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Nov. 14, 2016 - The Joe Rogan Experience
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Joe Rogan Experience #871 - Brendan Schaub
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joe rogan
Two, one, yee-haw!
And we're live.
Ooh, take a sip of that delicious coffee.
brendan schaub
You got the best coffee, sir.
joe rogan
Oh, is that an Abakimi Fight Club?
brendan schaub
Oh, it sure is.
joe rogan
Oh, wow.
brendan schaub
You guys just have it on here, huh?
joe rogan
You guys have the same one as this K-Man coffee one?
brendan schaub
Yeah, Tate's the one who hooked me up with those.
unidentified
Oh.
brendan schaub
There you go.
joe rogan
There you go.
unidentified
Same mug.
brendan schaub
We need to redo those.
joe rogan
So, did you hear there were some fights this weekend?
brendan schaub
I mean, I breezed by them.
I saw the highlights.
I thought you brought me on to talk politics.
Let's talk politics.
joe rogan
Can we get into that?
Let's talk about Joe Stein.
Nobody's talking about politics these days.
brendan schaub
Thank God.
joe rogan
It's an important thing.
We should bring it up.
Because it's not like...
I went on a few celebrities' Twitter pages and I was like...
brendan schaub
People are freaking out.
joe rogan
They're not just freaking out.
They won't shut the fuck up about it.
brendan schaub
Oh, it's non-stop.
Non-stop.
joe rogan
And half of it is almost like...
I think they want everyone to know that they're upset.
They want everyone to know that they're one of the upset people.
They're not one of the Make America Great Again people.
brendan schaub
They promote that they're upset like I promote a live show.
They want people to know where they're at, where they stand on it.
joe rogan
This is one female comic and I go to her page every now and then.
brendan schaub
I know it is.
I know it is.
joe rogan
And I just go, Jesus Christ.
brendan schaub
Me too.
I almost want to send her a DM and be like, you gotta chill out.
unidentified
Just relax.
brendan schaub
You gotta chill out.
Well, did you see what is happening with Amy Schumer?
joe rogan
Oh, I did see that.
brendan schaub
She's so anti-Trump.
But you can't make it that part of the act.
People are paying tickets and people are just walking out.
But she keeps harping on it.
joe rogan
Well, you know, there's two ways of looking at it.
There's one way that people say they have a voice.
And if they have a voice, they need to use that voice to get the word out.
brendan schaub
Not at a comedy show, though.
joe rogan
Make me laugh, bitch.
brendan schaub
I didn't mean to call her a bitch.
unidentified
You're right.
brendan schaub
But make me laugh.
joe rogan
You can call her a bitch.
She would call herself a bitch.
brendan schaub
Yeah, you know what I'm saying though.
joe rogan
At least back in the day she would.
brendan schaub
Yeah.
joe rogan
I mean, she's like way more, she's way more like political and feminist now than ever before.
If you go back to the old Amy Schumer that was on like Opie and Anthony, she wasn't into that at all.
She was like one of the guys.
That was like her selling point.
brendan schaub
Maybe she got a little older and she's like, man, I want to talk about different stuff.
But that's not the platform for it, I don't think.
joe rogan
Well, if it is, you've got to be really funny.
If you have an anti-Donald Trump joke, that's fine.
But it's got to be funny.
There's no room for that.
It used to be that comics could have these rants where they made really important points inside of fun and it wouldn't be funny and people kind of accepted it.
But that's what a podcast is for.
brendan schaub
Sure.
joe rogan
It's a new world.
We live in a new world.
I go to an action movie.
I don't go to an action movie to get a massage.
All of a sudden, when you're in the action movie, someone comes over and massages you.
You need to relax.
unidentified
You need to be less tense because you're really concerned about this action film.
joe rogan
It's really not relevant.
brendan schaub
Well, yeah.
It's like watching a porno.
I don't give a shit about the story.
I fast through.
You know what I'm saying?
I fast forward to the good stuff, man.
joe rogan
Some people do like the story.
brendan schaub
Some people watch for the story.
joe rogan
They want these people to be in love before they fuck.
Or they want them to be escaping a bad relationship.
brendan schaub
Mommy issues.
I don't know.
I'm just saying there's a place in time for it.
unidentified
There is.
brendan schaub
Do you see Dave Chappelle in Saturday Night Live?
joe rogan
Yeah, that was great.
That was great.
That was a good time for it.
brendan schaub
Made a good point.
joe rogan
Yes.
brendan schaub
But he's also supportive.
joe rogan
Exactly.
brendan schaub
He's brilliant.
joe rogan
Dave's a master.
He's a master.
brendan schaub
He's the best.
joe rogan
And he's also a very sincere person.
Like, one of the things that is driving me crazy about a lot of this tweeting and craziness, like, I was in New York City for the fights, and me and my friend Cam Haynes, we went to the gym.
And young Jamie was there too.
But you weren't with us when we were stuck in the...
In the swarm of humans, just me and Cam.
We got to the gym, no problem.
But on our way back, the protest had marched through the area that we walked through.
And all of a sudden, we couldn't go anywhere.
It was just jammed with people.
So you're literally shoulder to shoulder with people.
Everybody's touching everybody.
You had to deal with it.
There was nothing to do with it.
Which is one of the reasons why a fanny pack is so important, folks.
Because you keep your money in your front.
Okay, nobody's pickpocketing you.
Everything's zipped up.
My shirt goes over that.
I'm gonna know.
brendan schaub
I'm gonna know.
To get there, it's gonna take some work.
joe rogan
Because pickpockets do go to those things.
You need to be aware if you're one of those super lefties that likes to go and demonstrate.
Might get your shit jacked.
So while we're walking, this one guy with this perfectly manicured beard, I'll never forget, he had a really nice like wool jacket on.
He was obviously like a wealthy liberal character.
And he's screaming out, I mean, screaming in my fucking ear.
He's right here.
He's touching me.
He's touching me with his shoulders.
Donald Trump!
unidentified
KKK! Racist, sexist, anti-gay!
joe rogan
And he wouldn't stop.
He wouldn't stop.
And part of me wanted to go, hey man, could you just like, if you want to go in the protest, the protest is in the street.
Like, you're on the sidewalk.
This isn't the protest.
brendan schaub
This isn't the lane, sir.
joe rogan
This is some non-committal shit you're doing here.
If you want to be out in there, he's doing drive-bys.
He's like a walk-by screaming protest.
brendan schaub
But does it really do anything?
joe rogan
He saw a black guy in the distance.
I swear to God, he starts going, Black lives matter!
unidentified
Black lives matter!
brendan schaub
Oh, hell no.
joe rogan
Yes, he did.
He was so obvious.
brendan schaub
He's just trying to get everybody to join him.
joe rogan
What my friend Michael Shermer likes to call virtue signaling.
That's what it is.
He's peacocking his virtue.
brendan schaub
And just trying to get everybody to jump on board.
joe rogan
Let the world know.
There was a woman with a sign that said, rape Melania.
brendan schaub
Jesus!
joe rogan
Yeah, and apparently that's a...
brendan schaub
Think about writing that thing out.
joe rogan
Crazy.
brendan schaub
Here we go.
joe rogan
It's a hashtag on Twitter now.
What?
Here's what's crazy.
Here's what's crazy.
Twitter allows that hashtag.
Twitter doesn't allow Hillary for prison.
brendan schaub
What?
joe rogan
Check that.
Make sure that's correct.
brendan schaub
How biased is that?
joe rogan
Make sure that's correct, because that's what I've been reading.
unidentified
Jamie doesn't think he's buying it.
joe rogan
Well, you hashtag Hillary for prison, look if there's any tweets, and then hashtag...
brendan schaub
That's ridiculous!
joe rogan
There's pictures of people with those signs.
I don't think it's just one person.
And there's a bunch of people who used it, who call themselves, like, as if somehow or another, if Donald Trump is a misogynist, somehow or another, the way to get him back is to rape his wife?
Or even to suggest raping his wife?
brendan schaub
What kind of messages are you spreading if you're posting that and you're in a protest and you're making a sign of that bullshit?
joe rogan
It's fucking scary.
What does it say?
unidentified
This is Hillary for prison.
jamie vernon
I searched and there's a lot of stuff that pops up.
joe rogan
Okay.
brendan schaub
Well, they might have banned it since, unless that's recent.
joe rogan
Maybe they banned it before.
Well, maybe this guy doesn't know what he's talking about, and I just read some nonsense.
Maybe I just read some nonsense.
I could have read some nonsense.
But all of it's nonsense.
brendan schaub
All of it is just bullshit.
It's just bullshit.
joe rogan
There were so many angry, angry people.
brendan schaub
Well, how many celebrities were like, if Trump wins, I'm out of here?
You ain't going nowhere.
joe rogan
Did you see the fucking signs that people have made, some artist made for, you know those benches, bus station benches where they have the billboard in the back of it for real estate sales?
brendan schaub
Yeah.
joe rogan
It's a real estate sale, and it's all these people who said they were going to leave the country.
It's their face like one of them's Cher.
unidentified
That's awesome.
joe rogan
I think Amy Schumer's got one of them, too.
brendan schaub
Everyone says that.
You're not doing shit.
You're not going anywhere.
joe rogan
Amy said she was going to move to Spain, but she's a fucking comedian.
She's like, I guess I'm learning Spanish or something.
That's just what a comedian would say.
brendan schaub
People freak out.
joe rogan
People are all mad.
But what she said is that you're just as disgusting as the people who voted.
The people who actually expect me to move are just as disgusting as the...
People who voted for that anti-gay woman hater or whatever she called them.
Series of insults.
brendan schaub
She's just so upset and then obviously she's performing.
She's doing theaters or stadiums even.
joe rogan
Big ass places.
brendan schaub
Big ass places.
Arenas.
Yeah, arenas.
I mean, she's killing it.
She's brilliant.
joe rogan
Moving to Canada at an election day sale.
Meanwhile, here's what you need to understand.
brendan schaub
Those are great, by the way.
joe rogan
If you do wind up moving to Canada, when you move to Canada, you realize that Canada has a very similar immigration policy to what Donald Trump is proposing.
brendan schaub
It's very strict.
joe rogan
It's very strict.
It's incredibly difficult to immigrate to Canada.
You don't just do it like that.
You don't just go over there and all of a sudden you live there.
I mean, maybe if you're Amy Schumer and you got some cash.
brendan schaub
Maybe.
It's still strict.
People don't realize how strict it is.
joe rogan
It's fucking strict.
brendan schaub
Yeah, I'm just gonna go to Canada.
No, you ain't, bitch.
joe rogan
It's essentially very similar to what Donald Trump is proposing.
Like, here's the thing about Canada, and I love Canada, by the way.
I'm a huge fan.
Me too.
They're like some of my favorite people in the world.
When you go to Canada, if you have a drunk driving thing on your record, you can't get in.
They fucking send you home.
It happens all the time.
brendan schaub
Yeah, it's a big deal with the UFC too, with American fighters.
If you have anything, the chance of you getting up there and getting cleared, because customs is strict as shit.
joe rogan
Yeah, Kevin James got into, you know, just a standard fist fight once when he was younger.
And I believe he was arrested, but no charges were filed and it was all dropped.
It was one of those, you know, there's a brawl and he was a part of it and he got arrested with a couple other people.
No big deal.
It's just something a young guy did.
He's up there to fucking do Just for Laughs, and they flag him for it.
brendan schaub
Turned him around?
joe rogan
Yeah.
brendan schaub
Damn!
joe rogan
Eddie Bravo went up there.
Eddie Bravo, legally, was carrying a gun.
Legally.
No, no, no, listen to me.
He was working for a cash-checking business.
This was way back in the day, before I even met him.
And Eddie used to have to carry around large sums of cash, and he had a license to carry a pistol because of that.
So he gets pulled over for speeding or something.
And he tells the cop, he goes, hey man, just so you know, I work for a check cashing company, and I carry large sums of cash, and I have a pistol, and it's loaded, and it's in the car.
And the guy goes, okay, well, step out of the car, give me all your paperwork, and I'm gonna have to handcuff you while we check this out.
So they check it out, they go, yep, you're all good.
They let him go.
So nothing, right?
No charges.
They're carrying the pistol legally.
Every time he goes to Canada, it comes up.
brendan schaub
Damn!
joe rogan
Dude, it got so bad that when we would go to Canada, I would ditch him.
brendan schaub
I would ditch him.
I'll see you in there, man.
joe rogan
I didn't want to get pulled into immigration if I said I was with him.
unidentified
Hell no.
joe rogan
If I said I was with him, they'd pull me into immigration, too.
brendan schaub
You might miss the show.
joe rogan
Dude, I got stuck there for a fucking hour and a half once.
brendan schaub
They might not let his ass in because the conspiracy is like, we just can't.
Tower 7. We just can't, sir.
Tower 7. At our live shows, we keep getting...
So, do you and Eddie hate each other?
How's it work?
I'm like, get out of here.
I love Eddie.
And then someone started literally a chant.
unidentified
Tower 7. Tower 7. It's so weird.
joe rogan
Did you see that fucking meme with Tony Ferguson when Tony Ferguson beat Rafael dos Anjos?
Eddie Bravo was saying something.
It's like when your boy just wins his fight, but you have some new information about Tower 7. And he's all up in his ear.
brendan schaub
It's so weird.
Whoever made that is brilliant.
There it is.
joe rogan
I fucking love Eddie.
Me too, man.
It's so hilarious.
Eddie's my brother.
Anybody that thinks I don't love Eddie, you're crazy.
brendan schaub
Oh, I agree.
joe rogan
Whatever nutty things that he believes that I don't believe, I don't give a fuck.
I love that dude.
brendan schaub
No, I still love him too.
He's my friend.
He's just batshit crazy in his kind of way.
I still like that flavor that he's delivering.
joe rogan
He enjoys that shit.
brendan schaub
He's so into it.
joe rogan
He loves it.
brendan schaub
He'll send me texts nonstop about it.
unidentified
Yes!
joe rogan
He sends us group texts!
unidentified
Yes!
joe rogan
Did you see the latest one he's putting on Twitter about some...
It's grainy footage that looks like it was invented back when the fucking wheel was invented.
It's grainy footage of some guy talking about some sex parties they used to have with children used to...
brendan schaub
I got one, bro.
Hiller's not Satan?
You don't really think she's Satan?
I don't, man.
I find it hard to believe, and it'll lash out at me.
I'm sorry.
joe rogan
Satanic cults.
When you see shit like Eyes Wide Shut, though, don't you want to know?
Like, you hear about the skull and bone stuff they used to do at Yale.
brendan schaub
Yeah, that shit's real.
joe rogan
Yeah, like, that is real.
So, like, I wonder, like, if you grow up in the Hamptons or you live in, like, one of those crazy Connecticut towns where all those super billionaire hedge fund characters live and all their kids go to the private schools, they get sent to these big fucking universities and you get pledged to a fraternity because your dad was in it and, you know, there's a lot of that shit going on.
brendan schaub
Yeah, they're called the Skulls, right?
joe rogan
Skull and Bones.
Is it Bones?
brendan schaub
I thought it was just the Skulls.
joe rogan
No, well, there probably is the Skulls too.
unidentified
That might be a movie.
joe rogan
Yeah, well, maybe it is a movie.
brendan schaub
They would never invite us into that stuff.
They just won't shut the fuck up.
We tell them anything, they're Chatty Cathy's.
joe rogan
Yeah.
brendan schaub
You tell them anything, they just blast it on their shows.
joe rogan
Yeah, we would blast it.
brendan schaub
We can't have them on there.
joe rogan
We would never.
No.
Anybody who thinks we're getting in on the Illuminati, I get accused of that so much because of the Flat Earth people.
The Flat Earth people believe I'm a paid shill.
brendan schaub
I know, I get it too.
Oh, you're just going to leave the UFC and step right into that?
You don't think that's the Illuminati working?
You don't think he's part of it?
Rogan dragged him into it?
Yeah, man.
You don't think I would chat away on my show about it?
joe rogan
What would be hilarious is if there really was some sort of giant organization that was paying people off to lie about the earth being flat.
That would be amazing.
If we were able to keep it that hush-hush, if the world was flat this whole time and all these people that claim to be flying around it in a big circle, people have navigated the globe in a plane.
They've flown over it in a plane.
They're all in on it.
They're all getting paid.
brendan schaub
Just everyone's in on it.
joe rogan
You go over to their house.
Ferrari, Manx, Disco.
Everybody's partying.
Like, where'd you get all this money?
Shut the fuck up, dude.
brendan schaub
Shut up, bro.
Just from a boat going around the world?
Yeah, man.
joe rogan
It's all flat earth money.
Flat earth denial money.
It's huge.
This is the world Eddie Bravo lives in.
He hasn't quite gone flat Earth.
Flat Earth pulls him back.
brendan schaub
He started messing with it a little bit, though.
joe rogan
He did.
He did.
But he went, dinosaurs aren't real.
brendan schaub
Dinosaurs aren't real, and the moon is fake.
We've never been to the moon.
joe rogan
Well, not only that, all the footage of NASA, all the NASA footage is fake.
brendan schaub
NASA's full of shit, and then the bands, all the bands, like the Beatles, the Doors, all that stuff.
Oh, yeah, yeah, they were made by the CIA. And right up here in Topanga Canyon.
joe rogan
The thing is, though, if you know Eddie, Eddie's a fun dude.
And half of this stuff is because he enjoys it.
He enjoys looking at conspiracies just like...
And look, some of them are true, right?
brendan schaub
True.
joe rogan
That's the problem.
That's the problem.
brendan schaub
That's the real problem.
Some are true, so he has an argument on some stuff.
But it's hard...
He's so balls deep in the conspiracies that it's hard for him to judge.
joe rogan
He's so balls deep that he's bent over like a clothespin and his ankles are in.
Yeah, he's all in.
What is this?
That's a nice tower.
Be ashamed if someone knocked it down.
Is this recently?
brendan schaub
Yeah, he just posted it.
joe rogan
He's probably listening to us.
brendan schaub
He's so hilarious.
He's so funny.
joe rogan
He's so crazy.
brendan schaub
But the thing, too, he's passionate about it.
So people think when him and I discuss it, or any of us discuss it, you know, and he's so passionate, he's not arguing with, he's just like, like, if you really think something's true, you're like, come on, man!
That's Eddie.
joe rogan
Well, here's my take on a lot of this shit.
There is not that much time.
You don't have much time.
You have 24 hours in a day and you gotta sleep for 8. So that's not a lot of time for me.
And if I go down these goddamn fucking rabbit holes, that shit will take forever.
I've done it with legitimate things.
I've done it with, you know, like archaeological fucking discoveries, where I'll just start reading up on some crazy temple that they found in Cambodia, and two and a half hours later, I'm researching this, and I'm like, God, I got shit to do!
I got shit to do!
So, like, for me to do that about ghosts?
brendan schaub
That's basically what some of these conspiracy theories are.
You just don't.
I also just, I mean, what am I going to do?
What am I going to find something on the internet and no one else is found?
You know what I'm saying?
Like I'm fucking Nicklaus Cage from National Treasure.
Like I'm not going to go on this weird escapade finding something no one else knows.
And I can just ask Eddie because he is a fucking double black belt in conspiracy theories.
joe rogan
He makes you watch YouTube videos though.
He tried to get us to do one during the last Fight Companion.
He tried to put one on.
Dude, it's only five minutes.
brendan schaub
Five minutes?
unidentified
I can't.
brendan schaub
Five minutes during a live podcast?
joe rogan
I can't do it.
I can't do it.
I don't have it in me.
I don't have it in me.
I forget what that one was about.
Something about money or something.
unidentified
I don't know.
brendan schaub
Or Tower 7 or something.
unidentified
He loves it.
joe rogan
He does.
It's a sport to him.
But, you know.
brendan schaub
It's what he's into.
joe rogan
Yeah.
I don't have time anymore.
And people go, oh, you fucking sell out now, bro.
Fucking sell out.
brendan schaub
Sell out?
Well, no, sir, no.
joe rogan
If you solve the Kennedy assassination, it will not help your life.
brendan schaub
But it's also not on the internet.
I hate to tell you that.
It's probably not in some chat room you're in.
joe rogan
It might be on YouTube.
You just gotta find the video.
brendan schaub
You just gotta go down deep enough, you're gonna...
joe rogan
About 600 views so far, but if we can get it out there...
Someone sent me a fucking three-hour one just two days ago.
brendan schaub
Well, simply too long.
joe rogan
Three-hour Kennedy assassination one.
I'm like, I don't, I can't.
brendan schaub
Simply too long.
joe rogan
Can't do it anymore.
Can't do it.
And if they do figure it out, it would be interesting.
But I don't see how they could.
I think they're never going to get past where they're at right now.
There's like some evidence.
There's some non-evidence.
There's some speculation.
There's some, there's that Zapruder footage.
There's some shit.
brendan schaub
But is there any expert like actually open the case back up?
Like do they really give a shit?
joe rogan
They can't.
There's not enough evidence right now, like current physical evidence.
brendan schaub
Yeah, so it's not happening.
It's over.
joe rogan
Yeah, they wouldn't do it anyway, because who are you going to try?
brendan schaub
But also, who gives a shit?
He's dead.
joe rogan
Yeah, everyone's dead.
brendan schaub
Yeah, what are you going to do?
joe rogan
Yeah.
brendan schaub
What are you going to do?
Alright, still doesn't bring him back.
joe rogan
It's all so fucking weird.
Because we know the government does a bunch of fucked up things.
We know they do.
But it's spending time trying to figure it out.
That's what I was thinking when I saw Trump sitting next to Obama.
I wonder if Obama told him how much work he has to actually do.
That's why he looks so fucked up.
Because Trump was sitting next to Obama and he looked like, Jesus Christ.
He looked like, he was like, what?
brendan schaub
I think it hit him during that meeting.
Obama's like, this is my daily life.
Here you go.
And he's like, holy...
Look at him.
joe rogan
This is what it says.
Trump reportedly surprised at scope of new presidential duties.
brendan schaub
Surprised at scope?
God damn it.
joe rogan
That's hilarious.
Well, it's like you have a hundred jobs.
There's a reason why they age so hard.
brendan schaub
One man shouldn't be responsible for it.
I mean, I think you've spoke about it before, but to have one guy with that much power and to have all that on his pressure, it should be a committee of just straight geniuses that figure it out.
joe rogan
Well, man, if you want to look at the bright cloud If there's any bright cloud about Donald Trump being in office is that he doesn't he's an outsider a complete outsider He's not a politics guy and so we'll get to see just by watching them like sort of duke it out what shape they take You know we'll get to see like what what what's what's we'll get a better view of the mechanism behind the machine than if Hillary Clinton was in office Don't you think with I think people are gonna be surprised at how little power
brendan schaub
he's actually the president actually has probably Because they think he's going to do all this crazy stuff.
And then people are going to be like, nah, bitch, it doesn't work like that.
You have to jump through all these holes, the House of Lake State, all this stuff.
joe rogan
Yeah, well, that's what's going to be interesting, too, is to hear him talk and complain about that and see what happens.
And it's going to be interesting.
We've got a culture battle going on right now, too.
Like all those people marching down the street screaming, not my president.
Not my president.
brendan schaub
Well, he is.
He is, though.
I hate to tell you guys.
He is.
joe rogan
Well, he's the.
The president doesn't become yours, so it's not yours.
brendan schaub
Well, if you live in the United States, though, he's the president of the United States.
Look at me.
joe rogan
Do you say my president?
Do you say my president?
brendan schaub
I do.
unidentified
You do?
brendan schaub
No, I don't.
joe rogan
My president, Trump.
brendan schaub
I say the president.
joe rogan
Yeah, he's the president.
brendan schaub
Yeah.
joe rogan
Not my president.
I live in a whole new world of my own.
brendan schaub
It is weird.
joe rogan
Yeah.
What?
brendan schaub
I don't know, man.
joe rogan
It's probably, look, I think this is what I've been saying, that we go like this and we go like that.
We go right and we go left.
And this is how people always have, when they go back and forth.
The country goes back and forth.
We try it one way, we don't like it.
unidentified
They said he was supposed to be at UFC 205. Well, his son was there.
brendan schaub
Which one?
Donald Trump Jr. God, they're not going to win any awards for good looks, are they?
joe rogan
They're not a bad looking guy.
brendan schaub
Really?
The youngest, youngest one or the one who's like killing it?
There's one who's balling.
joe rogan
The one who's got the hair slicked back.
Darker hair.
brendan schaub
I'd have to see him.
joe rogan
He's a nice dude.
brendan schaub
Is it?
Was he cool?
joe rogan
He's...
I've been...
Actually, I knew him from a while ago.
He's friends with a friend of mine.
brendan schaub
Oh, really?
joe rogan
Yeah.
brendan schaub
So the family's going to have to take over his other business adventures while he's president.
unidentified
Yeah.
brendan schaub
How about that?
joe rogan
The whole thing is so crazy.
brendan schaub
So weird.
joe rogan
It's so crazy.
Looking at him up there, it's so crazy.
brendan schaub
Then how many of them are going to live in the White House?
Do they know?
joe rogan
I don't know.
brendan schaub
Isn't it weird?
joe rogan
Yeah.
brendan schaub
Like, could all of them live if they want?
Or is there like a cap?
Like, dude, you can only bring two.
You can't be up in there.
joe rogan
Do you know who I fucking love?
Who is that sheriff?
That black sheriff that wears the cowboy hat everywhere?
Sheriff, uh...
What the hell is his goddamn name?
brendan schaub
The one out of Dallas?
joe rogan
I think he is.
brendan schaub
We're speaking about the same dude?
When the Dallas shooting happened?
joe rogan
Yes, yes.
Something, Clark?
Is his name Clark?
brendan schaub
I think he retired.
joe rogan
Did he?
Well, he didn't retire from, like, Fox News.
The dude's always on the Fox News.
Maybe.
Here, I'll find him, because I just started...
What is it?
David Clark.
His name's David Clark, bro.
Sheriff David Clark.
Eric Holder is the Attorney General, you fuck.
You non-American.
brendan schaub
Very anti-American.
joe rogan
How do you not know that?
You don't know who Eric Holder is?
How dare you?
I like to do that when I know someone who other people don't know.
I go, how the fuck do you not know that, bro?
Yeah, he's a fucking character, that guy.
brendan schaub
They say he wears a cowboy hat in honor of his family members of Dallas Cowboy.
So he wears a Dallas Cowboy hat everywhere?
joe rogan
He wears an actual cowboy hat.
unidentified
That's aggressive, sir.
joe rogan
There's a crazy picture that he posted of Donald Trump winning the Ellis Island Award in 1989, standing next to Muhammad Ali and Rosa Parks.
brendan schaub
Damn.
joe rogan
It was an award for contributing to the conditions of inner-city black youths standing alongside Muhammad Ali and Rosa Parks.
brendan schaub
No one talks about that.
joe rogan
Yeah.
brendan schaub
Well, what doesn't help Trump is, like, the head of KK was like, we basically got him in there.
Like, we support him.
We're the reason he got in there.
He had to come out and be like, I'm not cool with that KKK stuff, man.
Like, that's not me.
joe rogan
Donald Trump!
unidentified
KKK! Racist, sexist, anti-K! It's kind of catchy, though.
joe rogan
I wanted to tell him, man, go out into the street, but I was worried.
I was literally worried.
brendan schaub
Dude, get the fuck in the street.
joe rogan
That if I said it, he'd be like, you fucking racist!
You're a Trump supporter!
His vitriol was so intense.
brendan schaub
And then they're going to jump all up on you.
And then someone's going to be like, Joe Rogan!
joe rogan
No, I'd say just go to the...
Come on, man.
Go over there.
brendan schaub
Get over there, man.
Let me do my thing.
joe rogan
Everybody's actually protesting.
brendan schaub
Don't make me get Cam Haynes get his fucking bone hair out and start fucking murking people.
joe rogan
We didn't be able to draw back.
brendan schaub
Back up, son.
joe rogan
There was no room to draw.
It was just, it was so crazy how many people were there.
It was just strange.
brendan schaub
Just to protest thousands of people.
New York's busy as it is.
joe rogan
But it's, you know, the cops broke it up.
The cops were screaming and shit.
So it was like that being there at the weekends were the biggest fights in history.
All of it was just so crazy.
That was a nutty scene, man.
Being there in the weigh-ins felt surreal.
It felt really surreal.
brendan schaub
Just like finally it happened?
joe rogan
Yeah, it was crazy.
The weight of the event was thick in the air.
It had this feel to it that was very different than any other show we'd ever put together.
brendan schaub
I wish I was that.
That's the one show I wish I was that because it's so special.
It's gonna be tough to beat that, but...
joe rogan
It'll never be.
I mean, you'll have big giant events for sure, but it'll never be like that because that was the last block of corruption.
unidentified
Correct.
joe rogan
That was standing in front of the UFC getting into New York.
brendan schaub
I got a little worried when I saw, where was I? I think I was in Atlanta doing a live show, but I saw on Twitter the crazy press conference with Conor doing that stuff.
I'm like, no, I'm not.
And it was kind of weird.
I was like, well, it seems a little gimmicky, blah, blah, blah.
And then the weigh-ins, he looked a little more serious.
And then the night of the fights, I was like, I mean, you couldn't have written a better show.
I mean, the fights, the night, the way everything happened, it was amazing, man.
By far, the best UFC I've ever seen.
By far.
joe rogan
The main event was almost, it was almost bizarre.
It's almost bizarre how good Conor is.
unidentified
Right?
joe rogan
Almost bizarre.
The way he picked apart Eddie Alvarez.
Almost bizarre.
Like magical.
That's almost the word I want to use.
brendan schaub
Correct.
joe rogan
Like he touches motherfuckers with that left hand.
brendan schaub
Have you ever seen Eddie Alvarez?
They didn't even look like they were on the same planet.
One guy looked like he was from Mars.
The other guy looked like he was just a normal dude trying to figure it out.
joe rogan
Well, it looked like Eddie, the moment he got hit, was like, what the fuck?
brendan schaub
You could see on his face, he was like, holy bejesus, what am I doing here?
And then he goes, well, alright, he's not very good at wrestling.
Let me try this wrestling.
Connor's like, that was your shot?
Oh, bro, you're in for a long night.
I think Eddie realized, like, holy fuck.
joe rogan
Well, he's already touched up a little bit when he finally went in for the shot.
And I just think Connor knew then also that he had him.
brendan schaub
And how calm was he?
joe rogan
Ridiculously.
brendan schaub
Just calm, upright, and just waiting.
And then the accuracy of that combo that finally finished Eddie...
That's what I think makes Conor so special is his accuracy when he throws punches.
Eddie's moving as he's landing this stuff.
I've never seen anything like...
Like you said, it was straight-up magical.
I'm like, all right, well, we've never seen a guy like this.
We just haven't.
I don't know if we ever will, either.
joe rogan
It's really interesting, too, when I was interviewing him.
He's like, you've got to have some attributes if you want to beat me.
You've got to be tall.
You've got to be big.
Give me these guys my size.
brendan schaub
What he's doing, though, it's so...
He's a once-in-a-lifetime guy.
Because he's setting the ceiling.
There's no boundaries for him.
He's just like, I'll fight Nate at 70. I'll 45, sure, I'll merc Aldo in 13 seconds.
And I'll come to 55. We've never seen this kind of creativity.
And we've also never seen the UFC allow someone to do this either.
joe rogan
Yeah, well, he's just such a unique personality.
It's undeniable.
But also his style.
In a lot of ways...
He kind of does a lot of like what Wonderboy does, but with less kicks.
Like he throws kicks to the body.
He'll throw like some front kicks.
I mean, you know, like maybe 70% as many kicks.
Wonderboy is a little more kick heavy, but it's that sideways style.
But I think he does it better.
Like there's maybe something about the focus of the shots that he's landing, the precision of them.
Because Wonderboy very rarely touches somebody up like that with a punch.
He just doesn't have that kind of power.
brendan schaub
Yeah, you're right.
I think Wonderboy is better at surprising guys with his kicks and his angles, but Conor sets it up and he's landing combos that are all so precise and this power.
Like he's touching dudes and you can see it on their face.
joe rogan
He touched Eddie and Eddie's like, what the f- Well, not only that, he's hitting them in a surprise way, and he's not telegraphing it at all.
His ability to go from bouncing around to launching that shot is so quick.
It's so precise, and it's so focused, and there's no fat in his movements.
It's just...
brendan schaub
Yeah, and they said there was going to be a big announcement afterwards, and obviously his girl's pregnant, which, I mean, it's a personal big announcement for him, but I think he said he's going to take time off and he wants a piece of the pie, he wants a piece of WME and what they're doing now, which is hilarious, right?
joe rogan
I love it!
brendan schaub
Me too, I love it, and he's the first fighter ever that can talk like this.
joe rogan
How old is he?
brendan schaub
Was Connor 26?
Maybe 27, 26?
joe rogan
28. I think he's a smart guy, too.
I mean, I would hope, at least.
I don't see him fighting deep into his 30s.
brendan schaub
No, especially the way he talks, because he goes, now that I have a kid, I know what I bring to the table.
I want to be set financially for the rest of my life.
If you guys want me to fight again, I'm going to need to be set for the rest of my life.
I want a part of this pie.
And his next fight, and it's going to be such a fight, is with WME. It's not with anyone out there.
If you think he's fighting Ferguson or Khabib next, you're batshit crazy.
That's not happened for a very long time.
joe rogan
Maybe.
Maybe they work it out.
brendan schaub
I don't think so.
I think the next fight, again, I don't know.
This is just me going off whatever the hell I think, Joe.
But I think his next fight would be Nate for the belt at 55. Because if you think, if you like Khabib and Tony, they're both deserving.
And we're MMA purists.
We're balls deep in MMA. We love it.
And one of those guys deserves it.
As far as numbers and a big pay-per-view, it would have to be Nate, I think.
joe rogan
Do you really think they would do Nate again?
brendan schaub
100%.
I don't think Nate or Conor will fight unless that has to be the matchup.
joe rogan
I think Conor will fight someone else.
I think Conor might even fight Woodley.
brendan schaub
I think you'd see a fight with Woodley before you see Khabib or Ferguson.
I think Khabib and Ferguson will fight each other before anything else.
joe rogan
Do you know how fucking crazy it would be if he decided to go up and fight Woodley?
brendan schaub
Yeah.
It's so nuts.
Obviously, Willie has to get through Wonderboy again, but...
joe rogan
Does he?
brendan schaub
He has to.
joe rogan
You think so?
brendan schaub
Well, Dana said that's the immediate rematch.
joe rogan
Dana said a lot of shit.
He said Habib was fighting for the title.
brendan schaub
That's a good point.
It was like, nah.
Me sure you're fighting for the title.
Nah.
joe rogan
Yeah, he does that all the time.
I don't think that means anything.
brendan schaub
That's a good point.
I'm just going based off what your boy said.
He was like, that's the next rematch.
joe rogan
I can't put it on me.
unidentified
Well, you're a friend than mine.
brendan schaub
You've worked with him forever.
joe rogan
I'm a real good friend.
brendan schaub
Yeah, I like Dana.
I just think you have a closer relationship, so I say you're a boy.
But he does say things and pulls back.
Woodley and that's there.
This is the other thing you've got to worry about, though.
You don't have to worry about it.
It's something to think about.
How much power are they going to give Conor?
45, 55, 70?
Just wraps up all these...
joe rogan
Dude, do you know how crazy that would be if he did it, though?
I say let him do it.
Let him try.
brendan schaub
The UFC's going, we can't.
joe rogan
He's going to take this bitch over.
unidentified
I bet Woodley will say it.
joe rogan
Woodley will say it.
Let him try.
brendan schaub
Fuck yeah, Woodley will say it.
Let him try.
Woodley would love that.
joe rogan
Do you know how big Woodley looks compared to him?
brendan schaub
Ginormous.
joe rogan
It's so bizarre looking at Woodley inside the octagon.
He's the most jacked dude, I think, other than Yoel Romero.
Yoel?
He's in there.
He's in there.
brendan schaub
Oh, they're one and two.
joe rogan
Yeah.
brendan schaub
One and two right now.
joe rogan
I think it's interchangeable.
brendan schaub
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It depends what you're into.
joe rogan
But Yoel flies through the air.
Yoel does backflips at the beginning of every fight.
At the beginning of every fight, he goes into the audience, or he goes into the cage, and he does back handsprings and literally launches himself through the air and lands on his feet.
brendan schaub
Like it's the Olympics.
joe rogan
Yeah.
brendan schaub
And it's a solid landing.
joe rogan
And he's 200 pounds.
brendan schaub
Correct, sir.
joe rogan
And he's flying.
brendan schaub
Flying.
joe rogan
He's the freakiest freak athlete ever.
brendan schaub
And loves gay Jesus.
Yes.
joe rogan
Yeah, Jesus!
brendan schaub
Yeah, Jesus!
unidentified
Michael Bisping, I love you!
I love you, Michael!
You do that to me!
I love you!
Someone needs to help him with his marketing, right?
joe rogan
Change a word.
brendan schaub
No, but he lost so much fan support when he said, what did he say?
For the gay Jesus?
joe rogan
No, he didn't.
brendan schaub
We thought he said gay Jesus, but he said, don't forget Jesus.
But his broken English was so bad, people went bad on him so fast.
joe rogan
They did.
brendan schaub
And then he kept calling Bisping boy.
Yeah, I like that.
joe rogan
Well, it's okay, because he's a black guy.
brendan schaub
I like that.
joe rogan
He's allowed.
brendan schaub
If Bisping did that to him, we had some shit on our hands.
joe rogan
We had some shit on our hands.
brendan schaub
Cannot say that to a man of color.
joe rogan
No!
brendan schaub
He does talk like that.
joe rogan
Don't forget, Jesus!
brendan schaub
He's so scary.
Poor Weidman.
In New York.
Hometown.
Needed a win.
Bad.
Getting no love in New York and then just a fucking knee from Cuba just to your dome piece.
joe rogan
Just flew.
Flew through the air.
And as he hit him, he was flying over him afterwards.
But that was insanely impressive, but you know what was almost as impressive as the way he took Weidman's back?
He tripped him.
They tied up together.
He trips Weidman, throws him to the ground, and then spins around behind him and takes his back.
brendan schaub
How about the trip?
How about the world-class trip?
unidentified
Oh, yeah.
brendan schaub
P-Rock Asher's trip.
unidentified
No, no, no.
brendan schaub
That's world-class level trip.
Weidman's an absolute monster.
unidentified
Ridiculous.
brendan schaub
And he was just...
joe rogan
He was throwing him around.
He was showing him the difference between a wrestler from the Olympics, a guy who medaled in every single world tournament he entered.
brendan schaub
And built like a Ninja Turtle.
joe rogan
Dude, he's ridiculous.
You know, he has like a fused disc in his neck.
brendan schaub
I would assume.
joe rogan
He had a serious injury in his neck, just like Weidman has.
But Weidman had a dissectomy.
brendan schaub
Weidman had surgery.
joe rogan
He did.
So Yoel has a big scar in the back of his neck.
You can see it.
It's like a big slice.
It's all stitched up.
brendan schaub
Just like Ving Rhames from Pulp Fiction.
joe rogan
Very different.
brendan schaub
You know what I'm saying though.
Sin star, black guy.
joe rogan
Yeah, I've seen it before on other guys, but spinal surgery is fucking no joke, man.
brendan schaub
I had Weidman win that fight until then.
joe rogan
He won the first round, but you thought he won the second round when Yoel was throwing him around?
brendan schaub
Not winning, but I thought as the fight would go on, it would help Weidman.
joe rogan
I thought in the second round, Yoel started implementing his wrestling, and I thought he was running away with it.
brendan schaub
So it would be 1-1, right?
joe rogan
Yes.
I thought it was 1-1.
brendan schaub
Yes, 1-1.
joe rogan
But I thought it was shocking how good his wrestling was in comparison.
He doesn't show it.
Yeah, very rarely.
But when he does, dudes go flying.
brendan schaub
I don't know why he doesn't use it more.
joe rogan
Because he's having fun.
Having a good time!
brendan schaub
Dude, for real.
At first, when he was talking stuff to Bisping, I'm like, God, that's a terrible fight for Bisping.
God, that's terrible.
And then it hit me, I'm like, five rounds?
Bisping really doesn't initiate in that grappling, and he has cardio for days?
That's a tough fight to call.
At first, I was like, yeah.
Romero's gonna fucking destroy Bisping.
I'm like, not really though.
If you think about it, not really.
joe rogan
Who knows what could happen, but Dan Henderson caught Bisping twice bad in their last title fight at 45 years old or whatever it is.
brendan schaub
He did catch him really, really bad.
joe rogan
He caught him bad.
And Dan Henderson, who is one of the most ruthless power strikers in the game, for sure.
And Bisping survived that.
So that's good for Bisping, that he was able to survive that.
You've got to think, Yoel Romero doesn't just have a right hand.
He flies.
He literally launches himself at you.
If he gets a hold of you, the wrestling ability...
brendan schaub
You're going for a ride.
joe rogan
Dan Henderson's a silver medalist in the Olympics as well.
But it's...
brendan schaub
Different.
joe rogan
It's different.
brendan schaub
Different.
Especially Dan right now.
What's Dan, 48?
unidentified
48?
brendan schaub
I think he's 46 or 45. He's up there either way.
unidentified
Yeah.
brendan schaub
But Romero's basically, you know, in his prime as an MMA fighter.
joe rogan
Well, also, there's, like, the range of motion.
brendan schaub
Yes.
joe rogan
Like, Dan's almost, like, locked up.
brendan schaub
Some would say stiff.
joe rogan
Yeah, he's got...
But if he hits you, you're fucksville.
But he's, like, his range of motion's very limited, whereas Yoel is, like, a super athlete.
He doesn't have any limitations in his range of motion.
He's ridiculously flexible.
Like, he does, like, a half split before he fights.
He was, like, down there, like, stretching out.
You're, like...
This guy's range of motion is insane.
brendan schaub
Those knees and the flying knees, though, a lot of it, especially with Weidman, came from Weidman going for that single leg.
He's like, go for it again and see what happens.
And where Bisping doesn't entertain the grappling at all.
joe rogan
That's true.
That's true.
brendan schaub
And he stays on the outside and he also has that beast of a coach.
But right away, I was like, oh God, That sucks, because I love Bisping.
I'm like, God, that's a bad fight for him.
I was sitting there, I'm like, well, cardio, five rounds, if he can survive those first two, maybe three, Dragon Blade, water, it's a fun fight.
Definitely watch that bad boy.
joe rogan
I mean, it's hard to do MMA math, right?
MMA math doesn't work.
brendan schaub
You can do style matchups, though, right?
joe rogan
Yeah.
But I was saying, like, Bisping lost to Tim Kennedy, Tim Kennedy lost to Yoel, but Tim Kennedy was beating Yoel.
Like, that's another thing that Yoel's Corner did, this fight that was fucked up, man.
They covered him with water.
They threw water on him while he was sitting there resting.
brendan schaub
Between first and second?
joe rogan
Uh-huh.
They put an ice pack on him, and he poured water on himself.
He poured it on his legs, he poured it on his arms, he poured it all over him.
And they wiped him down.
I mean, he was trying to cool himself off, probably.
brendan schaub
Yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
But you're not allowed to do that.
And they spent time wiping him down before the round started.
So, like, they wiped him down in between the corner, but then the referee stopped it and made them wipe him down more.
So he gets more rest.
Yeah, look, for sure they're aware when that happened with Tim Kennedy.
When Tim Kennedy had him fucked up at the end of that second round, he absolutely and on purpose stayed on that stool longer than he was supposed to.
brendan schaub
Some would say it was a smart move.
joe rogan
Yes.
brendan schaub
Obviously it ended up working in his favor.
joe rogan
It's smart if you're a cheater, if you're okay with cheating.
But it is cheating.
It's cheating.
brendan schaub
100% it's cheating.
joe rogan
100%.
brendan schaub
Tim should have won that fight.
joe rogan
And the referee should have probably stopped the fight, but I'm sure Big John didn't want the fight to end, didn't want to cheat everybody out of the fight, just wanted a guy to get back up.
brendan schaub
But then you cheat Tim Kennedy who is the one person you don't want to cheat out of this.
joe rogan
And Tim is walking around like yelling while this is all going off.
brendan schaub
Pissed.
joe rogan
Yeah.
The whole thing was a mess.
It was a mess.
That was a clusterfuck of a moment.
But it just shows you this guy has...
Massive amount of experience in international competition in wrestling and there's like a lot of shit that goes on in wrestling You know where you're you have to take advantage of whatever you can to win You know and the all these years of high-level competition on the international scene He's probably got a bunch of little tricks like that he could do to slow down the pace or give himself a little extra time and we in what people all what what's 15 20 seconds for 15, 20 seconds for a guy like Yo Romero to replenish...
Giant.
brendan schaub
I mean, you're talking...
joe rogan
Giant.
brendan schaub
Night and day difference for a guy like that.
joe rogan
And I think it was also 30 seconds for the Tim Kennedy fight, if I remember.
brendan schaub
Maybe 23. I feel like it was longer than that.
joe rogan
I don't remember.
brendan schaub
Talking about Stoolgate.
joe rogan
Yeah, Stoolgate.
But also then there's a psychological issue.
Because Kennedy now thinks the fight's over.
Is it not over?
Like, he doesn't know where he's at.
brendan schaub
There's nothing worse than that.
When you think the fight's over and they're like, oh, no, no, no, back in, man.
unidentified
Oh...
joe rogan
That's what always kills me about Glory, when they have that extra round.
We go one more round!
Imagine you get through three rounds of kickboxing, and then finally you're drinking water, you got your arms up, and referee says blah blah blah, and it's all a draw.
brendan schaub
Well, think if you're Tyrone Woodley.
Think if you're Woodley.
joe rogan
Well, how about Bruce Buffer fucking it up, where he said it was a decision.
brendan schaub
What was going on there?
Because you were like, whoa, whoa, everyone chill.
You were like, chill.
joe rogan
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well, here's what was going on.
First of all, Bruce said it wrong.
It was not a majority decision.
It was a majority draw.
brendan schaub
Correct.
joe rogan
But they probably wrote it down wrong for him.
Look, New York does not do any MMA. They've never done MMA before.
unidentified
No shit.
joe rogan
This is the first event, right?
brendan schaub
That's why they pulled off Rashad, yeah.
joe rogan
Exactly.
So they do this thing where they tally up the scorecards, they give it to Bruce, and I guess it's said majority decision, Tyron Woodley.
They read two judges scored a draw, one judge scores it for Woodley, and Woodley retains the title, but it's supposed to be a majority draw.
brendan schaub
Yes.
joe rogan
That's what the majority of people thought it was a draw.
So it's a majority draw.
So Bruce said it wrong.
Whether they gave it to him wrong, I don't know.
brendan schaub
Real Steve Harvey moment.
joe rogan
Yes.
And then Tyron freaked out.
And then the audience booed.
The audience went crazy.
And I said, dude, you still have your title.
Just hold on.
And they wanted Bruce to say it again.
So Bruce says it again.
I was going to say it again onto the microphone.
But Bruce insisted he get the mic and he says it again.
So he says it again.
Because he wanted to correct the mistake.
So he says it again, and then I have to say that the audience is booing.
I'm like, this is the exact same score.
It's the exact same score.
It's just the wrong definition.
brendan schaub
Just read wrong, yeah.
joe rogan
That's all.
I think it was probably pretty accurate, too.
brendan schaub
I think it was right.
I think maybe...
With 10 seconds left, I looked at Brian and I went, I bet you anything.
It's crazy.
And I even tweeted out before this, and I went, I think it's a draw.
Brian goes, no, championship match.
I go, I feel like it's a draw.
I give that a 10-8, and then I scored the other rounds.
I forget how I scored them.
I think it's a draw.
joe rogan
Some people didn't give Woodley a 10-8 for the fourth round.
brendan schaub
That's insane.
joe rogan
Because at the end of the round, Wonderboy was on top of him punching him.
brendan schaub
That's insane.
joe rogan
Yeah, but I say, if anything, if he didn't do that, if Wonderboy didn't get out and wasn't on top, it might be a 10-7.
Because not only did he hurt him with big punches, then he almost choked the life out of him.
I mean, he had him in a deep guillotine.
And people are telling me that wasn't a good guillotine.
Like, you are out of your fucking mind.
brendan schaub
You're insane.
Have a guy as strong as Woodley.
Let's say his position's a little off.
He's not to the side.
joe rogan
Let me just say that for the record.
brendan schaub
And what round is it?
What round was that?
joe rogan
Third round.
brendan schaub
Third round.
So your cardio already.
joe rogan
Fourth round.
brendan schaub
Correct.
Fourth round.
You're already exhausted.
And you have that 170 pound monster around your neck.
And he's not 170. No, he's every bit of what?
Probably 200?
joe rogan
Probably 200 pounds.
brendan schaub
Around there?
joe rogan
And, by the way, he's a brown belt.
He's a brown belt in jujitsu.
Do you think Tyron Woodley doesn't know how to choke people?
You're fucking crazy.
It was a very good choke.
And I was amazed.
brendan schaub
Me too, man.
joe rogan
One of the things I was thinking was like, Wonderboy has a skinny ass neck.
brendan schaub
And tiny head.
unidentified
Yeah.
brendan schaub
Smaller head than me.
joe rogan
And the small head thing is smaller head than me.
brendan schaub
I have a tiny head.
joe rogan
That was what Woodley said.
Woodley said, well, I knew he had a little head.
unidentified
Did he really?
joe rogan
I was like, oh shit.
I didn't even think about his head.
I was thinking about the size of his neck.
brendan schaub
He has a slender neck, tiny head.
Isn't it amazing?
The human body can take that.
How did his head not rip off?
joe rogan
How did his neck not break?
brendan schaub
That's what I'm saying.
Can you imagine if he won by broken neck?
joe rogan
I guarantee you, if he had that in the first round, he probably wouldn't be able to finish it.
unidentified
I agree.
joe rogan
I shouldn't say I guarantee it.
brendan schaub
Well, yeah, I see what you're saying.
Different story.
joe rogan
Yeah, different story.
brendan schaub
How tough is Wonderboy, though?
Ridiculously tough.
And I know Wonderboy.
We have the same manager.
We've trained together a bunch.
Love the guy.
I've always, and this is just me, I've always questioned his toughness because he does come from a privileged family.
Like, they have this huge Taekwondo Academy in South Carolina, and he has a great home life, and his dad's his coach, and his brothers are studs.
joe rogan
Is it Taekwondo or just karate?
brendan schaub
I'm not sure.
joe rogan
I think it's just karate.
brendan schaub
Is it just karate?
Yeah, you're probably right, one of those.
But he has this huge school, you know what I'm saying, very successful.
Been to dinners with his dad and the whole family, like, God, this guy has everything going for him.
So when I see that, it's like, you know, it's the Calabasas kids thing.
The tough-skinned Calabasas isn't going to do shit in the UFC. It's just that when they're privileged like that.
So when the going gets rough, I've always kind of questioned Wonderboy, and I've never seen it, though.
Because the Matt Brown fight...
His last loss, and it was back and forth as a scrap.
I'm like, alright, whatever.
This fight, man, I was, and I was watching with fans, I was standing up clapping.
Like, what is going on right now, man?
What the fuck are you talking about?
joe rogan
It was a crazy fight.
And there was a lot interesting.
First of all, how fucking hard is Tyron Woodley hit?
Jesus Christ.
brendan schaub
What in God's name?
joe rogan
Dude, he has one of the best straight right hands in the business.
brendan schaub
And if it lands, I can't believe Wanda Boy didn't get knocked out.
joe rogan
Unbelievable.
Well, I mean, he's a guy who's fought in professional kickboxing.
He has a 57-0 combined kickboxing record, amateur and pro.
brendan schaub
I guarantee he didn't fight anyone in that kickboxing circuit.
That punch is as hard as Iron Woodley.
joe rogan
And not with four-ounce gloves either.
unidentified
Exactly.
joe rogan
That's the other big...
He can punch faster with those little gloves on, and it hurts more when it lands.
brendan schaub
So let's say Dana does do the rematch.
They don't do Connor Woodley.
And they do do the rematch.
I was thinking about it.
unidentified
Three titles!
brendan schaub
Three titles!
But Woodley was a slight underdog.
And if you listen to Duke Rufus, who was talking about their game plan, I think he was talking about in the post-fight press conference, their game plan, and you even mentioned, you're like, I don't get why Tyrone is against the cage, and I didn't like it either.
I'm like, what's he doing?
He's getting murked.
That was their game plan.
joe rogan
Well, do you know he does that a lot?
brendan schaub
Yes, he does that a lot, and Wonderboy's a counter-striker, so they wanted to bring him to Woodley.
That was their thinking, by him being against the Cade and do all that, and then get him to commit to take him down.
So it surprised Wonderboy a little bit, but in the rematch, I think it favors Wonderboy so much more, because now he knows Woodley's going to fight like He might not fight like that.
He might not fight like that, and this is my thinking here.
I think the ability to change and be more dynamic is in Wonderboy's favor.
joe rogan
Sort of.
brendan schaub
You know what I'm saying?
joe rogan
Yeah, I mean in a way, but here's the thing.
Woodley only took him down once in the whole fight and mauled him once he got him to the ground.
brendan schaub
Which is why Wonderboy didn't tee off.
joe rogan
What if Woodley decides to do that every fucking round?
You know, I don't know how much Wonderboy can stop Woodley from taking him down.
Woodley's so much bigger, so much stronger, and a way better wrestler.
brendan schaub
Way better.
joe rogan
If Woodley takes him down like he took him down in the first round, I mean, that might have been the strategic error.
Because Woodley mauled him in the first round.
By the end of the round, his nose is fucked up, he's got a giant cut, he's leaking blood.
brendan schaub
Correct.
joe rogan
And Woodley just held him down and dominated him on the ground.
So if he just does that in the round two, I mean, if he was able to do that instead of trying to stand and knock him out, he might have been able to stop him.
brendan schaub
Correct, but the reason why he got that takedown is based off those kicks, and then Wonderboy stopped kicking.
Like, he wasn't looking for the knockout.
Does that make sense?
Like, he was so hesitant after that.
And I feel like the reason he got that was because of the kick, so I think Wonderboy can make changes, more of changes, to win the next fight.
Maybe.
Maybe.
Who knows?
But I'm saying as far as game plan-wise, I think it favors Wonderboy.
joe rogan
Yeah, but here's the thing.
Now that Tyron knows Wonderboy's timing and he's going to be able to rock him, he's going to have some serious confidence in launching that right hand.
brendan schaub
But go ahead and move forward on Wonderboy and see what happens.
joe rogan
Yeah, but sometimes it works.
I mean, he's been able to take him down.
Other people have been able to take him down.
And when he gets him down, the difference in the grappling was pretty fucking evident to me.
brendan schaub
Oh, it looked like a white belt versus, you know, just an experienced guy.
joe rogan
He's so much stronger, so much better at holding him in place.
I was like, man, if this fight goes this way, Woodley's going to run away with it.
That's what I thought after the first round.
brendan schaub
Me too, me too.
joe rogan
He busted him open bad.
brendan schaub
Bad, man.
joe rogan
And then when you're dealing with Wonderboy, you're dealing with that weird sideways stance and just popping that jab in his face.
brendan schaub
Hands down.
joe rogan
Hands down.
He's a weird guy to spar with.
brendan schaub
The other thing is, Wonderboy, he didn't let his hands go at all.
At all.
That left hand.
He's so good at going Southpaw traditionally.
He can go back and forth.
But it was all kicks for him.
joe rogan
Well, I think he was worried after that takedown and getting busted up of even opening up.
brendan schaub
Getting taken down again.
joe rogan
But, you know, Tyron's a totally different animal, too.
He's a different animal than Johnny Hendricks.
Great athlete.
Yeah, and the Johnny Hendricks that Wonderboy faced, let's be honest, he's not the same guy.
brendan schaub
Not even close.
joe rogan
He's just not.
brendan schaub
No, I don't know.
joe rogan
He's not the same guy that knocked out John Fitch.
He's not the same guy that knocked out Martin Kampman.
He's just not the same guy.
brendan schaub
No.
joe rogan
Just not.
brendan schaub
No.
joe rogan
For whatever reason.
Speculate all you want, internet.
brendan schaub
Yeah, for whatever reason.
joe rogan
Yeah, I mean, maybe it's motivation.
Maybe it's personal problems.
unidentified
He changed camps.
brendan schaub
Who knows?
joe rogan
He opened up a steak restaurant and then it went out of business.
brendan schaub
Terrible idea.
But maybe he just...
unidentified
Terrible.
brendan schaub
Terrible idea, sir.
unidentified
The worst?
joe rogan
If you're a celebrity and you got some cash, maybe the worst idea?
brendan schaub
Yeah, restaurant's not the way to go.
joe rogan
Hey, I'm tired of being successful.
brendan schaub
Just look at the numbers.
joe rogan
And happy.
I'd rather be stressed out and broke.
brendan schaub
I hate money.
Do you have a restaurant I can invest in?
I mean, it's a terrible idea.
joe rogan
Even if they just put his name on it, he's still associated with that failure, and I'm sure he had to have some form of commitment to it.
brendan schaub
I'm sure he got a sign while people were eating fucking T-bones for 30% off or something like that.
joe rogan
The Yahoo and Yelp reviews, rather, they were terrible.
brendan schaub
Were they bad?
joe rogan
They were the worst.
It was like one star.
brendan schaub
We can't be associated with that, man.
joe rogan
We can't.
If you want to open up a restaurant and you're a celebrity, good luck.
It should be a really small place.
brendan schaub
Or be a silent investor.
Don't be the face of it.
joe rogan
There's a bunch of places like that in LA. 100%.
Yeah, a gang of them.
brendan schaub
Like our boy Travis Barker, he owns Crossroads.
You don't see Mark and stuff like that, but it's like, and obviously not your cup of tea, but it's all vegan.
joe rogan
I heard it's good though.
brendan schaub
It's like the number one place in LA as far as vegan goes.
joe rogan
They're killing it.
brendan schaub
But you don't see him blasting out there like his face on the front of the restaurant, fucking playing the drums while they're serving up spring rolls.
joe rogan
Well, they were calling it the Big Rig Steakhouse.
brendan schaub
God damn it!
Well, that's some Texas shit.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's Texas shit.
brendan schaub
It might work in Texas, right?
Big Rig Steakhouse.
I might get a T-bone from Big Rig.
joe rogan
What if it was awesome?
It doesn't sound like it though, is it?
It was insane.
No, it doesn't.
brendan schaub
Has that ever worked?
Well, I guess, you know, Elway did it.
John Elway did it.
Elway Steakhouse in Denver kills it.
unidentified
Really?
brendan schaub
That's a fine steak, though.
joe rogan
Ted has them.
brendan schaub
Who's Ted?
joe rogan
Ted Turner.
brendan schaub
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
He's got those Ted's.
brendan schaub
Yeah, true.
Shanahan's has it.
joe rogan
Bison meat and shit.
brendan schaub
Yeah, it's a tough gig, man.
Tough.
Rocky did in the last one.
joe rogan
But it's also for an athlete, especially a fighter, where your mind, and first of all, you have this event that happens, and I don't have to tell you this, but for everybody listening, it takes months before the event, you're thinking about this event, you're preparing for the event, and then the event has one night.
Anything that can fuck your head up along the way should be avoided.
brendan schaub
Yeah, you shouldn't be thinking about getting mass discounts on T-bones and filet.
You should be really worried about Wanderboy.
joe rogan
Anything.
Anything that can fuck you up.
You know, there's so many different things that can creep into your mind.
brendan schaub
Well, I mean, great transition.
Look at Misha Tate.
joe rogan
Yeah.
brendan schaub
And I'm not taking anything away from Pennington.
I thought she looked brilliant.
She did her job.
joe rogan
I thought that was a real bad matchup for Misha, honestly.
I think Pennington's super underrated.
brendan schaub
She's underrated for sure.
I also think that version of Misha, and I... I just said, Misha doesn't look into it or something else is going on.
She's having an off night.
It didn't look like the normal Misha we're used to seeing.
And for Misha, for her to say, yeah, I'm done.
I couldn't hear it because, again, I was watching one of the live crowds.
But she retired, correct?
joe rogan
Yeah, she retired.
brendan schaub
What'd she say?
She was just like, I'm out?
joe rogan
Yeah, she says, I just want to say I'm done.
I'm done.
And I said, was this based entirely on your performance?
Is this something you planned?
And she said, no, it was based on my performance.
And then she said that I've taken a lot of punishment.
brendan schaub
That's fair, man.
For sure.
If you would have told her she'd been champ in the UFC, you know, after you've seen her fights with Ronda and these other fights, I'm sure she'd be like, you're full of shit.
And she just came back from this adversity.
Like, when she beat Holly...
Amazing.
Amazing, man.
And for her now, there's so much more for her to do.
This is why I'm proud of her and her getting out when she did, because I don't know if you've heard her break down fights as a female analyst.
She is so damn good.
It's ridiculous.
joe rogan
Well, she's very smart.
brendan schaub
She's very smart.
She's very good at breaking down the fights.
As far as, not like Joe Rogan style, Brian Stan style, Dominic Cruz style.
She's good as an analyst.
When she's up there with Stan and Bisping and those guys.
joe rogan
Have you had her on your show?
brendan schaub
We have not had her on your show.
I listened to her on your show and I thought she was brilliant.
joe rogan
She's got her own show now too.
brendan schaub
She has her own podcast?
unidentified
Yeah.
brendan schaub
Well, she's already doing it the right way.
joe rogan
Yeah.
brendan schaub
But I think for her, man, sky's the limit.
I really do.
joe rogan
I think you're right.
I think you're right.
And I think if she really...
I mean, everybody always says that.
If you have one foot out the door, you should just walk.
Just go.
There you go.
brendan schaub
Here.
And that's why you sat me down.
joe rogan
Here!
brendan schaub
You're like, excuse me, sir, you're telling dick jokes and trying to fight right now.
joe rogan
Well, it's one thing watching somebody who you don't love, who's just like, well, you know, or even you do love, you don't have that close of a relationship with, but as a friend, you know, you have a close friendship with someone, you see the path.
I mean, it's one of those things, man, you see it time and time again.
I can name you a hundred guys that I know that are kind of half in the game.
And they still do it and every now and then they get knocked out or they'll fight some Yair Rodriguez type motherfucker, some upcoming phenom and get lit up and all in.
Yeah, those all-in guys are fucking scary.
brendan schaub
Yeah, and you know for me is the best thing that ever happened to me in my life, so.
joe rogan
Well, I think it's probably gonna be the best thing for Misha too and one of the things that I said to Misha was like, you know, you've already achieved the highest achievement ever in MMA. You were a world champion in the UFC. No one could ever take that from her.
She won it in spectacular fashion, and it was an amazing accomplishment.
That's a giant thing to have on your resume.
Former world champion.
brendan schaub
And she's at the perfect time, just talking about it from the business side of things.
The UFC's contract with Fox is coming up.
So what they're going to do, from my understanding, is it's going to be on multiple...
So it's going to be like the NFL or NBA or whatever, these other sports leagues, which are not just tied to Fox, which opens up the door for ESPN, CBS, all these other networks.
So that opens up the door for all these other shows for her.
So if I'm Misha Tate, I don't sign with Fox right now.
Granted, she's the best female analyst in the game to me.
I think she waits till that deal goes and then feels all the offers.
And she has the time to do it.
joe rogan
She might, or UFC might offer her some sort of an in-house gig.
You know, who knows?
I could see that happening too.
brendan schaub
And I'm saying don't do that.
joe rogan
Don't do that for her.
brendan schaub
That former manager, don't do that.
Let him play the negotiating game and she has so many talents and no one's coming along like her who speaks or looks like her.
joe rogan
Yeah, isn't that happening with you guys?
Isn't there a network issue?
brendan schaub
Yes, there is a network issue.
joe rogan
Some sort of an issue with you guys being on Fox?
brendan schaub
Yeah.
Well, for us, it's just...
Brian goes, don't talk about that on Rogan.
joe rogan
And before, I'm like, we gotta talk about it.
brendan schaub
Yeah, and you know me, I'm an open book, man.
I'm like, do what?
joe rogan
You don't have to talk about it if you don't want to.
brendan schaub
No, I know.
We always talk about it.
For me, it's just...
You know, I'm always...
I'm always in the understanding of we don't need anybody.
And you've always said that.
And I think the Fire and the Kid fan base and what we've achieved has literally nothing to do with Fox.
You know, they gave us a studio and I'm grateful for that stuff, but we would be here with or without them.
joe rogan
A studio's not that big a deal.
You rent office space.
A lot of guys, we all know people that do it.
Tom and Christina do it.
Joey Diaz does it.
I do it.
A lot of people do it.
They just rent space.
brendan schaub
Correct.
joe rogan
It's not hard to do.
brendan schaub
No, and our biggest issue would be finding a good producer to help us like a young Jamie.
joe rogan
All you would have to do is put out the ad, throw the bat signal up online.
I'm sure this will fall.
brendan schaub
Well, here's the bat signal.
Yeah, here's your bat signal.
joe rogan
Holla at Brendan Schaub on Twitter.
brendan schaub
We're looking for one.
joe rogan
Yeah, I mean, if you find someone who knows how to handle the internet side of things, and I'm sure Jamie can help them.
What's going on today that's really interesting in podcasting, and we've kind of talked about this before, but is that the real network is the organic network between friends.
unidentified
Correct.
joe rogan
It's between all of us, between Joey and Bill Burr and Bert Kreischer and Tom Segura.
We're all just a bunch of friends, and we talk about each other, and we have each other on, and everybody finds out about each other from each other, and we retweet each other, and re-Instagram each other, and support each other.
And that's like a real network, where there's no, like...
Deals going on there's no paper signed it's and then everybody's sort of benefiting from it equally Everybody gets something out of it, you know, that's a real network This other thing is a weird business where non-creative people capitalize on the work of creative people and they provide you with what a Fucking a series of walls and an internet connection.
Oh, thank you.
You definitely should get half the money.
You out of your fucking mind.
brendan schaub
Yeah, that's exactly what I said It's just a different age now that we're going into.
We're in a good spot.
That's a good thing.
We're in a good spot.
We have offers from all these other networks and stuff like that.
joe rogan
That's all good.
The most important thing is just you guys love what you do and the show's fun.
That's the biggest thing.
And then people are going to still enjoy it.
So it's almost like think about it as little as you can, I guess.
brendan schaub
For me, I see it as an opportunity.
Like when we were discussing it today, I was excited.
I'm like, oh, yes.
We gotta get our Joe Rogan on now.
joe rogan
Yeah, you gotta do that for sure.
A lot of guys have done that.
You know, my friend Dave Rubin, who was on last week, he had a similar situation.
He was with one network, he left that, he went with another network, and he was like, what the fuck am I doing?
And I told him, I'm like, dude, just be free.
Just get out there.
brendan schaub
Well, I think what people don't realize is all the guests, the marketing, the merchandise.
I've hired our own booker.
We've had our own publisher.
It's all in-house.
It's all whatever I want to do with it.
We literally just show up to the studio.
joe rogan
Yeah, I can't imagine how they thought they'd get 50% of that.
It seems so crazy.
brendan schaub
It's insane.
joe rogan
It's just, maybe they just don't know how much money it is?
brendan schaub
They don't.
I was literally laughing.
Like, physically laughing.
Like, oh, you have...
joe rogan
How'd you guys resolve it?
How'd you end it?
brendan schaub
Now it's off to the agents.
unidentified
Oh, boy.
brendan schaub
Call my agent, like, there you go, man.
joe rogan
First of all, they should have never brought you in in the first place.
All that stuff's supposed to be done with agents.
They're not supposed to bring you in and talk financials with you with no representation.
brendan schaub
Correct.
However, I'm very, and if almost to a fault, I'm very in on, as far as the business side things go with Fire and the Kid.
Like, I want to be involved.
Now when it goes to negotiating, all right, you guys do that.
If you want to change the logo from a maroon to an orange, you better fucking go over it with me.
If you do something without me knowing, then we have issues.
joe rogan
Do they think they can do that kind of shit, though?
Do you think that they would start doing that if they...
brendan schaub
They did it once, and I was like, what?
joe rogan
What did they do?
brendan schaub
They changed something.
It was some logo.
They tweeted something out that I didn't approve.
And, you know, you can call me a control freak, but...
joe rogan
So this is like the network did that?
Fox did that?
brendan schaub
Yeah, yeah.
Well, they have certain people run the accounts, you know?
joe rogan
So they just decided that they were going to do that?
brendan schaub
I'm like, oh, what are you doing, man?
You know what I'm saying?
joe rogan
Well, you're in a weird gray area.
You have your own show.
You have a very limited amount of people that are in charge of that show.
But all these other people that are sort of used to, if they have a show, they get a say.
I remember when they were telling you not to swear.
brendan schaub
Yeah.
joe rogan
That's why I told you guys to get free.
brendan schaub
You've been saying that forever.
joe rogan
No swearing.
unidentified
What?
brendan schaub
I know.
It makes the audience almost think they're stupid or they can't handle the swear words.
People are getting upset.
joe rogan
It takes away everything that's great about the internet.
What's great about the internet is you can be yourself.
brendan schaub
You can be yourself, but also what they don't realize, and again, it's just an old school way of thinking, they don't realize how big podcasting is getting because Whether I'm at Fox, I'm in Joe Rogan's bathroom doing the podcast, the listeners just want the audio.
You know, they just want the show.
They don't give a fuck who pushes it.
joe rogan
I got a little microphone that I hook up to this fucking thing, to my phone.
brendan schaub
That's what Bill Burr does.
joe rogan
Dude, it's amazing.
brendan schaub
He just goes off his iPhone like a maniac.
unidentified
Dude, it's easy.
brendan schaub
And it still works.
Marc Maron does that in his garage, for God's sakes.
That's a present in his garage.
joe rogan
Yeah, well, he's actually got a pretty sweet setup.
brendan schaub
No, he really does, but you get the point.
joe rogan
Yeah, I'm going to try to find this shit in here.
I'm going to show you what this thing is.
brendan schaub
Yeah, it's just a different kind of day and age of media, and we're in a good spot, man, so I'm happy.
joe rogan
Yeah, I just don't think that this...
I'll find it later, but anyway, it's a microphone.
It sits in here, and it has a built-in little tripod on it.
I think it's called an Apogee or something like that.
brendan schaub
You ever use the Zoom mic?
joe rogan
Yeah, those are good.
brendan schaub
Yeah, Brian and I started a Zoom mic in his garage.
joe rogan
Yeah.
It's just, you don't need much.
brendan schaub
You don't need much.
I mean, obviously we're trying to go the frickin' JRE experience.
And then Jamie told me how much that goddamn mothership board is over there.
I'm like, you know what?
I'll probably see if I can get that at Goodwill or something like that.
joe rogan
Sweat this.
This little thing right there.
unidentified
Sweat this!
joe rogan
See this little jammy?
This little microphone?
I take this little microphone, I screw it into here.
This little baby here is a little fuckin' tripod that it sits on.
It all comes in this little case.
I pop that sucker down.
You can set it up in a hotel room.
brendan schaub
Damn, son.
That's what you did on the plane when you were with Dana and Tony?
joe rogan
No, on the plane with Dana and Tony, I didn't even have this yet.
brendan schaub
Damn, the thing's dope.
joe rogan
Dude, it's the shit.
unidentified
Wow.
joe rogan
You tighten it down.
brendan schaub
What's it called?
joe rogan
It's called an Apogee or something like that.
I set that up, and it's a real live condenser microphone.
brendan schaub
And it picks up all the voices clear?
joe rogan
It does it all through your phone.
brendan schaub
That's really dope.
joe rogan
It's incredible.
brendan schaub
That's really cool.
joe rogan
This is all you need.
Like, you don't need all this other shit.
We do all this other shit because even way, way, way back in the day, I was like, why wouldn't we have a visual element of it?
Why wouldn't we have, like, we were doing the streaming version of it even actually before we were doing anything else.
brendan schaub
Visual's big, though.
On our YouTube, we need the visual aspect of it for sure.
Like, you can't downgrade now.
But also for us, it's just, um...
Yeah, you just want to continually get better.
joe rogan
Keep working, baby!
brendan schaub
I can't believe they didn't fire us.
I've said some outlandish shit on that show.
I can't believe Fox is like, listen, we just can't have it.
I don't think they pay attention.
Yeah, they know the numbers.
joe rogan
They know the numbers.
That's one thing they do know.
unidentified
Correct.
joe rogan
Because you're on their network.
unidentified
Correct.
joe rogan
So they're like, Jesus.
Yeah, I know.
There's not another thing that they have.
brendan schaub
There was a time there when I, especially right when I retired, and I was like, you know, I was angry.
I was angry at certain things, man.
I'd lash out on the mic and stuff like that, especially in their office in cahoots with the UFC. So how they didn't fire me, I have no idea.
joe rogan
Well, I think the worst thing could be that they did fire you.
It's actually smart that they didn't.
Because you know what the Streisand effect is?
brendan schaub
Yeah, like when UFC Now banned me and I went howling like a little owl to everybody.
joe rogan
Or, you know, there's a bunch of examples of things like that that have happened where someone gets bigger.
Because like Milo Yiannopoulos, you know who he is?
brendan schaub
Yeah, he got banned from Twitter, right?
joe rogan
He got banned from Twitter because he was making fun of Ghostbusters.
He became bigger than ever.
He became like this cultural alt-right icon because of that.
brendan schaub
It's publicity you can't pay for.
Look at Ariel Hawane.
Bad example of Ariel Hawane.
Remember when the UFC banned him, kicked him out, and they went on all those networks?
joe rogan
Yeah.
brendan schaub
The UFC was like, my bad, my bad.
You're back in.
joe rogan
Yeah, for a little while.
Now he's out again.
brendan schaub
Is he out again?
joe rogan
Yeah.
brendan schaub
Why is he out again?
joe rogan
Because of the Brock Lesnar thing?
Remember when...
brendan schaub
Is he out again?
I thought he was in New York.
joe rogan
I don't think so.
Was he there in the arena?
Did he have press credentials?
unidentified
I don't know about me.
I saw him walking around like...
joe rogan
Oh, he was fired from Fox.
That's what he was fired from.
brendan schaub
Oh, yeah, he was fired from Fox.
Yeah, yeah.
But not fired from his show.
I'm doing the UFC media.
joe rogan
So he was banned from being in the media for a little while, and then they let him back in.
Is that how it works?
brendan schaub
Yeah, but the thing is, in Dana's defense and the UFC's defense, is the NFL, you know, that certain...
Leagues do that.
They don't allow certain people in.
So it's not as much as North Korea as we thought.
There are leagues who ban guys from coming to the events.
joe rogan
Well, I don't know what the fuck the NFL does, so it's not even worth me talking about it.
How about Habib Nurmagomedov?
unidentified
Okay.
joe rogan
What a fucking scary monster that guy is.
But here's the thing.
brendan schaub
He did get clipped, though, didn't he?
joe rogan
He got clipped.
Michael Johnson clipped him.
And I'm watching that, and I was like, what would Conor do to this kid?
brendan schaub
Right?
Because before, I'm like, Conor would get murked by Khabib.
And I saw him like, well, if Johnson lands that, you bet your sweet-ass Conor's gonna land that.
That magical left hand.
I'm done...
Question what Conor's capable of.
Because I was like, Eddie's a tough matchup.
I think he's gonna win this one.
I do.
Goddamn, I'm scared for this fight.
joe rogan
I kind of want to see him fight Woodley.
brendan schaub
I'd love to see him fight Brock Lesnar.
joe rogan
I want to see him take six months off.
I want to see him take six months off and bulk up You know what's crazy?
Just put on a little bit of meat.
brendan schaub
It's not that outlandish to see that fight.
unidentified
Oh, no, it's not.
That's very possible.
joe rogan
Oh, no, it's not.
It's totally possible.
brendan schaub
The hiccup in that is the UFC's like, do we just let him get all the belts and all the control?
Like, where do we stop it before he's running this belt?
joe rogan
He'd have to give up one of his belts to take on another one.
brendan schaub
He needs to give up 45. Give up 45. He's never going to fight there again.
joe rogan
He might.
brendan schaub
That cut down's tough.
joe rogan
But the cut's different now because you're allowed to begin your rehydration much earlier.
You can weigh in at 8 o'clock in the morning, 8 to 10 in the morning.
So by the time the ceremonial weigh-in rolls around, it was in New York City at 6 p.m., he was full.
I mean, he looked great.
He didn't look dehydrated at all.
At 55. But even at 55, he used to look dehydrated, right?
brendan schaub
Not too bad.
unidentified
45, he looked near the door of death.
joe rogan
That's right, we've never really seen him at 55 in the UFC. I've only seen him in cage rage or some other organizations.
brendan schaub
45, I don't see how he even makes it.
Even his camp's like, dude, it's way too tough on him.
Just let that belt go, though, now.
You did your thing, let it go, because you're keeping that division hostage.
You got Pettis, Max Holloway coming up.
joe rogan
It's funny.
brendan schaub
I think it's hilarious, too.
joe rogan
It's funny because it's not my life, though, but if I was Aldo, I'd be fucking freaking out.
Aldo, who's the champ forever, wants that rematch so bad.
brendan schaub
It ain't happening.
joe rogan
Is he really retiring?
brendan schaub
He retired and then thought he was going to go do something else, and he thought the UFC was like, oh, okay, do your thing.
And then he realized how tough those contracts are, and came back and was like, well, looks like I have to fight, let's do it.
joe rogan
Who is he going to fight?
brendan schaub
I don't know.
joe rogan
The winner of Pedersen Holloway?
Holloway's been knocking on the fucking door for a long time, man.
brendan schaub
Nine straight.
joe rogan
That's ridiculous.
brendan schaub
He just needs a bigger name.
He needs to get more famous.
That's the day and age we're in.
He just has to get famous or get on the mic, talk some shit.
joe rogan
I'm really interested to see him versus Pettis because Pettis, I think, gets real diminished by that cut.
brendan schaub
I agree.
joe rogan
That's a hard cut for him to get on 45. And I love Pettis, man.
brendan schaub
I'm a huge Pettis fan.
But he hasn't looked the same as of late.
joe rogan
Max Holloway's a slick motherfucker, too.
You realize it now.
After you watch Frankie Edgar and Jeremy Stevens' fight, you realize how slick Holloway is.
Holloway was never in trouble in that fight.
brendan schaub
Never.
And then also, think about it.
His last loss was Conor McGregor.
Conor had a jacked-up knee, but it went to decision.
The only decision Conor's had in the UFC. And think how much better Max Holloway is now.
If he wins this one, dear God, if someone's listening, give that kid a title shot.
What's he have to do?
joe rogan
I know.
brendan schaub
What do you do with Tony and Khabib, though?
You're talking about two crazy win streaks, too.
Like, how do you even...
Just make them fight?
joe rogan
Yes!
brendan schaub
That's what I think.
You make them fight.
joe rogan
You make them fight.
brendan schaub
But let's say you have to pick one of them.
If Conor's like, all right, I'll fight at 55 in three months.
Who the fuck wants some?
joe rogan
Well, right now, before that fight, Tony Ferguson was the No.
1 contender.
Rightly so.
Just beat Rafael dos Anjos, beat a shitload of guys.
brendan schaub
Because he's so active?
joe rogan
He beat Edson Barboza.
He was the number one contender, according to whatever the rankings are, which I don't think are accurate all the time.
brendan schaub
Those are a toss-up.
joe rogan
Some of them kind of suck.
But the second position right now, if he's still number one, it's clearly Habib.
Habib was number one, but Habib's been way more inactive than Tony.
But the way Khabib mauled Michael Johnson, I think he makes his case.
brendan schaub
They both have a case.
joe rogan
They both have a case.
brendan schaub
One's undefeated, one's on knife fight win streak, and then Tony, you know, I thought he dismantled RDA. I thought he looked great.
joe rogan
Amazing.
brendan schaub
Khabib absolutely ragdolled Dos Anjos 2 and then fucking destroy Johnson.
joe rogan
It was horrible watching him beat up Johnson.
You know, because he's so good at tying up that one arm.
He ties up the one arm and then fucking smashes you with the other one.
He's got one arm to try to protect him and he's getting just thumped in the head.
brendan schaub
You gotta hold that chicken when you're gonna snap that bitch off.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's not good.
I thought he was too.
I was like, please tap, please tap.
brendan schaub
Please tap.
It was like Braveheart.
Just come on, man.
joe rogan
It was so deep.
It was so deep, too.
I was thinking Nog, when Nog and Frank Muir fought.
That's what I was thinking.
I was like, this is gonna snap.
brendan schaub
But, like, same with hands over there, you refuse to tap.
I get that.
You're Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu till the day you die.
Michael Johnson, let's go ahead and tap, though, sir.
joe rogan
Yeah, I'm glad he tapped.
brendan schaub
Me, too.
joe rogan
I was literally squeezing my hands together when I was doing the commentary.
I'm like, come on, tap.
Come on, tap.
Just tap.
brendan schaub
I'm sweating now thinking about it.
joe rogan
When he got him down and then immediately slid right into mounted guillotine, I was like, Jesus Christ.
brendan schaub
Goddamn, man.
His grappling's ridiculous.
joe rogan
He's so good.
His grappling's so good, it's confusing.
brendan schaub
Yeah, so those two fighting is the fight.
That's the fight.
joe rogan
Conor and Habib are the fight.
unidentified
That's the fight.
brendan schaub
That's not happening, brother.
joe rogan
I think Habib needs to get the title.
To get a title shot, at least.
That's what I think.
I think he deserves it.
He's the only undefeated challenger.
He's a monster.
He's mauled everybody in front of him.
He hasn't had a single goddamn close fight.
He's had one moment, one moment where he gets dinged.
brendan schaub
But you're speaking logically.
unidentified
Yes!
brendan schaub
You're thinking guys that deserve it.
We're in entertainment, sir.
Just the same way Conor leapfrogged everyone who got the title shot.
joe rogan
Listen to what I'm saying to you right now.
Really?
The UFC is about to go to Russia.
Do you know that?
brendan schaub
Yeah, they want to get in there.
joe rogan
They don't know what they're going to do.
brendan schaub
Yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
For sure.
UFC in Russia.
Conor McGregor versus Habib Nurmagomedov.
That's what I think is coming.
unidentified
Giant.
Giant.
brendan schaub
There's a lot of Russians.
unidentified
Giant.
brendan schaub
Khabib got on the mic, right, and was like, you know how much bigger fucking Russia is than Ireland?
joe rogan
Yeah.
brendan schaub
But he's not the same star.
joe rogan
Well, here's the deal, though.
Russia's bigger than Ireland, but the United States is bigger than Ireland, too.
And when fucking Conor is fighting in New York City, which is an hour and a half from Eddie Alvarez's house, they're booing Eddie Alvarez as he's walking to the cage.
brendan schaub
No, it doesn't matter.
Russia, China, Korea, Ireland.
Conor's the biggest star by far.
joe rogan
I don't know about that.
When you go to Russia, I wonder if he gets booed in Russia.
brendan schaub
Don't you think if Khabib was that big of a star in Russia, maybe it's sanctioning stuff, and they are going there.
joe rogan
If you check my Instagram page, every time a fucking photo gets up, it's Khabib time.
Khabib time.
Khabib king.
Khabib champ.
brendan schaub
He deserves it, but there's a reason why he hasn't been the headliner of a pay-per-view.
joe rogan
Maybe.
brendan schaub
In the States here.
joe rogan
Maybe.
Yeah, maybe.
But he is a fucking monster, and he is a hero to the Russian MMA fans.
brendan schaub
Correct.
joe rogan
This guy from Dagestan has been mauling everybody they put in front of him, and people think, and rightly so, that he's unjustly being kept from a title shot.
brendan schaub
You can't say he's been kept from a title shot when he's been injured for a long time.
joe rogan
That's true, too.
brendan schaub
Who's keeping him from getting injured?
Blame that on AKA. That's not Conor's deal.
joe rogan
That's true.
But they did promise him this fight.
This was something that they said, no, Habib gets the next shot at the title.
This was something that was publicly stated, which made sense at the time because Habib was 23-0.
He's going to fight in Madison Square Garden for the title.
This is what they were saying.
brendan schaub
Now you're talking about the Conor effect, right?
joe rogan
Habib versus Eddie Alvarez.
brendan schaub
I can't have that.
That doesn't sell tickets.
joe rogan
Exactly.
brendan schaub
Then Conor went, no, I want to fight that one.
Oh, Habib, we'll keep you on the card.
Why don't you fight on the undercard, though?
joe rogan
Imagine how Habib feels when he hears that shit.
Man, he gets that phone call.
He thinks, this is it, finally.
brendan schaub
I get the title.
I bet he went in his backyard and beat the shit out of that Kodiak bear.
joe rogan
He's got a bear in his yard.
brendan schaub
You ever seen that video?
joe rogan
He was a kid.
brendan schaub
It's awesome.
joe rogan
Yeah, he's a kid wrestling bear.
brendan schaub
He's so much tougher than anyone I know.
He's so goddamn tough.
joe rogan
He's ridiculous.
His grappling's ridiculous.
I'm really interested in seeing whether or not he can get past that left hand.
brendan schaub
If you are correct, and that's the fight in Russia, the amount of money they're going to have to pay Conor to fight him in Russia when Conor's still the draw, you're talking about a different ballgame.
Show me the money!
joe rogan
It's going to be interesting, though.
What other Russian badasses are there that fight in the UFC? Did you see that Koreshkov just got knocked the fuck out in Bellator?
brendan schaub
Yes, which was crazy, by Lima.
joe rogan
Dude, Lima's a bad motherfucker.
brendan schaub
Yeah.
Of course, God's a monster.
Speaking of Russians in that area, not to flip the script here, but this weekend is Andre Ward versus freaking Kovalev.
joe rogan
Oh, that's right.
Kovalev.
Yeah, that's this weekend.
brendan schaub
Best boxing matchup in a long time.
unidentified
That's a big fight.
brendan schaub
No one's talking about it either.
It drives me nuts.
joe rogan
I know.
brendan schaub
I've been watching all the countdowns and shit.
I can't get enough of it.
joe rogan
I know.
I watched that last countdown thing they did, too.
It was on after the Victor Ortiz fight.
brendan schaub
Yeah, Ortiz looked like shit.
joe rogan
Well, the duty fought was like on super survival mode.
brendan schaub
He was terrified.
joe rogan
Yeah, he didn't throw any punches.
brendan schaub
Nothing.
joe rogan
And they said through the whole fight he threw a hundred and something punches.
brendan schaub
He was so scared.
And then Ortiz would touch him and he'd pretend to fall down because he was like waiting for the knockout.
joe rogan
But he also was grabbing his head and saying he got hit in the back of the head a couple of times.
brendan schaub
It was a terrible fight.
joe rogan
It wasn't good.
brendan schaub
But yeah, you're right.
Right after that was Andre Ward versus Kovalev.
Like the countdown, kind of their background in Andre Ward.
To me, he's just a bigger version of Floyd Mayweather.
Like, his defense is insane, but he has knockout power.
He hasn't lost since he's 13. I give him the advantage.
Some people think Kovalev's going to win.
I don't know what the betting odds are.
joe rogan
I was stunned by the way Kovalev handled Hopkins.
And I know Bernard's old.
brendan schaub
He's 100 years old.
joe rogan
He's 1,000.
brendan schaub
He looks like a turtle.
joe rogan
He looks old.
He's fighting again.
December 10th or 12th or something like that?
brendan schaub
I think in LA. I'm not going to that.
I'm not going to that, sir.
joe rogan
Please stop fighting.
I'm not going to go either.
I'm going to be in...
That's the Toronto UFC that weekend.
It's also...
The Weekend of Glory, that's Badr Hari versus Rico Verhoeven.
brendan schaub
Was that the best weekend ever, besides that Hopkins fight?
joe rogan
That's a good fucking card, too.
brendan schaub
Dude, that Toronto card is stacked now.
joe rogan
It is now.
brendan schaub
Because you've got Kennedy, Rashad, Cowboy, Matt Brown.
joe rogan
Yeah, Cowboy versus Matt Brown is better than Cowboy versus Gastelum.
brendan schaub
That fight did nothing for me.
joe rogan
Well, Gastelum's done now, man.
He's in a bad, bad, bad place.
brendan schaub
Dana says he has to fight at 85 now.
joe rogan
He's said that before and made him fight at 85. Maybe he beat Nate Marquardt at 85. Correct, sir.
Wasn't that 85 that he fought Marquardt?
brendan schaub
No, he fought Marquardt at 70. Was it?
Yeah.
joe rogan
It was one of those fights that he beat somebody because he got sent up to 85 and then he proved that he could make the weight.
And he's blaming George Lockhart now.
brendan schaub
The only person you can blame is yourself.
Like, you know, man.
Especially being an experience, you know.
And it's so frustrating.
That shows you what kind of card the UFC 205 was.
I didn't even blink.
I didn't bat an eye to that.
Alright, what's next?
Look at this fucking card.
Tim K. Rashad, that sucks.
Oh my god, look at this card.
joe rogan
Yeah.
brendan schaub
Well, now Toronto's just stacked.
joe rogan
Gastelum is a really elite fighter.
He's a very tough guy.
brendan schaub
He beat a lot of tough guys.
joe rogan
I'm a big fan of that kid.
I think he's awesome.
But he needs to lose some fucking body fat, period.
You're not a heavyweight.
You're not Cain Velasquez.
He can't walk around with that much body fat.
brendan schaub
Well, he posted on Instagram like a week before, two weeks before a fight, like, real Mexican dinner.
It's like these fucking burritos, enchilada stuff.
Alright, man, we cannot have that, sir.
joe rogan
He can't do that.
I mean, he's an elite professional athlete who absolutely could still, to this day, win the world title.
brendan schaub
He has the skill, for sure.
joe rogan
He has the skill.
brendan schaub
And he's fought the guys.
He beat Woodley, yeah?
Did he beat Woodley or did Woodley beat him?
joe rogan
Woodley beat him in a decision where he didn't fucking make weight.
brendan schaub
There you go.
joe rogan
That was a decision where he didn't fucking make weight.
And Woodley, being the great guy that he is, didn't take the percentage.
brendan schaub
The 30%?
joe rogan
Yeah, the 20, I think it is.
When your opponent doesn't make weight.
unidentified
It's 30%.
joe rogan
Is it 30?
brendan schaub
30. Okay.
joe rogan
I thought it was 20. Woodley, being a great guy that he is, said, I don't want that money.
And he beat him by decision.
So Woodley got the win bonus, too.
But I don't know who Calvin has fought at 85 in the last few years.
He's been forced at one point in time to go up to 85. Just needs to fucking lose body fat.
Just lose it and keep it off.
brendan schaub
Dude, and any time a fighter doesn't make weight, Mike Dolce jumps out like Chris Hansen from To Catch a Predator.
Excuse me, want to take a seat?
You want to sit down?
And he cannot wait to tweet out...
Ah, man, it's frustrating when guys miss weight.
joe rogan
Yeah, he does.
brendan schaub
Like, he is just super thirsty, isn't he?
joe rogan
He's super thirsty.
brendan schaub
Like, Chris Hansen on Catch a Predator just fucking can't wait to tweet about it.
joe rogan
Well, Dolce's got a whole staff.
He's got a staff of people.
brendan schaub
He's expensive, though.
joe rogan
Yeah, he's got a...
Well, he is expensive.
brendan schaub
Yeah, for a reason.
For a good reason.
joe rogan
He's got an office building.
brendan schaub
Well, he's an employee of the UFC, too.
joe rogan
Well, I think he has like nine employees or something crazy.
brendan schaub
Just looking up YouTube and how to fucking lose weight and shit.
That motherfucker comes out of the curtains, though.
joe rogan
A lot of people disagree with him, though.
A lot of people disagree with some of his methods.
brendan schaub
Yeah, their name's BJ Penn.
joe rogan
Yeah, well, he was just upset that...
Well, he was upset for a bunch of reasons.
He made the wait, though.
But he was upset that Dolce charged him so much.
brendan schaub
Said he really didn't do much.
I don't know the whole story.
I don't know the whole story either.
I'm not taking sides there.
But I will tell you this.
BJ Penn's a goddamn legend, so I'm siding with him, usually.
He's from Hawaii.
joe rogan
Yeah, I don't know what the fuck happened.
brendan schaub
Me neither.
joe rogan
You'd have to be there.
But the point is, like, if you have someone who is monitoring every aspect of your weight cut, like your hydration levels, what kind of fluids you're drinking, what kind of foods you're eating, and it doesn't work out.
If you did what that guy said, and the weight didn't come off, somebody fucked up.
Who fucked up?
I don't know.
brendan schaub
It'd be the guy you had.
But let me ask you this, Joe.
If someone...
Let's say it's not UFC 205. He missed weight by 10 pounds, though.
Which is ridiculous.
But let's say it's not UFC 205 where it's a card not as stacked.
Let's say it's a main event in Toronto with DC and Rumble, which before, that card was pure shit besides that fight.
Now it's an amazing card.
You've got Max Holloway, Anthony Pettis, blah, blah, blah.
Would it be crazy for the new UFC suits to hire nutritionists and maybe just the main card, they designate you a guy to help you lose weight?
Because it's your product.
joe rogan
It's not a bad idea.
However, I think...
brendan schaub
Like maybe Mike Dolce works with everyone and he has a team.
Maybe it's not Mike Dolce, but he's riding the plan this year diet, and this person is assigned to you and they're following up with you.
Because who does it hurt when they don't make weight?
It hurts the fighter, and then it hurts the UFC, too.
Certain cards.
joe rogan
I think an even better strategy is seek to eliminate weight cuts.
Seek to cut it out of the sport.
It's unnecessary.
It's dangerous.
It puts guys at risk health-wise when they don't have to be at risk health-wise.
I think the only thing that's holding it back are championship belts and more options of weight classes.
I think if they could figure out what weight guys are, where they compete at optimally, and then the same way you do USADA or USADA testing, you do hydration testing.
brendan schaub
But how many weight classes?
You'd have a gigillion weight classes.
joe rogan
Yep.
You have more weight classes.
brendan schaub
But then you have boxing.
unidentified
No, no, no.
brendan schaub
And that's the problem with boxing.
joe rogan
It's not a problem with boxing, though.
Look at Andre Ward and Kovalev.
They're going to fight.
Well, you have less organizations.
It's not like you have five different world title organizations and plus weight classes.
You would just have plus weight classes.
I think you would have more champions.
You'd have more opportunity for championship titles.
brendan schaub
I like that because you have more stars.
joe rogan
You also have more opportunity for title bouts between guys where one guy decides to go up, one guy decides to go down.
But instead of...
Them doing it by dehydrating themselves 24 hours out, you make a contract to fight at a certain weight because that's what weight you are in a healthy way.
brendan schaub
Which maximizes their skills and performance.
joe rogan
Yes, and it doesn't put them at the dangers that you have from being dehydrated 24 hours out.
But where do you stop, though?
brendan schaub
How many weight classes do you have?
joe rogan
That's a good question.
brendan schaub
Can you have 20 belts?
joe rogan
Well, I think boxing has that many.
brendan schaub
And it's a real problem.
Name 10 stars in boxing.
joe rogan
But I don't care.
brendan schaub
Name 10 stars in the UFC. You want me to?
joe rogan
Yeah.
brendan schaub
Okay.
joe rogan
10 champions.
brendan schaub
Well, 10...
I can name champions and former champions easily.
joe rogan
Don't you think you can name 10 champion boxers, though?
Manny Pacquiao, Tim Bradley, if you want to start going on, Terrence Crawford, Lomachenko, Vasily Lomachenko, Gennady Golovkin, Floyd Mayweather.
You know, you can keep going.
You can name a bunch of champions in boxing, right?
brendan schaub
But a lot of those guys are on the same weight, yeah?
joe rogan
That's true.
That's true.
But, you know, you go up in heavyweight, you got fucking Klitschko, Wilder, Anthony Joshua.
brendan schaub
You did it, son?
joe rogan
Let's go, champ!
brendan schaub
What's up, champ?
joe rogan
Let's go, champ!
brendan schaub
That's amazing.
He's fighting for a world title.
joe rogan
He's supposed to be here today, but he had to move it to, yeah, he's fighting for a world title.
brendan schaub
Brilliant.
joe rogan
Interesting.
brendan schaub
That's going to be fun.
joe rogan
Yeah.
There's a lot of heavyweight talent now.
Anthony Joshua, he's a bad motherfucker.
brendan schaub
Fuck yeah, that guy in frickin' New Zealand that everyone talks about.
joe rogan
What is Tyson Fury doing?
brendan schaub
He's retired and clinically, like, he's suicidal and needs some help.
Mentally, he's just not there.
So he's out.
He's crazy, man.
That dude's crazy.
I think, yeah, unique characters like that.
But I like the idea, Joe, but the problem is it's tough enough for the average fan to keep up now with the stars.
joe rogan
I think that's the least of our concerns.
The most important thing is to put on great fights.
brendan schaub
Exactly, so higher, because how much?
Four billion!
joe rogan
The dehydration is dangerous and unnecessary.
brendan schaub
No one's died?
joe rogan
They have in Brazil.
In the UFC? It could come close to the UFC. But has anyone died?
Do you know that Dos Anjos passed out for three fucking minutes before his fight with Eddie Alvarez, where he was unconscious and unresponsive?
brendan schaub
But did you die?
joe rogan
He was on the door, bro.
brendan schaub
But did you die?
joe rogan
Nobody's died.
But I think people have been diminished considerably.
And I think their performance suffers.
So it makes a shittier product.
brendan schaub
I agree.
joe rogan
If you want to look at it from a business.
Plus, if the UFC has got...
Look, you could say, hey, steroids are part of the game.
Are they?
Well, not anymore.
Now they're fucking knocking on your door at 6 o'clock in the morning making you pee in a cup.
If they decided to do that at 6 o'clock in the morning, they'd try to test people's hydration levels at 6 o'clock in the morning, every day.
Find out what your weight is.
Okay, this is what your body fat is.
This is what your weight is.
This is the lowest you can get.
They'll test you out when you're fully hydrated, and when your body fat is wherever the fuck you are right now, they'll say, hey, okay, right now you're 178 pounds.
Listen, the lowest you can fight is 172. That's it.
brendan schaub
Bro, you're going to have 1,000 weight classes.
I don't know about that.
And certain guys won't fight each other.
joe rogan
I don't know about that.
I think some guys could gain a little weight.
That's no big deal.
brendan schaub
I don't mind the idea.
I think you're right.
You're going to get great performances.
joe rogan
Way better performances.
I think the weight class thing can be worked out.
brendan schaub
I agree.
They obviously need to do something.
Yes.
Right now, the easiest thing to do for them is to use whoever they want.
Doesn't have to be Mike Dolce, but a number of them, and assign those to the main card guys to make sure they're coming on weight.
joe rogan
Yeah, but what about the guys in the undercard?
Fuck them?
That sounds crazy, too.
brendan schaub
Does it?
Because that's what they did with Reebok.
Does it sound like crazy to say, fuck them?
joe rogan
Yes, it does.
brendan schaub
But that's the nature of the beast.
joe rogan
But I think that's crazy, too.
But that's what they're doing.
brendan schaub
I'm just following the orders.
joe rogan
I understand that.
But I'm saying, if I had the master key...
The first thing I would do is say, come up with a strategy to stop weight cutting.
We're going to come up with a new plan.
And whether that new plan means abandoning world titles and making...
unidentified
How dare you.
joe rogan
Yes, yes.
brendan schaub
How dare you.
joe rogan
You introduce someone as a world champion, you know, whoever the fuck they are.
They get to, you know, bring their world title to the fight, but whenever their next title defense is or whatever the fuck it is, all this name stuff, Welter, Light, Feather, first of all, it's goofy because it's not the right weight anyway.
Welterweight is not 170. It's 147. That's what Sugar Ray Leonard and Thomas Hearns fought at.
They called it fucking Welterweight.
unidentified
Correct.
joe rogan
To start the UFC and just to say, well, it's Welterweight.
And then Pride fucked it up even more because they had it.
It was different.
Like, their middleweight was 203. Correct.
And then light heavyweight isn't 205. It's not 205, it's 175. Everybody knows that.
brendan schaub
Heavyweight's 201 plus.
joe rogan
Yeah, we grew up in boxing and the weight classes were clearly defined.
Why the fuck does the UFC have a 265 pound weight limit too?
Why are you making Brock Lesnar cut weight or whoever the fuck a big giant dude is?
Like Shane, why would you make Shane cut weight?
If he wants to weigh 300 pounds, let that fucking big vanilla gorilla weigh 300 pounds.
Who cares?
I want to see it.
brendan schaub
Dude, he has a matchup in Ryzen.
I just saw it.
joe rogan
Some dude I've never heard of.
brendan schaub
I've never heard of him.
I guess he's just some fucking Middle Eastern monster.
joe rogan
Oh, no.
brendan schaub
He's an Olympic-level wrestler and just knocks dudes out.
Oh, my God.
I need to do research on the guy, but someone tagged me and I'm like, oh my god.
unidentified
Mufasa.
joe rogan
I thought they were going to give him a Fedor, though.
That's a big name matchup for Fedor.
brendan schaub
It's a tournament.
It's like Pride style.
The winner doesn't fight Fedor.
It's supposed to be like an openweight tournament.
joe rogan
It's dope.
What kind of work has Shane had done on his back?
brendan schaub
He had surgery.
I know he had a disc replacement and then he had some stuff on his neck.
joe rogan
He had a disc replacement?
brendan schaub
Pretty sure.
joe rogan
Like they put one of those artificial jammies in there?
brendan schaub
I don't want to speak for him, but he had surgery on his neck.
joe rogan
He didn't get it fused, did he?
Did he get anything fused?
brendan schaub
I'm not sure.
I don't want to speak for Shane.
I know he had surgery on his back.
joe rogan
I like Ryzen because they let him take all the vitamins he wants.
brendan schaub
It's just, I mean, it's just Monster Squad.
They should rename it Monsters, Inc.
joe rogan
Well, I would like Overeem to go over there, too.
brendan schaub
Oh, me too.
joe rogan
Just get back to the old man.
brendan schaub
Just do the old thing, man.
Just do the old thing.
unidentified
You know that thing?
brendan schaub
Like the old time you need Fragita in the face and ended his life.
Do that.
joe rogan
Yeah, when he fought Todd Duffy and he looked like some sort of a cartoon character.
unidentified
God, dog.
brendan schaub
How fun was that to watch, though?
joe rogan
Yo, Romero looked small compared to him.
Yo, Romero looked at him like, I'm going to start lifting.
brendan schaub
Yo, Romero looks like malnourished next to him.
Yo, Romero looks like he has AIDS next to Uber in.
joe rogan
He's like, I gotta go lift.
unidentified
I gotta get out of here.
brendan schaub
Yeah, he's like, god damn, I need to fucking hit the gym.
Uber Ream?
We've never seen anything like it.
joe rogan
No.
brendan schaub
For whatever reason, when you and I get together, we just fucking have a love fest over this Uber Ream that doesn't exist anymore.
It's like the Loch Ness Monster.
You and I are obsessed with this.
joe rogan
Well, there's video, though.
That's the problem.
brendan schaub
There's proof.
joe rogan
It's not just like we see him and we go, oh, that's the guy Stipe just knocked out?
No, I'm telling you, Stipe's a bad motherfucker, no doubt about it, but he's not the same guy.
That's not the Brock Lesnar guy.
The guy who fought Brock?
brendan schaub
No, no, no.
That guy doesn't exist anymore.
joe rogan
That guy was terrified.
brendan schaub
If he did, he would never lose.
He would never, ever lose.
I was so scared because I was fighting that time.
I was like, well, what the fuck would happen?
What if they called me up right now?
I'm going to have to act sick.
joe rogan
Yeah, well, yeah.
It's interesting, man.
You know, the people that say that steroids don't win fights or performance-enhancing drugs don't win fights, they're crazy.
brendan schaub
Pfft.
joe rogan
Those people are crazy.
brendan schaub
Crazy.
joe rogan
You're out of your mind.
brendan schaub
You're crazy.
joe rogan
It helps a lot.
brendan schaub
You don't think I could have went uber brown?
Uber big brown?
unidentified
Oh yeah.
joe rogan
Oh yeah.
brendan schaub
Grande brown?
joe rogan
It helps a lot.
brendan schaub
Venti brown would do some work.
It also helps with your chin.
joe rogan
Yes.
brendan schaub
And hopefully I could have taken that and my head would have grown.
So all of a sudden I have this Ubering body and this Mark Hunt head that'd be fucking sick!
joe rogan
You know what I hope?
Honestly, I really do hope that Ryzen takes off and becomes like Pride was back in the day.
And you have these nutty, insane, fucking full-bore freak show fights, and we get to see guys just jacked to the tits on them.
brendan schaub
I could use that in my life.
joe rogan
It'd be awesome.
brendan schaub
We would do fight campaigns for every one of them.
unidentified
Fuck yeah!
brendan schaub
It'd be so sick.
joe rogan
Fuck yeah!
brendan schaub
It'd be so violent.
joe rogan
It'd be amazing.
If the UFC was smart, they'd get in bed with them.
They'd be like, listen, let's bring...
brendan schaub
Just be under the table, investors.
joe rogan
Let's bring this over to the fucking Fight Pass.
Come on, baby.
brendan schaub
I agree.
joe rogan
Come on, baby.
brendan schaub
Hey, listen.
Ubering wants to start some shit.
How about you guys just sign and then we'll put on Fight Pass.
joe rogan
And encourage the steroids.
Say, listen, I know those motherfuckers can't fight like that over here.
We're all clean and everything.
brendan schaub
Super strict.
joe rogan
So listen, just...
Fucking give us a little taste.
brendan schaub
It'd be a good business plan.
joe rogan
We'll help you out.
Smart.
Yeah, you can watch the freak show.
unidentified
You get it all.
joe rogan
Japanese freak show.
brendan schaub
You get it all.
joe rogan
And who knows, man?
Japan is weird.
You know, Japan was a huge culture for MMA at one point in time.
Like, at one point in time, the UFC was giant over there.
And then it faded and dropped off bad.
Or, excuse me, Pride was giant.
And then it faded and dropped off bad.
And Dream was kind of like the end of it.
And then now there's not really a presence there anymore until Ryzen comes along.
So if Ryzen can figure out how to bring back the same sort of excitement in the Japanese culture and the Japanese people that they had when they had the pride days, the glory days of selling out Saitama Super Arena and those gigantic places.
brendan schaub
Then it'd be good business for the UFC because then they just come in the back door like, oh, you like that product?
What's up, fellas?
We do it bigger and better than everyone.
You know what I'm saying?
joe rogan
Put a little piece of that.
brendan schaub
I wonder how the UFC did because didn't they, Aldo fought Someone out there, not Aldo.
Anthony Pettis was the main event out there, remember?
joe rogan
Yeah, I was there.
I was there for one...
brendan schaub
Was it a good show?
joe rogan
Well, there's been more than one Japan UFC. I've been there for one of them.
brendan schaub
But that was the latest one, remember?
joe rogan
Rampage fought when I was there.
I remember that.
But I don't remember too much about that event.
brendan schaub
I feel like Pettis was the main event and liver kicked the shit out of someone or head kicked someone.
It might have been...
joe rogan
Joe Lozon?
brendan schaub
Yes.
Maybe.
joe rogan
That was the Japan card.
brendan schaub
I felt like Roy was on there too.
joe rogan
Might have been.
I don't remember.
brendan schaub
But I wonder what the numbers were like.
They couldn't have been too great because UFC was like, ah, we're good.
joe rogan
Yeah.
brendan schaub
Because they haven't been back in a while.
joe rogan
I don't know.
I mean, look, the UFC does so many shows.
They're doing two next Saturday.
They're doing one from Brazil and they're doing one from Belfast.
brendan schaub
Really?
joe rogan
Yeah, they're doing the Northern Ireland card.
It's Gegard Mousasi versus Uriah Hall, the rematch.
brendan schaub
It's fun.
joe rogan
Yeah, and then the Brazil card is Ryan Bader versus Little Nog.
brendan schaub
And Claudia Gadeja.
joe rogan
Claudia Gadeja is on that card, too.
brendan schaub
Yeah, and there's one more big fight on that.
joe rogan
Here's someone that no one's talking about in the strawweight division.
It's Jessica Andrade.
She moved down.
She's a gorilla.
brendan schaub
Gorilla.
joe rogan
Her and Liz Carmou should have a bodybuilding contest.
brendan schaub
It's a toss-up.
joe rogan
Both of them stand in front of each other and flex it out.
brendan schaub
I'd watch that.
I'll tell you who I wouldn't mind seeing signing with the UFC, and I don't think she needs to work on her stand-up.
Obviously, it's super amateur right now, but that Mackenzie?
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
brendan schaub
I watched her, I think it was on HDNet.
unidentified
She...
brendan schaub
She fucking knotted this girl up.
I think it was a go-go plata.
She started a go-go plata and then got her neck.
I mean, her grappling, I think she could come to the UFC right now at strawweight and just top five.
joe rogan
She's insane.
Her jiu-jitsu is insane.
brendan schaub
It's so insane.
Her striking is super amateur, but the strawweight division is at a point where I think she could still do work right now.
joe rogan
And she's hot as fuck.
brendan schaub
She is a smoked show.
joe rogan
She's a smoked show and she speaks English and Portuguese fluently.
Dime PC. And nasty on the ground.
brendan schaub
Super nasty.
joe rogan
Super high level black belt.
And the daughter of Megaton Diaz.
brendan schaub
Yes.
joe rogan
Who's a very, very well respected, famous Brazilian Jiu Jitsu black belt.
And a pioneer.
He's one of the old school guys.
brendan schaub
That's her papa.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's amazing.
Yeah, I think she's probably eventually going to wind up in the UFC. Did she make 115?
brendan schaub
Yeah.
joe rogan
Good luck taking down the Polish killer.
Did you see what she put on her fucking water bottle, bro?
Yeah, didn't she blast it out?
Killer shit.
One of the guys from the underground posted it up, and then I actually wound up getting it from Joe Silva.
Joe Silva showed it to me in between fights.
Let me see the dude's name.
Sincognito is the dude's name on mixedmartialarts.com.
And it says, in two days I will fuck a bitch up and continue my violent run as champion.
brendan schaub
I mean...
joe rogan
She writes that on her water bottle!
brendan schaub
I'm just...
Straight, cold-blooded killer.
joe rogan
I love her, man.
brendan schaub
Dude, that fight, I was surprised.
First time we've really seen her in a lot of trouble like that.
She got cracked.
joe rogan
I think it was a punch.
It was a straight punch.
brendan schaub
I thought it was a punch to the elbow.
She punched and came through with that right elbow.
And then she was wobbly, man.
Maybe.
We've never really seen her in that much danger.
joe rogan
Well, and the thing was that Shevchenko was getting lit up for most of the fight.
brendan schaub
How tough is that girl?
unidentified
Super tough.
brendan schaub
Those Polish girls, man.
joe rogan
Super tough.
And after the fight, looked great.
I mean, she ate a lot of punches.
She ate a lot of kicks.
A lot of leg kicks.
brendan schaub
I thought Joanna looked worse as far as face.
Yeah, she had that big mouse on her upper eye there.
joe rogan
She got cracked with, I think there was a couple of hard elbows in the clinch, too.
It was a great fight.
But it wasn't a great fight for a while.
For a while, it looked like Valentina was just, she just wasn't as fluid or effective.
brendan schaub
Yeah, she was just hanging in there for a second.
joe rogan
But she never stopped.
She never stopped coming forward.
She never stopped coming forward.
And she was never discouraged.
I mean, she had some moments where she couldn't solve the puzzle, and Ioana was doing a really good job of ending the combinations with leg kicks, inside and outside, inside and outside.
brendan schaub
Nonstop.
joe rogan
Yeah.
And all those leg kicks, they was really making a big difference.
brendan schaub
If you follow Ioana, though, it was a tough fight, but Ioana definitely won that.
Her first fight with Claudia Gadeja, that was a tougher fight for her.
joe rogan
She had a tough fight in the last one with Claudia Gadeja.
Really tough.
She won, but she's been to some wars.
Valerie Letourneau, she fought that fight.
She had a broken hand somewhere in the fight.
She kept punching with it.
brendan schaub
She's just a murderer, man.
joe rogan
She's a badass woman.
It's a badass woman.
brendan schaub
Is Tony Hinchcliffe still obsessed with her?
joe rogan
Loves her.
brendan schaub
They look like brother and sister though, don't they?
joe rogan
Yeah, it would be weird if they fucked.
She might outweigh him.
brendan schaub
Yeah, that's a tough one.
joe rogan
When she's not cutting weight.
brendan schaub
That's a tough one for him.
joe rogan
She definitely beat his ass.
He admitted that.
You know she could beat your ass, right?
brendan schaub
You know she put her hands on you, right?
Yeah, he loves her, man.
She's a killer.
Killer.
That was a long-ass card, though.
And what I was watching on the East Coast in Florida, dude, the cards get done late there.
It was like 1 a.m.
by the time Connor was walking out, yeah?
joe rogan
Yeah, Jamie was there.
We couldn't get somewhere to eat.
We tried to get into the first restaurant.
It was goddamn packed.
At 2 o'clock, 2.30 in the morning, we wound up at Katz's Deli, because Katz's Deli is 24-7.
It was hard to find food.
It was mobbed.
Everywhere was mobbed.
brendan schaub
It's crazy how late it got done for the East Coast.
joe rogan
Well, New York is just different.
New York bars stay open, I think, till 4. Florida's till 5. Did you know that?
brendan schaub
Oh, Florida was crap.
Florida was popping.
Everything was great, and I was exhausted.
I was like, how are you going, man?
Two hours of sleep and got on a plane.
I was exhausted, man.
joe rogan
Yeah, especially if you're in Southern Florida.
Southern Florida is ridiculous.
brendan schaub
That's where we're at.
And then it's like...
That, and then with the time change in LA, you're just all messed up.
But that's why sports, and obviously not in football, but the Heisman vote and stuff like that on the East Coast, it's so late.
I don't see a lot of it.
Or they don't see a lot of the Monday night football or college games because it's just so damn late.
I feel like there's a better route to go.
joe rogan
Uh, nope.
brendan schaub
Obviously they would do it if it was, right?
joe rogan
Yeah.
Well, the East Coast doesn't mind staying up late, and the West Coast demands it be on their schedule.
How does the West Coast get to demand that stuff?
More people that film things out here.
brendan schaub
Good point, sir.
joe rogan
Yeah, and if they did it on the East Coast schedule, it happened too early.
You would lose money.
Like, if you had a show at 5, people are not done working.
Like, people that have to work on Saturday, they're still at work.
brendan schaub
It's true.
joe rogan
So it can't be at 4, which would be if it was their time, our time, it was 7 p.m.
And then all of a sudden you also have to think about the undercard.
What if somebody wants to watch the undercard?
On FS1, you're not going to pay for the undercard.
FS1's going to be, hey, listen, bitch, you can't put the undercard on at 10 in the morning.
Nobody wants to watch that shit.
brendan schaub
They've done it, you know, when they're in Brazil or some shit like that.
joe rogan
But they'll get mad.
People get mad.
brendan schaub
That's true.
You're not going to get the mass audience.
It's obviously working.
joe rogan
Yeah, and the East Coast stays up.
They always stay up.
brendan schaub
Dude, how crazy that Matt Square Garden, after the fight, the lights on the stadium, which they've never done before in the arena, were Irish colors for Conor McGregor.
joe rogan
It's pretty intense.
brendan schaub
Brian and I were arguing this.
Do you think Conor McGregor is more well-known than Floyd Mayweather currently?
joe rogan
Yes.
brendan schaub
Because boxing's a bigger sport.
joe rogan
Yeah, it is.
brendan schaub
You look at Floyd Manny, like the pay-per-view numbers, destroys anything Conor's ever been close to.
joe rogan
That's true.
Maybe not.
Maybe no.
brendan schaub
I was arguing Conor is bigger.
Because of social media and stuff like that.
But Floyd has more followers on Instagram, Twitter, but you can't judge it off that.
joe rogan
Here's the thing.
The amount of excitement that Floyd generates does not even fucking compare to the amount of excitement that Conor generates.
brendan schaub
That doesn't mean he's more popular.
joe rogan
I understand, but it does kind of.
Because the intensity of the popularity, the love, people might know who Floyd Mayweather is, but when it comes to how many people love Floyd Mayweather, it's not even close.
It might be like some ridiculous 10 to 1 or 20 to 1. Because when Conor gets out there, they go fucking crazy.
brendan schaub
Crazy.
joe rogan
How many people are there to see Floyd Mayweather lose?
How many people are bored after Floyd Mayweather fights?
Like, Floyd Mayweather fights so skillfully and surgically and doesn't take any chances.
He hardly ever gets hit.
brendan schaub
It's not fun.
joe rogan
Conor Merck's motherfuckers.
He wins the world title in the fastest ever title winning knockout ever.
What does he do after that?
He comes back and makes Eddie Alvarez look like Eddie Alvarez, world champion.
The guy was, he's defending his belt.
Hall of Famer and Connor makes him look like he has no business in there with him No business has zero success at all except for a couple of body shots This is why I think Connor's bigger and more trans distant because You just bailed on that word.
brendan schaub
I did.
Sorry, man.
Transcend it.
Transcend it.
Because I just bailed, right?
Just fucking out.
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You like that?
joe rogan
I do that sometimes.
brendan schaub
I was just like, yeah, I'm out.
joe rogan
I think I'm using it wrong.
brendan schaub
I'm like, I'm feeling that.
And Rogan, go!
And Operation Eject.
You!
But how many successful black athletes do we know?
Joe Gillen.
How many white Irish superstars do we know?
One.
joe rogan
Yeah, one.
brendan schaub
One, sir.
joe rogan
Barry McGuigan was a big star before he came to the United States, and he came to the United States.
Eventually lost his belt, but Barry McGuigan at one point in time was a huge star, but nowhere near the star that Conor is worldwide.
brendan schaub
This goes for all athletes.
Conor's the green elephant in the room.
Everyone else we've seen before, everyone else we know what they can kind of do.
Conor's this green elephant amongst all these gray elephants, and there's nothing like him.
joe rogan
Totally different thing.
brendan schaub
Totally different animal.
joe rogan
It's crazy.
brendan schaub
He's an elephant with two fucking trunks.
joe rogan
He's got fifteen dicks.
brendan schaub
Fifteen dicks, two trunks.
joe rogan
And a bag of gold.
With a leprechaun outfit on it.
brendan schaub
Correct.
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Hi!
brendan schaub
And now he has a little son on the way.
joe rogan
And they gave him a fucking Rolls Royce with his face on it.
brendan schaub
How crazy is that?
joe rogan
What's interesting is how well he manages it all.
It's really interesting.
You know, like, the pressure in particular.
He doesn't seem to have a problem with it at all.
brendan schaub
Isn't it weird?
That's what makes him so special, because that magnitude and the pressure, he has to deliver and he has to do those antics and then back it up, but he keeps pulling it off.
At the press conference, I was like, this is stupid, man.
This is getting old to me.
But then when he pulls off, I'm like, that was brilliant.
joe rogan
And, you know, I mean, the guy steps in, he loses to Diaz, right?
Takes the Diaz fight on short notice.
Oh, by the way, after a staph infection, here's something a lot of people don't even know.
He had a pretty significant staph infection.
It was on antibiotics until, like, I think two weeks before the fight.
If you don't think that drains your gas tank, you never had a staph infection, and you never had to take antibiotics.
brendan schaub
Antibiotics are brutal on your on your respiratory system.
joe rogan
Yeah, they're brutal on your whole body.
It's just your body.
No energy.
Yeah.
Your body's made up of all this shit that you don't consider to be you, but it is you.
Stomach flora is a real part of you.
You know, your body is essentially like an ecosystem.
And when you have a staph infection, staph infections are dangerous as fuck.
And people die from them.
So they hit you with some heavy-duty antibiotics.
I've had staph twice.
And it's not fun.
And the first time I had it and I took the medication, I couldn't believe how I felt.
It was so weird.
I felt lightheaded.
I felt weak.
I was like, whoa.
brendan schaub
You're drained, right?
You have no energy.
joe rogan
It's super strong stuff, too.
And I was like, wow, imagine this guy fighting two weeks after this.
unidentified
It's insane.
joe rogan
Because there's no way you peak correctly.
brendan schaub
No.
joe rogan
So he comes from that, and then he fights Nate again.
You know, a few months later in a fucking crazy five-round war and beats him by the narrowest of margins, right?
Don't you agree?
brendan schaub
Yeah, that was a very narrow.
joe rogan
Very close fight where some people thought that Nate won.
I didn't think he did, but a super close fight.
I thought the decision was correct, but I was like, wow, that's a close fight.
So, takes that fucking crazy chance, comes back and fights that guy.
Conor weighed 169. That's what he weighed when he weighed in.
That's what he weighed during the fight.
brendan schaub
And they wanted him to fight at 55. He goes, no, no, no, I can beat him at 70. Let me do 70. Nate weighed probably around 190-something.
joe rogan
I mean, he did.
I mean, everybody says that Nate is a 155-pounder.
He is, 100%.
But he's a way bigger man than Conor is.
He just is.
So it's like, who's going to weigh more when they actually get in there?
Nate's going to weigh more.
So he does that, and then goes from there and just starches Eddie Alvarez.
Like a world-beater.
And just so relaxed and loose in there.
So amazing.
Fucking Madonna was at the show.
brendan schaub
Madonna was at the fucking show.
joe rogan
Madonna was at the fights.
brendan schaub
How crazy is that?
joe rogan
Madonna's Instagramming.
brendan schaub
Mama, we made it.
Mama, we made it.
joe rogan
It's red panty night.
brendan schaub
It's red panty night and Madonna, you're up.
I think she's single.
joe rogan
Where the fuck is my second belt?
I envisioned this.
Where the fuck is me belt?
brendan schaub
Nuts, man.
joe rogan
Yeah.
brendan schaub
It's fucking nuts.
joe rogan
He's a character, man.
He's such a character.
brendan schaub
I thought he was going to make a big announcement.
I thought his announcement was he's going to retire.
But his announcement was like, if I'm going to continue doing this, you guys need a share of the company.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's probably what the announcement was going to be all along, that he wants a piece of the pie.
I mean, he's got an argument that he probably should get a percentage of the promotion.
Because what they're selling is Conor McGregor.
They're selling the UFC plus Conor McGregor.
The question is, how much of that card, what would it be?
We don't know what the numbers are, so let's pretend the number is two million, which would be the greatest card of all time, right?
Probably wouldn't hit that.
I don't know.
brendan schaub
I bet it's around one seven.
joe rogan
Let's just say two million because it's easy to...
brendan schaub
Correct, sir.
joe rogan
So let's say that.
What percentage bought it because of Conor?
It might be a million.
brendan schaub
One million plus for sure.
joe rogan
Might be.
brendan schaub
One million plus for sure.
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Literally might be.
brendan schaub
One million plus for sure.
joe rogan
So one million people might have bought the pay-per-view specifically because of one human being.
That is not outrageous to say.
brendan schaub
But this is the other thing in Conor's favorite.
Name another star who can do that.
joe rogan
Rhonda can't quite do that.
brendan schaub
She can't quite do it.
And she's talking about, this might be my last fight, blah, blah, blah.
joe rogan
I don't think she said that.
I think she said she's close to the end of her career.
brendan schaub
A few less, right?
Which, when you hear that, right?
Like you were talking about having one foot out, blah, blah, blah.
So let's say she has two fights left.
Maybe three.
Who knows?
But she's not the same draw as Conor.
It's just not...
You look at the numbers, she's just not the same draw.
joe rogan
But if she comes back, beats Amanda Nunez, armbars her.
brendan schaub
And then fights Cyborg?
joe rogan
And then fights Holly.
Beats Holly, gets her rematch, armbars her.
brendan schaub
She's still not as big as Conor.
joe rogan
You don't know that.
Because as that happens...
brendan schaub
Do you like to bet, Mr. Joe Rogan?
joe rogan
But here's the thing.
As these people win, their star gets more and more giant.
As Ronda...
If Ronda came back and started winning again, her star would get more and more giant.
It would get bigger.
It would fuel more.
The more bodies she claims, the more fuel her fire will have.
That is what happens all the time.
I mean, it's pure speculation.
brendan schaub
It really is.
joe rogan
But if she can win the way Conor's been winning, if she can win in spectacular fashion, or the way she was winning when she fucked up Alexis Davis and Sarah McMahon, Merkin girls.
Merkin girls.
brendan schaub
And then she cuts to 115. She could never make, but you know what I'm saying.
joe rogan
You don't think she could?
brendan schaub
Fuck no.
joe rogan
Why not?
brendan schaub
She's way too big.
joe rogan
But is she?
Okay.
brendan schaub
Yeah, because she looks really rough at the weigh-in sometimes at 35. That's just nothing fathomable.
If for Conor, and again, I'm not rooting for favorites, I'm just saying it from a business standpoint, for Conor, he's such a big draw.
What's going to help him in his negotiating power if Ronda were to lose this next fight?
Because then he's like, I'm the only motherfucker in town.
You guys were claiming me and Ronda?
That's cool.
She just lost.
I need my fucking money.
joe rogan
And by the way, Ronda has a tough fight in front of her.
Amanda Nunes is goddamn scary.
brendan schaub
She's a scary girl.
joe rogan
And she was the one that I was saying before Ronda lost to Holly.
I was saying she should have got the title fight.
And I said that I think she's the most dangerous one.
brendan schaub
Yeah, and I was talking shit to you.
joe rogan
The way she stops Sarah McMahon.
She cracks Sarah McMahon with that right hand.
brendan schaub
Yeah, she hits like a Mack Chuck.
joe rogan
She hits like a dude.
brendan schaub
Well, Cyborg hits like a dude.
Amanda hits like a strong girl.
Big difference.
Cyborg hits like Tyrone Woodley with braids.
Let's be real.
She hits so hard and gets no love because she's so goddamn scary and can't make the weight.
joe rogan
She also has a better arsenal.
She'll throw kicks and knees and elbows.
brendan schaub
She also has a black belt on the ground.
joe rogan
Yeah.
brendan schaub
I think Amanda is too, yeah?
joe rogan
Amanda is.
But Amanda has lost on the ground before.
She got beat up by Kat Singano on the ground.
brendan schaub
Correct.
Cyborg will rip your limbs off.
joe rogan
Yeah.
brendan schaub
But she's getting no love.
joe rogan
She's too big.
brendan schaub
I know.
It sucks for her.
joe rogan
They need a 155. Well, 150. Well, again, if they did that whole thing where I'm talking about the eliminated weight cuts...
brendan schaub
There'd be two girls.
Cyborg would fight at like 180. Cyborg would fight at 180 and it'd be her and that big-ass girl, Gabby Garcia.
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Gabby Garcia fights at 280. But that's all we got for you.
joe rogan
Gabby would have to cut weight to make heavy weight.
brendan schaub
You and Gabby fight every other weekend.
unidentified
How about that?
brendan schaub
Like Tim, Sylvia, and Andrei Orlovsky.
Let's do that.
Tim, Sylvia, versus Andrei Orlovsky.
Them and Frank, they were fighting every other weekend.
joe rogan
Yeah, the old days.
The old days.
brendan schaub
But I think for Ronda, the Amanda Nunes fight, stylistically, again, we don't know where Ronda's mental state is at, but stylistically, it's a great matchup for Ronda.
joe rogan
You think so?
brendan schaub
Yeah, I think if she comes ready, prepared, has a good camp, she mercs her.
joe rogan
But don't you think that you look at the way she fucked up Misha Tate, you're like, that girl presents a lot of danger with those punches, especially considering what happened with Holly and Ronda.
brendan schaub
Yeah, but yeah.
joe rogan
I think she presents a lot of danger.
brendan schaub
100%, Joe.
I think you're right on that.
But I think her marching forward is the perfect antidote to get murked by Ronda.
Because she's like, oh, come get some of this judo, then I'm going to armbar your ass.
joe rogan
Right.
If she marches forward.
brendan schaub
Which is really all she knows how to do.
You know what I'm saying?
joe rogan
It could be interesting.
brendan schaub
It's a great fight either way.
joe rogan
It's also interesting to see where Ronda's head is now that she's coming back.
brendan schaub
That's the X Factor.
Because if it's Ronda 100%, she beats her, I think, 9 out of 10 times.
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Strong words.
brendan schaub
I know.
But if it's Ronda who's kind of, I want to do movies, I want to do this, this isn't for me, you're going to get murked.
Because that girl hit so hard.
joe rogan
Well, what Rhonda has and what Ioana has, and not a whole lot of other women have it, is one thing that they do where they're really fucking good at it, and then they have all those other stuff.
brendan schaub
Correct.
joe rogan
Whereas Paige Van Zandt is kind of learning the whole sport.
She's learning the whole thing as she goes.
brendan schaub
But what Paige has is just toughness.
joe rogan
And she's hot.
brendan schaub
Ridiculously hot.
That definitely helps.
joe rogan
But there's not other girls, you know, other than Valentina, Valentina Shevchenko.
She's another one who's badass, who's another super powerful striker.
I mean, the way she handled Holly Holm standing up.
brendan schaub
I know, man.
joe rogan
Yeah, handled her.
Just countered her at will.
That looping left hook, that check hook that she throws off the right side.
Yeah, she's another one, but they need more of those.
I agree.
That's where Mackenzie Dern fits in.
brendan schaub
Exactly.
Mackenzie Dern coming to work, and she's gorgeous.
But I'm saying if Connor's like, listen, I don't wish bad on anyone, but if Ronna were to lose, we'd throw in a party in Ireland.
Because I'm the only show in town now.
Give me my fucking piece of the pie.
joe rogan
Well, nobody has that sort of personality that he has.
No one, ever.
I think even he eclipses Ali.
I think he eclipses all of them.
I think he's bigger than Chael Sonnen, for sure, as far as his ability to talk shit.
brendan schaub
He's better than all of them.
joe rogan
I think he is.
I think he's better than Ali.
brendan schaub
But Ali stood for a different thing, right?
He did.
His message is more important when you fight for equal rights.
joe rogan
He's also fighting to stop the Vietnam War.
unidentified
Correct.
brendan schaub
There's bigger times.
joe rogan
He had several things going for him that were bigger.
brendan schaub
Correct.
joe rogan
Conor has white privilege.
brendan schaub
Yeah.
joe rogan
His nice suits.
brendan schaub
Nice suits.
joe rogan
The government's not trying to send him over to fight in a war.
He's not even American.
brendan schaub
They're not stripping his belt for how long?
Three years.
joe rogan
Three fucking years in his prime.
brendan schaub
In his prime.
That's like basically taking the belt from Conor right now and going, three years, we'll see you soon.
joe rogan
And then he comes back in three years after not having trained at all.
Ali didn't even work out for three years, because when Ali wasn't fighting, he was like, why would I work out?
brendan schaub
Well, fucked up, sir.
And he was never the same, was he?
joe rogan
No.
Not only was he not the same, he didn't have the footwork anymore, he didn't have the endurance anymore.
brendan schaub
He didn't have the fire, really.
joe rogan
He came back, you look at his body when he came back and fought, he fought Jerry Quarry.
Smooth.
Yeah, smooth.
brendan schaub
That's what's scary, not scary, but to be interesting to see what happens with Jon Jones.
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Yeah.
brendan schaub
Yeah.
Sometimes he does, but he goes, he'll never be a main event again.
We can't book him as the main event because we can't trust him anymore.
unidentified
Wow.
brendan schaub
I know, right?
So for John, granted he's doing that flow grappling event against...
joe rogan
Get the fuck out of here.
That flow grappling, he could have been fighting for the UFC heavyweight title.
brendan schaub
Oh no, I'm just saying, at least he's doing something active.
At least he's not Muhammad Ali.
joe rogan
Yeah, I guess.
brendan schaub
He's lost millions of dollars, but at least he's doing something...
In combat sports.
joe rogan
Well, he's only suspended for a year retroactively.
brendan schaub
July.
It's up in July.
Yeah, so he has to get, I think, July 16. But still, it's been a while, because remember, before that, he did that huge laugh before you see 200. I know.
So when he comes back, it's going to be interesting to see what we get out of him.
joe rogan
I know, and then he came back, and he fought Ovin St. Preux, and, you know, looked kind of tentative, and then you saw Jimmy Manoa run through Ovin St. Preux.
All these guys are getting better.
brendan schaub
They're getting better.
joe rogan
They're rising up, and Rumble's fighting DC for the title again.
That's going to be a real interesting fight.
brendan schaub
Super interesting.
Remember, Rumble did land that huge shot in DC and flattened him.
joe rogan
Yeah, who knows?
In this fight, he's got Neil Melanson in his corner now.
He's had him for a few years now.
He's worked a lot on his grappling.
I guarantee you he's concentrated a lot more on his wrestling.
There's a lot of videos of him running wrestling drills.
brendan schaub
Wrestling nonstop.
joe rogan
Yeah, so he's preparing.
He's preparing to get up.
He's preparing for takedown defense.
brendan schaub
It's a fun fight, man.
It's a toss-up for me.
Toss-up.
And then Jon Jones has all this laugh.
He comes back and let's say Rumble, for a reason, wins.
He's like, what's up, man?
Yeah, let's do it.
joe rogan
Well, why do you think he's going to get a straight shot at the title?
I don't even know if he would get a straight shot at the title upon coming back.
brendan schaub
That's what everyone wants to see, though, isn't it?
joe rogan
Maybe.
brendan schaub
That's what the fans demand.
joe rogan
There might be something going on by then.
By the time this time rolls around next year, or July rolls around, so he's free in July.
See, I don't know how suspensions work, but what had been explained to me is performance-enhancing drug suspensions don't even allow you to train with other fighters around the roster.
brendan schaub
Really?
joe rogan
Yes.
When your suspension is up, then you can train with them.
I don't think you're even supposed to be sparring with them.
unidentified
What?
joe rogan
Once they hand down a suspension...
brendan schaub
They don't have that regulation, do they?
joe rogan
I don't know about that, man.
Is that right?
Look that up, Jamie.
brendan schaub
I don't think that's true.
joe rogan
We're going to wrap this up soon.
brendan schaub
Yeah, I don't think that's true.
joe rogan
I hope it's not, because it's crazy.
Because you can help your teammates, even if you're suspended, you can still train and help your teammates.
brendan schaub
And also sharpen your sword a little bit.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's like telling a guy who's an accountant, you're suspended for a year, you can't even touch a calculator.
brendan schaub
Where at night, he's touching calculators.
Yeah, he's gonna touch them.
Yeah, go and touch that TI-83.
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Click, click, click, click.
joe rogan
Ooh, you know the novel number.
brendan schaub
Touch that TI-83 Texas instrument.
No, they used to make them.
I remember those.
joe rogan
Now it's on your phone.
Now your phone's like a thousand times better.
brendan schaub
Yeah, fuck a calculator.
That TI-83 was like a fucking elongated Game Boy.
joe rogan
Yeah, like the calculator business, man, they took a hit.
unidentified
Fuck!
brendan schaub
They're no longer around.
joe rogan
Yeah, who's buying calculators?
brendan schaub
They're like Blockbuster.
There's none of them left, man.
joe rogan
It's over.
Does it say anything, Jamie?
See anything?
jamie vernon
The first article I clicked on was the one from last year.
brendan schaub
I don't think so.
But the other thing, to your point, where you don't think who says he'll get a title shot, the light heavyweight division is just L. Dinosaurs besides the top few guys.
They're so old.
John's like, I'm not fucking fighting Shogun again.
unidentified
I don't know.
brendan schaub
How dare you?
joe rogan
But Jimmy Manon was a very dangerous fight for anybody right now.
He's a dangerous fight for John, too.
brendan schaub
You are reaching, sir.
unidentified
No, I'm not.
brendan schaub
You are reaching.
joe rogan
The way Manon lit up Ovin St. Preux.
brendan schaub
Did you see what happened when he fought Gustvin?
joe rogan
He got cracked.
Yeah, did you see what happened when he fought Rumble?
He got cracked.
brendan schaub
He got dealt with.
When he fought Upper Estron, he got dealt with.
joe rogan
Right, it's part of the game.
Well, Ovin St. Preux just went fucking the full distance with John Jones in a tough fight.
brendan schaub
With a sleepy John Jones.
joe rogan
And had a broken arm.
brendan schaub
Yeah.
joe rogan
Got his arm broken in that fight, too.
brendan schaub
John broke that arm by throwing kicks, right?
joe rogan
Yeah, but my point is, he went the distance, and St. Pru took him out pretty quick.
I think he's dangerous.
Not St. Pru, rather.
Jimmy Manoa took him out pretty quick.
I think Manoa was super dangerous.
brendan schaub
Very fluid.
Very fluid with his striking.
It'd be a dangerous first round for John in his comeback fight.
joe rogan
I think taking him down and beating him up on the ground would be John's best time.
brendan schaub
100%.
He's going to trip him, throw him to the ground, and submit him.
joe rogan
Also, John's different than anybody else in his length and his ability to use it.
brendan schaub
Doesn't get hit, really.
joe rogan
And his wrestling's so fucking good.
brendan schaub
He's just so long and strong.
joe rogan
Just not scared to go to the ground with anybody.
brendan schaub
But you look at light heavyweight divisions hurting the most out of anyone, I think.
You go down the roster, like, God, dog, we need some new blood in this bitch.
joe rogan
Yeah, you might be right.
brendan schaub
The main event in Brazil is...
Ryan Bader's Little Nog.
Little Nog's like, yeah, I'll fucking do it.
Yeah, I'll do it.
I've been fighting for 35 years.
joe rogan
Yeah, when is Little Nog?
brendan schaub
I move like a goddamn tortoise, but if you want to pay me, I'll still do it.
joe rogan
He hasn't taken the same amount of punishment that his brother has, but he's taken some big knockouts.
brendan schaub
Yeah, hope, hope, hope.
joe rogan
Remember when Sokoju knocked him out with a wrist?
brendan schaub
Oh, my God.
joe rogan
He, like, clotheslined him.
brendan schaub
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah.
And then the Rumble one was just horrendous.
brendan schaub
Dude, I told you.
I was in the back of the locker room warming up Pat Cummings.
That motherfucker warmed up by basically doing arm stretches.
Couldn't even hit mitts.
He was so stiff.
I was like, who's he fighting?
The Rumble was like, he can't go out there.
I looked at his coach.
I'm like, no!
unidentified
No, I can't speak Spanish, but no bueno!
brendan schaub
Or Portuguese, sorry.
I'm like, you can't go out there, man.
I wanted to grab his leg like a three-year-old and not let him walk out to the octagon.
joe rogan
I think Brazil is such a huge hotbed for MMA right now.
It's so gigantic that they need Brazilian stars.
And, you know, for the main event in particular, they just don't have a whole lot of options in the light heavyweight division.
brendan schaub
Someone fucking wake up, Lil' Nog, out of his slumber.
Because he's recuperating.
joe rogan
Lil' Nog or Big Nog?
brendan schaub
Lil' Nog.
Because they're waking him up out of slumber.
Because Big Nog's done.
Little Nog, they woke his ass up and he's like, I'll fight Bader.
joe rogan
I mean, he's probably asking for another fight.
But outside of him, what other good light heavyweights from Brazil that are in the UFC that you could sell a main event are?
brendan schaub
Glover.
But they already fought.
joe rogan
Right, but Glover just got cracked too.
And he should probably take quite a while off after that knockout.
That was the kind of knockout that you need to not do nothing for a long time.
brendan schaub
Yeah, he needs to lay low.
joe rogan
Yeah, he got flatlined.
brendan schaub
I mean, so you got that light heavyweight, you got Shogun, which I don't know what's going on here.
joe rogan
I think Shogun's got to be done.
If he's not done, he's probably real close to being done.
brendan schaub
That's what I'm saying.
Look at light heavyweight, bro.
Go through.
joe rogan
In Brazil, though, even more so.
As far as Brazilian fighters, as far as fame...
brendan schaub
Machido got suspended.
joe rogan
Machido's suspended and suspended for a long fucking time.
Doesn't he have a two-year?
brendan schaub
I'm not sure.
It's not good.
I don't know if they've decided or not, but...
joe rogan
I felt like he got suspended for two years.
brendan schaub
I mean, just look at the Brazilian fighters, especially, you're right, light heavyweight.
joe rogan
And Machida was going 85 anyway.
brendan schaub
He can float between 205. I'm just thinking 205 guys he could line up with in Brazil.
joe rogan
Yeah, not a lot.
Not a whole lot.
I mean, Bader already fought Liotto.
You could sell that as a rematch, because remember, Liotto knocked him out.
brendan schaub
In L.A., yeah, bad.
joe rogan
Yeah.
brendan schaub
But he's suspended.
You're right, though.
Especially, there's not a lot of new blood in Brazil.
Look at the faces.
Anderson Silva, his leg fell off.
He just lost to Bisping.
And then you got...
Oh, then he lost to DC. So he's basically done.
joe rogan
Well, Thomas Almeida was looking really good before Cody Garbrandt came around.
brendan schaub
Ooh, he murked him.
joe rogan
He murked him.
brendan schaub
Oh, who's homeboy that TJ Dillashaw's fighting?
Hits like a fucking Mack truck.
joe rogan
John Lineker.
brendan schaub
Lineker.
joe rogan
That's a good fight.
brendan schaub
That's a good fight.
joe rogan
Very good fight.
Lineker's terrifying.
brendan schaub
They told TJ, like, listen, we did think you beat Don McCruz.
You're not getting a title shot.
We're going to beat Garbrandt.
Here's fucking Lineker, though.
joe rogan
And if Garbrandt wins and TJ wins, it's a big if on both sides, right?
Who knows?
brendan schaub
It's a big, big if.
joe rogan
Especially on the Dominic Cruz side.
Good luck hitting that guy.
brendan schaub
I know, but if he does land...
joe rogan
If he lands, he knocks everybody out.
brendan schaub
I'm a Garbrandt fan, man.
He's my favorite at that weight class.
joe rogan
I love that dude.
brendan schaub
He's an old school, young, at that weight class, 135. He reminds me of Chuck Liddell.
joe rogan
He's a fucking savage.
But just really small.
brendan schaub
He's a savage.
joe rogan
No doubt.
brendan schaub
Good looking dude, too.
You like him?
You like it?
I like it.
I like the whole package.
I like the knockout power.
I like that he mercs dudes.
joe rogan
Alright, we gotta wrap this up.
I gotta get the fuck out of here.
brendan schaub
Yeah, quit talking about dudes and their physiques.
joe rogan
So, Fighter and the Kid, tfatk.com, Brendan Schaub on Twitter, and Instagram.
brendan schaub
I'm at the Laugh Factory Thursday, son.
joe rogan
Oh shit, this Thursday Laugh Factory doing stand-up again.
How many times have you been on stage now?
brendan schaub
By myself like that?
joe rogan
Yeah.
brendan schaub
I mean, I always start stand-up fighting the kids, but I've been at Comedy Store, I think, three times, and this is the first time at Laugh Factory.
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Oh, shit.
joe rogan
You like it?
brendan schaub
Love it.
joe rogan
All right, Thursday, go out.
What time's the show?
brendan schaub
Eight o'clock.
joe rogan
If you're in L.A., represent.
All right, thanks, brother.
brendan schaub
Thank you, man.
joe rogan
Fun times.
brendan schaub
Fun times.
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Yay!
brendan schaub
I missed you.
Love you.
joe rogan
I love you, too, man.
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