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July 9, 2024 - The Joe Rogan Experience
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JRE MMA Show #159 with Quinton "Rampage" Jackson
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joe rogan
What's up, Quentin?
quinton jackson
What's up, man?
joe rogan
Good to see you, sir.
Yeah, good to see you.
quinton jackson
Good to be here.
joe rogan
So tell me about your drink.
What is this called?
quinton jackson
It's called F3? Yeah, F3. It's a newer energy drink.
It got like supplements and stuff in it.
joe rogan
Oh, this is good.
Yeah.
Ginseng, BCAAs, theanine.
Okay, good for the brain.
quinton jackson
What the hell is theanine?
I don't even know what that is.
joe rogan
It's a nootropic.
It's in this gum.
quinton jackson
Oh.
joe rogan
This gum, NeuroGum.
quinton jackson
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah, I take a bunch of different brain supplements.
quinton jackson
Does it make your dick hard, though?
joe rogan
No, it doesn't help there.
quinton jackson
Oh.
I've been looking for something.
joe rogan
There's other stuff for that.
quinton jackson
But how good would it be if you can drink dick hardener?
joe rogan
I'm sure they have it.
I'm sure there's like a Viagra soda somewhere.
unidentified
Man.
joe rogan
Thailand or some shit.
quinton jackson
I'm sure in Thailand.
joe rogan
Maybe Russia.
I'm sure so.
Jamie, Google dick-hard soda.
If you need to get Carl to sit still for a second.
quinton jackson
Can you think about that?
You don't have to take a pill.
You just drink it.
You know, the girls have no idea.
joe rogan
I bet there's like a cocktail that you can buy at a bar.
quinton jackson
Why do you call it cocktail, though?
joe rogan
Well, that's what they call them.
I didn't invent it.
But if there was like a cocktail, yeah, that's what they would call it.
The cocktail.
quinton jackson
I don't want to spill all over your table.
jamie vernon
It's okay.
joe rogan
This table looks good with a little bit of stains on it.
You find anything?
Dick hard soda?
jamie vernon
It's giving me like cocktails that people have, you know, made.
joe rogan
That have Viagra in them?
jamie vernon
No, no, they just have alcohol and they call them like, get your dick hard.
Oh, Viagra, Viagra Falls.
joe rogan
But there's no sodas or anything with...
That would probably have to be in another country.
quinton jackson
Yeah, they probably wouldn't have that here.
joe rogan
Because you have to have a prescription.
quinton jackson
That's the only thing this needs.
They got everything else in this.
It's green tea.
That's where the caffeine comes from.
Green tea.
joe rogan
And ginseng, too.
quinton jackson
Yeah, I can drink like two or three of these a day.
It don't bother me.
I love it.
joe rogan
That's nice.
Dude, the first time I saw you fight was in like 2000...
Yeah, about 2000. I saw you fight Marvin Eastman.
quinton jackson
My first fight?
My first professional fight?
joe rogan
Was that your first professional fight?
quinton jackson
Yeah, you saw that at King of the Cage?
joe rogan
Yep, I was there live.
quinton jackson
You was there at King of the Cage?
joe rogan
Yep.
quinton jackson
Wow.
joe rogan
Yeah.
quinton jackson
You saw me get my ass kicked.
joe rogan
You didn't get your ass kicked.
quinton jackson
I did.
joe rogan
Nah, you just lost.
Marvin Eastman was fucking good.
quinton jackson
Yeah, I was lied to by the way.
joe rogan
Oh really?
quinton jackson
Yeah, they was doing him a favor and they told me the guy was just a kickboxer.
You know, I was a wrestler.
I was like, I'm just gonna take this guy down.
It was a two weeks notice fight.
joe rogan
Oh, wow.
quinton jackson
Yeah.
joe rogan
He can kickbox, too.
quinton jackson
Yeah.
I didn't know about the wrestling.
I knew he was kickboxing.
He kicked me in the head.
I was like, damn, that's my only time ever getting kicked in the head.
joe rogan
Really?
quinton jackson
Yeah, my whole career.
Go back and watch my fights.
joe rogan
That's crazy.
quinton jackson
I learned a lesson.
Never got kicked in the head again.
joe rogan
Wow.
Yeah, he could wrestle and he could kickbox.
And he was built like a tank.
quinton jackson
Yeah.
That's why he was my first fight in the UFC. I don't know if you know about this, but Dana White bought an organization just to get me.
Because I left Pride and I went to WFA. Oh, okay.
And my manager at the time, he became the president of WFA, so he had to stop being my manager.
I fought and then the company folded.
Dana bought the whole company so I can come over.
joe rogan
So this was when you were leaving Pride?
When the UFC had bought Pride?
quinton jackson
This was before.
I left Pride right when it was going down.
joe rogan
When the UFC bought Pride, they thought they were buying a whole organization.
And they didn't get anything but a library.
They got a video library.
quinton jackson
That's all they got?
joe rogan
All the contracts were bullshit.
Everything was bullshit.
That's why they never got Fedor.
And that's why I think...
Well, it's like they honored people's contracts.
Some people got great contracts.
Like Mark Hunt apparently got a great contract.
Alistair.
A lot of these guys that came over had great contracts.
But...
Crow Cop.
Remember Crow Cop came over?
But it was...
The whole thing was all fucked up.
You know, it was run by the mob.
quinton jackson
Yeah, it's crazy.
joe rogan
What was it like being over there?
quinton jackson
Man, it was crazy.
It was surreal.
I remember the first time I noticed that the mob had something to do with pride, I saw these guys walking down the hallway when we was doing the piss test, and I was coming back from the bathroom with my cup, and I just see these guys walk around in nice and expensive suits, and then everybody just put their head down, put their back against the wall, and just bow.
joe rogan
Whoa.
quinton jackson
I was like, what the fuck is going on?
You know, culture shock.
I had no idea.
joe rogan
Right.
quinton jackson
And then after a while, I asked somebody, like, oh, those are the bosses.
Those are the yakuza.
joe rogan
Did they have missing fingers?
quinton jackson
Some of them did.
You see some of that shit over there.
joe rogan
Bro.
quinton jackson
It was crazy.
joe rogan
That is a crazy way to gain entry.
You fucking saw your finger off in front of everybody.
quinton jackson
I thought that if you did something bad.
Yeah, if you fucked up, right?
I had a friend out there.
His name was 36th.
And the guy took a liking to me.
And he was super cool, all tatted up.
And I guess he was rich as fuck.
When he found out I had little Japanese kids, he said, hon, your son needs this.
It was like a gold samurai helmet.
He said, this has to stay in your son's house.
And I showed it to my ex-wife.
She was my wife at the time.
She said, oh, yeah.
I was going to have to get him this.
He saved me a lot of money.
I said, how much is something like this called?
She said, probably like $30,000, $40,000.
Wow.
He gave me a gift.
joe rogan
He had like a missing pinky finger.
quinton jackson
Yeah.
But he was a cool dude.
unidentified
What do they do?
joe rogan
They chop off one digit or two?
How many digits do they chop off?
Chopped off the first?
quinton jackson
Yeah, he just had the first one chopped off.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's like, if you fuck up again, then it's the second one.
quinton jackson
I don't know, maybe to go to the other hand, I would think.
I don't think you would fuck up no more after that, though.
Would you fuck up twice?
joe rogan
I mean, you don't fuck up on purpose, I would assume.
quinton jackson
Yeah, yeah, you never know about that.
joe rogan
I mean, it depends on how strict they are.
What is a fuck up for those guys?
quinton jackson
I have no idea.
joe rogan
It's a crazy culture.
quinton jackson
It's crazy.
I love it, though.
I could live there.
joe rogan
Yeah?
quinton jackson
Yeah, plus I heard that their population is dying off.
They ain't making babies.
joe rogan
They're actually asking people to come over there and fuck.
quinton jackson
Man.
The fuck I'm doing here?
I just got back from there.
I was trying to fuck, you know.
I'll try to be good because, you know, I'm trying to, you know, see somebody.
I'll try to be good, so I ain't fuck nothing.
I ain't fuck nothing this time.
This is the first time I'm going to Japan.
I ain't fuck nothing.
Like, goddamn.
I'm trying to be good for once in my life.
joe rogan
Do they love Americans over there?
quinton jackson
Yeah.
joe rogan
Oh, wow.
quinton jackson
Tell me you've been there, though.
joe rogan
I've only been there for one day.
Just for the UFC and right back home.
quinton jackson
How could you do that?
That's a long flight.
joe rogan
I had to.
Too busy.
I just didn't have any time for anything else.
But it was beautiful.
It's interesting how clean everything is.
So clean and orderly.
So many people walking on the street, nobody's bumping into anybody.
Everybody's very polite.
quinton jackson
Yeah, they're very polite, but they're like robots, bro.
I remember one time when I was fighting, and this one guy on the other side of the street recognized me, but he wasn't sure, and he was riding a bike, and he was looking at me, and wasn't paying attention to where he was going, and he fucking smacked it in the back of the truck and fell down on his bike.
We all was laughing our ass off, but the Japanese people, no one laughed, no one tried to help him up.
He was hurt kind of bad, and I would have went over there and tried to help him, but it was like a busy street.
joe rogan
No one even helped him?
quinton jackson
No one even helped him.
joe rogan
They just kept walking.
quinton jackson
Just kept walking.
One dude stepped over him.
joe rogan
Oh, Jesus.
quinton jackson
Just kept walking.
No one laughed, though.
That's the thing that fucked me up.
We was laughing our ass off.
joe rogan
You don't hear about a lot of Japanese comedians.
quinton jackson
No, I heard that...
The ones that they do have, they come from Osaka, not Tokyo.
joe rogan
Oh.
Osaka's looser?
quinton jackson
Yeah.
I've been to Osaka before and they laugh and crack jokes.
You know, I married a Japanese woman, right?
unidentified
Right.
quinton jackson
So I kind of learned a little bit about them.
They're very serious.
Really?
Oh, yeah.
Especially in Tokyo.
They're very serious.
You got to be careful with jokes and stuff.
She learned to be funny after a couple years of being with me.
Then she started joking.
Then she actually got pretty good.
I'm like, damn, she started hurting my feelings a little bit.
The fuck did I create?
But she was good.
I remember one time we was joking back and forth and she was laughing.
Then I made a joke about her dad and she's like, don't you talk about my father?
I was like, damn, my bad.
I thought we was joking.
So they just take everything serious.
They don't understand the concept of jokes.
You know, our movies, our comedy movies don't go there to Japan.
Just our action movies and stuff.
joe rogan
Interesting.
quinton jackson
You didn't know that?
joe rogan
No.
Makes sense, though.
They're just a different culture.
They're more stoic.
It's just a completely different society.
quinton jackson
Yeah, but I'm going to go over there and make a whole bunch of babies, though.
They need me.
joe rogan
They do.
quinton jackson
They need me.
joe rogan
They do.
quinton jackson
I'm going to make me a bunch of babies, and if they boys, put them in the MMA. Okay.
joe rogan
Yeah, I think they have a drastic reduction in their population for some reason.
It's so bad.
I forget what the guy estimated, but there was a guy who analyzed all the people that are alive today in Japan and how many of them would have grandchildren.
And it's a shockingly low number.
quinton jackson
I wonder what's the reason, though?
joe rogan
That's a good question.
Probably...
I think they like video games.
You know, that's a problem with young people.
quinton jackson
Bro, I love video games too, but I also love pussy.
You can play a couple games and then later on at night get some ass.
I don't understand.
joe rogan
I think they're just locked in.
I don't know.
I don't know what's going on.
quinton jackson
Well, I thought it was rejection.
Like, people are so afraid of rejection over there.
Like, a guy go and hit on a girl and she rejects him.
Like, he probably won't hit on a girl again for, like, the next couple of months or years or something like that.
joe rogan
Oh, really?
quinton jackson
It's really bad, especially if she rejects him in front of other people.
joe rogan
Oh, so it's an honor thing?
Embarrassment thing?
quinton jackson
Yeah, it's an embarrassment thing.
That's what I kind of think it is.
That's what I think it is.
joe rogan
Jamie, see if you can find something on Japan's dwindling population.
jamie vernon
I'm looking.
joe rogan
Because it is kind of crazy.
quinton jackson
I got a couple friends that's married out there, and one of my friends...
We were just having a conversation.
His name is Tyson.
He's an African guy, and he owns a bar out there.
And I've been going to this bar for over 20-something years after all my fights.
I used to go into this bar, and we got to know each other really well.
And he was talking, and he was saying, if you love a Japanese woman, and you marry a Japanese woman, do not give her a pet or kids.
Because if you give her a pet or kids, you're never fucking again.
unidentified
What?
quinton jackson
I'm like, yeah, I was married to a Japanese woman.
I didn't have that problem.
joe rogan
Maybe it was just him.
quinton jackson
No, that's what I thought.
And then he said, oh, you don't believe me?
And he asked the Japanese guys and a couple of other guys that was there, American guys that's married, they said, yeah.
They all said the same story.
joe rogan
How weird.
jamie vernon
This was in the AP four weeks ago about birth rate declining and population decline.
joe rogan
It says, surveys show young Japanese are increasingly reluctant to marry or have children discouraged by bleak job prospects, the high cost of living which rises at a faster pace than salaries, and a gender-biased corporate structure or corporate culture that adds an extra burden only on women and working mothers.
Japan's population of more than 125 million is projected to fall by about 30% to 87 million by 27. That's crazy.
With 4 out of every 10 people 65 years of age or older.
Whoa!
That's nuts.
quinton jackson
Yeah.
joe rogan
That's a big drop, man.
jamie vernon
It doesn't really give a reason why.
joe rogan
Falls to a record low.
Interesting.
quinton jackson
Yeah, I heard they paying niggas to go over there and have babies.
joe rogan
Fuck that.
They're encouraging people to go over there and buy houses, too.
Apparently, it's really easy to buy a house, and you can get a nice house for fairly low money.
It's safe.
quinton jackson
Yeah, it's cheap, too.
joe rogan
Yeah.
It's a beautiful culture.
unidentified
Ugh.
joe rogan
I don't think I can ever live any place that doesn't crack jokes.
quinton jackson
Yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
I need fun.
I'm too used to it.
I've had fun for too long.
quinton jackson
But I tell you what, those Yakuza, they funny though.
They like Americans.
joe rogan
Oh, I'm sure.
quinton jackson
They not like the rest of them.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
quinton jackson
So you be hanging around a bunch of those motherfuckers.
joe rogan
Yeah, but I don't want to fuck up.
I like my pinkies.
quinton jackson
If you're not one of them, they wouldn't fuck with you like that.
joe rogan
Oh, okay.
quinton jackson
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah, maybe I just hang out with them.
quinton jackson
I remember one time I had a meeting with a big Yakuza boss.
This guy was the biggest Japanese guy I ever met.
He looked like he was 6'6", and he was ripped, like twice my size, very muscular.
And when I met him, it was right after I did that Arona slam, and I got really popular in Japan.
joe rogan
What year was that?
quinton jackson
2003?
That was actually 20 years ago.
joe rogan
Oh, wow.
quinton jackson
20 years ago.
I did it on my 26th birthday.
joe rogan
Dude, that is to this day the greatest slam in the history of the sport.
And a lesson for everybody that hangs onto a triangle when a dude's picking you.
quinton jackson
All he had to do was let go of my head.
joe rogan
All he had to do.
quinton jackson
I couldn't have picked him up.
joe rogan
And other guys did that with you.
I forget who tried to get you in a triangle afterwards.
quinton jackson
It was Vandalay.
That's right.
He grabbed my leg after that.
joe rogan
Yeah, yeah.
quinton jackson
Yeah.
But you know, I did that to Sakuraba, but it didn't knock him out.
I slammed Sakuraba a couple times.
It was from an umbar and stuff, though.
joe rogan
Sakuraba was so tough.
quinton jackson
Oh, yeah.
I saw him a couple weeks ago in Japan.
joe rogan
Here it is right here.
Bro, this is the absolute craziest because you threw him over the top of your head like a pillow.
I mean, it's the greatest KO slam of all time.
I thought he was dead.
I remember watching it.
I was like, oh my god.
quinton jackson
Wait, he didn't hold the back of my head, did he?
joe rogan
No, he didn't hold shit.
quinton jackson
Oh shit, all these years I thought he was...
Okay, he let it go, he was punching?
joe rogan
No, as soon as you get that left hand involved, so he's punching you, you scoop under and get that left hand involved.
quinton jackson
He's holding on to something.
joe rogan
Look at this.
Boom!
When you connected your two hands like that and slammed down, holy shit.
Because you think about it, man.
You got your whole body like this, and he's over the top of your head.
That's so much force.
That may be the hardest anybody's ever been hit in this sport.
quinton jackson
Yeah, that was, yeah.
joe rogan
Because look at the amount of travel that he does.
Bro, you got him like 12 feet in the air.
Look at that.
And he goes straight, and you were powerful as fuck back then.
And all the speed and force you're generating, oh my god.
And then you hit his head.
Head to head, you guys collided heads.
quinton jackson
Yeah, he head-butted me.
A lot of people are saying I head-butted him, that's what knocked him out, but he was already knocked out.
His head bounced off the canvas and hit mine.
joe rogan
He's not going to stay conscious from that kind of a slam.
That's the craziest slam ever.
quinton jackson
He didn't fight much after that either, did he?
unidentified
No.
quinton jackson
You think he was embarrassed or what?
joe rogan
I think he was never the same.
I think when a guy gets knocked out like that, it's probably different than any head kick, any knee to the head, anything.
It's a car accident.
quinton jackson
Bro, I felt bad because he was a great fighter.
joe rogan
He was.
He really was.
He was tough.
Very good jujitsu, strong as hell.
quinton jackson
I was losing that fight up until then, because he was kicking the shit out of my leg.
And I didn't want to check that.
I didn't want to check that his kicks was coming so hard.
I fought K1, and I fought a lot of kickboxers, but his kicks is the hardest by far.
joe rogan
Wow, really?
quinton jackson
Oh, yeah.
Every time he would kick me, I was acting like it didn't hurt.
And after the third kick, I remember thinking in my head, like, I don't know if I can keep acting like this shit don't hurt.
Because I didn't want to show him in my face.
joe rogan
Right.
quinton jackson
But got the hardest leg kicks I ever felt.
joe rogan
Have you seen that new stupid thing that they're doing, like slap fight, where they leg kick each other?
quinton jackson
No, I haven't.
No, no, no, no.
I haven't seen that shit.
joe rogan
This is a new one.
Have you seen it, Jamie?
I could send it to you if you want me to.
I sent it to Dana.
Yeah, they're having slap fight competitions, but leg kicks.
These dudes are standing in front of each other, just teeing off leg kicks.
quinton jackson
That's dangerous.
joe rogan
Oh, it's horrible.
Did you find it, Jamie?
I'll send it to you.
Here you go.
quinton jackson
That can fuck you up real bad.
joe rogan
Oh, it's rough.
It's rough to watch.
And some guys are kicking like right...
You're supposed to kick the thigh, but some guys are kicking really kind of like right above the knee and buckling.
And you just stand there.
You can't even move.
You have to just eat it.
quinton jackson
I wouldn't...
That's not my shit.
How do you feel about that slap fighting, though?
joe rogan
I don't...
I'm fully in support of anybody doing whatever the fuck they want to do.
I'm like, if you could bull ride, if you could BMX jump and skateboard and all that crazy shit where people are breaking their necks, here it is.
They're standing in front of each other.
I feel like you should be able to do anything, but I wouldn't do it.
Because getting hit, it should be rare, and you should avoid it.
quinton jackson
Look, dude kicked him in the leg, then grabbed the top of his head.
I would have smacked him just for that.
joe rogan
I think they're friends.
It's like, sorry bro.
You know?
That dude tapped out.
That last one he tapped out.
They got a bunch of them in there.
quinton jackson
I don't know.
I didn't even hear that.
joe rogan
They just stand in front of each other and slam each other in the knee.
Or slam each other in the thigh.
Yeah.
quinton jackson
It's a good time for MMA and all this shit.
I saw that karate comeback with Boss Rudy.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
quinton jackson
That's entertaining.
Did you see that guy get that scissor kick?
joe rogan
Yes.
Raphael Deterner.
That guy's badass, man.
And he fought James Vick.
James Vick's been KO'd a bunch of times now.
unidentified
It's like...
joe rogan
He might not want to do this anymore because that was a bad one.
That switch kick.
quinton jackson
Yeah, he was out for a while, it looked like.
joe rogan
It was horrible.
Perfect kick, though.
Did you see that, Jamie?
I'll send you that.
That shit was incredible.
I mean, I'd always wondered when someone was going to pull that one off in a fight.
Like, kick to the leg and then up kick right afterwards.
quinton jackson
He did that shit perfect.
joe rogan
Oh, it's flawless.
Here's the fight.
jamie vernon
I might have to...
joe rogan
The KO is so nasty. - Thank you.
The karate combat, that guy, Raphael the Turn, there it is, right before that.
Watch this switch.
It's so crazy the way he does it, the way he sets it up.
He right kicks.
unidentified
Boom!
joe rogan
I mean, perfect.
Perfect.
quinton jackson
Yeah, that was a crazy knockout.
Crazy.
joe rogan
That guy's super athletic.
quinton jackson
I never heard of either of those guys.
joe rogan
He used to fight in the UFC. I don't know what happened.
I don't know why he's not in the UFC anymore, but man.
quinton jackson
He should go back now.
joe rogan
They're gonna test him.
I don't know why he left the UFC. I don't know if he had an issue.
I'm not sure.
Good fighter though.
But man, that's crazy.
It's interesting when we watch organizations that test versus don't test too, right?
quinton jackson
Yeah.
How do you feel about that?
joe rogan
I have two thoughts.
One, I like to see older athletes compete.
And if you get a guy who's like 35, 36 years old, if you let him juice, if you let him use testosterone, if you just do it sensibly, not crazy, but if you can go to a doctor and make sure it's only administered by a doctor so they're not self-administering, and make sure they test them to make sure they're not above a certain level, I don't have any problem with it.
But when you get guys like what Vitor did, Vitor just fill him up, Doc!
quinton jackson
He blew the fuck up.
joe rogan
He just like take it to my eyeballs.
Just fucking and man when he was TRT Vitor to fans when they talk about it like that was an error when that era when he was on a tear when he knocked out Luke Rockhold and knocked out Bisping and he was fucking everybody up dude.
He was fearless, but he was also like heavily enhanced You know, it was not a normal human being.
quinton jackson
I remember the time when it was legal.
joe rogan
Yeah.
quinton jackson
Yeah, and they fucked it up because I tried that shit after I got beat by Jon Jones.
I was like, fuck, I must be getting old.
And I tried it and it helped me out a little bit.
Then they outlawed.
I said, fuck, I guess I'm back to the old me.
joe rogan
Yeah, they outlawed it.
There was a lot of guys on it.
And a lot of guys were abusing it.
Some guys got pulled from fights because they test them the day of.
And they're like, there's no fucking way.
You are so high.
This is crazy.
Nate Marquardt.
They actually stopped the fight.
They stopped it from happening.
Yeah, they canceled the fight.
quinton jackson
You know, in Pride, they never test it.
joe rogan
Ensign Inouye told me that they had in capital letters, we do not test for steroids in the contract.
quinton jackson
Yeah, but they'll test you for like weed and cocaine and all that shit.
joe rogan
That's hilarious.
quinton jackson
But they wouldn't test you for steroids.
joe rogan
So they tested you, they just didn't test you for anything that would actually help you fight.
quinton jackson
It seems like they kind of encouraged it.
joe rogan
Oh yeah, they definitely encouraged it.
They did with a guy I know.
He went over there and he wanted to fight at 170. He was like, no, you fight at 185. And they're like, we give you steroids.
quinton jackson
Everybody thought I was on steroids when I was fighting over there.
joe rogan
Well, you just had great genetics.
Some people have great genetics and some people need steroids.
quinton jackson
I always tell people, look at me and look at some of the other fighters.
You can look at my body and tell that I wasn't on this shit.
joe rogan
Well, the difference is when they get tested.
The pre-USADA and post-USADA days are so interesting because even though they outlawed testosterone, Still guys like Overeem, there's not a chance in hell that guy was natural.
He was not natural at all.
There's no way.
No way.
Especially when he fought Brock Lesnar.
But somehow or other, he passed the test.
But the test the day of, like the weigh-ins test, that's nonsense.
That is nonsense.
Like, all the benefits are still there, and all the stuff is out of your system.
quinton jackson
Bro, it's crazy.
I used to fight over there with Alistair, right?
And he was like the bony 205-er.
joe rogan
Yeah, he was thin.
quinton jackson
Yeah, he was thin.
Then one day I saw him, I'm like, What the fuck you doing?
He's at horse meat.
I'm like, okay, buddy.
joe rogan
Yeah, he was powerlifting.
You remember when he got up to like 265, you know, when he won the K-1 Grand Prix?
unidentified
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
I mean, you couldn't hit him.
He was a mountain.
He was just covered behind muscle.
And you know, K-1 style, when they fight with the earmuffs on, when they're standing there, there was no chin.
You couldn't see it in there.
quinton jackson
He was a bad muscle.
He won it, too, didn't he?
joe rogan
Yeah, he won the Grand Prix, which is crazy.
quinton jackson
I was always worried that I was going to have to fight him in pride, but I don't know why they never put me against him.
joe rogan
Bro, when he fought Brock Lesnar, if they kept the testing that way, he might have been the heavyweight champion.
He might have stayed the heavyweight champion, too.
I mean, he was hard to handle at that weight.
He was so big.
And he had those elite kickboxing skills.
I remember when he fought, I guess it was Strikeforce, when he fought Bret Rogers.
You can see the moment.
He hits Brett Rogers with one low kick.
And you can see it in Brett Rogers.
He's like, oh, shit.
Like, this is different.
This is so different.
He was so scary, man.
quinton jackson
Yeah, fuck.
Big, tall motherfucker.
I would like to see him go against Jon Jones.
joe rogan
I would have loved to have seen that back in the day.
But if, again, you let him fight enhanced, because the difference between him enhanced and unenhanced, he became an average fighter.
quinton jackson
Yeah.
But John was enhanced, too, though.
If they would have went against each other, both enhanced?
joe rogan
At the time.
quinton jackson
At the time.
joe rogan
So you think John was enhanced?
unidentified
Yeah.
quinton jackson
Yeah, I think it's proven.
joe rogan
Really?
Because of the whole thing with the picograms, whatever the fuck that shit is?
quinton jackson
Well, you know, I don't pay a whole lot of attention to it, but I just thought he got popped, so I assumed that he was in there.
joe rogan
He did, but the problem that he got popped with, there were so minuscule levels that it didn't make sense.
quinton jackson
He don't look like somebody...
joe rogan
He does steroids.
No, he doesn't.
But neither did Lance Armstrong.
quinton jackson
He's probably doing something different though, Lance.
joe rogan
No, he was doing testosterone.
I mean, he was definitely doing that too.
Those guys were doing, he was doing a lot of shit.
They do everything they can when they do that Tour de France.
Doctors say that it's actually healthier to do that thing on steroids than it is to not be on steroids.
Because your body just can't recover.
Because you're biking for hours and hours and hours, day after day.
It's a fucking crazy event.
quinton jackson
I think if you biking and doing shit like that, let them do steroids.
joe rogan
Right.
quinton jackson
But fighting, I'm against that shit.
joe rogan
Right, it's different.
quinton jackson
Yeah, football, boxing, MMA, shit like that.
joe rogan
But football, you know they're doing something.
quinton jackson
Yeah, you know they're doing it.
joe rogan
Those guys are gigantic.
quinton jackson
Yeah, but I think if you got full contact against another human, I think it should be outlawed.
But baseball, I wouldn't give a fuck.
joe rogan
It would only make it interesting.
quinton jackson
And basketball, I wouldn't care.
joe rogan
Right, who cares?
quinton jackson
Yeah, who cares?
joe rogan
Yeah.
Especially their professional athletes.
They got a small window of opportunity.
They have like 10, 15 years at most where they can compete at their very best.
quinton jackson
Yeah, let those guys juice.
joe rogan
Juice them up.
quinton jackson
Yeah, help them know how to do it safely.
But fighting, because you can hurt somebody.
Because some people are totally against it.
joe rogan
Well, the only way it makes sense in fighting is if everybody agrees.
If you agree, but if you're cheating, if you're just jobbing the tests and you got a good scientist that works with you and you're figuring out a way to rig everything, nah, that's not good.
quinton jackson
I'm against it because I fought a few guys that was on steroids when I was fighting in pride.
joe rogan
Who'd you fight that was the most obvious on steroids?
quinton jackson
For me, I felt like it was most obvious was Kevin Randermann, R.I.P. I don't ever want to talk ill of Big Bro, but Mark Coleman, he's honest about it.
They were doing something.
And Vandalay for sure was on that shit.
unidentified
For sure.
For sure.
joe rogan
Bro, he fought like he was on it.
He fought like he had rabies.
quinton jackson
Bro, that guy was so vicious.
He just walked around mad the whole time.
You know, all the fighters in Japan were scared of him.
That's why he didn't like me, because I was never afraid of him.
And the first time I had a run-in with Vanille, we were all staying at the same hotel, and I'm walking back from press, and I get in on the elevator with my corner man, and the elevator opens up, and it's Vanille in there with two of his corner men.
And I just, I don't notice, and I just walk on the elevator.
And I turn around and my two-corner man took off.
So I'm in the elevator by myself with Vantale.
And he looked at me like I was crazy because I didn't take off with them.
He seemed like he was mad that I was breathing his same air in the fucking elevator.
I was like, what are you doing?
And they was talking shit in Portuguese and stuff like that.
I was like, I ain't afraid of no motherfuckin' about it.
I was a kid then, too.
But I just never been afraid of anybody.
Then, after I meet my two-girls, I'm like, what the fuck happened to y'all?
I was like, shit, that was the axe murderer.
I'm not getting in there with him.
Just leave.
unidentified
They didn't even pull you out.
quinton jackson
They didn't even touch me.
joe rogan
Oh, that's so ridiculous.
I would've never trusted those dudes again.
quinton jackson
Yeah, fuck them.
I was cool, but he never liked me.
joe rogan
Were you there when he had that fight with Charles Crazy Horse Bennett in the back room?
quinton jackson
No, I wasn't there.
joe rogan
Apparently, the story is Crazy Horse knocked him out cold.
quinton jackson
Yeah, I heard that.
joe rogan
That's the story.
The story is they ganged up on Crazy Horse.
Crazy Horse was a wild dude.
That dude was crazy.
He was fun.
I remember I got drunk with Crazy Horse one night.
Me, and I think it was Eddie Bravo, went to see Brock Lesnar's first professional fight in LA at the Coliseum.
quinton jackson
Was it with the UFC? No.
joe rogan
No.
I think it was with K-1.
I think it was a K-1 fight in Los Angeles.
quinton jackson
I might have been there.
joe rogan
Hoist Gracie fought that night.
I think Hoist Gracie fought Sakuraba, if I remember correctly.
quinton jackson
Was that a rematch?
Yes.
Oh, okay.
I wasn't there.
I don't think I was there.
joe rogan
And he beat him.
And Hoist was a little saucy.
He got caught.
quinton jackson
Hoist beat Sakuraba in the remix?
joe rogan
Yeah, but Hoist was saucy.
They caught him in the piss test.
If I remember correctly, check to see if that's true.
But I sat right next to Crazy Horse.
Just me and him got fucked up the entire show.
quinton jackson
That guy's crazy.
unidentified
We had fun.
joe rogan
He's funny, man.
We had a lot of laughs.
But he was a wild dude.
quinton jackson
You know what he's doing now?
joe rogan
What's he doing now?
quinton jackson
He's in Thailand fighting for fight circuits.
You heard about them?
joe rogan
No.
quinton jackson
Man, he's fighting like two motherfuckers at the same time.
Two Thai dudes at the same time.
I said, man, that shit look fun.
I want to do that shit.
joe rogan
How big are the Thai dudes?
quinton jackson
They about his size.
They're his size.
joe rogan
He's fighting two on one.
quinton jackson
Two on one in Thailand.
joe rogan
Does he just pay a lot of money or something?
quinton jackson
I don't know how much they pay.
I did a two-headed boxing match with Bob Sapp.
I didn't get paid much money, but I was doing it for fun.
joe rogan
So you and him versus somebody else?
quinton jackson
Yeah, me and Bob Sapp in a two-man t-shirt.
He's going to use my right hand.
He's going to use his left hand.
And we fought two dudes.
That shit was so fun.
joe rogan
Oh, that's crazy.
quinton jackson
Man, that was the most fun I ever had in the ring, bro.
joe rogan
Just ridiculous?
quinton jackson
Yeah, it was fun.
Fight circuits is crazy.
joe rogan
What does it say, Jim?
Oh yeah, he tested positive for fighter Tim Percy tested positive for methamphetamines.
quinton jackson
That's my friend.
joe rogan
And Hoist Gracie tested positive for nandrolone.
quinton jackson
Shut the fuck up, Tim.
joe rogan
Anabolic steroids.
quinton jackson
Tim Percy is my high school, I mean my college wrestling.
He's my roommate in college.
joe rogan
No shit.
Tim Percy?
Who did he fight?
Who else was in the card?
Let me see, there was some...
quinton jackson
What the fuck?
joe rogan
Who else fought?
jamie vernon
The original, let's see, pre-fight promise.
joe rogan
Scroll back up to the card again, please.
Let me see who was on that card.
Because there was one crazy KO where there was, like, a football player.
Johnny Morton, right.
He fought a guy who was a comedian.
That guy.
Bernard Akak, a Japanese-born Taekwondo practitioner, kickboxer, mixed martial arts, and comedian.
Yeah, that guy.
Fucked Johnny Morton up.
It was horrible.
quinton jackson
The comedian fucked somebody up?
joe rogan
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I don't know how good his comedy is, but he could fuck people up.
I'll tell you that.
Jake Shields was on that card.
He won by Rear Naked Choke.
quinton jackson
Sounded like a good card.
joe rogan
Yeah.
quinton jackson
Yeah, Sakuraba was on there.
joe rogan
Yep.
So Hoist beat Sakuraba but then tested positive.
jamie vernon
This was supposed to be on the card.
joe rogan
Ray Sefo and Marvin Eastman dropped from the card with no explanation.
jamie vernon
That was supposed to be on the card.
Gina Carano.
joe rogan
Oh, Gina Carano.
So that was a K-1, right?
That was like up until Brock Lesnar won real quick.
That was his first fight ever.
Yeah.
But so Crazy Horse was backstage, and I guess all the shoot-the-box guys got into it with Crazy Horse.
And didn't Christian Marcelo, I think he choked Crazy Horse out, right?
Put him in a triangle afterwards, too.
quinton jackson
Yeah, I heard this story.
joe rogan
So Crazy Horse apparently knocked out Vanderlei.
And then got choked out, and then he went and fought, or had he already fought?
quinton jackson
I don't remember, but I heard Vandele fought after he got knocked out.
joe rogan
He did.
unidentified
After he got out cold, fought, and won.
joe rogan
But won by decision.
quinton jackson
Who did he fight that time, do you remember?
joe rogan
Let's find out.
Let me see Vandele's record.
I'll tell you when I see it.
Because you could tell he was like fighting a little cautious.
You know, like maybe didn't want to get hit.
quinton jackson
Bro, that's crazy.
What if they had cameras back there in the locker rooms?
joe rogan
I think there is video footage of it.
I'm pretty sure there's footage.
There's definitely footage of Marcelo choking out Crazy Horse because he gets him in a triangle with his jeans on.
I remember watching it.
jamie vernon
Oh, seven, right?
Is that what you're looking?
joe rogan
Yeah.
It wasn't Mergo Cro Cop.
I think it might have been Fujita.
Nope, that's not it, because he won that one by soccer kicks.
Does he have any that he won by decision?
unidentified
Right here.
joe rogan
No, he lost to Arona?
Is that possible?
quinton jackson
Maybe you should look for the same card with Crazy Horse.
joe rogan
He lost to him and then he beat him.
Decision split.
I wonder if it's that one.
2005. I wonder if it's that one.
Click on Pride Shockwave 2005. Let's see.
Who else is on that card?
Is Crazy Horse on that card?
Charles Bennett?
quinton jackson
Yup, that's it.
joe rogan
That's the one.
That's the one he fought, Arona, and he won a decision.
Yeah, I was looking for video.
Crazy Horse was so nuts.
unidentified
Look at that video of Crazy Horse staring at the camera.
joe rogan
Click on that.
Is that a highlight of Crazy Horse?
Yeah, it highlights his KO power.
Crazy Horse had power.
I mean, he just put people to sleep.
He put a lot of people to sleep.
Compact power, too.
quinton jackson
Yeah.
He never went to the UFC though, huh?
joe rogan
Nope.
quinton jackson
He couldn't get his shit together.
joe rogan
He's a wild fella.
quinton jackson
What the fuck is wrong with him?
joe rogan
I mean, he fought with gold teeth in.
He fought with a gold grill in, and then he had a mouthpiece on top that was gold too.
But I don't even know where he trained.
quinton jackson
I forgot where he was from.
Texas or somewhere, wasn't it?
joe rogan
I don't remember, but I mean, it did not have the ultimate skill set.
He just had crazy power and he was just wild.
Very wild.
quinton jackson
And strong.
joe rogan
Very strong.
quinton jackson
He didn't have that much jiu-jitsu though, huh?
joe rogan
No, it wasn't that good on the ground.
But on the feet, I mean, I don't think he ever submitted to anybody that I can remember.
But he fucked a lot of people up, man.
Anybody that stood in front of that dude went night-night.
And you could see it, once he hit him like one time, the difference in the power, they'd be like, oh God.
Power like that is really crazy.
Did you watch the light heavyweight title fight this weekend?
quinton jackson
Oh my god, yeah.
joe rogan
Oh my god.
Bolaton, man.
Alex Barrera.
That fucking power is nuts.
quinton jackson
You know what?
I was thinking, like, how would I have done if I was in my prime fighting somebody like that?
You can be honest.
joe rogan
You have very good wrestling skills.
The difference is you're very strong.
You were always a very strong light heavyweight and you had very good wrestling skills.
You know, he hasn't really fought anybody that's an elite wrestler yet.
Think about who has he fought that could really wrestle.
Prohaska, he's got crazy KO power, he's got good karate skills, and he did win by choking out Glover.
He did win with a choke.
So it's not like he doesn't have skills.
But he's not some Daniel Cormier type dude.
He's just an elite wrestler.
Is this the video footage of the fight?
jamie vernon
It cuts off on the fight, so it's got to exist somewhere else.
But this is a documentary about Crazy Horse.
quinton jackson
Oh, but is that the behind the scenes?
jamie vernon
It shows like a picture of them on the ground.
joe rogan
It says, can't show the footage as YouTuber restrict the footage.
What?
YouTube restricts fights?
jamie vernon
It could age-restrict the video, and they're probably trying not to have that happen.
joe rogan
Oh, so they're just showing it?
So he catches him in a triangle with jeans on, chokes him to sleep, out cold, with his phone in his hand.
Wait, what is that?
quinton jackson
That's the past.
joe rogan
It's the past.
So he wakes him up.
He's like, oh, shit.
quinton jackson
They shouldn't have had him in that locker room with them anyway.
joe rogan
No chance.
Yeah, that's a terrible idea.
And there's Vandele.
quinton jackson
He's talking about it?
jamie vernon
Yeah, this is an interview with him talking about it.
unidentified
Vandele says he just turned and hit me.
quinton jackson
Oh, he's trying to say he got sucker punched.
joe rogan
Probably did.
But also, they were probably talking a lot of shit.
And they probably thought they could keep talking shit before getting hit.
And Crazy Horse was...
quinton jackson
But what was his corner man?
Who was with them?
joe rogan
Well, I think they just thought they'd get away with it.
You know, they probably didn't think he was going to swing on them.
Especially since Charles was...
He was light.
What did he fight at?
quinton jackson
Probably 55s?
joe rogan
Probably something like that.
quinton jackson
Something like that?
joe rogan
Yeah.
quinton jackson
And Vanderlei was a big 200. Yeah, 205. He was a big 205. But I was talking about maybe the rampage when I fought Chuck Liddell.
I probably wouldn't have tried to take Alex down.
joe rogan
You would have stood with him?
quinton jackson
I probably would have tried until he started fucking me up.
Then I'm like, oh shit, then it's time to take him down.
joe rogan
Did you ever fight anybody who calf kicked you?
quinton jackson
Yeah, Forrest.
joe rogan
Forrest Griffin did?
quinton jackson
Yeah.
joe rogan
Interesting.
quinton jackson
The first two rounds.
I think the first round or something, he fucked my calf up.
I'd never seen that kick before.
joe rogan
Really?
Interesting.
quinton jackson
Never even trained against it.
joe rogan
Because that was 2008?
quinton jackson
My worst year ever.
Yeah, he calf kicked the shit out of me.
I was like, what the fuck?
What the fuck is this?
This shit was hurting.
joe rogan
Yeah, no one does it like Alex Pereira does.
He does it so sneaky.
It's also, he's got that crazy long frame, you know, but he stands almost like square and then just throws the leg out.
Like, you don't even see anything coming.
There's no tell at all.
There's no, like, dip.
There's no step.
It just throws it out there, and all of a sudden, you see guys' legs get fucked up.
One or two of them, and you can't move good.
quinton jackson
And that guy, he just came out of nowhere just fucking people up.
joe rogan
Well, I knew about him before because I watched kickboxing.
And I had seen him in kickboxing, and I was like, if this guy comes into MMA, everybody's fucked.
Because he was fucking everybody up with big gloves on.
He would hit dudes, and you could see that it was just like they had never been hit like that before.
I remember the first time I saw him fought, he KO'd Dustin Jacoby, and he hit him with a left hook that just spun his head around.
I was like, oh my god.
quinton jackson
Yeah, I heard he had a crazy left hook.
joe rogan
That's his main weapon.
Like, if you thought about one weapon that he knocks everybody out with, I mean, that's the one he knocked Jamal Hill out with.
The first fight with, or the first knockdown with Yuri, the first fight with Yuri, he knocked him out with a left hook.
quinton jackson
Did he get Izzy?
joe rogan
Adesanya, he got him with a left hook.
quinton jackson
Yeah.
joe rogan
He gets everybody with that left hook.
Yeah, but it's not like that's the only weapon.
Anything he hits you with, you're fucked.
quinton jackson
But if you know he got a big left hook, how come you don't train to just keep your hand up so you just look out for it?
That's what boxers do.
I don't understand it.
joe rogan
He throws a nasty jab to the body, too.
That's one of the things he did with Yuri.
He throws his jab to the body, and it sounded like a right hand.
It was a blap!
It was like, this fight he fought different than he fought the first fight.
I think the first fight he let Yuri get a little wild and then he's like trying to find his openings and this fight he was like, I'm gonna shut all that wild shit down.
quinton jackson
It was a short notice fight for them too, wasn't it?
joe rogan
Yeah, a couple weeks.
Just a couple of weeks.
I think Yuri got three weeks.
And Alex, when he found out about the fight, I believe he was in Australia doing seminars.
And they said, hey, do you want to defend your light heavyweight title, International Fight Week, in three weeks?
And he's like, let me think about this for a little bit.
So there's the left hook.
quinton jackson
I see this.
joe rogan
Boom!
Fade away left hook.
quinton jackson
Yeah, fuck.
He's just got a lot of power on that hook.
joe rogan
It's crazy power.
quinton jackson
He's a big guy too, huh?
joe rogan
He's huge.
And there's the head kick.
They should have stopped that fight the moment he went down.
They shouldn't have let him eat all those extra shots.
I mean, he was done.
I think Herb wanted to give him a chance because the first fight got stopped a little premature.
The thing about that guy is you can't let that guy hurt you because he'll hit you one more time.
And if he hits you one more time, you're gone.
quinton jackson
Yeah, but, you know, sometimes you just be caught in a moment.
Like, people give me shit for hitting Ventile like three more times when I knock them out in the UFC. Sometimes you just get caught in a moment.
joe rogan
Yeah, you don't even know what's happening, right?
quinton jackson
No, yeah, you don't know.
joe rogan
Also, that guy, you had history with that guy.
quinton jackson
Yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
You know, and you wanted to get that back.
quinton jackson
He deserved it, but I... I know I shouldn't have did it.
If I would have been in my right mind, I wouldn't have gave him.
It's much cooler to have a walk-off knockout, you know?
joe rogan
Right.
quinton jackson
But I wouldn't have gave him those extras.
But the day before, he pushed me at the weigh-ins.
joe rogan
Yeah.
quinton jackson
And he talked shit to me.
You know how Dana had that rules meeting or whatever?
joe rogan
Mm-hmm.
quinton jackson
And he was talking shit to me like I was scared of him.
I was like, bro, come on.
I was in the zone.
joe rogan
I guess he felt like because he had beaten you twice that it was going to be, you know, you were in his head.
quinton jackson
Not only did he beat me, he gave me two of the worst ass whoopings I ever had in my career.
So he probably thought that was in the back of my head.
But I think most times people get like that, you know, they get, oh, this guy got my number, blah, blah, blah.
I didn't have any of those feelings.
I just knew, I always knew I could beat him.
But the first two times I fought him, I think the first time I fought him, I had fought Chuck Liddell 45 minutes before.
And then the second time, I went through this crazy religious thing where I got born again.
First day of training camp.
joe rogan
Whoa.
quinton jackson
Yeah.
joe rogan
What happened there?
quinton jackson
Craziest thing in my life.
It's the craziest thing that ever happened to me.
You know, back then I was a single parent.
I had got custody of my son.
He was three years old, and just overnight I was a dad.
And I'm trying to fight in Japan and everything.
And after that Arona fight, like I was saying, I got real famous in Japan, and then I was going out partying a lot and drinking, and I never became an alcoholic because, you know, I don't like alcoholics and stuff like that because my dad used to be one.
I always drink socially, but then I started craving alcohol.
So long story short, I think one thing led to another, and one day I just had this crazy dream.
And I was at home, and it seemed like it was a devil in my chest with his hands like this.
I'll never forget having his hands in my chest.
And it had some female spirits around, and he was saying, it's okay, it's okay, it's okay.
And I was just laying there in my dream, and I heard a voice say, do you know this man?
I was like, no.
And he said, well, you're not okay.
Well, it's not okay.
I said, ooh.
And I jumped up, and I went to go.
I was scared as fuck.
I'm a big bad motherfucker fucking people up, and I was scared.
And I went to go wake my son up, and he said he was dreaming.
He wouldn't tell me his dream because he didn't like me that much because, you know, I just got custody of him.
I'm being the father figure, making him eat healthy and telling him no and stuff a lot.
So he wouldn't tell me a whole lot.
But he said he was dreaming.
So my friend finally got out of him.
He said, when my dad woke me up, God and the devil was fighting.
And God hit the devil with the sword.
And when I woke him up, he just did like this.
Just purged a lot of white pus out of his mouth.
unidentified
What?
quinton jackson
Yeah, crazy.
True story.
So I take him.
That's not even the scary part.
That wasn't what scared me.
What scared me was I took him to preschool, and I got back in my car, and I must left the radio on.
And as soon as I turned the radio on, it was a commercial on.
I didn't know at the time what commercial it was, but it said, The curse of such and such, your soul is mine!
That scared the shit out of me.
I turned the radio off for six weeks.
Six weeks.
I found out later it was a fucking commercial for Revenge of the Mummy ride and fucking Six Flags.
That shit scared me straight.
unidentified
He thought it was the devil talking to you.
Hell yeah!
Oh my God.
quinton jackson
Scared me straight, bro.
joe rogan
Wow.
quinton jackson
And then that night, I couldn't sleep.
Me and my son, we went to go sleep over at one of my friend's house.
And this is what brought me to being born again, what Christians say.
I had to piss.
And I was over my friend's house.
It was really dark.
I told you I was scared.
I couldn't sleep in my room.
Me and my son sleep on the floor in my friend's room.
And I had to take a piss.
And my son was wetting the bed and he was lying a lot.
I'm trying to teach him not to lie and teach him not to wet the bed.
And I was sweating wet the bed and blaming on him.
I was too scared to go to the bathroom.
joe rogan
You were too scared to go to the bathroom.
That's so nuts.
quinton jackson
Yeah, and what I did, I prayed to God, because my dad had just got saved like two years before, and he said he was praying for me.
And I remember when my dad said, he said, oh, when you pray to God, just say in Jesus' name.
So I was like, God, I'm a coward right now.
Just take this fear from my heart.
In Jesus' name, I love you.
Amen.
And within two minutes, I was laughing and crying at the same time.
Wow.
And I received the Holy Ghost Spirit.
And I wasn't afraid.
I wanted to go use the restroom.
My eyes were different.
Everything was different, right?
unidentified
Wow.
quinton jackson
That's the first day of training camp for Vandalay.
The second fight.
And then, so I'm training for Vandalay.
My coach thought I was crazy.
He brought a preacher in.
He thought I lost my mind.
Thought I was crazy.
Because, you know, I'm totally...
You know how I was back then.
I was...
Saying a whole bunch of crazy shit, doing a whole bunch of crazy shit.
And again, I didn't cuss anymore.
It just changed me right away.
And then my coach found out I wasn't crazy, but it was the start of, you know, our relationship going south.
And I started training for Vanderland, then he got closer to fight, and I was like, I'm going to kill this motherfucker.
I'm going to kill him.
And I'm thinking in my mind, like...
I'm Christian now.
I can't be thinking like that.
It's the most confusing part of my life, man.
So I fasted like an idiot.
I fasted for like three or four days because I read in the Bible, you fast, you get closer to God and all that stuff.
And it's true, I got closer to God, but it wasn't a good idea to fast before a fucking championship fight, and I'm not there.
joe rogan
How many days out from the fight were you fasting?
quinton jackson
Well, so I got to Japan that I think that Tuesday in the fight was that Sunday.
So I think I broke my fast.
So I think it was like four days before the fight when I ended my fast.
But I think I fasted for three or four days.
unidentified
Whoa.
quinton jackson
Yeah.
I never did that shit again.
joe rogan
And you were training while you were fasting?
quinton jackson
Yeah.
joe rogan
How bad was that?
quinton jackson
Bro, I was in another place.
It was the weirdest thing.
I didn't have to cut weight.
That's my first time I never had to cut weight for my fight.
joe rogan
Wow.
quinton jackson
I thought that was a good thing.
But I thought I was doing good.
I was winning the fight, then I got knocked the fuck out.
And I tried to cop it up to me faster.
That's my excuse, I think.
joe rogan
Well, it certainly would have drained your body to not eat for three days.
I mean, if you're going for a performance, they say it's healthy for your body every now and then to take a few days off and not consume any food, but not before a fight.
quinton jackson
Not before a fight, yeah.
joe rogan
I mean, I wouldn't even say before camp.
I mean, I would say make it like you're out.
You got time.
quinton jackson
Yeah.
I'd be trying to fast now for health reasons, and I can't even get past two days now.
joe rogan
Yeah?
quinton jackson
Yeah, can't do it.
joe rogan
Do you eat a lot of carbohydrates?
quinton jackson
No, I cut that shit out.
joe rogan
Yeah?
quinton jackson
Remember, I got super fat.
Especially my last fight with Fedor.
My God.
joe rogan
Yeah.
quinton jackson
I got super fat.
I got mixed diagnosed with hypothyroid.
unidentified
Mm-hmm.
quinton jackson
And they had me on this fucking medicine and shit.
And that shit fucked me up.
And I started training with this crazy social media guy named Sean Rez.
He's been my friend for years.
I met him from one of my other friends.
And I used to always see him, we used to all kick it and party and stuff like that, you know, go out drinking and we end up at his house with girls and stuff and hang out.
And he was always ripped, like a Persian guy, but he looked like a fucking Viking, right?
So one day I asked the guy, like, man, how in the fuck you stay ripped like that all year round?
And he told me, he said, man, this is what I do.
I said, you on that shit?
He said, no, I ain't on shit.
And he said, I do two hours of cardio.
He works out like two or three times a day.
And he don't eat carbs.
Jesus Christ.
That's my trainer.
That's my coach.
He changed my fucking life, bro.
joe rogan
Damn.
That dude looks good.
quinton jackson
I lost 30 pounds training with him.
joe rogan
And so he does two hours of cardio.
How often a week?
quinton jackson
This motherfucker training like six, seven days a week.
joe rogan
So he does two hours of cardio every day?
quinton jackson
Well, now I think he dropped it down to an hour now.
But when I asked him, he was doing two hours of Stairmaster.
And so I did it with him, right?
This motherfucker is on, like, level 13. I'm over there on level 4, like, fucking dying.
He's on level 13 for, like, fucking an hour straight.
joe rogan
Damn.
quinton jackson
He's the strongest mind I ever fucking met.
joe rogan
Really?
quinton jackson
Yeah, he changed my life.
And he don't take no shit.
You know how I be trying to get out of shit?
I'm like, no.
You meet me at the gym at this motherfucking time?
He don't give a fuck.
But he changed my life and changed my diet.
So now I just...
I don't know if it's like a carnivore diet, but I eat vegetables and stuff, but I mostly eat steak every day and sweet potatoes.
joe rogan
Yeah, so like more of like, what would they call that?
Paleo diet?
quinton jackson
Yeah, I just eat what he tells me to eat.
joe rogan
I think there's a lot of people that feel like the real problem that people have is with grains.
Grains, carbohydrates that come from bread, pasta, that kind of shit, rice.
And then if you can cut all that out and just eat meat and vegetables, you'll be way better off.
quinton jackson
Bro, I've learned by traveling where I went to Columbia to get stem cells.
And I stayed there for like eight days.
And I lose weight and I eat whatever the fuck I want.
And I lose weight there.
I could eat pasta, bread, whatever there.
And I lost like 15 pounds in eight days.
Over there getting a body accelerator.
joe rogan
Yeah.
quinton jackson
Getting stem cells.
At first I thought it was the stem cells.
But one time I went there and I just went to hang out.
I didn't get stem cells.
Still lost 15 pounds to food.
American food is bad, bro.
joe rogan
Terrible.
Just filled with preservatives and bullshit and seed oils and corn syrup and just shit.
unidentified
Yeah.
quinton jackson
Why?
Why are they doing us like that, man?
joe rogan
Because they make money.
They don't give a fuck.
The same thing is why they over-prescribe medications.
The same thing why they send us off to war.
They don't give a fuck.
When you allow people to make as much money as they possibly can, they do almost every time, especially Americans, almost every time they sacrifice people for money.
quinton jackson
Yeah, I figured that's what it is all boiled down to money, but there's other ways to make money off us.
joe rogan
Yeah, but they started this shit in the 1960s, man.
They bribed sugar scientists.
It was the 60s, right?
Wasn't it when they did that?
jamie vernon
I think it was the 60s.
joe rogan
50s?
They bribed sugar scientists, they bribed scientists rather, to say that sugar is good for you and saturated fats are bad for you.
They tried to say that all these people having heart attacks and all the cardiovascular issues that people have, that this is actually because of saturated fat, which is just not true.
jamie vernon
You're right, 60s and 70s.
joe rogan
1960s, the sugar industry paid scientists to downplay the link between sugar and heart disease and instead promote saturated fat as the culprit.
Sugar Research Foundation, now known as the Sugar Association, funded the research that reviewed the scientific literature and set the review's objective.
Sugar Research Foundation also provided materials for review and examine drafts before publication.
Yeah, it was all bullshit.
And fat is good for you.
Fat is healthy for you, especially saturated fat.
unidentified
What?
joe rogan
What are you saying?
Yeah, fat from meat is really good for you.
quinton jackson
Makes sense.
joe rogan
Yeah, of course it makes sense.
It's what human beings have been eating forever.
It's what most indigenous tribes, that's what they try to get.
They try to get fat.
They try to get meat and fat.
That's why people like Inuits, before American food started, American food and alcohol and cigarettes started making its way to the Inuit tribes, they had very low instances of heart disease.
And they eat nothing but fat.
They're eating fat all the time.
They're eating whale blubber and all kinds of shit like that and seal.
quinton jackson
It seems like it's just more natural.
joe rogan
It's normal.
It's food.
It's real food.
When people say that margarine is good for you, margarine is fucking terrible for you.
I can't believe it's not butter.
Bitch, I can believe it.
It doesn't taste anything like butter.
It's got a buttery texture.
It's fucking terrible.
It's a big tub of seed oil.
That shit's awful for you.
unidentified
Oh, man.
joe rogan
There's also, like, there's a lot of people that try to link the consumption of seed oils and margarine and shit like that to Alzheimer's.
That's when people started getting Alzheimer's disease.
And they started using that stuff instead of butter and margarine, or butter and fat.
quinton jackson
I remember hearing that it was from deodorant, antiperspirant.
That's not true?
joe rogan
That's gotta be bad for you, too.
quinton jackson
That scared me, because I don't want to be funky, though, but then I don't want to be mindless.
joe rogan
You can use...
There's deodorants that don't have aluminum in it.
I use a Tom's of Maine deodorant, but there's a bunch of other ones.
There's another one that I use...
Native.
Native's real good.
I'll use that.
But I use deodorant.
quinton jackson
My son is a hippie, and he tried to get me into all this shit, and I tried it.
joe rogan
You have a hippie for a son?
quinton jackson
Yeah.
My son, Roger, he's the one that was fighting.
He's a fucking hippie, bro.
joe rogan
In what way?
quinton jackson
Shit, it's just like hippies, bro.
joe rogan
All natural stuff.
quinton jackson
He's like mushrooms.
joe rogan
Mushrooms are good for you.
Talk to Rashad about that.
quinton jackson
I know I did.
joe rogan
Rashad is one of the most knowledgeable people I've ever talked to when it comes to mushroom supplements like Reishi and Lion's Mane and all that stuff.
He takes all those.
quinton jackson
That's the healthy stuff, but he likes the mushrooms that make you trip and shit.
joe rogan
He likes those too.
Well, it changed him into a totally different person.
He's a different guy.
quinton jackson
Totally different guy.
joe rogan
He's this sweet, at peace, calm guy.
I think he's vegan now, too.
quinton jackson
He's a vegetarian.
joe rogan
Vegetarian?
He eats pussy and vegetables.
quinton jackson
Well, I can't knock on that because I'm a vegetarian myself.
No, he's a vegetarian.
I saw him not too long ago.
You know, him and I talking about doing a boxing match against each other in November.
joe rogan
Oh, really?
quinton jackson
Yeah, we're trying to get that going.
joe rogan
What is going on with you and Shannon McKenna?
quinton jackson
Bro, bro, this motherfucker called me out.
As soon as I got knocked out by Fedor, he called me out.
And he said he was going to promote the fight.
MMA guys, we're not promoted.
joe rogan
Wasn't it before that?
quinton jackson
No, I don't remember.
joe rogan
You guys weren't jawing at each other before that?
quinton jackson
No.
I remember after that.
joe rogan
Let's go champ.
quinton jackson
Yeah.
And then we were supposed to fight and we finally had a show.
We was going to do it in Qatar.
But the guys that put it on, they ended up being fucking scam artists.
And I was trusting them.
I really liked the guys.
They was cool people, but fast talkers.
Two months before I pulled out, Shan was like, man, these guys are scammers, bro.
I'm like, man, you brought these motherfuckers to me.
He said, yeah, but I don't trust them no more.
They're scammers.
So I was like, man, there go this fucker.
I was waiting to fight him.
joe rogan
But I heard there's talk again.
quinton jackson
He's still trying, but I lost my faith in Shannon.
I don't know if he's going to get it done.
He talks a good game.
I hope he gets it done.
If he ever gets it done, I'll be game to fight him.
But right now, I guess my first boxing match is going to be against Rashad.
I need to get that win back.
joe rogan
And where is that going to be at?
quinton jackson
They were talking about in Atlanta.
joe rogan
Oh, really?
quinton jackson
Yeah.
joe rogan
For what organization?
quinton jackson
I'm not sure, but he said it was going to be under the 1FC banner.
That's what he meant.
unidentified
Really?
quinton jackson
Yeah, that's what he was telling me.
I'm waiting for my manager to talk to him.
joe rogan
Oh, interesting.
1FC. 1FC does everything.
That's an interesting organization.
Because they'll have an event with grappling, kickboxing, Muay Thai, and MMA. I like that.
I love it.
quinton jackson
I like that fight that Mighty Mouse did with that Muay Thai guy.
unidentified
Yeah.
quinton jackson
Rod Tang?
joe rogan
That was very interesting.
quinton jackson
His name is Raw Tang?
joe rogan
Rod Tang.
quinton jackson
Oh, okay.
joe rogan
Rod Tang.
Yeah.
He's a wild dude.
quinton jackson
He's tough, huh?
I see his clips on TikTok all the time.
joe rogan
He's dangerous.
Takes a crazy shot, too.
He's got an iron chin.
quinton jackson
Yeah, yeah.
He just...
joe rogan
Yeah, those guys hit him.
Come on, motherfucker.
Hit me.
quinton jackson
That's crazy.
joe rogan
He kicks so fucking hard, too.
quinton jackson
I guess those little guys, they can do that, though.
They can let people hit him.
joe rogan
Some people.
You can't let Crazy Horse hit you.
You know?
quinton jackson
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
Like, it's different people.
quinton jackson
Yeah, I guess.
joe rogan
Like, Poetan, like, when you see Pereira, there's not a fucking person in the world that can get hit by that guy.
quinton jackson
No, I wouldn't let no big guy.
No, not two or five.
Two or five.
joe rogan
Did you watch Joe Pfeiffer fight at 85?
quinton jackson
Who?
joe rogan
Joe Pfeiffer.
quinton jackson
He's on 303?
joe rogan
Yeah.
He was the featured prelim of the undercard.
He's one of the hardest fucking punchers ever.
quinton jackson
I got to the fight late.
I watched it when that girl got that cut.
That was my first fight.
He was before that?
joe rogan
He was before that, I believe.
Yeah, because Mayra Bueno Silva was in the main card on pay-per-view.
And Macy Chasson.
This is Joe Pfeiffer.
quinton jackson
With the white shorts?
joe rogan
Yeah.
This motherfucker can crack.
quinton jackson
Oh my god.
What weight class is that?
joe rogan
85. And he's huge.
Yeah, 85. He's huge, but he don't look 85. I mean, he weighs 85 for about five minutes.
That fucking dude's huge.
quinton jackson
Is he 85?
joe rogan
Yes.
quinton jackson
I met him for the first time in Saudi Arabia.
And that guy was big as fuck.
I was surprised when I saw him.
joe rogan
He's tall as fuck.
Yeah.
Tall and long, you know?
And the dude he's fighting, Drekus Duplassi, that's another guy.
Like, how the fuck do you weigh 85?
I stand next to that guy.
I'm like, how the fuck are you 185 pounds?
quinton jackson
They must be cutting from like 230 or 220. Oh, he's cutting from a lot.
joe rogan
He looks like a heavyweight.
When you stand next to Drekus, he's a big, wide motherfucker.
He's thick.
quinton jackson
What's the weight class now in the UFC? What's the it weight class?
joe rogan
When I was there, it was 205. It's probably 205 right now, but the problem is Pereira has cleaned out the division.
There's only Ankolaev, who's very good.
That's a good fight, but a lot of people don't know who he is.
It's not like a big name fight.
Yuri Prochaska is a big name.
Everybody knows who he is.
Got that crazy look with the bun.
The samurai button.
He shaved that shit off after the fight, though.
quinton jackson
Did he?
joe rogan
He's like, what the fuck am I doing here with this thing?
quinton jackson
Yeah, it did look kind of stupid, though.
joe rogan
Well, you know, it looked crazy when he got hit because it bobs around.
quinton jackson
Yeah, because the way he tapes it up and shit.
Why you got to tape it up?
It's in the back of your head.
It's not going to get in your face, right?
joe rogan
I don't think you should be allowed to have that because I think that gets in the way of stuff.
quinton jackson
Yeah.
joe rogan
Because if you're trying to, like...
If you're trying to secure a choke, you're trying to go over the top of the head, there's like a thing there.
For a split second, it might keep you from clasping your hands together.
For a split second, it might keep him from getting out of something.
It's in the way.
quinton jackson
Just braid it.
Don't put tape on it.
I don't understand that.
joe rogan
I think he wants to be like a samurai.
He thinks of himself as a Czech samurai.
quinton jackson
Oh, he's Czech?
joe rogan
Yeah.
quinton jackson
I didn't know where the fuck he was from.
joe rogan
He's a wild dude.
He's a wild dude.
And he hits hard as fuck.
But that's not good enough when you're fighting a guy that's that skilled.
quinton jackson
Bro, fighting Alex, I didn't like the way he had his hands down.
You don't fight a guy like Alex with your hands that low because it takes a while to get him up.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Well, he likes to fight that way because he lures people in exchanges and he hits so hard.
And it works on everybody else.
It worked on Rockage.
It works on...
Dominic Reyes everybody else you don't want that guy standing in front of you you know because He lures you into exchanges and he's willing to take a shot to give a shot and his punches are so hard But you can't do that with Pereira because Pereira is a better kickboxer hits harder.
He's huge And he's just too slick.
He knows how to set things up.
He also knows it only takes one shot with him.
quinton jackson
Yeah, he should have learned that the first time he fought him, right?
Get your hands up.
joe rogan
Well, the thing about the first time is what he won the first round of the first fight.
And then he was winning the second round before he got clipped.
And he actually had Pereira in a little bit of trouble.
There were some exchanges where he hit Pereira, had him moving backwards, but Alex is just too...
He hits you.
It's too scary.
quinton jackson
I was worried about Alex's chin, but that was at 85 when he had to cut all that weight.
You know you cut a lot of weight, that folks up your chin.
joe rogan
100%.
And his chin at 85 was not the same.
I mean, you gotta think of how much weight he was cutting.
He was weighing in at 85 and then fighting at 225. That's insane.
That's 40 fucking pounds, man.
quinton jackson
In one day.
joe rogan
In a day.
That's insane.
I mean, I don't know how he did it.
quinton jackson
That weight cut is gonna take, I think that's what fucked me up with my health.
unidentified
Yeah?
quinton jackson
Yeah.
When you get older, look at people like James Toney.
You see how he looks now?
joe rogan
Yeah.
quinton jackson
You remember where he used to fight at?
joe rogan
Yeah.
He'd be super middleweight.
quinton jackson
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah.
I remember when he fought Roy Jones.
I remember when he fought everybody.
I mean, James Toney beat Evander at heavyweight.
You know, James Toney was a bad man.
quinton jackson
Bad man.
joe rogan
Hard hit, too.
quinton jackson
But he cut a lot of weight, and I think that...
unidentified
Yes.
quinton jackson
I think that folks up your metabolism or something down the line when you get older, cutting all that weight and then putting it back on.
joe rogan
Yeah, it does.
quinton jackson
It fucks you up.
joe rogan
I'm sure.
Yeah, I'm sure it does.
I'm sure it does.
It's terrible for your kidneys.
quinton jackson
Who else?
What's that Prince I seen?
joe rogan
Have you seen him?
Yeah, he's big.
quinton jackson
Yeah, he's big.
Like, a lot of fighters go through that.
Like, Ricky Haddon, I think he got his stuff under control now.
But he used to blow up.
And that fucks you up.
joe rogan
Yeah, but it's also like fighters, when they're not training and they're not fighting anymore, they just start eating.
quinton jackson
Oh, man.
Yeah, I was bad for that.
joe rogan
Yeah, they just eat like crazy.
quinton jackson
You enjoy yourself because you have to be so disciplined in training camps.
And then after that, I used to always say, oh, I'm just going to enjoy myself for like a week, then get back, and I'm never going to get fat again.
I used to say this shit all the time.
Two weeks, bro.
Two weeks, I'm back fucking fat as fuck.
joe rogan
Isn't it crazy how quick it gets back on you?
quinton jackson
Yeah.
joe rogan
Especially if you're eating pizza and bullshit and if you're drinking.
quinton jackson
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
Drinking is number one.
quinton jackson
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Drinking puts it on you quick, and I think that's where Ricky Hatton was having a little bit of a problem.
quinton jackson
Yeah.
joe rogan
But that happens to a lot of fighters.
Yeah.
Especially guys who've got some brain damage.
They really crave alcohol.
There's something about your dopamine levels drop.
When you've had a significant amount of brain damage, you've been KO'd a bunch of times.
A lot of guys lean towards alcohol to make them feel better.
But it's all, you know, some people get KO'd and they're fine.
quinton jackson
Like those K-1 guys.
They don't even look gun-shy.
You know when Vanderlei knocked me out, that was my first time ever getting knocked out.
And I didn't even go all the way unconscious.
I remember hanging on the ropes.
You remember that?
And I remember thinking like, damn, I just got knocked the fuck out.
And I can remember everything.
I was dangling on the ropes and I remember like blood dropping.
And then after that, I was gunshot all the way up to when I come in to fight Chuck Liddell.
And I remember those fights.
I was gunshot and I was like, man, I got to fight Chuck Liddell.
He's like one of the best strikers I've been up against.
I need to bring somebody in to get me over this gunshot.
And that's how I met Chet Congo.
joe rogan
Really?
quinton jackson
Yeah, I met him at the UFC once before.
He was like a big scary looking guy.
And my manager called his manager and we flew him from France over to that training camp.
And he kicked the shit out of me.
And I got over that gunshot.
joe rogan
Interesting.
quinton jackson
It was a great camp.
joe rogan
Czech Congo was a beast.
Remember that fight with Pat Barry?
quinton jackson
Oh my god.
joe rogan
That is one of the craziest comebacks in the history of the sport.
quinton jackson
Craziest one.
joe rogan
Pat Barry was just swinging.
Pat Barry was a good kickboxer, man.
Real good kickboxer.
Pat Barry had him real badly hurt, and a lot of people could have stopped that fight, and he went down a couple of times, and then he clipped him with one shot.
unidentified
Boom!
quinton jackson
Bro, that's Congo for you.
That guy, countless times, he'd go through training camp, he'd get injured, won't tell nobody, and Steve would go out there and fight.
I'm talking about injuries that people would have to get surgeries for that wouldn't fight.
joe rogan
Really?
quinton jackson
Yeah.
I don't know what's wrong with him.
joe rogan
Here it is.
There it is.
There's the one right hand that drops him.
And Pat just got reckless.
And he jumped all over him.
Pat had big power, too.
I mean, look at the size of him.
quinton jackson
Look at the size difference, yeah.
joe rogan
But, yeah, I mean, Congo was real tall and big, but Pat was a tank, man.
quinton jackson
I think I was in Congo's corner.
I can't remember, but I was watching that fight.
I think I was doing a commentating up top.
unidentified
Here it is.
quinton jackson
Boom.
joe rogan
Boom.
Out cold.
quinton jackson
You don't even see it.
joe rogan
Yeah, you don't even see it.
He hit him with one, stung him, and then the other one, his eyes rolled back.
quinton jackson
Oh, you see his eyes?
joe rogan
Yeah, they're still open.
Yeah, his eyes were rolled back.
He was out.
He was in the dark lands.
Look at him.
quinton jackson
Oh my god.
joe rogan
Yeah, he was in the dark lands.
He just got too wild.
He got too wild.
I mean, he had Congo hurt, man.
Real badly hurt.
quinton jackson
Yeah, he was going in for the kill.
joe rogan
He gets clipped by in the ear, and then this one.
quinton jackson
Boom!
joe rogan
I mean, that one just shut him off.
And, you know, moving backwards, kind of, off-angle.
Still, crazy power.
quinton jackson
But, you know, Kunko was a really good kickboxer, too.
He beat Krokop.
joe rogan
Yep.
quinton jackson
I don't want to talk shit.
Kunko's like my big bro, but I was real proud of him to beat Krokop because Krokop is dangerous, man, with those leg kicks.
Those head kicks.
joe rogan
Every kick.
He's one of the hardest kickers ever.
There's a picture of him when he fought Heath Herring.
Did you ever see that fight?
quinton jackson
Oh yeah, he kicked him in the body.
joe rogan
He kicked him in the body and his body is like, his shin is like halfway into his body.
It's a horrible picture.
And especially it's that left one, which is, you know, he said right kick hospital, left kick cemetery.
quinton jackson
Yeah.
Yeah.
Oh my God.
joe rogan
That's Josh Barnett.
quinton jackson
Oh yeah, that was a good one.
joe rogan
Look at that other one down there.
Who's that?
Is that Sean O'Malley?
Oh my god!
Look at that kick!
Who did he kick there?
Good lord!
Good lord!
That is liver all day!
I mean that is deep in the liver!
That's crazy!
That's it.
The upper left hand corner.
That's the one.
Look at that.
That shin is a perfect body kick.
That's deep into the body.
quinton jackson
The first time I met Krokop was when I fought K1. Pride sent me to K1 because it was my last fight on my contract.
They thought I was going to get knocked the fuck out and renegotiate for less money.
I didn't expect for Crow Cop to like me.
They put us in a locker room together.
He was over there playing cards and stuff.
And this Japanese reporter come over to me.
I was on the ground stretching, warming up, whatever.
And I had my chain on the ground, which is crazy.
I never laid a chain down.
I don't know why I was on the ground.
And a Japanese lady came and she was like, Oh, why do you got this chain?
What does this chain mean?
You know, I guess K1 didn't know anything about me because I was coming from Pride.
And I put the chain on and said, oh, I'm a dog.
And I started humping her.
And Crow Cop died laughing!
Then ever since then, he liked me.
Every time I see him, he'll come and I could make him laugh and stuff.
He was a cool guy.
He's a cool guy.
joe rogan
He's a very cool guy.
He's one of the first guys that came from kickboxing that did really well in MMA because he was so explosive.
quinton jackson
Yeah.
joe rogan
Like a lot of those other guys like Peter Ertz or Ernesto Hoost, I don't know if their style would have translated because they would just set you up over time and Ernesto would just be chopping at the legs and hit you with shots.
But Krokop would just, bah, just explode on you.
quinton jackson
And he had good wrestling defense.
Antonio McKeith, say he was training with Krokop, teaching him wrestling.
joe rogan
Really?
quinton jackson
Yeah, and Antonio McKeith is one of the best wrestling coaches.
He's one of the best MMA coaches out there.
joe rogan
Well, he developed very good takedown defense, and that's what made him so scary.
Because if you have to stand up with that guy, which shows you how good Fedor was in his prime, because those two fought in their prime, and Fedor was walking him down.
Stand up.
Stand up.
I mean, that was primarily a stand-up fight.
quinton jackson
Fedor gives no fucks.
joe rogan
He was a wild dude, man.
quinton jackson
Even though he beat my ass, he's still one of my favorite fighters.
joe rogan
Yeah, one of mine as well.
I think, you know, when you look at the great heavyweights of all time, it's so hard to say who's the greatest of all time, but you've got to have him in the conversation.
quinton jackson
I wish he would have came to the UFC, though.
I wish they would have got close.
joe rogan
Got real close.
They had some meetings, but apparently the people that Fedor had running with him, the people that were running his business, they wanted a lot.
They wanted co-promotion with the UFC. It wasn't just like, give us some money.
I guess the UFC was willing to give them a lot of money, but they were like, no, we want co-promotion.
quinton jackson
Yeah, that's too much.
They wanted to take over a little bit of the UFC. Yeah, I heard rumors they wanted to have rights to UFC Russia or some shit.
joe rogan
There's a bunch of different things.
You'd have to talk to Dana, but I remember it was enough so that they had to beef up security.
They were worried about how the negotiations went south.
unidentified
Wow.
joe rogan
Yeah, they got nervous.
It was a weird time.
Those guys that were with him, they were serious dudes.
quinton jackson
Wow.
joe rogan
Yeah.
quinton jackson
I would like to fight Fredor again.
You know, that was my last fight.
And it wasn't me.
I was very unhealthy.
Why were you unhealthy?
joe rogan
What was wrong?
quinton jackson
Because I got mixed diagnosed with...
joe rogan
Hypothyroidism?
quinton jackson
Yeah, so I was on this medicine.
And the medicine was making me fat.
And I was training hard.
joe rogan
What kind of medicine did you have you on?
quinton jackson
I forgot the name of it.
joe rogan
Synthroid?
quinton jackson
Yeah.
joe rogan
Mm-hmm.
quinton jackson
And I had been on it for a while, and then I started training with TJ Dillashaw and Warren Archuleta, and they took me over there to Coach Cal.
And that guy's a genius.
joe rogan
Yeah, he's a genius.
quinton jackson
He's like a scientist.
So he looked at my blood, and he looked through everything, and he was like, you don't have a thyroid problem, dude.
Something wrong with your C3 or T3, whatever the fuck he said.
But you don't have a thyroid problem and that medicine you take is fucking you up.
And I just quit the medicine.
I said, I knew it was the fucking medicine.
But he said, hey, I don't suggest you just quit cold turkey.
You don't know how your body is going to react.
And then I said, fuck this.
This medicine fucks me up.
I'm quitting it.
And when I got to Japan, one of my coaches told me, oh, you got to carb up before your fight.
You got to carb up because he noticed I wasn't eating carbs.
I listen to my coach.
I'm a very coachable fighter.
And I just got bloated overnight.
I wasn't even looking that big when I got to Japan.
And I just fucking blew up.
And I said, fuck it, I'm fighting.
I'm not pulling out of this fight.
joe rogan
You were thinking about pulling out?
quinton jackson
Yeah, when I fucking saw myself in the fucking mirror, I was like, what the fuck is this?
joe rogan
That's what you thought about pulling out?
quinton jackson
Yeah, because I was fighting.
I trained hard.
I noticed I wasn't losing weight for the fight, but I was heavyweight.
I always wanted to get my weight down and look good, but I got down under 265, and I was training really hard.
People thought I didn't train.
People thought I threw the fight.
I was training hard.
It's the hardest I ever trained.
But I wasn't doing a whole lot of sparring and shit, though, because when I was training with Coach Kyle, that was the hardest training I ever did.
And it's so hard that you have to take the rest of the day off and the next morning.
joe rogan
Because it's like, so it's heavy cardio, right?
quinton jackson
Yeah, it's crazy.
We're throwing 100-pound medicine balls at each other.
joe rogan
100-pound?
quinton jackson
100-pound medicine.
While we was balancing on a boshu ball.
joe rogan
Jesus Christ.
quinton jackson
With TJ Dillashaw and Juan Archuleta.
I don't know if you know Juan Archuleta.
joe rogan
Yeah, sure.
quinton jackson
You know how small that guy is?
Coach Kyle had us flipping tires up a hill, like 200, 400 pound tires.
I never flipped a tire before.
This motherfucker used to flip his tire up the hill, run down and help me flip mine.
That's how strong that little motherfucker is.
joe rogan
Yeah, he's strong as fuck.
He's a great wrestler.
quinton jackson
Yeah, great wrestler.
And they have you on that spin bike, like a hard spin bike type of thing for like an hour.
Bro, it was torture.
But I said, you know what?
I'm going to do this shit.
I'm going to train really hard.
And at the end of the day, all this shit fucked me up.
So I cursed those two specialists that I saw.
I saw two different specialists.
And they didn't do shit.
They said, oh, you got to be on this medicine for the rest of your life.
And the second one, after I saw Coach Kyle, I went to somebody and they did an MRI on my thyroid.
And they were saying that it's not enough data yet to know if you damage your thyroid from getting and putting a lot of red-naked chokes.
joe rogan
Oh, really?
quinton jackson
They said it's not enough data yet.
Because I asked them, have you ever been in a red-naked choke and you fight so hard and your throat hurt a little bit?
Oh, yeah.
I asked them about that.
They said, yeah, it's not enough data yet.
You guys haven't been doing this shit long enough for us to know.
joe rogan
Oh, that makes sense.
That makes sense that it would hurt your thyroid.
I mean, it's right there.
quinton jackson
It's right there, so they don't know shit yet.
joe rogan
I mean, you'd imagine.
I mean, if your organs are getting hurt by getting kicked, they bleed, you know, you piss blood after you get kicked in the body a bunch of times.
Yeah, I would imagine it hurts your thyroid.
I mean, if someone's got a real good squeeze, they get your neck.
quinton jackson
That happened to me several times over the years, but I didn't really think anything of it.
joe rogan
And how many times in training?
quinton jackson
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah, constantly.
quinton jackson
That's where they get.
joe rogan
Well, that's where most people get really beat up from, really, right?
Most of the brain damage that people get is from training.
quinton jackson
Yeah.
joe rogan
Especially in the early days when people basically just fought in the gym.
Do you remember when Marvin Eastman fought Travis Luter?
quinton jackson
No, I didn't see that one.
joe rogan
Marvin Eastman fought Travis Luter in the UFC and Travis Luter caught him with a right hand and knocked him out cold.
But it was like at the end of the punch, it didn't look normal.
It looked like something was wrong.
And what I had heard was that Marvin Eastman had been KO'd twice in camp.
At least once.
I know he got KO'd at least, I think it was by Tito.
I think they were wrestling.
quinton jackson
This was after I fought Marvin or before it?
joe rogan
After you fought Marvin.
Because you fought Marvin in 2000. This was in the UFC. You fought Marvin in the UFC as well.
I don't know if the Travis Luter fight was before or after that fight.
See if you can see it.
Find it Jamie.
Travis Luter KO's Marvin Eastman.
Because Travis was an awesome jujitsu guy.
Wasn't known as being like this crazy puncher.
But, you know, when you see guys that have fought that have been hurt real bad in the gym, you know, that happens all the time.
You know, guys get KO'd in the gym.
quinton jackson
That's what happens to Ninja.
joe rogan
Really?
quinton jackson
Yeah, the shoebox guy.
unidentified
They was sparring so hard and fucked up his career.
joe rogan
2004. So this is before you fought Marvin Eastman.
That's right.
You fought Marvin Easton about 2007. Yeah, so he catches him on the end of this punch and Travis Luter, man.
Travis Luter is one of the best Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belts to ever compete in MMA and He was a guy that he was the worst weight cut I ever saw in my life ever when he fought Anderson for the title.
So look at this.
Oh, isn't that crazy?
Yeah, I mean it's a good right hand, but I But it seemed crazy, right?
quinton jackson
Yeah.
I think your chin just goes sometimes.
joe rogan
Yes.
But what I had heard from him was that he had been KO'd in training pretty bad.
quinton jackson
Do you think it's mental?
joe rogan
I don't know.
I don't think that one was mental.
I think if you've been KO'd, I think your brain's damaged.
Just like if you hurt your hand.
If you break your hand and it's still fucked up and you try to punch someone, it's going to get hurt.
Same thing with your head.
quinton jackson
But you would think that, you know, because your body heals itself, you would think your brain would rejuvenate over time.
joe rogan
It doesn't really.
quinton jackson
It doesn't?
joe rogan
No.
No, there's a lot of problems with the brain and healing.
And one of the problems, there's a lot, right?
But one of the problems is the tissue, the connective tissue that keeps the brain centered in the skull.
That stuff rips over time.
And that stuff is, once it's gone, it's gone.
It doesn't return.
It doesn't heal back.
It's just like taking your meniscus out of your knee.
And your brain is just slapping around inside of there.
And guys get KO'd way easier.
quinton jackson
Do you think stem cells help that?
Because I believe in stem cells.
joe rogan
I do too.
Yeah.
I mean, I know you go to that bio-accelerator place, which is great.
A lot of people have gone there.
quinton jackson
It changed my life.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Stem cells are incredible, but I don't know if it helps that.
quinton jackson
Your brain rejuvenates.
joe rogan
Especially not helps you take a shot.
It might help you heal from too many head injuries.
But I don't think it helps your ability to take a punch.
I think once that goes, that's gone.
quinton jackson
You knowing that, would you let your son fight?
joe rogan
I would let my son fight before I'd let him do football.
quinton jackson
Football is way worse.
joe rogan
I think it's way worse.
They did a study on CTE with football, and they went from high school all the way into NFL players.
And even in high school kids, most of them have it.
And then you get into NFL. People play all the time.
They played peewee, they played junior high school, high school.
Most likely they have some form of CTE. And then you get into, if you get into NFL, it's like 90 plus percent of the guys have CTE. I never heard of this shit until recently.
quinton jackson
We had Chandler Jones on our podcast.
Our John Jones brother.
You met him before?
joe rogan
No.
quinton jackson
I've seen him at the UFC. Yeah, he seems like a real cool guy, but he was saying that people diagnosed him with CTE, but he said he didn't believe in it.
joe rogan
Wasn't Chandler the one that had some sort of an incident where he went crazy?
quinton jackson
Yeah, he did have something.
joe rogan
Yeah.
A lot of people don't believe in things that are still real.
You know?
quinton jackson
Facts.
joe rogan
You know?
quinton jackson
I didn't know what...
I'm just not hearing about this shit now, though.
joe rogan
You seem fine.
quinton jackson
Yeah, yeah.
Fuck yeah.
You know, I don't take a whole lot of punches.
I got that cover and roll, baby.
I got that cover and roll.
joe rogan
Yeah, you've always been defensively responsible like that.
quinton jackson
Except for leg kicks.
joe rogan
You got mad at me once.
But I wanted you to throw more, because your leg kicks are devastating.
I would see when you would hit guys with leg kicks, I was like, damn, I wish Quentin would throw more leg kicks.
quinton jackson
I got to apologize to you about that.
joe rogan
Well, I apologize to you, too.
I'm like, it's not personal.
quinton jackson
No, I know.
joe rogan
When I'm looking at you, I'm not thinking of you as a human being when you're fighting.
I know you're a human being, but I'm analyzing movements and what I think a guy can do to be more successful.
I don't mean to hurt your feelings.
quinton jackson
No, you didn't hurt my feelings.
It was nothing that you said.
I'm going to clear it up for you right now.
It wasn't nothing you said.
It's the fucking fans.
When you said it, they all come to me on my social media.
Ever since social media.
So I'm going to explain to you.
You remember when I was fighting in Pride, I would check leg kicks if they were hard.
Except for Arona.
I wasn't going to check his leg kicks.
It would have hurt my knee.
But I would check leg kicks if they were hard.
But people in the UFC, they wasn't really kicking that hard.
joe rogan
Really?
quinton jackson
No.
Their leg kicks wasn't that hard.
So I'd take them and I'd try to land a punch.
But the reason why I wasn't kicking that much is because they were desperately trying to take me down.
joe rogan
Right.
quinton jackson
Even though I can wrestle, I started late.
I'm not the best wrestler.
And if you want to take somebody down, you're going to get them when they got their leg up.
joe rogan
But you were a very good MMA wrestler.
quinton jackson
Yeah.
joe rogan
You knew how to use it in MMA. Yeah.
quinton jackson
I was never good at one art.
When I put them together, that's when I felt like I'd come together.
So one time I tried to kick when they had me fight Matt Hamill.
That's the only fight I ever wanted to back out of.
I never wanted to fight that guy.
unidentified
Why?
quinton jackson
I just felt like he was a boring fighter, and I got tired of fighting wrestlers that hold me down and hump me and shit.
And I'm like, you know, it's fucking, for me, I like exciting fights.
I'd rather lose an exciting fight than win a boring fight.
It's just been my style.
And I didn't want to fight him, so I remember when I was fighting him, and it was back in my head, I was like, is Joe Rogan going to talk about me?
Now they're fucking kicking and shit!
So I threw a fucking kick and sure enough, he almost took me down.
I did not want that guy on top of me.
So I said, fuck this.
I never kicked again after that.
joe rogan
That's funny.
quinton jackson
I kick in practice.
When I spar, stuff like that.
You know, I love Muay Thai.
I started taking Muay Thai right after that fight with Sakuraba.
I started training with Colin Oyama when he was training Tito.
I went straight up to Big Bear and I started training.
joe rogan
Colin's very good.
quinton jackson
Yeah, he taught me to cover and roll.
Yeah, I learned a lot from that guy.
joe rogan
Yeah, he's very good.
quinton jackson
Yeah.
joe rogan
He's trained a lot of MMA fighters.
quinton jackson
Yeah.
joe rogan
It's interesting when you see those guys that were around in the early days that are still around now.
quinton jackson
Yeah.
joe rogan
You know, and how many different iterations of MMA they've seen.
Like, the game has changed so much.
Like, you watch young guys now.
Like, there's guys that are entering into the UFC now that are elite fighters.
They're already elite.
First fight in the UFC. Yeah.
They're world class.
quinton jackson
That's crazy.
You remember how it started off?
You just knew one motherfucking thing.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Yep.
Wrestling or kickboxing or Jiu Jitsu.
quinton jackson
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah.
One of those things you were good at.
And everything else, you were just hoping to get to whatever the fuck it was that you do.
quinton jackson
Yeah.
And it was crazy when people like Carl Parisian came around with Judo.
Like, what the fuck?
This motherfucker doing Judo?
joe rogan
Carl was throwing people through the air.
Carl was like one of the best Judo guys to ever compete in MMA. He was fucking good, man.
quinton jackson
Yeah.
joe rogan
He was good.
quinton jackson
Yeah, yeah.
I had to train judo one time.
It made me respect it a lot more.
I was fighting...
I forgot the damn guy's name.
I think it's Ishii something.
And he was like a judo gold medalist or some shit.
I had to fight him in Bellator, a big motherfucker.
So I had to train judo.
I trained for like a week.
I gave up, said, fuck this, man.
My wrestling gonna take care of this shit.
joe rogan
Well, those judo guys are so strong.
Because they're throwing bodies around all the time.
They're always hoisting bodies through the air and throwing them around.
I rolled with Carl once.
He was the hardest guy ever.
His body was like, he didn't look impressive, but he was crazy strong, like a chimpanzee, like just throws you around.
There's such an evidence, like a big difference in strength with a guy like that, that's just used to throwing bodies.
Hector Lombard, he's another one.
Crazy powerful.
quinton jackson
Yeah.
Kyle Parison, he used to train with me, Tito, and I think Randy Couture.
He used to kick all three of our asses, taking turns, and we all big into him.
unidentified
Wow.
quinton jackson
Yeah, he was a beast.
joe rogan
He was a beast, man.
He was a beast.
I remember his fight with Diego Sanchez.
Holy shit, that was a wild fight.
quinton jackson
I'd like to see him come back.
Kyle?
Yeah.
joe rogan
How old is Kyle now?
quinton jackson
He's got to be younger than me.
I'm 46 now.
He's got to be younger than me.
joe rogan
Carl had a bad leg injury and he tore his hamstring and never got it surgically repaired.
So one leg was always like 40% of what it should have been.
It was bad to the point where he had to take painkillers and a bunch of shit.
He had a hole in the back of his leg.
You ever see a guy that tears their bicep and they get that weird where it curls up?
That was how his leg looked.
So the back of his leg had like a hole in it.
Like, his hamstring was gone.
quinton jackson
It's hard to come back from that shit.
joe rogan
Yeah, so he could have had it, but he would have had to have surgery right after the tear, and he didn't.
And so once it curls up and locks in place, like, I guess they can't bring it back.
quinton jackson
Oh.
Yeah.
How do you feel about the, like, older guys, like me, Rashad, and Mark Coleman, all of us fighting in, like, a league with other older guys instead of putting us with younger people?
joe rogan
That's not a bad idea.
Like a Legends League?
quinton jackson
Yeah, because we still love it.
We still love to fight, you know?
But we just can't compete with the...
joe rogan
Youngest guys.
quinton jackson
Yeah, Father Time is undefeated, bro.
joe rogan
Father Time never loses.
And not only that, these young guys haven't had all the injuries that the older guys have had.
You know, you see older guys, they look fine, but, you know, who knows what the fucking neck, my knee, my hip, my fucking wrist.
There's always something.
If you've had 25 MMA fights, 35 MMA fights, you got problems.
There's no ifs, ands, or buts about it.
I don't know anybody who's not banged up.
quinton jackson
Man, when I get out of bed in the morning, like the first couple steps, I'm like, damn, was it worth it?
joe rogan
Yeah, but you came out better than most people.
quinton jackson
Yeah, I already had an injury coming into MMA. My knee was fucked.
I fucked my knee up in college, but I haven't had too much passion.
joe rogan
What'd you do with your knee in college?
quinton jackson
Man, half of my teammates wasn't coming to practice, and the coach was like...
Since you guys are not getting your teammates here, you got to work out for them.
So they used to pair us up in groups of twos and make us do 15 push-ups.
Other guys do 15 reps.
Then you go all the way down to five, right?
And after two weeks of that, we got so strong.
We was bottoming out on everything, right?
So I'm wrestling one of my teammates, and he tried to get a single leg on me.
And this is right when I was getting better at wrestling.
I was getting good.
It was hard to take me down and everything.
I was in last in junior college, and the wrestlers there, they was like the rejects, but they was all good.
They had to come there first, then they went to D1 schools, right?
And I'm wrestling this guy, and he's still my friend to this day.
He gets mad when I tell the story.
He's going in for a single leg.
I wasn't giving it up because everybody was talking shit to me.
I was the runt on the team.
He was the worst wrestler there.
And I think I took him down and he wanted to get his takedown back and he took my leg and he bent it sideways and went...
And I think he told my meniscus or some shit.
And they didn't even take me to the...
I don't even know what happened.
They never got me MRI. They just threw me away.
joe rogan
Really?
quinton jackson
Yeah.
I let it heal up on his own.
joe rogan
And it never got 100%?
quinton jackson
It never was the same.
Wow.
And then I think that was my meniscus.
I don't know, but I injured my meniscus when I was training for Ryan Bader.
I had like a little posture trainer.
The doctor told me, no, you don't want to fight because you can rip it all the way.
And it's not a fight in Japan.
It's hard for me to pull out in Japan.
That's why I think it's a good idea for me to go over there and make some babies.
joe rogan
Well, it's amazing what they can do with stem cells now because I had a tear on my right knee and I got stem cells on it.
I had a couple different cycles of stem cells.
Now it doesn't bother me at all.
I was like, fuck, I'm going to have to get it done on my right knee too because I had my left knee part of my meniscus removed.
Because it was a bucket handle tear, so you know it would lock out.
quinton jackson
Yeah.
joe rogan
So it would lock straight.
It was like, pop!
unidentified
Ah!
joe rogan
And then you can't bend your knee.
You're like, oh my god.
And it's painful as fuck.
quinton jackson
Yeah.
I used to have Norico Rodriguez.
I used to corner him one time in his fight.
And that was my job.
Each round to pull his leg out.
joe rogan
Yeah, Rico didn't have an ACL. Yeah.
He fought at the highest level with no ACL. Yeah.
He was the first guy I ever heard that did that.
I'm like, that is crazy.
quinton jackson
He didn't give a fuck.
joe rogan
Crazy.
quinton jackson
It's crazy what fighters put up with.
joe rogan
I know.
Well, there's fighters right now that are fighting with no ACLs.
I know a couple of them.
quinton jackson
Football players wouldn't do that shit, huh?
unidentified
No.
joe rogan
No, you get it repaired.
quinton jackson
I think we should get doctors like them.
You know how they have, what do you call those?
Physios?
I think we should have that on every team.
Have a set of physios.
Because we don't know what the fuck we're doing.
Even today, we don't know shit.
joe rogan
Well, that's why the UFC Performance Institute is so important.
They got that there?
They have everything.
Everything, yeah.
quinton jackson
What?
joe rogan
I thought I'd leave The UFC Performance Institute is like one of the most high-level training environments in the world.
People come and do their camp in Vegas.
So if they know they're gonna fight in Vegas, they'll come to Vegas and bring their coaches and everybody does their whole camp at the PI. PI's incredible.
quinton jackson
I've never been there.
joe rogan
Oh my god, it's amazing.
They videotape all the sparring sessions so you can watch it from multiple different angles.
They have it up before you could review.
Like, see, you do this.
You drop your hands.
See, you do this.
You can't defend like that.
You got to do it this way.
And you watch it all on high-def videotape.
quinton jackson
They charge you for camp?
joe rogan
No.
No.
You just go train there.
quinton jackson
What the fuck?
joe rogan
Yeah.
All the UFC athletes can go train there.
They have nutrition.
They feed you.
Yeah.
quinton jackson
For free?
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
They'll set you up with meals.
Yeah.
quinton jackson
For free?
joe rogan
Uh-huh.
Not only that, it's all nutritionally balanced for their work with a nutritionist, for your weight cut, for everything.
Yeah.
All healthy foods.
quinton jackson
I got more respect for the UFC now.
joe rogan
Oh, it's incredible.
The place is amazing.
I did a tour of it.
It was amazing.
It's amazing.
I mean, they have sauna, cold plunge, like you name it.
Every modality, red light, anything that can help you heal, anything that helps you get better.
quinton jackson
It's for free for the fight.
joe rogan
For free.
For free.
All the strength and conditioning equipment, anything you need, bags, everything.
Everything you need.
quinton jackson
You just got to be on the UFC roster to use it?
joe rogan
If you're on the UFC roster, you go there and train.
quinton jackson
Say what you want about Uncle Dana, but he did a lot for this sport.
joe rogan
Oh my God, without him, this wouldn't be possible.
Like, you see what happens with these other organizations with regular dudes running it?
They all fold up.
They fall apart.
You know, like, the UFC have the name in the beginning, but they ran with it after that.
Like, because Pride had a name too, man.
Pride, people don't know, Pride was bigger in Japan than the UFC was in America.
At the time, Pride, way before the UFC could ever do this, Pride was selling out 90,000 seat stadiums.
quinton jackson
Yeah, I remember.
Pride was almost at the level of NBA is here in Japan.
I remember fighting, then the next day, my corner man, they would go and get a newspaper, a Japanese newspaper, and I'd be on the front page of the fucking newspaper.
Wow.
You never see that shit here.
joe rogan
No.
Well, you kind of do now.
quinton jackson
Well, I don't know.
joe rogan
I don't see newspapers.
Newspapers don't really exist anymore.
But when it comes to news coverage, my news feed was overwhelmed with Alex Pereira's knockout.
quinton jackson
Oh, for real?
joe rogan
Yeah.
quinton jackson
Oh, that's good.
joe rogan
Yeah, there were so many pictures of it.
Because it was a giant event.
quinton jackson
ESPN is on ESPN. Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah.
But all these different websites were covering it because it's just...
First of all, when you got a guy that's that dominant, that's what people love.
They love a Mike Tyson.
They love some dude who's just fucking everybody up.
You can't wait to watch him fight people because you know what's gonna happen.
You know he's gonna fuck people up.
What fucked up prior was they lost their contract with Fuji TV. It's crazy that it could be so big in Japan and then dwindle away to almost nothing.
So you see events from Japan now, it's like a shadow of what it was.
quinton jackson
Yeah, Risen, you would think that Risen would do what Pride did.
joe rogan
Right, you would think.
You would think Risen would like...
It would fill in the gap.
If the UFC went away, the PFL would probably take up the slack.
If something happened, the UFC decided, you know what?
We found Jesus.
No more fights.
Everybody, good luck.
Take care.
We're going to close shop for some crazy reason.
Those guys will go somewhere.
Everyone has a name.
Right now, the only way an organization could benefit, like PFL signed Francis.
That's probably the only way that PFL is going to get people to pay attention.
You have to have someone like Francis.
quinton jackson
Who is he going to fight, though?
joe rogan
This is a wild Brazilian dude over there who's fucking dangerous.
quinton jackson
That big guy that beat up Ryan Bader?
joe rogan
Yes.
That guy's fucking dangerous.
quinton jackson
He's huge.
joe rogan
He's huge and he can strike.
quinton jackson
But that's the only guy.
joe rogan
That's the only guy.
I mean, maybe if Francis, if the PFL gets some heat behind it because of this, maybe if they have the money, like I know there's some other countries that are involved, like the Saudis, if they get involved and they start throwing money away, maybe.
quinton jackson
You think he'll go back to boxing?
joe rogan
Yeah, because he's made so much money, you know?
But, you know, after the Joshua fight, it's going to be different, right?
So the Francis Ngannou fight, it was, you know, he's fighting one of the greatest heavyweight boxers of all time and drops him in the second round.
And everybody's like, what?
And then he beat him up in the eighth round, too.
quinton jackson
I thought he won that fight.
joe rogan
I thought he won that fight, too.
Yeah, I thought he won that fight, too.
But, you know, if they're setting up that Usyk fight, they were not gonna...
quinton jackson
Yeah.
joe rogan
It just seemed like the fix was in a little bit.
quinton jackson
Yeah.
joe rogan
It was close enough that they could pull it off.
They can go, okay, maybe.
Maybe you could see him winning that, but I don't think so.
quinton jackson
Yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
I thought Francis won it.
A lot of people thought Francis won it.
Yeah.
quinton jackson
Oh, there's that big guy, huh?
joe rogan
This dude.
What is his name?
jamie vernon
Hannon Ferreira.
Ferreira?
joe rogan
Hennifer, he's big too.
He's like 6'7".
unidentified
Look at that.
joe rogan
Look at that knee.
6'8", 260. Yeah, bro.
quinton jackson
I think Francis can get him though.
joe rogan
Oh yeah, man.
Look, Francis can get anyone.
Anyone alive.
Anyone alive, if that guy hits you, he could put you asleep.
quinton jackson
Man, Francis surprised me when he knocked out Alistair Overeem.
That's when he came to my radar.
I was like, who the fuck is this guy?
joe rogan
Bro, that was, to this day, one of the scariest left hooks of all time.
Because his head snapped so far back, it was like he was looking at his feet.
Like, he was looking at his ankles behind himself.
Like, it was crazy.
quinton jackson
Yeah.
I never saw that.
joe rogan
And then when he knocked out Stipe...
Good lord.
I mean with the little gloves on and leg kicks and shit, there's not a whole lot.
Like that one.
Come on, man.
That kind of power?
Francis, man.
quinton jackson
Dude, I took a picture with Francis in Saudi Arabia.
That motherfucker was twice my size.
joe rogan
He's huge.
quinton jackson
He's big.
joe rogan
He's huge.
I'm happy that he went and got paid.
I'm happy that he got that money for the Tyson Fury fight because everybody was dismissing it.
Danny was dismissing it.
And then he drops Tyson Fury, and a lot of people's eyes won the fight, like, fuck yeah.
And then he gets a big payday against Joshua.
I'm happy that he made money, but I wish he would have made that money in the UFC. My dream fight was at heavyweight, Jon Jones and Francis.
There was actually an article that I read this morning that with the Saudis, you know, the UFC is now doing shows in Saudi Arabia, that Dana is not opposed to the possibility of a joint promotion with Jon Jones versus Francis.
quinton jackson
Wow, that would be huge.
unidentified
Huge.
quinton jackson
Huge.
With all due respect, I think Jon Jones is a smart enough fighter to not fight Francis' fight on Elmundo.
joe rogan
Really?
quinton jackson
Yeah.
Jon Jones, he ain't no dummy.
He's a smart fighter.
I always say Jon Jones is Neo.
joe rogan
Neo from the Matrix?
Yeah.
quinton jackson
The kid, his mind is so strong.
I think that he would desperately try to get Francis down and submit him.
He won't be dumb enough to stand.
joe rogan
No, he won't stand with him.
John, as good as he is, has never been like a one-punch knockout guy.
quinton jackson
No.
joe rogan
You know, he beats guys up and strangles them and beats them up on the ground.
quinton jackson
Does he have any knockouts?
unidentified
No.
joe rogan
From one shot?
I mean, he head kicked Daniel Cormier.
quinton jackson
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah, and dropped him with that and then beat him up on the ground and stopped him.
Most of the time, he just mauls people on the ground.
quinton jackson
Yeah, when he punched me, I was more worried about the eye pokes than the punch.
joe rogan
Does a lot of that.
What do you think about that, man?
Like the gloves that they have, I think to this day, I know the UFC changed their gloves and they got new gloves now.
And I think the new gloves are definitely better than the old gloves.
But Trevor Whitman has the best gloves ever.
You ever see his gloves?
quinton jackson
No, no.
But I heard that when the UFC gloves was coming out, come out with new gloves, I heard that somebody invented gloves that keep your hand.
joe rogan
Curled.
That's Trevor Whitman.
quinton jackson
Oh, okay.
But they didn't go with that one.
joe rogan
No, apparently Trevor wanted some crazy amount of money for the gloves.
quinton jackson
For the padden?
joe rogan
I don't know what, like, to sell his design, his product, whatever.
He wanted a lot of money, apparently, and the UFC wasn't willing.
They were trying to make a deal with him, and I was telling Dana, get his gloves, man, they're way better.
And his gloves are curved.
They're curved, so that your hand sits like this always.
So that's his boxing gloves there, but what about his bag or his MMA gloves?
Does it show the Onyx?
Onyx is his company, O-N-X MMA glove.
That's the sparring glove.
But there it is.
I'm wearing it.
Okay.
That's it.
That's when Justin did my podcast.
And I put his glove on.
See how it's curved?
That's not even me making a fist.
That's just putting it on.
He put it on, it's curved.
quinton jackson
That makes sense.
But why he didn't just back off on the price a little bit?
joe rogan
He should have, for sure.
Here's my thought.
And tell me what you think about this.
The UFC gloves, the way they are right now, why don't they cover the fingers?
Why don't you have a glove where you have the padding on the knuckle, but you just have a layer of leather that goes over the fingers and goes behind the hand like this?
That way, even if you do have your hands open, you'll be running into it like this.
quinton jackson
Like a mitt?
You're talking about like a mitt almost?
joe rogan
Yeah, like a mitt.
quinton jackson
Almost like pride gloves a little bit, but over the fingers?
joe rogan
But covering the fingertips.
quinton jackson
I think the grapplers will get upset about that.
joe rogan
But why?
Because you never do this.
You never interlace your fingers together, right?
That's Hayabusa.
jamie vernon
Yeah, but I know.
But like that?
joe rogan
No, I mean covering the tips of the fingers.
The tips are still going to be there.
The problem is the tips.
The problem is the fingertips going into the eyes.
Like every time you see a poke, it's like one finger going into the eyeball.
But if you have it covered up, at least it would be different.
Like it wouldn't be one poke going straight through.
It would be a layer that's covering, a layer of leather that covers over the tip of the fingers.
quinton jackson
I need to see those.
I'll tell you this.
I've been fighting for 25 years.
I've never poked anybody in the eye, not even in training.
joe rogan
Really?
quinton jackson
Yeah, I never.
Because why you got to do this shit?
joe rogan
You shouldn't do that.
quinton jackson
Exactly.
joe rogan
John is a master.
quinton jackson
Bro, I was begging the referee.
joe rogan
Yeah.
quinton jackson
I was begging the referee.
I'm like, look, I never do that in fights.
I never take my attention off my opponent.
I was going to that fight.
I was thinking about wearing goggles out.
Because I knew he was going to poke me in the eye.
I got poked in the eye in training camp trying to train that shit.
And I had like a little red spot in there.
And when we did the stare down, I know he saw that shit.
I'm like, damn.
Get him a fucking target.
joe rogan
He's really good at those leg kicks, too.
Those oblique kicks to the knee.
quinton jackson
I think that should be illegal, bro.
joe rogan
You think so?
quinton jackson
Yeah, yeah.
See, I'm thinking about starting my own MMA league, like Rampage style.
You know what I'm saying?
My own, what I think MMA should be like, right?
And I'm going to make that shit illegal.
That one thing.
joe rogan
That one side kick to the knee?
quinton jackson
Oh, that oblique kick.
Fuck that shit.
joe rogan
Did you see the one Khalil Roundtree landed?
quinton jackson
Oh, my God.
I got on him about that shit.
Oh, my God.
joe rogan
Did you get on him about it?
unidentified
Hell, yeah.
joe rogan
What did he say?
quinton jackson
He's like, man, fuck that.
It was a fucking technique.
joe rogan
It is a technique.
quinton jackson
But that guy got some scary Muay Thai skills.
joe rogan
Oh, my God.
Yeah.
quinton jackson
I want to go where the fuck he went and trained.
joe rogan
Yeah, I don't know which camp he went to.
quinton jackson
Oh my god!
Bro, I can't even watch that shit!
joe rogan
I know, it's horrible.
He tore his knee apart.
Bukakis was out for like a solid year after that.
Look at that.
Sidekick right to the knee.
quinton jackson
Bro, that should be illegal, bro.
joe rogan
Oh man, full power.
quinton jackson
I can't even watch that shit.
joe rogan
Just tears his knee apart.
It's horrible.
quinton jackson
Bro, John bent mine backwards.
My knee haven't been the same, but when I went and got stem cells, thank god.
Bro, that shit changed my life.
I took my knee braces off.
I could wrestle without my knee braces and shit after that.
But before that, it was hard for me getting in and out of my cars and everything.
And I bumped into John Jones one day.
We was at a nightclub or something.
And you know how I am.
I fucking, I cussed him out.
He was like, oh man, I'm sorry.
And he was like, come on over here with me.
We was going to go somewhere else.
And we had to walk up on some couches and shit.
And I tried to get up there.
I couldn't because this was before I went and got stem cells.
I couldn't get up there because of my fucking knee.
I laid it on thick like the Jewish guilt.
You know what I'm talking about?
I laid it on thick on it.
He felt bad.
And for me, that was good enough.
I forgave him after that because he did feel bad.
But my thing about fighting, I feel like we all Conrad's.
And that's how we make our living.
So I never tried to really hurt nobody besides Arona.
He made me lose my temper.
That's why I did that with him.
But nobody else, I never really tried to hurt anybody so they can continue to keep making money.
So I just have honor when I fight, and I want everybody to understand, like, look, this is just a sport.
I'm not trying to fucking...
I'm trying to knock you out and stuff like that, but I'm not going to try to main you, you know?
joe rogan
Tiago Santos, he ruined both his knees.
John did.
Yeah, both his knees after that fight, he had to get surgery on.
He tore both of them apart.
He sidekicked the fuck out of his knees.
He does the oblique kick to the thigh, too.
He does it everywhere.
quinton jackson
So think about this.
You're a promoter, and you got this fighter that sells a lot of tickets, so you want to give him at least two fights a year, three fights a year.
But you got a guy like John Jones fucking your fighters up, man.
Now they fucking injured, and you'd be lucky they'd come back in two years or something like that.
It's not good for business.
joe rogan
It's definitely not good for business, but it's still legal.
It's legal right now, so it's hard to say.
I see the point that you shouldn't be allowed to target the knees, but then someone would say, okay, but you could roundhouse kick the knees, but you just can't sidekick it.
You can't hyperextend it.
Can you frontkick it?
No, you can't frontkick it.
quinton jackson
Right.
joe rogan
Darren Till does it, too.
He was doing it a lot.
He fucked up Wonderboy's knee that way.
quinton jackson
Yeah, it's like the elbows.
You're allowed to elbow somebody, but not in the back of the head.
joe rogan
Right.
quinton jackson
But you remember John's spin elbow?
joe rogan
Mm-hmm.
quinton jackson
Where did it land most of the time?
joe rogan
Back of the head.
Well, how about wheel kicks and roundhouse kicks?
A lot of times they land in the back of the head, too.
quinton jackson
Yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
You go over the top of the shoulder, bang, it's over the back of the head.
quinton jackson
Yeah, but those don't come off that often.
joe rogan
A lot of roundhouse kicks land on the back of the head.
quinton jackson
They come off a lot?
joe rogan
Yeah, because especially if a person is standing orthodox and you're standing orthodox and you throw a high kick and you go over his shoulder, you're hitting them right here, right behind the head.
quinton jackson
You know how to do that kick?
joe rogan
Yeah.
quinton jackson
I saw you kicking a bag.
I was like, damn!
I knew you was good at jujitsu.
I didn't know you could kick like that.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's what I used to do.
I was a taekwondo guy.
That's how I started.
quinton jackson
I call it take your dope.
joe rogan
Take your dope?
Yeah, it's not good for...
It's good for learning how to kick.
That's what it's good for.
It's not good for learning how to fight.
You don't think it's good for MMA? It's good if you know all the other things.
But you have to know all the other things.
There's no one from taekwondo that's just going to go into MMA and dominate.
quinton jackson
Well, I think Anthony Pettis.
joe rogan
Right, but he's got great jiu-jitsu, great boxing.
quinton jackson
I think he did Muay Thai with it.
joe rogan
Great low kicks.
quinton jackson
Did he do Muay Thai with it?
joe rogan
Pettis could do anything.
He does everything.
quinton jackson
That guy's a beast, too.
joe rogan
He's a beast.
That Showtime kick where he fought Henderson and bounced off the cage.
To this day, highlight reels forever.
quinton jackson
Bro, that's like MMA. That's like some Tekken shit.
You know what my dream was?
I was training for it one time, but I never had the balls to pull it off.
I always wanted to do the jump uppercut.
I was training for that shit and called him like, man, sit your ass down!
joe rogan
That's hilarious.
quinton jackson
I was going to pull that off in pride one day, but when the fight came, I just didn't have the balls.
So that's why I get jealous of guys that can do that shit, that they can pull it off in fights, that can be themselves.
Because when I fight, I'm not myself.
I'm not the same person that trained.
If you come see me train, even when I was champion, you know, best in the world.
At one time, I was best in the world.
I was fucking the first unified champion of fucking MMA. Right.
Before Anderson Silva did it.
In my mind, I was the best in the fucking universe.
And when I train, you come to the gym, I look like shit.
Getting the dog shit kicked out of me all over the fucking gym.
joe rogan
Really?
quinton jackson
Yeah.
joe rogan
How come?
quinton jackson
I think when I fight, I think Rampage comes out, you know, it's just my alter ego or something.
But sometimes he don't show up, Joe.
It's the weirdest thing.
And I'm not.
It's me out there fighting.
You know what I mean?
I like to joke around and laugh.
I like to say I'm a comedian pretending to be a fighter.
So I'm out there.
And one time I noticed I wasn't howling before the fight.
And the guy that's walking me out to the fight, he dropped something.
And I'm bent down to help him pick it up.
I'm like, Rampage will never do that.
That's when I knew it was like...
I'm like, he is not here.
I hope he show up when I get in the fucking cage.
joe rogan
Roy Jones Jr. said he had something like that too.
He called it RJ. He goes, this is Roy Jones.
He goes, when RJ comes out, everybody's in trouble.
quinton jackson
Yeah, and he was on the next level, too.
joe rogan
Oh, man.
quinton jackson
I don't know what that is, though.
I don't know what happens.
Like, I know in my locker room, I'm joking and stuff up to five minutes before the fight, and then when I start howling and stuff, like, oh, shit, Rampage is here.
My team, they knew it.
They just always say, oh, there you go!
I remember hearing them say it.
joe rogan
It must be crazy for them to watch you spar and lose in the gym and not look good, but know that you're just working hard as long as you're in shape.
Once you get in there, the real rampage comes out.
quinton jackson
One of my coaches said that he knows people that's really good in the gym, but then when they're getting out in the lights and with the pressure, they don't perform.
joe rogan
It's way better to be the other way.
Look bad in the gym, good in the fights.
Yeah.
Yeah, I mean, there's also, like, people put themselves in positions in the gym because they want to work hard, so they put themselves in bad positions all the time that you would never allow yourself to get into in a fight.
quinton jackson
I do that with the jiu-jitsu because I never really liked jiu-jitsu a whole lot, and it was, like, my worst thing, so I used to just start rolling with myself in guillotine chokes or get put in bad positions.
joe rogan
Just to fight out of things all the time?
quinton jackson
Yeah, and I wouldn't tell my sparring partner what I was doing.
joe rogan
Oh, you just let them get in there?
quinton jackson
Yeah, I just let them get me and stuff, and I try to...
Work my way out.
That's why I've always...
I've only been submitted like two times with rear naked chokes.
I just...
Those are my kryptonite.
Sakuraba got me.
joe rogan
Who else got you other than Sakuraba?
quinton jackson
And Jon Jones.
joe rogan
Oh, that's right.
quinton jackson
You know, I didn't train with tall jiu-jitsu guys for him.
I had a tall guy to spar with, but I didn't have anybody long and lengthy like that.
And I didn't think they would make a difference, but after the fight, I was like, fuck, yeah.
joe rogan
It makes a difference on the ground, for sure.
Because they can secure chokes from places that you just can't get to.
quinton jackson
Training for that guy was the hardest training camp.
It was the hardest thing.
I remember my coaches.
I just listened to my coaches.
I don't watch the fights.
They were like, if he turns southpaw, he's going to throw this kick.
If he do this, he's going to do that.
Had to train for the oblique kick, for the spinning elbows.
That was the hardest motherfucking training camp.
Before him, it was...
What's the...
I'm having a brain fart.
The Brazilian guy, the karate guy.
Karate kid.
joe rogan
Lioto?
quinton jackson
Oh my god.
That training count was so hard too.
Training for a karate guy.
He's southpaw too.
joe rogan
Oh, he was so good too.
In his prime, Lioto Machida was a beast, man.
quinton jackson
Yeah.
Bro, I had to bring in karate guys.
We brought in this karate coach, and you know, I'm bad with names, and he was in that movie, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
joe rogan
Oh, okay.
quinton jackson
And he was a karate guy, and I was with those managers from the UK, so they knew him.
joe rogan
Oh, the wolf slayer?
quinton jackson
Yeah, and they brought that guy in, and he was getting mad when I was beating up the karate guys.
I was like, this is supposed to be my coach.
But you know what I'm saying?
He getting mad when he brought his karate guys.
And then the first day was fucking me up, but then I learned and I started fucking up the karate guys.
He was getting mad at me.
I'm like, man, you my coach.
joe rogan
That's crazy.
Why was he getting mad?
quinton jackson
I think because it was his...
joe rogan
Loyal to karate?
quinton jackson
Yeah.
joe rogan
Oh, no.
quinton jackson
That's crazy how...
joe rogan
That's not a good coach.
quinton jackson
Bro, martial artists have big egos, bro.
joe rogan
They do.
Huge.
Huge egos.
And they get real loyal to their particular style.
One of the things that would drive me crazy when I'd watch young guys is there was this guy that we were working with back in the day that was a black belt in Jiu Jitsu and he had this Muay Thai coach.
And his Muay Thai coach had him convinced that he's a dangerous Muay Thai fighter.
Just dangerous.
You're gonna fight.
You're gonna stand up.
And I remember they were asking him before the fight, is he ready?
How's he feeling?
He goes, he's Bangkok ready.
It's Bangkok ready.
Like, this motherfucker better shoot for doubles and take people down and strangle them.
Like, stop all this kickboxing.
You're not a kickboxer.
I'd watch the dude hit the bag, and I'd go, please take that guy down.
You don't have any power.
Don't listen to this guy, man.
You're fighting guys that are real strikers.
Like, you can't be striking with a real striker.
You're thinking you're striking because you're striking in the gym with guys and you're doing okay.
Real strikers are different, man.
These guys in the gym are not trying to kill you.
quinton jackson
Right.
Sometimes they let you, you know, they don't want to, especially if they're getting paid.
joe rogan
Exactly.
quinton jackson
Yeah.
joe rogan
Well, they're also sparring.
They're not fighting.
There's just a fucking giant difference, man, when someone's setting something up.
And you don't even know what it is.
There's so many guys that get delusional because they're good at one thing.
You know, they're good at one thing and they think that they know how to fight.
One of Eddie Bravo's black belts, he was going to do MMA. He said, I'm thinking of doing MMA. I go, how much training are you doing in striking?
Like, not much.
I'm just going to take him to the ground.
I go, listen to me.
I go, you know how good you are on the ground?
There's guys that are that good at stand-up.
You know how you can just play with some dude who has a white belt on the ground?
There's dudes that they get in front of you, you can't do a damn thing about it, and they're gonna be hitting you.
That's the difference.
The difference is if you take a guy down, you get him in an arm bar, he's tapped, and that's the end of it.
This is not that.
This is you getting separated from your fucking consciousness and getting punted in the head by a leg.
A leg.
I mean, you're fighting Muay Thai guys.
And he wound up getting fucked up.
And that was his only fight.
And I was telling him, like, don't do that again.
You can't disrespect that.
You can't think that just because you're good at this one thing, you're going to be good at everything.
But guys think that, which is one of the things I'm sure you've seen this.
A lot of real good kickboxers, they don't like to roll.
They don't like to roll because they don't do good at rolling.
They want to spar because they want to hit the mitts.
They want to hit the pads.
They feel good.
They throw those pads.
They look good hitting those pads.
quinton jackson
Like, yeah, I feel good.
But you got to do what you shit at, though.
You got to do it.
joe rogan
But that's the difference between you, who became a champion, and some guys who just have big egos and they're fragile because you were willing to look like shit in training.
You were just training.
It's just training.
And then once you fought, you fought great.
But it's just like, you gotta be able to look like shit in training.
And if you're gonna get good at jujitsu, guess what?
There's only one way.
You gotta roll with guys who know how to strangle you because you gotta figure out how to defend yourself.
If you don't do that, you're never gonna learn.
And there's guys that were like real good fighters.
They just never learned that aspect of the game, and they just always were limited.
They always had a ceiling on how far they could progress.
quinton jackson
Yeah.
I surprised a lot of people with my jiu-jitsu.
Because I didn't like it, and I never showed it.
People thought I didn't know it, but when I fought Dan Henderson, it kind of showed a little bit.
But what helped me out is, you know, Mayhem Miller.
He was my buddy.
We was like brothers.
joe rogan
Mayhem was good.
quinton jackson
Yeah, he was good.
He was my training partner.
He was good.
And he went to train with Dan Henderson for that fight.
joe rogan
Oh, no shit.
quinton jackson
Yeah, and so Dan Henderson's ground game was like Mayhams.
And Mayhem used to dominate me on the ground.
So Dan Henderson was fighting.
I was like, oh, I've seen this before.
And he's not as good as Mayhem at it.
So that helped me.
My buddy going training.
joe rogan
Mayhem was fucking good on the ground, man.
I remember Mayhem's finest performance was against Sakuraba.
When Mayhem, he beat the shit out of Sakuraba.
And I remember watching that fight.
I had a phone call with him.
We talked on the phone.
I was like, dude, you're on it right now.
Right now, you're world class.
Just keep your shit together.
And you could be an elite fighter.
Like a world championship caliber.
See if you can find Jason Mayhem Miller versus Sakuraba.
quinton jackson
I don't think I ever saw it.
Maybe I saw it years ago.
But that guy, his jiu-jitsu was next level.
joe rogan
Next level.
Very high level.
Very high level.
But...
He just couldn't put it all together in the best fights.
The Michael Bisping fight, George St-Pierre, there was guys that knew how to beat him.
But this was mayhem.
Focused, in shape, training, full skill set.
quinton jackson
And this was when Sakuraba was at the top.
He was beating the Graces and stuff, right?
joe rogan
Dude, Sakuraba was still very good.
I mean, he was a little past that now.
I think he'd already got KO'd by a couple of guys.
But he was still Sakuraba.
This is not an old Sakuraba.
I mean, he had his legs taped up like a mummy by then.
quinton jackson
Yeah.
I saw Sakuraba a couple weeks ago in Japan.
joe rogan
Yeah, he was Sakuraba in his day.
Man, I remember when he submitted Conan Silvera.
And everybody was like, what?
He submitted a jiu-jitsu black belt?
quinton jackson
Yeah, he's good.
He's tricky.
He don't stop.
He goes from one submission to the next.
That's how he got me.
joe rogan
So this is Jason.
Like, Sakuraba's going for a leg lock.
Jason defends.
Jason was so good on the ground.
Like, good luck catching him with something.
quinton jackson
He won't tap anyway.
Jason won't tap.
Even if he got a fight in a week.
You give him an armbar, he won't tap.
Break his arm.
He don't give a fuck.
joe rogan
Jesus.
He was a wild dude, man.
He was a wild dude.
And this was like a dominant performance over a legend.
Look at the camera.
unidentified
Gives a peace sign to the fucking camera.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Oh, once he got that wrist tie.
quinton jackson
This was in Pride?
joe rogan
Yeah, man.
quinton jackson
Man, I don't know why I didn't see this one.
joe rogan
Oh, no, it was Dream.
quinton jackson
Oh, that's what it was.
joe rogan
Yeah, so this is post-Pride.
quinton jackson
Yeah.
joe rogan
What year was this?
Does it say?
No.
quinton jackson
Man, he's fucking Sakuraba up.
joe rogan
Oh, he fucked him up, dude.
It was a complete domination.
2010?
2010, yeah.
So this was like Sakuraba had already been beaten up by a bunch of guys.
quinton jackson
Oh, okay.
joe rogan
And then he gets him on triangle.
Bro.
quinton jackson
This is it right here?
joe rogan
Yep.
quinton jackson
In the first round?
joe rogan
Yep.
Look at that.
Tapping.
Mayhem.
quinton jackson
I couldn't believe Sakuraba tapped.
joe rogan
Yep.
quinton jackson
I thought he would go to sleep.
joe rogan
I think he did go to sleep.
quinton jackson
Did you know Sakuraba is a fucking chain smoker?
joe rogan
I heard!
Isn't that crazy?
quinton jackson
Crazy, bro.
joe rogan
How?
quinton jackson
I don't know how he has the fucking cardio he has.
joe rogan
Imagine the cardio you have if he didn't chain smoke.
quinton jackson
Do you remember that fight?
What was it?
Was it Horse Gracie?
joe rogan
Mm-hmm.
quinton jackson
And they took the time limit out?
joe rogan
Yeah.
quinton jackson
That's because they knew he was a smoker.
joe rogan
Really?
So they just wanted to drag it out?
quinton jackson
Yeah, because they thought that he was going to get tired.
joe rogan
Well, he's going to want a cigarette.
quinton jackson
Man, I did a movie with him in Japan, and he had to take a smoke break every five minutes.
unidentified
Wow.
quinton jackson
Every five minutes, bro.
joe rogan
Wow.
quinton jackson
Every five minutes.
I'm not over-exaggerating.
joe rogan
Was this like when he was in training back then, he smoked that much?
quinton jackson
Yeah, this was like a couple years after I fought him.
Maybe like a year or two after I fought him.
joe rogan
How does he not fuck his lungs up?
quinton jackson
Bro, I think it's mental.
See, I think a lot of things is mental.
I believe in the power of the mind.
I used to have a really strong mind back in the day.
Like, remember I told you about the Forrest kicking me, the calf kick?
joe rogan
Yeah.
quinton jackson
Bro, my mind was so strong back then, I healed my leg up in between rounds.
My shit was in pain.
But I was mentally strong.
And I also think that's why I lost that fight, because I had the manager at the time that I didn't trust him anymore.
And I remember him saying, like, if Rampage lose this fight, I'm going to retire.
And I had been trying to fire him a couple times, but he got put on the heartstrings every time.
So I was thinking, I think subconsciously in the back of my mind, I lost that fight.
joe rogan
So you think maybe if I lose this fight, I can get rid of this guy?
quinton jackson
In the back of my mind.
But I really wanted to win because I was champion.
joe rogan
But you were torn.
quinton jackson
Yeah, but in the back of my mind.
But my mind was stronger to heal my leg up where I could go.
I couldn't feel pain.
My leg was really fucked.
That fight, I still think I won that fight when I went back and watched it.
I think I lost two rounds and I won three.
And I lost my belt.
joe rogan
I'd have to watch it again.
But I feel like It was a very close fight.
I remember that.
quinton jackson
I remember it being a close fight, but I remember I slammed him.
I think I dropped him a couple times, and I think the only thing he did was really hurt my leg.
It was the first round, the second round, but I think I won the last three.
But I remember watching it again, because I'm honest about it.
When I fought Ninja at the time, I thought he won.
I told him right then and there, I was like, oh, bro, I thought he won.
I thought I got my ass kicked, but they gave me the decision.
I'm honest about that shit.
joe rogan
So you said that Ninja got hurt in training?
unidentified
Yeah.
quinton jackson
Yeah, that's what the word ran a campfire because, you know, shoebox, they spar hard.
joe rogan
Hard.
quinton jackson
And you haven't heard about him fighting in a long time.
He retired a long time.
joe rogan
Already had some sort of brain bleed.
quinton jackson
Yeah, they get knocked out a lot in sparring.
I heard some other people was training there with them.
joe rogan
I heard that Shogun and Vandalay, they fought for a puppy.
Because Shogun had some pitbull puppies and Vandalay wanted one.
And he was offering to sell it to him.
He said, let's fight for it.
And Vandalay KO'd him and took the puppy.
quinton jackson
I believe it.
joe rogan
I believe it too.
quinton jackson
I believe it.
joe rogan
Because apparently those guys knocked each other out a lot.
quinton jackson
They're like savages of MMA, bro.
joe rogan
I think they just didn't understand that it's like a punch card.
You only have so many holes you can punch in that card and then that's it.
And if you're sparring like that, you're KOing each other, and then you're back in the gym on Monday, that's nuts.
quinton jackson
Yeah, because normally when you get knocked out, you've got to take 30 days off.
joe rogan
You should take a long time off.
quinton jackson
More than 30 days?
joe rogan
Yeah, a long time.
Like, Justin Gaethje said he's going to take six months off and not do anything for six months after that Max Holloway fight.
quinton jackson
He's not even going to train?
joe rogan
I don't know.
I mean, I'm sure he's probably training, probably working out a little bit, but he's not going to do any sparring at all.
quinton jackson
Bro, I think that's the most iconic knockout in MMA. Ever.
joe rogan
Ever.
One second to go in a five-round fight that he was dominating, and a five-round fight where a lot of people thought Max was outgunned.
quinton jackson
I thought Max was winning that fight.
joe rogan
He was winning.
But I mean, outgunned, like going into the fight.
Justin Gage is a big KO artist.
He just got done head-kicking.
Dustin Poirier.
He's a 55er.
Max had lost a few times at 45 to Volkanovski.
And everybody was thinking he was past his prime.
And then Max just puts on a fucking performance of a lifetime.
quinton jackson
But I always knew Max's boxing was his next level, though.
joe rogan
Next level.
Well, his heart and mind is next level, too.
And people also forget Max is only 32. He's just been in the UFC for so long.
His first fight in the UFC was 20 years old.
quinton jackson
Oh.
joe rogan
Yeah.
quinton jackson
I didn't know he was that young.
joe rogan
I think his first fight was Conor McGregor.
quinton jackson
Was it?
joe rogan
Yes.
I think so.
Go to Max Holloway's career record for the UFC. Did he beat Conor?
No.
No, he lost a decision.
He was the only guy to survive in the early days of Conor when Conor was just flatlining everybody.
This was 145 Conor.
quinton jackson
No.
jamie vernon
His first fight was against Dustin Poirier.
joe rogan
Oh, that's right, he got armbarred against Dustin.
Yeah, Dustin got him in an armbar, and then his second fight was Conor, correct?
jamie vernon
No, that was like his sixth fight, actually.
joe rogan
Really?
jamie vernon
Yeah.
joe rogan
No shit.
Wow.
And then, okay.
Wow, he had so many fights, man.
Isn't that crazy?
So he lost to Dustin Poirier.
That's 2012. And then Pat Schilling, he wins.
Justin Lawrence wins.
Leonard Garcia.
Leonard Garcia.
I forgot about Leonard.
Shout out to Leonard.
And then he loses Dennis Bermudez.
I forgot about Dennis, too.
And then he lost to Connor.
That kid was 20 years old at that time.
Which is wild, man.
Way back in 2013. And then he goes on a run.
And then his run, like, look at his win streak after that Conor McGregor fight.
I mean, that is a crazy win streak.
Charles Oliveira, Anthony Pettis, Jose Aldo, twice, Ortega.
Fucking crazy.
And then he fought Dustin again at lightweight.
He tried to fight for the interim UFC lightweight title, but he didn't really gain weight the correct way.
And he talked about that.
He said he had, like, a little muffin top on the top of his shorts.
unidentified
Mm-hmm.
joe rogan
Mm-hmm.
And so then loses to Volkanovski a couple of times, beats Arnold Allen, who's really fucking good, and a lot of people still like, eh.
Then he knocks out the Korean Zombie, and people are like, hmm, maybe.
And then the Justin Gaethje one, people are like, oh shit, we forgot.
We forgot.
Max is the man.
And he's such a nice guy.
quinton jackson
Nice guy.
Great dude.
joe rogan
The nicest guy.
quinton jackson
Great dude.
joe rogan
Yeah.
quinton jackson
I want to ask you, who you think is the most well-rounded in MMA right now?
That's a good question.
joe rogan
That's a good question.
It's hard to say.
You know, it's hard to say.
Might be Sean O'Malley.
Sean O'Malley's not the best wrestler, but damn, his takedown defense is fucking good because he survived against Al Jermaine, you know?
I mean, Al Jermaine couldn't take him down.
He can knock anybody out with one shot.
Yeah, yeah.
He submitted Takanori Gomi in a jiu-jitsu match.
His jiu-jitsu is real.
Like, Sean can do everything.
And he's just a relentless, tireless worker.
quinton jackson
He's a star.
joe rogan
Superstar.
quinton jackson
Hey, how you seen those posts that, what's his name?
How you say his name?
Mohab?
What's that name?
How you say his name?
joe rogan
Which one?
quinton jackson
The guy, I thought he was Mexican.
Marab?
Yeah, Marab.
joe rogan
Oh, Marab Davishwili?
quinton jackson
Yeah, I thought he was Mexican when I first met him.
You see his post he do about Sean O'Malley?
joe rogan
Oh yeah, he's trying to get him to fight him.
quinton jackson
But have you seen his post?
joe rogan
His recent ones?
quinton jackson
Man, he got somebody that looks like Sean O'Malley and he be doing crazy shit to that motherfucker, bro.
That dude was funny, bro.
You know, I like funny shit, man.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Marab's funny.
quinton jackson
Yeah.
joe rogan
Marab is an animal, man.
What he did to Henry Cejudo, I was like, I can't even believe this is happening.
quinton jackson
I was there.
joe rogan
When he carried him, when he picked him up, and then he stuck his tongue out, and he walked over towards where the UFC people were, and then slammed him.
Slammed Henry Cejudo?
Olympic gold medalist?
Who the fuck does that?
quinton jackson
Bro, I'm conflicted for that fight because you know F3 sponsors Henry, right?
joe rogan
That is crazy.
Brought him over to Zuckerberg.
That's right.
quinton jackson
Bro.
joe rogan
I think that was...
Was that at the Apex?
quinton jackson
No, that was in Anaheim.
joe rogan
That's right.
quinton jackson
Anaheim.
I was there in the crowd.
joe rogan
I mean, then he had him in a 10-finger guillotine...
Dude, Marab is a scary character because that motherfucker never gets tired.
quinton jackson
Bro.
joe rogan
And his heart is crazy.
Did you ever see his fight with Marlon Marais?
quinton jackson
No.
joe rogan
Marlon Marais had him dead to rights.
He had him out.
I mean, he was battering him.
And Marlon is the best guy who never won a title in the UFC. He was so good.
But...
He would fold.
Something would happen, he would fold up.
And when he started getting KO'd a few times, it all went away.
He's a cop now in Florida.
But Marlon, in that fight, he had Marab in all kinds of trouble.
And Merab just wouldn't stop.
quinton jackson
He's got a big heart, huh?
joe rogan
Oh, his heart is enormous, man.
He's unstoppable.
Like, his mind is unstoppable.
I mean, you can beat him.
Ray Borg submitted him, like, way back in the day.
He got him in the guillotine.
But, guys, you know, he just keeps getting better, too.
Merab, every time he fights, he gets better.
quinton jackson
You think he's going to beat him?
You think he's going to beat him?
joe rogan
He's the worst matchup for Sean.
The worst matchup on paper for Sean in that division is Merab.
Because if you would say, if you have a chance to beat Sean, how would you beat him?
You gotta take him down, right?
I would imagine.
I don't think there's anybody in that 135 pound division that can deal with that height, that length, KO power, footwork and movement.
What he did to Cheeto, I was shocked.
I was shocked because the first fight, you know, Chido beat him.
He kicked his leg and fucked him up and got him down.
But in the second fight, Chido didn't have a chance.
quinton jackson
Now, Chido's a beast.
joe rogan
He's a beast.
He's a beast.
And he hurt him real bad in like the last couple seconds of the fight.
He hit him with a liver punch.
He hit him with a...
Chido hit him with a nasty left hook to the liver.
And man, if he landed that fight early in the fight, or landed that punch, rather, early in the fight, who knows?
But Shawn is so good everywhere.
He's so good, and you can't corner that guy.
He's just moving.
You know, you can't, like, corral him.
He's just constantly, like, and the consequences of moving in, like what Aljamain did, he just got a little rushed.
He rushed in on him.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
He got hit with that right hand.
quinton jackson
Yeah.
joe rogan
You can't rush on that guy.
quinton jackson
No.
I wonder what Al Jermaine was thinking.
He said he kicked himself after that.
joe rogan
I think he just rushed it.
He just tried to close the gap.
He wanted to get a hold of him.
He just tried to rush in.
I think Al Jermaine's better at 145 anyway.
I think Al Jame is so big, I was always shocked that he could make 135. He's another guy, right?
He would walk around 176, 175 pounds.
Like, how?
How are you losing 40 fucking pounds?
quinton jackson
I don't know how they doing that shit.
joe rogan
Killing themselves.
That's how.
Killing themselves.
But when he rehydrated at 35, he was like, just ripped.
Just jacked big muscles, strong as shit, and his back control is better than anybody's, man.
When he took Corey Sanhagen down and strangled him, I was like, oh my god.
Corey's good, man.
quinton jackson
You think Al Jermaine's gonna make a comeback?
joe rogan
Yes.
Yeah, I think he's gonna make a comeback at 45. At 45?
Yeah.
quinton jackson
Who's the champ at 45 right now?
joe rogan
Ilya Toporia.
quinton jackson
Toporia.
joe rogan
Yeah.
quinton jackson
I don't know a lot of these noob fighters.
joe rogan
Ilya Tepori is a monster.
He's a monster.
That dude's good.
He's the guy who knocked out Volkanovski.
unidentified
Oh, yeah.
quinton jackson
I think I saw that.
That was the same night that Henry and what's called fought, right?
joe rogan
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
Ilya Tepori is a bad man.
quinton jackson
That's him right there?
unidentified
Mm-hmm.
joe rogan
He's a bad man.
He's very, very, very good.
But I want to see Sean O'Malley versus Corey Sanhagen.
That's an interesting fight to me.
If he can get past Marab.
quinton jackson
That's his next fight, Marab?
joe rogan
Mm-hmm.
quinton jackson
When is that?
You know, they already got it set?
joe rogan
I don't know when that is.
I heard rumors that that was going to be at the Sphere, which is in September.
But I've also heard rumors of other fights at the Sphere.
quinton jackson
That one's going to sell out right away.
joe rogan
Fuck yeah.
That one's going to be nuts.
You got to go to that.
quinton jackson
I want to go.
I heard Dana say that he's only going to do one and done there.
joe rogan
Yeah, you got to go to that one.
quinton jackson
I would love to go to that one.
Yeah.
It's going to sell out right away.
I'll be trying to ask Tiki to get me tickets sometimes to help me out.
joe rogan
Bro, I got you.
quinton jackson
You got me?
joe rogan
I got you for that.
quinton jackson
Let's go.
joe rogan
Come on, Redfish.
You got to be there for that.
quinton jackson
I would love to be there for that.
joe rogan
Yeah, man.
You got to be there for that.
UFC doesn't hook you up with tickets?
quinton jackson
No, you don't.
joe rogan
That's ridiculous.
You're a former champion.
You should get tickets for the rest of your fucking life.
If I was running the UFC... No offense to the people that are champions.
You get tickets forever.
quinton jackson
I fucked up my relationship with the UFC by doing that fucking movie over that Rashad fight.
joe rogan
What was the movie?
quinton jackson
18. Oh, that's right.
That's when I fucked up my relationship with Dana and everybody.
But it was the hardest decision of my life.
I lost money doing the movie, but I'm not really fueled by money.
I don't love money, but I always wanted to do that movie.
It just came at a bad time.
joe rogan
The thing about doing a movie, though, is that if that takes off, then you're The Rock.
You know?
Who fucking knows?
You're John Cena.
Who knows?
quinton jackson
Yeah.
joe rogan
There's a lot of guys that have become action movie stars.
Look at Randy.
He did The Expendables with Sylvester Stallone.
quinton jackson
Yeah.
joe rogan
Crazy.
Like, you can get a real career in the movies.
quinton jackson
And you can't fight forever.
joe rogan
Right.
Exactly.
And some certain things like that.
But, you know, the UFC, their business is making fights.
quinton jackson
I understand.
You know, I understand...
I understand Daniel's point, you know, because I didn't sign a bout agreement.
That's the only thing that saved me.
But, you know, it was supposed to be in my hometown.
It was big.
It was just come off that Ultimate Fighter.
You know, the episode, that season broke records.
joe rogan
Yeah.
quinton jackson
So I understand.
But it was just so hard for me to turn down that That movie.
And I try to keep my word.
When I give my word that I'm going to do something, and I was already dedicated to that project even when John Singleton was attached to it.
And I was like, you know, this is what I'm going to do.
joe rogan
Yeah.
It's a tough call.
quinton jackson
Yeah.
joe rogan
When you were on The Ultimate Fighter with Rashad and you broke that door, I was like, they need to get new contractors.
That's the cheapest fucking door I've ever seen in my life.
quinton jackson
Bro.
Whether you know it or not, most doors inside your house look like that.
joe rogan
Yeah, they're bullshit.
quinton jackson
They're bullshit.
I had no idea, but I was glad it was.
Because my dumb ass, I lost my temper and I head-butted it.
Bro, I'm still embarrassed about that.
jamie vernon
Oh, really?
quinton jackson
That's one of my most embarrassing TV moments.
joe rogan
Just because you lost your temper?
quinton jackson
Yeah, I hate to lose my temper, bro.
I hate it.
And it's so embarrassing.
I sever, like, relationships, friendships when I lose it.
I just get embarrassed.
And that's why I never post that shit on my social media.
That shit is embarrassing.
But, fuck, fans love that shit.
joe rogan
They loved you tearing apart a door.
quinton jackson
Yeah.
joe rogan
And they love you and Rashad.
Like, you a bitch.
Treat me like a bitch.
You a bitch.
Treat me like a bitch.
quinton jackson
Bro, I hated him, bro.
I hated Rashad.
I hate it.
What you were talking about earlier, the mushrooms, it changed.
He's a totally different person.
joe rogan
He's a different human being.
quinton jackson
He's likable now.
joe rogan
He's very likable.
He's a sweetheart.
quinton jackson
I still want to knock him out, though.
joe rogan
Who do you want to knock out more, him or Shannon?
quinton jackson
Shannon.
joe rogan
He keeps calling you a pie.
Who calls people pies?
quinton jackson
Something wrong with that guy, man.
joe rogan
He's fun, man.
I love that, dude.
quinton jackson
He put my face over fat women's bodies.
unidentified
And he keep fat shaming me, and he's fatter than me right now!
quinton jackson
I'm like, why are you so delusional, bro?
You should not rip no more.
joe rogan
Did you ever see where he was on a boat and Vladimir Klitschko was out there paddleboarding?
unidentified
He went and fucked with him when he was on the boat and made him fall off the paddleboard?
quinton jackson
He's a fucking troll.
He's a fucking troll, man!
unidentified
He showed up while he was eating and poured water in his face, started eating his food.
quinton jackson
When you eat, we eat!
unidentified
Yeah, so look at Shannon!
quinton jackson
Ah!
unidentified
- What's up, Kisco?
What's up, Kisco?
Everywhere you go, I go.
quinton jackson
Huh?
Yeah, I heard you think it's funny.
unidentified
You think it's funny now.
quinton jackson
You think it's funny?
Now you see me, I'm everywhere, baby. - Kisco just don't seem like a guy No.
joe rogan
Well, find the one where he finds him eating.
He was doing everything he could to get that fight.
Because he fought his brother, right?
His brother stopped Channing, I think.
quinton jackson
Oh, did these two ever...
unidentified
No, so he sits down while he's eating.
joe rogan
What you eat, I eat, champ.
I'm sorry, eating his food.
quinton jackson
Eating his food.
unidentified
He's helping him eat.
quinton jackson
Have some food.
joe rogan
Here, have a glass of water.
unidentified
and he pours the water on his head he's literally out of the fucking face he can sell he can sell the fight Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
Well, that shit sold fights, man.
Look, and Shannon, in his day, was a dangerous boxer.
He was a very, very good heavyweight boxer in his day.
He showed up at the gym when Klitschko was sparring.
He showed up everywhere.
I mean, he was the bane of Klitschko's existence.
quinton jackson
Yeah.
joe rogan
Kind of amazing that fight never happened.
quinton jackson
I didn't know which one it was.
I thought it was that fight, but it was his brother.
joe rogan
Right.
quinton jackson
I didn't know.
joe rogan
No, he fought.
Shannon fought Lennox Lewis and had a great showing, too.
He hurt Lennox at one point in time in that fight.
quinton jackson
Shit, Lennox sent his ass to the hospital.
unidentified
He did.
joe rogan
He beat him bad.
He beat him bad in that fight.
Lennox was a monster.
In his time, man, Lennox is one of the greatest of all time.
quinton jackson
Hell yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah.
I'd love to see Lennox against any of these guys today.
quinton jackson
Man, I was in Saudi Arabia for that Tyson-Ngonu fight.
And we was meeting with the, uh, what's his name?
Turk?
The prince?
joe rogan
Yes.
quinton jackson
And he asked, he had all the fighters that they invited that had us all in the room, and they were talking about doing, like, the legends boxing.
And he asked who wanted to fight, um, Linus Lewis.
Nobody said that.
I raised my motherfucking hand.
I was like, yeah, I'll fight them.
And then came over there, came to me and checked me out and looked at me and stuff like that.
I was like, yeah, shit, they paying big money?
I want to box.
I've been asking to box for years.
Nobody wanted to fight them.
So I thought they was going to put it together.
And then Shannon said, Saudi Arabia want us to fight.
And they never put their fight together.
joe rogan
I know that they were talking about having Lennox fight Mike Tyson.
It was right around the time after Mike Tyson fought Roy Jones Jr. And they were talking about making that.
But it didn't come to fruition.
quinton jackson
I think Lennox really don't want to fight.
joe rogan
Yeah?
quinton jackson
That's the feeling that I got.
But I think Lennox would have fought me.
It'd be a good fight for him.
joe rogan
Well, that's a thing you'd have to wonder, is Linux working out at all?
quinton jackson
He looked like he was in good shape.
He didn't look overweight or anything.
joe rogan
Right, he's not overweight.
But is he working out?
I don't even know.
At least before Mike Tyson fought Roy Jones, you got to see all that footage of him training.
Like, okay, Mike looks good.
You could sell that.
But if you just decide to start working out again at 50-whatever-he-is, how old is he?
quinton jackson
I don't know how old it is.
joe rogan
Lennox is older than me.
I'm 56. I think Lennox is like 58. You're 56?
quinton jackson
I'm 56. You're 10 years older than me.
joe rogan
I'm 10 years older than you.
quinton jackson
Damn.
And he's older than you.
joe rogan
Yep.
quinton jackson
He shouldn't be fighting.
You don't think they should be fighting past 55 or something like that?
unidentified
It's...
joe rogan
I mean, I think a person, again, just like I think you should be able to do slap fighting, you should be able to ride bulls, do whatever the fuck you want.
quinton jackson
Like Mike Tyson fighting...
joe rogan
I don't think you should be able to stop a person from doing it.
I think if they pass medicals, if they want...
Look, fighting's bad for everybody.
It's bad for 20-year-olds.
It's bad for 58-year-olds.
You know?
I just feel like...
You should be able to do whatever you want to do.
I mean, look, riding bulls is always bad.
It's always bad, but yet bull riding's legal, you know?
quinton jackson
Yeah.
joe rogan
BMX flips, those dudes do those flips, they paralyze themselves all the time.
Skateboarders, they fall down, break every fucking bone in their body, get horrible head trauma.
That's legal.
I feel like you should be able to fight.
If you're an adult human being and you make a decision and you pass the medicals, they look at you, they say, yeah, he doesn't have brain problems, he doesn't have heart problems, let him fight.
quinton jackson
They should fight people closer to their same age, though.
joe rogan
Yeah, the Jake Paul thing is kind of crazy.
Mike is 50, he just turned 58 yesterday.
So, Mike is gonna be 58. Jake is gonna be 28. Jake's active.
You know, I mean, you see Mike run?
It doesn't look like his knees are in good shape.
quinton jackson
Oh, for real?
joe rogan
No, it doesn't look good.
quinton jackson
I've just seen him hitting pads.
joe rogan
He's done some sprints and stuff and people look at him and go...
quinton jackson
But I'm gonna tell you something.
With all due respect, Mike Tyson just looked like his body type is awkward anyway.
joe rogan
Yeah.
quinton jackson
The way he moves.
So that might just be him.
Have you ever seen him dance?
joe rogan
Yeah, he does.
It's awkward.
quinton jackson
So I assume that maybe part of him running like this is just his body mechanics.
He's just like an awkward dude.
joe rogan
Perhaps.
But he's also 58. And then all the punishment of all those years.
I know he's had back problems and neck problems.
I believe he's had neck surgery.
You know, 58 is 58. There's no ifs, ands, or buts.
But then again, he's doing stem cells, peptides.
I would assume they let him do hormones, everything he wants.
I mean, there's no way they're going to ask him to be clean at 58 years old.
quinton jackson
But that's a dream fight to fight Mike Tyson, though, I'm telling you.
joe rogan
This is what Lennox Lewis said after the USIC... He says, do hucksters still try to entice Lewis back in the ring?
He says, yeah, they do.
But as my friend says, I ain't no fool.
Hopefully that means a rejection of any stunt of a comeback for an undisputed champion as significant as Lewis.
He laughs.
I was seeing if I could catch you out there for me, money talks, bullshit walks.
Does that mean that we consider an astronomical offer to make a return?
That's what I'm saying.
I'd 100% consider it.
Lewis is still smiling when I ask if he works out regularly.
Yes, I do.
I ran five miles this morning.
I swam a couple lengths, 100 meters.
Then I woke up and took a shower.
Oh, he's joking.
quinton jackson
He looked like he still trains, though, when I saw him.
I didn't see him with his shirt off or anything.
joe rogan
He's definitely not fat.
quinton jackson
No.
He looks good for his age.
joe rogan
How old is Lennox?
58. Yeah.
quinton jackson
Same age as Tyson.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's like, when you get to that age, why?
Because if you get hurt bad at 58, you don't really recover.
Did you watch Evander vs.
Vitor?
That was sad.
That's the same kind of age.
I think Evander was 59 during that fight.
Maybe 58. But Vitor just beat the shit out of him.
quinton jackson
Did you feel bad for Evander?
unidentified
Yeah.
quinton jackson
Did you want to give Vitor a little talking to?
joe rogan
No.
Nope.
Because if Evander could, he would have done that to Vitor.
If everything was working correctly, I don't even think he took that on a full camp.
quinton jackson
No, no.
It was a short notice.
Because he was supposed to fight somebody else, but they pulled out, right?
joe rogan
Right.
But how can a guy like Evander at 58, 59 years old, whatever it is, fight a short...
And it didn't look good.
It's like Vitor hurt him to the body with that left hand.
quinton jackson
You know, boxers, they don't respect MMA fighters.
joe rogan
You better respect Vitor.
quinton jackson
He was a boxer first, wasn't he?
joe rogan
Well, he had good hands.
I mean, he wasn't necessarily a boxer, but he was a jiu-jitsu black belt under Carlson Gracie.
When I first started training in 96, I started at Carlson Gracie's place.
And that was when Vitor fought for his first time.
He fought John Hess in Hawaii, and he fucked John Hess up.
John Hess was this big, tall dude.
He had some crazy system.
I think he called it SAFTA. It was like a lot of nut punches and eye pokes, and he was kind of a dirty fighter, like a dangerous, mean dude.
And Vitor just beat the fucking shit out of him.
And he was 19. He was so fast.
He was like 200 pounds.
He wasn't a big guy.
And see if you can find that.
Vitor Belfort versus John Hess.
So this is Vitor's debut.
This was happening while I was training at that academy.
quinton jackson
In the UFC? His fight was in the UFC? No.
joe rogan
This was before the UFC. And so...
This was 96-ish, somewhere around there.
And then in 97, the first time Vitor fought in the UFC was the first time I worked for the UFC. That was UFC 12. Did he fight Van Der Le?
No.
He fought Scott Ferrozo and...
quinton jackson
This is Vitor right here?
joe rogan
This is Vitor.
See, look at this dude's fighting with pants on.
Oh, my God.
Look at that shit.
quinton jackson
Why would the referee...
Oh, my God.
joe rogan
There's no...
Referees didn't do jack shit.
Look at the referee.
He's a right head.
Pull it back to the beginning so you see the beginning of the fight.
jamie vernon
That's all it showed.
joe rogan
That's all it showed?
Show it again?
quinton jackson
He was a fucking kid.
joe rogan
Here it is.
So he stormed...
Oh, this is a bad footage?
unidentified
Yeah, it didn't.
joe rogan
So he stormed across the fucking ring and just...
Teed off on that dude.
So I was training at Carlson Gracie's place.
I was learning jujitsu.
I was a white belt in 96. And Vitor was making his UFC debut.
And I remember everybody thought, like, oh, he's a black belt under Carlson Gracie.
This is going to be a jujitsu match.
Oh, here it is.
This is, like, real shitty footage of it.
So he grabbed John Hess.
quinton jackson
That's a big motherfucker.
Huge.
joe rogan
Sean Hess was huge.
And Vitor was not big.
And Vitor just dragged him to the ground and beat the fuck out.
Look how thin he is back then, too.
quinton jackson
Look how fast he's throwing those...
joe rogan
Oh, my God.
His hand speed's insane.
quinton jackson
Bro, that looked like a murder.
It looked like I just witnessed a murder, bro.
joe rogan
He basically did.
I mean, he could have kept going and he would have been dead.
Have you seen his son?
quinton jackson
No.
joe rogan
Vitor's son?
quinton jackson
No.
joe rogan
Bro, find Vitor's son hitting the pads.
His son is apparently a star football player, like an elite football player, but crazy hand speed.
quinton jackson
For real?
joe rogan
Hitting the pads.
Looks fucking phenomenal.
It's wild to see because it's like, that's got to be genetic.
So here he is.
Look at his hand speed.
quinton jackson
Damn.
joe rogan
That's Vitor's son.
Kind of keeping his chin a little up in the air, he's throwing punches.
quinton jackson
But he's not a fighter, though, huh?
joe rogan
No, well, I don't know.
I mean, he's sparring.
Bro, the kid has crazy hand speed.
I mean, you gotta think, like, with Vitor as your dad, I mean, those jeans, that's some real jeans, man.
Look at him hitting the pads, man.
Fucking dude's got hands.
quinton jackson
Damn.
joe rogan
Hand speed.
Like, wild hand speed.
quinton jackson
He should let him get out there.
joe rogan
Yeah, look at those fucking combinations, man.
quinton jackson
Yeah, fuck.
joe rogan
Crazy hand speed.
quinton jackson
Bro.
joe rogan
But that was Vitor, when Vitor was young.
So when Vitor fought in 97, I remember we all knew, but we were like, everybody thinks he's a jiu-jitsu guy.
And you're gonna have to deal with a hail of punches coming from this guy.
quinton jackson
You remember when he fought Vandalay?
That's when he came on my radar.
joe rogan
He wore shoes and just went, apparently he was so scared of Vandalay, he was terrified before that fight.
That's what everybody was saying.
He was, like, crying in the locker room, like, did not want to fight Vandele, but just went out there and starched him in, like, ten seconds.
quinton jackson
And just fucked him up.
Never gave him a rematch.
joe rogan
No, fuck that.
He ran across the octagon and just blitzed him.
quinton jackson
Never seen shit like that before.
joe rogan
No, it was wild.
quinton jackson
And look, my son was sparring with Anderson Silva's son a couple weeks ago.
unidentified
Wow.
quinton jackson
And he gave me an idea.
I said, fuck, man, we got fighters now, and we all got kids in their 20s, and so we should do a fucking reality show with the fucking kids.
joe rogan
Well, how about AJ McKee?
quinton jackson
Yeah.
joe rogan
AJ McKee is good, man.
quinton jackson
Next level, bro.
joe rogan
He's very good.
quinton jackson
Yeah.
joe rogan
Very good.
quinton jackson
Next fucking level, bro.
joe rogan
Yeah.
And everywhere.
He's a guy who's well-rounded.
quinton jackson
But I've been knowing that kid since he was three years old.
I knew it already.
I'm not even surprised, because I used to train his dad.
joe rogan
That's what bothers me about...
Other organizations is that a guy as good as AJ McKee doesn't become a household name.
Nobody knows who he is.
Like, that sucks.
That's what makes me...
That's what upsets me when guys wind up going over there.
Like, I get it.
You know, like Corey Anderson.
quinton jackson
They didn't want to let him go, bro.
They didn't want to let him go.
I told his dad, I said, man, get him over to the UFC... He's under contract?
Yeah, and Bellator, they just kept offering him money.
They didn't want to let him go because he'll walk a highlight reel.
joe rogan
Yeah, he's so good.
But it's still not good enough.
The Bellator thing, it's just like you can't be famous over there.
You can get kind of, like Venom got famous.
Michael Venom Page got famous from some of the knockouts, some of the things he did over there, but...
Even he, like, now he's famous, he's in the UFC. But he's 37 in the UFC. Like, I would love to see Michael Venom Page in the UFC at 27. Yeah.
Like, good lord.
quinton jackson
Bro, I'm gonna tell you, I can barely go anywhere without guys asking me for a pitch and stuff around, right?
I left the UFC, went to Bellator.
Now, for years, I was in Bellator for years, and people come asking me for a pitch, and they're like, man, I wish you hadn't retired.
Like, dude, I just fought last week.
They have no idea.
Felton do not promote fights.
They don't fucking do shit.
I don't get it.
I don't understand.
joe rogan
Nobody knows who's watching.
It's unfortunate.
It's unfortunate.
I mean, I get it that fighters will want to go like the PFL, right?
If you win that tournament, you make a million dollars.
So Olivier Aubame-Mercier, I think he won it twice.
So he won two million dollars in the PFL. Nobody watched.
Nobody knows who he is.
I mean, it's just, I mean, people know, but nothing in comparison to like a Dustin Poirier or someone who wins in the UFC. Bro, I'm going to tell you this.
quinton jackson
If AJ McKee goes to the UFC, I would bet money.
I never bet on fights.
I would bet money on him and he'll walk through the whole thing and get the belt easy.
unidentified
Mm-hmm.
joe rogan
How old is AJ now?
quinton jackson
He got to be like 26. How old is he?
joe rogan
29. What?
Yeah.
quinton jackson
Damn, I didn't know he's that much older than my son.
joe rogan
But still, in his fucking prime.
He's in his prime.
How much longer is his contract over at Bellator?
quinton jackson
I don't know.
joe rogan
Because now the Bellator sold to PFL. They're not really...
They're two different organizations, right?
Like one of them, they're going to do overseas as Bellator and the PFL is over here.
quinton jackson
Yeah, I don't understand that.
But I like their belts, though, when you win that thing.
Have you seen their belt?
joe rogan
The belts look good.
quinton jackson
With the ring?
joe rogan
Six fight multi-year contract, and this is 2023. Yeah.
Fuck.
quinton jackson
I wish he would have went to the UFC, because that kid...
joe rogan
Why'd he sign that contract?
quinton jackson
They must up to him money.
I don't want to put his business out there, but his dad said that AJ is really successful, and I think they was paying him monthly on top of everything.
They did what they had to do to keep that kid there.
joe rogan
Well, that's the thing.
If you do have a talented guy that has a potential of being a star, you cannot let him go.
Well, Bellator lost Michael Chandler, and look what happened.
Michael Chandler became a fucking star.
Like, people don't even know.
Michael Chandler fought Eddie Alvarez in some of the craziest fights in Bellator.
They're both dropping each other.
I mean, wild, wild fights.
And no one saw them.
I mean, some people saw them.
I'm exaggerating, obviously.
But no one in comparison to who saw him knock out Dan Hooker or when he knocked out Tony Ferguson.
quinton jackson
So teach me this.
So in Bellator, maybe their views, they get like a million views.
joe rogan
Do they even?
quinton jackson
Yeah.
I got the numbers.
When I was fighting, I got at least like a million, 1.5.
Did the UFC do a free fight?
How many million views do you think?
joe rogan
That's a good question.
I don't know the answer to that.
quinton jackson
So they got to be getting at least 20 million.
joe rogan
If they have a free fight like on ESPN +, I don't know how many people, I don't even know how many people are subscribed to ESPN+. Like, let's find that out first.
Because you have to watch it on ESPN or ESPN+. So if they have, well they do a lot of those cards where they, like fight nights, well they'll have it on ESPN as well.
ESPN, how many people are watching ESPN? Millions.
Millions of people so if you have like a big event like a nice fight night like they had that last one That was a fight night the one that they did from Saudi Arabia where Bobby knuckles Robert Whittaker When when he just fought in one that's that's probably millions and millions of people And then you got all the other people that are watching it all around the world, too.
Like, it's not just, you know, it's not just America.
It's people watching it in Europe, Sky TV. It's like, you know, all the other countries that are watching it.
The UFC is just a bigger name product.
People don't know what a Bellator is.
quinton jackson
That's why they sold.
I think they were losing money hand over fist.
joe rogan
I heard they were losing a lot of money.
It's hard to make money if you're not the UFC. Yeah, but they don't know how to promote.
quinton jackson
PFL must be making money.
joe rogan
I don't think they are.
I don't know how they could be.
If they're paying a million dollars to the tournament winners, how are they doing that?
It's one thing because it's a good promotional thing.
You tell people how much money they make and you get people like, oh shit, maybe I'll go over there.
And you get people thinking they can win the tournament and maybe you can lure more big name guys.
But then PFL has that weird point system that nobody understands.
Do you know that?
PFL? Yeah, it's crazy.
If you win by stoppage in the first round, it's three points.
If you win the second round, it's two points.
Third round, it's one point.
It's like points.
quinton jackson
Bro, I never watched it.
The only time I watched it was when they had that Bellator versus PFL. Yeah, it's very weird.
joe rogan
Well, that was interesting, too, because you get to see there's levels.
Like Johnny Eblen versus Impa Kasagany.
quinton jackson
That was really good.
joe rogan
Impa Kasagany is fucking good.
He's the guy that lost to Joaquin Buckley by that crazy head kick.
quinton jackson
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
That jump-spinning back kick head kick.
quinton jackson
That's more of a comeback shit.
joe rogan
Yeah, he grabs his left leg and Joaquin hops up in the air and hits him with a jump-spinning back kick to the face.
After that, he got kicked out of the UFC? Well, he left the UFC and went to PFL. And so he was representing PFL. And Johnny Eblen, who's the PFL middleweight champion, is really fucking good.
And he's like one of the guys out there that I looked at and I said, that guy could be like a UFC star.
But Impa Kazagane and him had a war.
And like Impa won a lot of that fight.
It was a good fight.
So it's like there's guys out there that are really good fighters.
That's my point.
And nobody's seeing it.
Nobody's watching them.
quinton jackson
What happened to that guy that did that, that Buckley guy?
What happened to him?
joe rogan
Oh, he's in welterweight now.
He dropped down to welterweight and he's very successful now.
He just knocked out Vicente Luque.
And who did he just knock out in the first round?
He just fucked somebody else up too.
He's fucking good, man.
And he keeps getting better.
Joaquin Buckley just keeps getting better.
The thing about him is like, every time you see him fight, That's right.
That Ruzibov guy that he fought, that guy's a big dude.
He's like 6'3", 6'4", and he fights at 170. And he beat him by unanimous decision.
Knocked out Vicente Luque before that.
What's that?
quinton jackson
6'5.
joe rogan
Yeah, he's 6'5 at 170. That's nuts!
And that guy was very highly touted going into that fight, but Buckley beat him.
Buckley at 170 is a real force.
He's a real force.
He's one of those dudes, he's never gonna stop learning and growing.
Every time you see him, it's a better version of Buckley.
And his cardio is crazy!
quinton jackson
What camp is he at, you know?
joe rogan
He's got a very small camp in Detroit.
It's a very small camp.
It's not a big gym.
quinton jackson
I haven't heard of many fights coming out of Detroit.
joe rogan
Yeah, there he is.
Murcielago MMA. And it's Detroit, right?
Doesn't say?
I'm 90% sure that's where he's at.
St. Louis?
He's from St. Louis?
unidentified
Hmm.
joe rogan
Am I wrong?
Out of St. Louis.
So he trains his...
I'm sorry.
So shout out to St. Louis.
Sorry.
I confused you with Detroit.
But point is he's like in a small team.
It's not a big team.
It's not like...
It's not an ATT or...
And there's some people that think that that's not good either because like I talked to some dudes that went over and trained at ATT and say, hey man, like you got these dudes coming in from Russia and Dagestan and like you're in wars every day.
You're not incorrect.
jamie vernon
That is in Michigan.
unidentified
Looking up their page, it says Top MMA. So you was wrong?
joe rogan
The internet was wrong.
The internet fucked up.
Jamie's never wrong.
quinton jackson
He's never wrong.
jamie vernon
This isn't stuff I know.
joe rogan
Okay, so they're in Michigan.
Lansing, that's it.
Lansing, Michigan.
Let me tell you something.
Joaquin Buckley, he's a real force at 170. I think he could be a champion.
He's just got to keep growing the way he's growing.
But it's like you see these guys when they're on the come up.
It's like...
There's so much potential, you never know.
And some guys, they have so much potential, and then it just never comes to fruition.
You can speak to this.
That's probably the hardest thing is realizing your potential.
quinton jackson
Yeah, yeah.
Because you don't know until you get out there, right?
And you got to put it to test.
And you go out there and some people, you know, you can be really good, right?
And you can have like two bad days in the office, right?
Lose two fights in a row, then your career's over.
joe rogan
Look at Max Holloway, right?
People were writing him off.
People thought before he fought Justin Gaethje that it was over.
quinton jackson
Yeah.
And he's only 32. Yeah, you gotta reinvent yourself.
You can't listen to all that noise.
Put your head down.
I lost two fights in a row one time in my career.
And I was like, what the fuck is wrong with me?
But you gotta put your head down and come back and train.
Because normally, at the beginning of my career, I lost to Marvin Eastman in my first professional fight.
Then I went on a long run.
I didn't lose again until Sakuraba.
Then I lost soccer, and I went on a long run, and I didn't lose again until whoever.
Maybe it was Vanderlei.
I can't remember who beat me after that.
But then you lose two fights in a row, and then you start doubting yourself.
Like, what's wrong with me?
What's wrong with me?
Do I suck now?
Is it over?
And then you got to have a strong mind.
You got to come out of that.
joe rogan
Did you learn how to have a strong mind, or is it just something that you...
Did you read books?
Did you talk to someone?
Like, how did you develop having such a strong mind?
quinton jackson
Do I look like I read books?
Do I sound like I read books?
I read one.
Well, I can read the Bible, but I read two books in my whole motherfucking life.
joe rogan
What's the other one?
quinton jackson
Christine.
joe rogan
Oh, the Stephen King book?
That's a good book.
quinton jackson
Yeah, I was in jail.
I had a bunch of free time on my hands.
I went to jail in college.
joe rogan
What'd you go to jail for?
quinton jackson
One of my teammates was a fucking asshole, and he hit me in the mouth with the payphone receiver.
I got this scar on my lip, wherever side it is.
Motherfucker hit me in the mouth, and I tried to kill him.
And he went to the hospital, and I went to jail.
It was self-defense.
But the problem was, what fucked me up is that I went back and stumped him some more, and I think there was no longer self-defense once you did that, and I didn't know.
unidentified
Alright.
joe rogan
You were just in the moment.
quinton jackson
I was in the moment.
I was in the moment.
Tim Percy, the one, you saw that name up there, that got caught.
joe rogan
Methamphetamine?
quinton jackson
He was my roommate.
He the one that pulled me off the motherfucker.
unidentified
Oh, wow.
quinton jackson
And I wish he would've just kept me in that fucking room.
Maybe I wouldn't have to...
But you know what?
Going to jail at that time, that changed my life.
Because, remember, I got a real bad temper.
And that taught me how to control my temper.
Going to jail.
Because I hated jail.
I was there for like 47 days up in Susanville.
That changed my fucking life.
joe rogan
I'm like...
quinton jackson
I don't see how anybody can go to jail or prison and fuck up and go back to that motherfucker.
joe rogan
I think you had a life already, and some people don't.
And I think they get to jail, and then in jail you know where you're going to eat, you know where you're going to sleep, you know who you're hanging out with, and then you get out in the real world, and you have no skills, and nobody wants to deal with you because you're a felon, and then you're just lost, and you say, I'd rather be inside.
quinton jackson
Yeah, it is kind of like a...
It's like you're in a fucking circle motion where, you know, you got this rap sheet and you can't get a job.
I can understand that.
joe rogan
People get institutionalized, too.
They get accustomed to a schedule.
quinton jackson
I'd rather be out on the street just doing odd jobs.
You know, when I was growing up, before I started wrestling, I was heading for prison.
I tell this to my boys, the thing that changed my life.
My mom got remarried, and her husband had this best friend.
His name was Jerome Jackson.
He got the same last name as me, because when I used to get suspended for school, he used to go and put me back in school like he was my dad.
I love this guy.
He was a musician.
And he told me one day, he said, God told me to tell you something.
I'm from the Bible Belt, but I believe in God and stuff like that, but I didn't know.
I was like, what?
God told you to tell me something?
I'm like, yeah, man.
He put on my mind to tell you something, and I'm going to tell you.
He said, don't judge me.
I got to tell you.
He said, the way you're going and the shit you're doing, you know you're heading straight for prison.
You know, I don't know if you know this about me, but, you know, I was selling drugs at eight years old.
I was just a product of my environment.
Some guys that live across the street from me were a lot older.
They liked me.
They taught me how to fight.
I was drinking and smoking weed at eight.
You know what I'm saying?
Fucking bitches.
I thought I was grown.
And they was really smart.
joe rogan
Eight years old?
You were fucking?
quinton jackson
Oh, fuck yeah.
Wow.
Yeah.
My first time fucking, I was five.
unidentified
Whoa!
quinton jackson
Yeah, I just grew up too fast.
That's why I'm a big kid now.
joe rogan
That's crazy.
quinton jackson
Yeah, true story, man.
I haven't lied to you yet.
joe rogan
Wow.
quinton jackson
And the guy was really smart.
He put the drugs and the guns and stuff on me because I was a kid.
And he was like, the police are not going to look at you.
And if they do take you to juvenile, your mama can just get you out.
But if I go to jail, you'll be fucked up.
You know, I grew up kind of poor and I was a middle child.
My mom really, she really wasn't studying me, really.
And so this guy fed me.
And, you know, he gave me money and clothes and stuff, shit I needed.
So I didn't want him to go to jail.
So I did it for him.
And then after a while, he taught me how to Sell drugs.
So that's the environment I was in, and that's how I live, right?
And my mom's husband, my stepdad's best friend, he knew it.
My mom didn't know I was selling drugs.
I was really slick.
But he could tell I was living that street life.
He said, you know what they do to young men in prison?
I'm like, what, no, they fight them?
He said, no, they rape them.
They fuck them.
I'm like, well, ain't nobody fucking me.
I can fight.
He said, look, I seen you fight.
I know you can fight.
Now, at this time, I'm like 15 years old, he telling me this.
He said, I seen you fight, but I don't think you can fight five motherfuckers.
And I thought about it.
I was like, damn, you know, I used to get jumped a lot, but five motherfuckers in prison, five grown men, I was like, wow.
I said, really?
He said, yeah, man.
They raped kids.
I said, this is what God want me to tell you.
I don't think nobody told you.
I don't think you know.
So whatever you're doing, you want to get off that path.
And I was thinking, a lot of my friends was coming up dead, and they was going to prison, and they was getting hooked on drugs.
So I was like, wow.
That conversation right there changed my life.
And we moved to a different side of Memphis.
And then I started wrestling.
And nobody knew anything about me.
That I used to smoke weed.
They didn't know anything.
I just changed my whole life from that one conversation.
So that's why.
Then I found it.
I had been a juvenile before.
I got caught driving.
Like I said, I used to sell cracks.
So I gave this junkie.
He had an IROC. So I gave him some cracks.
I'm like 14 years old.
You had an IROC? Yeah, for a couple days.
I gave him some crack for his car and I was driving that motherfucker and then the police saw me.
I took this one lady.
She wanted to go to these projects.
I didn't know what she was doing.
But, you know, you know what she was doing.
She had me take her over there and the police saw me.
I guess it was a hot spot.
I didn't know.
And I'm waiting in the car and it's like 8 o'clock in the morning and the police come up to me like, what the fuck?
A little kid driving this car.
He said, don't your ass fuck me in school.
I couldn't lie my way out of it.
Fuck, I went to June 9th and my mom came and got me out.
My mom, what the fuck are you doing?
I said, shit, my friend and me borrowed a car.
My mom had no idea I was selling drugs.
Wow.
I kept lying to her.
She didn't know.
And then, that was just June.
That's just like one, getting out.
You know what I'm saying?
Then I got in some trouble one time.
It was...
to jail and in college I'm like fuck this I'm never coming back Wow but I'm kind of glad it happened cuz it changed my life and I can count control my temper better now that's why I was walking out of that room in the ultimate fighter cuz I knew I was losing my temper I threw that water bottle and I was trying to get out of it and that door got in my fucking way so I didn't want to I didn't want to lose my time cuz I didn't know cuz I didn't know if I was gonna punch Rashard or anybody came up to me right I didn't know.
I just wanted to get out of there.
I was like, fuck this shit.
I'm glad that shit happened to me in college.
It changed my fucking life.
I can control myself now.
As long as nobody don't punch me out of violence or nothing like that, I think I can control it.
Everything else, I just think about going back to prison.
Fuck that.
joe rogan
Well, you've been able to control your mind in so many fights, you know, that alone.
I mean, how many people get tested like that?
quinton jackson
Fights don't bother me, but sparring is where I have to control myself.
unidentified
Really?
quinton jackson
Yeah, fights don't bother me.
Sparring is where I lose my temper a little bit, but I'm scared because I feel like I'm going to go hog wild and lose my cardio.
That's the only reason why I try to control it in fighting and in sparring.
joe rogan
Oh, the worst is losing your temper when you're sparring.
quinton jackson
Yeah, that's why I lose it.
joe rogan
Because you get tired quick.
quinton jackson
Bro, I sparred Luke Rockhold.
I hadn't sparred in a long time.
He's a Southpaw.
He's tall.
His stand-up is fucking good.
I thought I was going to be fighting Shannon, so I said, let me start sparring.
And he kicked the shit out of me!
I'm like, he didn't even fucking let up.
It's like it was fucking field day for his ass.
I was so fucking mad.
I tried to knock him the fuck out.
And I was so rusted and sparred in years.
My old ass in there with him.
I hate southpaws.
And he kicked the shit out of me.
I was like, oh, all right.
And then next day I started running because my cardio was bad.
Everything was bad.
I started running.
I was waiting to spar his ass back.
I said, I'm going to knock this motherfucker out.
joe rogan
So right now, are you training at all?
quinton jackson
Are you training?
Yeah, I'm training.
I've been sparring and moving around.
I just did my first Japanese pro wrestling match with Josh Barnett Bloodsport.
joe rogan
Yeah, I saw that.
quinton jackson
Yeah, so I started training MMA with my son.
I didn't have anybody to train with because my time is fucking crazy because I got a podcast now because of your ass.
You got everybody doing fucking podcasts.
joe rogan
Crazy, huh?
quinton jackson
It's crazy, man.
Everybody and their mama got a fucking podcast because of your motherfucking ass.
That shit is so time consuming.
joe rogan
It takes up time, but it's a great way to be your own boss.
quinton jackson
Yeah.
joe rogan
That's the best thing.
And you're a funny guy.
Your Jackson podcast, that's a great podcast.
It's fun.
I watch it all the time.
unidentified
For real?
joe rogan
I watch it a bunch of times.
quinton jackson
Oh, thanks, man.
joe rogan
Yeah, you have great clips, too.
Because it's good, man.
It's a good thing for you to do, because you could do that forever.
quinton jackson
People were asking me to do it for years, and I was like, man...
I don't have the drive to do that shit myself, but my friend Barrett, he got everything set up, and he does everything, and I just come and sit down, and people start liking it.
I say, okay, so I guess I'm doing a podcast now.
joe rogan
That's all you have to do.
Someone has to set it up for you.
If someone's got a good personality, they should totally do it.
Because it's a way that you can make a living.
You don't have to get hit.
You don't have to be in shape.
You don't have to do anything.
Just show up and talk about shit.
quinton jackson
Yeah, yeah.
But how long is shit gonna last?
Because I felt like it was watered down.
I feel like everybody got a podcast now.
joe rogan
If you're good.
Yeah, everybody has a podcast.
There's 5 million of them.
5 million.
5 million podcasts.
quinton jackson
How long ago you started?
joe rogan
15 years ago.
quinton jackson
Oh, god damn.
unidentified
Yeah.
Yeah.
joe rogan
Started in the beginning.
There wasn't that many back then.
There was only a few.
quinton jackson
What made you start your podcast?
joe rogan
I always wanted a radio show.
But nobody was ever going to give me a radio show.
So I would do radio shows.
And I'd be like, man, this is fun.
It's fun to just sit around with friends and talk shit.
And then when I started doing Opie and Anthony.
Opie and Anthony was a show on Sirius XM. And when I first did it, they were on the regular radio.
And then they went to Sirius and Sirius XM. And you could...
Maybe I didn't do it when they were on the regular radio.
But the point was, you could swear when they were on Sirius.
I would be on with four or five other comedians.
We would have a ball.
It was so fun.
It was the only show I would look forward to getting up for.
I'd get up early in the morning, smoke a joint, get a cup of coffee, go in that room, and everybody would just talk shit.
We had so much fun.
I was like, damn, I wish I had a radio show.
But no one would hire me for a radio show.
And so I thought about it.
I was like, nah, I'll fuck it up anyway.
I talk about too many crazy things.
It's like, I need to just do something on the internet.
Even if no one's going to listen, I was like, at least it'd be fun.
In the beginning, you know...
We got a thousand people watch it.
That was a lot.
Nobody was watching it.
But I thought it was fun.
So I just kept doing it.
And then it just kept growing.
I didn't promote it.
I didn't take out ads.
I didn't make videos.
Please watch my podcast.
I didn't go on other podcasts and tell people to watch my podcast.
I just kept doing it.
Just kept doing it.
Just work ethic.
And then eventually started making money.
quinton jackson
Bro, during COVID, I heard people complaining that your podcast was more listened to than the news and people was hating on you when you were talking about ivermectin and stuff.
Oh my God.
joe rogan
Well, they were threatened.
Well, that was also, they were being paid off by the medical establishment.
They were being paid off.
They were being paid to promote this one thing, and that was the vaccine.
And anybody that said anything other than the vaccine, I mean, CNN did me so dirty.
They changed the color of my skin to make me look yellow and sick.
They kept saying I was taking horse de-wear.
I got prescribed medicine by a doctor.
Not only that, it was only one of the things that I took.
I took a bunch of things.
But they did not want this video of me saying I got better in three days.
So it's a video of me.
You see the real video.
I look fine.
I was fine.
I wasn't lying.
I wouldn't lie.
And I had to cancel these shows because I was doing shows with Chappelle that weekend.
We were supposed to be doing this arena, and I had to say, I'm sorry, we're going to reschedule it, but I got COVID. That's the only reason why I made that video.
If I didn't have shows that I had to cancel, I would have never made that video.
I only made that video because I had to cancel the shows.
So I said, I feel great.
It was three days ago.
We threw the kitchen sink at it.
I said, all these drugs I took, IV multivitamins, monoclonal antibodies, I said all this stuff that I took, Z-Pak, But they locked in on this horse dewormer trying to make me like a fool.
But what they didn't know back then, because people didn't...
I didn't talk about it.
Bro, they knew.
But they didn't know how big the podcast was.
quinton jackson
Oh, no, no, no, no.
They didn't know how big that...
joe rogan
That's the problem.
quinton jackson
But they knew the drug worked, though.
joe rogan
Right.
They did know the drug worked.
And it did work.
And it worked for a lot of people that didn't take all the other stuff that I took.
I was better quick.
Six days after that, I did 10 rounds on the bag.
I worked out five days after I got sick, and I'm like, I feel pretty good.
Next day, I'm going to push it.
And then the next day, I said, all right, there's one way to find out how good I feel.
Set the timer up.
Let's do some rounds.
And I did...
10 solid rounds on the back.
At the end, I was like, I feel 100%.
I feel totally normal.
quinton jackson
I swear by it.
When you talked about it, I knew you was right because I had learned about it a while ago, a little bit before when COVID first started happening because I got this friend.
She used to box with Floyd Mayweather's dad.
Her name is Miss Knockout.
She got this assistant from some South American country.
And they had symptoms like COVID years ago, like maybe 15, 20 years ago, and they took ivermectin.
And so she told me about it.
She said, if you get COVID, let me know.
I'm going to get you some ivermectin.
I had never heard of it.
She said, my assistant had COVID, and she got rid of it in six days to give a negative test.
I said, okay, I keep it on my radar.
And my son caught COVID. I never caught COVID, but my son caught COVID, and I got the medicine.
And I gave it to them.
joe rogan
They could have saved a lot of lives.
quinton jackson
Yeah.
joe rogan
And they still to this day ridicule it.
Still to this day, people ridicule it.
But meanwhile, doctors prescribed it.
And one of the reasons why they prescribed it is because there's a reason.
There's a medical reason.
It stops viral replication in vitro.
That means in cell cultures, when you put ivermectin in with the virus, it stops the virus from replicating.
So it just makes sense that it would stop it in the human body too.
It stops yellow fever and dengue.
They've used it for river blindness.
They've used it for a bunch of different diseases.
It's also very healthy.
It's not a dangerous drug.
It's just one of the safest drug profiles of any drug.
It's not a dangerous thing to take.
quinton jackson
But do you think your body gets used to it?
Because I take it for colds because I hate colds.
joe rogan
I don't think it's something that you get used to, no.
quinton jackson
Because I remember when I first started taking it, because I stocked up on it in case I got COVID, and I got like a little runny nose and a cold, and I took it away right away, right?
And then the next couple of times it took it away, then like the fourth time I got a cold, it didn't...
joe rogan
They tried to...
Well, it could have been just a different cold or different intensity of the cold.
But they tried to ban a lot of other things secretly that also help people.
One of the things was thymosin.
Thymosin is a peptide.
It's a safe peptide.
There's no history of negative side effects.
And they tried to ban it because people were using thymosin to get over COVID. They tried to do everything they could to make people take the vaccine because that's what was profitable.
quinton jackson
Yeah.
joe rogan
Everything.
They tried to stop people from taking monoclonal antibodies, which also helped heal you, but they didn't want any alternatives.
So when they started attacking me, they were only attacking me because people could say, oh, Joe Rogan got better.
Oh, he's healthy and he works out.
I don't need that fucking vaccine.
If that 55-year-old man took it and he's fine.
Quick.
quinton jackson
Yeah.
joe rogan
And they didn't.
Like, they exaggerated how many people died.
The whole thing was fucked, man.
The whole thing was fucked.
They treated us like we were a bunch of sheep.
And a lot of people acted like they're a bunch of sheep.
quinton jackson
Yeah.
joe rogan
A lot of people, you know, and they didn't have any alternative news sources other than podcasts.
And so then they were just ridiculed.
Why are people listening to podcasts and they should be listening to doctors?
Well, because we don't lie.
That's why.
quinton jackson
Right.
joe rogan
I might be wrong.
I might be wrong about things.
I'll be wrong about things, I'm sure.
But I don't fucking lie.
quinton jackson
Right.
joe rogan
I'm not a liar.
They're liars.
They're liars and they're on TV. The TV is filled with liars.
quinton jackson
I don't even watch the news no motherfucking more.
joe rogan
Yeah.
quinton jackson
I don't trust that shit.
joe rogan
You shouldn't trust that shit.
I mean, I don't trust mainstream news anymore.
If they're telling you something, someone's telling them to tell you something.
Some of the things might be true, but the reasons for those things being true, they're probably not telling you the truth.
quinton jackson
I'm going to tell you, COVID and all this stuff that happened, it woke me up to a lot of things where just not trust the government and stuff and everything, and I'm going to be 100 right now.
The main reason why I decided not to take the vaccine is because I saw the interview with Bill and Melinda Gates.
joe rogan
Really?
quinton jackson
That interview, them saying that they gotta give it to blacks and Latinos first, I was like, oh, fuck that, I'm not taking that.
They never wanna give our black ass shit first.
Fuck that.
That's why I didn't take it.
I didn't take this shit.
joe rogan
Look at the history of them giving vaccines to people in Africa.
There's some horror stories.
They gave vaccines to people in Africa where they told these people that it was the DTP vaccine, but it had HCG in it, which is something that stops women from being fertile.
And they gave it to him on a schedule that didn't make sense.
So people started investigating.
They found that they were putting enough HCG in it to make sure these women didn't have kids.
They basically vaccinated them against being pregnant.
And who knows what the fuck that's doing to their bodies.
quinton jackson
Yeah, it's fucked up.
joe rogan
And they didn't tell them they were doing it.
quinton jackson
That's fucked up, bro.
joe rogan
Bro, there's a lot of sketchy stuff.
quinton jackson
So I see Fauci is getting in trouble, but how come nobody's saying anything about Bill Gates?
And why would we listen to him about medicine anyway, a computer guy?
joe rogan
About anything health.
He's fat.
He's got a big pot belly.
quinton jackson
But he's a computer guy.
joe rogan
Not only that, he's got no medical degree.
I mean, I don't even think he has a college degree.
And he looks like shit.
Like, why are you taking health advice from a guy that looks like shit?
Just because he invested a bunch of money in the company?
quinton jackson
I couldn't figure that out.
joe rogan
Why is he even on television talking about it?
It doesn't make any sense.
quinton jackson
I couldn't figure that shit out for the life of me.
joe rogan
Money.
It's all money.
He made a lot of money off those vaccines, by the way.
He made a lot of money, and he dumped all his stock, and then he started talking shit about the vaccine.
quinton jackson
Oh, he's talking shit about the vaccine?
joe rogan
Yeah, he talked about it afterwards.
It wasn't as effective as we'd hoped.
It didn't stop transmission.
Like, oh, oh, now you tell us.
quinton jackson
The crazy thing was that people that was taking the vaccine, they was the super spreaders.
joe rogan
Well, what happens is, unfortunately, there's different strains of the vaccine.
And one of the things that virologists will say is you never vaccinate during a pandemic.
The reason they say, and again, I'm not an expert, but the reason they say is when you vaccinate during a pandemic, it encourages variants.
Because what happens is, when you have a vaccine, it targets a very specific strain of the virus.
So then new strains come around that evade the vaccine's immunity.
And so then you have all these new strains.
Over time, it makes the virus weaker.
So the new viruses get weaker and weaker, so they get more infectious.
So they can infect you, but it doesn't kill you, so you can spread it to more people.
That's how viruses survive.
They're sneaky little clever motherfuckers, these viruses.
But when they do that, I mean, this is what veterinarians were saying, all these different virologists were saying.
But they silenced all those people.
That was the craziest thing that happened, is they silenced legitimate experts.
They banned them from being on social media.
They banned them from talking about it on YouTube.
People from Harvard, Stanford, were like legitimate doctors who had a differing opinion about how things were handled.
And they were silenced and treated like fools.
It's evil.
quinton jackson
They pay all that money for their education and then when it's time to use it and help a lot of people.
joe rogan
Not only that, science is always supposed to be questioned.
Science is all about a bunch of different experts giving peer review on a subject, right?
But they're not supposed to be biased and bought and paid for.
But that's the problem with today.
Whenever there's so much money involved in one thing, like a vaccine or any kind of medicine, you get a bunch of people that are willing to bullshit in order to sell that medicine.
And so when someone doesn't want to do that and they have a different opinion, it doesn't go with the narrative, they just make that person out to be a crazy.
That's a crackpot.
They're nuts.
Meanwhile, these are like legitimate PhDs, like legitimate scientists, well-respected up until that moment in their field.
quinton jackson
But you know what?
I ask myself sometimes, like, what if I was in that situation?
Would I sell out?
joe rogan
I always say that about UFOs.
Like, I would lie.
Show me the UFOs.
I won't tell nobody.
I'll say, oh, it's all bullshit.
unidentified
I will lie.
I'll lie.
joe rogan
Show me.
Show me.
I'll sell out for that.
I'll sell out for aliens.
quinton jackson
You really believe in that, huh?
joe rogan
No.
quinton jackson
You got all these aliens?
joe rogan
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I know, but I don't.
quinton jackson
Why?
joe rogan
I do kind of.
This is what I think.
I think if there's alien life out there, I think if you look at just the immense size of the universe, there's hundreds of billions of galaxies, and each galaxy has hundreds of billions of solar systems.
The odds of there not being other life out there is almost zero.
I think it is zero.
I think for sure there's other life out there.
And if there was other life out there, if they found out about us, these crazy territorial apes that have nuclear weapons and they have cell phones and they're taking pictures of their dicks and they're fucking sending videos across the world, they're stealing resources and pulling oil out and killing all the fish, I'd be like, these fucking things are nuts!
This species on Earth.
The dominant species is completely insane.
They lie on the news.
They pretend they're monogamous, and they're not.
They're doing drugs.
Everyone's saying, just say no to drugs while they're on drugs.
I mean, it's a crazy species.
They elect officials.
The officials get paid off by everybody, and they're all lying about this.
They're getting people into wars.
They're getting people into pandemics because they're doing research on viruses, and the viruses accidentally get out, and they go, nope, that was just a wild virus.
They knew it wasn't.
They're just liars.
If I was an alien, I would be studying us like crazy.
I would visit.
And I think they probably have visited.
But I also don't believe the government.
So when the government says they have off-world vehicles that are not from this earth, I'm like, Oh, you guys got a drone that you don't want anybody to know about.
I think that's a lot of it.
quinton jackson
But I'm going to tell you this, brother.
I'm going to tell you this.
Your boy Eddie Bravo, he knows some shit, but he just sounds crazy when he says it.
joe rogan
Oh, he knows a lot.
quinton jackson
He knows a lot of shit.
joe rogan
Eddie knows a lot.
He's definitely wrong about some things.
quinton jackson
He's wrong about...
Come on, we all are.
But I'm going to tell you, when I watch him and I watch him explain stuff...
He goes deep.
He goes deep, and it's just how he explains it.
joe rogan
He knows a lot about conspiracies that are absolutely legit.
He educates me on some, and where I start reading about, I'm like, oh shit, he's right.
You know, and you find out some things about the government, and things about what they've done before, Operation Paperclip, they brought on all the Nazis to start NASA. You're like, what?
NASA was started by Nazis?
quinton jackson
Yeah.
joe rogan
And then you realize that you're like, what?
And then the Kennedy assassination.
There's so many conspiracies that turn out to be real.
quinton jackson
Look at the coincidences.
It's too many.
And so I think there are extraterrestrials, but I don't think they're from outer space.
andy stumpf
That's possible, too.
quinton jackson
They come from the water.
joe rogan
That's possible.
quinton jackson
Because they come from the other side of the ice wall.
joe rogan
Oh, you're gonna get into that.
quinton jackson
No, I'm not.
I'm not.
He's right about that part.
joe rogan
I don't think he's right about that.
I think that there's too much evidence that it's not true.
Also, it's like the way planets are formed.
We know how planets are formed.
There's a reason why they're all circular.
It's like all the mass coalesces in the center and the gravity and the way things spin, it all forms balls.
But the idea that we know what the fuck is going on in the ocean is ridiculous.
We don't know what's going on in 90% of the ocean.
And the water surface is three-quarters of the Earth.
So three-quarters of the Earth, we don't know 90% about it.
And there's a lot of people that see things coming out of the water and going into the water.
Also, if I was from another planet and I wanted to come here and make a base, I'd just do it in the water.
They can't see shit.
If they have the kind of capability that allows them to come here from other galaxies, they could easily make a base under the water.
quinton jackson
Yeah, that's probably what the Bermuda Triangle is.
We don't fucking know.
joe rogan
Well, they think the Bermuda Triangle is methane getting released under the floor of the ocean.
And what it does is when it comes up, it kills all the buoyancy.
It makes boats sink.
No, no, they know where it is.
quinton jackson
That sounds like when I watch The Men in Black and right when they hit you with that thing.
joe rogan
They hit you with that thing?
quinton jackson
It sounds like that's the excuse they tell you.
unidentified
Oh, right, right, right.
joe rogan
It could be there's something under the water that's sinking boats.
I don't think it is, though.
I think there's, like, a valid scientific reason.
So these gases get released, and apparently if there's a boat above when all these – like, we're talking about immense spaces of this gas gets released.
Those boats just sink.
And it's not just that.
It's like the updraft of this stuff can fuck up planes.
There's a lot of theories about what causes it.
It's also like there's so many storms in that area of Bermuda so that it makes sense that more ships would go down in those areas too.
But I still think there's probably something in there.
There's probably something in the water.
Have you seen that video of that one craft that they're watching on night vision and it flies over the water and then goes down into the water?
quinton jackson
No, I haven't seen them.
joe rogan
Yeah, they call them transmedium crafts.
They've been observed by multiple fighter jet pilots, different people on battleships.
They've observed them going into the water.
quinton jackson
And they think there's UFOs?
joe rogan
They think there's something going on.
They don't know if it's China's or Russia's or...
It could even be ours.
That's the thing that drives me crazy.
quinton jackson
See, this was the problem is right now we got cell phones, right?
With the cameras.
And technology's so good, we can see a lot more things than we could like 20, 30 years ago, right?
So I feel like if the military has a lot of stuff they don't want us to know about, they can say like, oh, it's a UFO. But why are they telling us now that, you know...
joe rogan
Right.
Exactly.
That's exactly how I feel.
When they're telling you that it's a UFO, I'm like...
And the thing is, they're always happening in your military bases.
That was happening in the coast of the water off of San Diego.
There's all military all over San Diego.
East Coast, in all of the restricted air spaces, that's where they see these things.
Which is exactly what they would practice if they had these things.
quinton jackson
If we got our technology strong enough where we could go to different planets, would you like to go?
joe rogan
No.
quinton jackson
I'd be scared as fuck.
joe rogan
Fuck that.
quinton jackson
I'd be scared as fuck.
joe rogan
Yeah, fuck that.
We talked about, like, they do SpaceX flights.
I'm like, uh-uh.
I ain't gonna be that dude that dies like that.
Fuck that.
Imagine the feeling you would have, how stupid you would feel if you're up in the jet or in the rocket.
Things start breaking.
quinton jackson
You don't feel stupid for a couple seconds.
Boom!
joe rogan
Right before that thing blew, you'd probably be like, my dumb ass could be at home with a margarita right now.
I could be at home with my feet up on the fucking couch, watching TV or out in the yard, listening to birds chirp.
My stupid ass is dying just so I can get a couple hundred miles above the surface and look down.
Because that's all you can get.
quinton jackson
Yeah.
joe rogan
You only get a couple hundred miles.
You can't really go to another planet.
I don't want to go to another planet.
quinton jackson
Elon trying to go to Mars?
joe rogan
I'm not going to be one of those dudes.
I'm staying right here.
quinton jackson
How do you think those dudes felt when they tried to go see the Titanic?
joe rogan
Bro.
quinton jackson
What was they thinking, bro?
joe rogan
They're just rich people that for whatever stupid reason wanted to go on an adventure.
Not only that, they're looking through a screen.
They're looking through a screen.
quinton jackson
They just wanted to be there.
joe rogan
Bro, the moment before that thing fucking imploded, apparently it was free-falling before it imploded, so they knew it was over.
They knew it was over for a few seconds.
quinton jackson
I would've had a heart attack, I think.
I would've probably got a heart attack.
joe rogan
I bet a lot of them did.
They probably hyper-ventilated, went into shock.
quinton jackson
How many of them was on there?
I don't know.
I don't remember.
Fuck!
joe rogan
Apparently they're talking about doing it again.
quinton jackson
So no one has been able to go down to the Titanic, so it's too far?
joe rogan
Well, no.
They had manned craft that went down to the Titanic because I went to the Titanic Museum this past weekend at Luxor in Vegas.
They have a chunk of it that you could see this big piece that they pulled up and different artifacts they pulled up.
So they did go down there and attach things with manned crafts.
And then they pull them up with some kind of drone.
But I do think people have actually...
I think James Cameron actually went down there.
Here it is.
The 14th trip.
Yeah.
The Titan made the first of several dives to the famous shipwreck of the world.
While generally successful, these expeditions hadn't been without their own problems.
The fatal dive was the vessel's 14th trip to the remains of the Titanic.
quinton jackson
Oh, it probably just wore out then.
Probably.
joe rogan
Well, apparently the people that designed it and built it were telling them there was flaws in it.
And there was a lot of lawsuits coming, I'm sure, because there was a lot of whistleblowers that wound up leaving the corporation, the company rather, that developed these things.
They're like, this is not tested for the kind of pressure that's down there, and you're sending people down there.
quinton jackson
I just believe there's certain things that man shouldn't, certain places man shouldn't go.
joe rogan
The bottom of the ocean is one of them.
quinton jackson
Yeah, we just shouldn't go.
joe rogan
Why go?
Why?
Why?
quinton jackson
Certain things we shouldn't do.
I don't think we should be jumping out of planes and all that shit either.
I just don't believe that.
I'm not interested.
joe rogan
I'm not interested in that.
People go, you should go skydiving.
No, you go skydiving.
quinton jackson
Yeah, fuck that.
joe rogan
My friend, his dad, used to work with this lady.
And when he would go into work, she's like, you should go skydiving with us.
And then one day he goes to work and she's not there.
And he said, what happened?
unidentified
Skydiving.
quinton jackson
But I'll tell you what looks fun, though.
You seen them motherfuckers in those squirrel-looking suits?
joe rogan
Oh, yeah!
quinton jackson
That shit look fun, but I see it on TikTok, but they scared.
What if they hit a tree going that motherfucking fast?
joe rogan
You ever see the one where the guy hits the bridge?
quinton jackson
No.
joe rogan
We'll watch this, and we'll end this podcast.
Show the one where the guy hits the bridge in the squirrel suit.
So this dude was trying to go through the arches of the bridge, and he missed it.
Here, watch this.
So he's on the thing and he's trying to fly past the bridge and he's got a bunch of people on the bridge watching this dude like oh my god this is amazing.
quinton jackson
It looks fun.
joe rogan
Yeah I mean he's going like a hundred and something miles an hour too.
So he's trying to figure out how to get through this bridge but watch this.
unidentified
Oh!
joe rogan
Bro, that sound?
That's a horrible sound.
quinton jackson
He just misjudged.
Well, he just exploded, huh?
When he hit it?
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
unidentified
Yeah.
quinton jackson
Just misjudged.
Why would you try to go through the bridge?
joe rogan
Fuck that.
quinton jackson
Showing off.
joe rogan
Showing off.
unidentified
Yeah.
Fuck that.
joe rogan
Just wanting to do something.
People have done things like that.
They fly between buildings.
They do a bunch of wild shit with those squirrel suits on.
But if you misjudge it, that's your ass.
quinton jackson
Showing out.
joe rogan
Showing off.
Quentin, thank you, sir.
quinton jackson
Thank you for having me, man.
joe rogan
Great to hang you.
quinton jackson
It's been a great experience.
joe rogan
It's been great to be here and to hang out with you, man, and see you after all these years.
quinton jackson
Yeah, I know.
It's been a long time.
I'm going to hold you to those tickets.
joe rogan
Yes, sir.
I got you.
I got you for two tickets.
quinton jackson
Tiki always let me down.
I can get two?
joe rogan
You got to.
quinton jackson
I'll bring me somebody.
joe rogan
All right.
Bring me somebody.
quinton jackson
Yeah.
joe rogan
I think that's September 14th.
So I got you.
quinton jackson
September 14th.
joe rogan
Yes, sir.
quinton jackson
I'll be there.
unidentified
All right.
joe rogan
It's going to be a banging car.
It's going to be crazy inside that thing with all the...
The whole ceiling is a screen.
quinton jackson
Yeah.
joe rogan
So, I mean, who knows what they're going to put up there.
It's going to be wild.
Apparently, they've been working on it this entire time.
They've been working on it for months.
I think they already spent $9 million just on the production.
16. 16 now.
quinton jackson
What the fuck?
Jesus.
They got fucking...
They worth billions now, so...
joe rogan
Yeah.
Throwing that money around.
quinton jackson
Yeah.
joe rogan
Tell everybody where to get your podcast.
quinton jackson
They can go to, what, Jackson on YouTube, right?
I think it's on Spotify just to hear.
joe rogan
It's two X's or one X? Yeah, two X's.
Oh, like your shirt.
quinton jackson
Like your shirt.
joe rogan
There he goes.
quinton jackson
Oh, thanks for the plug, brother.
joe rogan
No, no worries.
So, it's Jackson Podcast on YouTube.
And is it on everything like Spotify, Apple?
quinton jackson
No, I think we just got on Spotify.
Okay.
But tell them about the energy drink.
joe rogan
And your energy drink.
quinton jackson
It's good.
I'm glad you like it.
joe rogan
It's very good.
quinton jackson
That's my favorite flavor.
joe rogan
F3. F3 energy drink, ginseng.
It's got all sorts of good stuff.
PCAAs, theanine.
What else has it got in here?
quinton jackson
But it won't make you dick hard.
joe rogan
Ginkgo biloba.
It won't make you dick hard.
Not yet.
quinton jackson
Version 2. If they come out with one that says Rampage Punch or something.
joe rogan
There it is.
Rampage Punch.
quinton jackson
No, you're going to make it dick hard.
joe rogan
In Japanese letters.
All right, brother.
Thank you for being here.
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