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Dec. 26, 2016 - The Joe Rogan Experience
03:42:26
Joe Rogan Experience #890 - Fight Breakdown
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brendan schaub
46:48
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eddie bravo
39:57
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joe rogan
02:09:31
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jamie vernon
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joe rogan
Young Jamie.
Yeah!
Merry Christmas, motherfuckers.
unidentified
Oh, shit.
joe rogan
Brendan Shaw with the Gucci shoes on, how dare you.
The gold watch on, how dare you.
And he's got camo with polka dots.
brendan schaub
I wore this just for you.
unidentified
I thought that was boring.
brendan schaub
I thought, dude, yeah.
What does that mean?
It says blind on one shoe and love on the other.
joe rogan
Oh, good lord.
How dare you even leave the house?
brendan schaub
I wore it just for you, brother.
joe rogan
The shoes you did, motherfucker.
You like those shoes.
brendan schaub
I love the shoes.
The camo shirt I wore just for you.
I thought, it's a little bit of Rogan.
It's a little bit of my style.
Camo with polka dots on it.
What's up, son?
joe rogan
I feel like the day George Michael died, it's like a good jacket to have on.
eddie bravo
What did he die of?
joe rogan
He had a heart attack, apparently.
brendan schaub
Parting?
joe rogan
Yo, that one was hard for me.
brendan schaub
Really?
joe rogan
Fucking love that guy.
That song, Freedom?
eddie bravo
Yeah.
joe rogan
That's a fucking jam.
eddie bravo
That song has like four parts.
unidentified
Yeah.
eddie bravo
People don't understand that there's like, I think it's four, but every part is just amazing.
That's a great fucking song.
It's a great song.
brendan schaub
I'm a little too young to realize how big the idea was.
joe rogan
I wish I could play it.
We'll definitely get kicked off YouTube if we play it and we put it on YouTube.
But there's that video that they made with all those supermodels.
So Christy Turlington and all those Naomi Campbell and all those different supermodels.
And they're all wandering around.
And they're singing the song.
They're like lip syncing it.
brendan schaub
That's the video?
joe rogan
Yeah, it's fucking amazing.
eddie bravo
Yeah.
brendan schaub
I just know.
They'd wake me up before I eat cocoa.
That's in Zoolander.
joe rogan
He had some ridiculous songs, you know.
eddie bravo
Oh yeah, that wham stuff.
I like freedom.
I think freedom is the only one I ever liked.
I didn't like, you know, like, wake me up before we go-go.
Come on, that's a terrible song.
joe rogan
There's the video for it.
brendan schaub
Kind of, or it's awesome.
joe rogan
Did you like I Want Your Sex?
brendan schaub
I'm not mad at it.
I'm not mad at it at all.
eddie bravo
You gotta have faith.
Wasn't a fan of that.
unidentified
What?
eddie bravo
I respect the shit out of them.
The guy's awesome.
He's so good.
joe rogan
He's so good.
eddie bravo
I love that he got caught.
On his knees with an undercover cop or something like that, and no one gave a shit.
Like, no one gave a shit.
brendan schaub
Well, he was loud about it, too.
eddie bravo
He's so good, you're like, who cares?
joe rogan
So, wait a minute.
Here's my problem with that.
What the fuck did the undercover cop say to get him on his knees to suck his dick?
brendan schaub
Oh, you're gay, bro!
We knew it!
Arrest him!
joe rogan
No, no, no.
How did it start off?
It wasn't like the undercover cop was like, hey, how about those Lakers?
No, he was probably like, hey, you want your dick sucked?
Like, I'll suck your dick, you suck mine.
Like, he probably said something.
eddie bravo
They probably don't say suck dick, they probably got code word.
joe rogan
Code word.
eddie bravo
Code word, right?
joe rogan
You want some sausage, bro?
What do they say?
What are you looking for, bro?
Looking for some friendship?
eddie bravo
I'm looking for some friendship, great.
I got some friendship for ya.
joe rogan
Do you remember when that senator or congressman or some shit?
That guy who was an anti-gay crusader, always my favorite dudes, got caught in a bathroom stall in Minneapolis, and he was doing that foot-tapping thing.
They have a code.
brendan schaub
Morse code for gay.
joe rogan
You tap your feet four times and dudes will let you into the stall and you suck each other off.
eddie bravo
That's what happens when dudes are into dudes, right?
joe rogan
When these kind of dudes are into dudes, when these kind of dudes are into dudes, yeah.
eddie bravo
But I think if...
I think it generally...
unidentified
It's so ridiculous.
eddie bravo
I think generally...
Dude, you watch Modern Family?
You ever watch that?
joe rogan
No.
eddie bravo
Do they have...
It's a few families, and they have a gay family.
They have two dudes, and they adopted a girl.
She's an Asian girl.
But those guys, there's been a couple episodes where this is on ABC, Modern Family, where the gay couple, some college boys move in next door, and then one of the guys is hanging out with them, and he feels like he's in college again, and he's partying with them, and he kind of has a crush on On one of the guys, like the main guy, and his husband is like, you got a crush.
They're talking about her, and he's like, no, I don't have a crush, but it's obvious that he does, and it's okay.
brendan schaub
That's fine.
I think that's fine.
eddie bravo
No, I know, but if it was a heterosexual couple, there would never be a situation like that.
brendan schaub
Oh, they've done that before on shows like that.
unidentified
No!
joe rogan
Think about it, a couple- Where a guy had a crush on someone's wife?
For sure.
brendan schaub
And a hot neighbor moves in.
joe rogan
Right, but it is like where the guy's like admitting that he has a crush on the neighbor's wife blatantly?
Is that what you're saying?
eddie bravo
No, it's more like there's a heterosexual couple in the sitcom and a bunch of girls move in next door and then the guy's hanging out with the girls and he has a crush on one of the girls and it's okay with his wife.
He thinks it's kind of cute.
That's weird, right?
That would never happen.
joe rogan
I'm confused then.
I've never watched this show, so help me out.
Is the husband gay?
I don't know what you're saying.
brendan schaub
Yeah, it's a gay couple.
eddie bravo
It's a gay couple.
joe rogan
A gay couple.
brendan schaub
And a young...
eddie bravo
College kids moving next door.
And one of the gay couples...
brendan schaub
He's crushing on the young kids.
eddie bravo
He's crushing on one of the guys that moved in next door and it's kind of a cutesy crush.
joe rogan
Oh, wow.
eddie bravo
And they're really blatant about it.
Like, he comes over and there's, like, these moments of, like, he's being flustered.
And I have nothing against that, but I'm just saying you would never see that in a heterosexual couple on ABC. No.
On ABC? That's some hardcore stuff right there.
joe rogan
I think even though a lot of times...
What is that about?
Well, a lot of times gay couples will take, like, traditional sort of almost...
Husband and wife type roles like that's really common for sure One of the one of the guys makes all the money and the other guy sort of stays at home And maybe they even adopt a kid and he like raises him like a mom like yeah like so but I think ultimately we still Accept that gay guys are guys and the guys are just gonna be different the same is like Two girls becoming lesbian.
People aren't asexual if they're gay.
So people becoming lesbians, they probably have a different attitude about monogamy than people becoming gay.
I would just imagine.
eddie bravo
Yeah, it seems like overall lesbians are in love and they're monogamous.
It seems that way.
And it seems like gay dudes are open about not being monogamous and they're cool about it.
joe rogan
I don't know too much.
I don't know too many lesbians where I've gone deep into their life.
eddie bravo
It seems like they're more monogamous.
It seems like generally lesbians are more girly and monogamous and ball in love with each other.
joe rogan
I feel like super weird about asking that kind of shit to a lesbian.
Like a gay dude?
I could ask a gay dude.
Like Justin Martindale?
I could ask that dude anything.
eddie bravo
Yeah, they're generally wilder, right?
They're like guys.
Guys are like guys and girls are like girls.
Whether they're lesbians or gay dudes.
joe rogan
Even if a girl's like a super masculine male, a butchy gay girl, I still don't feel comfortable asking how it works.
eddie bravo
They might get offended, right?
There's not lesbians meeting each other in bathrooms.
It's not girls doing that.
Right?
Generally, that doesn't happen.
joe rogan
It's usually guys.
In the movies, they push each other into a stall and they start making out.
eddie bravo
In the heterosexual world, what percentage of strip clubs in the United States are for men?
unidentified
Well, there's a lot more, for sure.
Isn't that weird?
joe rogan
Isn't that crazy?
eddie bravo
There's like one Chippendales somewhere in the county.
unidentified
You know what I mean?
brendan schaub
You can find it.
eddie bravo
You've got to do some research, and they're only open on, you know, you've got to make your reservations and shit.
joe rogan
And the fucking, like, it's a different experience.
Like, when girls go to see men strip, they scream.
They scream, and they throw money in the air, and they get crazy, and they'll rub their face on the dude's dicks.
Like, girls at bachelorette parties, they go fucking crazy, man.
unidentified
They get wild.
joe rogan
They get loose.
brendan schaub
Is it because they don't go as much, like, as often, you know what I'm saying?
eddie bravo
It's just they made an agreement.
They could go off on bachelorette parties, and they're not going to say shit.
It's like, what happens if the bachelorette party stays there?
joe rogan
I had a friend of mine who I used to do Taekwondo with that was a male stripper.
Two friends of mine, actually.
One was this young Puerto Rican kid, and the other one was this older white dude.
And the older white dude was a really nice guy, a very smart guy, but he was like...
Over-the-top strange.
Big jacked.
brendan schaub
Was he shredded, though?
joe rogan
Jacked.
Black belt.
brendan schaub
Have to be.
joe rogan
Black belt martial artist.
He was a big jacked dude, you know, but he was telling me, he was like, these women, they go fucking crazy.
Like, it gets really weird.
brendan schaub
Scratch and clumb and shit.
They just suck his dick.
joe rogan
They would just suck his dick in front of their friends.
Like, girls that were getting married would just suck his dick in front of their friends.
Hey, man!
eddie bravo
Cut to the guy's strip club.
Dude's by himself in the corner all quiet as fuck, man.
unidentified
Just getting fucking lap pants and shit.
eddie bravo
Paying.
I was working in the strip clubs when it was dead as fuck.
I worked those Saturday day shifts.
brendan schaub
Yeah, that shitty shift.
eddie bravo
Where you open up at 11 and there's one girl and no dudes and you're just waiting.
unidentified
You're just waiting.
eddie bravo
You're looking at the security cameras to see.
unidentified
Oh, we got it, dude!
eddie bravo
And then one guy walks in, boom, and he's sitting there, and he's just, it's Saturday, 1.15.
brendan schaub
Just a loser.
joe rogan
Terrible!
unidentified
We have one girl, she's fucking ragged.
brendan schaub
Everyone gets the shitty shit.
eddie bravo
And I'm sitting there playing Depeche Mode and shit.
unidentified
Dude, it was dark.
eddie bravo
I had friends like, dude, you're so lucky you were in a strip club.
It's not what it seems.
unidentified
It's not what it looks like.
They think of it as just orgies going on, and I'm DJing and eating pussy at the same time.
eddie bravo
My friends are like, dude, give me a job there.
I'll just pick up Cokes and shit.
unidentified
For free.
eddie bravo
Larry said that.
Larry's like, man, you're so lucky.
I'm like, ah.
But then you end up moving up and getting good shifts.
You just wait.
brendan schaub
For the night shift?
eddie bravo
DJing, yeah.
When you first get in, you get the worst shifts.
Saturday day, Monday day.
Saturday day, Monday day.
brendan schaub
You gotta get your foot in the door.
eddie bravo
Darkness.
Just dead.
brendan schaub
There's a UFC fighter who's a stripper for a while.
Crunshaw.
Remember him?
Detroit superstar?
joe rogan
Yeah, he's over in Japan now.
brendan schaub
Yeah.
joe rogan
He's fighting for Ryzen.
brendan schaub
Oh, that's right.
joe rogan
Yeah, he's over there now.
brendan schaub
He was a male stripper.
joe rogan
He's a funny dude, man.
He's got a hilarious mustache now, too.
Follow his Instagram.
It's awesome.
unidentified
Really?
joe rogan
It's just him shooting things.
He's a fucking savage.
brendan schaub
Who's this?
Detroit superstar.
joe rogan
He used to fight in the UFC? Yeah.
Darren Crookshank probably runs through more rounds of ammunition than anyone in this entire town in a year.
Fuck yeah, he's crazy.
He's out there shooting shit constantly.
His Instagram is all just him gunning things down.
He's a wild motherfucker, dude.
brendan schaub
He's fun to watch fight.
joe rogan
He's a good fighter.
You know, he was getting more and more comfortable with keeping fights standing.
brendan schaub
Yes.
joe rogan
And when he became more and more comfortable keeping fights standing, then you get to see how good his kickboxing skill is.
He's a really good kickboxer, really good I know, I say kickboxing, I mean, his boxing is really...
He's a traditional martial artist, basically, right?
Like, what was his original background?
brendan schaub
Karate or taekwondo, wasn't it?
joe rogan
Really, really good kicker, man.
Really good kicker.
And so, like, you know, when a guy like that makes that transition, he's fucking...
That's hilarious.
Jacked with a candy cane for his dick.
Look at that.
Go back to that, Jamie.
brendan schaub
He's not messing around.
joe rogan
Look at the first one you see.
The first one you see is, if you click on that video, it's Darren Crookshack just fucking going crazy with a machine gun.
He's just fucking shooting things constantly, man.
brendan schaub
Look at this dude.
joe rogan
Dude, he's ready for the apocalypse.
Oh, dude, if the fucking shit goes down, go to Darren Crookshank's house.
Ask if you can get in.
Look at this dude.
brendan schaub
He's a character, man.
joe rogan
Look at another video.
He's got a picture of all these Japanese girls staring at his package.
unidentified
Legit.
brendan schaub
Like they're lasering in on his dick.
joe rogan
Legit, that is what they're doing.
That is what they're doing.
brendan schaub
Damn!
Yeah, it is.
unidentified
Legit.
brendan schaub
He's killing it out there.
joe rogan
Whoa.
I mean, that's a hilarious picture, though.
He's a funny dude, man.
See, I don't think the UFC figured out how to recognize that.
You know what I'm saying?
How many dudes that you see fight are kind of almost like, on the outside, they're bland, like everyone's the same?
Because you don't get to know them.
You don't get to know all their weirdness.
brendan schaub
So you don't care when they fight.
Yeah, it's different.
joe rogan
It's flat, right?
brendan schaub
It's flat, so you need a story, but on a reason why to tune into the fight.
Crunshaw has a great story.
joe rogan
Yeah.
brendan schaub
He's a great story, man.
eddie bravo
Do you think some people wore certain shorts, and you recognize him by their shorts, like with Sakuraba, he had the orange shorts, you know what I mean?
brendan schaub
Tito had the flames.
eddie bravo
Yeah.
And now that everyone has to- Everybody's all Reeboked.
It takes away a little value if what you're saying is correct.
If adding personality adds value to the fighters, which adds value to the show.
brendan schaub
Correct.
joe rogan
100%.
eddie bravo
So actually letting them and encouraging them and letting them wear rash guards and shit.
You want to be the fighter that wears a rash guard?
unidentified
Fuck.
eddie bravo
It's not a problem in women's MMA. I don't see why it would be a problem in men's MMA. Show me the logic there.
They should encourage fighters to wear different shit.
Can you imagine spats?
joe rogan
I know.
Why can't you wear them?
eddie bravo
For grip?
joe rogan
If girls can wear them.
I mean, girls are wearing rash guards.
I mean, rash guard will fucking help your grappling for sure.
brendan schaub
Huge.
joe rogan
It's a big factor.
It's a big factor.
eddie bravo
Why they don't allow...
I mean, they just haven't really thought about it.
No one's actually just sat them down.
joe rogan
You know how the best?
Melvin Manhoof, when he fought in K-1.
He wore them gladiator type...
brendan schaub
Talking about the Spartan gladiator?
joe rogan
Yeah.
He started wearing those things.
brendan schaub
You know who started that?
eddie bravo
I want to see it.
brendan schaub
You remember who started that?
McDonald.
McDonald?
joe rogan
I'll go you one better.
Alexis Arguello.
No, not Alexis Arguello.
Dennis Alexio.
brendan schaub
Oh, that's right.
joe rogan
Dennis Alexio used to fight in a grass skirt.
brendan schaub
Straight up, old school.
joe rogan
He fought in a straight up Hawaiian grass skirt.
brendan schaub
Yeah.
McDonald had like straight Spartan.
eddie bravo
How about Shinya Yoki when he was wearing them yellow tights and the rainbow?
He was known for his tights.
You couldn't wait to see what spots he's wearing.
brendan schaub
And it was all colorful and it looked all badass.
He was all scary to watch.
eddie bravo
They should allow all that.
They should encourage that.
brendan schaub
They want more of a clean product.
joe rogan
When Liddell had those blue and white shorts, the Iceman shorts.
brendan schaub
Remember Franklin had the pink ones?
joe rogan
That's right.
eddie bravo
It takes away the personality if they wear uniforms.
brendan schaub
They want to look more like every other league, though.
But I get what they're trying to do.
eddie bravo
It's a man on man.
It's personality on personality.
It's one dude.
So his personality is just one dude.
Even if it's four dudes, all their personalities, once you get to know them, they become important.
So the more you understand everybody, in this case, just two fighters.
joe rogan
I also think that if you want to have a company that sponsors it, the two aren't mutually exclusive.
It's not like a company can't sponsor it and still have dope shorts that are different for each fighter.
Like, have someone design their own stuff.
You don't have to have, you know, the same, like, you have red and I have blue.
Like, why?
brendan schaub
Correct.
joe rogan
It doesn't matter.
Everybody knows you're you.
Everybody knows you're you.
Like, are we confused?
Like, who's the red guy?
The red guy on top?
Who's winning?
brendan schaub
Well, I just feel like it takes away from the sport when you make everyone look the same, like in the NFL or something like that.
unidentified
Yeah, totally.
brendan schaub
Because what people buy into in fighting, and it's true with boxing, it's true with MMA, they want to know why they should watch the fight.
Because you can put a fight on AXS TV, if you don't know the fight, if you know nothing about them, they get shit for you.
It's like everybody loves Cowboy.
joe rogan
His story's great.
His story we know.
We know Jon Jones' story now because he's been going through all this crazy shit.
We know Cyborg's story.
brendan schaub
And to kick this thing off, whether you want to talk about it or not, and you let me know, but with Amanda Nunes, imagine, just put yourself in her Shoes right now.
Imagine having the biggest fighter of your life.
Ever.
And the fight everyone's looking for, especially if you're a female fighter, because you get so much notoriety.
You get all the cameras pointing at you.
You finally get to hear your story, and she has a great story.
And then you can't do interviews.
There's none of that.
There's no promotion.
We're not going to show your videos.
You can't do interviews.
There's going to be no open workouts.
Imagine being her right now.
Like, what the fuck?
joe rogan
Well, the good news is...
She can concentrate on the fight.
And just concentrate on the fight.
brendan schaub
She would always do that.
joe rogan
I understand that.
And the good news for Ronda is that she can also just concentrate on the fight.
She doesn't have to do any of these interviews.
I like that.
But what I don't like is...
I feel like...
We have to respect what a champion is.
And it doesn't matter if you're the most famous person.
You're still the champion.
And we are the champion of a giant organization like the UFC. And how about she's the first openly gay women's MMA champion ever?
Or any champion.
Any MMA champion.
There's never been an openly gay MMA champion.
And she's fucking badass.
It's not like she doesn't have a highlight reel.
It's not like she's grabbing ahold of these girls and just sort of winning by staying on top and do nothing so there's no highlights you can pull.
She knocks girls out and chokes them unconscious.
She's very good.
So it's exciting.
It's an exciting technical matchup.
It's an exciting story with Ronda coming back after being out for over a year.
There's so much exciting shit.
But to concentrate only on one person to sell it, I understand that that person is huge.
I understand that person's the biggest person.
She's probably right up there with Conor.
I would go, they both go back and forth.
Stats would make the difference.
What do you think?
brendan schaub
Conor's bigger.
joe rogan
Conor's bigger?
brendan schaub
Yeah, that's not an argument.
joe rogan
I would agree with you.
I would lean towards that.
My point is, with one victory, she could get launched right into that place again.
I think it's a weird thing, man.
It's like you're a super talented person who's also this giant personality figure.
It's more than just a fighter, right?
It becomes his personality figure.
brendan schaub
Especially for Conard.
His whole shit-talking and marketing and he sends out a tweet to sell the fight.
Part of being a fighter is selling the fight.
Say what you want about Floyd Mayweather.
There's not an interview or camera he didn't look towards to sell that Pacquiao fight.
Because in the end, it helps the company, it puts more money in your pocket, it helps sponsorship, everything.
joe rogan
You can't say anything about Floyd unless you were one of those girls.
unidentified
True.
brendan schaub
Then you're like, God damn it.
joe rogan
But other than that, who else?
brendan schaub
But it's part of the gig.
You've got to sell the fight.
So for me...
And I think Ronda is the favorite in this matchup, but she has to create these scenarios where it's me against the world.
It's me against the world.
joe rogan
Well, hold on.
Are you sure she's creating this?
I mean, this is a big marketing push.
This is like, you know, this is the new owners of the UFC, and this is this...
brendan schaub
And this is their plan, Joe?
joe rogan
But this is this really cinematic thing.
brendan schaub
That we're missing the boat on.
joe rogan
Well, we're definitely missing the boat.
brendan schaub
The numbers will prove it, I bet you.
joe rogan
We're definitely missing the boat on promoting Amanda.
That for a fact.
But you don't think it was like a pretty exciting promo piece?
I saw that promo piece.
That got me fired up.
I think the good thing is that it's like this really exciting, very well done, cool thing.
You think it's been as much promo?
brendan schaub
You think this fight has as much promo as, say, UFC 205 in New York?
joe rogan
No.
No, I don't.
brendan schaub
Or a Conor fight for that magnitude.
joe rogan
No, because no one's doing interviews.
Yeah.
No, I 100% completely agree with you to that point.
But part of me likes...
I want to see what happens when the pay-per-view numbers come out.
Because part of me likes that the fighters aren't going to be bothered.
I don't think you need to bother them as much as they get bothered.
I think when Conor was pissed off about it, when Aldo was pissed off about it, when all these different fighters who are doing these crazy tours are pissed off about this promotion thing, the idea about it is you're trying to get the word out to as many people as possible.
But I don't know if that...
The price that they pay and being distracted from their training.
I don't know if it's 100% worth it.
brendan schaub
But with Conor, you're talking about a world tour where he's like, dude, come on.
I'm coming off the loss.
Nate Diaz is a tough fight for me at 170. I need everything I can do to get this fight and get my mind right.
eddie bravo
Do you think that it helps?
joe rogan
Do you think that it helps?
These big promo tours?
brendan schaub
Um...
Yes and no.
I don't know if you need to go all around the frickin' world and promote it, but there needs to be some sort of publicity done.
For Ronda especially, I think her as a role model for females, you can't get kicked in the face, take your ball and go home.
We want our champ to be like Connor or someone where they go, I want back in there, man.
Get me the fuck back in there.
I need this.
eddie bravo
I think that it's cool that, obviously, Ronda doesn't want all that shit.
She's as famous as you can be.
She doesn't want that, and someone just said, okay.
They let her just have her peace and focus on the fight.
I personally...
Don't really watch interviews.
I don't watch that press, so I don't even know how important it is.
All I care about is that fight.
That's it.
Once the fight happens, give me a little promo.
Give me a little hour promo.
It doesn't have to be anything fancy.
brendan schaub
We're balls deep in it, though.
For the casual fan, my dad's a casual fan.
unidentified
He has no idea she was fighting this Friday.
joe rogan
So, for the casual fan, that's where I would think that it would make a big difference.
People watch ESPN and...
brendan schaub
Well, that's who buys pay-per-views, Joe.
Because to get that $60, $70 and you're a casual fan, they need to be sold on it.
eddie bravo
It sounds like you own a piece of the UFC right now.
joe rogan
No, he's making good points.
Making very good points already.
eddie bravo
I'm just being funny.
brendan schaub
No, I hear you.
joe rogan
But you are making very good points.
brendan schaub
My issue is, and Rhonda can do her thing, but you can't, it's a conflict of interest.
Because of Conor McGregor, right?
Because Conor goes, dude, I'll fly to New York and do a press conference, but I'm not going to Vegas.
Cool, you're not fighting.
Rhonda goes, I'm not doing shit.
Dana goes, cool.
joe rogan
Different owners now.
brendan schaub
Different owners, however...
joe rogan
Yeah, they have a different approach.
I mean, it's a different business.
I mean, a lot of things are changing.
brendan schaub
They're changing, they're changing, Joe.
But also, WME, who owns the UFC, manages Ronda Rousey.
joe rogan
Yeah, yeah.
brendan schaub
They don't manage Conor McGregor.
joe rogan
Right.
brendan schaub
So there's a conflict of interest there.
joe rogan
Well, it depends, because it's just a business decision.
The only people that should be upset are probably the other people.
Well, Cody Garbrandt and Dominick Cruz aren't restricted from doing any interviews, right?
They're doing everything.
brendan schaub
Are they going to sell the fight, though?
joe rogan
That's a problem.
They're going to sell them for me.
That's for fuck's sake.
brendan schaub
Again, we're balls deep in it.
For sure.
We're balls deep.
The casual fan's going, I'm not buying, I'm not spending $70 for those small guys.
Now, to me it's the number one fight.
unidentified
How dare you?
brendan schaub
No, to me it's the number one fight on the card.
I love Cody.
It's my number one fight.
eddie bravo
Brendan wants his promos, shit.
joe rogan
No, he's right, he's right.
brendan schaub
No, no, no, what I want is the UFC to keep growing and it comes with the territory.
You gotta sell yourself.
eddie bravo
But it's cool for the fighters though, don't you think that they're respecting their wishes?
Like Ronda just wanted to be left alone.
unidentified
For who?
joe rogan
That's fine.
eddie bravo
Respect her wishes.
brendan schaub
But that media is the exact reason why she's as famous as she is.
eddie bravo
It's okay, though.
brendan schaub
We're trying to help them only.
joe rogan
But you don't have to only do press while you're in camp.
That media exists after the fights, which is easy for everybody.
Just talk after the fights.
But during the training and preparation, it's a giant distraction.
It's going to take a lot of time.
A decision.
If someone's as rich and as famous as Ronda is, a decision to...
To favor performance over finances.
So, like, maybe she'll make less money, but she thinks that she'll be more focused and her performance will be better.
I love that.
I love that decision.
Then where's that start then, Joe?
When you're a really wealthy, successful athlete like her, you can do whatever the fuck you want.
That's what I think.
I think when you get to a point where you get to decide whether you're going to focus on making more money and possibly being less focused and distracted and maybe tired or even maybe get sick because you're doing a lot of traveling, Versus only dedicate yourself to training.
Do all the fucking videos you want, put all the promos you want.
I'm not doing shit for the next eight weeks.
brendan schaub
So then where's that stop at?
Who's gonna sell the fight if everyone has that mentality?
So is that the rule now?
You know what I'm saying?
joe rogan
Listen, no.
I don't know what you're saying because the old way is not the only way.
You could do both ways.
You could do whatever way you want.
There's old footage.
They could decide that their little promo pieces they could put together without interviews are enough.
eddie bravo
They could fly out.
joe rogan
They might be wrong.
eddie bravo
You know what?
They could just fly to her for two days, interview her at her training camp.
That's what they did for Tony.
And then they take off.
Tony was in Big Bear.
He never left Big Bear.
They came to him.
Do one of those.
It was no big deal.
joe rogan
Look, she definitely could do that.
Or she could say, no.
I just want to completely focus and let's see how this works.
brendan schaub
But her thing is, is that...
She thinks the media backstabbed her, and that's why she doesn't want to do an interview.
Like, they turned on her when she lost.
joe rogan
She's a very emotional person.
It's one of the reasons why she's so good.
brendan schaub
I agree.
joe rogan
She's very emotional.
brendan schaub
But to me...
joe rogan
It sounded like my voice was cracking up, but I swear to God, I was just about to cough.
brendan schaub
I was like, damn, do you have to cry over this shit?
We're just having a conversation, Doug.
But to me, if you're a Ronda fan, like, when you break this fight down, there's a huge X factor.
What...
Frame of mind is Ronda N. If she won't even face interviewers...
joe rogan
Yeah, but okay, maybe.
Or maybe focused.
brendan schaub
Yeah, maybe.
Maybe she's the most focused she's ever been, or maybe she just can't deal with the questions after her last fight.
We don't know.
joe rogan
Well, yeah.
She's the only one who knows.
You know, or the people that are close to her.
brendan schaub
Rhonda's, like you said, famous as fuck, lives in a mansion.
What about Amanda?
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
unidentified
What about her?
joe rogan
Well, for her, she should absolutely be able to do as many interviews as she wants.
But she might not want to either.
She might want to say, hey, good, I'm going to focus entirely on fighting Rhonda too.
Look, this might be better.
It might be better this way.
It's just like we were talking about weight cutting before.
It might be better if people didn't fucking cut weight.
Look how goddamn good Kelvin Gastelum looked against Tim Kennedy.
Look how goddamn good Donald Cerrone looks.
Donald's walking around like 176 pounds.
He's not cutting shit.
And he looks fucking amazing.
He's head kicking Matt Brown.
brendan schaub
He looked amazing.
joe rogan
He's running through everybody.
eddie bravo
Tony doesn't cut that much either.
joe rogan
Yeah, exactly.
eddie bravo
By the time Connor at 55. Maybe five pounds will cut.
joe rogan
Those guys, man, they have an advantage.
That's a big ass advantage.
brendan schaub
Weight cut, yes, I agree.
Huge advantage.
joe rogan
But I think the weight cut, I think there's benefits to it, ultimately.
Obviously, you're going to be bigger when you get inside the octagon.
But the performance hit that your body takes, it's super arguable at a certain level.
There's a point of diminishing returns that a lot of these guys pass through.
But then there's a few fucking examples, like Damian Maia.
Damian Maia cuts a lot of weight.
And he's just...
Smooshing people.
brendan schaub
Anthony Johnson.
unidentified
Smooshing people.
joe rogan
I don't think Johnson's cutting that much weight at 205, bro.
I think he might be cutting 10, 15 pounds.
brendan schaub
No, sir.
joe rogan
He looks really good at 220, 225. I think he looks really heavy.
brendan schaub
I think he's cutting 20 pounds.
joe rogan
Who's mine if that's much for a big guy like that, though?
brendan schaub
I'm just saying, I mean, 20 pounds, 20 pounds.
joe rogan
But 20 pounds is different when you're a heavyweight, or a light heavyweight.
brendan schaub
For sure.
joe rogan
But he's lean, too.
brendan schaub
He's lean, too.
joe rogan
That's true.
brendan schaub
He's jacked.
eddie bravo
Who's Damien Maia fighting next?
joe rogan
Damien Maia.
I don't know, man.
I think they're waiting to see.
brendan schaub
He's in the shadows like this.
eddie bravo
What's going to happen?
joe rogan
If Woodley and Wonderboy have a rematch, Woodley's campaigning for a fight with Nick Diaz, which I would love to see.
brendan schaub
I'd also love to see that.
joe rogan
I'd like to see Woodley get fucking paid, too.
I like what he's doing.
I like that he's trying to get paid.
brendan schaub
He's trying to fight GSB, Diaz, just the big names to make money.
joe rogan
I want to see it happen.
I like his initiative.
I like it.
You know, people are like, oh, you're just trying to get paid, bro.
brendan schaub
Yeah.
joe rogan
By the way, those are all fucking amazing fights.
Like, what are you talking about?
You don't want to see him versus GSP? Yes, sir.
Tell people to lose your number.
Tell them, Brandon.
brendan schaub
Tell them right now.
joe rogan
Lose your number!
If you don't want to see that fight, you wouldn't want to see that fight?
brendan schaub
That's the sport, though.
You want the biggest name possible with the highest payday.
Because either way, you're probably getting punched in the face.
joe rogan
Hey, but also, I want to see the Wonderboy rematch.
I want to see that, too.
I do, but I'd rather see Diaz or GSP. Honestly, I'm even on it.
I'm even on Diaz, GSP, or the Wonderboy rematch.
brendan schaub
I wouldn't be mad at him.
joe rogan
Wonderboy's a bad motherfucker, dude.
When he was in that guillotine and didn't tap, and it looked like his head was literally going to be removed from his body, I don't know, man.
Maybe his neck is so small.
That's what Tyron was saying, that his neck is so small, you've got to really squeeze it.
Someone else was saying that too.
Like his neck is so small.
brendan schaub
Like a bobblehead.
joe rogan
Maybe he can like make more room because it's harder to get a really tight squeeze on it.
brendan schaub
Because Woodley has some big ass arms so he figured I'd make up for it.
joe rogan
Woodley also said that he's got a little head so his head could pop out easier.
brendan schaub
I hear that.
joe rogan
That makes sense, right?
unidentified
Yeah.
brendan schaub
I got a small head myself.
It's an advantage.
Not when you're getting punched in the face.
joe rogan
If you got some crazy Alex Caceres do, that has got to be an advantage to the guy hanging on.
brendan schaub
For reals.
joe rogan
Right?
brendan schaub
Yeah.
joe rogan
I mean, if you get Alex Caceres in a guillotine, there's a lot of shit he's got to go through.
unidentified
A lot of shit.
joe rogan
It's not like my head was like, whoop!
brendan schaub
Well, remember they had Homeboy and Canna shave his beard.
joe rogan
Oh, that's right, Emil.
Emil Mech.
brendan schaub
He had a powerful beard, too.
joe rogan
Because he was calling himself Emil Mech forever, and then just the day before the fight, he told everybody it was Mech.
brendan schaub
Like, alright, man.
joe rogan
I'm like, alright, dude.
brendan schaub
Cool, whatever you want.
joe rogan
Why do you have two E's, then?
How about just make one E, motherfucker?
Jesus Christ.
Why does everybody have...
Why do we have to keep the dumb way of spelling shit that our ancestors who came over on rafts...
brendan schaub
Well, because we all understand that.
You just can't make some shit up.
Yes, you can.
No, you can't.
joe rogan
Well, you definitely...
Two E's is E, alright?
It's not eh.
It's just not.
It's just not.
We got rules, motherfucker.
unidentified
We got rules, man.
joe rogan
Okay, we got rules for sounds.
brendan schaub
We got rules, man.
I remember Roy being so pissed when he was fighting Kimbo, he wanted him to cut his beard.
He's like, it's an advantage!
What if I get a hold of his neck?
The commissioner was like, it's Kimbo Slice, we're not cutting his fucking beard.
What do you want us to do, man?
joe rogan
So sad.
brendan schaub
I know, right?
joe rogan
Yeah, the personality wars, you know?
Personality wars versus, I mean, look, it is Kimbo Slice.
Now, beard is huge, you know?
The idea originally was that somehow the beard protected you.
This is ridiculous.
That doesn't make any sense.
Unless you have, like, some crazy Rastafarian fucking dreadlocked out beard.
Like, if you could have, like, a Thick, roped up, dreg-locked out beard.
brendan schaub
Pirates of the Caribbean shit.
joe rogan
Yeah, I think then you can make the argument.
But what kind of a human is capable of growing the same kind of facial hair that you grow on your head?
Has anybody ever grown...
Jamie, look this up.
unidentified
Tate Fletcher.
joe rogan
Has anybody ever grown like a legit...
Tate Fletcher a little bit, right?
brendan schaub
Tate Fletcher.
But he needs to roll that shit up and braid it.
joe rogan
He does now.
Tate does.
Yeah, he braids it sometimes.
He's like...
That referee, too, has that really long ropey...
brendan schaub
Oh, that's true.
jamie vernon
He was just the referee the other night during a...
eddie bravo
Mike Beltran.
joe rogan
Yeah, Mike.
Yeah, that's right.
brendan schaub
He's awesome.
joe rogan
Yeah, Mike has...
That's right.
Mike has, like, ponytails.
brendan schaub
He has pigtails.
He has pigtails hanging off his chin.
joe rogan
Face pigtails.
Mike's a cool guy.
brendan schaub
He's a great guy.
joe rogan
Very good referee too.
eddie bravo
One of the coolest guys I know.
unidentified
Me too.
joe rogan
Super good dude.
And he pulls that mustache off being that cool.
brendan schaub
He's the only one.
He's the only one.
joe rogan
If everybody started growing that mustache off, we'd be like, slow the fuck down.
brendan schaub
He's the only dude.
eddie bravo
If you understood his background, it would make sense.
joe rogan
He's a good dude, man.
brendan schaub
Look at that shit.
joe rogan
That's hilarious.
brendan schaub
Now, if he fought in MMA, they'd obviously make him cut it because you could use that to choke him.
joe rogan
Yeah, I guess you could.
Yeah, or he could choke you with it.
You know, if he gets on top of you, get to Ezekiel with that.
brendan schaub
Go ahead and quit.
unidentified
He's a brown belt.
brendan schaub
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah, so I wonder how he rolls.
Eddie, do you know?
Does he roll that up?
eddie bravo
He's a brown belt, and he's huge.
brendan schaub
Does he put it?
That helps.
eddie bravo
That guy's big.
joe rogan
He's a big boy.
eddie bravo
He's a big fucking dude.
brendan schaub
He's like Yosemite Sam.
eddie bravo
He's not 5'9".
joe rogan
No.
He's a giant dude.
eddie bravo
And his son's even bigger.
brendan schaub
Does he put in like a chin bun, like a man bun thing?
joe rogan
You'd have to ask him.
brendan schaub
He'd have to put like a thing over it.
joe rogan
Yeah, maybe underneath the chin.
But then again, that would kind of get in the way.
I would imagine the braids could be avoided just like other kind of braids.
And there's Ronda biting his braids.
Well, that was actually, it looks like, okay, yeah.
So he just sort of ties at the bottom of it in like little rubber bands and shit.
eddie bravo
He's a great referee.
That guy's on top of his shit.
joe rogan
There's a lot of good ones, man.
This is a good time for MMA. There's a lot of like super experienced guys that are just, that's so important when you're watching a fight.
When you think like a fight could be stopped and then, you know, and then a guy gets through it.
brendan schaub
Fighters know it too.
When you're in the back locker room, they go, hey, I'm going to be your ref tonight.
There's certain guys who are like, shit.
joe rogan
Who refereed Wonderboy and Tyron?
brendan schaub
Herb Dean, right?
joe rogan
What a great job.
brendan schaub
Was it Herb Dean or McCarthy?
Pretty sure it's Herb, though.
joe rogan
Those guys don't give credit, you know?
brendan schaub
They know the fighters, you know, and they know how tough these guys are and they can be in those spots.
eddie bravo
Everyone's got their classic fuck-ups as a referee.
I don't remember any by Big John McCarthy.
joe rogan
You don't remember Murillo Bustamante tapping out Matt Lindland twice?
eddie bravo
Oh, that's right.
joe rogan
Murillo Bustamante got Matt Lindland in an arm bar.
He tapped, he let go, and he said, I didn't tap.
And then Murillo got him again the next round with a guillotine.
eddie bravo
That wasn't a fuck-up.
That was like the dude ghost tapped or something.
You know what I mean?
brendan schaub
Nah, man.
joe rogan
He lied.
He tapped, and he said he didn't tap.
eddie bravo
Yeah, but that's not that...
It's a big fight in the championship fight.
But looking back, thank God.
joe rogan
It was Dan Mergliata.
Dan Mergliata.
Great job in that fight.
Great job.
Great job in that fight.
eddie bravo
Yeah, he's great, too.
joe rogan
Yeah, he's great.
He's great, too.
Dan's a really good guy, too.
And fucking giant!
brendan schaub
He's a gorilla.
joe rogan
That guy gives me a hug.
I feel like he's my daddy.
brendan schaub
Me, too.
Sit on his lap.
joe rogan
Thanks for the hug, daddy.
brendan schaub
Sit on his fucking lap.
joe rogan
But another really good referee.
You know who's another really good referee?
Josh Rosenthal.
Very good referee.
Is he out of prison?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
He's out.
brendan schaub
He was awesome.
joe rogan
Very good referee.
He got caught up in some sort of pop thing.
brendan schaub
Yeah, he had plants and shit in his house.
joe rogan
Not good.
Whatever.
But he's out now.
I guess he's refereeing again for other organizations.
But he was very good.
I don't remember him ever fucking up.
And really smart guy when he comes to MMA. Knows a lot of...
He's a jiu-jitsu brown belt.
I think under...
Who's he under?
Is he under Cesar Gracie?
eddie bravo
I think so.
joe rogan
I think so.
But he's a legit brown belt.
brendan schaub
It's important.
Or HALF. Is it HALF? It's really important they train.
Like, McCarthy's rolling all the time, so they know what positions to look for, transitions.
joe rogan
Isn't it funny how those Northern California guys are known as, like, real hard-style jiu-jitsu guys?
Like, Half and Caesar, and, you know, when you start talking about, like, those Northern California jiu-jitsu schools.
eddie bravo
Half has always had a reputation of, like, if you go, like, of...
Frowning upon tapping.
Like if you tapped in front of Hauf, that was the story.
It could be totally blown out of proportion.
But us training down with Jean-Jacques, we heard the crazy stories about Hauf that he looked down on tapping.
Like, you gotta escape.
You gotta escape.
Don't tap.
joe rogan
How about Dave Terrell?
Here's another one.
Another bad motherfucker from the north of California.
There was like that heart.
He came from that same camp.
That hard style camp.
eddie bravo
It could be a total myth, though.
You know what I mean?
That's what we thought, though.
We thought, man, those guys are so tough.
joe rogan
Better just break my arms.
Don't people have a feel to them, like you hear, like, oh, this guy's a half black belt.
You go, ooh.
That's one of those black belts where you go, this guy's probably a savage.
brendan schaub
Better be on my shit.
joe rogan
Yeah.
It's just a half black belt.
There's a super aggressive style, right?
Wouldn't you automatically assume?
eddie bravo
A lot of good guys came from Dave Camarillo, Dan Camarillo.
joe rogan
Like when you hear Hickson, you hear someone's a Hickson black belt, you go, ooh.
brendan schaub
100%.
joe rogan
Whoa.
Okay.
This guy's legit as fuck.
100% legit.
There's no, like, eh, Hickson black belts.
brendan schaub
Especially when they're Hickson black belts, they're really game, too.
Oh, yeah.
Like at the Grace Academy, a lot of Hickson guys go up there.
I mean, they are game.
Super game.
eddie bravo
Look at Krohn.
Krohn, Hickson, he's a...
A cut above the elite.
Everyone says when they rolled Hickson back in the day that they were just completely immobilized and dismantled.
Everyone has their Hickson story.
And you look at Krohn.
Very few jiu-jitsu players like Krohn.
Krohn's got a serious full guard, serious guillotine, and his full guard attacks, you don't see that.
That much in grappling anymore.
Someone with a full guard that's dangerous.
Crone's got that.
Crone's a little bit different than your average elite.
brendan schaub
You should see his workouts.
When I was doing a grappling competition, Crone was on it too.
So I trained with him for like a week at his school in Culver City there.
Dude, they would do these two, two-and-a-half-hour workouts.
His cardio is insane.
joe rogan
What kind of shit was he doing?
brendan schaub
He would do this crazy warm-up, crazy warm-up, and we'd go over position, position, position, and then it was like a King of the Hill where he'd match up, and however long it took until someone got submitted, then the two guys would be at the end.
Then the rest of the map would stare and watch those two guys at the end.
joe rogan
Jesus Christ.
unidentified
Mm-hmm.
brendan schaub
It was intense.
Super intense.
joe rogan
Wow.
He does a lot of, like, nutty gymnastic shit too, right?
brendan schaub
He does that and he does the breathing thing like his dad.
And at the end, Krohn and I were going against each other, probably 15-20 minutes straight and they caught me in an arm bar.
joe rogan
Wow.
He's not.
eddie bravo
And he's tiny.
joe rogan
He's tiny.
brendan schaub
I was rolling with all monsters.
And then with my big ass, it was just douche.
eddie bravo
And he's always training with Nick and Nate.
He's training with animals.
For a while now.
It's been a while.
And it's looking like his striking's coming together.
He's looking comfortable on the seat.
He's a special dude.
brendan schaub
Very, very special dude.
joe rogan
Special jeans there, son.
brendan schaub
Special jeans.
Handsome fella.
Handsome little fella.
Beautiful structure of the face.
But also, just like his papa, right?
joe rogan
Yeah.
brendan schaub
But also, he's just a good dude to be around.
Like, you feel like you're around a samurai.
joe rogan
Yeah, very good dude.
Well, he's legit as fuck, man.
I mean, he's the rare exception to show me the son of a great man who's a great man.
He's the rare exception.
unidentified
Yeah.
brendan schaub
He has the mentality, because you look at guys like Julio Chavez Jr., you look at these guys who come from that kind of pedigree, it usually doesn't correlate.
They're usually kind of soft, or they're missing a few things.
joe rogan
Well, Chavez Jr., the discipline was just not there.
Just didn't quite have the same discipline as his dad, but he was still talented.
brendan schaub
He liked to party, though.
joe rogan
Well, don't you?
brendan schaub
Not like that.
I think our partying's different.
unidentified
You know what I'm saying?
joe rogan
Yeah, for sure, man.
For sure.
brendan schaub
He's on that Jon Jones party.
joe rogan
You know what I'm saying?
brendan schaub
There's partying and then there's Jon Jones partying.
joe rogan
Well, you know, he's the son of, like, one of the greatest, if not the greatest, Mexican boxing champion of all time.
Julio Cesar Chavez is a legend.
When he fought Meldrick Taylor...
Remember that fight, man?
Meldrick Taylor was lightning Olympic gold medalist during the heyday, the Mark Breland heyday.
Remember those guys, that whole crew of Olympic gold medalists?
Pernell Whitaker?
And Meldrick Taylor was just lightning.
He just hit dudes with these ridiculous combinations.
Chavez just kept slugging away, bobbing and weaving and ripping to the body and slugging away.
brendan schaub
Did you ever see his fights outdoor in Mexico?
joe rogan
Yeah, I've seen most of his fights.
brendan schaub
I mean, they're just like, it's like a fucking Coliseum.
eddie bravo
Greg Haugen.
unidentified
Oh, yeah.
eddie bravo
We fought him in Mexico.
But, back to the Mildred Taylor fight.
This is what I remember.
This is what I remember.
Controversy in the first fight.
The end of the round, it looks like Mildred Taylor was winning, he was stealing the fight, and then at the end, Chavez last round was fucking him up, had him against the ropes, and the ref stopped it, but there was only like two seconds left.
joe rogan
Richard Steele.
eddie bravo
Did it go down like that?
joe rogan
Yep, yep.
Two seconds left in the 12th round and he stopped the fight.
And he stopped the fight because Melchick went down hard.
And he got up and he was fucking out of it.
And Richard Steele looked in his eyes and he waved him off.
He said he would do it again too.
He said it doesn't matter if it's only two seconds left in the fight.
He goes, I know this guy's not fit to fight anymore.
He's like, he got stopped.
brendan schaub
Damn.
joe rogan
He got him up, he looked in his eyes, and Meldrick Taylor was looking at him, and he asked him some questions, and Taylor wasn't answering him, and he's like, fuck this, it's over.
brendan schaub
You don't get a lot of that in boxing.
eddie bravo
And Meldrick was beating him the whole fight, right?
joe rogan
Yes, but in his credit, Richard Steele's credit, Meldrick Taylor was never the same again.
Never the same after that fight.
He was right.
He was done.
He just was right in front of him, touching him, looking him in the eye.
eddie bravo
Let's see the end of that 12th round of that fight.
joe rogan
Let's see it.
Julio Cesar, Chavez, KOs, Melchick Taylor.
And this was a fight where Melchick Taylor's speed and footwork, he was ahead.
He was ahead on the scorecard.
He was getting the better of him in the beginning of the fight.
brendan schaub
That ref stopped in that fight and you hear Freddie Roach talk about it.
He goes, I wish my corner would have tossed in the towel or the referee would have jumped in way sooner in a lot of my fights.
joe rogan
Yeah, well, Freddie took a lot of punishment.
But if you asked him back then if he wanted them to stop the fight, he might have said no.
Look how good Chavez was.
My God.
He was so good with his angles.
eddie bravo
He was our hero, dude.
joe rogan
He was so good.
brendan schaub
He was our hero.
eddie bravo
That was the greatest Mexican boxer of all time.
unidentified
For sure.
eddie bravo
Right?
Who was better than him?
joe rogan
You could learn so much watching his technique, too.
eddie bravo
That was the greatest.
joe rogan
Everything he throws is short and perfect.
eddie bravo
That was our Chuck Norris.
joe rogan
He was a bad motherfucker, dude.
brendan schaub
How dare you compare Chuck Norris.
joe rogan
He was a bad motherfucker.
I was a huge Chavez fan.
eddie bravo
When he fought Greg Haugen, he was the guy that said, yeah, he's got a...
Because he was like...
joe rogan
A bunch of taxi cab drivers in Tijuana.
eddie bravo
All his opponents were taxi cab drivers.
unidentified
That's right.
brendan schaub
His son has skills.
He just doesn't have that it factor.
joe rogan
He's just not this guy.
This guy's a different guy.
brendan schaub
This guy's a legend.
joe rogan
First of all, his son is a winger.
His thing's bombs.
And he's a hard striker.
His son can fucking KO, dude.
brendan schaub
His son's big.
joe rogan
No doubt.
brendan schaub
He's a big boy.
joe rogan
Oh, round 12. Julio Cesar Chavez was a different kind of fighter.
He was much more of a volume fighter and would throw perfect technique punches and would never run out of fucking gas.
He would be on you for 12 rounds throwing bombs on you and just never letting up.
brendan schaub
Talk about a guy not punchy either.
Have you seen his interviews?
joe rogan
No, he's fine.
brendan schaub
Pretty legit.
joe rogan
Well, I don't speak Spanish.
There it is.
He hurts him.
He hurts him with that right.
unidentified
Look at this.
joe rogan
Dig to the body.
Look at that left hook, man.
Come on.
eddie bravo
Look at him turn.
joe rogan
And he turns him around and drops him with that right hand.
Perfect right hand.
brendan schaub
God.
joe rogan
Now look, Magic Taylor's down and the referee's counting him.
He's eight, seven, six, five, four.
He's, are you okay?
Are you okay?
And he has no idea where he is.
He won't respond.
Mel Dutero doesn't know where he is, so Richard Steele stops the fight.
That is a correct call.
brendan schaub
That's a great job.
Look how mad his corner man is.
joe rogan
They're crazy, because they thought he was going to win the fight.
That fight was over, man.
If they let him hit him again, he might have died.
Obviously not, mate.
brendan schaub
Well, you never know.
joe rogan
I mean, I shouldn't have said that, probably.
But you know what I'm saying.
That's what that comes from.
That comes from when a guy's done.
brendan schaub
There's a Batsu who just died.
Not just, but a few months ago in Australia, a professional boxer.
joe rogan
I like the fact that they're trying to, like, if you listen to HBO commentary, like, guys will be, like, hanging in there in the fight, and you'll hear Max Kellerman say they could very reasonably make a case for stopping this fight.
And I'm like, thank you.
brendan schaub
I know, right?
Thank you.
Before, you never, ever heard that.
joe rogan
You never heard that.
You never heard that.
brendan schaub
Even the NFL. There's the guy who got rocked it.
Man, I hope he doesn't come back.
Hope he's alright.
They're putting him in the concussion protocol.
joe rogan
Who was that dude that just quit on, uh, did he quit on Golovkin?
No, no, Lomachenko.
brendan schaub
No, no, no, Lomachenko.
joe rogan
The guy against Sergei Lomachenko.
brendan schaub
He wasn't even really getting rocked, though.
Like, he was just outclassed, and he was like, fuck this, I'm not winning, whatever.
Even though I'm undefeated, I'm just fucking done.
You're talking about homeboy Kel Brook.
joe rogan
Yes.
brendan schaub
Kel Brook, they stopped the fight.
He was getting murked.
joe rogan
He was getting murked.
brendan schaub
He couldn't see out of his eye, and his corner was like, no.
joe rogan
Well, he was fighting Golovkin.
brendan schaub
Yes.
joe rogan
Yeah, but the Kell Brook fight was a little bit controversial.
The Lomachenko fight was much more controversial, right?
Where most people were like, this is ridiculous.
brendan schaub
Yeah, because he really wasn't getting lit up.
He just quit.
joe rogan
And Nicholas Walters was undefeated before this, but he had taken some time off, apparently.
brendan schaub
And that was supposed to be like a big test for Lomachenko.
And then even Max Kellerman, he goes in the ring and he goes...
You know, just as a boxing connoisseur, usually you go out on your shield.
Like, you really weren't getting hit.
And he goes, no, there's a left hand in there that wobbled me.
And he's like, well, we can't, like, can you give us the time around anything?
He's like, no, but I was hurt, man.
That's why I stopped.
And even, you know, Max Tillman, how many boxing matches?
It's like, he's the fucking Joe Rogan of boxing.
He was like, dude, like, this is going to hurt your career, man.
So they're saying all those years he put in to finally establish himself and get this fight, and then you quit?
And there's really no damage.
He just, it was like Mighty Mouse just all around.
He didn't know what to do.
He had no answer.
He was just like, I can't fucking, I'm just gonna get embarrassed.
joe rogan
I think he was getting hit a little bit more than that.
I agree with you, but I think Lomachenko was really laying it to him.
Was it, what round did they stop it in?
brendan schaub
Seventh.
joe rogan
Seventh round?
The fight, the round before that.
So was it the end of the seventh?
How does that work?
Or is it the beginning of the seventh?
He doesn't come out to his corner, so it's the seventh round?
brendan schaub
Yeah, doesn't answer the best.
joe rogan
So it was the sixth round, Lomachenko was just putting it to him, man, and was just really getting on him.
And I think he saw the end.
I was like, he's like, I can't even hit this guy.
brendan schaub
I didn't have a problem with it.
I was like, yeah, you're definitely never beating him.
As a fighter, and most other fighters would go, fuck that guy.
He didn't have a fighter's heart.
He shouldn't be in there.
joe rogan
Yeah.
I think both arguments could be made.
brendan schaub
I agree.
joe rogan
But I think I would lean more towards yours because you never know.
Look, Chavez was getting outclassed earlier in that fight with Meldrick Taylor, and he never gave up.
He kept chipping away.
And people will define you based on how quickly you're willing to give up.
But I think the skill level...
Do you know who Lomachenko is?
unidentified
Mm-mm.
joe rogan
Dude.
brendan schaub
He's from outer space.
joe rogan
He's an alien.
eddie bravo
Boxer?
joe rogan
He's a bad motherfucker from Russia.
Triple H? Is he Triple H? He's a dude from Russia.
eddie bravo
Oh, what's it?
joe rogan
Wait, Triple H? No, no, no.
You're thinking Triple G. Triple G? Oh, yeah.
brendan schaub
Different guy.
joe rogan
Different guy.
Lomachenko's actually maybe more technical.
brendan schaub
He's more skilled, for sure.
joe rogan
Pull up a Lomachenko highlights.
brendan schaub
But Joe, to your point, to your point, the most skilled boxer in the world does no publicity.
unidentified
Oh, this is the video.
brendan schaub
Gets seven viewers.
joe rogan
Well, he's 125 pounds, like you were saying.
But look at this.
Look at the footwork on this dude.
brendan schaub
His angles are filthy.
joe rogan
It's so hard for people to hit him clean.
He's just so technical.
Like, he just pushes dudes around.
Look, I mean, he's laying to this dude.
brendan schaub
Oh, and you ready for this?
unidentified
He has seven fights.
joe rogan
But Walters is hitting him, too, man.
brendan schaub
He has seven fights.
Seven pro fights.
joe rogan
Yeah.
He just has so many amateur bouts.
brendan schaub
And he's 6-1.
joe rogan
But look, Walters hit him a couple of times there.
See, that's where I could see your argument much more.
I mean, it's not like Walters didn't occasionally connect.
It's just for sure Lomachenko was connecting more than him.
So for him to make the decision to just opt out.
So look at that.
Come on, man.
You can't say he's not getting hit.
He's getting fucking hit.
Right there, he got hurt right there.
He's holding on to the glove.
Look, Lomachenko is all over him here, man.
I mean, it makes sense.
brendan schaub
Gold medal winner.
joe rogan
He sees the end, man.
Gold medal winner twice.
brendan schaub
Yes.
joe rogan
Two separate Olympics, right?
brendan schaub
Yep.
eddie bravo
He sees the end.
What do you mean?
joe rogan
He's getting fucked up.
That's why Walters quit.
Look at him in there in the corner, dude.
He's fucked up.
brendan schaub
He's fucked up.
He's also broke mentally, too.
He's like, I can't compete with this guy.
joe rogan
Yeah, and I see everybody's point, but I see his point, too, at the end.
He looked like he was getting fucked up.
brendan schaub
I wish you could have gotten into frickin' Bernard Hopkins before his last fight.
We haven't talked about that, right?
unidentified
No.
brendan schaub
Oh yeah, your Hall of Famer at 51?
Check this out.
Have you seen this?
joe rogan
Here's one thing I have to say about that.
brendan schaub
Out of the ring.
joe rogan
Boxing needs to do something about that ring thing.
That should never be able to happen, where a guy can fall through the ropes.
And here you're talking about a guy who's been fighting for 23-something years.
How long has Hopkins been fighting?
And he can still fall through the ropes?
Like, you shouldn't have ropes.
You should have some sort of a mesh inside the ropes.
This is Joe Smith Jr. knocking out Bernard Hopkins, who falls through the ropes and lands on his fucking head.
And Smith is a bad motherfucker, dude.
This was a dangerous fight.
Smith also has arms that look like a Popeye bad guy arms.
brendan schaub
Looks like a heavyweight.
joe rogan
They're like too long.
brendan schaub
I know.
joe rogan
It's weird.
His arms are like too long for his body.
brendan schaub
He's like that game.
joe rogan
Look at him here.
Dude, he fucked Bernard Hopkins up.
It was rough.
Look at him.
unidentified
He falls on his head.
brendan schaub
Hey, cameraman, do something.
eddie bravo
And that was the end of the fight right there?
joe rogan
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
He fell on his fucking head, man.
brendan schaub
This is the worst part.
Bernard kept going, he pushed me out of the ring.
And they showed the replay.
Then Max is in the locker room with him.
He goes, what do you think happened?
He goes, I got pushed, man.
It's bullshit.
joe rogan
He just landed on his fucking head.
eddie bravo
That wasn't a real fight then, right?
joe rogan
No, it's a real fight.
Joe Smith was winning.
No, Joe Smith was winning the fight up until that moment.
And then he knocked him through the ropes.
eddie bravo
With an upper count?
joe rogan
I don't know, man.
I think Hopkins is done.
But that's dangerous, the way he fell like that.
He fell and landed on his fucking head, man.
And no wonder why.
You can't hold him accountable for anything he's saying right now.
That guy clearly landed on his fucking head after taking some really solid shots.
brendan schaub
You guys know the rule on that?
If you get knocked out of the ring?
joe rogan
No.
20 seconds.
brendan schaub
20 seconds.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
brendan schaub
To jump back in.
joe rogan
Why do they have ropes?
Look, man.
Why don't have a mesh in between those ropes where that can't fucking happen?
eddie bravo
Damn.
brendan schaub
But this never happens.
joe rogan
But it does happen.
It's happened before.
It happened in a...
What's his name?
Ray Mercer fight?
Remember when Tommy Morrison got tangled up in the ropes?
His arms went through the ropes?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Guys have fallen out of the ropes before.
brendan schaub
That's the exception, though.
joe rogan
He's fallen out of the ropes before.
eddie bravo
Damn.
joe rogan
This isn't the first time- That's a huge fall.
Yeah.
brendan schaub
Oh, yeah.
The cameraman should be fired or beat when he went backstage.
joe rogan
I think people can fall through the ropes.
It just doesn't happen that often.
But when you get tagged like he did- And he stepped on his foot, too!
Yo, dude, he was getting lit up.
unidentified
But go back- No, he threw about a seven punch combo before that.
Did you guys talk about that?
joe rogan
No, I didn't even see it.
eddie bravo
Look, unless I'm retarded.
Look, look.
joe rogan
Look at this.
Boom, boom, boom, boom.
No, he didn't step on it.
eddie bravo
I'm retarded.
I thought he stepped on it.
joe rogan
Well, it's hard to pay attention to everything in there, but that was a vicious fucking combination.
And the reason why he went through the ropes is because his legs were gone.
They gave out when his butt was down, and then he got clipped again, and his body just went limp.
brendan schaub
He also went through the ropes because that left...
Freaking hook from Rhode Island landed square in his jaw.
joe rogan
That was not a push.
brendan schaub
Not a way you want to go out.
joe rogan
That was assassination.
brendan schaub
Not a way you want to go out.
joe rogan
I'm telling you, the worst part about that was him falling on his fucking head.
brendan schaub
None of it's good, but yeah.
joe rogan
That's horrible.
That's horrible.
How do they not have pads down there?
How do they not have some sort of a...
Like, you know that's possible.
If people fight on a platform, fucking anything can happen.
unidentified
That's a better argument.
brendan schaub
That's a better argument to have pads down.
unidentified
Yeah.
brendan schaub
That's what they should do.
joe rogan
They should absolutely have judo crash pads.
How hard would that be?
Have that shit as a buffer in between the tables.
Have everybody push back a little bit.
Fuck, the fact that that can happen to a guy like Hopkins, who's been fighting as long as he is?
brendan schaub
Scary, right?
joe rogan
Yeah, he has to be done now, man, because that was the worst damage he's ever taken.
brendan schaub
Yeah, he said he's done.
The thing about it, he's never been stopped.
joe rogan
That exchange was awful.
Not just for the punches, because he still takes a great fucking punch.
He might have went down from the punches and got up and even survived the round.
brendan schaub
True.
joe rogan
But landing on your head like that is no bueno.
Oof, that's scary to watch, man.
He could have died there for sure.
Damn, that's twice I brought that up.
brendan schaub
So extreme, but it's true.
He could have died.
joe rogan
He should probably stop being so extreme.
brendan schaub
But it's not...
unidentified
You guys care deeply, deeply about these fighters.
eddie bravo
You love them.
brendan schaub
Well, a 51-year-old falling out of the ring on concrete on his head, and he's on Mount Rushmore for boxing.
joe rogan
I think you gotta give him credit for taking that fight, because that guy is dangerous.
brendan schaub
You know he picked that guy out.
joe rogan
He's crazy.
brendan schaub
What the fuck?
joe rogan
He thought he saw something in him that he might be able to exploit, and he was wrong.
eddie bravo
How much money did he get for that fight?
brendan schaub
Seven dollars.
eddie bravo
Like five million or something like that?
joe rogan
That's a good question.
brendan schaub
I don't know.
eddie bravo
Two million?
One million?
joe rogan
He has a deal with HBO. He's Golden Boy Productions too, right?
He's a part of Golden Boy.
brendan schaub
So he's a promoter.
eddie bravo
If he got one million, it's worth it.
That fall is worth it.
brendan schaub
Not if you're a guy like Bernard.
A million to Bernard's a lot of money.
eddie bravo
You'll be fine.
joe rogan
But he already has millions.
Bernard is a wealthy guy.
eddie bravo
But still, even if it doesn't matter if he has 10 million, if he made a million for that fight, him falling on his head like that.
joe rogan
Not if he's never the same again, Eddie.
brendan schaub
For brain trauma?
eddie bravo
For a million dollars?
People would line up.
joe rogan
You've never had any brain trauma, huh?
brendan schaub
That means no.
joe rogan
No, you haven't.
It leads to severe depression that sometimes people never get out of.
There's all sorts of real huge issues with your hormonal system.
Like you're essentially compromising the quality of your life forever.
eddie bravo
I play peewee football.
joe rogan
Under certain circumstances.
eddie bravo
Does that count?
joe rogan
100%.
eddie bravo
Dude, I was nine years old.
With helmets.
joe rogan
But I know people that have been KO'd that were essentially never the same again.
$800,000 you made.
Definitely not worth it for him.
eddie bravo
It was worth it.
It was worth it.
joe rogan
I wonder if that's the whole purse.
No big deal.
That might be just like when he got paid for the fight.
eddie bravo
That's a lot of money, dude.
Come on.
joe rogan
He might have got a percentage of the promotion because he's the guy that's part of the promoter.
brendan schaub
Even $2 million.
A guy like Bernard Hopkins is not worth it.
joe rogan
The problem is the way he landed.
It wasn't just the punches that he took, because he's so skilled.
He's good at moving with shots.
He was definitely going out, okay?
That left hook, his legs were going out.
He got clipped.
He got hit with hammers.
He was going out.
brendan schaub
He was eating shots before that, too.
joe rogan
But if he went down in the middle of the ring, we might be thinking, you know, like, maybe he could survive the round, or maybe the referee's going to stop the fight.
He definitely wouldn't have taken that.
The real issue was his whole body was limp when he fell.
He just went right through.
brendan schaub
It's tough to watch.
unidentified
Oof.
joe rogan
That's awful, man.
Just put some netting in it, man.
Make it so that can happen, you know?
Remember how the old school Valley Tudo days used to have a net in the bottom rope?
brendan schaub
Yeah, that's pretty cool.
joe rogan
It was pretty dope.
It doesn't have to be that ridiculous.
I like the mats.
eddie bravo
They would let dudes fight outside the ring, like WWE. It seems like those ropes were a little loose too.
You could fall out.
brendan schaub
Those ropes were definitely loose.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's not good.
brendan schaub
That's a huge issue.
joe rogan
But that might have been something that Bernard liked, so he could move.
You know, Bernard is really good at moving away from shit, and if he's contained up against a hard rope, he doesn't have that ability to pull into stuff.
brendan schaub
True.
joe rogan
And, you know, like, the best fighters who are really good at, like, utilizing the ropes will, like, lean back away from punches on the ropes.
brendan schaub
And, again, it's Golden Boy promotion, so I'm sure he had some say in that.
That's a good point.
joe rogan
That kid was a killer.
unidentified
Bad idea.
joe rogan
Well, he also fought, in his last fight, he fought Kovalev.
Like, he's taken on two killers in a row.
brendan schaub
Kovalev?
Did you really think you were gonna beat that guy?
I mean, that's why we love Bernard Hopkins, but God, damn!
joe rogan
That just shows you where a champion that guy is, that he took those two fights, that he decided to take the crusher, and then this kid who is a relative unknown to most people, but super dangerous.
brendan schaub
23-0?
unidentified
Super.
joe rogan
He's got one loss.
brendan schaub
One loss?
joe rogan
Yeah.
He's super fucking dangerous.
unidentified
He's huge.
joe rogan
He's huge and he throws bombs.
brendan schaub
I don't get it though because he does a great job at HBO doing commentating.
He's 51. What else do you need to do?
And Roy Jones is the same way.
Roy Jones will fly to Turkey, fight on some weird live stream and just get waxed in the next week.
joe rogan
I think Roy Jones owes a lot of money in taxes.
I think that's what's going on.
That's what I had read, that he owed millions of dollars in taxes.
From when he was a champ, maybe he got bad financial advice.
I don't know what the instances were.
brendan schaub
That's why he does it?
joe rogan
Yeah.
brendan schaub
That's a bummer.
joe rogan
I'm pretty sure that's what's going on.
brendan schaub
That would make sense, because it's like, why are you fighting this random Russian?
joe rogan
Well, he's in Russia now, like, a lot.
Like, he's a Russian citizen.
brendan schaub
What?
joe rogan
Yeah, Roy Jones Jr. is a Russian citizen.
brendan schaub
He lives in Florida, too, though, yeah?
joe rogan
Might as well be Russia.
They can have it.
I'm kidding.
My sister lives there.
brendan schaub
My sister, I'm sorry.
unidentified
I'm sorry.
joe rogan
Her whole family's there.
brendan schaub
It's just weird when these guys fight.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Kovalev is, he's a fucking district.
He's out of Florida, too.
He's been trained.
Actually, didn't he train up here for the last one?
I think he did.
I think he trained in Oxnard.
Roy Jones Jr. officially becomes Russian citizen with Moscow passport ceremony.
Wow.
Isn't that crazy?
You know what, man?
He's probably just enjoying his life over there, having a good time.
It's just hard to see.
You've got to accept who he is now and not think of who he is now versus who he used to be.
brendan schaub
Impossible.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's what it really is.
Because one of the things that disturbed me, this is going to sound so fucked up, disturbed me about his last knockout loss was how his body looked.
I was looking at his body, and I was like, this is Roy Jones Jr.?
He looked like shit.
He looked like he was not fit.
And it's not an age thing, because Bernard looked really fit.
When he fought Joe Smith Jr., Bernard looked very fit.
He didn't look like he did when he was 30, but he looked very fit.
brendan schaub
He looked in shape.
joe rogan
He looked in shape.
brendan schaub
For a 51-year-old.
joe rogan
But when we were looking at Chavez, Chavez never looked like Melvin Manhoof.
Julio Cesar Chavez was fairly smooth.
He wasn't like this jacked dude.
brendan schaub
Cain Velasquez, though.
joe rogan
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But just would still murder guys.
So I feel like what we saw with Roy, though, was a different thing.
It's like, he can't be working out hard.
brendan schaub
He's just showing up and hoping to murk these guys.
joe rogan
Well, he's so skilled and he's been doing it for so long.
He probably feels like he's got a certain amount of boxing in him.
brendan schaub
Did you see that knockout?
joe rogan
It wasn't good.
And another guy he fought, he fought a fucking killer.
He fought a straight-up killer.
brendan schaub
See, the UFC would never allow that.
Like, say...
joe rogan
Like, if Liddell wanted to come back.
brendan schaub
No.
joe rogan
No, sir.
Well, that's one of the benefits of Dana being your friend.
You know, like, Dana just doesn't want to have...
He just does not want to be a part of that.
And he's like, I care about him.
I don't want him fighting again.
And he's right.
brendan schaub
I don't think they'd let any of those old-timers come back in.
joe rogan
The problem is, you can't tell someone what they can and can't do, right?
They're a grown-ass man.
But you also have to realize, at a certain point in time, that ego that a fighter has.
But it's hard to say who's right and who's wrong.
Because they said that about Bernard Hopkins when he fought Kelly Pavlik.
When he fought Kelly Pavlik, they said he was done.
brendan schaub
That's such the exception, Joe.
joe rogan
He's such the exception.
brendan schaub
He's the alien.
joe rogan
But because he was that exception, we got to watch some crazy fights.
brendan schaub
But think about the other exceptions that it never worked out.
joe rogan
Well, the difference is also Bernard had never been knocked out before.
brendan schaub
True.
joe rogan
It was really skillful, technically, really difficult to hit.
brendan schaub
But it also would diminish your product.
The UFC would never have Coleman come back or Don Frye.
I think if Joe Montana came back, he'd try to show him a pass right now.
unidentified
What about that?
joe rogan
That was huge.
brendan schaub
That was huge, though.
joe rogan
Yeah, that was huge.
But, you know, that fight was...
Oh, man.
It's like...
You don't want to see a certain amount of deterioration from your champs.
brendan schaub
I don't want to see Jerry Rice catching passes right now with his fucking bad knees and balls hanging out.
eddie bravo
I don't mind seeing old dudes fight.
Old dudes, why not?
Let them fight.
Oh, we're so worried about their old...
If they want to fight, let them fight.
joe rogan
You remember when Ray Mercer fought Larry Holmes?
Larry Holmes boxed his face off.
Like, god damn.
Larry Holmes was like 46 or some shit then.
eddie bravo
We're not gonna let you fight.
joe rogan
Find out how old Larry Holmes was when he fought Ray Mercer.
And this is after Mike Tyson had murked him.
Mike Tyson murked him, and then Mike Tyson went to jail.
And then he's like, as long as that motherfucker's in jail, I'm boxing him.
eddie bravo
He came back out!
unidentified
He came back out!
brendan schaub
He's out for fighting again.
eddie bravo
He was honest as fuck.
joe rogan
What's that?
eddie bravo
He was honest as fuck.
unidentified
Yeah, he was honest as fuck.
eddie bravo
He's like, dude, the king's in jail.
brendan schaub
The cage's still lying.
Yeah, I'm coming out.
eddie bravo
The fear everyone had when they fought Mike Tyson in those early days.
unidentified
Damn, that fear.
joe rogan
Dude, I would have loved to have seen Larry Holmes in his prime fight Mike Tyson, though.
We got really fucked.
42. Oh, that's not that bad.
That's a different 42, though.
That's not like a 42 in 2016. That's a 1992-42.
unidentified
That means zero Mexican supplements.
joe rogan
That's a totally different human.
eddie bravo
That's a 1992, right?
joe rogan
Yeah, that's a totally different human.
brendan schaub
Different set of 42-year-olds.
joe rogan
Isn't that crazy?
We don't even think about that.
eddie bravo
Because Larry Holmes has got to be in his late 60s or some shit, right?
joe rogan
Well, I think he retired when he was like 51 or something like that.
I think he had a fight in his 50s.
But Larry Holmes in his prime, like the Larry Holmes that fucked up Muhammad Ali, he would give anyone a run for their money.
brendan schaub
Those guys were scary how big they were.
eddie bravo
That was the end of Muhammad Ali.
joe rogan
Oh, 100%.
You're definitely right.
brendan schaub
But still, when you talk about like a vintage Mercer or you talk about fucking George Foreman, those guys are so big, man.
joe rogan
But you look at like Larry's body here, this is not the same body that he had like when he fought Ali.
He was doughier and he had like a little bit of...
Actually, it doesn't look bad right here, man.
Doesn't look bad right here.
This looks like the Larry Holmes that fought Mike Tyson, which was like...
eddie bravo
Hands down.
joe rogan
Look at that.
Ooh, you look good, man.
One, two.
But a little slower than he was when he was young.
Ray Mercer was always a fucking murderer, though, man.
He was a scary dude, Ray Mercer.
eddie bravo
Started late in his career.
Wasn't he a military guy?
joe rogan
Yeah.
eddie bravo
He started in his 30s.
joe rogan
Olympic gold medalist.
In boxing.
And did it from the army.
He's a bad motherfucker, dude.
And he hit hard.
But Larry Holmes, once the fight wore on, got that jab working.
brendan schaub
It's weird.
Whenever I think back to these fights, I always think those guys hit so much harder than guys now.
joe rogan
Well, they were knockout artists.
And a knockout artist like Ray Mercer, he could be a knockout artist in any generation.
But Larry Holmes, he would give fucking anybody today a run for their money.
Anybody.
Anthony Joshua, he would fuck up a lot of these guys, man.
Klitschko, Larry Holmes.
Like, go to Larry Holmes and beat Muhammad Ali.
Because here you're watching Larry Holmes that's like 42 years old in 1992, which is like 80 today.
85. No TRT and no vitamins and didn't know nothing about keto.
But watch.
Go full screen and then just go to like the middle of the fight, man.
brendan schaub
Dude, I went off keto for the holidays.
joe rogan
Look how good Larry Holmes looked back here, man.
brendan schaub
Oh, look at his movement.
Yeah, way leaner.
joe rogan
Way leaner, way faster.
And look at his head movement.
Nasty fucking jab.
brendan schaub
That's a different Muhammad Ali, though.
joe rogan
Yeah, it is a different Muhammad Ali.
And it's a different Larry Holmes, too.
This is Larry Holmes, who was a punisher.
Like, look at him.
He's angry with that jab.
unidentified
He's like, ah!
joe rogan
Ah!
He makes a mean face when he's popping him with it.
Larry Holmes was a bad motherfucker, dude, and he fought smart, too.
I mean, he respected Ali and just, like, systematically beat him down.
And it was hard to watch because Ali was way past his prime.
Way past his prime.
brendan schaub
Such a bummer, man.
joe rogan
It was a huge bummer to watch because we were absolutely sure that Ali was getting fucked up.
brendan schaub
Yep.
joe rogan
You knew what was going on.
Yeah.
There was no denying it towards, you know, the remaining rounds of the fight.
I forget how long it went.
brendan schaub
You know the best body in boxing of all time?
You ready for this?
Evander Holyfield.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
It's a good argument.
brendan schaub
Jacked, son!
joe rogan
Yeah, he's about as jacked as you get.
brendan schaub
What the fuck?
joe rogan
He was one of the first guys to legitimately put on muscle and move up to the heavyweight division, too.
Remember when he was a cruiserweight champion?
brendan schaub
Yeah.
joe rogan
Remember when he fought Dwight Kawi?
Evander Holyfield at Cruiserweight fought Dwight Muhammad Kawi who was 5'7".
The Camden Buzzsaw.
5'7".
195 pounds.
brendan schaub
Buzzsaw.
What a great name.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Dude, that dude was an animal.
He was built so weird.
And he went up to heavyweight after that.
And he fucked a lot of guys up.
brendan schaub
At 5'7"?
joe rogan
Yes, Dwight Kawi.
I'm pretty sure he's 5'7".
I don't believe I'm exaggerating that.
I think he was literally an inch shorter than me, and he was fighting as a light motherfucking heavyweight and a heavyweight.
Cruiserweight is really where he started.
195. But he was a tank.
He was like this fucking jacked up looking, who's Samar Paul Harris looking dude.
brendan schaub
Looked like Oddjob.
joe rogan
Yeah, but I don't know if it was supplements back then.
I think 5'6".
It was 5'6".
I was wrong.
brendan schaub
That is a short...
joe rogan
190. But watch him fight, man.
It was just so weird because he was a dangerous, big, powerful guy.
Look at Evander Holyfield then.
Smooth Evander.
That's the lean Evander Holyfield coming out of the Olympics.
brendan schaub
That's that Mike Tyson punch out of Evander.
joe rogan
Yeah.
It's a different Evander.
This was skinny young Evander.
But look at Kawi, man.
Just this tank of a dude.
Short and throws these looping overhand shots.
And you're always punching down on him.
Look at the size difference, man.
And just hard as nails.
A hard as nails dude.
brendan schaub
Going bald.
I didn't give a fuck.
joe rogan
He's like, I'm not here to sling dick.
I'm here to sling some leather.
Look at his socks.
unidentified
Leather.
Look at those socks.
joe rogan
Those are some 1990 sweat socks, son.
brendan schaub
God damn.
They were killing it back then.
joe rogan
Kawi had a totally different approach because he was so short for that division.
When you watched him fight, it was confusing.
It's like, I've never seen this before.
Holyfield would be two feet taller than him at points because Kawi also fought crouched.
So he'd move in, tight guard, crouched.
brendan schaub
Tyson style?
joe rogan
No, he had his own thing, man.
A lot of bobbing and weaving.
He didn't have the same sort of combination, ruthless, punching style that Tyson did.
Tyson could just fuck you up with one shot, and he knew it.
Kawi was like a mauler.
He would maul you, like that, right there.
But he's fighting guys way bigger than him.
You know, Tyson was probably like 5'11", right?
Wasn't he somewhere around there?
brendan schaub
Still short.
joe rogan
Still short, maybe 5'10".
Still short, but a different...
Oh, Holyfield connected and drops him.
brendan schaub
Holyfield.
Bad motherfucker.
joe rogan
Bad motherfucker.
Remember his fight with Burt Cooper?
Another one.
brendan schaub
No, I don't.
joe rogan
Oh my goodness.
Chaos.
Burt Cooper, like, on the verge of superstardom.
And him and Holyfield go to Wizzar.
brendan schaub
Wizzar, son.
Evander Holyfield.
I mean, just the best.
joe rogan
Oh, he was awesome.
Go to Holyfield versus Burt Cooper.
Dropping some boxing knowledge on you motherfuckers.
Yeah, you sure are.
Yeah, fuck it.
Eddie Bravo and I both, man.
We were huge boxing fans when we were kids.
brendan schaub
Are you still?
joe rogan
I love it.
Me too.
brendan schaub
I can't get enough of it.
joe rogan
Oh, he stopped him!
Look at that.
He stopped him.
Goddamn.
eddie bravo
We've been talking about boxing for an hour.
joe rogan
Holy field.
Holy field, man.
In his prime.
eddie bravo
I dropped Bob.
joe rogan
Oh, that was the second time they fought, Jamie.
That's the second time.
That was when Kawi was older.
See if you can find the first one.
That was the revenge fight because in the first fight they went to war and Kawi and Evander Holyfield went to war, but Kawi wound up losing the decision.
It was like a big fight for Evander.
So that was the second one.
What is this?
I thought I clicked too quick.
unidentified
It's him fighting George Foreman.
joe rogan
George Foreman versus Kawi.
How ridiculous is that?
So George Foreman fought Kawi.
Kawi was 5'6".
George Foreman's fucking hands were a foot wide.
That's ridiculous.
eddie bravo
He fought at 50, didn't he?
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
brendan schaub
He won the title at 46. You know they say Foreman, hardest hitter of all time.
joe rogan
I believe it.
eddie bravo
Remember that Michael Moore and George Foreman fight?
joe rogan
Yeah.
eddie bravo
We dropped Michael Moore with one punch.
joe rogan
This was when Kawi was younger, and this was a really close fight.
This is a different fight.
The second fight, Evander was just on a totally different level, and Kawi was older.
But Kawi used to wear his waist, his pants, rather, his belt, way the fuck up high.
The straps of his shorts were like way above his belly button.
brendan schaub
He looks like the green guy from Monsters, Inc.
unidentified
There's not a lot to hit there.
No.
brendan schaub
He's a little fire hydrant.
joe rogan
But this is like Holyfield's first big test.
But see if you can go to that other fight that we're talking about.
brendan schaub
Look how lean Holyfield is, man, there.
He's so skinny.
joe rogan
What was the other fight?
Burt Cooper.
Go Holyfield-Burt Cooper.
Holyfield-Burt Cooper was a crazy war.
And this is like 1991, I think.
And Burt Cooper was a bad motherfucker, dude.
brendan schaub
Smokin' Burt.
joe rogan
Yeah, go deep into the fight here, young Jamie.
brendan schaub
What kind of...
Oh, okay, I'm getting a little more rocked up here, son.
joe rogan
Yeah, Burt Cooper was a savage, man.
He knocked motherfuckers out, too.
He's a vicious power puncher.
And this was like a sort of a make-or-break fight for him.
Because a lot of people thought that Burt Cooper could fucking crack.
And a lot of people thought that Burt Cooper had a shot at being one of the top guys.
And this was the fight that separated these two guys.
Just an awesome fight, man.
brendan schaub
Awesome fight.
Do you ever see a Vander's crib in Atlanta?
joe rogan
It's not really a house.
It's more like a...
I would say like a campus.
brendan schaub
Like a college almost.
Like a straight up fucking...
joe rogan
Giant university from the 1800s.
brendan schaub
It's like USC or some shit in Atlanta.
joe rogan
Yeah, he had like a hundred room mansion.
brendan schaub
What are you doing?
unidentified
Balls out.
brendan schaub
What are you doing?
joe rogan
He went balls out.
That's how Ron White described Larry the Cable Guy's place.
That's who it was.
He said, Larry the Cable Guy's house looks like a university.
brendan schaub
Really?
joe rogan
And he was like, not Phoenix University either.
Larry the Cable Guy is a funny dude, man.
brendan schaub
Is he?
joe rogan
Yeah, he's a nice guy too, man.
I used to hang with that guy in the Montreal Comedy Festival before anybody knew who he was.
brendan schaub
And he was funny back then?
joe rogan
Yeah, he was a good dude, man.
He was doing that Larry the Cable Guy thing on a radio show in Florida.
It was like a character that he did.
brendan schaub
Because he'd have his regular stand-up and that was just a bit that he'd do?
joe rogan
I'm not exactly sure the origins of it, but I think he started it out doing radio.
And then from radio, he started taking it to the stage.
There's videos of him as Dan Whitney doing stand-up.
brendan schaub
Damn.
I didn't realize how big he was.
I wasn't making fun of him, but I was like, is that guy still alive?
I think we're on this show, and you're like, what?
Boom, Nebraska.
Sold out fucking arenas and shit.
joe rogan
Josh Wolfe took a picture of himself opening up for Larry the Cable Guy in a football arena that was sold out.
unidentified
God, God.
joe rogan
In the South, dude?
Shut your mouth.
brendan schaub
Shut your fucking mouth.
joe rogan
You gotta think, man.
brendan schaub
NASCAR and fucking redneck jokes.
joe rogan
This is what you gotta think.
There are 300 and who knows how many millions in this country.
And you go down south, Larry the Cable Guy can get Millions of people to see him.
He might be able to do a million person show.
How the fuck not?
brendan schaub
Sky's the limit.
joe rogan
If you had a million seat arena...
brendan schaub
He's selling it out.
joe rogan
Larry the Cable Guy might sell out a fucking million seat arena.
That's not bullshit.
That's not bullshit.
eddie bravo
What is that about?
Can you explain that?
joe rogan
He's a funny dude.
But he also represents them.
He's like a very good joke writer.
He's a funny guy.
Well, he also represents them.
Like, he's doing, like, redneck sort of humor.
brendan schaub
That's their demographic.
Yeah, that's his character.
joe rogan
And it's really well written.
It's funny shit.
You know?
And he's a good dude.
He's a genuinely good dude.
brendan schaub
And him and Jeff Fox were...
Jeff Foxworthy was like the captain of that ship.
unidentified
Yeah.
brendan schaub
And then those other guys.
joe rogan
And Ron White.
And he brought Ron White in, apparently.
And Ron White was doing well.
I mean, everybody knew who he was.
I knew who he was.
Everybody knew he was a well-respected headliner in clubs.
But people didn't really know how fucking funny he was until Jeff Foxworthy put him in front of everybody.
He's a great guy, too, man.
eddie bravo
Is there a super dirty Southern guy?
joe rogan
Ron White's pretty dirty.
eddie bravo
Oh, really?
joe rogan
Ron White has this whole bit about how when he was in the Navy, stationed in Hawaii, he was getting his dick sucked by hookers, and he didn't know they were girls.
They were boys.
He thought they were girls the whole time, until years later, he was watching some show about during the 1970s when he was there, all these transvestite hookers that were operating in this one block that he used to go, like, Every day to get my dick sucked.
He's like, I got my dick sucked by about 150 dudes.
He was talking about it last week on the podcast.
If you haven't heard the Ron White podcast, listen to that shit.
He's a genius.
brendan schaub
He's a brilliant storyteller.
He's from stand-up.
He's such a good dude, too.
eddie bravo
So he's the blue country guy.
joe rogan
Yeah, he's the dirty country guy, for sure.
brendan schaub
But there's a bunch of those guys.
joe rogan
You know what, man?
It's just...
I think when it comes to what we think of as country, what we think of as the South, I think people who live in cities are very prejudiced of it.
I don't think it's the same thing today as it was 20 years ago.
I think with the internet, everybody knows things now, man.
Everybody understands things way better now than they ever did before.
If you lived in West Virginia in the 1970s, you probably, if you lived in a real rural coal mining community or something like that, man, Good luck getting any sort of access to any information other than what's right in front of you in your town.
But now, now you've got a phone.
And anybody tells you something, you can just check your phone and go, well, that's not really true.
You know, I just Googled it.
And Stephen Hawking says that this is...
And these kids, they can be way more informed today than they were back then.
So I think when people think of the rural South as being like, I think that was a problem with this last election.
I think a lot of people thought, like, That there's certain people that live in certain places that are just stupid.
You know, the red states.
And these people are ignorant.
And they proved it with the election.
The problem with even saying that is, people don't like when certain people Talk shit about them.
They don't like it, right?
It makes them feel bad.
If you make fun of people who live in West Virginia like I just did, people in West Virginia get pissed off, right?
They're not the same people anymore.
Our ideas of these spots of the country where they don't have information, we've got to let go of that idea.
They're definitely leaning more right in some places than left, and that makes sense, but...
There's still a ton of fucking people that get it in these places that didn't exist just 20 years ago.
brendan schaub
Well, yeah, because, especially to your point, because of the smartphones.
Like, everyone thinks they're like, oh, heck yeah!
Like, what's going on out there?
But they're fucking, it's easy, like you said, to even bring up Google or whatever.
Any news.
Like, my dad and I, my dad's in town, we're in an argument, and he's arguing at some point, and I was like, oh, cool.
Just went on my phone.
I was like, nope, wrong.
There you go.
End of discussion.
So I don't know what you want to do.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Well, people just have these ideas in their head, and they've had them for a long time.
And, you know, if you live in a rural community and you don't have the internet, you could just stick with those ideas, and those ideas will be transferred onto your kids, and transferred onto their kids, and you're fucked.
You're fucked if you live in a tough spot like that.
If you live in a bad place, filled with dumb people, and there's no new stuff coming in, you gotta get the fuck out, and you don't even know how you're gonna get out.
brendan schaub
Or if you just don't have access, like North Korea, they just have no fucking clue what's going on.
joe rogan
Did you see what they were making them do, North Korea, what Kim Jong-un was making them do on Christmas?
brendan schaub
No.
joe rogan
He makes people worship the mother of the revolution.
His grandmother, who was the wife of the first dictator, Of North Korea.
She died of mysterious causes in like 1949. And so he is so anti-Christmas, this guy.
He literally is like a character in a Dr. Seuss movie.
He's so anti-Christmas.
He's like the Grinch.
brendan schaub
So they have to celebrate his dead?
joe rogan
They have to celebrate his grandmother, like the mother of the revolution.
eddie bravo
You know, the U.S. made 18 Korean cities disappear during that war.
joe rogan
Look at that.
eddie bravo
And that's why he, I mean, 18 cities disappeared.
joe rogan
What do you mean?
eddie bravo
In the war, in the Korean War.
We firebombed 18 cities.
joe rogan
In the North Korea?
eddie bravo
Yes.
And then the whole, that's when the regime started.
joe rogan
Well, the Korean War, when did that end?
unidentified
50s?
eddie bravo
Sometime in the 50s.
joe rogan
It was a weird war, right?
People don't really talk about that one too much.
eddie bravo
Yeah, they don't talk about it, but they did...
I was watching a documentary about how doctors, they're allowed to go into...
North Korea and fix people's eyes.
They give them like a month and these doctors from China, they come in and they do the cataract surgery and his assistant snuck in.
She was a journalist.
She posed as an assistant just to get in, just to get some footage on the inside.
So it was about, you know, it is fucking weird in North Korea.
It's weird as fuck and that guy is crazy as fuck.
But at the top of that documentary that was not pro-North Korea, it was It was anti-North Korea, but at the very top of it, when she's breaking down with the documentaries about it, she mentioned how 18 cities evaporated in the war.
brendan schaub
That's war, son.
eddie bravo
Exactly.
No wonder there's so much hate for the fucking U.S. Yeah, but that's not what their issue is.
joe rogan
Their issue is their dictator is ruthless and is dominating them with fear.
eddie bravo
But he bases it on that.
joe rogan
But that doesn't make any sense.
He's doing it against his own people.
What he's doing is imprisoning his entire country.
eddie bravo
Of course, he's crazy.
I agree with that.
I agree with that.
joe rogan
Firebombing 18 cities is fucking disgusting.
eddie bravo
Yeah, think about that, though.
joe rogan
This is almost just as bad.
eddie bravo
It's almost like you could understand.
He was an abused child, you know what I mean?
Can you imagine if there was a country out there that firebombed 18 of our major cities, how would we feel about that country?
You'd be fucking lynched if you said anything pro that country.
It would be that kind of country.
That's like Holocaust type shit.
You bring up that shit, you'd be fucking dead.
You'd keep that shit to yourself.
joe rogan
Well, that's what you ever talk to someone who's Armenian, who's spoken to an Armenian genocide denier?
There's a lot of, like, that Armenian genocide is a very rarely discussed Holocaust.
I mean, not the Holocaust, but, like, you know, in terms of the used word to describe an atrocity.
It was a terrible thing, and there's deniers of that.
And when you find an Armenian and you talk to him about people that deny the Armenian genocide...
eddie bravo
Yeesh.
joe rogan
Remember Manny Gamburian?
He won a fight and I was interviewing him after the fight and he was dedicating the fight to the Armenian genocide, to the victims of the Armenian genocide.
brendan schaub
Okay.
joe rogan
And I remember thinking, wow, when was the last time you even heard about that?
Nobody ever talks about that.
brendan schaub
Never.
joe rogan
Never.
It never gets discussed.
I think over a million people died.
brendan schaub
And I'm pretty sure LA has the biggest...
joe rogan
Armenian population?
brendan schaub
Armenian population, right?
Pretty sure.
eddie bravo
Hell yeah, you go to Glendale?
Fuck yeah.
joe rogan
Wow.
Okay, the United States dropped 635 tons of bombs in Korea, not counting 32,557 tons of napalm, compared to 503 tons in the entire Pacific theater in World War II. At least 50% of 18 out of the North's 22 major cities were obliterated.
Holy shit.
Holy shit.
eddie bravo
Right?
Was I right?
joe rogan
Yeah, you're 100% right.
eddie bravo
I mean, this is the internet.
Are we in the library?
Did you get that from library.com?
joe rogan
Listen, that is terrifying.
Look at the images up there.
Napalm bombs.
eddie bravo
So you kind of...
joe rogan
Look at that, Eddie.
eddie bravo
Kim Jong-Will, or whatever the fuck his name is, is crazy as fuck, for sure.
But you kind of understand when someone's really crazy and they've been abused and tortured as a child, you kind of have empathy for them.
joe rogan
I understand what you're saying.
But I guess the argument would be that if they didn't do it, what was the war over?
The war was over communism, right?
So what happened at the end of the war was that the two different countries, they became North and South Korea?
eddie bravo
I don't know the details.
I know it's probably fucked up.
joe rogan
Find out when North Korea was founded.
Because this was like the takeover.
18 different cities destroyed out of...
How many did they say?
22?
22?
When was South Korea and when was North Korea formed?
And when did it become North and South Korea?
50s.
eddie bravo
In the 50s sometimes.
joe rogan
So before that it was just all Korea?
eddie bravo
I'm not sure.
I don't know that much about the history.
joe rogan
Why do I not know this?
eddie bravo
All I know is we firebombed 18 other cities, man.
That's some devastating shit.
And we talk about all these different...
joe rogan
Well, I think, again, back then, man, you never...
Okay, North Korea's history, 1945. The partition of Korea at the end of World War II. Interesting.
The creation of the communist-aligned Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
Okay.
Kim Il-sung in 1950, the Korean War broke out.
So they broke off in 1945 and wanted to be communist.
Five years later, we were going to war with them.
Man, I don't know the history of it.
I'd be talking shit if I said I had an opinion on it.
But it sounds awful.
eddie bravo
I'm pretty sure, I'm guessing that we shouldn't have been up in their fucking mess.
joe rogan
Unless we were worried that he was going to become another Hitler.
And that it was going to become just a further extension of World War II. Again, the history of World War II, that is like, we don't really know the history of World War II. There's that mainstream history and then there's the real shit.
Well, you know, World War I too.
Both of them are just like...
World War I is very bizarre, man.
When you go back and listen to Dan Carlin talk about World War I, you realize how recent that was where most of these guys were walking everywhere.
Walking everywhere with guns.
You're like, what?
Like, yeah, that's what they did.
They walked.
They walked with guns.
They walked across countries.
eddie bravo
It was like Braveheart with guns.
joe rogan
It is ridiculous when you realize, like, that was a hundred years ago.
You go, holy shit.
Like, what has happened?
And now instead of just, you know, 50 years after that, less.
Less than 50 years after that, they're napalming entire cities.
Wiping out whole cities.
Like, the ability, where it used to be, you had, like, cannons and shit that you had to move.
And push them closer and closer to people.
The difference between that and being able to drop shit out of planes on people's heads.
brendan schaub
Well, drones now.
Like ISIS, they get out of the car and just...
joe rogan
Intercontinental ballistic missiles.
Missiles that are pointed at Russia.
And Russia's got them pointed at us.
And we just go, yeah, yeah.
We're like the fucking Hatfields and the McCoys.
Just staring at the barrel.
More than Sam.
More than Ralph.
unidentified
More than Ralph.
joe rogan
Like that fucking sheepdog and the coyote.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah.
brendan schaub
Old school reference.
joe rogan
Mornin' Ralph.
brendan schaub
Mornin' Ralph.
joe rogan
They would punch in.
The sheepdog would beat the fuck out of the coyote all day long.
At the end, they would punch out and leave.
brendan schaub
Dude, that rooster on there.
What was he?
A rooster?
He was racist as fuck, if you remember him.
unidentified
Oh, yeah.
brendan schaub
I said, I said, come here, boy.
joe rogan
Foghorn leg.
Foghorn leg.
brendan schaub
God, Foghorn was racist.
joe rogan
Was he racist?
brendan schaub
Yeah, if you listen, I said, come here, boy!
And he kept doing that.
joe rogan
But he was talking to chickens.
brendan schaub
No, he would say some racist shit.
joe rogan
He was talking to chickens, though, bro.
He wasn't even talking to people.
Racist.
Racist doesn't count with animals.
brendan schaub
It doesn't?
joe rogan
We're all racist.
We prefer squirrels over rats.
You see a rat, you freak out.
brendan schaub
No, I like a nice rat.
joe rogan
You see a squirrel, you don't mind your kid playing on the grass with a squirrel on a tree near it.
brendan schaub
See, I like a rat.
joe rogan
Yeah, but if you saw a squirrel, alright, if your kid was in the grass, having a good time, playing around with a ball, and then like a hundred yards away, there was a tree with a squirrel on it.
brendan schaub
What kind of squirrel are we talking about?
joe rogan
You wouldn't give a fuck.
Any kind of squirrel.
brendan schaub
That big bushy tail?
joe rogan
Yeah, cute little fella.
brendan schaub
Yeah, I like those too.
joe rogan
He's got a nut.
brendan schaub
Yeah, there's no problems.
There's no problems.
joe rogan
Right.
If he was like 50 feet from your kid, would you freak out?
brendan schaub
I wouldn't be comfortable.
No, I wouldn't do anything.
joe rogan
You wouldn't care.
brendan schaub
Just a squirrel.
joe rogan
Squirrels don't do anything to babies.
But if that was a rat 50 feet from your kid, you'd freak the fuck out, right?
brendan schaub
Yeah, well, because rats are so dirty.
joe rogan
Because you're racist.
What if that rat was clean?
What if that rat was trying to better the rat community?
What if that rat was a leader?
What if that rat was the one rat trying to elevate the other rats?
We don't need to be eating garbage and cannibalizing each other.
brendan schaub
Let's be friends!
joe rogan
We need to build homes.
We need to establish communities.
We need to teach people about rat traps.
brendan schaub
I like rats.
eddie bravo
Yeah, what if we're supposed to survive on rats and roaches?
But if we did, that would fuck the economy up.
joe rogan
Well, you know all these assholes that want to kill coyotes, man.
If there wasn't for coyotes, we'd have roaches and rats at least everywhere.
brendan schaub
Coyotes eat rats?
joe rogan
Fuck yeah, they do.
That's like the main diet.
Their main diet is like rats and rabbits and shit.
brendan schaub
Release a bunch of coyotes to New York, man.
And go wild.
joe rogan
They're already there.
brendan schaub
Coyotes are?
joe rogan
Coyotes are.
brendan schaub
Not like the city, though.
We even like the sewers and shit.
joe rogan
They're in the city.
Dude, coyotes are in every city in the country.
I just got done reading this book on them, Coyote America.
brendan schaub
Tim, you read a book on coyotes?
joe rogan
Crazy book, man.
By a guest that's coming on soon.
Coyote turned up in Middle Village, Queens on April 27th.
It was generally received as a freakish incident, but it wasn't even the first sighting of 2015. There's many coyotes that live in Central Park.
There's coyotes that live in Queens.
Yeah, they live all over Manhattan.
brendan schaub
Well they're going where the food's at, right?
joe rogan
They go everywhere.
They're all over the country.
They're a small wolf that lives in every single city, every single state, all over the country.
brendan schaub
We really don't kill them.
unidentified
We can't have them in the city.
joe rogan
We tried to kill them.
The biggest mass effort to eradicate a species ever was on coyotes and wolves.
First wolves, which was successful, then coyotes.
Not only does it not work, it has the opposite effect.
When you hear coyotes screaming, they're doing will call.
They're just like, who's here?
Who's here?
They're trying to find out who's in attendance.
After the attendance calls over, if one's missing or two's missing, if they think someone's dead or gone, the female has more babies.
So the female will go from having four puppies to having 10 or 15. And then they also stretch their range out.
They're different than wolves in that wolves have to operate in packs.
Coyotes can operate as a singular or in packs.
eddie bravo
Now, what was that?
Okay, roll call and then someone's missing.
joe rogan
It was really attendance.
eddie bravo
And then what happens?
joe rogan
The mama starts making more babies.
brendan schaub
If they're missing.
joe rogan
So if someone's missing, say if they have a pack, the pack is like eight coyotes, but one coyote gets jacked by a mountain lion.
They yell out, and when they find out that that coyote's missing, the females say, we need to make more babies.
And to keep their species alive, they produce more offspring.
So they'll go from having four pups.
No, no, no.
Their pups are larger groups.
So from four pups to having like 10 to 13. It's like the body produces more babies.
unidentified
Damn.
brendan schaub
So they're smarter than the wolves?
joe rogan
Oh, yeah!
Dude, they're just smaller.
They're fucking ridiculously smart.
They're sneaky.
eddie bravo
And they're smart enough to know to not attack humans.
joe rogan
Yeah.
eddie bravo
We leave them alone if we don't attack them.
brendan schaub
You don't hear a lot of coyote attacks.
eddie bravo
No.
brendan schaub
On dogs and shit.
eddie bravo
That's the only reason they're around.
It's because they don't attack.
They just happen to not be scared.
If they weren't scared of humans and attack, they'd be gone.
joe rogan
This professor that I've got coming on the podcast, Dan Flores, who wrote that book, Coyote America, what he said is that coyotes, a couple hundred years ago, they were only in the West Coast.
And as people pushed them away, they started establishing new territories.
Us making cities and going after them made them spread out across the whole country.
Jesus.
And there's people that don't understand this.
He got approached by this, because people know he's a coyote expert.
He got approached by these people that were doing this coyote rescue mission.
Like, we're here to save the coyotes.
The coyote's doing great.
You're here to save it.
Save it from what?
They're everywhere.
They literally have populated quietly and sneakily the entire country.
And all efforts to eradicate them failed.
When they have male wolves, they can cyanide like a horse.
They take a horse and they'll shoot a male wolf and then they take his balls and his dick and they rub his scent and his glands all over this animal so that the other wolves recognize that he's been there.
So they think it's safe to eat.
So they start eating this horse that's been cyanided.
And then they would all die.
And so they would attack these packs of wolves that way.
They would shoot the male.
They would take his scent, put it on his meat, take a horse, shoot the horse, inject him with cyanide immediately.
So it went through his entire nervous system or his entire circulation system.
And so all the meat would be poisoned.
And they did that.
And they eradicated wolves throughout the entire West Coast until they brought them back into Yellowstone in the 1990s.
They were like virtually gone.
brendan schaub
Big ass animal too.
I was reading an article that they're thinking about building a bridge over the 405, and I didn't know this, there's fucking mountain lines.
unidentified
Oh yeah.
brendan schaub
Like in Topanga Canyon, but someone hit one in a car because they're trying to cross over.
They're trying to cross the 405 highway.
joe rogan
Well they have a problem.
brendan schaub
And they want to build a little ramp.
joe rogan
They're in almost a land, they're in like a land island, like around the Malibu area.
Yeah, that's what they're trying to do.
Just to keep the big monsters alive.
Right?
Yeah, one of them killed 11 alpacas in a goat in Malibu just a couple of weeks ago.
They put a depredation order on it.
They were going to kill it.
But this lady who owned the farm got so much hate mail after they said they were going to kill the mountain lion that she changed her mind.
Why would you kill it?
brendan schaub
Because mountain lion doing mountain lion shit?
joe rogan
Because she has a farm up there.
That's her living is making these alpacas and this thing...
Jacked 11 of them.
brendan schaub
That's what you sign up for, lady.
joe rogan
In a way, right?
But if it's killing your food and killing your living, that's why you make a living is by selling alpacas or doing...
I don't know.
What the fuck is an alpaca?
Who the fuck's hustling alpacas?
brendan schaub
Who's hustling llamas in Malibu?
joe rogan
What do you think you do with them?
brendan schaub
Rent them to rich kids' birthday parties?
What the fuck do you do with a llama in Malibu?
Llamas just sweating their asses off?
joe rogan
There was a dude who owned a comedy connection that had llamas.
He had llamas living in his yard.
Alpaca.
It's a species...
brendan schaub
Don't they spit too?
They spit like a motherfucker at you.
joe rogan
It's a species of South American camelid.
It's a camel.
It resembles a small llama in appearance.
There are two breeds of alpaca.
Wow.
So anyway, this lion in one day...
Jacked 11 of these things and just left them there.
brendan schaub
Damn, they're big.
Oh, it didn't eat it.
Just killed them.
joe rogan
He just had a good old time killing them.
eddie bravo
Yeah, you gotta get rid of that one.
joe rogan
Yeah.
eddie bravo
Is there a problem with wolves and hunters?
Do they attack hunters, or do they flee?
joe rogan
They certainly would.
I had a friend who was cornered by wolves.
They tried to take his elk, and they wound up killing, I think, two or three wolves.
I think they killed three wolves.
I would have to listen to the story again.
He had one friend with a rifle and him with a bow.
He killed two of them with a bow, and the guy with him killed one of them with a rifle.
And they were surrounding them, and they were trying to get the elk away from them.
Makes sense.
They fucked up.
They didn't know that they were in the wolves' den.
It was like that fucking The Grey movie.
They shot this elk right near the wolves' den.
And the wolves were like, yeah, we'll take that, dude.
brendan schaub
Yeah, it's some natural shit.
joe rogan
Yeah, and they surrounded these dudes and started rushing them.
Like, really, it's a crazy fucking story.
The other ones took off.
They were like, fuck this.
The gun, I think, probably scared them.
They're like, oh, these motherfuckers have guns.
And they did their call.
They did their attendance call.
And they were surrounding them.
But the wolves must have realized, oh, shit, they killed two of us.
There's two that are gone.
And then they killed a third.
And they're like, that's it.
And he said he had the alpha male in his sights, and he had his bow drawn back, and the wolf took off running.
And when the wolf took off running, the rest of the pack went too.
They were like, fuck this.
brendan schaub
They're lucky they had a gun and not just those bow and arrows.
joe rogan
So lucky.
brendan schaub
With a pack of them?
joe rogan
So lucky.
Not only that, lucky it's not just one dude with a bow and arrow.
Like, if you didn't have that guy having fun with him...
Would've been fucked.
eddie bravo
You know what's strange is killer whales have no problem killing other dolphins and other whales.
They go after them and hunt them.
joe rogan
Yeah.
eddie bravo
How come they don't go after humans like that?
brendan schaub
Oh, they have.
eddie bravo
Have they?
brendan schaub
Yeah, there's videos of them.
joe rogan
But only in SeaWorld.
unidentified
No, no, no.
eddie bravo
Forget about SeaWorld.
brendan schaub
No, there's been a regular one in the ocean.
unidentified
What?
eddie bravo
In the wild.
joe rogan
I've never heard of that.
brendan schaub
Yeah, I grabbed a lady and said, See ya, zonk.
joe rogan
No, no, no, no.
I think you're thinking of a story that happened in SeaWorld.
brendan schaub
No, I'm positive.
This is in the ocean.
He grabs the lady or the guy by the leg and just fucking takes off.
eddie bravo
Kills him?
brendan schaub
Takes off.
eddie bravo
But how often, how many reports are there of killer whales attacking humans?
I mean, does it happen?
joe rogan
Almost none.
eddie bravo
They go after dolphins and other whales like it ain't shit.
They have fun with it.
brendan schaub
They kill great whites too.
eddie bravo
Yeah, they have fun with it.
They go after other mammals.
So why wouldn't the, oh, no humans.
Are they that smart to know?
joe rogan
Dolphins too, man.
eddie bravo
Are they like coyotes?
Are they like coyotes?
Like, you know what?
If we fuck with humans, they're going to come after us.
Are they smart enough to know not to fuck with us?
Or are they being...
Is it like a spiritual thing?
What is it?
joe rogan
There's a bogus story that I read online that I repeated on the podcast before I looked it up.
But the bogus story that I'm pretty sure Adam Carolla told me or some...
I don't remember where I got it from.
But the bogus story was that before...
I don't think Adam Carolla believes this, by the way.
Before World War II, they used to attack us.
But then once they used to do target practice with them from planes...
Killer Whale stopped attacking us.
Turned out to not be a true story at all, but- That's what a killer story.
What a great story it'd be if it was true.
Sounds like some- She used to fuck with us and they're like, oh, check this out.
And they're like, yeah, alright.
We'll help you guys.
If you fall in the water, we'll pull you out.
Just please stop.
Please.
unidentified
Stop that.
joe rogan
Yeah.
eddie bravo
We could work together.
joe rogan
Yeah.
brendan schaub
Killer whales are gnarly, man.
eddie bravo
Yeah, what's up with that?
joe rogan
The gnarliest.
eddie bravo
Or maybe...
joe rogan
See if you found anything, Jamie?
eddie bravo
Or maybe there's a big cover-up.
Maybe they kill humans all the time.
joe rogan
I think it's a guy in a pond.
brendan schaub
No, it's the exception.
Like, obviously they don't hunt people, but grab this fucking lady by the ankle and was like, yoink!
joe rogan
I don't know about that, man.
I never heard that.
I'd like to see it.
eddie bravo
Did you see that at the library?
brendan schaub
Where do you get your animal news from?
joe rogan
Where do you get your news from, bro?
brendan schaub
Hey, bro.
Callum sent me that.
joe rogan
Is there a YouTube video about it?
Yes or no?
unidentified
I found one fake one.
jamie vernon
I see one from SeaWorld.
There's one where a Japanese whaling crew was eaten alive by killer whales.
eddie bravo
Is that fake?
jamie vernon
It's not a video.
It just says it's a story.
joe rogan
What was the story?
Japanese crew was eaten alive by killer whales.
That's one of those fucking fake news stories.
You hear that fake news thing about Pakistan?
They literally were ready to go to war.
With, uh, what was the, I tweeted it earlier today.
Someone believed some fake news story.
unidentified
I'm not believing this story.
jamie vernon
There's other news things on there.
joe rogan
So it's a fake news story about fake news?
A guy lost 200 pounds by jacking off 14 times.
But no, no, no.
That was not CNN. It's from the same site.
No, this is not from CNN. But the one that I tweeted earlier today.
unidentified
I saw that.
That was a fake news story.
I'll pull that up right now.
joe rogan
Right.
That was about, but it was on CNN, about a fake news story.
Right?
brendan schaub
And then they bought into it and about to go to war?
joe rogan
Someone bought into it, but the story about the war, the potential for war wasn't fake, was it?
jamie vernon
The Pakistan minister issues just popped up.
joe rogan
Put it up there.
jamie vernon
A nuclear warning to Israel after being tricked by fake news.
joe rogan
Right.
But that's what I was talking about.
So that's real, right?
That's not fake news.
brendan schaub
The ultimate trolling?
eddie bravo
Dude, when they're talking about fake news sites, that's the fake shit.
joe rogan
This is the fake shit.
Either way, whoever wrote fake news.
eddie bravo
Look at that quote.
joe rogan
First of all, shitty...
eddie bravo
Being tricked by fake news sites, they keep putting that out there, because they're going to censor real shit, and it's going to be government, state-run.
They're going China-style.
They already do it in China.
You can't watch anything you want in China.
You go to China, anybody can go to China, but guess what?
You can't watch regular YouTube.
joe rogan
Why don't they have a space between Pakistan's and Defense Minister?
This is fucking CNN. How about you put a goddamn space in between your words, you shitty, lazy editors.
brendan schaub
It's early, man.
joe rogan
What is it, Jamie?
jamie vernon
This is the telegraph.co.uk.
joe rogan
Oh, okay.
This one is?
So what's the CNN one?
unidentified
I don't know.
joe rogan
There was a CNN one that I tweeted.
This is not exactly what I tweeted.
But either way, the whole thing is very bizarre.
unidentified
So Homeboy got trolled and was about to say, we'll take you to war, bitch.
joe rogan
Here it is, right here.
Yeah, there's a CNN article.
Duped by fake news story.
Pakistani minister threatens nuclear war with Israel.
eddie bravo
What they're trying to do is put out, scare people with fake news sites so that they could go in there and have a reason to censor and everyone's going to go, yeah, fuck fake news sites.
Let's fucking censor.
joe rogan
Okay, don't get emotional.
Let's just communicate here.
eddie bravo
Anytime you see something like that in quotes, they go, fake news sites, tricked by fake news sites.
unidentified
People are going to go, yes, it's fake.
eddie bravo
You don't see that shit?
It's honey dick in your face right there.
joe rogan
Well, here's the thing.
Who's making these fake news sites?
And wouldn't it be in the best interest of the government to make fake news sites of their own so that they could have a reason to not have fake news sites around?
But do you think they could literally stop people from putting stuff out on the internet?
I mean, if that's the ultimate goal.
eddie bravo
No, what they're doing is they're going to censor the top alternative media news sites.
They're going after them.
That's the target.
This is a big trick that's going on.
joe rogan
You're saying like CNN? No, no.
He's saying like Breitbart or...
eddie bravo
Yeah, like Drudge, Infowars.
They're putting out the real shit, but they got control of the media, so they're saying, oh, that's fake news.
So they're creating a fake news problem.
That isn't there so that they can go in and censor the real shit.
It's a fucking trick.
If you see it on CNN, I called it, every headline, being tricked by fake news.
They're getting everyone going, yeah, fake news sucks, fuck that.
Then they're going, yeah, it does, right?
Look, here's another fake news site.
And people are being tricked and doing all this crazy shit and walking into pizza places with fucking machine guns.
Yeah, let's talk fake news.
What do we gotta do?
Let's just sign it.
Boom.
They're going China style.
They're going to censor the internet.
It'll never work.
They're going to blacklist you.
If you're a news site that's credible and you're fucking with the agenda, boom, they're going to go, hey, that's fake news.
Dude, you're off.
We're in the middle of that right now.
We're being assaulted with people being tricked by fake news.
When have you been tricked by fucking fake news?
brendan schaub
They're not tricking us.
joe rogan
The fake news is tricking you.
Settle down.
Anybody can be tricked by fake news.
For sure, they can be.
And the question is, who's actually doing it?
Is the government doing it so they can crack down on alternative news sites like WikiLeaks or anybody that's putting out stuff that doesn't agree with their agenda?
Or is there a real issue?
Is there a real issue and that?
That's what I say.
I say there's both.
I say the government for sure would benefit from there being less sources of news and more that they can control.
And being able to put the wraps on someone like Edward Snowden and not allow that to happen, for sure they would definitely benefit from that.
But there's also a bunch of people writing some fake articles.
And they do it for profit.
They do it for clicks.
There's one dude that's doing it for- There's a lot of fake shit out there.
They de-interviewed him and he was doing some- Don't wow, Eddie.
Please.
Just be rational when you're talking about stuff.
We're not disagreeing with you.
brendan schaub
We disagree with you.
joe rogan
We're saying it's all the above.
When I'm saying that people get paid to write fake news, I'm saying they get money from ad clicks.
They can make $10,000, $13,000 a month.
They interviewed this dude who did it and he started getting out of control with it.
He did it to troll Republican people and then he realized how much ad sense he can make from doing that.
He's making a fucking sizable chunk of money.
brendan schaub
Ballin'.
joe rogan
So there's those guys, but then there's also for sure there would be government agencies that would almost be – it would be their responsibility to control information.
Like if you wanted to control information, one of the best ways to do it would be put out disinformation, cloud the story.
That's subterfuge.
That's been going on in the CIA and the NSA. That's been going on in all of these – Secretive intelligence community groups, they do that forever.
If you pay attention to what we absolutely know about how they engage with the enemy, they use every tactic.
They don't not use deception.
They don't not use...
eddie bravo
Propaganda.
joe rogan
The $450 million plus they spent on those fake terrorist videos.
eddie bravo
Yeah.
joe rogan
But they also had, in their mind, a legitimate reason for doing that.
eddie bravo
No, that's what they said.
joe rogan
You're right, you're right, but it could be both.
See, their legitimate reason is they have a real player.
This is how you watch those videos, or it's in a real player.
When you click into a real player, it checks your IP. It knows your IP so it can figure out where you're coming from.
So if they could target pockets of people in certain terrorist-rich parts of the world where they knew that there was a bunch of ISIS people or what have you, if they put out some recruitment video and they can find that there's a lot of people that are watching it in certain areas, they can Sort of, in their mind, triangulate where these terrorists could be located.
brendan schaub
I love an idea.
But it's both, Eddie.
eddie bravo
It's both.
That's their cover story.
joe rogan
But it is both.
ISIS does exist.
There are bad people in the world.
There are terrorists in the world.
Kim Jong-un is a real guy.
He is a dictator over his entire country.
There's a bunch of people in ISIS that have fucking billions of dollars.
eddie bravo
Where are they getting this money from is what I'm talking about.
Of course they exist.
Of course...
joe rogan
Royal families, there's a lot of sources.
eddie bravo
They're being funded by a lot of motherfuckers.
And when you see who they're being funded by, you're like, you ain't gonna fall for that cover story.
That's all bullshit.
joe rogan
I don't think you're right.
I think it's both.
eddie bravo
Okay.
joe rogan
That's what I think.
I think everybody's going after it.
eddie bravo
I don't think they're trying to stop ISIS, man.
There's nobody trying to stop ISIS. They're encouraging it.
They love it.
They need it.
They need fear.
joe rogan
I don't know if that's the case.
What does it say?
In case you didn't know, the United States funds and arms terrorist groups like al-Qaeda and ISIS when it needs them to disrupt the country.
This is Dr. Jill Stein, who is running for president, and she said this the day of Christmas.
She doesn't give a fuck.
brendan schaub
That bitch is ruthless.
joe rogan
She's ruthless.
eddie bravo
Fuck you.
joe rogan
She's woke as fuck.
unidentified
She's woke.
eddie bravo
That's what I'm talking about.
brendan schaub
Dr. Jill is woke as fuck.
eddie bravo
When you know this and it makes sense, you can follow the money, you're like, okay, it totally makes sense.
The criminals is, oh yeah, it makes sense.
Criminals do this kind of shit.
You should always, always be suspect of the people running the show.
They're criminals.
So you never go, oh, you know, if someone tells you, someone's obsessed with, like, let's say, You know, some famous killer, I don't know, like John Gotti or whatever, some criminal or whoever, and he's obsessed with them and he knows a lot of shit about this murder, that murder, this racket, that racket, this criminal activity.
If he told you, yeah, you know what other murder he was involved in and you talk about it, no dude's going to say, Ah, now how do you know that's true?
How do you know that's true?
Where's the evidence of that?
You're probably going to go, you take his word for it, this guy's a criminal, he's fucked up all this other shit, and then he tells you about some new shit he fucked up.
You're probably, like a normal guy, I'd go, yeah, even if he's wrong, I mean, he's still a criminal, but probably, I haven't looked into it, But it's like that when you can follow the money so easily and you just see the racket and you're just like, oh man, anytime CNN is attacking fake news, they're creating a fake news problem.
joe rogan
I didn't follow what you were saying there until you got to the fake news part.
eddie bravo
No, you're talking about the government's reason for paying a UK publicity firm $500 million to make fake ISIS and Al-Qaeda videos.
joe rogan
Was it $500,000 or $500 million?
brendan schaub
I thought it was $450 million.
eddie bravo
To me...
joe rogan
I don't want to be wrong about that.
eddie bravo
That's a big wrong.
joe rogan
If I say $500,000, I think it's $500 million.
brendan schaub
I thought it was $450 million.
eddie bravo
So when you see that, let's say you just saw that quote and you believed it.
Let's say she's right.
Just pretend she's right.
joe rogan
Who's she?
eddie bravo
Whatever that chick.
brendan schaub
Jill Woke Stein.
joe rogan
Oh, Jill Stein.
What she's talking about, Eddie, is also funding the Mujahideen, which we were pretty open about.
That's what became...
The Islamic terrorists of today.
The people that they funded against the Russians.
eddie bravo
Let me finish real quick.
When you see a statement like that, and there's many people saying that, but there's a...
Man, there's one...
Just say, that's true what she just said.
And then you find out that the government paid $500 million to make fake ISIS videos.
They're funding them...
And then they're making fake ISIS videos.
Sounds like they want to blow that shit up, you know?
So when you see the cover story, when the government says, the criminal says, the criminal says, uh, what we were doing is we were making CDs and we were like dispersing them.
And then so that people would get them and then they would play them.
And we, you know, you know, we did, we did only a terrorist would play that CD. So then we could track their IP address.
To me, that's like some serious horse shit.
brendan schaub
No, but we do it the same in the drug industry.
If they catch a drug dealer, they flip him or use him for something to get to the bigger play there, which is the drug kingpin, right?
So same thing with this.
They might fund those ridiculous videos.
eddie bravo
It's like you sound like the attorney for the criminal.
joe rogan
But no, Eddie, the problem is you think there's only one way to this.
I think there's a lack of nuance in the idea of this.
I think it's both.
unidentified
Mm-hmm.
joe rogan
I think, for sure, the government is going to make some fake shit.
I mean, they told us they were going to do it to fight the war on crime or to fight the war on terror.
They told us they were going to do that.
They told us they were going to do it.
eddie bravo
They do it in plain sight.
They're not having shit because people just go along with it.
joe rogan
Of course.
For sure.
100%.
But also, there's also people that are in charge of making sure...
It's not like everybody who is in the CIA or the FBI or any of these organizations is a part of some gigantic...
eddie bravo
No one said that.
When did I say that?
joe rogan
You didn't.
eddie bravo
I never said that.
joe rogan
Only a couple people.
But the idea that all the rest of them would know that it's bullshit and they would go along with it, I don't think that's the case.
I think what they're trying to do is figure out ways where they could locate terrorists.
If they figured out a way they could locate a terrorist and it's through IP checking of people who watch terrorist recruitment videos, I don't think that's a bad idea.
It might not get everybody and it might not even work, but it's not a bad idea.
brendan schaub
They're doing a decent job.
Have you seen, now just switch subjects a little bit, but have you seen- But hold on a second.
joe rogan
Don't you think that there's got to be some way, if there are legitimate terrorists in the world and you're trying to find them, there's got to be some way to find them.
That's a good way to find them.
brendan schaub
My IP address is if they're clicking on those videos.
eddie bravo
They're funding them.
Why would they try to find them?
joe rogan
But who is they, Eddie?
Is it the same people?
That's my point.
Is it the same people that are in charge of making these videos to try to find these people?
Are they the same people that are also completely aware that they're funding them?
Or is there a bunch of different factions all working together and each one of them doesn't completely be honest with the other?
eddie bravo
Yeah, I could see that.
Definitely most of the CIA, most of the FBI, good, honest, hard-working people.
It's just people, key people in certain spots.
I mean, they're funding ISIS. That's just one quote.
There's many, many quotes.
But let's just say that was true, that quote, what that chick said, that's true.
Okay, we're funding them?
joe rogan
That chick.
Presidential candidate Jill Stein.
eddie bravo
Yeah.
That chick.
She's not the first one to say that.
But anyways, let's just say that statement is true.
If it's true, if they're funding ISIS, yes, there's probably low-level people saying, hey, how are we going to stop ISIS? But the overall agenda is not to stop it.
If they're funding it, why are they going to stop it?
They want to blow it up.
They're funding it.
You'd put two and two together.
First of all, they're criminals at the top.
We know that.
Everybody knows.
Everybody knows that.
So we got to treat them like a detective would.
Like your average bullshit-ass detective would go, this criminal?
No detective would ever look at a criminal and go, ah!
There's no way he would do that.
He doesn't have the time to do it.
He's not that smart.
He doesn't have the smarts.
He's so unorganized.
No detective would say that.
He'd be like, you know what?
You're a fucking criminal.
Let's look.
Maybe you are innocent.
Maybe you are.
But goddamn, look at the money trail.
Look at all this circumstantial evidence.
It's just, damn.
You know, look at it.
And then the hardcore evidence, documents and shit.
brendan schaub
But if you ask ISIS, they're not gonna tell you they're winning.
Like, they're getting fucked up, man.
eddie bravo
Who knows what they're saying?
They're funding them, and they have control of the media.
Who fucking knows what the fuck is going on?
Who really knows?
Nobody knows what the fuck's going on.
brendan schaub
You see how ISIS used to use Twitter and certain things, so they'd get followers to see stuff and organize plans?
Well, Twitter has someone who's just 24-7, mercs those accounts, where you can't have them anymore.
Now they use Telegraph.
You know what that is?
joe rogan
No.
brendan schaub
Where you can organize a private chat room, so whatever, they have a code word, so all those ISIS followers go there.
And then they logged in and somehow some guy got into it because you have to prove everyone in these secret chat rooms.
And it says what they want to do.
And let's say, just a crazy example.
In Milwaukee, how many guys do we have?
And there's seven.
But we have these guns, these guns.
We're going to hit up this.
Oh, I scouted.
I did this.
So they're going to the guy who owns Telegraph going, what the fuck, man?
Stop these accounts.
And he's like, you know, I created it so everyone can use it, man.
It's high-level security.
I create for that.
And this dude's just getting fucking reamed for it.
joe rogan
Does he not have the ability to step in?
brendan schaub
He does have the ability to step in.
He's in Russia, but what happens is these accounts go up, and then after you're done there, they're erased forever.
That's why people use them.
joe rogan
Wow.
Interesting.
Israeli hackers have said this.
It's a crazy time, dude.
It's a crazy time.
brendan schaub
And then his point, he goes, I didn't create a fucking telegram for ISIS, but just like anything, we create something good.
Bad people follow.
I can't control that.
joe rogan
Jamie, what was that guy that you kept telling me about?
Was it Gary Vaynerchuk?
Is that the guy?
Yeah.
I saw an interview with him, man, and he was talking about people using phones.
And this lady goes, isn't it terrible what we're doing to these young people using phones?
And he was like, look, you're looking at human evolution.
We're not doing anything to these people.
This is what people are doing.
And just step back and look at what's happening.
And he was saying that because we're just going to be looking in the future back at this time, like this is the good old days before virtual reality.
brendan schaub
For sure.
joe rogan
It seems to me that all these things are competing together, that taking over various aspects of the world, controlling global resources like oil and things along those lines.
And they have windmills now that are the size of fucking 747s.
Have you seen these gigantic windmills that they're putting together?
Trying to figure out how to dominate the production of electricity and oil and gas and keep money flowing.
And all the while, we're getting drawn deeper and deeper into this electronic world.
We've got some weird shit going on in our future, folks.
Weird Matrix-style shit.
brendan schaub
Did you see in Dubai, they're building it now, those tubes?
So you can get from Dubai to wherever in like 30 minutes.
joe rogan
Oh, those Hyperloops?
brendan schaub
Elon Musk is the one who came up with it, but in Dubai, they're the first ones to actually fund it and raise the money, and they're building it now.
joe rogan
Ooh, that's scary.
That's a plane on the ground, son.
brendan schaub
That's going on right now, son.
Jump in a tube and just...
joe rogan
Imagine the feeling of going 500 miles an hour.
eddie bravo
Is this it?
Hyperloop.
joe rogan
500 mile an hour Hyperloop train.
eddie bravo
That's not that fast.
joe rogan
It takes you from Abu Dhabi to Dubai in 12 minutes.
brendan schaub
12 minutes, son.
joe rogan
That's amazing.
brendan schaub
They're saying if they do it right in America, you're going to be able to live in L.A., work in New York every day.
joe rogan
Oh, my God.
Fuck all that.
eddie bravo
Can you imagine that tube?
brendan schaub
Who's jumping in that tube first?
eddie bravo
You're going to be in that tube for, what, at least 500 miles an hour?
Five hours.
brendan schaub
No, no, that's just starting.
eddie bravo
Straight tube?
joe rogan
Fuck that.
brendan schaub
Elon Musk was saying like 1,200 miles an hour is what they're playing.
joe rogan
500 miles an hour is, I think, like a plane flies.
I don't think it's any faster than a plane.
eddie bravo
I ain't going no tube.
Underground?
brendan schaub
That's true, yeah.
eddie bravo
They shoot you in a tube?
joe rogan
So 500 miles an hour in a plane...
eddie bravo
It takes you five hours to go across the country.
joe rogan
It's inevitable.
They're gonna do it.
eddie bravo
If it's 1200 miles an hour, that's probably two and a half hours.
That's still a long time to be in a tube.
Unless it's a big, comfortable tube and you can walk around this tube.
How big is this tube?
joe rogan
Is it worse to smell people's farts in a tube going 500 miles an hour on the ground or in a tube going 500 miles an hour in the sky?
brendan schaub
The sky, the plane, that shit.
eddie bravo
How often do you just say, fuck it, I cannot hold these motherfuckers.
brendan schaub
That's so fucking rude!
unidentified
How often?
brendan schaub
That shit is so rude.
eddie bravo
Because most of the time you hold it in, right?
Most of the time and try to time it for the bathroom.
joe rogan
You gotta do your best.
brendan schaub
You gotta be a goddamn good citizen to hold it, man.
eddie bravo
Have you ever just said, fuck it, I'm just gonna go for it and whatever.
I'm just gonna keep my eyes closed.
Put your...
Eyeshades on and pretend you're asleep and just let them go.
Dudes do that to me all the time.
Every now and then I'm like, oh, this guy decided to just go for it.
joe rogan
I'm like, I don't know.
eddie bravo
It could either be this guy or that guy.
brendan schaub
And that recycled air just fucking your world up.
eddie bravo
There's got to be like a suction thing in the seat.
So like a little button you press and it sucks.
joe rogan
Air filter.
eddie bravo
Yeah, it sucks the air out.
joe rogan
It does help.
You keep that fan blowing on you.
That shit does help a lot.
It does help, but it's not good enough.
eddie bravo
I bet that fan was probably for the farts.
It had to be for the farts.
joe rogan
Probably.
Why else would you have a fucking fan?
Wherever in a restaurant you have a fan blowing on you, just get some air.
eddie bravo
That blows that hard.
brendan schaub
Yeah, hard.
joe rogan
You push farts away.
eddie bravo
They need to fix that problem in planes.
I bet they did.
joe rogan
I bet they invented that for the farts and they never talked about it.
brendan schaub
Fart fans.
It's a fart fan.
joe rogan
It's got to be for farts.
100%.
Or, you know what?
Back when people used to smoke on planes.
That's when they had them.
Remember that?
eddie bravo
Yeah.
joe rogan
They used to smoke on planes, and then it got to the point where you could only smoke in the back, so they had a smoking section.
Yo, I used to fly back then.
unidentified
What?
joe rogan
It was crazy.
brendan schaub
That's before my time.
joe rogan
I would be in those sections, man, because that's where you could buy tickets.
Like, they would say the only tickets that are available are the smoking section, and they would cost less.
You go into that fucking smoking section, just sit down, people around you are lighting up.
eddie bravo
Oh my god!
joe rogan
In a tube?
eddie bravo
I would throw up.
Come on, the whole plane is smoking section at that point.
joe rogan
Yeah, Dice Clay used to have a whole bit about it.
unidentified
We're in a fucking tube!
joe rogan
You don't have to go back there!
Everybody's breathing the same fucking air!
unidentified
Oh!
joe rogan
He had this whole bit about it, man.
It was fucking hilarious.
Yeah, it was a weird time.
People used to be able to smoke everywhere.
In restaurants, in bars, everywhere you went, people would smoke in movie theaters, man.
eddie bravo
I love that you can't.
brendan schaub
I love that you can't.
joe rogan
They would tell you not to smoke in movie theaters.
People would do it all the time.
People would get mad at them.
Hey, man, put it out.
Fuck you.
eddie bravo
That was one of those laws.
I mean, the government worked.
Holy shit.
It worked.
Because that was a good law.
joe rogan
You know why?
Because people were filing lawsuits.
A lot of people that worked inside restaurants and bars, they were getting cancer.
They were getting lung cancer from secondhand smoke.
Imagine if your job was to be a waitress and you had to go to this fucking bar every day.
eddie bravo
People go, oh, guess you shouldn't be there.
joe rogan
Well, it's a good job.
Why should you be subject to being poisoned at a good job?
It's not like drinking.
If you're drinking and I'm not drinking, I'm right next to you, I don't suffer anything.
But if you're smoking right next to me, and especially if you work in a place where everybody's smoking, Man, you're gonna die.
eddie bravo
Strip club, baby.
brendan schaub
I never got into cigarettes.
You guys ever fuck with cigarettes?
joe rogan
No, but I've had them before I go on stage before with Tony Hinchcliffe.
I've taken a few drags off of them.
He does.
Yeah, they fire you up, dude.
It's a stimulant.
It's very much like a nootropic.
eddie bravo
Really?
joe rogan
Very, very bad for your body, for sure.
But stimulant in itself, like tobacco is a stimulant, for sure.
100%.
Like, if you could chew, I think it would probably be the better move.
Like, Donald gave me some of his chew when I was here, and I was like, whoa!
Like, this stuff fires you up.
eddie bravo
Does it get you kind of, like, buzzed?
joe rogan
Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure.
That's why people smoke cigars, bro.
Bro.
I don't know where that came from.
I'm trying to slow that down.
I'm trying to cut way back on the bros, but occasionally they sneak through.
brendan schaub
You just can't deny the broness, man.
joe rogan
It's like if they ruined bro by calling anybody who's an asshole a bro.
brendan schaub
Come on, bro!
joe rogan
He's a bro.
But yeah, man, for sure.
There's a...
There's no doubt about it.
It's a definite stimulant.
If you smoke a cigar, you get a buzz.
brendan schaub
You don't see a lot of smokers these days, though.
joe rogan
They're smart.
People are smartening up.
eddie bravo
Well, you hang out with athletes.
brendan schaub
I hang out with zero athletes, sir.
eddie bravo
You hang out with comedians that don't smoke?
brendan schaub
Yeah.
eddie bravo
Comedians don't smoke these days?
joe rogan
Way less.
eddie bravo
Really?
joe rogan
Way less.
It used to be almost everybody smoked.
brendan schaub
Chris D'Elia doesn't even drink.
joe rogan
Yeah.
He doesn't drink.
brendan schaub
Drink or smoke.
joe rogan
There's a lot of guys who don't drink.
But back in the day, man, most guys smoked.
Like, Ari used to smoke.
Duncan used to smoke.
Joe used to smoke.
And you never did.
No, no, I never smoked.
No.
brendan schaub
Was the athlete in you?
joe rogan
Yeah, I was healthy.
I was still working out.
eddie bravo
Yeah.
joe rogan
Like, all the time I was doing stand-up.
In the beginning I was kickboxing.
Then I got into jiu-jitsu.
I did jiu-jitsu straight through.
Like, I never didn't exercise.
eddie bravo
Yeah, you can't smoke cigarettes and do jiu-jitsu.
I mean, on a regular...
joe rogan
You can, but you're going to get fucked.
unidentified
It's tough.
joe rogan
You're going to miss a lot.
eddie bravo
It's tough.
I mean, you're not just working out, you're playing a game of death, and if you tap out because you fucking gas out, you got tapped out, and that never feels that good.
That's why jiu-jitsu is so, people get obsessed with it so much.
joe rogan
That's why Joe Schilling is a crazy example.
brendan schaub
He's crazy.
joe rogan
He smokes.
Joe Schilling is a world-class kickboxer, and he smokes.
brendan schaub
Smoking's down?
joe rogan
All the time.
eddie bravo
Whoa.
joe rogan
Pack a day.
eddie bravo
Whoa!
That's amazing.
joe rogan
Did he say he smokes a pack a day?
brendan schaub
Not in camp.
unidentified
He said he's cutting back, but I think he was up to that, yeah.
brendan schaub
Yeah, not in camp.
joe rogan
He quit for a little while, did it again.
He needs to get on one of them robot dicks.
Suck on one of them robot dicks.
Those vaporized things.
brendan schaub
Start sucking dick.
joe rogan
Those strawberry clouts.
unidentified
Yeah.
brendan schaub
They do smell nice, too.
joe rogan
They smell good.
brendan schaub
I don't mind if people do those.
joe rogan
I don't think it gives you the buzz that a cigarette does, though.
I think a cigarette gives you a very specific buzz.
brendan schaub
All those chemicals and the thick smoke.
joe rogan
There's a fucking, if anyone's come back and talked more theories on conspiracies, which is always wonderful.
brendan schaub
He gets so worked up.
He's so mad.
eddie bravo
He gets so worked up.
joe rogan
We barely talked about the UFC. Everybody's so mad right now.
brendan schaub
Zero.
joe rogan
Tough shit.
brendan schaub
Zero.
joe rogan
Tough shit.
brendan schaub
That's what we do.
joe rogan
That's what we do.
brendan schaub
That's how it goes, folks.
We're all like, yeah, UFC campaign.
That'd be so much fun.
joe rogan
So much fun.
We still have time.
But they did...
The FDA approved like 500 plus chemicals to put them in a cigarette.
They're all designed to make you more and more addicted to it.
brendan schaub
Yeah, but did you know cigarettes have never been...
Less popular in my generation, they think is going to be the final kind of straw to get rid of smoking.
Because now it's just, it's more of a healthier kind of vibe now with millennials and stuff like that.
So smoking is, you're fucked.
Like really no one's doing it.
joe rogan
I wonder if Chew will carry on.
They need more of those dudes to get their jaw removed.
brendan schaub
You don't see a lot of Chewers either, do you?
joe rogan
Because we're up here.
We're in California.
If we're down south in Georgia or some shit like that, I bet they're chewing left and right.
brendan schaub
That's your point.
joe rogan
What if you had like a hidden camera and you put it on the chew section of a store?
brendan schaub
A lot of chewies.
joe rogan
I bet a lot of fucking sloppy looking...
brendan schaub
You call them chewies?
joe rogan
People who chew?
brendan schaub
Chewies.
joe rogan
I don't know.
You could do if you want to.
brendan schaub
You a chewy?
Like have a club?
joe rogan
Yeah.
I don't think so.
brendan schaub
You don't think they call chewies?
joe rogan
I don't think that's going to work.
No.
brendan schaub
We're talking about the smoke business.
joe rogan
You can chew, and Donald has fantastic cardio, and he chews.
Or dips.
Was it a dip or a chip?
brendan schaub
A dip.
unidentified
Dip.
joe rogan
Dip.
unidentified
Pretty much the same thing.
joe rogan
Pretty much the same thing, but the chew is like, remember those old school baseball players who look like squirrels?
unidentified
Yes.
joe rogan
They have that shit, like a...
brendan schaub
Lenny Deitstra.
joe rogan
Yeah.
You know what's really crazy, man?
That is probably very similar to what it feels like when you're chewing those coca leaves.
But the coca leaves are illegal.
Like when those guys in Peru, they take those coca leaves and they put them in the side of their mouth and they chew on them and they chew on them all the time.
And you also get actual vitamins from the flavonoids, I guess.
brendan schaub
Goddamn, son.
joe rogan
Yeah, look at that guy.
brendan schaub
Do you need that many?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah.
That's cat, Jamie.
That's the wrong stuff.
You want coca leaves.
That's a stimulant, or a narcotic, rather.
That cat stuff is very much like, not a narcotic, it's like meth.
unidentified
Damn!
joe rogan
Out of a plant?
Yeah, it makes them crazy.
They do a lot of crazy shit on it.
But this stuff is coca leaves.
They take it, and they pack their mouth with it, and they chew on it, and it has an effect, a stimulant effect that's similar to a cup of coffee.
I've never done it, but I have had a tea that was made out of it.
It's a mate de coca tea.
brendan schaub
Were you crunked?
joe rogan
No, but I couldn't shut the fuck up, which is always a problem already.
brendan schaub
Or awesome.
joe rogan
Yeah, depending on what your job is.
No, it wasn't coke, because I wasn't jacked.
I don't know.
I've never done coke.
eddie bravo
That's where coke comes from, right?
joe rogan
Yes, exactly.
But it's chewing the leaves versus the processed soup.
It's like the difference between getting your sugar from eating an orange versus eating a couple of tablespoons of real processed sugar.
Your body's like, what the fuck is this?
Where the hell is this shit coming from?
Your body doesn't know what the fuck you do with a spoon of sugar.
It's like, why is this alone?
Where's all the fiber?
Where's the fucking vitamins?
What did you do, you crazy asshole?
And that's what cocaine is.
brendan schaub
And that's why you can fuck with fruit, because the fiber, right?
Because it breaks down different.
joe rogan
And that's why I think these people that chew these coca leaves, they get a totally different experience than someone who does coke.
I need to try it, though.
I never chewed the leaves.
brendan schaub
You would think that would be popular.
joe rogan
It should be legal, bro.
It should be 100% legal.
unidentified
It's illegal?
joe rogan
Yeah, it's illegal.
You can't even have those leaves.
The problem is you can take those leaves, you can process it into cocaine.
Which, by the way, is an actual ingredient in Coca-Cola still.
brendan schaub
Cocaine is still?
joe rogan
Yes.
No way.
Yes, it is.
brendan schaub
I thought they got rid of it.
joe rogan
They take coca leaves, they process the coca leaves, and they make medical cocaine with it, and the same plant that does this, the same processing place that does this, ships the flavors of it to Coca-Cola.
So it's one of the main flavors they use.
Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola are two totally different tasting things.
brendan schaub
Not even close.
joe rogan
And one of the reasons why they taste different is Coca-Cola used to have cocaine in it, and now it's flavored by coca leaves.
Google that.
brendan schaub
Coke is so much better than Pepsi?
joe rogan
Google that.
For that reason, son.
Look at this.
To this day, dude, coca extraction.
jamie vernon
It says it's got cocaine-free leaves that are sold to Coca-Cola.
joe rogan
Exactly.
So they take these coca leaves, the factory processes them, turns them into medical cocaine, and the rest of the shit that's processed without cocaine in it is shipped to Coca-Cola and they use it for flavor.
brendan schaub
Dude, you're dropping some fucking knowledge.
Wait a minute.
Hey, the medical cocaine...
unidentified
What is that about?
brendan schaub
It's cocaine for medical reasons.
joe rogan
Lidocaine, which is one of the things that they use.
It's like the gay cousin of cocaine.
They use it for...
It doesn't get you high, but it numbs you up.
Damn.
Yeah, it's...
eddie bravo
Where else is this going?
We drink a lot of Coca-Cola.
They must be making a lot of medical cocaine, man.
unidentified
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
They must be making ridiculous amounts of it.
I wonder how much the actual flavor they get out of the leaves versus actual...
Cocaine.
It's probably taking a lot of leaves to get cocaine.
brendan schaub
When's the last time you had like a nice ice-cold Coca-Cola?
joe rogan
I don't drink that shit anymore.
brendan schaub
It's terrible for you.
It's terrible.
joe rogan
I had a Diet Coke last night, though.
brendan schaub
Well, that's even worse.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's even worse.
brendan schaub
That shit is toxic.
joe rogan
I very rarely do, but I said, fuck it, it's Christmas.
brendan schaub
Dude, I did too, and I had a regular Coke.
unidentified
Do they know?
brendan schaub
I had a regular Coke.
That shit is delicious.
joe rogan
So good.
brendan schaub
There's a reason why people are addicted to it.
joe rogan
With barbecue?
Come on.
eddie bravo
I was addicted to it as a kid.
I'd wake up in the middle of the night and run down to the 24-hour liquor store and get a couple cans of Coke and just like down in one drink.
I had to drink whole cans in one drink.
I was obsessed with sodas, man.
unidentified
Think about how much shit I love the burn in my throat.
eddie bravo
I'm addicted to that burn.
I just want the constant burn.
joe rogan
When it's cold, too?
Ooh, that's nice.
That's nice.
It does not taste the same.
It does not taste the same out of those fucking fountains.
You better stop calling that Coca-Cola.
You know you're a goddamn liar.
That is not the same formula.
It's gotta be out of a can.
100%.
eddie bravo
It's gotta be out of a can.
brendan schaub
Or a bottle.
joe rogan
Or a bottle.
Or that Mexican bottle with the cane sugar.
brendan schaub
You're talking about that green bottle.
joe rogan
No, the ones that you get at certain burrito stores.
brendan schaub
Yeah, and they have a green Coca-Cola on it.
unidentified
Is it green?
brendan schaub
Yeah, because that's how you know it's the pure cane sugar.
joe rogan
Oh.
Green?
unidentified
Green's a different kind.
Is it?
joe rogan
I don't know what the fuck you're talking about.
brendan schaub
No, that's not my tea cola, son.
unidentified
Yeah, fucking killer whales are attacking people, and so does green.
eddie bravo
Hey, is there any reports?
brendan schaub
Cal, let's rub it off on me!
I'll make it shut up!
joe rogan
Speaking of Paige Van Zandt, Michelle Waterson, not to be confused with Michelle Waterman.
brendan schaub
Ron Waterman.
joe rogan
Coca-Cola Life.
brendan schaub
Cane, Sugar, and Stevia.
Oh, that's that bullshit.
joe rogan
Is this a new one?
eddie bravo
They're putting Stevia.
joe rogan
Oh, Stevia's a good move.
But Cane, Sugar, and Stevia.
They put like a little dab of Stevia and a bucket of sugar.
brendan schaub
Get that poison on my fucking face.
eddie bravo
Hey, I love stevia.
Zevia, have you ever tried that?
joe rogan
Oh, look at that.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
We have some here.
You want some?
We have some.
eddie bravo
Oh, I love that stuff.
joe rogan
Yeah, they sent me a bunch of it.
What is it?
Not even paying me to say it.
And we drank it on air, didn't we?
I don't know.
brendan schaub
What is it?
joe rogan
It's soda flavored with stevia.
Oh, that's just delicious.
Yeah, it's good.
Stevia's good, man.
I like it.
It doesn't fuck with you.
I like to put it in coffee.
It doesn't fuck with your blood sugar levels.
It tastes better.
brendan schaub
I agree.
joe rogan
It doesn't seem to have any negatives.
I mean, I don't know what it's like if you abuse it, but I think if you eat 100 oranges, your body's going to feel like shit.
brendan schaub
Well, I'll let you know because I abuse the shit out of it.
joe rogan
Do you?
brendan schaub
Yeah.
eddie bravo
According to Dan Quinn, though, it's...
joe rogan
Yeah, that guy's on the ball.
So let's talk about Dominic Cruz and Cody Garbrandt, man.
brendan schaub
Killer whales.
Yeah.
joe rogan
Two hours into the podcast, people are like, fuck you!
unidentified
What in the fuck?
joe rogan
Is this a boxing podcast?
brendan schaub
It's a Coca-Cola podcast.
joe rogan
This is what happens when you have a producer, or like, you know, engineer, or rather, executive.
brendan schaub
You look at the money line, Cody's not that big of an underdog.
joe rogan
Well, Cody's fucking dangerous.
brendan schaub
Super dangerous.
joe rogan
But here's the question, like, has he ever faced anybody that moves the way Dominic does?
And we've seen with so many guys that they have a really hard time hitting Dominic.
He's a really hard time to hit.
Okay, so Dominic is a two-to-one favorite.
brendan schaub
Correct.
joe rogan
You know, which is, I'd say that's, well, Cody's $1.75, so the real spread is only $0.35 on a dollar, a dollar bet.
brendan schaub
Not crazy, especially how good Dominic is.
What they're banking on, I think, you know, Cody hasn't, Mizugaki's his best win, which was his last fight, so that's what got him this title shot.
They're banking on him landing on Dominic.
joe rogan
Here's something people aren't talking about.
Lineker and TJ Dillashaw is on the same card.
That's a crazy fucking fight, man.
Lineker is scary.
brendan schaub
Lineker is super scary.
joe rogan
He's terrifying.
Build on that little monkey.
He's built like a chimpanzee.
Like a pounder.
He was 125, right?
Ladies and gentlemen, I call myself a monkey.
135. Lineker?
eddie bravo
Wasn't he 125?
joe rogan
Yes, he was 125, but he wouldn't make the weight.
He has a real talent, and he has real power.
He's a scary, scary guy.
brendan schaub
Him or Cody's the hardest hitters?
That's a fun fight.
joe rogan
Lineker's a different kind of hitter though.
I think Cody's lightning fast and like beautiful combinations and beautiful footwork.
brendan schaub
Better technique.
joe rogan
The angles that he cut when he knocked out Thomas Almeida.
Almeida was undefeated, very scary, and he cut some serious fucking angles and dropped some bombs on him.
eddie bravo
It's like woo!
joe rogan
The speed of entry.
brendan schaub
His uncle was an alternative Olympic boxer, his dad was a boxer, and they just put this little ball of hate into him.
He's a ridiculous wrestler, too.
joe rogan
His kind of knockout power is a different kind of knockout power than Lineker.
Lineker is almost like a guy that is 20 or 30 pounds bigger than him.
It's weird.
Like, he hits guys and you see them, like, off!
Like, he's hitting you on the arms with these bombs, and he takes a shot extremely well.
Like, when he fought Francisco...
When you watch the combination of those two guys unloaded in the first round, you're like, Jesus Christ, Francisco Rivera is a bad motherfucker.
brendan schaub
Hell yeah.
joe rogan
He's a very good striker.
And he just decided to go to war with Lineker, and Lineker was just dropping bombs on him.
And you go, Jesus, he can do this even at 135. Maybe even better at 135. And I love to watch Lineker fight.
brendan schaub
I don't think in...
For right now, I don't think he'll be champion with that style of fighting.
That pull forward and only boxing.
Watch what happens when TJ. Because it's easy to game plan for TJ and Dwayne Ludwig.
They're going to go, alright, this is what we do.
And you're going to see him angles, mixing it up.
joe rogan
Me too.
brendan schaub
I'm excited about it.
joe rogan
I think TJ is spectacularly talented, no doubt.
And TJ has amazing footwork and all the Dwayne system.
But Lineker's got something special, man.
I've very rarely seen a guy at his weight class that hits people the way he does.
It's almost like he's doing a different thing.
brendan schaub
Yeah, it's a different kind of monster.
Those fights are very similar where Cody Garbrandt just needs one to win the fight.
Lineker needs one to win the fight.
Don McCrew's footwork's ridiculous.
T.J. Dillshaw's footwork, ridiculous.
joe rogan
But you gotta think, you know, T.J. KO'd Hennenborough twice, dropped him in the first round with a straight right hand.
It's not like T.J. doesn't have power.
brendan schaub
Not Lineker power.
joe rogan
He doesn't have the same kind of power, but he's got way more options as far as movement.
So it's going to be very interesting to see how that plays out.
unidentified
That's what I'm saying.
brendan schaub
It's kind of like you have this movement game.
And remember, that fight's only three rounds, which hurts, I think, TJ. I think that hurts TJ. Because he's got to survive the storm.
joe rogan
Yeah.
brendan schaub
It hurts TJ because...
joe rogan
TJ moves so good, man.
In the Burrell fight, you saw it right away.
Burrell's got that linear style, presses forward.
brendan schaub
Those were five rounds, though, right?
Because that footwork's gonna...
That's gonna be hard to follow if you're that straightforward pressure fighter.
Four championship rounds, you're like, Jesus Christ, and it starts wearing on you.
And then TJ takes over.
joe rogan
That's interesting.
That's a good point.
I think TJ is...
Definitely in a tricky situation because he wanted that rematch, wanted that title fight.
He was really close in the first fight with Dominick Cruz.
It was a real close decision.
brendan schaub
He just told me, Bates were like, you won that fight.
I think Dana even agreed.
He was like, you won that fight, man.
joe rogan
It was a very close fight.
No doubt about it.
Whoever you believe won that fight.
And then Dominick goes on and beats Uriah and beats him handily.
And now Dominick is stepping in to fight him.
And he's fighting Cody.
And he's got a really tough fight on that same card.
In a really tough fight, where if he loses that fight, fuck, man.
brendan schaub
Back in the line.
joe rogan
And this is a guy that has missed weight a couple of times.
And Lineker is kind of tricky in that situation, where he's missed weight at featherweight.
Or missed weight, rather, at flyweight.
brendan schaub
Yeah.
joe rogan
A couple of times.
And hasn't he missed weight at bantamweight, too?
brendan schaub
Yes.
unidentified
Once.
joe rogan
Yeah.
So this is a guy that's going to come in big as fuck.
He's very dangerous.
Hits super hard.
Like, in a creepy way.
Creepy hard.
brendan schaub
It's almost like a heavyweight fight for TJ because you make one mistake and Lineker lands, it's over.
If you're fighting Dom, you make some mistakes, you're gonna get lit up, he's not gonna end your night.
joe rogan
Pull up Lineker versus McDonald.
Mike McDonald is a fucking straight killer.
That kid's a bad motherfucker.
brendan schaub
He's got vicious power.
He went away for a while, right?
joe rogan
Had some injuries.
Yeah, had some injuries.
Lost to Uriah.
Uriah mauled him, remember?
brendan schaub
That was the big one when Uriah murked him because he finally came back and then Uriah murked him.
He went away.
joe rogan
It was one of Uriah's finest performances.
Uriah cracked him with a right hand, got a hold of that neck and just put the full Uriah on him as far as his guillotine, that mounted guillotine.
brendan schaub
It's almost like the 135 tournament because you have Cody and Dom, then you have TJ Lineker.
The loser's gonna fight the loser, the winner's gonna fight the winner.
joe rogan
Let's watch, check out that, do you find that fight?
Lineker versus Michael McDonald, KO? I had it, but it pulled up a wrong fight for some reason.
Oh, these sons of bitches.
Here it is.
So, like, Michael McDonald, like, real classical style, real good punching power, not built like a scary guy, but a vicious knockout artist.
Like, one of those guys where the body really sort of is very deceptive.
brendan schaub
And remember, he was, like, top, top prospect, too.
joe rogan
He was a big, big prospect to see Uriah.
unidentified
Mm-hmm.
joe rogan
Or Hennon Burrell first.
He lost to Hennon Burrell, right?
And then he came back and fought Uriah.
Wasn't that the case?
eddie bravo
How tall is Lineker?
joe rogan
He's short.
brendan schaub
He's short.
joe rogan
But he's about the same height as Dwight Cahwee.
unidentified
Yeah.
eddie bravo
5'6".
brendan schaub
5'6".
joe rogan
I don't know.
I don't think he is, honestly.
I think he's 5'4".
brendan schaub
He's a small little dude.
joe rogan
He's a small guy.
brendan schaub
But he hits like a fucking Mack truck.
joe rogan
Yeah, almost creepy in his power, man.
And so confident in it, too.
brendan schaub
But, again, to the point where I don't think he's ever going to be a champ, you look at a guy like John Dotson who just outworked him, and I thought he lost that fight.
Granted, they gave it to Lineker.
joe rogan
Yeah, well, it was close enough.
I mean, oh, look, he heard him there.
Look, he heard him there.
You could see.
Mike McDowell steps back and is like, oh, Jesus.
There's a feeling that guys get when he connects on them where you see it in their eyes.
They're like, holy shit.
This is a different thing here.
brendan schaub
That's not snowflake.
That's not snowflake move.
joe rogan
Yeah.
No, and he's also got a ridiculous chin.
When he stood in front of Rivera...
brendan schaub
He's going like this?
joe rogan
Yeah.
brendan schaub
Like, come on!
joe rogan
They were just banging it out.
brendan schaub
He's fun.
joe rogan
And Rivera flattens people.
So as you watch Lineker walk him down here, you're looking at this kid who's just got unique power.
Like, really unique.
And even a guy like that.
unidentified
Oh!
Look at that.
joe rogan
Boom!
Michael McDonald recognizes him.
He goes down there.
Look, he goes down again.
Boom, boom, boom, boom.
And Lineker just stands in front of him, bites on his mouthpiece, and fucking mauls him.
brendan schaub
McDonald landed one, too.
joe rogan
Yeah, and Lineker ate it like a tic-tac, and he's moving forward.
Boom, boom.
brendan schaub
Straight tic-tac.
joe rogan
And he rocks him again.
And he's just undeniably confident in his ability to walk you down and smash you.
brendan schaub
What you can't do is let him back you up and get your back against the cage.
You've got to move, man.
eddie bravo
Dillashaw moves 10 times more.
joe rogan
10 times more.
100%.
But the question is, is there going to be exchanges where Dillashaw is inside of his range?
And will one of these things land?
And once one of those things do land, will Dillashaw continue to engage the same way?
Boom!
Boom, boom, boom.
brendan schaub
Or will it be over if it lands?
joe rogan
But TJ takes a good shot and has never been a guy to stand in front of you like this.
brendan schaub
No.
joe rogan
Oh, look at that.
Boom.
You see his head get snapped.
brendan schaub
At 135?
What are we talking about?
joe rogan
It's very rare that anybody has that kind of destroying power at that weight.
brendan schaub
T.J. can wrestle, too.
So if they get in close, he'll take his ass down.
joe rogan
The difference between him and Dotson at 135, and I like Dotson at 35. I think he's better at 35 than 25. I just think he just kills himself too much to make that weight.
Like when he fought Gamberian, because Dotson can sneak in on you and then sneak out on you.
And when they fought, did they fight at 35 or 25?
Dotson and Lineker fought.
brendan schaub
That was at 25. Is it?
100% does at 25. Yeah.
joe rogan
Is it?
You might be right.
I don't think that's the right weight class for Dodson.
For either of them.
Yeah, both guys.
I think both guys are way better off without destroying themselves.
brendan schaub
Those are fun fights, man.
And then the FS1 prelims are stacked.
You got Neil Magny versus...
joe rogan
What's that?
It's a catchweight, 136 and a half.
brendan schaub
Does he miss weight?
Or no?
unidentified
I'm just looking at Wikipedia.
joe rogan
So it must have been like a last minute decision to have that fight.
So that's interesting that Dodson and him went to war.
And Lineker won the decision?
brendan schaub
Yes.
joe rogan
At 35. Interesting.
brendan schaub
But I thought...
joe rogan
You thought Dodson won?
brendan schaub
Yeah.
joe rogan
But here's the other thing about TJ. You gotta think, how long has TJ really been with Dwayne Ludwig?
And he continues to get better with Dwayne Ludwig.
It's only been a few years.
So in the last couple of years, like, you know, what have we seen?
We've seen the two big fights with Hannan Burrell where he murked him, right?
Which are the all-time career highlight performances, right?
brendan schaub
Joe Soto fight.
joe rogan
Especially the second one, the Joe Soto fight, which was an interesting fight because taking on a real tough guy on a real short notice.
brendan schaub
Two day notice?
joe rogan
One day.
One day.
During the weigh-in, Burau, trying to make weight, falls asleep and bangs his head on the wall because he cut too much weight.
Joe Soto steps in, and so TJ makes that adjustment, wins that fight, comes back, beats the shit out of Burau in the rematch, like really dominated him in the rematch.
Those are like, you know, real highlight, real finishes.
All three of those fights.
So then he goes from that, a really close loss to Dominick Cruz, and then beats Asuncao.
Like, he took a chance with Asuncao.
brendan schaub
Asuncao's number two at the time.
joe rogan
Yeah.
He beat Asuncao.
Looked better in the Asuncao fight than he did in the first time they fought.
So he's showing improvement just in that fight.
You just gotta wonder what this is gonna look like.
What Lineker versus him is gonna look like.
Very, very interesting fight.
brendan schaub
Great matchups.
joe rogan
Fuck yeah.
That one particular.
What do you think about Cody and Dominic?
Do you think that Cody's going to be able to, like, when you look at Cody move and you see his success against guys like Mitsugaki, against guys like Thomas Almeida, and then you see what Dominic does to people.
He's in front of you.
He's not.
He's shuffling stances.
He's off to the side.
He's got his hands down.
He's moving in this really fucking weird way that's real tough to emulate.
brendan schaub
I love Cody, but the X Factor here is we haven't really seen him face top competition.
Mizugaki's older.
He got murked before from Dominic.
Then he gets murked by Cody.
joe rogan
We saw promise in Almeida.
We saw him fight a really promising guy.
brendan schaub
Again, young guy.
Not the level of Dominic Cruz, or we haven't seen him with the movement.
joe rogan
Right.
brendan schaub
The thing I like about Cody, he's so damn game.
I was talking to Lance Palmer at Team Alpha Male, and they're like, we've never seen anything like it.
Like, Fight Week, if he sees someone, and he needs to work on this, but he's just young and hungry.
He goes, if he sees someone from another camp, he tries and fights him in the hallway.
He's just like this pit bull man.
He's just so goddamn competitive.
We have to have a coach with him at all times.
unidentified
All times.
brendan schaub
He won't leave the gym.
If he sees someone else from the camp, tries and fights him.
joe rogan
But don't you think that's a waste of energy?
brendan schaub
100%.
He's young.
joe rogan
He's young.
eddie bravo
It could be an exaggeration, though.
joe rogan
Could be.
eddie bravo
For sure.
He may have had a problem with one dude once.
unidentified
For sure.
joe rogan
For sure.
Eddie Bravo now all of a sudden talking reasonable.
brendan schaub
Now talking fucking logic.
eddie bravo
Hey, I'm just talking common sense.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah.
I understand.
eddie bravo
That sounds like fake news.
joe rogan
What else is that?
Let's go over the rest of the card.
Pull up the whole card, Jamie.
brendan schaub
The big thing on this is, can Cody land, but can he keep up for, again, it's five rounds.
It's five fucking rounds, man.
joe rogan
That's a long time.
What is this about?
eddie bravo
I don't know anything about these guys.
joe rogan
They're both real good, man.
They're both real good.
Good ground fighters, too.
Louis Smolka and Ray Borg.
That should be a very interesting fight.
brendan schaub
It's a fun fight.
This card, it sucks, because how about Kane and Verdum?
joe rogan
Well, Ray Borg's the guy that pulled out on, he was supposed to be fighting Ian, and pulled out on real short notice.
Remember that?
brendan schaub
Yeah, Smolka's fun to watch.
joe rogan
Yeah, they're both fun to watch.
brendan schaub
Is Smolka an American-Russian, or actually from the Eastern Bloc?
No, he's American.
joe rogan
He's American.
Yeah, where's Louis Smolka from?
brendan schaub
That's a fun fight.
joe rogan
I don't know where Lewis is from.
brendan schaub
What sucks is Cain Verdumov.
That would be fun.
joe rogan
Hawaii.
Oh, he's Hawaiian.
That's right.
The Last Samurai.
That's why it's D8. That's right.
eddie bravo
His dad's probably Russian, though.
joe rogan
How dare you?
eddie bravo
Come on, Smolka.
joe rogan
Is that a Russian name?
brendan schaub
Hell yes.
joe rogan
Jamie, go back to that.
eddie bravo
Come on, man.
joe rogan
I don't know anything.
brendan schaub
Smolka?
joe rogan
Smolka.
What is that?
brendan schaub
When you say it like that, that sounds smart, doesn't it?
joe rogan
Smolka, bro.
What's his ethnicity?
It just might be Hawaiian, dude.
He might just be straight Hawaiian.
eddie bravo
It could be his nickname, like, you know, Brazilians use nicknames.
joe rogan
Go to his Wikipedia.
Does he have a Wikipedia?
eddie bravo
He might be a mad stoner.
brendan schaub
Dude, he's Hawaiian as fuck.
joe rogan
Yeah, he looks pretty fucking Hawaiian.
brendan schaub
Hawaiians are killing it, huh?
eddie bravo
Holloway?
joe rogan
Oh, yeah, man.
Well, that's a crazy island.
You're stuck on an island with dudes and you got a problem with them?
You can't just fucking drive away.
Like, that's a completely different mindset.
brendan schaub
You just can't drive away.
You gotta fight each other on an island.
joe rogan
You're hanging out together on a volcano.
Doesn't say anything about his ethnicity?
He's Hawaiian, bro.
brendan schaub
He's Hawaiian as shit, man.
joe rogan
Let's go to the Amanda Nunes-Ronda Rousey fight.
eddie bravo
If you had to put some money down, what do you think?
joe rogan
Man, who the fuck knows?
I love saying who the fuck knows.
Because we haven't seen Ronda fight in over a year.
brendan schaub
We don't know where her head's at.
joe rogan
And you're looking at her body.
She's in insane shape.
There's some pictures of her online throwing punches, and you look at her back, and you're like, holy shit.
brendan schaub
I haven't seen him.
joe rogan
Fuck yeah.
She's down to fight weight already, apparently.
You know, I think losing to someone like Holly Holm the way she did and to be tired and get beat up and the whole deal.
Like, look at her back there where she's punching the speed bag.
Jesus.
eddie bravo
Look at that shit.
joe rogan
That's redonkulous.
brendan schaub
God damn.
joe rogan
So, if you think about...
The way she lost that fight and how she looked physically, she didn't look nothing like this.
Like, not even close.
Like, she's got all these videos of her running uphill and all this different stuff.
She looks, like, way more fit.
She got tired in the fight with Holly, and that was a big factor.
Also, getting hit was a big factor.
brendan schaub
There you go, Joe.
joe rogan
Getting stunned right away.
But really solid conditioning will allow you to recover better than not being in such good shape, especially when you get hit in the head.
That's a big factor with the guys that are super, super fit is how they bounce back.
You know, like, Neil Magny's a good example.
He can stun that guy in the first round, but he's so fit, he bounces back.
brendan schaub
For her, too, that Holly fight, the one thing about Ronna, she always comes to fight, she's always in shape.
She takes that, you know, personal, takes it kind of upon herself to be in shape.
joe rogan
But she did not have the same sort of dedication towards that fight with Holly that she's got towards this fight.
Physically, it doesn't look like it.
brendan schaub
I don't think we know.
Physically, you can say that, but we don't know, because she's been shooting movies, she won't do press conferences, you know what I'm saying?
So we don't know.
eddie bravo
If she could take her down...
Use her judo and not try to strike with her.
Just clench up.
Do that judo trip.
Take her down.
Anybody's in danger of that armbar.
brendan schaub
That's what she's going to do.
eddie bravo
That's what she's going to do.
Amanda Nunes could easily get caught in that armbar.
It wouldn't shock you.
brendan schaub
Here's a question for you, Joe.
eddie bravo
She's got to drag her down.
brendan schaub
Here's a question for you guys.
Do you think...
She has the coaching to make changes where she just doesn't pull forward on Amanda Nunes and get punched in the face.
eddie bravo
Yeah, of course she's going to be calm.
Of course she's going to take her time.
Of course.
brendan schaub
She's not going to go out there reckless.
eddie bravo
She's going to take her time.
brendan schaub
That's how she came around around it.
eddie bravo
She should anyways.
And it seems like common sense.
Don't fucking get crazy.
Get in there.
Just fucking get the blood going.
brendan schaub
That's not her.
That's not her, Eddie.
joe rogan
I don't know, man.
brendan schaub
That's like asking Mike Tyson, can you sit on the outside and jab and do that?
joe rogan
She might try to overwhelm her, but she's not stupid.
She's going to learn from mistakes.
They just fight a cleaner fight, more movement, more head movement, also knee surgery.
She's had knee surgery since then.
eddie bravo
She could take Amanda down, I think.
brendan schaub
100%.
eddie bravo
Yeah, she could take her down.
joe rogan
Kat Zingano had a real hard first round.
In the first round, Amanda Nunes was beating the shit out of her.
Kat Nunes, or Kat Nunes.
unidentified
Kat...
joe rogan
Kat came back and stopped Nunez.
That's Nunez's thing.
Got her on the back and slowed her down.
brendan schaub
Nunez isn't known for a cardio.
No.
It's tough because what makes Ronda great is there's this flurry, there's this exchange.
Next thing you know, she fucking hip tosses you and you're in an arm bar, right?
That's her thing.
She's not really going to sit on outside and be patient.
That's not her.
But if she can, like if it's a dogfight, I think Ronda ends up catching her in the fourth or fifth round.
Because Amanda, she starts off like a tidal wave, and we've seen her losses.
She kind of slows down.
She just does.
joe rogan
Yeah, well, it's going to be interesting to see if American Top Team's been able to do something to mitigate that.
Who knows what kind of strength and conditioning program she's under now.
eddie bravo
The only problem I see on the ground is if Ronda takes her down and ends up on top.
She might have a hard time passing Amanda Nunez guard.
And we'll see.
Like, Ronda's not, she's not known for her guard passing.
So that could be a problem.
Maybe she takes her down.
brendan schaub
Straight scrambles, Eddie.
eddie bravo
Yes.
brendan schaub
That's her thing.
She'll let her attempt to get up.
eddie bravo
If she can get her on her back, how will she deal with passing the guard?
brendan schaub
She really doesn't.
She goes to it, and then she's going to transition from there.
eddie bravo
You got to deal with it.
brendan schaub
With a black belt in jiu-jitsu, you're going to have to deal with the guard pass.
eddie bravo
It's not going to be easy.
brendan schaub
Amanda really doesn't submit anybody.
eddie bravo
She's a black belt, right?
joe rogan
If Rhonda can get on top of her, she submitted Misha Tate.
She submitted Misha Tate.
eddie bravo
She's a black belt in jiu-jitsu, correct?
joe rogan
And she submitted Sarah McMahon, too.
She battered both of them and submitted both of them.
brendan schaub
She whooped both her asses.
joe rogan
Did she submit Sarah McMahon?
brendan schaub
She submitted Kat.
joe rogan
She definitely submitted Misha.
No, no, no.
Kat beat her up.
brendan schaub
No, not Kat.
I'm sorry.
She submitted Misha.
joe rogan
Yeah, she submitted Misha.
brendan schaub
After that whole exchange.
joe rogan
I think she did the same thing to Sarah McMahon.
I think she cracked her and then put her away with a choke.
I'm pretty sure.
brendan schaub
The one thing she has over Ronda in this fight is power.
joe rogan
She has vicious power.
unidentified
Striking.
brendan schaub
And I'd say that's it.
I'd say that's it.
joe rogan
And if Ronda does come at her full clip like that, it's a very risky proposition.
She can crack so fucking hard.
But if Ronda feels like she can get closer to that, here we go.
unidentified
She's not dropping chicks with one punch, right?
eddie bravo
She's not scary.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
eddie bravo
I'm talking about Amanda Nunes.
joe rogan
Amanda Nunes is.
brendan schaub
No, she's merking girls.
eddie bravo
One shot, she's dropping them.
brendan schaub
Shayna Blazer.
joe rogan
Look at that.
eddie bravo
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
No, she's merking girls.
Amanda Nunez can punch as hard as any fucking woman in that division.
She might be the hardest women puncher in the 135-time division.
brendan schaub
She's the hardest woman puncher outside of Cyborg.
joe rogan
Well, Cyborg's not 135, for sure.
brendan schaub
No, I'm just saying females in general, she's the hardest puncher.
Cyborg's a different player.
unidentified
Really?
eddie bravo
Okay.
joe rogan
Shit.
eddie bravo
Okay.
joe rogan
You want to see her fight?
eddie bravo
The game plan in my mind stays the same.
Watch this.
joe rogan
Did you see the fight with Misha?
brendan schaub
I agree.
joe rogan
Did you see her fight with Misha?
eddie bravo
Amanda Nunes, Misha?
brendan schaub
Yes, but I forgot all about it.
joe rogan
It's vicious.
Pull up Amanda Nunes stopping Misha.
She beat her up standing up.
eddie bravo
Oh, this was the last fight.
joe rogan
This was her last fight.
brendan schaub
Yeah, where she won the belt.
eddie bravo
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, I saw that.
joe rogan
Okay, what about the Sarah McMahon fight?
eddie bravo
I don't remember.
joe rogan
Oh, this is UFC 200. Go before that, because before that is when she's beating her up on the feet.
eddie bravo
Yeah, I was there.
joe rogan
She's got a nasty jab, too, man.
She steps in.
brendan schaub
Good distance, too.
joe rogan
Boom, boom.
Good scramble.
The question is, there's a big difference between dealing with Ronda and dealing with Misha.
This is a mauling, man.
unidentified
Jesus Christ.
brendan schaub
She beat the brakes off of her.
joe rogan
Amanda's just putting it to Misha Tate.
She just has long-ass punches, too.
And then she gets her back...
brendan schaub
This is how I see it going.
If Ronda's in the right frame of mind, I think she does rush in like she usually does.
Probably eats a shot, but then she gets inside, gets her underhook, takes her for a ride, and submits her in the first round.
unidentified
God, I hope nobody tests positive for anything.
joe rogan
There's so many people getting popped lately.
brendan schaub
How about Cyborg?
joe rogan
Yeah.
brendan schaub
Game over.
No matter what it's for, game fucking over, man.
Now everyone goes, told ya!
joe rogan
Fucking told ya!
Spironolactone is what they're saying it is.
Spironolactone is a DHT inhibitor, which is a derivative of testosterone, dihydrotestosterone.
I used to rub that shit on my head.
Excuse me, man?
When I was trying to keep my hair from falling out because of testosterone?
Yeah.
Yeah, if you have the gene for it, dihydrotestosterone is what...
Both of you beautiful heads of hair don't have that as much.
eddie bravo
Oh, come on, man.
Dude, come on.
My hair is falling out like it's...
I'm fine.
No.
joe rogan
You're almost 50. His hair is beautiful.
brendan schaub
Thanks, man.
eddie bravo
Thank you.
Thank you for...
brendan schaub
Mine's dead.
joe rogan
Mine's a dead wasteland.
unidentified
Done.
joe rogan
But when I was a kid...
Or when I was in my, I guess I was probably in my 20s, I would rub this Spironolactane on my fucking scalp because it's a DHT inhibitor.
It inhibits DHT, so when people take steroids, or a woman takes steroids, or a man who has that gene where the hair falls out, and if a man has that gene and he takes steroids, it's probably even worse.
But if you rub that spironolactone on, it has a DHT-inhibiting effect.
And I think if you take it orally, it also acts as a diuretic.
And there's also some uses as a masking agent.
There's a whole bunch of different uses of this.
Like as a diuretic, it also has benefits as a masking agent.
And it also mitigates the effects of taking steroids in females.
So there's a lot of stuff going on with that stuff.
But the one on her side that she says it is, is that it's used as a diuretic, which appears to be true.
eddie bravo
You know what would be great?
If she goes to Ryzen and fights Gabby Garcia.
Think about that.
joe rogan
What she said, though, is that she had some issues.
eddie bravo
I think they're friends.
joe rogan
I think they're friends.
eddie bravo
Yeah.
joe rogan
Scratch that.
She had some issues with birth control pills, and then she was bloated because of birth control pills, so a doctor prescribed this to her off-season, which is to try to deal with...
Look, I don't know.
I ain't never cut that kind of weight before, but if you watch that Outside the Lines piece on her with the weight cutting, have you ever seen it?
brendan schaub
I've seen it, and there was a commissioner who was like, I would never approve for her to fight.
It's horrific.
How she's fighting at 135 should be illegal.
joe rogan
Well, 140. She never got to 135. 140. Even 140. You've got to watch it, Eddie.
It's insane.
brendan schaub
It's terrifying.
joe rogan
It's insane.
brendan schaub
There's no way she should She's saying she turned down the fight, and that's why she's saying she turned down those two title fights, because I was giving her shit.
I'm like, who turns down title fights, even though they made the Division 4?
She's saying, I destroyed my body.
I'm having depression.
I'm having horrible issues.
My body's just not ready to fight.
Like, I need to march.
joe rogan
Well, when you talk to people that have cut ridiculous amounts of weight like that and then all of a sudden the body just goes...
Something goes wrong.
And your body doesn't want to lose any weight anymore.
Your kidneys start aching.
You get kidney stones.
It can be some serious side effects to cutting that kind of weight.
brendan schaub
Your thyroid, too, goes...
joe rogan
It's so dangerous.
You're literally getting to the door of death 24 hours before you enter into a cage fight.
It's the craziest thing that we allow people to do in MMA. And it's essentially, in a lot of ways, it's sanctioned cheating.
brendan schaub
True.
joe rogan
Sanctioned cheating.
eddie bravo
You gotta have weight classes.
You gotta have a way to enforce them.
What's your idea?
joe rogan
I think there's got to be a way to get guys to fight people that are their size without having the same rigid weight structure where you have like 155 and 170 and 185. You don't have any solutions?
No, I don't.
I think there's got to be a way to check hydration levels in camp, and there's got to be a way.
You're going to have to blow the whole thing up, though.
Like, champions won't be the champions of the same weight class anymore.
But if you've got Chris Weidman to fight at his natural weight and another guy to fight at his...
eddie bravo
But how do you determine that, though?
joe rogan
You would have to find out what a guy weighs when he's in shape and fit.
And you would have to do this whole transition over a period of time.
eddie bravo
So when that weigh-in comes in, that's when they're gonna cut.
joe rogan
No, you don't allow them to.
You don't allow them to.
brendan schaub
And there would also be like 20 belts, right?
eddie bravo
Maybe just like, I'm in good shape.
joe rogan
No, you do the same thing that you do with USADA. You randomly test their hydration levels.
You randomly test their weight.
So if they're healthy and they're in camp, there's no way they're going to keep that weight off the entire camp.
It's impossible.
eddie bravo
What if they're close?
joe rogan
You can't.
eddie bravo
You know what I mean?
It's like, hey, I should be a lightweight.
joe rogan
As long as it's close, it's like when Cowboy cuts five pounds.
That's normal.
Like when you see Cowboy, you don't go, there's no way this dude is 170. You look at him, you go, yeah, he looks like he's 170. That's his real weight.
When you look at Damian Maia, you go, there's no fucking way he's 170. He's 200 pounds.
When you look at, like, Rick Story, he's giant.
Like, there's some guys that cut the weight and then put it back on in a big way.
Johnny Hendricks in his prime?
Johnny Hendricks in his prime would be jack-mified when he was Merkin John Fitch and Marvin Campman and those guys.
eddie bravo
So random weigh-ins, random, so for sure they're not going to be cutting.
unidentified
Exactly.
eddie bravo
They wouldn't know.
So they couldn't.
And then whatever you weigh in at, they let you cut five pounds if you need to or something like that.
joe rogan
Something along those lines.
You give a person like a five-pound buffer.
brendan schaub
It gets super messy.
joe rogan
It does get messy.
But you also, I think, you're causing part of the problem with weigh-ins by having these very specific weight classes, like 155, 170. So then the problem would be determining who is the champion.
And what do you call that champion?
You have a built-in area because, you know, you'd say welterweight or middleweight or light heavyweight.
What you're not saying is the 155-pound champ.
The names are kind of silly.
Like, why is welterweight 170 in MMA but 147 in boxing?
brendan schaub
That's ridiculous.
unidentified
Or light heavyweight.
joe rogan
Boxing's been around forever.
Why do we have different names or different weight classes for the same name?
But it doesn't matter.
Still, everybody knows what a light heavyweight is.
brendan schaub
They're going based off that.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's still crazy.
My point is, instead, have lightweight, middleweight, have all these different names, but have people actually weigh that For a guy who's 170, have an actual 170-pound man.
Not some crazy dude who gets to 215 like Rumble Johnson used to do.
brendan schaub
It's just too muddy.
eddie bravo
How about this?
That would work, but how hard would it be in the random testing and all that shit and then the 5 pounds?
What if the guy is 6 pounds?
What you could do is the 48 hours before the weigh-in, you're under control.
You have to have like you're in a hotel.
brendan schaub
They do that now?
eddie bravo
Oh, really?
unidentified
Yeah.
eddie bravo
You can't do any extreme weight cutting, no weird baths, no nothing like that.
brendan schaub
When you check in on Tuesday, I don't, again, Bert's gone to the commission, I don't know what the fuck they're doing now, but they used to do, as soon as you land, you don't check in anything, you go to the room and they weigh you.
And if you're like 40 pounds, 30 pounds over, they're on you, man.
joe rogan
Yeah, it makes sense.
eddie bravo
Yeah, that's it.
joe rogan
Makes sense.
eddie bravo
That's it.
joe rogan
Yeah, they'd have to weigh you all the time.
They fixed it already.
And then they're all over.
brendan schaub
Yeah, they're all over.
And you're weighing in every day.
eddie bravo
Oh, that's all they have to do.
brendan schaub
If you're red flagged, then they'll tell Dana, hey...
Bad example.
Good example.
unidentified
Guys miss weight.
joe rogan
But they don't.
brendan schaub
They don't.
Because the guys still miss.
Because like, hey, Kelvin's 30 pounds overweight.
And like, all right, well, he's made it before.
joe rogan
And then he still doesn't make it.
You can't have that.
What you got to have is someone who doesn't allow anybody to fight 30 pounds over what they actually weigh in at.
It's not legal.
brendan schaub
Like Weidman cut, I want to say, 37 pounds in three days.
joe rogan
For Liotta?
brendan schaub
Yeah.
joe rogan
When he fought Liotta Machida?
unidentified
Yeah.
eddie bravo
So there's got to be an official weigh-in a few times.
They all got to be official.
Throughout camp.
They do that in Abu Dhabi because it's a two-day tournament, and you got to weigh, if you make it to Sunday, if you win a couple matches and you get it to the semifinals and finals, you got to weigh in again on Sunday.
joe rogan
Who did Weidman fight when he cut all that weight?
Was it Damian Maia?
brendan schaub
No, it was in Abu Dhabi, and he was cutting weight on the plane, remember?
joe rogan
Oh, it was in Abu Dhabi.
So who did he fight?
Did he fight Lyoto?
brendan schaub
No, it wasn't Liotto.
joe rogan
I thought it was on Fox.
brendan schaub
No, it wasn't Liotto.
It was in Abu Dhabi, I remember.
joe rogan
It was Damian Maia.
That was on Fox, wasn't it?
brendan schaub
I forget.
No, because Anderson, Munoz fought on that card.
joe rogan
So was that Abu Dhabi when BJ Penn fought Frankie Edgar?
It must have been, because the other Abu Dhabi card was when Anderson fought Damian Maia.
Right?
Those are the two that I went to.
brendan schaub
I don't think it's a Fox card.
joe rogan
No?
I think you're right.
eddie bravo
What do you think about the new rules that Big John McCarthy?
Did you see that video?
brendan schaub
No, I didn't watch it.
eddie bravo
You didn't watch it?
No, I didn't watch it.
What?
You're an MMA encyclopedia.
How could you not watch the new unified rules that Big John McCarthy posted?
You watched it, right?
joe rogan
Yeah, it was Damian Maia.
So he basically won a stand-up fight against Damian Maia, and it was on Fox.
It was the second card on Fox, and he cut a lot of weight in a short amount of time.
brendan schaub
32 pounds in 10 days.
joe rogan
Insane.
brendan schaub
Chris Wyman's a monster.
joe rogan
You get to death's door, and then he's so fucking tough.
eddie bravo
You can't do that.
brendan schaub
You know when fighters are against the cage and they put their hand on the mat so they don't get kneed in the face?
eddie bravo
Can't do that no more.
brendan schaub
That's awesome.
eddie bravo
You've got to have all four Yeah, I've had both hands.
brendan schaub
Oh, they've had that.
Yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
No, they haven't had that.
It just started in 2017. It starts in 2017, but they announced it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
brendan schaub
That's a great rule.
Hell yeah.
eddie bravo
It's a little, I mean...
brendan schaub
Did they talk about eye pokes or anything like that?
joe rogan
I don't think so.
They did talk about clavicle grabs.
eddie bravo
Yes.
joe rogan
Grabbing the collar.
eddie bravo
That used to be illegal.
joe rogan
I used to really think that you could do that.
eddie bravo
Yeah.
joe rogan
I remember hearing a guy say that he could do that.
Oh, just hit somebody in the collarbone.
Please do.
brendan schaub
Try that.
joe rogan
Please do.
Please try to donkey punch.
eddie bravo
Like kick him in the knee?
Like, oh, I'll just kick him in the knee.
joe rogan
The collarbone, though, is the dumbest.
Like, do you really think it's that easy?
brendan schaub
Yeah.
joe rogan
Just gonna hit someone on their collarbones?
That thing collapses.
eddie bravo
Kick them in the knees is more popular, right?
joe rogan
Yeah.
eddie bravo
Dudes, they think they could just kick you in the knee and then they're gonna like immobilize you.
brendan schaub
To your weight point, a guy who could really benefit from that is Chris Weidman.
Him at light heavyweight.
He should be a light heavyweight, I feel like.
joe rogan
Yeah, for sure.
Well, Jon Jones should be a heavyweight then.
You know, Jon Jones fought Dan Henderson in that grappling match.
He was 238 pounds.
brendan schaub
I mean, he murked.
joe rogan
Jesus, Louisa.
What a beautiful takedown.
See his takedown?
Oh my god, I love it.
He shot in and Gary Tonin hit that very same takedown, but unsuccessfully on his opponent.
eddie bravo
Kim Terra.
joe rogan
Yeah, in a grappling match right after that.
unidentified
John's a gorilla.
brendan schaub
I think Wyman is going to go to light heavyweight.
joe rogan
John is so big for light heavyweight, man.
He's so fucking physically talented, too.
eddie bravo
What is it?
It's a fake single and then you kind of like duck under and get the clinch?
joe rogan
Yep.
eddie bravo
Is that what that was?
joe rogan
And the way John did it was just, it was so glorious.
When you watch how quickly he covered ground, you realize how fucking talented he is, man.
eddie bravo
Oh, you know what?
I don't even think it's up on the internet either.
It is.
joe rogan
You can watch it.
eddie bravo
You can watch this.
joe rogan
Yeah, I watched it.
You could watch the takedown and you can watch the finish.
I don't think you can watch the whole fight.
brendan schaub
And now I think, are they going to do John versus Chael now?
Because John got on the mic and was like, yeah, I want to fight you, Chael.
joe rogan
I think they are going to probably do something like that.
Chael will go in there and get smushed for a paycheck.
Just for the ratings.
John is just too big and too good.
He's so talented, man.
He's winning jiu-jitsu tournaments like as a goof.
He's stepping into them and grappling with people and strangling them as a goof.
brendan schaub
I would love to see him go with like a Gary Tonin or with like a real jiu-jitsu guy.
eddie bravo
Or Felipe Peña.
Oh, 100%.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Let me tell you something, man.
What John said when he was on my podcast, he goes, I fell in love with jiu-jitsu.
He goes, I'm obsessed with it.
He goes, I'm training it all the time.
He goes, now, I'm not going to be standing in front of people trading anymore.
He goes, fuck that.
He's like, I'm going to be taking people down and choking the shit out of them.
eddie bravo
He said that?
unidentified
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
It was hilarious.
He's so talented as a grappler.
brendan schaub
You can do whatever he wants.
joe rogan
Like on some other planet.
eddie bravo
Yeah.
It was a nice pass, too.
He took him down, and then it was a nice pass.
That arm triangle was textbook.
joe rogan
Jon Jones might be pulling guard on people and armbarring them in the future.
unidentified
He already did.
eddie bravo
He pulled guard in the USA. Daniel Cormier.
joe rogan
Daniel Cormier, after he was beating him.
brendan schaub
Yeah, he was up.
joe rogan
But he might be pulling guard on people and armbarring them in the future.
brendan schaub
He's also a guy who could do, even to a bigger level, be the light heavyweight champ and heavyweight champ.
And he could do that.
joe rogan
He could do it.
brendan schaub
He could get so much more notoriety than Conor.
eddie bravo
Could he take the Abu Dhabi absolute as well?
Maybe.
joe rogan
He might be.
Look, man, you occasionally get a guy that's just so incredibly talented.
It's really all about focus.
If you watch him, you've seen it, the Dan Henderson match.
Dan Henderson's totally undersized.
They're not nearly in the same weight class.
brendan schaub
Dan Henderson's really not going all out either, is he?
joe rogan
But it's effortless.
I mean, you watch how he does it.
eddie bravo
What do you mean?
You think Dan Henderson was going light?
brendan schaub
I just think Dan was like...
eddie bravo
It was a match.
It was a competition.
brendan schaub
Yeah, but it's Dan Henderson.
joe rogan
Let's watch this here.
Here it goes.
Because this is suspended UFC fighter John Jones.
What does it say?
Fought Dan Henderson at underground event.
And John started off on his knees and just crawled forward.
And you see Dan putting his hand on his head.
eddie bravo
At underground event.
brendan schaub
That was a nice man.
joe rogan
He's like...
John is like...
He's unstoppable, the way he's closing in on him.
eddie bravo
He's got that Gracie Baja flag on his shorts.
brendan schaub
Dude, he's so strong, too.
joe rogan
What I'm saying is the way he's moving in on him, it's almost unavoidable.
It's like, this is going to be a mauling.
This is not going to be like what he did with Chael Sonnen, when he grabbed Chael and took him down and just slammed him on the ground.
brendan schaub
Oh, he can't be undersized and compete with John.
Look at the guys that have given him issues, like Gustafson.
He's his same size.
Those are the only time he really has issues.
joe rogan
Vitor gave him some issues.
brendan schaub
Well, Vitor caught him in that armbar and then got dealt with.
He submitted Vitor.
joe rogan
Yes, he did.
Yes, he did.
But when Vitor caught him in that armbar, that was really the first time we'd seen him ever in trouble.
brendan schaub
He's human!
Get out of here.
joe rogan
This is mostly John just pushing him up against the cage.
Then he let him go, oh, he threw a jab at him.
What the fuck is that about?
He's joking around.
Well, he didn't really throw a jab.
Like, he pretended he was going to do a spinning elbow.
Oh, he's just clowning around on him.
brendan schaub
I think Rockhold wants to do it, too.
John Jones with Rockhold would be fun.
joe rogan
That's right.
Rockhold did say that.
Let's see the take...
Well, how long did the match go?
eddie bravo
I don't remember.
joe rogan
The takedown was the ridiculous thing.
Let's see if you can find that in there.
brendan schaub
See, now this is worth it, Eddie, just to make money.
Because no head trauma.
If you lose, it's whatever.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Oh yeah, for sure.
This is a totally different thing.
I really wish that this pay...
There it is.
brendan schaub
Woo!
joe rogan
Boom.
Gets him down and right into side control.
I really wish that this was a viable option in terms of financial success.
I really wish that there was a way...
eddie bravo
Maybe one day.
joe rogan
I think your event has the best chance of doing it.
I really do.
I think if your event, people watch it and get behind it, it has a real possibility because it's fucking exciting as shit and people will pay money to see it.
brendan schaub
Especially when the caliber of these guys are doing it.
eddie bravo
I'm flying to Vegas tomorrow meeting with UFC Fight Pass.
They got great numbers.
EBI 10, they said the numbers were staggering, and they want to get behind it and go crazy.
brendan schaub
It's the best thing on it.
joe rogan
That's what I'm talking about, Eddie.
Look at this.
This is totally possible.
You could be the Don King of chokes.
Look at this.
Look at this.
And Eddie, you were saying that you oftentimes will stay in the mount here.
eddie bravo
Yeah, I stay in the three-quarter mount, butter mount.
That's the best spot.
joe rogan
Do you ever stay in full mount?
eddie bravo
Full mount, too.
Only because the rise of leg lockers, deadly leg lockers that hit a leg lock transition when they're mounted.
So if you let them get their hips up, I always stay in three-quarter.
The only time I'm doing a full mount is if I'm in skydive.
If I got my hips down and my ankles crossed and then I'm hunting for an underhook, but I'll never just sit there in regular mount because everybody now has got that mount escape to leg locks.
It could just turn everything around.
It could be over.
brendan schaub
So you push on the hips and get the legs up?
joe rogan
Also, those ridiculously flexible guys that get those legs in play, like Eddie's dexterity.
Your dexterity.
eddie bravo
That's always been my main escape too, is using my flexibility.
When someone mounts me, and that takes me into leg locks.
That used to be the only heel hook I had in my game was off being mounted, and then I would use a Hail Mary escape, C-cups in the armpits, cross my feet in front of their stomach, overhook a leg, and then take them right to just good old-fashioned outside heel hook.
That was my number one escape.
And that's just too dangerous.
Now guys have taken that escape and added a thousand more leg lock transitions off it.
And at that, I actually had a guy come to my gym maybe four or five years ago, a purple belt from Henzo's.
And he was super flexible.
I walk onto the mat and he's sitting there walking to class.
He's got both legs behind his head.
I don't know who this guy is.
He's sitting on my mats.
He's sitting on my mats.
I'm like, how you doing?
He's just looking at me.
He wanted to show me how flexible he was.
He's way more flexible than I am.
Way more.
I can't cross my feet behind my head.
And we rolled, and I mounted him quite easily, but I didn't know it was a trick.
He let me mount him, and then his flexibility, and I was low.
I was super low, but he would grab his feet and just put it in the little crack, and inch by inch, he would stick his I'm laying flat on him, and then he would get through, boom, right into a leg lock, and he tapped me.
I'm like, holy shit.
So we went again, and I mounted him again.
I said, I shouldn't have mounted him.
You know, there's some guys like, you just don't fucking mount these guys.
You take them to the truck.
unidentified
So I mounted him, and I was super Just clenching tight.
eddie bravo
And he just grabbed his foot and just put it right there.
Just would hold it right in between our rib cages.
And he couldn't get in initially, but inch by inch he would just get...
He would just hold his foot.
It was like he was jailbreaking to that mount escape.
joe rogan
Wow.
So is that just crazy flexibility?
eddie bravo
He tapped me again.
And I thought from that point on, I go, hmm.
I can't ever...
I always got to make sure that...
I roll with people and assume everyone can do that.
joe rogan
Doesn't Sean Bollinger have that kind of ridiculous flexibility and dexterity?
eddie bravo
You gotta assume everyone's that good.
So at that point, it altered my mount a lot.
Like with the arm triangles, I just stay in the mount.
joe rogan
So you have to assume that everybody's at the death level.
Why not, right?
Because if it works on them, then it works on everybody.
eddie bravo
Fucked me up with it.
brendan schaub
What was crazy, when Eddie and I were doing that Ana imitational thing, they were telling us that there's like...
14-year-olds, 17-year-olds who are homeschooled just to be dedicated to jiu-jitsu.
Remember those nine-year-olds?
I was like, what the fuck is going on here?
Two nine-year-olds doing ankle locks, fucking all your shit.
joe rogan
You know what we were talking about earlier?
Before the podcast started, we were talking about physical freaks, like that big gorilla, Shane Carlin, and how when I watched Shane Carlin roll with people, I was like, what is the point of this?
This is preposterous.
brendan schaub
It's so frustrating.
joe rogan
Shane Carlin walked into Amal Easton's jiu-jitsu gym, and I didn't know who he was for a second.
Obviously, I knew who he was.
I'd commentated his fights.
But for a second, I looked up from the mat, and I saw him walk in.
I'm like, that's not a person.
That's a gorilla.
That's some shaved-up gorilla.
brendan schaub
That's Juggla from the X-Men.
joe rogan
Yeah.
It doesn't even look like a real human.
And he would roll with people, and it would be preposterous.
brendan schaub
It was a waste of your time.
I remember I trained, because Shane had another job, and he'd have an injury, so he'd be gone for like four months.
I trained jiu-jitsu twice a day.
I'm like, I can't wait, because he was like a big brother.
I'm like, I can't wait until he gets in.
I'm going to roll this fool up.
He would come in off his nine-to-five, set his lunchbox down, put on his fucking weird basketball shorts, baggy t-shirt.
I'm like, you've been rolling?
I'm like, yeah, man, let's go.
unidentified
And he'd just fucking destroy me.
brendan schaub
I'm like, dude, why don't you do more jiu-jitsu?
He's like, Why?
I'm just fucking gorilla strong, man.
joe rogan
He is gorilla strong, but wouldn't you love to see a guy like him fall in love with it and then win the Mundials?
Like, how crazy would that be?
How crazy would it be to watch Shane Carwin win Abu Dhabi?
brendan schaub
With his wrestling background, if he dedicated to it?
joe rogan
If he dedicated himself to submissions, like, just pure submissions.
Like, what a freak athlete.
brendan schaub
His Munson choke, you know, because he's bigger than Munson, he would pop your head off if he got it.
joe rogan
You know what the problem is, though, man?
He's got just that preposterous punching power, and he's like, why would I not have my best thing?
brendan schaub
Yeah.
joe rogan
Like, his punching power was just ridiculous.
brendan schaub
See, it's too much work.
Why don't I just jab that guy in the face and win a gag point?
joe rogan
And it's fun.
eddie bravo
I mean, it's got to feel way better to knock someone out, to drop someone, than to tap him out.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Go to Shane Carwin KO's Frank Mir, because that was one of the darkest ones.
brendan schaub
Did you ever hear Frank Mir's corner?
They're going, they're going, uh, chill, Frank.
Round's almost over.
Just chill.
And it pissed Shane off.
He looks at the corner and...
unidentified
And just fucking ends Frank Mir right there.
joe rogan
That's what he did.
brendan schaub
His corner's going, you're good, Frank.
Just let him get the underhook.
Don't give him head control.
Just chill.
It's almost the end of the round.
And Shane's like, what are you talking about?
I can knock a dude out.
I need this much space.
He a douche!
Game over.
joe rogan
They were ridiculous.
Uppercuts.
Just horrific.
brendan schaub
Vicious.
joe rogan
Yeah, he's an interesting example of...
eddie bravo
Frank Mir wants to do EBI. I know he does.
Yeah.
joe rogan
It's a great idea.
eddie bravo
Yeah.
joe rogan
Look, he's awesome.
eddie bravo
Fabricio Verdum, as well, wants to do combat jiu-jitsu.
The combat jiu-jitsu version of EBI. He used to be slapping.
Which is going to be the next show.
EBI 11's going to have a regular 16-man, regular EBI rules, welterweights.
And within it, a four-man combat jiu-jitsu match.
joe rogan
When is that?
eddie bravo
In March.
We nail down the date tomorrow at the meeting.
brendan schaub
I'll go to that for sure.
joe rogan
Let me know when it comes up.
eddie bravo
There's going to be jiu-jitsu with palm strikes.
Jiu-jitsu with palm strikes is coming.
brendan schaub
I would go to it and watch it with you.
No, no, no.
joe rogan
But not the slap part, but have you ever thought about competing in the jiu-jitsu part?
Is he too busy with podcasting?
brendan schaub
I'm too busy with podcasting and comedy, working on stand-ups hard enough.
It's so challenging, man.
joe rogan
I appreciate that, but when you did have that grappling match at Metamorris with Cyborg and everybody got mad at you, and you understand why everybody got mad at you.
brendan schaub
100%.
You'd be even more mad if you know how much money I made.
joe rogan
You did engage him.
You did engage him, and you engaged him on the ground.
You gave Cyborg chances, and he couldn't do shit with you.
And I watched it, and I was like, wow.
I understand you being cautious because you have to fight in the UFC, and you didn't want to get your legs torn up because Cyborg's that tornado guard, and he's a ridiculously strong dude.
unidentified
Ridiculous.
joe rogan
He's a bad motherfucker.
I mean, Cyborg is a killer.
But you did nullify his attacks.
I mean, I understand that you went pretty straight defense, but it did work.
You know, it's interesting, because he was engaging with you.
You were locked up with him in the guard, and he wasn't able to do anything with you.
I was like, hmm.
I wonder how you would do if you really dedicated yourself And competed in some sort of an event like that.
brendan schaub
You want the truth?
I just don't care.
joe rogan
That's all you need to say.
brendan schaub
I'm too busy with other things.
That's perfect.
That part of my life, I love watching Eddie's thing and I love commentating on it.
Because you really got to dedicate to keep it.
You know how it is.
You really got to dedicate and be all in.
All Cyborg's doing is shooting jiu-jitsu seminars and videos and rolling every day.
I just don't care, man.
joe rogan
When you put Mitrione to sleep, I remember thinking, this dude's got a fucking serious darse.
You have a serious darse.
When you clamped that thing on Mitriona, I was like, ooh, ooh.
Like, ooh, this is...
And then he was out.
And I was like, that's a serious fucking Darce choke.
brendan schaub
Yeah, that was my shit, man.
I love jujitsu, but it's just...
Yeah, I'm not in that lane anymore.
eddie bravo
It's not like there's not big money in submission only right now.
joe rogan
There should be.
It's fun.
eddie bravo
Maybe.
You know, for the winner, the winner has pretty good money.
I mean, Gary Turner has made thousands and thousands of dollars in Eddie Cummings.
joe rogan
Yeah, they made more than $100,000 this year.
eddie bravo
Oh, yeah.
They're making money if you win.
But overall, you know, right now, there's no money for it.
But still...
Still, the guys that are in it, the guys at the top, they're training full motherfucking time.
All the time.
joe rogan
I feel like your event has a change.
All day.
Your event has the possibility to change that.
I really do.
You've got the event.
I really do.
eddie bravo
Hopefully.
You know, EBI 10 was pretty fucking damn crazy.
joe rogan
They're so crazy to watch, man.
And you've got little girls competing, which is amazing.
To watch girls that are like, how old are the youngest girls you have there?
brendan schaub
You know, the UFC didn't want to have any of that anymore.
eddie bravo
Oh, really?
Yeah, no more minors.
No more...
No more underage fighters.
unidentified
Oh, man.
joe rogan
Was that because of the girl that got heel hooked and her leg popped?
unidentified
Probably.
brendan schaub
The soul snatcher?
eddie bravo
Probably.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
She got her heel hooked.
You heard the snap.
eddie bravo
Yeah.
joe rogan
Remember that?
brendan schaub
Yeah.
joe rogan
She had her ACL blown out.
eddie bravo
Yeah, I love watching children do jiu-jitsu.
That's the cutest shit.
brendan schaub
It's mind-blowing.
eddie bravo
I love it.
brendan schaub
It shows you where the sport's at.
eddie bravo
Grace Gundrum, come on.
unidentified
I know.
eddie bravo
Grace Gundrum, she is really amazing.
brendan schaub
What's her name?
unidentified
Cora?
eddie bravo
Cora Sack.
brendan schaub
Have you seen this Cora girl?
She had the big old check.
joe rogan
Isn't it possible to maybe have a youth version of the same thing and just call it something else and don't do it on Fight Pass?
eddie bravo
That is possible.
joe rogan
It seems like there might be an option to do other stuff as well, unless you have some sort of exclusive thing.
brendan schaub
No, because you want to grow it.
I agree, like that Pop 1 or League.
You want to give kids the chance to compete.
eddie bravo
Yeah, people loved watching Grace.
People loved it.
It was my favorite thing to watch.
She got bigger roars than anybody.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah, man.
eddie bravo
Tremendous roars.
People fucking love watching Grace.
But, you know, there's other shows.
She's going to do Show of the Art Finishers, which is a sub-only show, EBI Rules on the East Coast.
She's going to do that.
She's got a big fight.
It's like a super fight coming up.
Cora just fought in the Honored Invitational.
So there's these other submission-only tournaments out there using EBI Rules where they have a platform.
And the UFC, I didn't even want to fight them on it.
Yeah.
I'm like, okay, no minors, no minors, no big deal.
Eventually, we'll see the return of grace.
Eventually.
Eventually.
Can you imagine three or four years later when she's 18 and we bring her back?
brendan schaub
It's nuts.
eddie bravo
It's going to be crazy.
It's going to be like the Guns N' Roses reunion.
joe rogan
Yeah, yeah, really.
eddie bravo
Of jiu-jitsu.
joe rogan
Interesting.
It's just interesting to see it because I think it's the safer alternative for the athletes, especially athletes that really just want to develop their jiu-jitsu skills and get immersed in jiu-jitsu.
They don't want to have to, in order to be a professional, have to compete as an MMA fighter.
When the competition is so high in jiu-jitsu right now.
eddie bravo
Oh, yeah.
And so far, every jiu-jitsu event has failed.
They've all failed.
All of them.
And EBI, you know, we're not out of the woods.
There's no big, giant pile of money.
No one's making money except for the winners.
You know, we're just...
It's a passion project, 100%.
And who knows?
Maybe we don't survive.
But apparently we got really good reviews at the UFC Fight Pass for EBI 10, which you can still watch right now.
You can watch the replay.
It was amazing.
Watching Gio Martinez and Eddie Cummings go out at that, that was...
One of the most epic jiu-jitsu matches of all time.
brendan schaub
If you guys don't survive, everyone's fucked.
joe rogan
Yeah, everyone's fucked.
eddie bravo
Hey, we're going to try.
We're doing our best.
joe rogan
I know you're being humble and everything like that.
eddie bravo
You just never know.
No events have made it so far.
No events have made any money.
brendan schaub
Because their rules sucked ass.
joe rogan
Go back to the UFC card.
Let's see.
Is there any fights that we missed on this UFC card?
eddie bravo
I don't know.
There's all these different rule sets.
joe rogan
It's going to be great, Eddie.
Don't worry about it.
No, no, no.
You got the perfect rule set.
Let's go back to this just to see if there's anything else that we missed on this card.
brendan schaub
Hendrix Magny's a fun one.
joe rogan
Oh, that's right.
That's right.
That's what I wanted to talk about.
Dude, you know, you got to wonder where Johnny Hendrix's head is at when you heard the way he trained for his last fight.
You know, he was saying that he was only training like a few days a week, and he wasn't really...
brendan schaub
Yeah, that steakhouse.
joe rogan
Yeah, he wasn't really training every day, and that his wife really got him geared up to train for this fight.
But the problem with that is, like, Neil Magny's on a fucking roll, man.
I mean, he's had some tough fights, some good fights, and he beat Hector motherfucking Lombard by stoppage.
brendan schaub
That's right.
He beat Lombard and he beat Kelvin.
joe rogan
And he beat Lombard when Lombard was putting it to him in the first round.
unidentified
That's right.
joe rogan
It was one of those really close fights where it was like, man, this might get stopped.
brendan schaub
Then Damian Maia ate his ass for lunch like Kobayashi.
joe rogan
Dude, the way Damian Maia put that smush down on him, I was like, whoa.
brendan schaub
Just a bad matchup.
joe rogan
Just next level jiu-jitsu.
eddie bravo
What do you think about Damian Maia?
joe rogan
There's levels to this thing.
Very interesting.
First of all, you gotta get a hold of Woodley.
Second of all, you gotta get him to the ground.
Good luck with both of those things.
eddie bravo
Yeah.
joe rogan
Good luck with both of those things.
Without getting fucking hammered into another dimension.
brendan schaub
It's a fun, fun fight.
joe rogan
And Woodley showed in that Wonderboy fight that he can hammer you into a dimension in the fourth round.
unidentified
Correct.
joe rogan
He can still, deep into the fucking championship rounds, can still hammer you out of this fucking zone.
eddie bravo
That's a scary fight for Maya.
brendan schaub
For everybody.
eddie bravo
At the same time, the threat of that jiu-jitsu might make Woodley a little cautious.
100%.
brendan schaub
He's probably not going to throw any leg kicks or anything.
He's just trying to knock his ass out.
joe rogan
But don't you think that Woodley's wrestling and his physical size and strength, he's unbelievably strong.
eddie bravo
Damian Maia at 170 has taken down wrestler after wrestler.
brendan schaub
Did you see when Damian Maia took down Chael Sonnen?
People forget that.
And he's in with the inverted triangle, the mount?
joe rogan
That shit was insane.
eddie bravo
He lateral dropped him.
joe rogan
Double overhook, lateral dropped him.
unidentified
He didn't expect him.
Kaboom!
joe rogan
Yeah, it was glorious.
brendan schaub
That's vintage Damien Maia.
joe rogan
Yeah, he got ahold of him.
And that was this Frank Muir vs.
Karwin.
This is horrific.
unidentified
I couldn't find a good video of it.
joe rogan
No?
Oh, okay.
brendan schaub
Don't worry about it.
Oh, UFC don't play that game.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's probably only on Fight Pass.
If you go to UFC Fight Pass.
Do we have an account?
Or is it just my account?
Oh, okay.
Is it on?
We don't have to see it.
But anyway, it was a murking.
brendan schaub
Murking.
joe rogan
We were talking about the difference between a guy who's like a super tactical, really high-level guy, and then there's a point of diminishing returns where it doesn't work on somebody.
And that's the point of Shane Carwin.
Almost like there's a physical limit of almost all technique that you hit a wall when someone gets just so stupid strong that they can't, as long as he's skilled, and he is skilled on top of that.
brendan schaub
He's aware of what's going on.
He's like a Rashad Evans black belt.
Rashad's not going to submit you off his back, but his knowledge and his defense is insane.
It's just different.
He doesn't have the attacks.
joe rogan
What's going on with Rashad?
What happened after that Tim Kennedy fight?
They pulled him out of the Tim Kennedy fight.
brendan schaub
They pulled him out, and then he was supposed to fight again, right?
joe rogan
They pulled him out again.
brendan schaub
I don't know.
joe rogan
They tried to fight Kennedy again, but this time in Toronto, and Toronto pulled him out too.
brendan schaub
I know.
joe rogan
So New York City pulled him out, and then Toronto pulled him out.
And he says it's a pre-existing condition.
He said it's something he's always had.
But who knows, man?
I don't want to hear that.
eddie bravo
What do you think about that Kevin Gastelum fight?
unidentified
Good Lord!
eddie bravo
Jesus, right?
brendan schaub
Against Vitor?
joe rogan
No, no, no.
Against Tim Kennedy, first of all.
unidentified
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
That's another example of a guy who wasn't cutting any weight and looked fucking amazing.
brendan schaub
But then he wants to go back.
Talk to your boy.
Why does he want to go back down to 70?
joe rogan
Because those guys have to cut weight.
Those guys are cutting weight and getting down to 185, and they're gigantic.
Guys like Hector Lombard, he doesn't want to have to fight one of those guys.
brendan schaub
Okay, but you've got to make weight at 70, son.
joe rogan
I understand what you're saying, and I think there's a middle ground there.
I think 70 is too hard.
eddie bravo
He's made 170 many times.
brendan schaub
He's missed it, too.
eddie bravo
But this last time, he says he was on this new dietician's regimen, and it didn't work out.
joe rogan
Did he have Dolce originally?
eddie bravo
Yes, I think so.
joe rogan
Did he just not want to pay the money?
eddie bravo
I don't know exactly what went down between them.
joe rogan
He's just got to be personally more disciplined.
If he's just personally more disciplined with his diet...
brendan schaub
It's on him.
joe rogan
Yeah.
brendan schaub
It doesn't matter if the dietician...
You know.
Especially him cutting weight.
He's been doing it for so long.
You know.
eddie bravo
Come on.
joe rogan
Let me ask you this.
eddie bravo
He's a fucking animal though, man.
unidentified
He's an animal.
eddie bravo
Oh, fuck shit.
brendan schaub
Make no exception.
eddie bravo
I wouldn't mind seeing him at 185. I think 185. That's what I'm saying.
I think he's fine there, but...
brendan schaub
He's fighting Vitor Belfort next to 85. Yes, he's going to fight Vitor Belfort at 85. At 85. Yo, dude.
joe rogan
That's a rumble.
eddie bravo
Yeah.
brendan schaub
It's in Brazil.
unidentified
Oh.
eddie bravo
Yeah.
What does that mean exactly?
joe rogan
What are you trying to say?
brendan schaub
You're a scout, you don't know.
What does that mean?
Vitor and Brazil is a different animal.
eddie bravo
Is it?
For sure.
joe rogan
What are you trying to say?
eddie bravo
Why isn't there no USADA there?
joe rogan
What are you trying to say?
What are you trying to say, Brendan?
brendan schaub
I'm not saying anything.
I'm saying there's something in the acai down there.
joe rogan
This is a last chance for romance for Vitor, too.
brendan schaub
It's the perfect fight for Kelvin.
The perfect fight.
Huge name.
joe rogan
Musashi put the mitts to him.
Musashi put the mitts to Vitor.
And I think Kelvin is a better mover than Musashi.
Musashi has more weapons.
Like, Musashi's a way better kicker.
But what Kelvin does, man, with his footwork and that, like, real light on his feet, moving in with that right hand jab.
eddie bravo
Rafael Cordero has got, I mean, His striking looks super professional.
joe rogan
So good.
And ridiculous combinations and speed and fluidity.
eddie bravo
And he keeps going forward.
joe rogan
He keeps going forward.
brendan schaub
He's so game.
joe rogan
Gas tank.
Gas tank's retarded.
It's just so good.
He's so strong.
eddie bravo
Zero fear.
joe rogan
Zero fear, great chin.
brendan schaub
His demeanor's insane, yes.
joe rogan
And, you know, was real comfortable when Tim was mauling him.
Like, Tim got a hold of him early in that first round and really put out a lot of effort.
Put the seatbelt, got his back, really was mauling him with size and power, but Tim gassed himself out doing that.
brendan schaub
Tim looked terrible in that fight.
I love Tim more than anyone in this world.
joe rogan
What about me?
You love him more than me?
brendan schaub
It's a toss-up.
He fights for my freedom.
He fights for my freedom.
Interesting.
But Tim looked rough in that fight.
joe rogan
It was a terrible performance for him, but nobody fucking handled himself better after a loss than that guy.
eddie bravo
What did he say?
joe rogan
Fucking owns up to it.
The guy kicked my ass.
He's a better fighter than me.
It was very embarrassing.
brendan schaub
He post-pictured him going to the hospital.
Well, that sucked.
joe rogan
Yeah, his face totally jacked.
brendan schaub
It's Tim Kennedy.
joe rogan
Took a picture of himself jacked in the hospital.
Yeah.
brendan schaub
That guy's so insanely jacked.
eddie bravo
That's a great outlook on losses.
Losses are, ooh, when you're in someone's corner and you're dealing with someone, man, it's hard to...
All you can say is like...
brendan schaub
There's not much.
eddie bravo
All you can say is...
You can't win them all, bro.
You got caught.
Anybody can get caught.
joe rogan
So there's a difference between what we're saying.
A guy like Tim Kennedy took that loss and how hard Ronda took her loss to Holly Holm.
There's a giant difference.
eddie bravo
Complete opposite.
brendan schaub
And that's the business of being a fighter.
This game's easy when you're murking everyone.
Every media outlet's telling you how good you are, like, yeah, this is fucking great.
Then you take one on the chin, you lose.
Most fighters come back and go, all right, I got murked, but watch this fight.
You'll see what's up.
I'm a real fighter.
That's why Tim or Kelvin's had his losses, everyone.
Matt Brown.
eddie bravo
And even Connor.
He came back.
He was already talking shit after that fight.
He was like, fuck it, I fucked up, but I'll be back.
joe rogan
Took it like a man.
And didn't talk about a staph infection, by the way.
A lot of people only found out about a staph infection because of my fucking big mouth.
But he had a staph infection two weeks out of that first Nate Diaz fight.
He was taking antibiotics.
That's the word.
I don't think it's bullshit.
I haven't heard it directly from his mouth, but I heard it from very reliable sources.
brendan schaub
Do you hear what his camp is doing?
joe rogan
What are they doing?
brendan schaub
His coach is requiring every fighter on his team to have their brains scanned.
joe rogan
Fuck yeah, Jon Cavanaugh.
Fuck yeah.
brendan schaub
Right?
Powerful move.
joe rogan
Smart guy, man.
brendan schaub
He's on the ball.
Everyone else will follow that.
joe rogan
Fuck yeah.
This is a crazy sport.
No one wants to tell people when they can and can't do it, but someone should be watching out for them because that fucking same ego that makes you want to be a champion...
Can also get you real confused as to when you're physically compromised, which brings us to the fight that was pulled off this card, Cain Velasquez versus Fabrizio Verdum, the rematch, which everybody was looking forward to.
And Cain did that meeting with that, uh, whatever that...
brendan schaub
MMA Association.
joe rogan
Yes, the Fighters Association, and said that he's going to have to have a surgery after this fight.
And they went, eh, what?
brendan schaub
Why would you do that?
joe rogan
He fucked up.
You can't say you need a surgery before you have a major fight.
First of all, that's going to fuck with the betting lines.
There's a disaster there.
That's going to fuck with the insurance if something happens to you, and then afterwards they say, oh, you know, you told us that you were already hurt.
We're not paying for this.
Like, do you get paid for, like, when you're in training camp and you get to a fight and you have to pull out because of injury, you don't get nothing, right?
What do you get?
brendan schaub
Nothing.
joe rogan
Nothing.
So he got nothing.
So if he chose to fight with that injury, he said he was going to be 100%, he was going to have a cortisone injection, and the doctors disagreed.
The Nevada State Athletic Commission disagreed.
That Bob Bennett guy, he doesn't fucking play any games, man.
He's like, you can't say something like that.
brendan schaub
Kane's been in the business too long to do that.
joe rogan
He fucked up.
He fucked up.
brendan schaub
I think he's just emotional.
joe rogan
When I called Lineker a little monkey earlier, I fucked up.
brendan schaub
See?
joe rogan
Cain fucked up.
You just talk.
You say things.
You know?
brendan schaub
I was going to say, well, that's kind of racist.
joe rogan
Well, I call myself a monkey, though.
It sounds worse than it really is.
brendan schaub
It's not racist.
It's not racist.
joe rogan
I'm the last person racist.
But the point is, when it comes to Cain, is that it was a giant error.
And that error pulled him off of this card.
And now he's going to have to fight.
He's going to have to get surgery.
And then he's going to have to fight whoever the fuck is left.
And you're talking about more months out and then even more examination next time.
And it's going to cost him a shitload of money.
brendan schaub
A ton of money.
joe rogan
He went through the entire camp.
He was a week out.
And they pull him from it.
And then he was saying, I don't know what this is about.
I'm 100% good to go.
I've been told I've been cleared.
So he was tweeting that he had been told that he was cleared right before they pull him.
I thought...
I think you give the guy a physical examination in terms of his movement.
What can you do?
How do you tell a guy?
brendan schaub
Business-wise, you can't.
joe rogan
Something in his back.
brendan schaub
In his back or neck.
But business-wise, you can't.
Because the UFC goes, man, you have a bulging disc.
All right, you get a core zone shot.
And then if you get punched in the face by Verduma, he gets a guillotine and you're paralyzed.
You shoot the fuck out of us.
joe rogan
It's true.
brendan schaub
Business, you just can't do that.
joe rogan
No denying.
brendan schaub
I don't think it falls on...
Kane knows better...
The people around this association shouldn't have let him do that.
joe rogan
Well, first of all, they should have known about...
The Bjorn Rebny thing is very weird.
I was reading what John Fitch had written.
John Fitch, rather, in an interview, said that he was very disturbed by all this because there's a class-action lawsuit, and what they're saying is that if the class-action lawsuit is dropped...
They could form this union, and if they all agreed to abandon the class action lawsuit, it would help the strength and form the union.
And John Fitch was like, what?
So you're saying that the UFC would accept you as a union if you abandon the class action lawsuit that we've been chasing down for two years?
Now, without picking any sides...
If you're on the side of the fighters, not picking any sides, you just have to look at that and go, well, what benefit would it be for the people that are not in this to accept that the class action lawsuit is dropped?
This all sounds like someone's trying to get some money.
unidentified
Correct.
joe rogan
No one's doing this for free.
That's what everybody has to realize when it comes to these agencies.
There's three different competing ones that are stepping in, right?
brendan schaub
One suing the other.
The two big ones, there's the association and there's the union.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Well, ultimately, I think we all want the same thing.
We all want fighters to be compensated fairly, want them to make a lot of money because it's a short window of time and it's an awesome sport to watch, right?
brendan schaub
Correct.
joe rogan
So you gotta wonder, does this help that?
Does this help them?
Do any of these organizations...
brendan schaub
They haven't yet because if they can't even get together and organize and they're gonna fight, then no one's gonna take you serious.
joe rogan
There's three different leaders, three different ones.
brendan schaub
And they all want different things, and then you gotta wonder whose agenda's over here, whose agenda's over here.
It can't come from a businessman.
It can't come from another promoter.
It has to come from the fighters.
The fighters, you know what I'm saying?
And I'm not saying current fighters, because they need to fight.
And they need to have someone speak for them who's been there.
But you can't have these business guys with other hidden agendas trying to get things done.
Or in Bjorn's case, he has this weird jealousy with Dana and wants to see him destroyed.
Well, we can't have that.
Why are you speaking for us?
What are you doing?
You don't have the respect of the fighters.
What the fuck are you doing?
And notice, he's taking a seat back.
Because when everyone saw him speaking, they're like, we're out, man.
joe rogan
Yeah, well, he was going old-school Bellator when he was running things over there, and King Mo was pissed off at him.
And King Mo, to this day, calls him a dick rider all the time.
It's not good when you've got a guy like King Mo, a very respected guy who has horrible things to say about you.
brendan schaub
And I talked to the association, and I went, what are you guys doing?
Like, you have one way to make an impression, and you put your best foot forward with this guy?
joe rogan
I don't know the dude.
Do you know him?
brendan schaub
I know of fighters who have dealt with him.
I never fought for Bellator.
So I know inside the fighter circle that people have dealt with him for managing stuff like that.
But I don't know him personally.
joe rogan
I was looking at all the tweets and all the negative stuff.
I think you can take a very positive angle about improving the life and the conditions of these fighters without attacking people.
brendan schaub
Yeah, there's no reason to attack.
And it's also, say what you want about Dana White.
It's not his job to make sure you guys get your shit together and form an association.
He's like, I'm a businessman.
I put on fights.
If you guys want to do that, cool, get your shit together and then let's figure something out.
But if you guys are fighting with each other, we can't acknowledge it.
joe rogan
You know what else is interesting about this $4 billion that they had to pay to buy the UFC? A lot of debt.
I wonder, how do you...
I don't understand business.
I'm a dummy.
I don't have any business background.
But how much money do you have to make to pay off $4 billion?
If you buy a house and your house is like $3 million, damn, you're looking at some daunting 30-year payments.
Now imagine a thousand times that plus a billion.
Because that's what it is.
That's a thousand million.
brendan schaub
That's what a billion is.
And that's why they're going and doing these budget cuts saying, how can we save money here and how can we grow it?
So then you see, all of a sudden you see the women's 140 pound division.
You're seeing these interim belts.
You're seeing ways to make up the money.
joe rogan
Well, that's a really sad thing about the Cyborg thing, because Cyborg is extremely marketable at 145 pounds.
brendan schaub
And they made the division for her!
joe rogan
Yeah, they made the division for her, and not just marketable, but very controversial.
Very controversial.
I mean, she's scary.
She mercs women.
She goes after them and takes them down and destroys them.
How old is she?
She smashes people.
She's in her 30s.
I think she's 34, 35. Is she that old?
I think so.
Pull up.
31?
brendan schaub
32?
joe rogan
31. 31. Okay, I'm wrong.
So 31 is in her prime, you know, it's in her prime.
And for her to be the champion at 145?
She could be back, but the problem is she's gonna be under even more scrutiny.
brendan schaub
She's so fucked, man.
And there's never been someone who...
They need to pass the test so bad in their life than her because the number one knock on her was you've tested positive before.
That's the only reason why you're competing.
That's why you're knocking people out.
And even I fell off that train and was like, no, she's so skilled.
She deserves it.
Put marking dollars behind her.
They're like, fine, cool.
Here's your division.
Boom.
Test positive.
joe rogan
But put yourself in...
Is it possible that she really did deal with some crazy weight-cutting backlash where her body's just like fucked up and it's retaining water in some weird way and her hormones are all fucked up because she got on the birth control pill?
I believe that.
It's possible that a doctor did prescribe her this to try to mitigate that, and then the doctor told her that you could take this out of competition, you can't take it in competition.
Because it is a diuretic, right?
brendan schaub
Yeah.
joe rogan
So a diuretic, if you are swollen, all those things do seem to make sense.
I mean, just trying to be, I don't want to see any skeptical hippo face.
brendan schaub
I'm with you on this, Joe.
I actually believe her story.
joe rogan
Have you seen Skeptical Snake?
brendan schaub
Yeah, I sent Skeptical.
I blew up Skeptical Snake.
Someone sent me that one.
I have to post this.
Where did you find it?
And the guy goes, just for you, Sean.
joe rogan
I blew up Skeptical Snake.
brendan schaub
I see your Skeptical Hippo and I raise you a super Skeptical Snake.
joe rogan
This fucking snake is...
I might have seen it on your Instagram.
brendan schaub
So skeptical.
joe rogan
Have you seen it, Eddie?
eddie bravo
No.
unidentified
This should be your mascot.
brendan schaub
Whenever you watch CNN, this should pop up.
unidentified
Fake news!
joe rogan
This is a new meme!
brendan schaub
This is a new meme!
joe rogan
Look at this!
That motherfucker's so skeptical!
He's like...
Fake news, son.
I don't know.
brendan schaub
Pizza game?
joe rogan
I don't think so.
unidentified
There needs to be a fake MMA news site.
joe rogan
Look at this fucking...
Oh, look what you wrote.
Look what you wrote.
Pull it aside.
My face when I watch a UFC promo these days.
I see you're skeptical and raise you a super skeptical snake.
That's exactly where I heard about it from.
unidentified
That's because they're not showing Amanda Nunes.
joe rogan
It is kind of fucked up.
But it's also, you know, like someone pointed out, like when you're watching these promos, they're movies now.
It's like this little film.
It's not like training footage, people talking about it, like this really slickly produced movie thing.
brendan schaub
Her story's fucking great!
joe rogan
Oh, Amanda Nunes' story's great.
brendan schaub
First openly gay world champion.
Freaking Brazilian.
I mean, knockout on us.
joe rogan
Highlight reel.
brendan schaub
Highlight reels.
joe rogan
Yeah, smashes girls.
brendan schaub
Not a fucking word.
Like she's the devil.
Weird.
And then they don't show any ironic KOs.
It's like men in black where they just want to use it and erase that from your memory.
They don't show any of that.
joe rogan
Plenty of that video going around on its own.
Everybody knows what happened.
It's not something you need to discuss.
I think they could have done it in that video and then shown the workout to the return, and it might be even more dramatic.
Showing her crying, showing her building back up, picking up the pieces again.
I mean, if you wanted to go deep, that's going to be in the movie, right?
If you have a Ronda Rousey life story movie, that's got to be in the movie.
eddie bravo
Of course.
joe rogan
100%.
If she comes back and wins, that's exactly what you're going to see.
You're going to see all the pain.
eddie bravo
Ronda Rousey today, right now, I mean...
She is who she is right now.
What's going on right now is because what happened with Holly Holm.
You know, this is her comeback.
This is it.
Can she pull off the comeback?
I mean...
brendan schaub
But the only reason...
A comeback against who?
Like I said, the average fan's going, comeback against who?
She's been the favorite in every fight she's ever been in.
eddie bravo
You mean they've had a complete blackout of Amanda Nunes?
Like, they haven't showed shit at all.
Just a complete blackout?
joe rogan
There's very little footage that they're showing in these promos.
eddie bravo
Maybe you're just missing...
Stop watching boxing and put it back on fucking...
brendan schaub
Yeah, because I don't see enough UFC... FS1. You got it over there on Boxing Network.
joe rogan
Even Joe tweeted about it.
No, I tweeted it while I was watching it at home.
I was actually in the hotel room.
I was watching that UFC on Fox where Michelle Waterson beat Paige Van Zandt, and I was watching, and I'm like, this is so bizarre.
They're not showing the champion.
They're showing this giant promo, and it's all Ronda, which makes some sense because Ronda's huge.
That's what sells tickets.
You want to let everybody know that she's coming back, but don't you want to let everybody know that she's coming back against a killer?
Don't you want everybody to know that she's coming back to fight the champion?
brendan schaub
But Joe, just from a business aspect, in some weird world in MMA, what if Amanda Nunes mercs her in the first round?
eddie bravo
There she is, look.
brendan schaub
No one knows her.
joe rogan
Yeah, this is one of them.
One of them you see in her face.
unidentified
She's right there.
eddie bravo
This is a great shot.
joe rogan
Yeah, you just see her face.
But like most of the piece is about Ronda.
But there's a few of these, right?
There's a few different ones.
brendan schaub
Do you know what I'm saying, Joe?
What happens if she mercs Ronda?
joe rogan
Oh, look, see, they're showing her head kick.
eddie bravo
They showed her head kick.
joe rogan
Oh, this is somebody else's trailer, bro.
brendan schaub
This isn't UFC trailer stuff.
joe rogan
This is some fan-created shit.
unidentified
I'll try to find the real one.
joe rogan
That's okay.
You don't have to.
brendan schaub
It's a big deal.
Yeah, it's all good.
joe rogan
This is a lot longer than an actual promo, too.
Like, how long is that video right there?
brendan schaub
That was two minutes.
joe rogan
Yeah.
brendan schaub
Do you see what I'm saying, Joe?
What happens if some weird MMA world...
I mean, there's Merckxer.
joe rogan
I don't think that's weird at all.
brendan schaub
And then we're going...
joe rogan
Do you think that's weird?
brendan schaub
Not at all.
joe rogan
No, it's a real dangerous fight.
brendan schaub
The UFC is acting like it.
They're putting all their chips in this basket where if Amanda Nunes does her thing and it happens, people are going, who the fuck just won?
eddie bravo
But Ronda is a thousand times more popular than Amanda Nunes.
joe rogan
100%.
eddie bravo
That's where the money's coming from.
Ronda, Ronda, Ronda.
joe rogan
Not if she loses again.
But hold on, you're already establishing that Ronda's fighting.
Would you want everybody to know she's fighting a killer?
brendan schaub
Who's she fighting?
That's what we're tuning in for.
You want to see the matchup.
joe rogan
They're selling it as if the whole thing that you're seeing is her coming back.
Yeah.
brendan schaub
But I'm saying in Business 101, what happens if that other person wins?
We don't know shit about her.
eddie bravo
UFC Channel, this is it.
joe rogan
Yeah.
There's just not much of it.
If she wins, then they'll blow her up.
eddie bravo
There's still time.
It's like, we have a deadline.
brendan schaub
You only can fight Ronda Rousey once.
You get this one opportunity.
Maybe.
If Ronda gets more twice...
There's no room.
eddie bravo
Who knows?
But at least, you know, that's the girl that beat a match.
She'll be just like Holly Holm, instantly huge on fucking Ellen and all that shit.
joe rogan
Holly's in an interesting place too, right?
Because she was instantly huge, and then she loses two in a row.
brendan schaub
Two straight.
joe rogan
Yeah, and she loses two to like two completely different styles.
She gets choked out by Misha against a better grappler, and then she gets checked a lot by Valentina Shevchenko.
eddie bravo
I would like to see that promo if it's possible, Jamie.
The UFC one on the UFC YouTube.
I know it's YouTube, but there's no library.
joe rogan
It's not real, bro.
It's not real.
eddie bravo
There's no library.
joe rogan
It's on YouTube.
So here's her, like, in the top of her fame.
brendan schaub
Where do you get your promos from?
joe rogan
Barn-barring people.
brendan schaub
YouTube?
eddie bravo
You get them from CNN. We all know that.
joe rogan
Smashing people.
So this is, uh, is this the same one?
eddie bravo
That's a cartoon.
joe rogan
Or is this a different one?
This is the Holly fight.
eddie bravo
Okay, here's Holly.
joe rogan
So this is gonna show it.
This one came out at the end of November.
What happened there?
unidentified
They don't show it.
joe rogan
Oh, they don't show it.
brendan schaub
They cut it.
joe rogan
Oh, they go black, and then you see Holly winning.
unidentified
Wow.
brendan schaub
You see what she- Look at my skeptical snake.
joe rogan
Wow, you gotta, like, go down more.
Your face has to be down more.
brendan schaub
And he's all pointy.
joe rogan
Actually, like, you see he's up, right?
eddie bravo
Oh, that's the progression of the belt.
joe rogan
Because you see the bottom of his mouth.
eddie bravo
You see the progression of the belt.
joe rogan
You see the progression of the belt, but you don't see her getting head kicked.
That's crazy.
Why would you not show the highlight?
Wow.
Well, what you're doing is you're showing preferential treatment for one athlete without a doubt.
And the idea is that the ability and the fame that she's reached, you show preferential treatment because she's different.
She's special.
brendan schaub
She's different.
I agree.
eddie bravo
She's a massive star.
joe rogan
She is a massive star.
eddie bravo
That's the girl that's going to put the asses in the seats right there.
Man, this is crazy.
brendan schaub
She's not bigger than Connor, though.
joe rogan
I think you're right.
eddie bravo
But as far as women go, she's the Conor of the women's division.
brendan schaub
I'm talking about fighters.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
The women's division is not even close.
brendan schaub
No, not even close.
There's no one like her.
joe rogan
There's no one like her.
eddie bravo
But just because Conor sells more tickets doesn't mean she's...
They have multiple stars.
Multiple elite stars.
joe rogan
And here you see Amanda doing some workouts.
You know, just lifting some weights.
brendan schaub
Her girlfriend's a straw weight in the UFC. Is she?
Yeah.
joe rogan
World Bantamweight Champion, Amanda Nunes.
Now you see some highlights.
So this one is showing more.
So this is a different one than the one where they roll up the garage door and you see her hitting the pads.
brendan schaub
And that's it.
joe rogan
Looks good though.
Looks good doing that.
Very interesting, man.
Very interesting.
Who the fuck knows?
Who the fuck knows?
I just know you're going to be watching.
Everyone's going to be watching.
eddie bravo
Yeah, it's going to be crazy, man.
It's going to be nuts.
joe rogan
It's going to be crazy.
brendan schaub
I think you would be surprised by the ratings.
joe rogan
You don't think anybody's watching?
brendan schaub
No, I'm not saying that.
Somebody's a hater.
No, no, no.
unidentified
Look at that!
brendan schaub
I'm not a hater.
I'm hating on the promotional game plan.
joe rogan
I understand what you're saying.
brendan schaub
I don't think you're going to see the same numbers of a Conor fight or something.
joe rogan
Is there any other big fights that are coming up?
That we should be aware of?
Any other big fights?
What else is happening on the future?
eddie bravo
What do you think about Tony Khabib?
joe rogan
Is that going to happen?
brendan schaub
It's not happening.
eddie bravo
It's not signed.
It's not happening.
joe rogan
They're talking about for the interim title.
eddie bravo
I mean, that could easily happen.
brendan schaub
That could easily happen.
joe rogan
But here's my question.
How the fuck do you have an interim champion that quick?
What's going on with that?
brendan schaub
That's what gets people to tune in, is belts.
joe rogan
Okay.
And so, because of the fact that you're guaranteeing...
Well, also, if you have Habib fight Conor in Russia, and Habib has the belt, Jesus Christ.
eddie bravo
We need a Russian destroyer in the mix.
joe rogan
Well, he is a Russian destroyer.
He's the only one.
He's the guy.
He is it.
He's undefeated.
He's a smasher.
But what a big opportunity for Tony.
If Tony Ferguson could steal that thunder.
And if you see when Michael Johnson clipped him and hurt him.
That was the first time we ever saw him hurt.
But Michael Johnson just does not have the same grappling ability that Tony Ferguson has.
brendan schaub
No, not even close.
joe rogan
It's a different animal.
And also, Tony Ferguson is a different kind of striker, too.
He's much more awkward, and his movement is real hard to time.
Well, they're both real good.
Michael Johnson's a very good striker.
Remember when he knocked out Dustin Poirier?
They're both real good.
But the big difference is the amount of grappling ability.
Tony's grappling ability is way higher.
brendan schaub
Did you see Tony's tweet?
eddie bravo
What did he say?
brendan schaub
He goes, I'm down to accept the fight.
He goes, obviously, Khabib, you...
Because Khabib called him out.
He goes, where's the fight?
And Tony said, dude, you made your deal and you're making bank.
I'm not scared of anyone.
I just want to get paid what I'm worth, man.
I'm down to take the fight, but I need to renegotiate my contract.
eddie bravo
Interesting.
You know what Tony said in between round one and round two?
You know, he lost that first round.
Rafael dos Anjos, he landed some good shots.
And, you know, we ran into the cage.
And...
You don't know exactly what's going on through his head.
And his striking coach, Anthony, is telling him some shit.
And before I got to say anything, he looks at me and goes, Coach, I'm going to break his leg.
I'm going to kick the inside of it.
You know when he started kicking the inside of it?
I'm like, okay, perfect.
That's what I want to hear.
He's like, he's such a barbarian.
That's what he had to say, is I'm going to break his leg.
brendan schaub
He's a monster.
Do you see Khabib looking at Dana, murking that dude, going, oh, Michael Johnson, going, Give me a title shot, man.
Just whooping his ass.
eddie bravo
It's going to look different on the ground.
It'll look different on the ground.
Khabib, make no mistake about it, is a fucking bear on the ground.
joe rogan
Scary guy on the ground.
brendan schaub
Excellent grappler.
eddie bravo
But Michael Johnson was making a lot of key errors on the ground in arm positioning.
brendan schaub
Not a good guy.
eddie bravo
He was giving him that crucifix.
That crucifix he was giving it to.
joe rogan
He was hurt.
brendan schaub
Did you see Khabib versus Dos Anjos, though?
Dos Anjos is a legit black belt.
joe rogan
He mauled him.
brendan schaub
I gotta see that again.
Mawled him.
joe rogan
Mawled him on the ground.
Mawled him in a weird way, where you're watching him just smush a guy who's a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt like he's handling a blue belt or a purple belt.
eddie bravo
I gotta see that one again.
brendan schaub
Tossing around like fucking...
joe rogan
I think his grappling is as good as I've ever seen inside the Octagon.
He might not be the same submission stylist that a Damien Maia is, but his pure ability to control guys, take them down, grapple them, and maul them is unprecedented.
brendan schaub
His MMA grappling, I agree.
joe rogan
Look at this.
When he gets a hold of you, it's so fucking undeniable.
Like, this kind of shit.
Like, he gets a hold of you, bear hugs you, and just like, bitch, you're going down.
You are going to the fucking ground.
And he holds you there, and he beats the fuck out of you when he has you there.
eddie bravo
His pressure is insane.
joe rogan
Insane.
brendan schaub
And his positioning is insane.
joe rogan
His positioning, his pressure, his strength, his technique.
eddie bravo
He's like Damien Maia.
joe rogan
Very similar.
unidentified
Without the submissions.
joe rogan
Without the submissions.
eddie bravo
Ground and pound Damien Maia.
brendan schaub
Great control.
joe rogan
But better takedowns.
Better takedowns.
brendan schaub
Way better.
eddie bravo
Damien Maia's taking everyone down at 170. He's very good.
Wrestlers and everything.
John Fitch, everybody.
joe rogan
No doubt about it.
No doubt about it.
But you've got to give the edge.
eddie bravo
And the takedowns?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Think?
I give the extra Nurmagomedov over everybody.
Except Ben Askren.
Ben Askren is like the only guy that you just go, okay, what the fuck?
That's a fun fight.
Oh!
Dude, Ben Askren, I feel like...
brendan schaub
Ben's bigger, but...
joe rogan
Yeah, Ben is 170, of course.
But he probably could make 155. Who the fuck knows?
brendan schaub
They could be...
They do a catchweight 160 super fight.
eddie bravo
And one thing that Dos Anjos didn't have that Tony's going to bring into this is college wrestling.
Tony's a really good wrestler.
joe rogan
Yep, yep.
eddie bravo
It's going to be a lot harder to take Tony down than it is Dos Anjos.
unidentified
That's for sure.
joe rogan
Tony's just a different, he's like a harder mindset.
He's a scary fucking dude.
And more athletic.
Whether he wins or whether he loses, Tony is a scary fucking guy to be in there with.
eddie bravo
Yeah.
joe rogan
Very scary.
Not that Dos Anjos isn't, but I think that Tony is like one notch scarier.
brendan schaub
Remember, this is Dos Anjos in his prime, too, when he got mollywopped.
joe rogan
Yes, before his prime, honestly.
This was before he started making his real serious run.
He got mollywopped here, and then Habib got injured, and then Dos Anjos came back, and he also started working with Nick Kurson.
That was a big factor in his improvement, because his strength and conditioning got way better after this fight, because he realized, like, holy shit, I can't keep this fucking vanilla...
This beast yeti thing off me.
eddie bravo
His pressure.
joe rogan
He's a fucking Russian destroyer, man.
These Dagestan people, man.
That part of the world is tough.
And those dudes are on another level when it comes to tenacity and aggression.
brendan schaub
He's also been doing it since he was a kid, and he's a world champion sambo.
joe rogan
That and Russians aren't regular white people.
We've established that.
brendan schaub
We're not built the same.
American white, Russian white, different.
joe rogan
Their genetics are fucking, those are powerful people, man.
And it's, I mean, you think about all the guys who came out of Russia that have been, like, ridiculous world champion caliber fighters.
unidentified
Like Fedor.
brendan schaub
It's their boxing system, too.
joe rogan
Remember Eeyore Wojciechkin?
brendan schaub
Yes.
joe rogan
Jesus Christ!
Jesus Christ!
You remember when he fought Francisco Bueno?
Do you remember that fight?
brendan schaub
I don't, but everybody was a straight fucking...
joe rogan
Dos Anjos is hanging in there with him for a while, but look at that.
unidentified
Boom!
joe rogan
Look at that takedown.
eddie bravo
Come on, son.
brendan schaub
He's a monster.
You know there's video of him wrestling an actual bear?
joe rogan
Yeah, when he's a little kid.
brendan schaub
Like grappling a bear at him.
joe rogan
Pull up Igor Vovchanchin Francisco Bueno, KO. Vovchanchin used to throw those casting punches, you know what I'm talking about?
Where he'd throw hammers.
He would throw like, he would whip them.
Igor Vovchanchin.
Just give it a chance.
Vovchanchin.
Do you know how to spell it, Eddie?
eddie bravo
How do you?
joe rogan
Vovchanchin.
Vovchanchin.
C-H-A-N. There it is.
Just go with one of those.
eddie bravo
Vovchanchin.
joe rogan
And then write MMA. Okay, there he is.
Vovchanchan versus Francisco Bueno.
Francisco Bueno.
It's one of the most vicious KOs ever.
Watch this shit.
You've never seen this before?
Vovchanchan was another guy who was maybe 5'8", 5'9", at the most, and was fighting heavyweights.
He looked like a guy who had longer arms, but they sawed the ends off.
eddie bravo
Do you remember Igor Volchanchin?
Is he before your time?
Is he before your time?
brendan schaub
He's before I got really into it for sure.
joe rogan
Dude, look at that.
eddie bravo
He was an early Russian destroyer.
joe rogan
Oh, I know.
brendan schaub
Powerful Russian dad bod, though.
joe rogan
Look at the size of his fucking thighs, dude.
Those were ridiculous thighs.
Like, his whole body was just like this compact...
Just explosive machine.
eddie bravo
What do you think of Ryzen?
You think...
joe rogan
I love it.
I love it.
We need more.
We need more.
brendan schaub
It's just like Pride, right?
joe rogan
Yeah, we need...
eddie bravo
It's like Pride, right?
joe rogan
We need all that.
brendan schaub
It's getting there.
joe rogan
We need a bunch of organizations like that to emerge.
brendan schaub
Did you see Heath Haring's back?
joe rogan
Yeah, it's good.
brendan schaub
He's filling in for Shane Conway.
joe rogan
I'm so sad that Shane's out, but I'm happy to see that Heath is doing it again.
I saw pictures of him with Roy at...
eddie bravo
How old is Heath Haring?
joe rogan
40?
eddie bravo
40?
joe rogan
Probably.
brendan schaub
He hasn't fought since Lesnar.
Remember when Lesnar like steamrolled him?
joe rogan
Knocked him over and knocked him around.
Ten years ago.
Yeah, that was his last fight.
brendan schaub
Eight or ten years ago.
Ten years ago.
joe rogan
Long ass time.
Yeah.
brendan schaub
And then you got Mirko Krokop versus Mo Lawal.
joe rogan
Who is Krohn fighting?
He's fighting in Ryzen, right?
eddie bravo
Krohn is fighting Kawajiri.
unidentified
Ooh.
eddie bravo
That's a real fight right there.
joe rogan
That's a real fight.
Dangerous on his feet.
eddie bravo
Kawajiri is a little old.
brendan schaub
But still, MMA-wise, that's a first test for Krohn, for sure.
eddie bravo
Yeah, we'll see.
joe rogan
Yeah, a real test, right?
eddie bravo
Yeah.
joe rogan
That's a good fight.
eddie bravo
Damn, son.
If you get his back, it's over, though.
brendan schaub
So you know they're doing it.
The champion will be crowned.
They're doing those fights over three days.
So you win, you fight the next night.
joe rogan
That's so crazy.
eddie bravo
Who's doing that?
brendan schaub
Ryzen.
joe rogan
That's so crazy.
That's so crazy.
eddie bravo
Wait, wait.
brendan schaub
Heavyweight.
eddie bravo
Who's in the tournament?
joe rogan
That's so crazy.
brendan schaub
Mo Lawal, King Mo, that crazy dude, that Amir Alakabari.
Have you seen that guy?
joe rogan
Yes.
brendan schaub
He's terrifying.
And then Keith Haring.
joe rogan
Yeah.
He's fighting at A.K.A., right?
brendan schaub
He's training out of A.K.A.? Yeah, Thailand with Mike Swick.
joe rogan
Oh, is he?
brendan schaub
They tagged me in a picture of him.
Him and that Hulk guy.
Remember the Hulk in the UFC, Simone Hulk?
unidentified
Mm-hmm.
joe rogan
Soa Pulele?
brendan schaub
Yes.
Soa and Pulele and Mike Swick are holding him back, and he's like, ah, they're about to unleash the beast.
Oh, God.
joe rogan
Jesus Christ.
brendan schaub
This dude is scary.
joe rogan
I think Ryzen's awesome.
I think it's important.
There it is.
Jesus.
It's a big boy.
brendan schaub
He looks like Gabriel Gonzaga and Shane Carwin had a kid.
joe rogan
Yeah, and redonkulous wrestling.
Just a big-ass, giant...
eddie bravo
This is that guy.
I remember that.
He's been training for a while, right?
unidentified
Yeah.
eddie bravo
He's doing Ryzen.
He's in this tournament.
What's his name?
brendan schaub
Amir.
joe rogan
Amir...
Ali...
eddie bravo
Ali He's right there on that border.
brendan schaub
No, sir, he's not Russian.
joe rogan
What is his nationality?
brendan schaub
He's Iranian.
joe rogan
Is he?
brendan schaub
He's Muslim as fuck.
unidentified
Here we go here.
joe rogan
Yeah, Iranian.
eddie bravo
Oh, shit.
joe rogan
A lot of strong wrestlers come out of Iran, you know?
Iron Sheik.
brendan schaub
His thing's Greco, which doesn't always translate to MMA, but...
joe rogan
Who's more synonymous with wrestling and Iran than the Iron Sheik?
unidentified
None.
joe rogan
Maybe nobody.
brendan schaub
Zero ever.
Zero ever.
eddie bravo
Did you ever see that I gave him a ride to the airport once and videotaped the whole thing and put it on YouTube?
brendan schaub
Really?
eddie bravo
Have you ever seen that?
brendan schaub
No.
eddie bravo
Iron Sheik, it's like seven parts.
Me, Iron Sheik, and Danny Loner were...
His manager would take...
You'd give him 200 bucks and you could hang out with the Iron Sheik in his hotel and just fucking shoot the shit with him.
joe rogan
Wow.
eddie bravo
And so Danny says, dude, you want to go hang out with the Iron Sheik?
I said, fuck, yes!
So we went, and it turns out we were late, and he was going to the airport.
unidentified
Relate?
eddie bravo
He goes, you want to just take us to the airport?
unidentified
And we're like, fuck, yeah, we got him trapped in the car.
brendan schaub
Look at that motherfucker.
That's him there?
unidentified
Oh, that's it.
brendan schaub
How old is he there?
joe rogan
He's a pretty old guy.
Holy shit.
eddie bravo
He looks like a wax figure.
joe rogan
Yeah, he came on stage with me at that pot party.
What?
Yeah, he came on stage.
He was in the audience and I brought him up on stage.
brendan schaub
You're damn right you did.
unidentified
Joe Rogan knows what is toughest sport in all of Olympics.
joe rogan
Freestyle wrestling.
Greco-Roman.
unidentified
He did Comidia.
joe rogan
A lot of respect.
That was ridiculous.
It was ridiculous.
brendan schaub
Does the crowd know who he is?
joe rogan
Oh, fuck yeah!
Everybody knows who the Iron Sheik is.
eddie bravo
I showed him that I named a move after him.
I had my book with me, and I go, look!
I called the move the Iron Sheik.
joe rogan
Oh, that's amazing.
He's hurting, man.
His whole body is all fucked up from all those years of pro wrestling.
Like, everything...
That too, but I mean his knees are gone, his hips are gone, his back's gone.
brendan schaub
Those wrestlers get fucked up, man.
joe rogan
Fuck yeah, they do, man.
I don't think people appreciate the beating those guys take on their bodies.
brendan schaub
Their schedule.
eddie bravo
They're on the road like 300 days a year.
brendan schaub
You know, obviously rehearsed and all that stuff.
eddie bravo
In reality, behind the scenes, he was the baddest dude.
He has an Olympic gold medal in wrestling.
joe rogan
So does Kurt Angle.
eddie bravo
And backstage, he was the fucking man.
Everybody knew that.
He was running the fucking show.
joe rogan
Well, he was a definite, like, real wrestler.
brendan schaub
Yeah, for sure.
joe rogan
There's a few of those guys that get into pro wrestling that are like Kurt Angle, that are real, legitimate gold medalists in the Olympics.
eddie bravo
And if shit went down, they'd fuck you up for real.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Well, it's, you know, like, how about Brock?
Like, if the shit went down, who's beating Brock?
Good luck.
eddie bravo
Yeah.
joe rogan
Good luck all you guys.
brendan schaub
Cain Velasquez.
joe rogan
Yeah, Cain.
brendan schaub
There's like three people on the planet.
joe rogan
Yeah, and also Cain at 240, you know, when Brock is at 265. When Brock is not under any sort of guidelines or restrictions, he tends to be larger.
brendan schaub
Ask Mark Hunt about it.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Wow.
Look at that.
The Iron Sheik.
brendan schaub
Damn, he was jacked.
joe rogan
Oh, he was super jacked back in the day.
brendan schaub
Powerful mustache.
joe rogan
Yeah, he was a thick dude.
He also used to use those Iranian clubs.
Look at the fucking...
Go back to that picture.
Look at the fucking thighs on that dude.
Jesus Christ.
I mean, he's just like one thick motherfucker.
brendan schaub
Look at his obliques.
eddie bravo
Powerful obliques.
joe rogan
Yeah, thick-ass, powerful dude.
But watch, see if you can find Iron Sheik Indian Club Workout.
eddie bravo
Have you seen the documentary on the Iron Sheik?
brendan schaub
No.
eddie bravo
There's a documentary on him that just got released like maybe a year or two ago.
joe rogan
They're always sad.
eddie bravo
It's awesome.
brendan schaub
They're always sad though.
Like the Jake the Snake one's a bummer.
joe rogan
See those clubs?
eddie bravo
This is a great documentary.
brendan schaub
Is it sad though?
eddie bravo
It's his whole story.
It's his whole story.
You know, you're not gonna start crying.
joe rogan
So watch how he does this.
These clubs, check this shit out.
These clubs that he's using, these are like traditional Indian clubs that they used to use to work out.
They would do these things called shield casts.
That is fucking very hard to do.
brendan schaub
Hell yeah.
joe rogan
And the way he's doing it, he's like throwing those things around like they're nothing.
Those are fucking difficult to swing around.
I do that workout with a 25-pound club.
It's that hard to do.
brendan schaub
No, he's a legit badass.
joe rogan
Yeah.
25-pound seems like it's nothing.
It seems like, what the fuck is that?
He called them Persian clubs?
brendan schaub
Persian clubs?
joe rogan
Well, they used them in Persia as well, in Iran.
But those were like an old-school strength and conditioning piece of equipment.
And you would get other people to try to do it, and they just couldn't do it.
Some of them, they would do them out of wood.
They would use these big, thick pieces of heavy wood with a handle on the bottom of them.
That was what they originally were made out of.
But now a lot of guys make them out of steel now.
brendan schaub
Look at this jacked white boy taking the challenge.
joe rogan
Oh, he's doing it too.
unidentified
Precious Paul.
brendan schaub
Who is Precious Paul?
God damn it, Precious Paul.
unidentified
Terrible, man.
joe rogan
But Precious Paul is going forward and back, which is legit, but the real way to do it is what's called a shield cast, where you take your right hand and you go towards your left shoulder, behind your back, and then you control.
You bring it down in front of you and control.
Do we have any of those here?
unidentified
Uh, no.
joe rogan
We don't have any of those?
unidentified
No.
joe rogan
We have the maces, but we don't have a club?
Oh.
It's a fucking awesome exercise for shoulder strength.
brendan schaub
Your shoulders better be in good shape to do that.
joe rogan
You can't go with, like, really heavy weights right off the bat, but obviously Precious Paul...
Oh, he's getting jacked now.
Seconds later, he was like, you stupid fuck!
brendan schaub
Precious Paul!
unidentified
I wear you out!
joe rogan
Now I kick your chest...
brendan schaub
Precious Paul.
joe rogan
He's awesome, man.
Just knowing that Iron Sheik knows I'm alive made me happy.
brendan schaub
That's pretty dope.
Can you still pay him $200 to chill and stuff?
eddie bravo
I think so.
joe rogan
$400 now.
brendan schaub
Is it $400?
joe rogan
It's $500 now.
brendan schaub
Fuck, that's a bummer, man.
joe rogan
If you keep talking, it's going to get more.
eddie bravo
Yeah, we had him in the car for like an hour, just picking his brain, making him leave messages on people's phones.
He was down!
He wasn't annoying at all!
They were happy they got their money and a free ride to the airport.
brendan schaub
Where's he live?
eddie bravo
I think somewhere in Minnesota, maybe.
joe rogan
Cold out there as fuck if you got a bad hip.
brendan schaub
There's some WWE guys killing it, like Jesse Ventura's killing it.
He's a big time WWE guy.
joe rogan
He's had some injuries too, man.
A lot of those guys are all busted up from that sport.
eddie bravo
Dude, Jesse Ventura is like 100% weed activist now.
unidentified
Oh yeah.
eddie bravo
He just wrote a book on...
joe rogan
I had him on.
eddie bravo
Oh shit.
How nuts is that?
joe rogan
He was great.
eddie bravo
He's all about the weed movement.
brendan schaub
And he lives off the grid in Mexico or some shit.
joe rogan
Yep, and he uses weed for, he's got a bunch of ailments, and his wife has some ailments too.
You know, and she's using weed for it.
brendan schaub
You know, he sued the American Sniper guy and won.
joe rogan
American Sniper, yeah.
Chris Kyle.
brendan schaub
Chris Kyle said he beat him up, kind of punked him in a bar.
And he was like, that fucking never happened.
And sued him, yeah.
joe rogan
He's actually said he was going to consider running for president if Donald Trump won.
That's what he said on the podcast.
I wonder if he's still going to do it.
eddie bravo
Talking all that shit.
He's in his 70s now, isn't he?
joe rogan
Yep, he's in his 70s.
Yeah.
eddie bravo
And that's a hard job.
joe rogan
So is Donald Trump.
unidentified
Yeah.
brendan schaub
That's true.
Yeah.
joe rogan
It's all very interesting, man.
Okay, any other fights we need to talk about?
Is that it?
Do we get them all?
brendan schaub
Yeah, Brandon Thatch.
joe rogan
Ooh, who's he fighting?
brendan schaub
He hasn't fought in a while.
He's fighting a price.
joe rogan
Who's Nico Price?
Nico?
Nico Price?
How's Thatch doing?
You're friends with him, right?
brendan schaub
Yeah, friends with him.
I talked to Leister Bullen this morning about him.
He said it's the most...
Because Thatcher's thing has always been dedication.
He said it's the most dedicated he's ever been to a fight, so that's usually scary.
joe rogan
Well, he's a super, super talented guy.
Oh, and Tim Means is fighting Alex Oliveira.
Ooh, there's a sleeper.
brendan schaub
Dude, how come nobody brought that fight up?
What about Stundun Versafedine?
joe rogan
But hold on, let's look at this fucking fight.
Tim Means is a bad motherfucker, and so is Oliveira.
Oliveira's big, though.
Didn't he have a hard time making 170 in his last fight?
brendan schaub
Yeah, was his last fight when he got murked by Cowboy, the real Cowboy?
No.
Because he goes by cowboy, too.
joe rogan
No, I feel like he fought after that.
brendan schaub
Oh, that's right, and he won.
Knocked the guy out.
joe rogan
But he was way overweight.
unidentified
That's right.
brendan schaub
He was huge.
joe rogan
Like, way overweight.
Like, for some reason, I mean, I want to say he was several pounds overweight, right?
brendan schaub
That's a fun fight.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Alex Garcia versus Mike Pyle.
Mike Pyle's still hanging in there.
brendan schaub
God, talk about...
He's the dirty bird.
joe rogan
He's a bad motherfucker, too.
Really skillful.
Very smart guy when it comes to MMA RQ. No, he's in his 40s, but he's in the Larry Holmes 40s.
You know, like a legit 40s with USADA. Legit 40s.
Tarek Safedine and Dong Young Kim, that's interesting, too.
brendan schaub
Stun Gun's been out for a minute.
joe rogan
Yep, he has.
And him versus Tarek Safedine is very interesting.
When was the last time Stun Gun was in?
When was the last time Dong Young Kim was fighting?
What was his last fight, if you had to guess?
It wasn't the Woodley fight, was it?
Woodley stopped him.
brendan schaub
Probably, because he's taking a long last time off.
joe rogan
Let's see what it says there.
brendan schaub
Is it Woodley?
joe rogan
Nope.
Last fight he won.
Who did he fight there?
brendan schaub
Dominic Waters.
Shit!
unidentified
Oh, Berkman.
joe rogan
Dominic Waters and Josh Berkman.
Okay.
And then he lost to Woodley.
Woodley KO'd him two years ago.
brendan schaub
So he hasn't fought since 2015. Yeah.
joe rogan
Hmm.
eddie bravo
John Hathaway.
What happened to him?
joe rogan
He was dealing with some injuries, I think.
eddie bravo
He had a lot of potential.
joe rogan
Yeah, a lot of potential.
brendan schaub
A lot of potential.
joe rogan
And underappreciated grappling ability for a big guy from the UK. English fella, that's right.
Yeah.
But he had some injuries, I believe.
And didn't he have like some sort of an allergy or something too?
Like maybe a food allergy or something like that that he was dealing with?
brendan schaub
I don't know, you don't see.
eddie bravo
I think I remember like some kind of...
joe rogan
Medical issue?
eddie bravo
Yeah.
That's a bummer.
joe rogan
Yeah, man.
Hard-ass sport.
Is that it?
Is that it for that card?
Anything else coming up that we need to talk about before we get the fuck up out this bitch?
How many articles do you think we wrote for the MMA media today?
eddie bravo
A fake MMA news site.
They need to start.
They're all fake.
brendan schaub
They're all fake.
joe rogan
They have a lot of fake ones.
People make up shit.
brendan schaub
I walk out and it's almost like a blur.
I don't remember what I said until I read some shit.
I'm like, whoops.
I was just talking to my friends.
eddie bravo
Are you kidding me?
I never watch that shit.
Those videos pop up randomly.
I'm watching something else and that shit pops up and I'm like, I don't want to watch that bullshit.
joe rogan
You can't.
brendan schaub
Well, on my show, I'll do fan questions and be like, remember when you said this shit to Rogan?
I'm like, I said that?
joe rogan
Listen, that's the problem with people getting upset at something that three people say.
We're all racing.
We're all just darting in with shit and talking shit, and we're all high, and we're being ridiculous.
When you do stuff like that, You're going to say some shit that you probably shouldn't have said, but you can't pretend that this is anything we thought out.
A lot of it is completely off the cuff.
And if you don't like that, that's fine.
But if you do like it, there's only one way to do it, folks.
You've got to do it off the cuff like that.
You're going to crack some eggs if you want to make an omelette.
brendan schaub
It's true.
unidentified
We'll make some omelettes.
brendan schaub
They're fake omelets, though.
It's all fake.
joe rogan
By the way, Brian Callen, it's not that he's not here because we don't love him.
He's busy.
He's on vacation.
That's all.
Because people are like, oh, you guys are cutting Callen out?
No, not at all.
But if he was here, we would definitely have made fun of him, and we definitely would have got called bullies.
True.
brendan schaub
And he would have made some facts up.
It's just what we do, and we love him.
joe rogan
He's a crazy boy.
brendan schaub
He's crazy.
joe rogan
He's a fun fella.
So he's out there on vacation.
So yeah, he'll be back for the next one.
unidentified
Of course.
joe rogan
So we'll try to do one soon.
There's some other ones coming up that I'm not doing.
You know, I know for sure.
We'll have to do that.
eddie bravo
Ben Saunders is coming up against Court McGee.
joe rogan
When is that?
eddie bravo
That's on January 15th.
Sunday, January 15th in Phoenix.
joe rogan
Oh, please.
eddie bravo
So I'll be there cornering, so I wouldn't be able to do it.
joe rogan
Oh, that's the BJ Penn card?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
What is it?
January what?
15th.
15th?
Oh, it's a Sunday night?
unidentified
Yep.
Oh, interesting.
brendan schaub
Ooh, that'd be fun.
joe rogan
Oh, I'm in, man.
I'm in.
brendan schaub
I'm down for that.
eddie bravo
No conspiracy theories that one.
joe rogan
That's our next one.
I'll try and hold him down.
Brian's saying, why doesn't BJ just punch him with the right hand?
brendan schaub
I'll tell you what, BJ's fundamentals are just off.
joe rogan
Yeah, why doesn't he just hit him with the right hand?
Alright folks, that's it.
Fighter and the Kid, tfatk.com, Edgy Bra, Eddie Bravo on Twitter, Eddie Bravo 10 on Instagram, Brendan Schaub on Instagram, 10thPlanetJJ.com.
brendan schaub
We're in Seattle, Portland, and Vancouver.
January.
joe rogan
Next EBI is on March.
eddie bravo
We're aiming for March 5th.
joe rogan
Aiming for it.
But old ones, which you do want to watch, are all available on Fight Pass.
Go there and check out the last one with Gio Martinez.
Against Eddie Eddie Cummings catches him with an armbar.
Goddamn.
And just so many epic matches.
And if you're a fight fan in particular, it'll give you a real appreciation of high-level grappling and getting to see all these submissions.
And it's just an awesome format that Ed Gibra has invented.
All right, we'll be back tomorrow with Zach Leary.
Zach Leary.
Timothy Leary's son.
He's going to be here tomorrow.
unidentified
Oh, shit.
joe rogan
All right, we'll see you.
unidentified
Bye.
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