man.
brendan schaub
Aaron Hernandez murdered like 19 people.
He's chilling.
joe rogan
Why do they pull him in solitary?
eddie bravo
They're fucking...
They're just railroading him, man.
joe rogan
Why do they do that?
brendan schaub
Something has to be going on.
We have to be missing a piece of the story.
I feel like he's getting this fucked over.
eddie bravo
They're trying to say that he has, you know, people have said he's been involved in road rage before.
I don't know if it's documented officially, but it has something to do with that.
But that has nothing to do with this situation.
brendan schaub
It's tough, man.
eddie bravo
The dude was drunk.
The guy that got killed, he was wasted.
Gerald was not drunk, was not wasted.
He was coming from the supermarket.
These are all facts.
He had him on 9-1-1.
He was talking, he was on 9-1-1, telling the guy to back off, back off.
He keeps walking towards me, back off.
And then he popped him.
joe rogan
Jesus Christ.
eddie bravo
I mean, it's on the record, so they're fucking him, man.
They're totally fucking him.
He's in solitary.
brendan schaub
I feel like we're missing a piece of the story.
joe rogan
Who knows?
We don't know.
brendan schaub
We don't.
joe rogan
We don't know.
eddie bravo
Some people get fucked, dude.
brendan schaub
They agree.
joe rogan
That does happen.
eddie bravo
Some people just get fucked, and he's getting fucked.
brendan schaub
This Crow Cop Gonzaga's gonna go two ways.
It's either gonna be one of the saddest things we've ever watched, or it's gonna be a fucking classic.
joe rogan
Well, you've got to think that Mirko wants that win back.
That was one that probably haunts him.
That was his big fight in the UFC. His second event, right?
Eddie Sanchez was his first fight.
brendan schaub
Yeah.
joe rogan
And then he fought Gonzaga.
brendan schaub
It's for a title shot, too.
The winner that was going to be a title shot.
joe rogan
Damn.
brendan schaub
That's crazy.
If you remember that, Randy was cage-side, and he was like, man, I'd rather fight Crow Cop.
Gabriel Gonzaga's too well-rounded, if you remember that.
unidentified
Wow.
Wow.
Gonzaga.
joe rogan
You know what, man?
There's something about Gonzaga when he walks on the scale, you know when I do the weigh-ins?
brendan schaub
Yeah.
joe rogan
He sounds different than everybody else.
brendan schaub
Really?
joe rogan
Sounds like he's made out of stone.
Like when he walks, it's like...
brendan schaub
Tell you what, man, I fought both of them, and Mirko Krokop is the strongest guy I've ever fought, bar none.
Not even close.
joe rogan
Wow.
brendan schaub
He was like a fucking rock.
joe rogan
Like Shane Carwin strong?
brendan schaub
Even more so.
Like, Shane can kind of move.
Cro-Cop was like moving like the Thing from Fantastic Four.
It's like Cro-Cop was made of straight rocks.
joe rogan
Jesus Christ, really?
brendan schaub
I've heard people say the same thing about Dan Henderson, but Cro-Cop, yeah.
Listen, I fought a roided-up fucking LeVar Johnson.
He was nowhere near as strong as Marco Cro-Cop.
joe rogan
Dan Henderson, a back rub.
You'll break your hand.
brendan schaub
I bet.
joe rogan
You will.
Dan Henderson's made out of wood, dude.
brendan schaub
We have the same masseuse, and she says it's just a beast.
joe rogan
Yeah, he's made out of wood.
brendan schaub
Yeah, man, Cro Cop was so strong.
joe rogan
That's interesting, man.
brendan schaub
Crazy, right?
joe rogan
Well, he developed a lot of really good takedown defense in Pride.
If you look at his first fights in Pride, like the first fight with Vandele, when they had those special rules, beautiful right hand.
Gonzaga's tightened up his boxing a lot, man.
brendan schaub
Yeah, he has.
Well, you gotta remember, too, as Krokop, early in his career, he flew out Verdum before Verdum was really anything to work on his grappling.
joe rogan
Yeah.
brendan schaub
That was his grappling code.
Oh, shit, man.
That right hand's fighting the home.
That's not good.
joe rogan
What do you think about this fight?
If you had to guess, before it started...
brendan schaub
I never pick against Krokop, man.
He's one of my heroes.
joe rogan
But just objectively, analytically?
brendan schaub
Objectively, Gonzaga's been fighting in the UFC at a lot longer, higher level.
Krokop really hasn't.
joe rogan
Gonzaga's looking very fast here, too.
brendan schaub
He does.
joe rogan
That double right hand.
eddie bravo
It just seems like Krokop, over his last few fights, he's just...
He doesn't pull the trigger.
brendan schaub
He's coming off two wins against Ishii.
Obviously, that was in Japan.
joe rogan
Yeah, but Ishii's much smaller than him, too.
brendan schaub
Ishii's shorter.
Ishii's every bit of 260 pounds.
unidentified
What?
brendan schaub
Ishii's a judo gold medalist.
I train with Ishii.
joe rogan
Ishii's a fucking nightmare.
unidentified
Is he 260?
brendan schaub
For real?
260. I think he might, when he's in crazy shape, get down to 245. That's insane.
joe rogan
I had no idea.
I thought he was about 205. Fuck no.
brendan schaub
Ishii is thick.
joe rogan
That's crazy.
brendan schaub
Super thick.
And for him to, you know, beat Ishii twice, I don't know how tough Ishii is, man.
He's a fucking monster.
joe rogan
Good kick to the body by Gonzaga.
Mirko's not pulling the trigger that much.
brendan schaub
He's not.
unidentified
He's super hesitant.
eddie bravo
He doesn't want to kick because he doesn't want to get taken down.
He knows if he gets taken down, he's in big trouble.
brendan schaub
Some of the best takedown defense ever in the UFC. What'd they say?
He's fourth all-time heavyweight, I think?
I tried taking Gonzaga, and I tried double-hugging him.
My face hit the ground so fast.
He sprawled every bit of fucking, whatever it is, 260 on my little neck.
joe rogan
Cro Cop's a bit tentative, and Gonzaga keeps doing that lunging double right hand.
brendan schaub
Why Cro Cop just looking at the clock?
That's a bad sign, man.
We're fucking 2.30 into it.
joe rogan
Well, maybe he had a plan of waiting into the round before he opened it up.
brendan schaub
You don't think his corner could speak in Croatian?
joe rogan
Oh, Jesus, there's deep, deep, deep double.
brendan schaub
Ooh, he's gonna pass.
joe rogan
I have to go hard.
eddie bravo
Krokop's guard retention is pretty good.
It's not that bad.
brendan schaub
He has very good defense, man, yeah.
joe rogan
It's not that bad, but this motherfucker's heavy.
brendan schaub
Oh, oh, heavy and a world champ.
joe rogan
Yeah, world champ.
eddie bravo
Legit.
joe rogan
Black belt.
brendan schaub
Legit black belt.
If you can get Gonzaga down from his back, he's not such a threat, but on top, man, that's his game.
joe rogan
Yeah.
eddie bravo
He's got a lockdown in.
joe rogan
Look at this.
Strong control.
Can't get out of that fucking half card, huh?
Just got to be careful.
The explosion is still there.
brendan schaub
This is trouble, man.
joe rogan
Crow Cop has always been, like, real explosive.
brendan schaub
Crazy explosive.
I remember I had Crow Cop in guard, and he got his feet on my hip, and then just straight.
Couldn't get any worse.
Good luck getting out of there.
joe rogan
This is what he's worried about, too, is the elbows.
He was talking about this, that that was the big difference in the first fight, and he said that MMA probably should get rid of elbows, because it causes a lot of blood, and people don't want to see blood.
eddie bravo
And focus less on the ground.
joe rogan
I thought that was crazy.
eddie bravo
That's ridiculous.
joe rogan
That didn't make any sense at all.
eddie bravo
Oh, look at that!
brendan schaub
He'll look, son!
unidentified
Ooh!
eddie bravo
That was nice.
joe rogan
Look at this.
I'll show you how.
He's tapping.
He's tapping.
brendan schaub
Not yet.
joe rogan
Damn, I thought he was ready to tap as he went down.
brendan schaub
Me too.
joe rogan
It looked like he was tapping.
brendan schaub
I'm not mad at this.
unidentified
He scrambled this.
joe rogan
Hangmaker in the guard.
I thought he was tapping.
I couldn't see his hand.
But it looked like he was reaching for it right away.
That was a bad position.
brendan schaub
That was nasty.
joe rogan
That was a funky angle on the knee.
I want to see that again.
brendan schaub
This Gonzaga using his grappling, he's going to be tough to beat, man.
eddie bravo
I'm impressed with the Crow Cop recovering and getting back to full guard, if you ask me.
joe rogan
I agree.
eddie bravo
He was mounted and now he's not mounting anymore.
joe rogan
Yep.
And he almost got his leg break apart.
eddie bravo
That's a sign that he could do.
He could recover.
He could bump him off the mount several times.
brendan schaub
Krokop worked with Verdum and Dean Lister for years.
For a long, long time, man.
His defense is going to be solid.
joe rogan
Yeah, he's well-trained.
brendan schaub
He's not easy to submit, man.
joe rogan
He's just not at the level where he can attack.
brendan schaub
No.
I don't think he wants to be, either.
joe rogan
Well, against this guy.
brendan schaub
He went for that heel hook, man.
That was pretty nasty.
joe rogan
He tapped Randleman, too.
Remember?
He got him in a guillotine.
Back in the dizzy.
brendan schaub
I think when Crow Cop goes in the fight, that's the least of his concerns is submitting somebody.
joe rogan
That was the second fight after Randleman KO'd him.
Remember that shit?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Jesus Christ.
Randleman lunged in and cracked him.
brendan schaub
Those pride days, man.
unidentified
Woo!
joe rogan
They were crazy.
brendan schaub
I don't know if we'll ever see better fighting than then.
joe rogan
They were wild, man.
And you know what was one of the wild things?
He didn't know who the fuck was going to fight until about a week out.
unidentified
Yeah.
eddie bravo
Yeah.
brendan schaub
It's like, oh, sweet, man.
joe rogan
They were constantly at it.
It was like an Ice House show.
brendan schaub
And just epic.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
They were constantly adding fighters.
I put together those Ice House shows like four days out.
eddie bravo
How cool were those days where you had two giant, legit MMA organizations.
For the fans, it was the ultimate.
Went back and forth.
joe rogan
Pretty amazing.
eddie bravo
UFC, one weekend.
joe rogan
Look at this knee.
eddie bravo
Then Pride.
brendan schaub
Steps over.
joe rogan
Oh, right there.
Oh, no, he wasn't looking to tap at all.
He was looking to get that arm under the leg.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Damn.
eddie bravo
Damn.
joe rogan
It wasn't as threatening as I thought it was.
In the scramble, he looked pretty wild, but it wasn't as close as I thought it was.
brendan schaub
I'll tell you what, if any guy has cardio issues between these two, it's Gonzaga.
He's always had some issues when he gets later in the rounds.
joe rogan
Do you think that's because of training at Team Link and not training at ATT or something like that?
brendan schaub
Not getting pushed enough, probably.
Like, when you're always a bully, when you're on top, it's easy to go three rounds.
Try being on bottom.
Get in the worst-case scenario, you know?
Get in bad positions.
joe rogan
Right, and you've got to get used to moving in those positions.
Yeah, when you're tired.
Right.
And you're developing technique and you're developing endurance when you're moving in those positions when you're tired.
brendan schaub
Yeah.
joe rogan
And that's something that people kind of don't know until they get in there and do it.
brendan schaub
And you're not going to panic.
unidentified
Yeah.
brendan schaub
Like, I'm sure Crowcrop was in Mount during camp.
He didn't panic down there.
He got out of it.
Got back to guard.
joe rogan
Yeah.
But if Gonzaga can get him to the ground like that again...
brendan schaub
Yeah, he's in trouble.
joe rogan
Yeah.
It's interesting, man.
You gotta...
He is one of those...
I mean, we're watching him in the main event right now, so obviously everything's going well.
But he's one of those guys you gotta wonder.
What if he did go to Jackson's?
What if he did?
brendan schaub
That's what I'm saying.
joe rogan
Yeah, what if he did when he was...
brendan schaub
With his skill set?
unidentified
Really young.
brendan schaub
How good he is with stand-up?
joe rogan
Woo!
Ducked under that kit!
Beautiful!
brendan schaub
Oh, good luck!
joe rogan
Oh, nice knee to the body!
brendan schaub
You're not taking him down against the cage, son.
joe rogan
Oh, dude, nasty knee to the body.
brendan schaub
You're not taking him down against the cage.
joe rogan
Oh, did that one go to the junk?
brendan schaub
Yeah, hit him right in that Crow Cop dick.
joe rogan
Do you remember the one with Chet Congo?
unidentified
What?
joe rogan
That was attack against dicks.
brendan schaub
It really was.
An assault on dicks.
Crow Cop against the cage is not happening.
You gotta take him down in the open, man.
That was our game plan God I just don't like Krokop looks like he's just gonna eat a right hand at any second.
joe rogan
He could.
That double right hand is what Gonzaga's...
Ooh!
Missed again.
unidentified
Oof!
eddie bravo
You know what I liked about Gonzaga's leg attack was he was completely safe from being punched.
That was an angle.
He jumped on that foot, and that was a safe position.
If he would have cranked it a little better or had a better angle at it...
brendan schaub
Because usually you see when guys go for leg locks or knee bars, they're usually eating punches.
eddie bravo
It all depends on the angle.
brendan schaub
Especially if you shoot up for a leg lock and the guy's still standing.
eddie bravo
If he has strong base...
joe rogan
Look at this.
Boom!
Oh!
brendan schaub
Beautiful.
joe rogan
Goddamn.
Tested the flexibility.
That's an old-school move, the making you do the splits.
brendan schaub
Yeah, super old-school.
Just lifted that leg up like it wasn't shit.
unidentified
Right?
brendan schaub
Just fucking get out of here.
Get the fuck out of here.
joe rogan
He's so fucking strong, man.
He's a beast.
And in this top position...
Because Krokop, even laying under there, he's going to eat those fucking body shots.
brendan schaub
He's going for that.
For sure go for the finish, though, Gonzaga.
joe rogan
Let's see what we can do here.
He's going to smush his face.
brendan schaub
Five rounds, 25 minutes.
joe rogan
Good pressure on the mouth.
He can't breathe for shit right here.
brendan schaub
Just wearing him out.
joe rogan
Yeah, he can't breathe for shit right here.
brendan schaub
That's what Krokop does, man.
He hangs on, hangs on.
You go to posture up, he gets the fuck out.
joe rogan
But Gonzaga is fucking heavy.
unidentified
Look at this!
joe rogan
Beautiful, my friend!
brendan schaub
Ooh, got a little punch in himself.
joe rogan
So that must have been a big part of his strategy.
He must have knew he would be here and would attack that leg to try to get a better position.
Not bad.
But still, Gonzaga, tough to shake.
brendan schaub
He's going to be tough on top.
joe rogan
And he also knows that he's robbing Mirko of his vitality every time he smushes his face like that.
Yep.
Covers his ale hole.
brendan schaub
Plus, if you're a jiu-jitsu world champion, this is a walk in the park, being on top position here.
joe rogan
Yep, yep, yep.
brendan schaub
And then he just gets the mount.
joe rogan
Look at that transition, man.
eddie bravo
The exact same path to the mount.
joe rogan
Yep.
He's so slick with it, too, man.
See how there's no air there?
brendan schaub
Grape finds the legs.
eddie bravo
He was like, I don't even need to bother with side control.
I go right to the mount on this dude.
joe rogan
Do you see how there was no air in his transition?
Just so smooth.
Oh God, it's artistic.
brendan schaub
Now, if you're a crow cop, you can only get mounted so many times.
joe rogan
Because he explodes to get out of it?
brendan schaub
Yeah, man.
joe rogan
It's a lot of gas to burn, huh?
brendan schaub
To get a 265 pound world champ off you is going to be tough.
joe rogan
And as Hoist Grace would always say, he's cooking them right now, you know?
By wearing a mount like this before he attempts to spin him.
Ooh, look at this mount!
brendan schaub
I hate when guys on the bottom of a mount try to punch.
joe rogan
Dude, look at this mount.
Look at this goddamn mount.
Well, the striker, though, dude, they feel like any time they have a chance to pop your chin.
eddie bravo
A dude knocked a guy out from the mount before in Japan.
Knocked him out cold.
joe rogan
Well, how about Uriah Hall?
For sure the exception.
Knocked a dude out from his guard.
Remember that?
On the show?
unidentified
Who?
joe rogan
Look at this!
brendan schaub
Gonzaga!
joe rogan
Trying to set up the...
Was he setting up an armbar?
brendan schaub
Looks like an armbar, yeah.
eddie bravo
He wanted an armbar.
It's a good move.
joe rogan
He's a beast, dude.
He is a beast.
brendan schaub
Did Gonzaga shave his back?
joe rogan
Look at this.
He's looking for the...
brendan schaub
No, it's still there.
joe rogan
Looking for the Americana.
Oh, a little blood on Gonzaga's head.
Where's that coming from?
Boom!
brendan schaub
Oh, Jesus.
unidentified
Boom!
brendan schaub
Great elbow.
joe rogan
You know, it's interesting that Krokop was always hot open.
It's interesting that he's setting up a triangle.
Krokop was talking about how he didn't like the cuts because he didn't like the blood from the elbows.
brendan schaub
And this is what's fucking him up.
joe rogan
That's what's getting him.
Boom, boom.
Transition.
Put control by Gonzaga.
Look at the fucking ferocious control.
brendan schaub
Damn, man.
joe rogan
That's some ferocious control.
That is exactly what Crow Cop was saying that he thinks needs to change about MMA in Gonzaga.
eddie bravo
Grappling and the elbows.
joe rogan
Gonzaga just said, oh, I know what you don't like.
brendan schaub
Fuck, man.
That's a bad cut.
joe rogan
But the only type of person that says that about grappling and elbows is the type of person that doesn't want to get that happen to them.
As far as him being able to do it to someone, of course he would want to be able to do it.
brendan schaub
If that was his game, he'd be all about it.
unidentified
Damn.
brendan schaub
That'd be cool if that made him.
unidentified
Beautiful.
eddie bravo
Didn't he mount somebody before and fuck him up from the mount?
brendan schaub
Crow Cop?
unidentified
Yeah.
eddie bravo
Pat Berry.
brendan schaub
Pat Berry mounted and his back, right?
And then he choked Pat Berry with one arm.
joe rogan
He kicked out the leg.
Did he kick out the right leg?
Or he kicked out the left leg?
He tripped him.
brendan schaub
He picked it up and then tripped out the left leg.
unidentified
Nice.
joe rogan
Look at this.
Ferocious ground and pound.
Just nasty control.
Look at this.
unidentified
Boom!
joe rogan
That was the one that cut him open.
Dude, the control Gonzaga had.
Once he gets on top, man, that's nasty control.
brendan schaub
If Krokop were to lose this fight, do you think he fights again in the UFC? That's a good question.
joe rogan
I mean, they love him.
He's still a star.
He's still a legend.
He's still, you know, like one of the most important guys in the history of MMA. Ever.
Ever.
brendan schaub
He's my favorite fighter of all time.
At what point does the UFC say, you know what, we're good?
joe rogan
Well, he definitely is not going to fight Gonzaga next unless he beats him.
I mean, if he KOs him right here, we stop talking.
If he fucking head kicks Gonzaga right here, we stop talking.
eddie bravo
He's a great guy for the UFC to open new markets in Europe, right?
You want to have a UFC in the Ukraine or something?
Boom!
Open up a headliner with Krokop.
He's still got a few fights left in him.
joe rogan
Well, if he wants to fight again in Croatia, even if he's not the main event, they'll still sell the motherfucker out.
brendan schaub
Sell out.
joe rogan
He's a national hero.
He's a goddamn national hero over there.
And, like we said, undeniable, one of the legends of the game.
Gonzaga with a big takedown.
Defense.
Kroka, perhaps, a little confidence.
He's just looking to jab, though.
Not too many left hands.
brendan schaub
No power shots, man.
joe rogan
Gotta see him open up with that kick, maybe even to the body.
brendan schaub
Gonzaga gets right hand happy though.
unidentified
Gonzaga's slowing down.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's a tough third round, man.
He put a lot of pressure on him.
brendan schaub
Mount.
joe rogan
Yeah, held him down, beat on him, but he definitely took way less damage.
So, if he's tired right here.
brendan schaub
Dude, if he's tired, I could see Crow Cop winning this.
joe rogan
You never know.
brendan schaub
You never know.
joe rogan
With three minutes to go, you never know.
brendan schaub
Bro, three minutes to go and you got two more rounds, bro.
You gotta remember it's five rounds.
joe rogan
Oh, that's right.
I just got so excited.
eddie bravo
And he's failed in his last two takedown attempts.
Haven't worked.
brendan schaub
I'm telling you, man, against the cage, save your fucking energy.
Don't do it.
This is all Cro-Cop.
This is his game, man.
He fucked me up against the cage.
joe rogan
Knee to the body, Bogonzaga.
eddie bravo
While he had his back on the cage?
joe rogan
Oh, look at this.
eddie bravo
Four takedown attempts.
Fail.
joe rogan
Dude, Cro-Cop's looking way better.
He's looking way better.
That was a good scramble right there.
Oh, good left hand by Krokop.
Oh, another one.
brendan schaub
Krokop's elbows.
Did he rock him?
joe rogan
Yes.
Gonzaga's hurt.
Oh, shit.
Uppercut.
Oh.
brendan schaub
Come on, Krokop.
Oh, I think he got him, son.
What's wrong with Gonzaga?
joe rogan
He's getting hit, dude.
Oh, he got hit again.
eddie bravo
He shouldn't have won his card.
He should have stood over him like a horse dance and punched him.
He shouldn't have got on his knees.
brendan schaub
Especially with a jiu-jitsu guy like this.
He's gonna fucking chill here now, man.
eddie bravo
He's got a posture.
joe rogan
Holy shit, what a turnaround.
brendan schaub
Great turnaround.
joe rogan
What a goddamn turnaround.
Even if this was only a three-rounder with two minutes to go, you could still finish him here.
unidentified
Oh, shit!
eddie bravo
Oh, big elbow!
brendan schaub
I'm not mad at those elbows to the ground.
unidentified
Oh!
eddie bravo
Shit!
joe rogan
And you gotta think, this is a real striker throwing from tight quarters.
He might not be able to use his body, but guaranteed, he generates way more power than the average person in his positions.
Inaccuracy.
unidentified
Oh!
eddie bravo
Those are some...
unidentified
Those are hard!
Oh!
eddie bravo
Oh, shit!
Oh, shit!
joe rogan
Oh, my goodness!
Oh, what a goddamn turnaround!
Holy shit!
Those are ferocious!
Gonzaga's face is fucked up!
unidentified
That's it!
joe rogan
That's it!
unidentified
Oh!
eddie bravo
Mirko Krokop is back!
brendan schaub
We got a classic on our hands.
joe rogan
Dude, holy shit.
Holy shit.
What a destruction.
That was some of the best elbows from the guard in MMA ever.
eddie bravo
Ever.
joe rogan
Ever.
eddie bravo
That's where he should be.
He should be taking dudes down and staying in their guard.
joe rogan
Holy shit.
eddie bravo
That's where the fire comes.
joe rogan
How ironic is it that grappling and elbows are what won him to fight?
brendan schaub
That's what he's complaining about.
unidentified
What?
joe rogan
That's so crazy!
eddie bravo
And we were just talking about this!
brendan schaub
Would you put any money off if you said, hey, Crow Cop's gonna take...
He's gonna get Gonzaga's guard and elbow the shit out of TKL. And it started with that elbow standing.
joe rogan
Yes, look at that.
eddie bravo
The two elbows.
joe rogan
Short elbow and tight.
Look, Gonzaga's hurt right there just trying to hang on.
Watch this.
unidentified
Boom!
joe rogan
Oh, that was ferocious.
Another one.
Oh, dude.
Mirko can throw some goddamn elbows.
brendan schaub
Dude, he shattered my nose like that.
Boom!
joe rogan
Oh my god, look at this.
Hammer!
Boom!
What a fucking turnaround!
eddie bravo
We gotta see some of those elbows from the guard.
joe rogan
Dude, Mirko Krokop has heart.
brendan schaub
Fuck.
joe rogan
What heart that guy has.
brendan schaub
Gonzaga's still down.
His face pretty jacked up.
eddie bravo
That's his new spot.
His new spot is in the guard.
joe rogan
What fucking heart.
To come back from that?
brendan schaub
What a great win for Mirko, man.
eddie bravo
Look at how the sport has evolved.
The sport has evolved.
The best place for the best striker ever to be is in the guard throwing those strikes.
In the guard throwing those goddamn strikes.
That's where he needs to be.
joe rogan
But when you think about it, on the ground, he can generate power in real short areas.
eddie bravo
He evolved into Mark Coleman.
It all comes back to Mark Coleman, the wrestler.
It all comes back to him.
joe rogan
Wow, that was incredible.
brendan schaub
They showed Gonzaga.
He's stumbling in the back.
He's still not right, man.
joe rogan
That was incredible.
eddie bravo
This is the only guy I would never instruct to pass the guard.
unidentified
Don't pass!
eddie bravo
Stay in the guard!
Jump in the guard!
brendan schaub
Damn, look at Gabriel.
joe rogan
Wow.
brendan schaub
That's a scar you're going to wear for life.
joe rogan
What a big victory for Krokop.
brendan schaub
What a big victory.
Well, now they're one and one.
Do they do it again?
The trilogy?
joe rogan
They might.
They very well might.
They very well might.
brendan schaub
That's three in a row for Gonzaga.
Does he get cut?
eddie bravo
What does he say?
Hold on.
unidentified
Great suit Hardy.
What is that?
joe rogan
What?
What?
brendan schaub
There's no translator?
unidentified
Two rounds.
Just stay calm and...
We believe, really we believe That third round of 40 Will be the last one Wow Those, oh look at that nice uppercut too Amazing.
joe rogan
Oh my god.
unidentified
Boom!
joe rogan
Look at this.
unidentified
Boom!
joe rogan
Ferocious.
unidentified
Legend, son.
Wow.
joe rogan
He is such a bad motherfucker.
the far ground.
brendan schaub
What if he just goes on a tear on everyone who beat him?
unidentified
What comes next?
The first thing I will do is take a shower, and we are going home for Croatia in about an hour and a half.
We have our own transport, not plane.
Excellent.
I've got a gym might train the week.
eddie bravo
Air Force One, Croatia's guy.
brendan schaub
Hell yeah.
unidentified
Maybe one or two weeks, I will take a rest and then train again.
joe rogan
One or two weeks, I'll take a rest and train again.
brendan schaub
Monster.
joe rogan
Now, if anybody had ever told him to retire after his losses, you know, he would have missed out on this glory, right?
brendan schaub
Right?
That's why he can't retire, Joe.
joe rogan
But what do you think is the balance between a guy like this, who is just going to press on and still, at times like tonight, be spectacularly successful, or a guy like Jamie Varner, who says, you know what, I think it's over.
brendan schaub
But a guy like Crow Cop, what's left for him to do?
joe rogan
That's true.
brendan schaub
What's left?
joe rogan
Well, he obviously loves this as much as anything in life.
And this moment right now is going to be one of the greatest moments that he'll ever remember.
And he overcame some serious adversity.
He overcame some serious adversity.
unidentified
He might retire.
brendan schaub
Look at that, son.
Best ever.
joe rogan
Most finishes in UFC pride, WEC, and Strikeforce ever.
22. Vanderlei, right on his tail.
Anderson behind that Shogun back in the day 16 Wow, that's nuts man.
eddie bravo
All pride guys.
joe rogan
That's nuts What a legend that guy is you go back to his highlight reel and pride though None better.
No one had a better highlight reel of finishes that kicked to the body on Heath Haring.
We showed it on this podcast before.
But it was like he went halfway into his body with that round kick.
brendan schaub
He's insane, man.
You think about the guys he's beat, especially in the prime.
He beat Josh Barnett twice.
He beat Mark Hunt.
He beat Wanderley.
He lost to Fedor.
Still, man.
joe rogan
Yeah, Fado was the guy.
brendan schaub
Decision.
joe rogan
He lost to Minotauro, but Minotauro had the best chin in the world at the time.
And Krokop hit him with everything but the kitchen sink and the head kicked him at the end of the first round.
And when the round ended, Noguera thought for a second that they had stopped the fight.
He's like, don't stop the fight!
They're like, no, it's the end of the round.
He's like, okay, cool.
Went out in the second round, took him down and armbarred him.
brendan schaub
I think those were the golden years of MMA. I don't think we'll ever get it back.
unidentified
Do you think so?
joe rogan
Well, I don't know about that.
Honestly, I think everybody always feels like the time that was passed was the great time.
But I think the time we're looking at right now, with the exception of a few divisions, is so much higher level than we've ever seen before.
brendan schaub
I think it's higher level, but it's just not the same.
joe rogan
I think it's too much.
brendan schaub
I think it's too saturated.
eddie bravo
I think it's like wine, man.
Anytime there's new shit, the old shit always looks better.
It's with music, with everything.
You could say, oh, I like early Iron Maiden or early Motley Crue.
I don't like the new album, which would be 1988. That would be new.
But now, 20 years later, that new album that came out in 1988, that's an old album and that's a classic now.
And it wasn't classic back then.
brendan schaub
I agree.
eddie bravo
What Joe's saying is right now, we're going to look back in 20 years at this point and say, Yeah, I disagree.
Look at all these big matches.
brendan schaub
I don't think so.
Because now, if you want to be a fighter, you can do it.
There's a way to do it.
When they were fighting, it was like, what the fuck?
How the fuck do we make this happen?
And these are legends.
Now you have some...
Now, you know, I hate to be shitty, but you have some kids coming off the Ultimate Fighter or some girls who are 3-0 and they're on the big stage.
joe rogan
These guys earned their fucking right.
eddie bravo
This rock and roll they play.
This rock and roll they play these kids these days.
unidentified
It's not like Boston or like Black Sabbath.
brendan schaub
No, you know what I'll say?
eddie bravo
Time makes legends.
Time, right now.
brendan schaub
I disagree.
You look at the level of experience and competition in those Pride tournaments, it's a higher level than we've ever been at.
eddie bravo
I think the level is way higher now.
I think back then you had Three guys that could strike really good.
And remember, BJ was the only guy that could box in the lightweight division.
Now everybody in the prelims, they're all good strikers now.
It's like the level's crazy.
brendan schaub
You have more well-rounded guys.
eddie bravo
Yeah, like it used to be that only a couple guys had professional footwork.
But now anybody in the prelims, you can't get into the UFC unless you have professional footwork nowadays.
You know what I'm saying?
joe rogan
Yeah.
Yeah, you can't be half-assed.
And now everyone is also incorporating a lot of that, what they call Neo footwork, that Dominic Cruz, TJ Dillashaw.
That's the next level stuff.
eddie bravo
So hyper-evolved these days.
joe rogan
That's next level stuff.
eddie bravo
But I see what you're saying.
It's like Led Zeppelin.
Pride is like Led Zeppelin and all that shit.
joe rogan
Yeah, but you know what?
See, Led Zeppelin, outside of the plagiarism accusations that are pretty significant.
Just put that all aside.
Just look at the finished product.
Goddamn, I don't think there's anybody today that can fuck with him.
They had some goddamn songs that were just so insanely good.
So insanely good.
eddie bravo
Have you heard Imagine Dragons?
joe rogan
There's different.
I mean, everybody's different.
I don't know what that is.
There's different, and there's equal.
You know, there's a lot of bands that I think are on that level.
But I just, there's like, Hold Outta Love, I don't think there's a song that's ever been better.
There's different songs, there's awesome songs that are equally awesome, but there's none better.
That's just like one of the all-time greats.
It's up there with Voodoo Child, with Hendrix to me.
brendan schaub
Think of when Krokop was fighting Vanderlei, Mark Hunt, fucking Josh Barnett.
joe rogan
What the fuck?
brendan schaub
Think about these guys.
joe rogan
He fought Vanderlei and then Josh Barnett in the same night.
brendan schaub
Same night.
Think how much weight he gave up to Mark Hunt.
joe rogan
Yeah.
brendan schaub
What the fuck?
And these are in their prime.
These are some of the best that have ever done it.
And he's beating them.
Same night.
joe rogan
How good was goddamn Fedor back then?
Because he walked down Krokop.
That was essentially a kickboxing pout.
When Krokop was at his very best, he hit him too, man.
He fucked his nose up.
He hit him with some hard shots.
And Fedor kept walking him down.
Fedor was chasing him down the whole fight.
He kept him on the heel.
Kept him on his back foot all the time.
brendan schaub
It's tough, man.
joe rogan
Kept him backing up.
Really interesting, man.
That's how goddamn good Fedor was in his prime.
When he was in his prime.
brendan schaub
The game just changes.
It's like basketball.
You guys aren't huge basketball fans.
You look at basketball like LeBron.
The games change where it's kind of like a foo-foo league now.
Well, when Michael Jordan and the Bulls were there, it was a different time, man.
Basketball was better.
unidentified
Really?
brendan schaub
It's never going to be as good as that.
Never.
joe rogan
How can you say that, though?
Athletes are getting better all the time.
brendan schaub
They're getting better, but the game's changed because it's all about offense.
So, really, no one plays defense, really, anymore.
It's all about the dunk and stuff like that.
joe rogan
But no one's preventing them from, like...
eddie bravo
They said that 20 years ago, too.
They're saying the exact same thing 20 years ago.
brendan schaub
Maybe I'm old school.
joe rogan
Are you old school?
brendan schaub
I'm sorry, I love Michael Jordan and a prime Mirko Crow Cop.
eddie bravo
Time makes legends.
Over time, we're going to look back at LeBron and say the same thing.
joe rogan
Yeah.
eddie bravo
He might not ever win as many championships as Michael Jordan, but already right now you gotta put him in the same class as Michael Jordan.
LeBron, come on.
joe rogan
You gotta put him in the same class.
At a guy like Mighty Mouse, there's never been a dude like Mighty Mouse.
People don't appreciate it because he weighs 125 pounds.
brendan schaub
True.
joe rogan
But goddamn Mighty Mouse is good.
He's so fucking good.
unidentified
He's so good.
joe rogan
He's so fucking good.
brendan schaub
No one cares.
joe rogan
It's hard because he's fighting little dudes and they're all 125 pounds and people don't appreciate it just from the human being perspective.
Because first of all, they don't have to fight gravity as hard.
They can move faster.
A guy like you...
If there was a guy like you that could move like Mighty Mouse, they would have sports scientists come in and try to figure out what the fuck you're doing.
You know, if you were doing something unusual with your training methods, everyone would start doing it.
If you could move like Mighty Mouse and you were heavyweight, everybody would do what you were doing.
brendan schaub
I agree.
Kenny Florian told me that DC was going out one night, and this was in Vegas, and he sees Mighty Mouse talking to the bouncer, like, bro, let me in.
DC's like, my man, this is the world champion of the UFC. And the guy's like, really?
eddie bravo
Yes!
brendan schaub
You know, he got him in.
That's fucking Mighty Mouse, man.
It's insane.
It's just those lighter weight classes.
joe rogan
Well, a lot of people don't know.
It's unfortunate.
But if you look at it from the technique perspective, I always say that if you want to emulate somebody, he's the dude.
He does everything perfect.
brendan schaub
If you're around the game, you appreciate it.
If you're a casual fan, you don't give a fuck about the little guys.
joe rogan
Well, he knocked out Benavidez, which, in my opinion, was unbelievable.
Nobody ever did that before.
brendan schaub
Benavidez is a monster.
joe rogan
He's a stud.
And he cracked him with one punch.
eddie bravo
You need a heel.
You need someone that's going to come around, like another Conor McGregor at 125. It's all about personalities.
brendan schaub
Aldo, don't get me wrong.
Aldo hasn't lasted nine years.
He's a fucking monster.
He's never been bigger now that he's gonna fight Conor.
joe rogan
It's true.
brendan schaub
It's the best thing that ever happened to Aldo is Conor.
joe rogan
It's hard though to deal with the disrespect and all the stuff that he does to him.
brendan schaub
I think it's gonna be trouble.
I think it's gonna be trouble.
I think you're gonna get a fucking nasty Aldo, man.
joe rogan
Oh, you're definitely gonna get a nasty Aldo.
The question is he's gonna have the stamina to do that for more than one or two rounds.
brendan schaub
Look at Chad Mendes' fight.
joe rogan
That's true.
But Aldo, well, he hurt Mendez at the end of, was it the end of the first when he tagged him?
unidentified
The second.
joe rogan
The bell?
The second.
Was it the second?
brendan schaub
I think it was the second, yeah.
joe rogan
And Mendez tagged him.
But then into the third, fourth, and fifth rounds...
He wound up winning a decision, and he wound up beating Mendez, but that was probably the best anybody had looked against Aldo.
It was the first time anybody ever cracked Aldo.
brendan schaub
You know who good Mendez is?
joe rogan
Yeah.
He's very good.
brendan schaub
Listen, I love Conor.
Conor's my man, but Conor Mendez isn't a good fight for Conor.
joe rogan
Well, it's interesting because he's such a fucking powerful wrestler.
He's so goddamn fast.
That's the one thing we haven't seen, is the powerful wrestler.
But then you look at what he did to Llamas, he puts dudes away with his hands.
He's fast as fuck, dude.
brendan schaub
There's no one more powerful than Mendez.
He's such a stud, like such a stud athlete.
Mendes is the biggest freak in the gym, and to see Aldo take his best and still win, everyone was like, Jesus, man.
joe rogan
Yeah, Jesus.
Well, McGregor's even bigger than him.
He's longer.
brendan schaub
Big boy.
joe rogan
And he throws some nasty left hands, man.
brendan schaub
I agree.
unidentified
Nasty left hands.
joe rogan
He puts a lot of weight behind it.
And if he can get one off, and if he can really impose that, like, his psychological game is fucking strong.
brendan schaub
He believes in himself.
joe rogan
Like, Muhammad Ali, Sonny Liston strong.
brendan schaub
I agree.
joe rogan
It's strong in a weird way.
Like, you see no cracks in it.
He doesn't ever back off.
He doesn't ever say anything stupid.
brendan schaub
I'm rooting for Connor.
joe rogan
You know, he doesn't ever say, I'm gonna beat you into a living death.
brendan schaub
Yeah.
joe rogan
Remember that?
Ken Shamrock and Tito Ortiz.
brendan schaub
It's like, damn, bro.
joe rogan
You're like, come on, man.
brendan schaub
Yeah.
joe rogan
He never falters with his shit-talking game.
It's so powerful, it makes you deny who you are.
brendan schaub
I think it's better for the sport if Conor wins.
joe rogan
I don't know about all that.
I don't know about all that.
brendan schaub
I do.
joe rogan
I don't.
I think if Conor loses, maybe it's good for the sport.
brendan schaub
Oh, I disagree.
unidentified
Why?
brendan schaub
We need that fucking pink elephant in the room.
joe rogan
But what if it's a good fight?
What if it's a wild, good fight?
brendan schaub
Okay, then what do you do with Conor?
Let's say he loses.
What do you do with him?
joe rogan
Rematch!
Or everybody else.
brendan schaub
Okay, then you rematch.
joe rogan
You're highlighting the rest of the division.
Think about this division right now.
You've got Frankie Edgar who's about to fight Uriah Famer.
brendan schaub
Terrible matchup for Conor.
joe rogan
Either one of those guys.
brendan schaub
Either one, because they can wrestle their fucking ass off.
joe rogan
Uriah Faber would be interesting.
Because we really haven't seen him at 145 in a few years.
brendan schaub
True.
joe rogan
He might be better at 145. He might be better with not cutting such an extreme amount of weight.
I mean, there's a reason why he's taking this fight.
Yeah, I agree.
I don't think that's an excursion into 145. We didn't expect that.
Nobody expected that.
He's in the hunt at 135 for the title.
But he doesn't want to fight his boy TJ. It's very interesting.
Very interesting.
brendan schaub
And Conor's big enough where he can do super fights against Pettis.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
brendan schaub
Not Dos Anjos, but...
joe rogan
And then, you know, there's a lot of guys at 155 that would love to fight him.
brendan schaub
There's a lot of guys at 155. The entire UFC wants to fight Conor.
What he brings to the table, all of them want to fight him.
joe rogan
Well, if he wins...
brendan schaub
I just think his best matchup, which this is fucking insane to say, but just style-wise, all those are the best matchup in the top five for him.
After that, man, it's trouble, because we're talking about grapplers.
joe rogan
Mm-hmm.
Well, it's going to be interesting to see if he can hang with Aldo standing.
I mean, he clipped Poirier early in the fight.
He did hurt him, no doubt about it, but we didn't get to see an exchange.
unidentified
No.
eddie bravo
You know one thing about Conor?
That I feel that grapplers...
There's a really really good sign and I saw it firsthand that he has the mentality to get really really good at jiu-jitsu And I'll tell you why I'm teaching class one fucking day maybe six months ago, maybe eight months ago and I'm looking over at the bag in the corner.
Someone's punching a bag in the corner, and I'm teaching class And I look over like it's that fucking Conor McGregor hitting the bag in my gym.
brendan schaub
Yeah, so I So, I walk over, and I'm like, hey, dude, the first time I ever met him.
eddie bravo
I said, hey, dude, what's up?
What the fuck are you doing here?
He goes, oh, mate.
You know, mate.
That don't say mate, right?
brendan schaub
No, it's Australia or England.
eddie bravo
Okay, well, I can't do an Irish accent, but I can't do any accents, but he...
We said, hey, what's up, you know?
I told him I'm a fan and all that shit.
And I said, hey, I'm just teaching, you know?
And he goes, okay, I just needed a bag to hit.
I was down the street at a hotel doing UFC shit.
So, I go back to class.
Within three minutes, he shows up on the mat and just says, we're your best guys.
And I said, oh, okay.
So I hooked him up with my best guys, and he just kept wanting to go with all my best guys.
brendan schaub
That's amazing.
He's a great guy, too, man.
unidentified
He's a great guy.
eddie bravo
No UFC guys do that.
No UFC guys do that.
There's a lot of hardcore grapplers, and that's what they do.
They go from gym to gym and try to get different looks.
Guys are looking for the best competition, just looking for wars.
Looking for different style matchups, because if you're training with the same guy all the time, that's not good.
There's 200 styles out there and you're training with three styles every day, you're training with two styles every day, four styles.
You need big, giant classes where there's so many different styles.
brendan schaub
So you see so many looks.
eddie bravo
There's so many in grappling.
It's endless.
brendan schaub
Conor's a brown belt.
eddie bravo
Yeah.
So he showed up and you know what?
That showed me that he has the mentality to, he's not afraid to grapple and train and work with whoever on the ground to improve his grappling.
That's huge.
So from that point I thought, you know what, that's why he's good.
brendan schaub
I agree.
I'm a Conor fan.
eddie bravo
He's looking to evolve.
joe rogan
Yeah, I'm a Conor fan as well.
I think he's definitely an extraordinary human being.
eddie bravo
I've never had a famous UFC fighter ever do that.
A lot of them come by and say hi.
brendan schaub
I haven't been in there yet.
eddie bravo
They stand by on the cage and they look in.
And a couple have trained, but when it came down to rolling, they didn't want to roll.
Famous UFC fighters generally...
I understand where they're coming from.
unidentified
They're famous.
brendan schaub
It's ego, man.
eddie bravo
They train in some gym where they don't know the guys and, you know, there's gonna be cameras out and maybe he gets tapped out by a blue belt and then someone goes on the internet and goes, I just tapped out fucking da-da-da from the UFC. Guys in the UFC, they don't want that shit.
brendan schaub
They don't want to get hurt, though, either.
Because there's gyms I've been to where I'll go with tough guys like You know, some black belts, some brown belts, and then there are studs in the corner waiting for me to get tired.
It's like, oh, last round, let's go, and then you end up getting hurt.
unidentified
Yeah, that's a weird thing that people do when they sit back.
eddie bravo
I don't think they're worried about getting hurt, unless they have a fight coming.
Unless they have a fight coming, like, next week or two weeks, then you don't grapple hard because you don't want to get hurt.
But I think they don't want to get tapped.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's true, too.
brendan schaub
I think it's both.
I think it's ego, and they don't want to get hurt either.
joe rogan
But it is gross when you see dudes sitting out and waiting for you to get tired.
eddie bravo
I know.
unidentified
I'm like, come on, man.
joe rogan
And then they ask you to roll.
Like, you just sat out for, like, two rounds.
What are we doing, man?
You didn't even roll.
Are you trying to cheat?
Are you cheating?
You're trying to catch someone who just ran a marathon and ask them to race?
unidentified
Yeah.
brendan schaub
It's weird, man.
eddie bravo
If there's guys that all they do is leg locks.
I can see a guy saying, hey, I don't want to get my legs hurt.
People believe that.
People believe that if you go against a guy that's going to attack your legs, you're going to get hurt.
I believe that shit.
brendan schaub
I don't believe it anymore, but I can understand that.
eddie bravo
Guys, there's dudes that are leg lock assassins.
joe rogan
There's also certain dudes who hurt dudes.
We know that.
brendan schaub
That's their thing.
They don't give a fuck.
joe rogan
Well, that's the Toquino thing.
That's the Paul Harris thing.
They talk about that even in the gym.
They had a problem with him.
Like, more than one gym.
brendan schaub
He can only train with his brother.
joe rogan
What?
brendan schaub
He can only really train with his brother, because if he goes with anyone else, he just doesn't know how to turn it off.
He's fucking ripping limbs off.
joe rogan
Jesus Christ.
Well, I saw him roll with Mayhem.
He rolled with Mayhem, and Mayhem tapped, and he released.
But there's a video of it.
eddie bravo
Where'd you see that?
joe rogan
There's a video of it online.
brendan schaub
Was that a while ago?
joe rogan
It was in Brazil, back in the day.
eddie bravo
He got him in a heel hook?
joe rogan
I think he got his back.
If I remember.
eddie bravo
Really?
joe rogan
I forget.
Maybe an arm bar?
I forget.
It wasn't a heel hook, though.
He got him in a few things.
brendan schaub
I think it's a combination of both, though, Eddie.
Ego, 100%.
eddie bravo
For sure.
brendan schaub
If there's a fight coming, 100%, you don't want to get hurt.
eddie bravo
There's all this money, for sure.
brendan schaub
But they're worried about being embarrassed.
joe rogan
Yeah.
That's why some guys never get good.
eddie bravo
But not Connor.
I agree.
That's why I bring up Connor.
That's rare.
That's rare.
brendan schaub
Conor's mentality, man, I'm telling you that dude is special, man.
Whether he wins this fight or not, that kid's gonna go a long ways in life.
unidentified
Do you know what's interesting?
brendan schaub
He's just a good dude.
joe rogan
He almost retired two years ago.
brendan schaub
I know.
joe rogan
Isn't that crazy?
eddie bravo
Why?
joe rogan
He had a friend that couldn't fight anymore.
He had a friend apparently had been injured so much in fighting that he was done.
And, you know, he was thinking, like, what am I doing?
I think I'm done.
And he actually didn't show up for his boxing classes.
He was teaching a boxing class and didn't show up for like six days or something like that.
And then finally his manager calls him up.
Two weeks.
His manager calls him up and his manager says, hey, do you want to fight in the UFC? And he's like, oh shit, here we go.
And he just decided to go full on into it.
Just went full on into it.
eddie bravo
He's really into not sparring with striking.
He's really into that.
Working on technique more than anything.
unidentified
Very smart.
Super smart.
eddie bravo
Very into not sparring.
joe rogan
Jamie Varner was saying.
eddie bravo
Very into not sparring and doing damage.
brendan schaub
You know, Mitrione does the same thing too.
When Mitrione first told me that, I was like, because Mitrione's a weird, Mitrione's very smart, but he's a weird dude.
He's different.
He goes, I don't spar, man.
I just kind of, I get to the close and I bring it back.
He goes, you know, we'll spar.
You can hit me, but I'm not going to hit you.
joe rogan
Why?
brendan schaub
He doesn't want to do it.
joe rogan
That's weird.
brendan schaub
But your own doesn't spar full go.
joe rogan
It's working.
brendan schaub
He's on a tear, man.
joe rogan
It's obviously working.
Well, I think there's a lot of those Thai guys do that.
That's a big thing in Muay Thai.
Like, John Wayne Parr was talking about that when he did the podcast, that they play all the time.
brendan schaub
Dwayne!
joe rogan
Yeah.
brendan schaub
Dwayne's the same way, man.
joe rogan
Well, Dwayne has a whole system worked out.
Dwayne is a fascinating cat.
He has a whole system worked out as far as getting people comfortable with striking and where he takes you into it step by step.
I would love to have him explain it.
I don't know, actually, if he'd be willing to.
Maybe it's his trade secret.
brendan schaub
He has a whole belt system, too.
joe rogan
He has a whole belt system.
Yeah.
Very smart dude when it comes to striking.
I was really really impressed when I saw him working with TJ. Yeah, I was really impressed Hell yeah, I was like wow like Dwayne bang Ludwig.
It's on some next-level shit.
brendan schaub
You know the striking coaching the thing is with striking is the ego thing too, but we see it in the NFL the Guys, especially in college too, at these big colleges in the NFL, guys used to hit four times a week.
Kill each other four times a week.
And then some coaches are like, well, this isn't smart.
The guys aren't getting to the game.
They look like shit in the game.
So then schools like Michigan and Ohio State, they pulled it back.
And then they were successful.
Then everyone followed them.
Well, now we see it in the UFC where, listen, you don't get to the UFC without being tough.
You're tough, man.
There's no need to do these gym battles and take it out of you.
joe rogan
That's exactly what Jamie Varner was saying.
Those are his exact words.
brendan schaub
And I haven't listened to a word Jamie Varner says.
I love Jamie Varner.
He's a great guy, but I haven't listened to it.
joe rogan
I believe you.
brendan schaub
But you don't need to do it in the gym, man.
joe rogan
Yeah, there needs to be some sort of protocol established for training, like a real consensus protocol when it comes to contact.
Like how much contact should you have?
brendan schaub
Or even mapping out a camp.
What if there's a protocol for an eight-week camp you're going to spar in these days, you're going to do this, and it's just the way it should be, and it's down to a T. What if someone figured that out?
How dope would that be?
joe rogan
The way your nutritionist has figured out your diet.
unidentified
Yes.
joe rogan
Have that for your whole system.
Everything you do.
eddie bravo
Isn't that what they do?
joe rogan
Some places.
brendan schaub
Well, not really.
joe rogan
Some places, team takedown.
I guarantee you Mark Lehman does shit like that.
brendan schaub
Mark Lehman does that, and it works for Johnny Hendrix.
joe rogan
Right.
brendan schaub
You know what I'm saying?
joe rogan
Right.
Well, he knows Johnny Hendrix like that.
brendan schaub
He knows Johnny very well.
joe rogan
Yeah.
I don't know what that means.
eddie bravo
Well, all it would take is...
joe rogan
All it would take...
Finger in somebody.
eddie bravo
Hey, Brendan, all it would take is figuring out, okay, where are you going to put your wrestling during the week?
Where are you going to put your striking?
brendan schaub
Everyone does that.
Everyone does that.
eddie bravo
What else are you talking about?
brendan schaub
But where is it overtraining?
When should you spar?
eddie bravo
Yeah, include that, too.
Sparring day, wrestle this day.
brendan schaub
I'm with you, but to where it's the most efficient.
Because now I was sparring when I got ready for Trash Brown.
I was sparring fucking hard twice a week at Black House.
Fucking hard, man.
You know what I'm saying?
joe rogan
Do you think that's a bad idea?
brendan schaub
Bad idea.
joe rogan
Bad idea.
You said this also about your Ben Rothwell fight, sparring with Carwin.
brendan schaub
I got knocked out before the Ben Rothwell fight by Carwin.
Left hook.
joe rogan
How far out?
brendan schaub
Before I fought in O'Gara, Carwin...
Rocked me so bad two weeks before.
In front of everyone.
And then we're on the ground.
Let me tell the story.
I'm getting ready.
We do an open gym in Denver.
Hey, come check out local fucking guy, Brendan Schaub in Denver, getting ready to fight in O'Gare in Brazil like an asshole.
We invite family, everyone.
eddie bravo
It's like Rocky II. Yes.
brendan schaub
I haven't seen Shane, and he's helped me nothing this camp.
Shane's on a boat an hour away.
My coach goes, bro, you're supposed to be here.
Shane goes, oh, shit, it's Saturday?
Yeah, man, Brendan's banking on you.
There's fucking everyone here.
He goes, all right, give me a second.
Hour, fucking shade, smells like sunscreen, sunburnt, just all shitty.
He goes, who has gloves?
Gets gloves on.
I think he had cut off jean shorts and a fucking Van Halen shirt.
joe rogan
He had Daisy Duke on?
brendan schaub
Just some Daisy Duke.
eddie bravo
Van Halen shirt.
unidentified
Literally tells his son, he's like, just wait over there.
brendan schaub
I'm like, I'm gonna fucking destroy this hick.
What the fuck you doing, Shane?
He's like, you ready?
Cracks neck to the side.
I'm like, yeah.
Just fucking tubs at me like a fucking great white shark.
Left hook.
joe rogan
Boom!
brendan schaub
I'm like, whoa!
Remind you, all my family and friends are like, oh my god, Shane's gonna kill shop.
Shane's on top, ground and pounding.
joe rogan
After he drops you?
brendan schaub
After he drops me, I come to, I go, what the fuck are you doing?
He goes, sorry bro, here, get up, get up, and then take me down.
I'm like, no, this isn't WWE. I'm like, stop, stop.
I told my coach, I'm like, I'm fucking rocked, man.
And then I fight Noguera.
joe rogan
Wow.
And he knew that you were about to have a fight.
brendan schaub
Shane's super old school, man.
No one made me more tougher than Shane.
No one gave me more head trauma than Shane Carlin.
joe rogan
Jesus Christ.
brendan schaub
Love that guy.
joe rogan
So the Rothwell fight, how far out was it?
brendan schaub
Again, two weeks.
Jesus Christ.
When I was in Denver, the two weeks out was when we went balls to the wall, where it was me and Shane only, three rounds, and it was weird trying to knock each other out.
And you know what we'd do?
The coach would go, 30 seconds, the entire gym would shut the fuck down and watch me and Shane, because 30 seconds meant technique out the window, plant your feet and punch each other in the face.
That's what I would do, and I used to bank on it.
People were like, oh, you're the best, Shab, that was so cool.
I'm like, yeah, thanks, man.
joe rogan
You used to bank on that?
brendan schaub
It was like my thing.
It was like, yeah, Shab, go toe-to-toe with Garwin, man.
This is so cool.
Bad idea, man.
Then I'd go in the bathroom to throw up.
I'd get in my car.
I wouldn't know how to drive home.
joe rogan
Oh, my God.
brendan schaub
Shane would tell me the same thing.
Call me.
That was amazing, brother.
I'm fucked up.
True story, man.
joe rogan
That's some Cheech and Chong conversation.
brendan schaub
I know.
Dude, it's like, dude, where's my car?
joe rogan
Oh my god, that's so crazy.
That's so crazy.
brendan schaub
When I think back on it, now I'd be like, no, get the fuck out of here.
Like, when I was getting ready for camp at Black House, they do this thing where they do rounds, and you have to leave your foot in, they put three cones out, you have to leave your foot in the cone, and then spar, guys.
Just to work on, you know, staying in the pocket, moving.
joe rogan
Right.
brendan schaub
And I was just getting started, man.
And they were doing like 12 rounds.
joe rogan
What?
brendan schaub
Yeah, and I did like six.
joe rogan
Did you rotate guys?
brendan schaub
Yeah, you'd rotate guys.
joe rogan
Oh my God.
brendan schaub
And I did like six, and then I was like, dude, I'm taking some shots here.
And this is an older, you know, big brown.
I was like, I'm good, man.
I'm done.
I wish I was that smart when I was young.
joe rogan
See, different people have different systems as far as teaching people how to strike and moving in, like, certain positions every time, time and time again.
When you watch, like, the really high-level kickboxers from Holland, they all have, like, a very systematic approach.
brendan schaub
Yeah.
joe rogan
Like, I'd love to get you to sit down with, or to train, rather, with Rob Kamen.
Rob Kamen is a really interesting guy when it comes to that stuff.
He's got a system, and he teaches a system a lot like a lot of people teach a jiu-jitsu system.
Not as complex as, like, your system, because your system is just...
Infinite number of moves and positions, but came and had like a deep, deep knowledge of that Dutch style kickboxing.
brendan schaub
And he's a heavyweight.
And he's trained heavyweights, right?
joe rogan
He's a big fella.
I don't know if he's...
Technically, he's over 205 pounds.
brendan schaub
Yeah, I mean, he's a bigger dude.
joe rogan
He's a big fella.
Well, he's a bad motherfucker.
Rob Kamen, if you go back and watch his highlight reel, he was tremendous.
His technique was spectacular.
brendan schaub
He's in Santa Monica, right?
joe rogan
He's here now.
I think he's staying in Topanga, but he's here now.
He's in town.
What a great guy, too.
Just a sweetheart of a guy.
But he's interesting, because he was responsible for a lot of Brandon Vera's early success.
brendan schaub
That's right.
That's why I know the name.
joe rogan
Yeah, he was working with Brendan Vera early in his career.
And whether or not that's why Brendan was so successful, it's up to debate, you know?
But he was doing really well back then when he was with Kamen.
Makes sense.
I mean, that's when he beat Frank Mir.
That's when he beat a lot of guys back then.
brendan schaub
Remember that Silver?
Remember that heavyweight Silver?
joe rogan
Swerio Silva.
brendan schaub
Yes.
joe rogan
Was that who it was?
brendan schaub
Yeah.
joe rogan
Did he guillotine him?
brendan schaub
Guillotine him.
That was nasty.
unidentified
That's right.
joe rogan
Who did he head-kick KO'd?
He head-kick KO'd Justin Eilers?
brendan schaub
Yeah, bad.
Justin Eilers.
And then he kneed Frank Mir, remember?
unidentified
Mm-hmm.
brendan schaub
That's right.
And then he got on the mic and was like, I'm going to be the first fighter ever.
Heavyweight, light heavyweight.
joe rogan
Yeah.
He looked good back then, man.
brendan schaub
Fuck, he was nasty.
joe rogan
He looked good.
And those are the Rob Kamen days.
Related or not related I don't know and then there was but there was also when you talk about him You got to talk about he had a contract dispute so he's out for a long time There's a contract dispute for the UFC came back a lot of pressure on him didn't perform that well when he came back Just that taking that downtime off for contract disputes to that can fuck with your head, man I think he's still fighting in 1FC. Yeah, he is.
Yeah, he is.
He's a heavyweight.
Back to heavyweight.
Yeah.
brendan schaub
He said, fuck this diet.
joe rogan
Yeah, well, especially 1FC. I don't know what sort of Mexican supplements they test for.
brendan schaub
Yeah, I don't either.
joe rogan
Do they have the full menu of Mexican supplements?
brendan schaub
I don't know.
That's trouble fighting a Brandon Vera on anything.
joe rogan
Well, a lot of these guys, they say, like, you know, let them take it.
Why not?
You know, have an organization where they do take it.
Let's see what happens.
You know, if you've got international fighters that fight over there, just say, hey, this is the pride of Asia.
This is how it goes.
We're not going to test it for steroids.
We don't have to over here.
brendan schaub
That'd be interesting.
eddie bravo
Does 1FC test?
joe rogan
I don't know.
brendan schaub
I have no idea.
joe rogan
Well, Rich Franklin's the big dog over there, right?
He's running it.
brendan schaub
Yeah.
eddie bravo
He's running it.
joe rogan
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay, let's ask.
Does 1FC test for steroids?
What do you think?
I'm going to say no.
brendan schaub
I would say no to fuck no.
I mean, anything outside the United States, I'm always sketchy about, man.
joe rogan
Alright, let's see.
brendan schaub
Does one have some tests for steroids?
unidentified
It doesn't say steroids.
joe rogan
Steroid use in American football.
Why does it think football and Dana White admits...
Yeah, is that it?
eddie bravo
You gotta get on Twitter for that.
joe rogan
You think so?
brendan schaub
You think?
joe rogan
You gotta just ask people.
brendan schaub
Someone text Rich Franklin?
Is he really gonna tell us?
eddie bravo
Someone's gotta know on Twitter.
unidentified
Do they test for steroids at 1FC? Is it the number one?
joe rogan
Is it number one FC? 0NEFC. Let's try this.
1FC champion versus champion.
brendan schaub
Ben Askren.
Bitches and beauties.
joe rogan
Doesn't say.
I don't know.
Oh, drug tests.
We're clean.
Okay.
That means they have a drug test.
brendan schaub
Dude, but Pride used to say they're clean.
joe rogan
How dare you?
brendan schaub
Pride was like, nah, we're good.
Yeah, we're good.
eddie bravo
George Oliveira.
That isn't our George Oliveira, is it?
joe rogan
Yeah, he fought for them for a while.
eddie bravo
For 1FC? I didn't know that.
joe rogan
Yeah.
What do you mean, which George Oliveira are you talking about?
eddie bravo
From Legends.
joe rogan
I think it's him, isn't it?
brendan schaub
First of all, well, it says drug tests were clean, stained that George Oliveira tested positive 4 steroids.
joe rogan
How dare that?
Let's check.
brendan schaub
Like I said, man, anything outside the United States makes me skeptical hippo.
joe rogan
Skeptical hippo?
brendan schaub
Have you ever seen that meme?
It's a skeptical with just sketchy eyes.
joe rogan
No.
Skeptical Hippo?
brendan schaub
Yeah.
It's a funny meme.
Have you seen it?
joe rogan
Oh, this is a different guy.
That's George Oliveira that tested positive in the Ryan LaFlair fight.
That's a different...
That's the guy who fought Ryan LaFleur in the UFC recently.
unidentified
Right?
Right?
joe rogan
He didn't fight Ryan LeFlair.
He fought in the Ryan LeFlair undercard, excuse me.
LeFlair fought Damian Maia.
Oh, Damian Maia looked good in that fight.
brendan schaub
Maia looked great, right?
LeFlair's tough to do.
joe rogan
This is our buddy.
That's our buddy, Oliveira.
Skeptical hippo.
Skeptical.
There it is.
brendan schaub
That's my face when you ask if they do steroids.
Oh, I know that guy.
I've trained with that guy.
He's a black belt, right?
joe rogan
So obviously there's more than one George Oliveira.
brendan schaub
Wait, he's not your friend?
joe rogan
No, that guy is.
That guy is our friend.
From Legend.
brendan schaub
Yeah, from Legend, right?
joe rogan
Legend's MMA, back in the day, was a fun place, man.
brendan schaub
I bought a t-shirt.
I came to LA with a buddy, and at the time I wasn't fighting.
I went to Legends just because Randy Couture owned it.
I bought a t-shirt like a fanboy.
Wore it around.
unidentified
Awesome.
joe rogan
Hey, let's watch that fight if we can.
Let's see if we can watch that...
brendan schaub
Iaquinta?
joe rogan
Yeah, the Al Iaquinta fight.
That was the one that we wanted to watch, and the other one that we wanted to watch was the KO, the Gustafson-Anthony Johnson fight.
Oh, yeah, with the headbutt.
We'll watch that first.
Go take a pee, young man.
eddie bravo
If we have time, I would love your opinion on Kathy Long's highlight reel.
joe rogan
Oh, she's dope, dude.
I've seen her fight before.
She was one of those American kickboxers from back in the day, right?
eddie bravo
Dude, she moved very well.
Very well.
joe rogan
Yeah, she was badass, dude.
She was badass.
eddie bravo
She wants to fight.
joe rogan
Does she?
eddie bravo
Yeah, she's trying to get a fight right now.
She's 51. And she's in great shape.
joe rogan
She's 51?
eddie bravo
She's in great shape.
I see her twice a week at my gym.
She's in great shape, man.
unidentified
Wow.
eddie bravo
Yeah, she's trying to get a fight, but...
unidentified
That's amazing, 51. Invicta should look into her.
brendan schaub
Kathy Long can still strike.
eddie bravo
She's still badass.
And she's got decent defensive jiu-jitsu.
brendan schaub
She actually fought MMA like two, three years ago.
joe rogan
Did she really?
eddie bravo
Yeah, she fought in...
Ooh, what show is that?
That's up on YouTube, too.
She won.
She was 49 and she won.
joe rogan
Wow.
That's amazing.
eddie bravo
She really wants to fight, dude.
She is vicious.
joe rogan
Really?
brendan schaub
Yeah, she's 51 and she wants to fight, like, now.
eddie bravo
It's just hard.
brendan schaub
It's like, I guess promoters are worried about her age.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's hard to sell that, man.
It's hard to sell that.
brendan schaub
But when you look at her highlight reel, dude, you're like, oh shit, she could probably pull it off.
joe rogan
I think people today are more worried about people getting hurt that are older than ever before, you know?
But look at what Krokop just did.
Shit.
eddie bravo
How old is Krokop?
joe rogan
40. 40 and a hard 40. A 40, you know, of a guy who has been fighting top-level competition for a long time.
In and out of the gym.
I don't think it's on...
They don't have it on Fight Pass, goddammit.
I don't know.
Is it a fox fight?
brendan schaub
Yeah, it is a fox fight.
joe rogan
Maybe it doesn't get on Fight Pass because of that.
brendan schaub
Makes sense.
joe rogan
Yeah, it doesn't appear to be in the library unless I'm retarded, which is punishable.
Can't find it.
brendan schaub
Anthony Johnson, you should be able to...
joe rogan
No, that's what I'm looking for.
brendan schaub
I'm not bad at that B-shop graphic down there with LeVar Johnson.
Nice pretty young anaconda.
joe rogan
Let's try...
Let's see if we can find the Al Iaquinta fight here.
I think if it's not, I think I have it on DirecTV.
I think I saved those here.
Let's see.
All right, Quinta versus Ross Pearson.
That's a good fight.
All right, Quinta.
Doesn't seem to be on here either.
unidentified
All right, Quinta Masvidal.
joe rogan
Come on, bitch.
Doesn't look like that's on there, man.
unidentified
I mean, can you get the...
brendan schaub
God, then you get into some weird shit.
I was gonna say you can get the replay.
There it is, there.
joe rogan
It's not on Fight Pass?
unidentified
It's somewhere else.
joe rogan
Okay, cool.
Go full screen on that shit, son.
brendan schaub
Don't be scared.
joe rogan
There it is.
What is it on?
Is it something illegal?
Are we legally streaming right now?
unidentified
Maybe.
joe rogan
God damn it.
Damn it, Jamie!
You're going to get us in trouble.
We're going to watch this fight to see how clearly we can see that.
brendan schaub
I'm sure we can find just the highlight.
unidentified
It's a choppy video of the two.
joe rogan
Is it choppy?
unidentified
I'm sure you can find the highlight video.
joe rogan
Did you use that new component?
unidentified
I didn't have a chance to figure it out.
joe rogan
Oh, okay.
Let's just see it for a second.
Yeah, you know what?
This is going to be too choppy to be able to distinguish whether or not it was a headbutt.
brendan schaub
I'm sure you can get a slow-mo highlight of it.
joe rogan
But how come it looks okay when you're on a short screen like that?
Because it does.
Oh, really?
brendan schaub
Oh, I was trying to catch up.
joe rogan
So it's like a video card thing?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Wow.
And that's what that little component's for?
unidentified
To make it better, yeah.
joe rogan
Okay.
So this is post-KO. We're going to have to take it to the moment he gets hurt.
eddie bravo
This is a fight I haven't seen.
I was on a plane when this happened.
joe rogan
Oh, really?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah, you've got to take it way back before that, Jamie.
Way back.
Like, right about there.
Like right about where the cursor was.
unidentified
You need to go further back.
joe rogan
Because he heard him and then he stalked him down for a while.
brendan schaub
There it is.
Flick to the eye.
joe rogan
This means the fight is already over.
Oh, that's the poke to the eye.
Okay.
So this is the start up after the poke to the eye.
Here we go.
Boom, that's it.
brendan schaub
That's it.
That's what did it right there.
joe rogan
It's a right hand as well, man.
brendan schaub
You need to see the slow motion, man.
I think Anthony is going to win this fight anyways, whether that headbutt happened or not, but in this certain case, the headbutt's what fucking destroyed Alexander.
joe rogan
Oh, Jesus.
Okay, so tell me what you think.
Him versus Jon Jones.
What happens?
brendan schaub
Jon's reach is too much.
Jon will take him down an inside leg trip, wear him out, elbows from the guard.
Might submit him or TKO him.
I think it goes three rounds.
joe rogan
Wow.
Strong words.
brendan schaub
And I'm a fan of Anthony.
I like Anthony.
He's a fucking nightmare.
joe rogan
Boom, boom, boom.
It's interesting.
brendan schaub
But every fight, John, we're like, here's the guy.
Here's the guy who's going to beat him.
Here he is.
Wrong.
joe rogan
Well, how long can Rumble do this?
Like, how long can he fight like this?
Like, this is extreme pace he's putting on Gustafson.
It's like he's gambling that he's going to finish Gustafson.
I mean, he's going full at them, and he's got them hurt real bad, and it worked here.
brendan schaub
Yeah, if a guy can recover, get to guard or something?
joe rogan
If a guy can keep from getting hit...
Jesus Christ, those uppercuts.
brendan schaub
Nasty, man.
joe rogan
If a guy can keep from getting tagged by him and can take him into the third, fourth, and fifth rounds, what does that look like?
Well, against Phil Davis, he looked pretty fucking scary.
He looked scary in the second, and he looked scary in the third.
But that was Phil Davis, who doesn't present as many striking dangers as Jon Jones does.
brendan schaub
You gotta remember, Jon Jones dismantled Vitor.
Vitor's very similar to Anthony Johnson.
When Jon fought him, he was.
Explosive as fuck.
Powerful.
Remember that?
joe rogan
Yeah.
brendan schaub
Yeah, he got caught on that arm bar, but he ended up submitting Vitor.
joe rogan
But Vitor's considerably smaller.
brendan schaub
Not at the time.
Think about Vitor roided the fuck to the gills.
joe rogan
Yeah, I mean, he weighed 205, but he's a different 205 than this fucking guy.
unidentified
Man!
joe rogan
Let me see that again.
See that again.
That was interesting.
Look.
brendan schaub
Head lands.
joe rogan
That lands.
I've got to see it from the other angle.
brendan schaub
Me too.
eddie bravo
From that angle, it didn't look like it was a headbutt.
joe rogan
It didn't?
eddie bravo
No.
joe rogan
Okay, let's see it again.
eddie bravo
Not to me.
unidentified
Here we go.
joe rogan
We're going to see it right here.
Watch this.
Boom!
Oh, dude, that's a right hand.
Let me see one more time.
One more time.
See, that's what I'm saying.
It seems so...
brendan schaub
That angle's rough.
joe rogan
Let me see one more time.
eddie bravo
And then he seemed alright after that.
He was moving around and dancing.
brendan schaub
He's pretty fucked up.
I felt so bad for him.
unidentified
Here we go.
joe rogan
One more time.
One more time.
Here's the kick.
Bam.
Dude, I think the head didn't hit.
brendan schaub
I think the head goes through the side.
unidentified
You're crazy.
joe rogan
It's hard to tell, man.
brendan schaub
We need a better angle.
joe rogan
Let's see.
brendan schaub
Because that right hand, not this one, this one looks like it landed.
eddie bravo
His head hit his shoulder.
His head hit his shoulder.
brendan schaub
It doesn't, man.
At that angle, it does.
I'm telling you, if you can get the other view on the other side.
joe rogan
Keep going back to that same spot.
eddie bravo
His head would cock back if he got head-butted.
joe rogan
Check it out again.
eddie bravo
You'd be able to see the impact.
joe rogan
Dude, I think the head goes to the left and the right hand lands.
You might have bumped heads at the same time.
eddie bravo
It is possible.
brendan schaub
This is a bad angle.
eddie bravo
See, there was no point of impact.
unidentified
That's not good.
joe rogan
Go back to that other angle.
eddie bravo
You would see the impact.
brendan schaub
The other side you can tell, though.
joe rogan
This is like this is a Pruder film.
brendan schaub
Bam.
joe rogan
Could have hit him.
Could have hit him on the right eyebrow.
brendan schaub
Can't you type in headbutt on YouTube or something for me?
Because they give you different angles.
joe rogan
Look at this.
Here it is one more time.
Boom!
brendan schaub
You think that right hand landed that hard to do that?
joe rogan
The right hand was hard.
eddie bravo
What did you think it landed that hard?
joe rogan
Look how fucking hard he's throwing it.
He's throwing his whole body into it.
brendan schaub
That angle looks bad.
The other one, it doesn't.
eddie bravo
Let's see it one more time.
joe rogan
Let's see it one more time from that other angle.
brendan schaub
I'm telling you, if we can just pull some bullshit, you can get another angle on YouTube.
joe rogan
One more time, one more time.
brendan schaub
It's like some kid in the crowd.
joe rogan
You're saying that he didn't throw his right hand hard is crazy.
unidentified
Watch this.
brendan schaub
Right here, it doesn't look hard.
joe rogan
Wham!
Are you kidding me?
brendan schaub
Right there, doesn't it?
joe rogan
Oh, you're so crazy.
He throws everything into that punch.
unidentified
Look at this.
brendan schaub
Right here, it looks like fucking Mike Tyson.
joe rogan
See it again.
eddie bravo
Back it up again.
Back it up again on his clavicle.
joe rogan
Dude, he's...
unidentified
I'm telling you, there's a thing on YouTube on the other side.
joe rogan
But this right hand.
The idea that he's not throwing that hard is so crazy.
eddie bravo
He punched him a lot in the clavicle.
It landed right here and knocked him down.
brendan schaub
It didn't land in the face.
eddie bravo
No, it hits his face and then it hits the clavicle.
joe rogan
Look, it hits both.
brendan schaub
Right here it doesn't.
joe rogan
Watch this.
brendan schaub
Right here it doesn't.
The head hits, that hits.
joe rogan
Dude, that hit his fucking cheek.
It hit his fucking cheek.
Ooh, I disagree.
Oh, come on, back it up again.
Look, it hits his fucking face, it hits his cheek, and then it goes into his collarbone.
Watch this.
eddie bravo
Boom!
joe rogan
Dude, it hits his face first.
brendan schaub
It hits right here.
joe rogan
You're blind.
You need to go to a doctor.
unidentified
Are you serious?
joe rogan
Look at this.
unidentified
Boom!
joe rogan
That punch hits his face.
eddie bravo
You see his hair go like this.
joe rogan
Dude, that punch 100% hits his face.
unidentified
Hear me out.
joe rogan
Do you see elves?
When you get up in the morning, do you ever see elves?
brendan schaub
100%.
No, Jamie.
There's an angle from the other side.
joe rogan
One more time, Jamie.
brendan schaub
No, this isn't the evidence.
This isn't the evidence.
joe rogan
It's not just a video.
No big deal.
brendan schaub
No, there's a video from the other side, bro.
joe rogan
One more time.
Here we go.
Dink!
Chin.
brendan schaub
That was not good.
joe rogan
Cheek and jaw.
Now watch this next one.
Clear as fuck.
eddie bravo
Look at his hair.
Bam!
joe rogan
In the face before it hits anything else.
brendan schaub
His head goes that way from a headbutt.
eddie bravo
Did you see his hair?
The proof is in the hair.
joe rogan
It didn't matter.
The punch lands on the fucking cheek.
That's what you were arguing against.
You were saying it hits his clavicle.
It definitely doesn't hit his clavicle.
That punch hits his face and then glances off and then hits him on the chin.
brendan schaub
Here's the other view.
Here's the other view.
joe rogan
What are you talking about?
unidentified
This view?
joe rogan
You can't see the punch land.
You can see the headbutt.
brendan schaub
You can see the headbutt.
Just like you can't see it on the other side.
joe rogan
Okay, let's see.
brendan schaub
Watch.
joe rogan
Looks like you hit him in the head.
brendan schaub
With a headbutt, right?
unidentified
Let's see.
Slowly.
brendan schaub
Slow.
unidentified
Slow.
brendan schaub
Look.
joe rogan
Right hand hit the chin first, clearly.
Right hand hits the cheek.
It's 100%.
brendan schaub
Headbutt hits the temple.
eddie bravo
Oh, you know what?
He did headbutt him afterwards.
joe rogan
He definitely headbutted him afterwards, but the right hand hit him first.
brendan schaub
I gotta agree with you on that.
I'll give you that.
eddie bravo
The headbutt is after.
There is a headbutt after.
joe rogan
100%, but look.
brendan schaub
There's a headbutt, though.
joe rogan
It is a headbutt, for sure.
But here, boom.
Right hand first.
One more time.
Watch this.
Where does it go?
Do what you just did.
Watch one more time.
brendan schaub
Look at that headbutt, though, son.
joe rogan
But the right hand came before it.
brendan schaub
I agree.
joe rogan
Back it up to where the right hand came.
eddie bravo
There was a headbutt.
brendan schaub
There was a headbutt.
joe rogan
No, no, no.
It's before that.
Here it goes.
Watch this.
Look at the right hand.
unidentified
Bam!
joe rogan
Is that clavicle?
brendan schaub
And that's headbutt temple.
joe rogan
No!
He hit him in the fucking cheek.
Dude, you see from the overhead that punch lands on his cheek.
It lands on his cheek and jaw.
eddie bravo
But it's both.
joe rogan
It's both.
It's both.
Bam!
On the face, and then headbutt.
Bam!
Right there.
100% headbutt, 100% punch lance first.
brendan schaub
I agree.
unidentified
Both.
joe rogan
Both of them are damaging.
brendan schaub
Both of them fucked him up.
I think that thing would have won that fight either way.
I'm not taking anything away from Johnson.
joe rogan
From that angle, 100% they collide heads.
So now we know.
But also 100% the punch lance first.
You can see it right there.
Doom and doom.
brendan schaub
Yep.
Beat him fair and square.
joe rogan
Crazy.
brendan schaub
Powerful, Anthony Johnson.
eddie bravo
But I don't think it matters if the punch lands first.
I mean, there was a headbutt.
joe rogan
It definitely was a headbutt.
But he got tagged by that right hand on the face first.
Which one wobbled him more, though?
brendan schaub
Which one wobbled him more, though?
joe rogan
It's a good question.
The only one that can answer is him, really.
brendan schaub
And I bet even he can't.
I bet he's so out of it, he can't.
joe rogan
Yeah, what do you do in a situation like that?
If the guy lands a punch, and then the headbutt lands, and the headbutt, clearly, the guy lands a punch, he gets hurt, but the headbutt stiffens him up.
And he goes out.
brendan schaub
It's part of the game.
joe rogan
It is part of the game, but what do you say?
brendan schaub
Shit happens.
joe rogan
But the method of KO is kind of headbutt.
eddie bravo
We should bring back headbutts.
joe rogan
It would have to be like how much time has passed between them because like say if you tagged a guy with a right hand and he was wobbly as fuck and he was backing up and a few seconds go by and then he throws a right hand and misses and you collide heads and he goes unconscious.
brendan schaub
True.
joe rogan
Then what happens?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Then what do you do?
brendan schaub
Well, then you need a rematch.
I think that one's like, you know what I'm saying?
It's like...
joe rogan
You can't ask for a rematch in a fight like that.
eddie bravo
You can't.
brendan schaub
That magnitude.
joe rogan
There would have to be some sort of a huge event.
brendan schaub
See, I wanted to see Gus Finn and DC fight next.
joe rogan
That's a good fight.
brendan schaub
That's a great fight.
joe rogan
That's a very good fight.
brendan schaub
I wish they would have done that instead of separating them.
joe rogan
Well, Gustafsson versus Bader is an interesting fight too, man.
What Bader did to Ovin St. Prue I thought was really interesting, but Ovin St. Prue is not nearly the wrestler that DC is.
DC is wrestling, especially when you're dealing with a guy who's his size.
Not a long, tall guy like Jon Jones, who's so awkward and strong, but a guy more his size, a thick, stocky guy like Bader.
unidentified
Bader won't take DC. Isn't St. Pru fighting pretty soon?
joe rogan
Yeah, he's fighting soon too.
eddie bravo
When is that?
brendan schaub
Oh, he's fighting my boy Pat Cummins.
That's right.
Because Pat is a fucking nightmare.
eddie bravo
He was at my seminar.
He's a great guy, man.
Awesome.
joe rogan
Great guy.
eddie bravo
Super smart.
Man, I hate to say super athletic, but God damn.
joe rogan
He plays football.
brendan schaub
He plays at University of Tennessee.
eddie bravo
He's a professional.
brendan schaub
Not professional.
eddie bravo
Not professional, but I meant...
joe rogan
Elite.
eddie bravo
Elite athlete.
brendan schaub
Division I athlete at University of Tennessee.
eddie bravo
And he loves hitting twisters, man.
Watch.
He already has a calf crank from the truck.
joe rogan
He already has a Jason Von Flu choke.
Remember that?
brendan schaub
Yeah.
joe rogan
He got that dude in the Von Flu choke.
brendan schaub
That Russian cat.
joe rogan
There's a lot of dudes who don't even know that position.
eddie bravo
Yeah.
brendan schaub
Pat Cummings, I'm telling you, is a fucking monster.
joe rogan
He's a monster.
brendan schaub
He's a monster.
Pat will win that fight.
joe rogan
Ovens ain't proved that fucking left hook that knocked Shogun out.
brendan schaub
I don't know.
eddie bravo
Sweet sidestep.
Ovens is a specimen, dude.
brendan schaub
I know, man.
eddie bravo
And he moves very well on the ground.
He's a very good grappler.
He loves playing London.
He loves playing.
Also known as Sean Williams guard.
He loves going there.
brendan schaub
Pat Cummings is one of those guys.
He's like Rashad Evans.
He's a fucking impossible submit man.
He trains with Verdum all the time and me all the time.
And gets in the worst positions ever.
joe rogan
He's a tough dude too.
And a stud wrestler.
unidentified
And grinds man.
brendan schaub
He grinds.
joe rogan
Has cutting weight down to a T. Yeah, and has insane endurance and work ethic.
eddie bravo
Good luck with that.
joe rogan
His work ethic.
brendan schaub
Such a good fight.
Cummings, baby!
joe rogan
Eddie, bravo.
eddie bravo
Fuck that.
unidentified
Fuck that.
joe rogan
Ovens does have some nasty power.
brendan schaub
He says fuck that.
joe rogan
Ovens does have some nasty power.
eddie bravo
How about we put some money on it?
brendan schaub
Let's do it.
eddie bravo
How much you want?
brendan schaub
I'll bet you $1,000.
joe rogan
Oh my God!
Not $1,000!
unidentified
You went deep!
eddie bravo
$1,000!
joe rogan
Come on, man.
How about $20 for fun?
unidentified
$20.
brendan schaub
$20?
eddie bravo
$1,000?
brendan schaub
I'll give you $20.
joe rogan
A bunch of Chipotle.
brendan schaub
How about a dinner?
How about a dinner?
joe rogan
Okay, there you go.
brendan schaub
You take the three of us out to dinner.
The loser buys dinner.
Where at?
joe rogan
At the good place.
brendan schaub
Wherever we want.
eddie bravo
$1,000 is a lot of money.
brendan schaub
Joe picks the place.
joe rogan
Okay, we'll go to a good joint.
brendan schaub
$1,000 is a lot of money.
joe rogan
We'll go get a steak somewhere.
brendan schaub
Yeah, Morton's, wherever.
joe rogan
Damn, you willing to gamble on that?
eddie bravo
How about, oh, Vince wins anyways, and I still pay for it.
How about that?
Hey, a thousand bucks.
Fuck it.
Ovens, a thousand right here.
unidentified
A thousand?
brendan schaub
You really want to do a thousand?
joe rogan
Yes.
brendan schaub
Or you want to do dinner?
joe rogan
What's going to happen?
brendan schaub
You pick, Eddie.
eddie bravo
Let's play a thousand.
Fuck it.
Ovens is incredible, dude.
Ovens.
So bold.
Ovens, you listening to me?
I'm betting Brendan 1,000.
It's on you, kid.
joe rogan
You really want to get involved in this?
You've got to decide right now before you touch hands.
brendan schaub
Dude, it was my idea.
And you're a badass bluff.
eddie bravo
I'm calling your bluff.
brendan schaub
A thousand dollars.
unidentified
You're not going to do it.
brendan schaub
You're not going to do it.
eddie bravo
I'm a gambling man.
Okay, a thousand.
brendan schaub
A thousand dollars.
unidentified
You sure?
brendan schaub
I swear to God.
eddie bravo
I can trust you?
brendan schaub
It was my idea.
eddie bravo
But it was a bluff.
brendan schaub
It's not a bluff.
eddie bravo
Okay.
brendan schaub
We both have our sides.
eddie bravo
You can't back out.
brendan schaub
Don't back out.
eddie bravo
Don't back out.
brendan schaub
I'll do a thousand and dinner.
joe rogan
Oh my god.
eddie bravo
A thousand.
A thousand.
brendan schaub
Oh my god, I can't believe I'm seeing this.
Pat, you better train your ass off.
joe rogan
I can't believe I'm seeing this.
eddie bravo
When is that fight, goddammit?
brendan schaub
Two weeks.
It's on the Machida card.
joe rogan
Oh my goodness.
eddie bravo
Pat Cummings, baby!
I wanted cash.
unidentified
$100 bills.
brendan schaub
Yeah, don't bring me no fucking check, man.
eddie bravo
A write-off.
brendan schaub
Don't bring me a tenth plan to check or something.
eddie bravo
Hey, dude, I got something you can get.
You have a corporation that I could have.
joe rogan
Dude, how about this?
eddie bravo
You gotta help me out, bro.
joe rogan
I'll give you $1,500 in private less.
unidentified
Yeah, right?
brendan schaub
You got a free gym membership for a year.
joe rogan
I actually charge $15 in an hour.
unidentified
I charge $16 in an hour, but I'll give you a break.
joe rogan
All you owe me is $100, dude.
brendan schaub
I'm a little nervous now.
That really escalated.
joe rogan
That did escalate.
unidentified
That's a lot of money.
brendan schaub
That's a lot of money.
joe rogan
A thousand bucks is real cash.
eddie bravo
Oh, man.
brendan schaub
That's real cash.
eddie bravo
Oh, Vince is going to fuck him up.
Trust me.
He's going to fuck him up.
brendan schaub
Trust me, he's not.
You know what's going to happen?
Pat Cummins is going to break him in the second round.
joe rogan
Break him?
unidentified
Fuck no.
eddie bravo
Are you kidding?
This is what's going to happen.
This is what's going to happen.
Pat, listen.
Look me in the eye.
Pat Cummins is going to get Twister.
brendan schaub
Twister?
eddie bravo
He's going to get Twister.
brendan schaub
I would bet my entire bank account he doesn't get submitted.
joe rogan
Okay, what kind of odds on the Twister would you give?
eddie bravo
What are odds?
joe rogan
Okay, here's the odds on the Twister.
If he gets him in the Twister, you bet 100. And if he gets him in the Twister, he has to give you 10,000.
eddie bravo
Okay.
unidentified
The odds, that's about the right odds.
brendan schaub
For sure.
joe rogan
That's about the right odds.
eddie bravo
No, no, no, it's not.
He's good, dude.
brendan schaub
Is he training with you full-time?
eddie bravo
No.
unidentified
Okay, to win, I don't trust him at all if he said that.
joe rogan
To win, it's a very good bet.
It's an interesting bet.
It's an interesting fight.
You gotta look at the fact that he knocked out Shogun with one fucking punch like that and say, this kid is a stud.
And he's getting better, and he's fast, and his striking is fucking for sure dangerous and powerful.
But, the odds of him winning by Twister, when only one person ever won by Twister ever in the history of the fucking UFC, and that's the Korean zombie, one goddamn Twister of all time, the odds that he wins by Twister, I say 100 to 10,000.
eddie bravo
You want?
unidentified
$100.
brendan schaub
I mean, sure.
That's never going to happen.
joe rogan
That's very reasonable.
brendan schaub
That's even reasonable.
I think odds are one in a million.
joe rogan
Probably more than that.
So what you're doing is stealing $100 from Eddie Bravo.
brendan schaub
I'm already stealing $1,000.
I'm telling you.
eddie bravo
Let's have another bet.
$100 bet.
If he gets them in a Twister, you owe me $2,000.
No.
$10,000.
brendan schaub
But if he doesn't...
But then if he doesn't, what do I get?
joe rogan
A hundred bucks.
You're stealing a hundred dollars.
eddie bravo
I'm just giving it to you.
brendan schaub
I'm just giving it to you.
joe rogan
So if he wins, you down?
eddie bravo
I'll call his ass, right?
I'll fly to fucking Kentucky and we'll be doing twisters all week.
brendan schaub
What if Pat submits him?
eddie bravo
Huh?
brendan schaub
What if Pat submits him?
joe rogan
Doesn't matter.
unidentified
Where is this fight at?
eddie bravo
What city is this fight at?
brendan schaub
New Jersey.
eddie bravo
It's in New Jersey in two weeks?
brendan schaub
Yeah.
eddie bravo
Shit, I'm in town.
Is it the 25th?
unidentified
April 25th?
brendan schaub
You're in New Jersey?
joe rogan
You're in that town?
eddie bravo
Well, Hicks and Gracie is having a seminar on the 25th, so if it's the 25th...
joe rogan
What's that?
unidentified
Montreal.
joe rogan
Montreal, that's that one.
eddie bravo
Is it 25th?
joe rogan
Yeah.
unidentified
Oh.
brendan schaub
This is the Fox card.
joe rogan
This is the Fox card.
brendan schaub
You're announcing it, right?
joe rogan
Yeah, I'm announcing that one.
unidentified
Oh.
joe rogan
I'm announcing the Montreal card, too.
The Demetrius Mighty Mouse Johnson Hirogoshi card.
brendan schaub
That card took a hit, huh?
joe rogan
Rampage losing, or getting pulled out of the card, rather, is a bad one.
Don't like that.
brendan schaub
What did you think was going to happen?
joe rogan
Didn't like that, man.
I thought that they could work that shit out.
I thought that, I mean, I think that if there is some sort of a break in the contract enough to where he can sign with the UFC, I felt like they would have already worked it out.
brendan schaub
You'd think his lawyers, or you'd think the UFC lawyers, who are the best in the business, would be like, dude, don't promote him yet.
We don't know.
Let's figure this logistics out and then do it.
joe rogan
Yeah.
brendan schaub
It was too rushed.
joe rogan
Yeah, well, I don't know, man.
Maybe they thought that they would be able to get it in under the wire before...
brendan schaub
But why risk it?
joe rogan
I don't know.
brendan schaub
It sounds like it was a main event.
eddie bravo
Risk what?
brendan schaub
You've already established that Rampage doesn't want to be in Bellator.
eddie bravo
So whether he fights or not, UFC wins.
brendan schaub
But not really, because now the court's saying, dude, you've still got to fight for Bellator.
eddie bravo
But then it's beautiful.
joe rogan
No, the court granted an injunction, I believe.
I believe they kept him from fighting for the UFC, but they didn't say that he has to fight for Bellator.
They recognized an argument, and it has to be worked out now.
brendan schaub
So they just said you can't fight for the UFC at this point.
joe rogan
Exactly, at this point.
They granted an injunction.
I think that's exactly how it works.
I'm probably using the wrong terminology, but I'm pretty sure that's exactly how it works.
So Rampage can't fight for the UFC, so the car takes a big hit.
And wasn't there another fight on the card, too, that got pulled?
What was the other fight that got pulled?
brendan schaub
There's another big one, right?
Wasn't Roy supposed to be on that, but they took him off, too?
joe rogan
Well, Roy's now fighting for the title.
brendan schaub
Title.
But I thought it was supposed to be there.
unidentified
Maybe.
brendan schaub
Am I crazy?
joe rogan
Well, that's a great place for him to fight.
brendan schaub
He fucking lives there.
That's where it was supposed to be, and they took him off there and put him on that Vegas card.
joe rogan
Well, that Vegas card is a monster, man.
When you have those title fights in Vegas, it's worth a shitload of cheddar.
brendan schaub
Fuck yeah.
joe rogan
Shitload of cheddar.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
A lot of money in those Vegas cards, man.
eddie bravo
Why?
joe rogan
Because people like to go there, man.
Vegas loves it.
People like to do it.
It's a different animal when it's in Vegas.
And the money that it generates for the casino is insane in comparison to the money that it generates for some random arena somewhere.
If you put it on in some random arena in Montreal, I mean, it's great for the economy of Montreal, but the amount of money that gets spent in Vegas is off the goddamn charts.
eddie bravo
Is Vegas making a big comeback?
Are they making a comeback?
joe rogan
Well, they definitely took a big hit.
I think it's more of a normalization.
The economy goes down, gambling goes down.
There's no way around it.
People don't have the money.
brendan schaub
I think the hotels are taking a huge hit, though.
Those crazy-ass hotels, they're not doing well.
joe rogan
We were in a car once, and we asked the driver, this cab driver, like, how much different is Vegas right now?
And he goes, it's 50% down.
unidentified
What the fuck?
joe rogan
50% down.
They said 50% down in calls, 50% down in business.
Like, they're all aware of it.
brendan schaub
I know that city center, the engineer fucked up building it.
It's not safe, structurally, and they have to rip it down.
unidentified
What?
eddie bravo
No way.
unidentified
What?
brendan schaub
This might be breaking news.
Big brown style.
joe rogan
Brown breaking news.
brendan schaub
But I'm pretty sure I read that.
unidentified
I'm pretty sure I read that on a form from a kid.
brendan schaub
I swear though, I'm almost positive.
Something structurally is fucked up and they have to tear it down.
It's like tons and tons of money.
joe rogan
Let's get young Jamie to pull up some articles on this bullshit.
brendan schaub
Jamie, see if I'm lying.
joe rogan
That sounds insane.
unidentified
If that's the case, what a huge hit.
joe rogan
That's terrifying.
eddie bravo
Someone really powerful in Vegas told me, back when I was working in the UFC, he said it used to be that the casinos were packed, and then now it's like someone took a giant vacuum and just vacuumed all the people out of the casinos.
brendan schaub
Damn.
eddie bravo
That's what it looks like.
brendan schaub
I'm not a Vegas guy.
I never have been.
I can't stand Vegas.
joe rogan
You know what's real weird?
When you go off the grid, when you get out of the strip and you go to them funky casinos that are out in the middle of nowhere.
brendan schaub
That'll depress you.
joe rogan
Whoa.
brendan schaub
What?
joe rogan
There's a lot of casinos in Vegas that you don't ever think about.
There's a lot of like weird fucking casinos all over the spot.
eddie bravo
That's for the true gamblers.
Guys that they just want to gamble.
They don't want to be on the strip.
They just want a place where they could gamble.
joe rogan
Well, you just see a different tone of human being.
brendan schaub
It's almost a different creature.
eddie bravo
Dude, commerce casino here?
brendan schaub
They're like all out of shape.
Don't give a fuck.
joe rogan
Big country's people.
That's why he's got to keep that mullet.
brendan schaub
That makes sense.
joe rogan
Keep that gut.
eddie bravo
Do you ever go to Commerce Casino?
That place is packed.
I was there last night.
joe rogan
There was some fights.
eddie bravo
There was Bama fights.
Eddie Jackson.
brendan schaub
Oh, really?
eddie bravo
He won.
He looked like Chuck Liddell in his prime.
Eddie Jackson just destroyed his guy.
But the place was packed.
It was 98% Asian.
They loved to gamble.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
eddie bravo
But the place was packed.
joe rogan
That's different, though, because that's not Vegas.
These local casinos is all they got.
It's like this or drive four hours to Vegas.
brendan schaub
True.
joe rogan
If you're a card gambler, you can gamble right here.
If you're a poker guy, there's plenty of gambling in L.A. Like Ari Shafir, before he made it as a comic, was making more money gambling on poker than he was on anything.
No!
brendan schaub
Usually people do it online.
joe rogan
Playing in tournaments.
brendan schaub
Oh, wow.
joe rogan
He was going to fucking- He must be really good.
He's very good.
Ari's smart as shit, dude.
brendan schaub
Sounds like it.
joe rogan
He would go to these poker tournaments and win.
He made 35 grand one year just playing poker.
And he wasn't making much money as a comic.
He was struggling.
It's crazy.
brendan schaub
Yeah.
joe rogan
You can make some money.
And you can get action.
That's the big thing.
brendan schaub
I heard online's the way to do it, though.
Because you sit at home in your fucking underwear and just go online.
joe rogan
But it's not legal in America anymore.
It's different.
Like, I think you have to go places.
I think Nevada, you can gamble online, but you can gamble, you can play poker online against people from Nevada.
Because, like, all those pro poker players, a lot of them moved out of country.
A lot of them moved to Monaco?
Monaco?
How do you say that?
Monaco.
They moved to Monaco, they moved to all these countries where it's legal.
Some of them moved to China, and they play in that Chinese place.
brendan schaub
Oh, China's huge.
joe rogan
What's that area?
Macau, right?
Macau, yeah.
Macau, apparently, is going off.
brendan schaub
Crazy!
joe rogan
They say it's Vegas times 10. That's what I've heard.
Just mad Asian gambling.
brendan schaub
I heard Dubai's the same way.
joe rogan
Really?
Gambling?
brendan schaub
Not gambling.
joe rogan
No gambling.
brendan schaub
As far as crazy.
joe rogan
It's Islamic, right?
We're running out of time?
How dare you?
brendan schaub
We're having a good time, Jamie.
How dare you stop us on this gambling?
joe rogan
Having a good fucking time.
Give us five minutes.
What's that?
Yeah, let's go part two.
You guys got something to do?
unidentified
No.
joe rogan
Let's do another hour.
Let's chill for another hour.
unidentified
All right.
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