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Aug. 14, 2025 - The Joe Rogan Experience
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JRE MMA Show #169 - Protect Ya Neck
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din thomas
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john rallo
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matt serra
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jamie vernon
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The Joe Rogan Experience.
Train by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day.
Good?
We're up.
joe rogan
We're up.
unidentified
What?
joe rogan
We're back.
It's just like getting pulled over by the cops.
The window rolls down.
unidentified
The cops are like, what the fuck are you doing?
Shit.
din thomas
Joe, I took one hit of that shit.
Actually, it was strong as a hip hop already.
john rallo
That's good for you, dude.
It's good for you.
Open your mind.
joe rogan
It's the right stuff.
Yeah.
There's some talk about Trump legalizing.
I'd love to see Trump legalize marijuana now.
john rallo
That would be amazing.
matt serra
It kind of feels like it is legal right now.
joe rogan
Well, it should be.
It's so stupid.
It's so I can't believe we're still dealing with this.
I mean, I would have thought by the time I just turned 58.
I would have thought by the time I'm 58, we would have figured this out.
john rallo
Right.
matt serra
Can I tell you, when I with my ulcerative colitis, it always we always thought with my ass for some reason.
But with my ulcerative colitis, after my colonoscopy one time, the doctor's like, well, there's this pill you could take.
It could affect your liver, but not for many years.
Like, not for No, this was when I was like 39.
I'm 51 now.
I would be I'd be going to Columbia for stem cells from my fucking liver at this point.
So what I do is the natural stuff and it does help me.
It just helps and I don't have to if that's not fucking with my liver.
joe rogan
It would take the place of so many different pharmaceutical drugs and that's a big part of the problem.
The other part of the problem is the alcohol industry.
din thomas
Oh yeah, that would suffer for sure, right?
joe rogan
Yeah, yeah.
And they've done studies.
They know.
They lobby.
They they they work on it hard.
They do not want marijuana becoming legalized in the in the whole nation.
matt serra
Alcohol's way worse.
I mean, way worse.
joe rogan
An age-old conversation, but well, the real big problem is who's selling if.
it's illegal?
The cartels.
That's right.
You know, I've talked about this before.
If you've heard it before, I'm sorry.
But there's a guy named John Norris who's been on the podcast before, who was a game warden.
He wrote a book called Hidden War.
He was a game warden in California.
You know, just the guy that checks fishing licenses and shit.
He loves the woods, loves being outdoors.
He came in and brought a fucking cartel grow op in the middle of the National Forest.
And then they realize, oh, no, this is what they do.
They go deep into the woods and public land and they set up a grow op and they got fucking AKs and they got, you know, the Virgin Mary photos, what they pray to at night.
unidentified
It's crazy.
joe rogan
Like full on camp sites filled with cartel dudes.
They started turning into a tactical team.
So this guy had to get Belgian malamois and bulletproof vests and they're getting shootouts with the cartels in the middle of the woods.
john rallo
I thought he was signing up to be a park ranger and he's like, No shit.
Yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
Hear people's fish stories.
Like, how did you get this one?
You know, no, he's fucking getting shootouts.
john rallo
Because damn cartels.
joe rogan
So damn.
When California made their laws where you could have legalized recreational marijuana, what they also did was if you grow it illegally, it's only a misdemeanor.
So the cartel could just grow.
in the cartel.
din thomas
It's a misdemeanor.
joe rogan
It's a misdemeanor.
And if they catch people that are illegal up there, they don't do shit.
So it's the perfect spawning ground for cartel grow-ups.
And what he was saying at the time he was here, which was a couple of years back, but he was saying that it was as much as 80% of the marijuana, I think, that was the number in the country in places where it's illegal is coming from these dudes.
And they're using all these crazy pesticides and herbs that are totally illegal, fucking super toxic shit.
Shit that's outlawed on farms in America, but it's effective.
And so they're using it.
So you're getting this weed that's infected with these pesticides and herbicides.
There's no rules, man.
It's illegal weed.
If they had it legal, you could have inspectors who could check the fucking farms and the factories.
It'd be just like alcohol.
If alcohol was illegal, we'd all be fucked.
We'd be drinking moonshine.
din thomas
No one would know, you know what I mean?
joe rogan
Nice glass of wine.
You're drinking fucking straight up alcohol.
Nasty shit.
Because that's all that's available.
And that's what people are doing right now.
It's dumb.
It empowers the people that are criminals.
john rallo
Well, you said it before.
It's the money.
They're going to affect the big pharma.
And we all have seen from COVID what the hell kind of power big pharma has.
joe rogan
Yeah, they're worried about it.
But I think the alcohol people are worried more.
john rallo
The alcohol people got us twice.
They were fighting.
Remember they fought MMA hard too.
Budweiser was.
din thomas
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
Because of boxing.
alcohol was illegal in this country.
You know how crazy that is?
A grown man telling you you can't have a drink.
john rallo
Right.
joe rogan
Who the fuck?
matt serra
The same thing.
You want to smoke.
What's the problem with that?
joe rogan
Exactly the same thing.
matt serra
It's weird.
joe rogan
Exactly the same thing.
We're just delusional about it.
And we put it under the label drug, which is alcohol.
Alcohol is a drug dummy.
It's a world drug.
din thomas
Everything's a drug.
joe rogan
There's a lot of drugs.
din thomas
Coffee is a drug.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Exactly.
We're drinking espresso.
We just stop it.
It's just knowing how to use each drug.
And the only way you know how to use it is if people are honest.
And if they do studies.
You have actual scientists who are not being paid to come up with some kind of negative oral positive result.
You know, that's what it's supposed to be.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
For all of us.
It's all just fucking co-opted by money.
jamie vernon
No, they have.
Never heard that.
john rallo
Maryland's been food.
Well, that's good.
joe rogan
So you've done everything for Maryland.
By the way, how crazy is that?
john rallo
Right.
joe rogan
Also home of ground control.
john rallo
Yeah.
matt serra
Hey guys, I guess I missed the match.
john rallo
Matt Sarah.
joe rogan
This was a total union for 30 years.
I know.
matt serra
Totally union.
joe rogan
We didn't talk about this at all.
john rallo
Well, I saw Matt were his last time and I said, well, that's it.
The green light.
I'm shamelessly self-promoting.
And then Dean came down, I got motherfucker here, I got to go in and he goes, I got to represent, and then you came in with it.
So that's really what we love to talk about.
din thomas
I know, that's crazy.
matt serra
I feel like I'm left out of the loop here.
joe rogan
I wish we had some extra.
I had an extra one too.
You know what's so funny?
I had one that was still in the package, and I was like, should I bring this?
I'm like, no, I don't need this.
matt serra
I think you should have.
din thomas
I should have.
matt serra
That's crazy.
joe rogan
That was like the universe telling me that you needed one of those shirts.
I ignored it.
john rallo
That's great.
matt serra
I've been talking about stuff that's good for you, and I've been telling you I've been eating a ton of fucking pizza, and I still got it.
john rallo
Oh, here it comes.
joe rogan
Here it comes.
john rallo
Erica, are you safe?
unidentified
Yes.
matt serra
Listen to me.
Can I tell you I'm talking?
unidentified
You're just taking on me.
I can see it in me.
matt serra
Can I tell you right now that I'm so proud of this?
I don't like to brag.
Dean doesn't.
I need to know a little bit.
But on Long Island, we have three champions.
Four, if you include Mirab, you know, he's adopted by us.
Chris Wideman has his own day in Long Island.
Algermaine Sterling.
has his own day.
I'm not butt hurt about not having my own day, but I have something better.
Thank you, Talios, from Asapiqua Park and Mineola.
I have my own Sarah slice.
It's the best fucking, it'll knock your dick off.
It's the best slice.
I put it up against any slice.
john rallo
That's right.
matt serra
That you could give me.
And the reason being, listen.
john rallo
Tell Dave Port.
matt serra
They import.
Listen.
john rallo
Tell him what you said.
matt serra
Is this kid Rob?
There he is, my buddy Rob.
Oh, he's talking about it.
unidentified
I'm a UFC legend.
I'm going to show you guys how we made the Sarah.
Our Roman show here.
We're going to go down with our grande, no moisture, mozzarella.
This is a very simple piece of.
So these stripes of our chow tomato sauce imported from Italy.
matt serra
Imported from Italy!
unidentified
Sea salts, basil, and olive oil.
That is my recipe for my tomato sauce.
No sugar.
Stop putting sugar in your sauce.
And we have our beautiful homemade vodka sauce.
matt serra
Dude.
unidentified
We make it with Nojito di Parma.
matt serra
I'm getting the horn on!
joe rogan
Matt, tell him.
unidentified
Tell him.
joe rogan
This is the Sarah Pizza.
john rallo
Tell him where the dough comes from, Matt.
matt serra
He's going to say it.
unidentified
It's downward so.
matt serra
Caputo.
Caputo flour from Italy.
No Bromate.
No preservatives.
unidentified
Sicilian oregano.
We have some beautiful fiordi latte fresh months around.
matt serra
Come on, come on, man.
unidentified
I just like to break it up.
matt serra
Just wait for the fucking pestle.
Wait for the pestle.
unidentified
The Sierra, super simple.
Going in the oven.
About eight minutes.
matt serra
Look at this fucking thing.
Look at this fucking thing.
john rallo
Oh yeah.
joe rogan
This is one of the best advertisements for carbs I've ever seen.
No doubt.
matt serra
No doubt.
joe rogan
You know?
matt serra
I tell you, this is the only green I eat.
unidentified
It's beautiful.
matt serra
I eat that fucking green.
unidentified
Pecorino.
matt serra
Ready?
Oh, the money shot!
Oh, the fucking go, Rob!
joe rogan
The pesto.
unidentified
Take a bite.
matt serra
Guys, I'm so proud.
unidentified
Sarah, come get it now.
Both locations.
All your pizza.
Thank you, Ray.
john rallo
It's the first time you'll ever see a man's mouth shut.
joe rogan
I'm so happy.
It's so good.
john rallo
It's a joke.
matt serra
Yeah, you gotta go to the store.
Why you didn't bring us none?
Dude, can I tell you, I'm there all the fucking time.
My podcast I'm doing, I found the first shop near Mineola train station, and I'm like...
And then the guy happens to be a fan of the fighting Rob.
So then he's like, look, I'm opening up another spot, dude, in Mass of Peakwood Park.
Dude, that's five minutes from my house.
house.
This is meant to be.
It's fucking meant to be.
And now he's training now, Rob.
john rallo
So that's awesome.
matt serra
Italios pizza, the G is silent like lasagna.
And I'm just, I'm so happy.
joe rogan
That's the number one problem with any of that carnivore diet bullshit.
That's the number one, the number one problem is pizza.
matt serra
Oh, right.
joe rogan
Yeah, no doubt.
Italian subs.
unidentified
Yeah.
matt serra
He was telling me that it's not even legal in Europe to have the bromate.
I didn't know what the bromate was.
unidentified
Yeah.
matt serra
He goes, it's stuff they put in the, in the, the dough to make it last longer and this and that.
This kid has such balls where he's sort of an important.
It's twice as much for a flower caputa.
I know a lot about it.
Espresso tells me the whole thing.
joe rogan
You feel different if you eat that flour.
matt serra
I'll eat this shit on the way to go train at my school.
And I'm not doing that with Pietro's no offense.
I'm not doing that with others.
He has a, it's so good.
joe rogan
Potassium bromate, a flour additive used to strengthen dough, may have potential health risks.
While it's legal in the U.S., it's banned in many other countries due to concerns about its potential carcinogenic effects.
Studies have linked it to kidney and thyroid cancers in animals.
Well, fucking, duh.
And it's been associated with genotoxic and nephrotoxic effects in both animal models and humans, acute symptoms from ingestion can include nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and abdominal pain.
din thomas
They put this in our flour, dude.
That's what I'm saying.
joe rogan
It causes changes in DNA and potentially lead to mutations.
matt serra
Guys, what the fuck?
I'm telling you, man.
joe rogan
Look at that fucking statement.
john rallo
That's crazy.
matt serra
Dude, that's why, man.
john rallo
I didn't notice its place at the end.
matt serra
Give these kids so much credit.
Nobody does this.
People can't get that far.
They can't import the flour.
It's just more, but this kid's killing it.
And it's such a difference, man.
They say when you go to Italy and you come back and you're eating all that shit and you come back you're not fat.
It's that shit.
It's the flour, man.
And he makes the heroes out of the same flour.
joe rogan
Jamie, do you remember that video that I sent you about that dude breaking down exactly what's in flour and why it fucks us up?
Do you remember that video?
You'll find it.
The dude with the hat on, who's the health expert, is a young guy.
And he does an amazing job of breaking down the difference between our flour and their flour.
And you see, you get so upset.
You're like, this is so crazy you guys let them do this to us.
din thomas
Yeah, it's forbidden in other countries, but legal here.
How's that possible?
unidentified
It's crazy.
din thomas
You'd think, why are we putting up with this shit?.
joe rogan
Why?
unidentified
Why?
joe rogan
Yeah, why would it be?
It's because it's slow poison.
Yeah.
It's not like alcohol is like, whoa, you feel it the next day, like, oh my god.
unidentified
Pizza is just a slow poison.
joe rogan
Slow poison with the poisoned dough.
matt serra
It weighs you down.
joe rogan
It would weigh you down.
It would be just as good, just as good in terms of how you feel when you eat it, just as good flavor wise, just not fucking kill you.
unidentified
Explain to me why I can eat bread in Spain and in, I can in Greece, Italy, no problem.
Why?
I was gluten free in fifteen years I've been gluten free in Canada, America, can't eat it.
That's because in America what we call bread can't even be considered food in parts of Europe.
See here in America, it's not so much the gluten as what we've done to the grain.
About two hundred years ago, we started stripping the bran and germ, or the fiber and nutrients, to make the flour shelf stable, also nutritionally dead.
Because the nutrients were gone, we enriched it with folic acid, which a large majority of the population can't even metabolize, therefore many people experience fatigue, anxiety, hyperactivity, and inflammation.
But then the bread wasn't white enough, so they bleached it with chlorine gas, and the bread didn't rise enough, so they added a carcinogen called potassium bromate, which is banned in several countries like Europe, the UK, and even China.
Then we wanted to ramp up production, so we started using glyphosate to dry out the wheat before harvest, causing endocrine disruption and damaging your gut.
So now you're bloated, brain fog, tired, and blamed gluten, but gluten is just the scapegoat.
The real issue is ultra-processed, chemically altered, bleached, bromated, fake vitamin-filled wheat, soaked in glyphosate.
This isn't bread.
This is.
joe rogan
That's it.
din thomas
That's wow.
matt serra
He's got a neon sign up in his thing.
No bleach, no bromate.
joe rogan
That's amazing.
matt serra
Dude, I got fucking abs still and I can eat pizza.
It's like heaven.
john rallo
He's at the right time now, too, because people are starting to be made aware.
joe rogan
Yeah, and you can blame it on gluten all you want, but go eat pizza in Italy.
Give it a chance.
You feel good.
matt serra
It's like I'm doing that every day.
john rallo
Pasta there.
joe rogan
Yeah, the pasta there's incredible.
There's a few places you know how to catch it on.
john rallo
How I cheat here on pasta, like back home, Deep Esqualies is the big Italian spot and they have, you can get ricotta gnocchis.
So they're made with ricotta cheese and it's like maybe five grams of carbs in a thing of gnocchi.
joe rogan
Yeah, you could cheat it out, but if you really want to get fucking blasted with some carbs, lasagne will do you in.
unidentified
Oh, yeah, son.
joe rogan
Lasagne will do you in.
Oh, my God.
There's something about Italian food, when I'm really hungry, I just can't help it.
I don't care about my my diet.
din thomas
The sauces and all that stuff.
Yeah, it gets you.
joe rogan
You know, Joe DeRosa, the comedian.
matt serra
Yeah, he comes to me.
joe rogan
He's a comedian.
Yeah, we're fucking ourself.
And the fact that it's illegal in China and all these other places, like how would they we're more corrupt than them.
That's crazy.
john rallo
I mean, that was part of it too.
When you talk about the trade imbalances, some of our food not being able to go over there was just the fact that they wouldn't allow the food to go over there.
din thomas
Because it's not even food to them.
unidentified
Exactly.
matt serra
It's not even legal that bromate and shit.
unidentified
Yeah.
matt serra
It's fucking crazy.
joe rogan
It's fucked up that we're feeding that to our kids.
And these regulators knew about it.
They knew about it for a long time.
And they, if you're in that business, if that's your business, you fucking know what's going on.
And you guys let them just do that to people for profit, because they can make more money this way.
But also, there's a problem with feeding fucking 300 million people.
john rallo
Yeah.
Yeah.
joe rogan
That's a problem.
Any disruptions to the food source is a fucking dangerous thing because no one's growing shit.
You know?
We're all relying on someone else to do the growing work.
Yeah.
And then what are we doing?
We're fucking going to these farms and catching all the people that are doing the work and then deporting them.
Which is like, whoa.
din thomas
We need it.
We need that.
joe rogan
Bro, we can't do anything right.
din thomas
Yeah.
joe rogan
We can't do anything right.
jamie vernon
Be a little fair about the Bromate stuff.
It's been used since 1923 and the FDA has been telling people to stop using it since 1991.
joe rogan
Wow.
They would tell people to stop using it, but they didn't tell them they have to stop using it.
jamie vernon
Well, they urge people.
It's up to people to do whatever they want in America.
joe rogan
But in America, is it the only place that uses it?
jamie vernon
I don't know about only.
din thomas
I think they said Canada.
Yeah, Canada.
unidentified
Canada.
din thomas
Yeah.
joe rogan
Of course.
din thomas
They like our little brother.
unidentified
Yeah.
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That's our little cousin that we're like, I got to hang out with at fucking family weddings.
You know, that one cousin?
And he text you later and you're like, Jesus.
din thomas
We all got that one cousin, right?
He's just like, yo, bam.
joe rogan
He wants to talk to you about communist theory.
Like, come on, you fuck.
Yeah, relax.
They're fine people for walking in the woods.
You hear about that?
john rallo
Where?
joe rogan
In Saskatchewan, is that where it is, Jamie?
din thomas
Walking in the woods?
joe rogan
Yeah, this guy got fined.
They told you that if you get caught in the woods because it's so hot outside, they're worried about wildfires.
There's no wildfires, but they're worried about wildfires.
Every year you worry about wildfires.
So to combat this, they're fine people 28,000 dollars to walk in the woods.
That's a lot of money.
One guy did it, one guy's like, Fuck you, I'm going to the woods.
And then he went viral, of course.
unidentified
Man.
joe rogan
Which is a good move.
Probably.
What's going on in Islamic Bay?
I mean, it's a 28,000 dollar move.
john rallo
They're putting thousands of people in jail for social media posts.
joe rogan
Oh yeah, no, banana stuff.
john rallo
These fuggits skitting everybody's going communist.
joe rogan
Yeah, one one person put this Facebook post or something like that critical of immigrants and saying they come over here and rape and murder our women.
And because of putting that up on Facebook, this person got 20 months in jail.
john rallo
Absolutely.
Damn.
joe rogan
20 months.
That was way in the UK.
In the UK.
matt serra
It's fucking really easy.
Yeah.
A bunch of sensitive pussies.
joe rogan
They arrested.
My friend Constantine Kissin from Trigonometry, the podcast.
He's the one that first told me about all this because he had this conversationation with this guy where he said, how many people do you think get arrested for social media posts in Russia?
And, you know, he tells them what the number is.
It's like about 400.
Like, whoa, wow.
It was, how many people do you think get arrested for social media posts in the UK?
And the guy was like, what?
It was like, it's 4,000.
unidentified
Damn.
john rallo
It's true.
matt serra
Yeah.
din thomas
Like, what would the charge be for posting something?
joe rogan
don't have freedom of speech like we do.
john rallo
Dude, I actually saw like a police cam video where the fucking...
Like, what the fuck do you mean?
I'm going to jail because my post offended someone someone?
Get the fuck out of here.
joe rogan
A man, what is this, Jamie?
A man has been jailed for Facebook posts encouraging violence.
He's been jailed for 20 months for encouraging people on social media to attack a hotel in Leeds housing more than 200 migrants.
So is this the same guy, Jamie?
jamie vernon
I googled man jailed in UK for Facebook posts 20 months.
This is what came up.
joe rogan
Interesting.
Well, that's good.
john rallo
That's funny.
joe rogan
That's funny.
john rallo
That's what they want you to see.
Oh, he's talking about violence.
jamie vernon
Well.
joe rogan
No, but I'm not sure.
I mean, maybe he was talking about violence.
john rallo
I mean, this guy obviously was.
I was in the wagers.
joe rogan
There were more.
Where the whatever the guy with the wig is.
What are they what are they called over there?
john rallo
Yeah, right.
joe rogan
They wear the wig.
Yeah.
If you could find the video, Jimmy, the guy's full on wearing the wig.
din thomas
A wig like a George Washington wig.
john rallo
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
And so he reads the Facebook post that this guy made, you know, which wasn't nice.
But then, you know, then he says, like, for this egregious crime, I sentence you to twenty months of detention.
And even the wording they use is weird.
It wasn't like detention.
It was like a weird euphemism for fucking jail.
matt serra
He's on time out.
joe rogan
Yeah, time out.
It was weird listening to him talk.
It's super dystopian.
jamie vernon
He's got a custodial sentence and he only has to serve half of it.
joe rogan
Oh, so then he has to serve 10 months in a prison for making a post.
For making a post on Facebook.
Can you find the video, Jamie?
jamie vernon
Well, I'm sure.
joe rogan
Find the video because it's kind of funny when you see the guy's wig like they have to wear the wig that's like the move over there the old school powdered wig wasn't it back in the day didn't they used to wear them to hide shit from no it was syphilis oh no wait yeah they were yeah that's where the term big wig comes from because the richest people got the biggest wigs they all got syphilis so this is what happened they came over to America, right, when the, like, in the 1492 days?
din thomas
Yeah.
joe rogan
When they came back, they brought syphilis.
And syphilis just going rampant through these European cultures.
And these people had to.
din thomas
So syphilis came from here and then went back there?
joe rogan
This is the thought.
So there's different types of syphilis, but they're pretty sure there's some evidence that indicates that one type of syphilis was transferred from Native American populations to Europeans.
Native Americans who had already had a resistance to it just like we had a resistance to smallpox and the flu when the Europeans came over here.
And that's what the Indians did, and that's why they got wiped out.
Well, they didn't have a resistance to this kind of syphilis.
This is like a hole in your face, your fucking, your hair falls out.
This is the guy.
Listen to this motherfucker.
unidentified
You did not want your money going to immigrants who, quote, rape our kids and get priority, end quote.
This offence is so serious that an immediate custodial sentence is unavoidable.
Would you stand, please?
The sentence that I passed has been reduced by one third to reflect your guilty plea.
The sentence is one of twenty months' imprisonment.
So you didn't do it.
john rallo
This guy said he didn't want his money going to immigrants and went to jail.
This wasn't someone threatening violence.
unidentified
Yeah.
jamie vernon
They edited the post so we don't know what it was.
joe rogan
Right, there was an edit.
I was going to point that out.
There was a there's something there.
So this Here's the thing too.
Whenever it's possible for something like this to exist, whenever it's possible, there's going to be a bunch of people from other countries that edit stuff to make you more mad at the people in the UK.
Like there's there's they're doing China does that in America.
There's a lot going on with social media and these kind of clips and posts and stuff.
There's a lot more going on than makes sense.
matt serra
People always bitch about America, but look at that shit.
You know what I mean?
They're not locking anybody up over here yet.
joe rogan
You can't bitch about America in comparison.
If you, if you, if you, the whole rest of the world is way worse in terms of what you're, how you're able to express yourself, the consequences of expressing yourself.
Like, this is a pretty good spot.
It's just not perfect.
matt serra
It's a cool thing.
It feels weird now that it's like the younger generation.
Like people are like, you wear an American shirt, they just think you're a fucking MAGA guy or something.
It's like, dude, you can't be pro proud of where you're from, from America.
You can't be proud of your country.
joe rogan
America is everything.
It's all the things.
You know, it's just we're so tribalized and we have to get over that.
That's the number one problem is people decide that those people that they hate and they hate everything about them and then, okay, now you got fifty percent of the country that you can't associate with that's not on your team.
Like, what did you do?
And so, well, now you have to justify everything your team believes in, including shit that doesn't make any sense and shit that is probably immoral, you know, especially when you get into like trans kid surgeries and shit like that.
to sign off on that because if you don't then you're signing off on these right-wing bigots that want to fucking you know put the bible in every yeah you get you're a nazi it's like we're it's bad both both fucking versions are bad of both sides when you're looking at it from the other side because it's all cartoonish because most people live in the middle of shit yeah i mean i feel that's 100 true most people are in the middle i think you made like the point you made earlier
john rallo
too, you're getting just just fired through the algorithm, you know, the shit that pisses you off.
That's what you're clicking on all day long anyway.
So it just drives that wedge deeper and deeper I think because we're just inundated 24/7.
Like sometimes you just gotta stop and get outside or watch a TV show to depress.
matt serra
That's the fucking problem though.
You can't even enjoy I man, what they did with Star Wars with the Acryolite.
john rallo
You can't even enjoy.
matt serra
You can't even enjoy.
You can't enjoy.
I love the pop culture.
I love movies.
I tried to watch The Electric State, that fucking thing, because I love robots going fucking rogue and AI.
joe rogan
I like The Electric State.
matt serra
It's a Netflix movie with Chris Pratt and it looked like a big budget.
It was by the Russo brothers who did the Avengers and shit.
So like, I know it's about AI, robots.
What a dude, what a piece of shit.
I couldn't even get through the opening and then i know what i don't like i don't like when i'm watching a movie and already i see okay i know who the director voted for right like you know what i mean they're like you're bringing up the uprising of the robots and they go and to celebrate the uh enslavement of the robots Kid Rock did a concert to, oh, did he really?
unidentified
Did he really?
matt serra
You fucking assholes.
Okay, you're on that side.
Go fuck.
I turned it off.
You're bringing me right out of it because you're showing me like, you're taking shots for the audience to know.
Dude, fuck off.
I want to see, I want to be entertained.
I don't want to know about your fucking politics.
joe rogan
I feel like we have political fatigue though.
I feel like most people are tired of talking about it.
Most people are like, just stop.
din thomas
That's where I'm at.
I don't want to talk about the shit ever.
joe rogan
It's also, it's like pretending that one side is beyond reproach is fucking ridiculous.
And if you're one of those tribal people, you have to do that.
You have to support your side.
And like, that just gets nuts.
You can't do that.
There's too many people.
There's too many financial interests.
There's too much money.
There's too much shit going on.
There's too the political problem.
You motherfuckers have been doing a terrible job of taking care of us.
You're not really taking care of us.
We want to think you're like a cool counselor or something like that.
It's like looking out for the rest of the kids that are on this camp together.
You know, like our councilman is going to take care of us.
They're going to teach us how to get through the woods.
Meanwhile, they're just stealing money.
john rallo
No, you can't go to the woods.
It's a 28,000-hour trip.
joe rogan
But that's Canada.
I mean, but this is the problem with places that don't have the freedoms that we have.
Like the Constitution, our founding fathers, they nailed it.
john rallo
They really did.
joe rogan
It's crazy that they nailed that so well.
They knew human nature so well that it applies like it's important 300 years later.
john rallo
Maybe since they came from a monarchy, you know what I mean?
They gave them that perspective.
joe rogan
They were so smart, but I wonder how many of them were there, right?
Like how many like really well educated people were around back then?
john rallo
Think about the age.
din thomas
Couldn't have been that many.
john rallo
They were kind of young.
din thomas
It ain't even that many now.
john rallo
Not a young person.
Not a young person.
Not a young person that were writing this thing.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Some of them are like in their early twenties.
matt serra
Yeah, but that's middle age back then.
din thomas
That's a good point, man.
joe rogan
That's true.
You get an infection back then.
You get sick.
din thomas
Syphilis?
matt serra
Yeah.
Done by 35 over there.
din thomas
Yeah, brother.
joe rogan
The syphilis thing is really nuts though, but that is why that stupid fucking thing that that guy was wearing on his head.
din thomas
So that's the tradition, uh, tradition.
Yeah.
based on syphilis and they still do the shit today.
Yeah.
joe rogan
And the guys with the most money had the biggest wigs.
That's why they call them big wigs.
din thomas
Big wigs.
joe rogan
It all started with these two brothers that were royals.
Was it brother or a guy and his cousin?
I forget.
But these guys who were royals in France and these guys were like, you know, the socialites.
They were the celebrated people and they'd started losing their hair because they're freaks.
You know, they're probably fucking up a storm over there and they're catching syphilis and they got holes in their face and shit.
They smell awful and their fucking hair is falling out.
So they just get a wig.
And then other dudes say, I want to be like him.
So they got wigs.
And then a bunch of people started getting syphilis.
They covered it up with wigs.
din thomas
But that's crazy to me that you're almost celebrating having syphilis by getting a bigger wig.
joe rogan
Well, you know what it is?
It's like you're not celebrating syphilis, but since everybody's wearing a wig, your wig is the dopest wig.
john rallo
That's right.
din thomas
You've got to have a dopest one right here.
joe rogan
Isn't it crazy that it's all because of sexually transmitted diseases?
john rallo
Wearing that shit.
joe rogan
crazy that's our first export syphilis I think it was smallpox man smallpox wiped out what the whole country the whole country the whole all of North America was filled with people.
They all got killed.
It's like ninety percent of the people got killed.
john rallo
Damn.
matt serra
Damn.
din thomas
Wait, hold on.
What year was that?
joe rogan
This was between the times of the first settlers to like the 1800s, it was ninety percent.
Did it say ninety percent?
john rallo
It's like the Americans died of disease that, you know, Europeans brought.
joe rogan
And you know, that for a long time they were trying to deny, they were trying to figure out, like, what happened to the Mayas?
I'll tell you what happened to the Mayas.
din thomas
Disease.
joe rogan
Disease.
Obviously, Europeans, they had this spectacular civilization in Mexico.
If you ever go down and you ever go and see any of the ruins?
john rallo
Yeah, I went to Chichen Itza.
unidentified
Chichen Itza.
din thomas
Yeah, I went there too.
Yeah, I went there too.
joe rogan
It's a couple of months ago.
john rallo
It's amazing.
joe rogan
Dope.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
It's dope.
Like, what were they, what drugs were these motherfuckers?
unidentified
Yeah.
din thomas
Like, how were they building that shit?
john rallo
I don't know, man.
din thomas
A thousand years ago.
john rallo
It's pretty amazing to see.
And even like the, remember that ball court they had where you could stand at one end or the other and you could hear each other talking.
unidentified
Yeah.
din thomas
Yeah.
john rallo
Because of the acoustics.
unidentified
And it's just the, the sheer size.
john rallo
The size of it.
joe rogan
It's like, wow.
din thomas
Yeah.
joe rogan
And then just wiped out by a cough.
Like dirty, stinky Europeans right off the boat, breathing on everybody.
Swept through the people, no immunity to it.
That's crazy.
john rallo
It's pretty wild, man.
joe rogan
It's exactly what happened to all the Amazon, too, man.
They're finding that out now.
The Amazon was all just disease.
din thomas
Damn.
joe rogan
Why, they had millions of people living in the Amazon, and some Europeans went to visit, and like, I forget what year it was, but they came back and had these stories about these beautiful, like, cities and filled with gold and all this crazy shit, and then people went back a hundred years later, and it was all gone.
All of a sudden, this guy was lying.
din thomas
It was a white tourist city.
joe rogan
But it wasn't, yeah.
Isn't that crazy?
It wasn't lies.
So now they use LIDAR and they scan over the top of the forest and they see where these cities used to be.
john rallo
There's so much shit over there that they haven't even uncovered.
joe rogan
It's just nuts that it's just dirty diseases.
Those first people that fucking, hey, coming over to the fucking forest.
john rallo
They were hard-ass enough to make it here.
You know they were bringing some shit with them.
joe rogan
Oh, bro, you know how hard people must have been back then?
Just to even say, okay, I'm going to try it.
When someone says, hey, we've got a wood boat and we're going to go out there.
We have no idea if a storm is coming.
din thomas
I've always give Christopher Columbus credit for that shit.
On a fucking wooden boat in the middle.
I can't even fucking find directions to.
to get to the fucking apex half the time.
joe rogan
The crazy thing is we give him credit for landing here and he didn't even make it here.
john rallo
Yeah.
joe rogan
He landed like the Indies, right?
Like the West Indies?
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Where did Columbus actually land?
It was like near the Bahamas.
He wasn't even in America.
john rallo
Bahamas is not America.
din thomas
I'm good where he landed.
That fuck went out into the ocean five hundred years ago on a boat.
joe rogan
We give him Christopher Columbus Day to land here.
john rallo
I mean, I'm looking at the Vikings.
These motherfuckers, you know, just conquered nations going everywhere.
joe rogan
So what's it say here?
San Salvador in the Bahamas.
Yeah.
His first land on an island in the Bahamas.
Like that is not America, bitch.
You don't get credit for you don't get credit for discovering America..
john rallo
The Italians are we're taking credit anyway.
joe rogan
But that's probably when those diseases started hitting those areas.
jamie vernon
Also, that history of smallpox goes back to the sixth century, started in China.
joe rogan
Smallpox does?
Interesting.
So the sixth century and then was it mostly smallpox that killed off the Native Americans or was it a bunch of different diseases that we brought with us?
john rallo
Probably.
unidentified
Seventeenth century European settlers brought smallpox to North America.
joe rogan
There's an amazing guy named What is that, Jamie?
jamie vernon
What the European settlers are here with Christopher Columbus, that's in the 16th century.
That's in the 1500s.
unidentified
Right.
jamie vernon
He landed in 1492.
john rallo
Yeah, 1492.
joe rogan
That's 200 years later almost Right, well, it's probably like how many people came, you know what I mean like when Christopher Columbus came that was so this is 1492.
He lands in the Bahamas like 200 years Yeah, how many people got were interacting with them?
You know what I mean?
How many people?
Once they started coming over here regularly, like when did folks start to hopping in boats and coming over regularly?
Like the early settlers.
din thomas
I wouldn't have did it.
matt serra
How many of them did they come?
unidentified
No fucking way.
joe rogan
No fucking way.
Those people were animals, man.
john rallo
For real.
joe rogan
You're going to take a chance.
This dude knows how to get across the ocean in a wooden boat using a thing.
din thomas
Yeah.
joe rogan
Where you stare at the stars and try to figure out where you are.
And he's drunk all the time.
jamie vernon
Jamestown was 1607 when that started.
joe rogan
That's when it started, huh?
matt serra
Interesting.
john rallo
Well, that would be.
joe rogan
So that's probably makes sense for us.
So like 100 fucking years they talked about it.
Isn't that kind of crazy?
matt serra
I like in Vikings.
Have you seen the show?
joe rogan
That show was amazing.
din thomas
Oh, no shit.
joe rogan
Yeah, so it's like he lands in the Bahamas and then a hundred years later, right, and then he started Yeah, then they start the first, the first, the first I wonder how long it took them just to get across.
Can you imagine what it would be like to set up a colony in a new country and you know there's people with bows and arrows waiting to find out.
unidentified
Could you imagine the first people that set up the Indian?
joe rogan
They knew.
matt serra
They knew that there's the fucking Indians waiting for us.
joe rogan
Oh yeah.
Everybody knew.
They knew that this was inhabited and they knew the type of people.
They'd come back, you know, whether it was Columbus' people or the other, whoever was here came back and they had all these crazy stories about, you know, interaction.
about interacting with also the craziest stories were from there was a one of the guys was a priest or something, some holy man that was traveling with Columbus who had detailed descriptions of the horrific shit Columbus and his men did to whoever the indigenous people were to be met.
Oh, horrible shit.
Where they were saying, If you don't bring back your weight in gold, we'll chop off your arms.
They were chopping arms, dashing babies' heads on rocks.
john rallo
Jesus is correct.
joe rogan
Yeah.
They were forcing these people to bring them gold.
It's like, do you remember that guy's name?
Father something or another.
So he had his memoirs of his time over there with Christopher Columbus' people.
And he was like, it was horrific.
So these people that we celebrate, I mean, this is one thing that the Wokesters got right.
You know, if you celebrate Christopher Columbus, like Christopher Columbus, we have Columbus Day, like, be careful who you're celebrating.
If that father, that priest was telling the truth, you're celebrating a monster.
You're celebrating like a, literally like a mass murderer who would go to another country.
din thomas
I mean, but it's believable when you think about history.
joe rogan
Bro, that's all they did.
unidentified
To be sure.
john rallo
I mean, everybody conquered everybody at one point or another.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah, and when there was no internet, you could get away with a lot.
unidentified
A whole lot.
joe rogan
Yeah, nobody knew you were coming.
You're coming with boats.
You're fucking people up.
You're taking all this shit.
And when you land places, you're like, this is probably the only time in history where a boat can land in a place and it's not hostile.
In America, when boats come here, it's like, it's like, oh, we're going to land.
But for the most part, most boat travel is not hostile.
It's like, oh, look, a big boat full of people.
They're going to come eat at our restaurants.
And strange people from a different land are going to come and enjoy what we have to offer here in Portugal or wherever you are.
john rallo
Some people are counting on that.
joe rogan
Bro, it used to be.
A boat showed up.
You didn't know that know it was yeah yeah you gotta start it was on you got the water horns yeah yeah you hear a a shell or you gotta wake up with your armor on i can't believe i gotta do this just imagine that bro that's how they live forever that's how people live for thousands of years it's nuts it's amazing we made it as far as we did i don't know if we'll do another thousand I think not with these tech people.
din thomas
No, I'm just saying like think about where we are now like those dudes they was hard right like they regardless they was hard.
Now we in TikTok culture.
We got it hard like that.
joe rogan
No, there's a lot of that.
And there's an encouragement of men to not be strong, which is always weird.
That's always the whole thing.
It's always weird.
There's that encouragement.
And it comes from people that aren't strong.
They want more people like them.
People more like us.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
To get, and when they're in control of social media, that's where things get weird.
matt serra
The fucking Aphrodite, I'll tell you, they clipped all the balls from the Jedis.
Then nobody's gonna want an action figure of that fucking little.
joe rogan
He missed the Star Wars.
matt serra
Well, I mean, they did.
unidentified
They really did.
I mean, the Jedi's just come up.
john rallo
I mean, they pussified the Hulk and Marvel.
joe rogan
They gave him glasses and now he can talk.
Like, now it doesn't make any sense that you would go back and forth between being the Hulk and being Bruce.
Bannon.
din thomas
Yeah, yeah, because he wasn't all they did.
john rallo
He was supposed to be.
joe rogan
They made the Silver Starfire shriek.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah.
john rallo
The Steve.
matt serra
That wasn't that great, that movie.
But Superman.
joe rogan
That is a weird choice to give a guy role to a girl.
It's a weird choice because there's so many girl roles in Superman.
john rallo
There were a ton of chick superheroes.
joe rogan
Especially in the X-Men.
The X-Men had plenty of them, right?
matt serra
They gotta do that over right now.
joe rogan
It's like you've got Superwoman.
There's plenty of different characters you could play.
I don't know why.
din thomas
Yeah, why are you?
joe rogan
Unless you're trying to prove a point.
Unless, like Matt Sarah says, I know who you voted for.
matt serra
Yeah.
To be fair, there is a female Silver Surfer.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
For all the people that are in the second one.
john rallo
Well, here's the deal with that.
She was in maybe two episodes where she mattered, and the rest of them, she was mentioned.
Like, she's not a real character.
joe rogan
Bro, I used to love the Silver Surfer.
Did anybody ever do a comic surfer or a flat out movie that's any good?
john rallo
Not a straight up one.
I thought the first Fantastic Four when they got the Silver Surfer pretty good in that one.
I thought.
joe rogan
Why wouldn't they have a Silver Surfer movie?
That's a no.
din thomas
That's like my favorite character.
john rallo
I mean, a special Cosmic characters.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Oh yeah.
Zen is fucked.
Reverence is set.
din thomas
Yeah.
john rallo
1000%.
I mean, he basically sacrificed himself to save his planet and his girl.
joe rogan
Bro, The Silver Surfer is literally the coolest comedy.
Oh, God.
matt serra
He made him look cool in this.
joe rogan
He even wrote The Rise of the Silver Surfer.
john rallo
Yeah, I thought this was a They did him good in this.
joe rogan
They did a version, a whole episode of The Avengers or a whole movie of The Avengers on The Silver Surfer.
I forgot.
matt serra
Fantastic Four.
joe rogan
What year was that?
john rallo
This was Fantastic Four.
joe rogan
Oh yeah, Fantastic Four.
jamie vernon
This was pre.
joe rogan
2007.
john rallo
This was when Jessica Alba was the Invisible Woman.
matt serra
2007.
john rallo
And Captain America was the human torch.
That got Chris Adams.
din thomas
Yeah, he was cool.
Who played Silver Surfer in this?
john rallo
I don't, I don't remember.
joe rogan
It might have been all Seahawks.
john rallo
He looked the part though.
I thought they nailed it, I thought in this.
unidentified
Yeah.
din thomas
The voice was Lawrence Fishbart.
joe rogan
Yeah, the voice was.
din thomas
I remember that.
matt serra
When I was chubby, I looked like Michael Chickwitz.
john rallo
The Shield.
The Shield was like the thing.
The Shield was like the thing.
din thomas
Yeah, that was great.
matt serra
The Shield was like the thing.
But yeah, I saw that new Fantastic Four movie and it wasn't overly woke or anything.
But they could have done more with the thing.
john rallo
Yeah, I heard he was like a minor part.
matt serra
You know, the girls had the best parts.
They're the ones that did the thing with Galactus at the end.
No spoilers.
din thomas
What the fuck?
matt serra
Right.
So, you know, but I am happy to say, and I know you were waiting for me to bring it up, I enjoyed the new Superman.
joe rogan
I didn't see it yet.
matt serra
Of course not.
We're all adults except for me here.
joe rogan
I want to see it though.
I heard it's good.
matt serra
James Gunn, man.
I don't believe I never heard of that song.
Punk rocker by Teddy Bears.
Oh, that'll change your life.
It has Iggy Pop in it.
Oh, it gets my nipples hard.
It's so good.
And the movie, if you like Guardians of the Galaxy, which I'm sure you did, then you'll like this because it's just fun.
Let's have fun again.
That's it.
I have nothing against the Henry Cavall one.
He was a badass.
john rallo
He was good.
matt serra
But it was only a good deal.
Snyder's got that darker feeling.
joe rogan
It's kind of weird that we still want to see the same fucking characters over and over and over again in different versions of the same movie.
Like, isn't it kind of weird?
matt serra
No, because I love those characters.
joe rogan
I understand, but it's like, there's a little thing of it that it's like seeking comfort.
in this thing.
Oh, it's Superman again.
din thomas
Like not letting go of our childhood.
matt serra
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
100%.
Because like, try coming up with a new Superman today.
People are going to be like, fuck you.
Like, some new kind of comic book guy, like not the no background at all in comics.
You come up with a superhero type character now in a movie.
No one's going to watch it.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
Like, I don't want a new one.
No one wants a new one.
Everyone wants the Hulk.
Everybody wants Spider-Man.
You want to see Spider-Man.
There's like, how many different dudes have been the Hulk?
Four or five dudes.
john rallo
Yeah, they kept changing the Hulk.
matt serra
I kept the dude.
joe rogan
That's why Spider-Man is good.
Ed Norton was the best.
john rallo
They got rid of him because he wanted to keep the Hulk.
like the Hulk.
You know what I mean?
matt serra
He didn't like him.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
That was my favorite version of the Hulk.
Ed Norton.
din thomas
He's running through the favelas in Brazil.
joe rogan
Yeah, yeah, that was awesome.
When the Hulk starts running through that factory and he smashes.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
That's when it was like, see, you kind of knew it was bullshit.
You're looking at it like a CGI.
john rallo
It's a comic.
joe rogan
But as long as you keep it kind of darkly lit, you know, don't show me too much.
matt serra
They got better with that.
They got better with the...
jamie vernon
That was a superhero that was just out of nowhere.
matt serra
I can't watch anything with this fucking guy anymore.
jamie vernon
I didn't want to bring it up that way.
john rallo
His whole name is Nick.
din thomas
He's nice, man.
john rallo
Real corny.
matt serra
And this guy's doubling down on smacking Chris Rock.
You know that?
john rallo
He has a verse is like, you disrespect me on the stage, expect me on the stage, which is kind of cool saying but you know i mean i'm his horse he's doubling down on it spiral downward spiral and and then i mean you're basically he stole our show name because he is a cuck you saw what the hell his wife has humiliated that poor guy yeah publicly man yeah that was weird it's uh and he was universally loved and
And now he's pretty well, almost universally reviled for him and Chris.
Everybody loves that Chris Rock.
His music shit.
din thomas
I was about to say, his rap is so trash.
john rallo
Garbage.
joe rogan
Sometimes you hit your horse to the wrong wagon.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
And that'll take you on a bad journey, son.
That'll take you on a bad journey.
And you might hang in there for a while and keep your sanity for a while.
But eventually, if you're living with someone who's not right for you and there's a lot of tension, which there seems to be with them.
A lot of weird shit.
matt serra
Important decision is the spouse.
The most important fucking decision in your life.
unidentified
Gigantic.
john rallo
Yeah, I mean, look at the kids.
At least the son.
joe rogan
Imagine if you had to camp out with your best friend for the rest of your life.
You would have to really be careful.
Like, I have to pick one dude and I'm going to be able to camp out with him for the rest of my life.
Just me and him in a tent for the rest of my life.
matt serra
And you get to fuck him.
No, no.
I know what you're saying.
You're saying no.
yeah but now you add in sex and the fact that you're not even the same gender yeah you gotta be my thing is i always say you gotta be compatible like you know what i mean me and my wife very compatible yeah me too because man i can't stand anybody Well, you know, you just gotta be picky.
joe rogan
And some people aren't.
Some people just settle for hot.
unidentified
Yeah.
din thomas
That's the problem.
joe rogan
Settle it for hot.
unidentified
And that's always the most dangerous, too.
joe rogan
The girls settle for hot.
matt serra
The girls settle for, all right, shit, I gotta get a kid soon, I'm gonna be thirty, you know, so they'll settle for mister Good enough.
So that's the most important thing.
It's got to be hard for the girls out there too.
Fucking bunch of savages.
joe rogan
It's hard for everybody out there.
It's a weird time and now everybody's on dating apps.
So everybody has a new culture.
john rallo
New culture.
joe rogan
New culture.
Opportunity at every swipe of the finger.
john rallo
Today it's like socially acceptable to be a hoe.
joe rogan
I think it's also, it's, there's real concerns that intelligent people have about population decline.
That sounds kind of crazy.
Like, well, we're not going to have population decline.
Oh, it's just.
Plenty of people.
But the problem is people are not having nearly as many people, like replacement people.
Like, in order for a society to exist at the same numbers, essentially everyone has to have kids.
matt serra
Right.
joe rogan
Right?
But a giant percentage of people, like in our generation and younger generations, are not having kids.
They're deciding to opt out of it and just focus on their career.
john rallo
They say in Italy and here, I mean Japan, like they're all having a negative, you know, population over the years.
Like they're not having enough kids to sustain the population.
joe rogan
And you add to that microplastics that are killing everybody.
john rallo
That's what it's called.
Knocking down your, your, your, your.
It's kind of weird.
joe rogan
It's like a thing that we don't see coming.
You know, we don't see it cominging, like a real population.
But places like Japan are freaking out, man.
They're They're really worried about it.
South Korea, same thing.
unidentified
Really?
joe rogan
Yeah.
It could be a real problem.
din thomas
I didn't even know that was a thing.
joe rogan
Well, it just makes sense, man.
If you got everybody just wants to have a career and if you can't focus on your career because you have kids, you put your kids off till you're in your late fifties.
john rallo
What's the number?
Like the 2.1 or something?
You know, you have to have 2.1 kids in order to maintain, you know, just the current level of population.
joe rogan
Someone was telling me that in vitro fertilization, which a lot of women use, that those hormones that they have to give you are linked to cancer.
john rallo
Really?
joe rogan
Is that true, Jamie?
Can you find, can you look that up?
Because someone brought it up to me and I was like, I don't know if that's really And why is testosterone in the younger generation not as strong as it used to be?
Microplastics.
john rallo
So he had a lady on that went deep into that stuff.
joe rogan
I mean, there's no strong evidence to see this is AI.
AI is working for the government, man.
Okay, let's see.
National Institute of Health says transient increase in the risk of having breast or uterine cancer.
So as soon as you start admitting things like that to me, and this says no conclusive evidence that fertility 1999.
Yeah.
26 years old.
Right.
What does it say like 17 do not?
It says it doesn't.
jamie vernon
Treatments do not increase the risk of ovarian cancer, malignant melanoma, or cancers of the endometrium.
unidentified
Hmm.
joe rogan
Why am I skeptical?
jamie vernon
I don't know.
joe rogan
Maybe I'm skeptical because you're using Google.
Well, I mean, I know, but you know what I'm saying?
That's the place to use, but I would wonder how much of that would be available.
Like if someone, if someone's some sort of an alternative doctor or someone who's stepping outside of the lines and saying, I'm treating a bunch of cases of cancer like where would you even find that guy's work i don't know no idea twitter yeah that's the problem right you see a thing on twitter you're like is this guy a quack right is this guy real but a person told it to me that i trust and i was like really that stuff causes cancer because like that's you're you're you've got to dose yourself up with a bunch of hormones
when ladies do that in vitro fertilization thing All I know is I like that now at our age, we're all in our fifties.
matt serra
Are you fifty yet, motherfucker?
Next year.
din thomas
I'm still in my forties, man.
matt serra
I mean, are you on TRT yet?
din thomas
Yeah, yeah, I got a little bit of it.
matt serra
Thank God we have that man because back in the day Yeah, you'd fall back in the day.
john rallo
We would just find it on the street.
matt serra
Well, I don't think you'd ever need it.
joe rogan
You had a different neighborhood.
But those guys were right.
That's what's crazy is like old juice heads were right.
In a lot of ways, there's a lot of old juice heads in the gym that were looking jacked in their 50s and 60s.
Bobby just stays on D ball.
din thomas
He's on D ball.
joe rogan
You would meet people in the gym that would tell you what they do and how they did it.
And then you had to take advice from those folks.
And a lot of fighters got their – you would think by the time a fighter gets to the UFC, like, well, he's probably got a professional team behind him, a bunch of really organized folks.
Like, no, no, no.
These dudes come with sketchy characters.
Like super sketchy connections to the streets.
john rallo
I just read as much as I could, you know, if you were going to – try to get as much information as you could about what you're putting in yourself.
joe rogan
The best guy is online is Derek.
john rallo
Oh, now, yeah.
More plates, more dates.
He's phenomenal.
He wasn't around in the 80s and 90s.
joe rogan
know, but he's like the best pro scientist.
I think so too.
john rallo
He's a smart motherfucker.
joe rogan
Smart motherfucker.
john rallo
I'm real.
unidentified
Yeah.
matt serra
I wouldn't fuck with that myself.
Like I go to a place that, you know, they check my blood every six weeks.
You got to donate blood now.
You got to do this and that so it doesn't get too thick, you know?
joe rogan
I've heard that before, but I don't have that problem for some reason.
john rallo
It doesn't do it to me.
I think it doesn't do it to everybody.
joe rogan
I go donate the blood.
No, I was recommended to do it a bunch of times.
Make sure I'm okay.
Yeah, you're perfect.
matt serra
Because you're supposed to get your...
You do it every six weeks?
No.
john rallo
You mean you're getting the blood pricked?
unidentified
No, they check me.
matt serra
They check me, and if it gets too high, my red blood cells, whatever they are.
john rallo
Oh, so you're just getting the finger prick to see what you're...
matt serra
and then they check all my everything.
john rallo
Well, they can do your red blood cell count.
Like if you go donate blood, they fucking prick your finger and check what your level is.
matt serra
Yeah, I go there.
Well, my place finds out first and then they say, all right, I could either do a dump there, but they don't use the blood.
I like to donate it because it makes me feel better about it.
joe rogan
Do you have unvaccinated blood?
Do you have pure blood?
matt serra
I got pure blood.
unidentified
Do you?
I don't.
john rallo
They pay me, they pay me, they got double.
joe rogan
Which one they got?
din thomas
Three times.
I got all three of them.
matt serra
You know what happened there?
din thomas
I got all I had to, though.
I had to.
Why?
joe rogan
Because you had to work.
din thomas
I had to work.
You have seen me.
matt serra
You have seen me.
din thomas
Wait, yeah, they made it.
matt serra
They didn't make me.
I didn't fucking know I should have.
joe rogan
But I have to travel though.
If you travel in all the parts of the world.
john rallo
That's the problem.
Fuck.
Some of these countries weren't letting you in without it.
din thomas
Yeah, yeah, yeah, they wouldn't do anything without it.
joe rogan
When you fucking make someone take something because they the only way they could use your service is if they take because you think that this thing is going to work and it doesn't work, shouldn't you be able to go, Fuck you, you made me take this and this is going to work.
din thomas
And it didn't even work.
joe rogan
It didn't even do any of the things he said.
matt serra
It's bad for the people.
joe rogan
It's crazy what you can get away with in the world, especially during something like a pandemic, you know, where everybody just agrees to different rules.
Because that's what happened during the pandemic.
din thomas
I was thinking about that shit.
Are people still dying from COVID?
joe rogan
No.
din thomas
That's what I'm saying.
Like, what happened today?
joe rogan
There's people that are dying with COVID, so there's people that are dying.
and they also have COVID.
But they're dying.
Yeah.
Right?
And that's the difference.
And that's why the numbers for the deaths were elevated so high.
john rallo
Did someone die of cancer?
joe rogan
Did you have COVID?
john rallo
It was COVID.
joe rogan
Yeah, bro, it was a shark attack.
Check the fetus.
He's got COVID.
Yeah, like everyone died of COVID.
Because they were financially incentivized in people to treat deaths as COVID deaths.
john rallo
Same with the ventilators.
They were getting more money if they had to put someone on a ventilator.
And then they find out the ventilators were killing people.
joe rogan
Yeah, bro, imagine that.
There was so much craziness.
Like, you know, when we were saying we hope that someone is in charge that knows exactly what to do.
No, there's a lot of times in history.
You have no idea what the fuck they're doing.
And then financial interests get involved.
And then they come up with, we're going to just make everyone take this.
This is going to be amazing.
din thomas
We're going to have a lot of money.
joe rogan
A lot of money.
matt serra
But we're going to have to.
joe rogan
By the way, they all did it.
matt serra
Just take it once.
din thomas
They can't take it to court.
john rallo
And they can't take it to court.
joe rogan
And they can't take it to court.
john rallo
And they're not liable.
joe rogan
Because they called it a vaccine, but it's not even really a vaccine.
It's a gene therapy.
It's a totally novel, new thing that you're giving to three hundred million people just in this country alone.
matt serra
The ads were so shady.
Like I'd be in my car and it'd be like two students talking, like my parents don't want me to take it it, but I'm really nervous.
It was like really crazy.
I'm like, what the fuck is this?
john rallo
So nuts.
joe rogan
Bro, that's so nuts.
You know how many people have stories where they let their kid take it and then the kid has a stroke?
They're all over online.
john rallo
Myocarditis was a big thing.
joe rogan
Myocarditis, yeah.
There's undiagnosed myocarditis out there too, I bet where people just feel tired all the time, feel a little fatigued.
Yeah.
din thomas
So am I the only one here who got the vaccine?
matt serra
Yeah, definitely.
joe rogan
Jamie got COVID real early.
Jamie survived it early, so I knew it was not that big a deal.
matt serra
Good job, Jamie.
unidentified
To walk with a team, Jamie seems okay.
joe rogan
And then Tony Hitchcliff got it worse than Jamie.
He had it a little longer than you, right?
You don't remember?
Yeah, man.
The creepy thing is these motherfuckers, they meet and then they say, there will be another pandemic.
And you're like, yeah, fuck you die.
How do you know?
din thomas
Yeah.
john rallo
Well, what about Biden and friends were trying to sign one with the WHO where they had control over being able to shut the U.S. down, like, yes.
And all this nonsense.
Thank God we pulled right the fuck out of that.
joe rogan
What a dumb idea.
Let some giant global health organization have say over our country.
over over totally corrupt.
unidentified
It's like these motherfuckers run the country because Bill Gates is a core donator to it.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Just nuts, man.
It's just nuts.
matt serra
Crazy shit.
Before I got here, I was watching fucking Kamzat versus Kamor Rusman.
Not to just jump into that now, but yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You know, I had Drakis on Unfiltered the other day.
unidentified
Yep.
matt serra
And he, you know, he's an intelligent guy, man.
He's not a guy that doesn't do his homework.
And he was just saying about everybody talks about how aggressive Khamzat is.
And he goes, watch his fight.
in Kamar Usman the second round.
Over three minutes of him just standing there.
john rallo
standing there.
matt serra
He's like, he's not going to be able to do that to me.
He's going to be working the whole time.
He trains so fucking hard that he puts out everything in that five minutes.
That one minute gets him right back.
It's almost like he approaches that at like five different fights.
Like, you know what I mean?
Because in that one minute, he comes back down and then he goes back out there again, Drakis.
And we were just talking that we saw, you saw the same thing I saw with his crappling ability.
He took out a whole, I mean, listen, it's different.
Those guys are a lot of card players.
But he did a quintet and submitted everybody.
Again, they were more Jiu-Jitsu guys.
It's a different type of style, but that was impressive.
Not to mention, and I looked, you know, my producers gave me his bio.
and everything and I'm like, dude, he started his first thing in the first entry into martial arts was at five years old doing judo and his second discipline was at 12 years old doing wrestling.
I mean, it's not like he's not a grappler.
Everybody's just so used to him throwing his bombs and his kicks.
john rallo
Well, you know, I'm on your side with this.
We had to talk about it.
joe rogan
He's a monster.
And there's guys, and you know this because you work with Mirab.
There's guys that reach this level of discipline and they achieve a level of cardiovascular performance that's just above everybody else's and then they maintain it.
Like they get that advantage and they keep pushing it and they slowly keep adding on to it.
Like you're seeing Mirab now, particularly in the second O'Malley fight.
Eugene is like a totally different beast.
He's super non-stop.
Non-stop and you can't relentless.
He can't keep up with that.
You know, he's like, it's just hard work.
It's just hard work.
I believe that, but man.
john rallo
You have a state of mind too, like mentally he believes it mentally.
joe rogan
But the amount of hard work is extraordinary to get to that level.
And I think Drickus is kind of a similar guy.
I think that dude works so hard that he can go out there and fight full blast, which is weird when you watch him fight.
Sometimes it doesn't look as clean.
john rallo
He looks like he's mouth breathing, but he just keeps the same pace.
joe rogan
A lot of that was the earlier fights before he got his nose fixed.
So he got his nose fixed so he could breathe out of his nose.
john rallo
Makes sense.
joe rogan
Changed everything and then went on a tear after that.
That's when he crushed Whitaker.
The Whitaker one was shocking.
Because we all know how durable Whitaker is.
The Yoel Romero fights.
That guy's durable as fuck.
To watch him just flatten him like that, you're like, whoa, hang on.
matt serra
He's funny.
He's like, I don't know.
i don't have a great poker face he goes people say i look tired because i am tired right and when you get tired you breathe out of your mouth more and he goes but even if i am tired i don't have a poker face, but I'm still coming forward.
I'm still going to.
And he has, he's got, man, he's got confidence.
He's beaming with confidence.
He's just that guy.
din thomas
I mean, he's a good champion.
He's a great champion.
He speaks well.
unidentified
Yeah.
john rallo
Much of the part.
joe rogan
It's interesting, the Izzy fight.
I went and watched that again, and, you know, it seemed like Izzy had an advantage up to a point, but then the pressure got to him.
Then he got hit with a couple of those long shots.
He got hit, and it just looked like he just didn't have enough in him to fight his way out of it.
And when he went down, he got submitted pretty quickly afterwards.
But I would wonder what Izzy and his prime, how that fight would have looked?
Because that would have been a lot different.
A lot, you know, Izzy in his prime when he was, you know, he was a little quicker, a little better angles, yeah.
Also, touch it.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
He wouldn't have been damaged.
din thomas
Yeah.
joe rogan
There's just the, and there's the damage of training, it's like, but like, Izzy Palo Costa, yeah.
That's prime.
din thomas
Yeah.
joe rogan
That's prime.
That's also motivated, Izzy, like, fuck you.
din thomas
He was sitting down on his shots, Izzy, yeah.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
I mean, he put him away quick and then dry humped him.
din thomas
Yeah.
unidentified
You know what?
matt serra
He's terrible.
joe rogan
Don't do that, kids.
But that Izzy, that would have been very, very interesting to see him him versus Drex, because he could have handled that pressure.
Because that pressure, that pressure is bananas.
You know, like the Anthony and Hernandez fight.
john rallo
Jesus.
joe rogan
That pressure is nuts.
It's crazy.
din thomas
You could, man, I was like, you couldn't keep up with him.
matt serra
Dude, he looked like a different level.
He looked great.
joe rogan
He looked amazing.
He looks like a world champion.
He looks like a world champion.
john rallo
I spoiled it for you guys.
Sorry about that.
joe rogan
No worries.
No, I was out.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
When I came home, I was like, Fuck.
I didn't see it yet, but I watched it as soon as I got home.
I was super impressed, man.
And that whole division is like, Jesus.
There's so many different contenders in that division.
You know?
You got Bojali.
unidentified
Yeah.
matt serra
This whole fight card.
joe rogan
Strickland, like, what's going to happen with Strickland?
They suspended him indefinitely for punching some dude.
unidentified
yeah.
Did you see that?
din thomas
Like, he didn't have to do that, man.
Those guys got it.
Him and Chris Curtis, man, they just, man, you can't fuck with them.
unidentified
Yeah.
din thomas
Because they, yeah, they will not back down.
You just can't fuck with them.
joe rogan
Yeah, and you can't, but you can't jump into a cage and punch.
din thomas
That's what I'm saying.
matt serra
That guy was being a little disrespectful, though.
I like Strickland.
Fuck that guy.
I mean, that was kind of...
He's like, you know, he doesn't have anything on the mic.
He's like, yeah, well, it's entertainment.
He's like, oh, bo boy, he was Jesus.
He got what he wanted.
He got his two seconds.
joe rogan
But Sean is crazy.
din thomas
Yeah, man, those guys.
joe rogan
He's real.
Hey, man, he is what he sells.
din thomas
Yeah.
joe rogan
You know what I mean?
He walks that fucking knack.
You ever see when that guy tried to, well, the guy who was like running from the cops and he was sneaking around his house.
Sean came out with a pistol.
john rallo
Yeah, I didn't see that.
joe rogan
The dude did like crash DUI and then jumped out of the car.
Running into the wrong fucking yard right into Sean Strickland.
unidentified
I mean, a lot of times now, those guys are just sitting in the house waiting to shoot someone, bro.
joe rogan
He's sexy, man.
matt serra
Oh, that's a wet dream for him.
Yeah, but, you know, nowadays.
with that guy being disrespectful like that, everybody's so used to no repercussions.
It's like, so everybody just gets so much ruder.
john rallo
I always say that.
Bring bullies back.
The world was a different place.
joe rogan
Teach everybody martial arts.
john rallo
I mean, that would help.
joe rogan
It just sucks when a guy who is into martial arts like Strickland does something.
And you still love them.
matt serra
I told them a story last night where...
His mother's a little overbearing.
And, you know, she's a little crazy.
But then how about the kid?
The kid's a nice kid.
So I'm like, all right.
So after a Saturday class I got like 60 people you know I'm a little I get my nights aren't great because my ulcerate of colitis but you know I I'm energetic I do my class I do this thing for this kid 12 year old kid and the mother's like oh we want to inspire the youth of today because they're all little she's an Irish lady a little and then so I sit down with this kid I'm like all right you know it was okay I'm here with freaking UFC legend Matt Sarah and I'm 12 years old And yet we managed to be the same exact height.
unidentified
I got fucking, I got blindshotted by this little thing.
matt serra
So now, and when he said that, the husband and the wife were or husbands behind the cat, oh.
I'm like, dude, I'm seeing red.
joe rogan
I want a fucking So they're laughing.
unidentified
Oh, they're like, no, in other words, they want a response.
matt serra
So I'm like, So my first thought was directed towards the father who might have taught this kid no madness.
john rallo
Stop lying.
The kid's your size.
You wanted to hit him.
unidentified
I wanted to see him.
matt serra
I wanted to see the fucking Loki in that little.
unidentified
I was going to take that little.
matt serra
So then I remembered that.
I got my daughters in there.
So I go, so he tried to ask me.
I go, oh, so I go, who came up with that question, bud?
He goes, me, me.
Now this kid knows I can't strangle him.
I want to kill his fat father.
And then I remembered my three daughters are in there.
So I go inside.
I go, give me one second, kid.
I go inside.
I go, Maria, this kid's giving me a hard time.
I want you to roll with him and put it on him.
She, okay.
On my Instagram, this kid wanted clicks.
38,000 views of my daughter strangled the fuck out of this kid.
And we got some clicks.
And it was phenomenal.
unidentified
And Matt's talking shit.
I don't know how he's talking shit to the kid.
Percussions Joe re fucking percussions he's a hey now kid on my evening craze on the video oh you're gonna get some cliclicks on this?
matt serra
Yeah, you want some clicks, you little fuck?
And, you know, wow.
Oh, you see my daughter.
joe rogan
Mercy for the 12-year-old.
matt serra
Oh, that's crazy.
And after my daughter said, I go, you want to start from the feet or on the knees?
He chose on the knees.
You know, my daughter strangles him once.
Then I go, I pull him on top.
Pull him in.
unidentified
Go on.
matt serra
I'm just, you know, any, I just, I go, you're gonna make any more short jokes, gamers?
No.
joe rogan
Little fuck.
matt serra
You know?
But anyway, I just love Jiu-Jitsu, man.
Shout out to my Maria.
But I'm glad I...
I'm like, fat fuck.
I'm sitting there giving you my toil time.
It's the first question.
You'll get away with that.
I know you for 30 years, John.
unidentified
Fuck that.
matt serra
You know, Joe, who am I right?
joe rogan
If you think about the industry of trying to keep bodies together, what industry, what sport provides more patience than Jiu Jitsu?
Like everybody, you know, like, if you think about it, when you get to a certain point and you've been training for a certain amount of time, you're gonna get fucking banged up.
Like, which sport benefits more from, like, guys in their forties and fifties, like, peptides and stuff like that.
Yeah, for sure.
It's Jiu Jitsu brings a lot of patience because everyone's hurt.
din thomas
Yeah.
unidentified
Everyone's hurt.
Like, 1000%.
joe rogan
regular 40 year old dudes aren't hurt all the time you know what i mean they usually work they go into an office they don't rarely get knee injuries knee injuries are rare i'll tell you 40 year old jujitsu guys everybody's knees are everybody's everybody's they got a they everybody got a hurt shoulder everybody elbows up everybody's got a pickleball i do a 40 night 40 i do a 40 and overnight uh class every wednesday i teach it Oh, me, me.
matt serra
And then I just to feel like Gordon Ryan, I jump on the old men.
I have fun with them.
But, dude, they fucking love it.
Sometimes when it's less than 20, I'll do like my old school Jiu-Jitsu gang fight.
Everybody, I pick teams.
I put this guy over there.
I get it kind of even.
They all start on their knees.
You remember this?
We used to do it from the feet back in Henzos.
Everybody's breaking their backs, jumping on their backs.
But when one team, you can know lower body submissions could be two on one, three on one.
It stops when one team submits the whole other team.
So we got these old men in there like, you're jumping on their backs.
Dude, they're upstairs in the lock room.
It reminds me of the Twilight Zone movie when they play Kick the Kid.
They're like little kids up there like talking about.
They have such a good time.
Practicing murdering each other.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
Isn't that funny?
unidentified
So much.
joe rogan
Making it novel like that, making it like a team thing.
Especially if you trust each other, if you're training partners.
matt serra
The biggest thing out of an academy is the atmosphere, as you can see.
So I make sure I pluck guys out on a fucking every month.
Somebody comes in and I'll be like, ah, yeah, keep your $200, get the fuck out of here.
joe rogan
It's all top down.
It all comes down from the attitude of the people that are running the play.
Always.
din thomas
Yo, do you ever show up at a random Jiu Jitsu school and just pop in?
joe rogan
No.
I can't do that.
I haven't rolled at all in a year.
din thomas
No kidding.
joe rogan
No.
I've had a recurring knee issue and a recurring lower back issue that I'm trying to get right before I do anything stupid again.
Do you, man?.
matt serra
Shout out to Bioaccelerator and Costco.
joe rogan
Oh, that place is great.
matt serra
So fucking great.
joe rogan
We got a positive result from that place.
I know a lot of people went down there.
matt serra
I was able to throw my right hand again, which I used to wave like fucking this.
And now I'm just I'm so happy I can do it again.
joe rogan
Bringing it back to the Kamaro fight with Chimaev.
Kamaro has been down there too.
din thomas
I was there a couple of years ago.
joe rogan
Yeah.
It's like, it's a lot of UFC guys going down there.
matt serra
Oh, 100%.
Canal Quinta.
joe rogan
That CPI in Tijuana is a closer, closer trek.
That place is really good.
And the UFC's affiliated with them now.
matt serra
Okay.
joe rogan
Yeah.
matt serra
Very interesting.
joe rogan
Yeah, they're really good.
I know a lot of people.
Eddie Bravo has been down there multiple times but I know a lot of UFC fighters that have been down there man I I've been to the and again Colombia what is it Medellin am I saying that?
matt serra
I always fuck that up but for hey the food down there was fucking delicious oh yeah man went out there with my Jedi Abe and fucking we he took me into town the food I was eating the bread I was and I'm just again South American knows how to do it you know fuck that pro mate it's so good Yeah, I went down there.
din thomas
Dan Severn was down there.
We were down there.
Yeah, Dan.
He was in a fucking wheelchair getting rolled around.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Oh, no.
din thomas
Yeah.
joe rogan
He's in a wheelchair now?
din thomas
No, just for that trip because he was getting sent cells.
joe rogan
Oh, oh, oh.
The breaker.?
matt serra
Oh, yeah.
You got addicted to these fucking things.
john rallo
Yeah, you got my at home, my Muay Thai coach at home, Vince Moska, running our Thai program.
He goes, yeah, tell Rogan thanks.
I tried them fucking zins and now I'm addicted to them.
joe rogan
You know?
I took my whole vacation off of them.
And like I said, I was like wondering what it was going to feel like.
I was like, oh my word.
No, nothing.
It's fine.
There's nothing.
I just think it's, I think it might be a biological thing.
You know, some people, cigarettes just get them and they just want to smoke cigarettes every day.
And some people, nicotine gets them.
I think some people could just stop taking nicotine and they seem to be all right.
And thankfully, I seem to be one of them.
matt serra
It helps me shit.
joe rogan
I do.
matt serra
A couple of those with my espresso and a seltzer in the morning.
Oh, Jesus.
joe rogan
You know, it's terrible.
matt serra
I feel so great.
joe rogan
It's terrible for playing pool.
If you take too many of them, you're like, you're shaky.
You don't have a good connection between your movement.
You feel, you feel like weird when you're shooting.
Like, you don't notice it when you're talking because it's it is a stimulant.
So it's like stimulating your brain.
It actually like helps brain function.
Nicotine itself is a nootropic.
It's like, it's a nutrient that helps brain function.
Like, it'll help you pass tests.
matt serra
I think it helps my ADD a little.
joe rogan
It probably does.
Terrible for pool though.
din thomas
But I'm still on that alpha brain, so that's all.
that's good.
That's good.
unidentified
That's good.
joe rogan
Gummies now too, man.
din thomas
Oh, do you try to do that?
Gummies.
Yeah.
matt serra
I'll take some too.
joe rogan
I gotta give you guys a jar of them.
matt serra
How many do you take?
joe rogan
I take three.
john rallo
Oh, shit.
Back on the on the Duplessy fight there.
Like, I mean, we were talking last night.
We both think that DVP can pull this out and win it.
Like, my mind.
joe rogan
I definitely win it.
john rallo
My mindset.
And look, we all know Khamzat's a savage.
joe rogan
He can win it too.
But yeah, I could see I could see shit going either way.
john rallo
But if I, you know, if we look at it, I mean, his two toughest opponents, save for Whittaker, who went in there with a broken face and got it broke the rest of the way.
Gilbert 170, and maybe Gilbert won that one.
Kamaru 170, took it on very short notice.
Almost won that one.
If it goes longer, probably he does win that one.
That was a middle weight.
Yeah, but he's 170 pounder.
If he's making 70 all the time and going to 85, now you're fighting a dude that walks at 230, so he's not going to have a big strength advantage over him.
Yeah, he's going to be the better wrestler.
But I just think that Drickus is going to be able to weather the storm and then come out the other side and it's going to be a problem.
And if Komzat comes in, people are talking about him fighting at a slower pace.
Well, that's not his style.
And if he fights at a slower pace, I think that plays into Drickus' hands because it will allow him to fight more forward and pressure him into things.
joe rogan
So it's going to be interesting to see if it gets into deep water.
That's what's going to be interesting because I know he started training with Calavita.
john rallo
He went for his conditioning.
joe rogan
Yeah, he went to Sam Calavita who trained TJ Dillishaw.
He works with Aaron Pico, Armand Saroukian's doing it with him too.
And that guy is a legend, man.
Calavita is a real.
john rallo
No, 100%.
joe rogan
He's a real.
john rallo
I believe with cardio too, part of it is your mental, your mindset, like with pushing through the tired.
And, you know, we were talking a little last night and, you know, Khamzat's a bad motherfucker.
I don't know about his mind yet.
joe rogan
Because this is the thing, this is what I was getting at.
john rallo
He pulls out of a bunch of fights.
joe rogan
Armand Saroukian, who also just pulled out of a bunch of fights.
Right.
But Armand said the problem was Khamzat overtrained for every fight.
And he would always come into fights worn out.
And that was the difference between work with working with Calvita.
They're monitoring his actual recovery.
They're making sure they're doing everything scientifically.
Calvita's, I think his background is in cycling.
It was in, you know, endurance sports.
john rallo
Yeah, yeah.
I mean, I'm familiar.
I'm familiar with him.
I know who he is.
I know he was TJ's guy.
joe rogan
Nobody knows more about cardio than cyclists because it's all cardio.
The whole thing.
It's all cardio.
So they know.
john rallo
Cardio and EPO.
joe rogan
Yeah, they know that too.
But they know how to recover and they know like where, what's your threshold, like where you should be.
john rallo
Yeah, for sure.
joe rogan
So he's using real science to do it.
He's like, this is the first time he's ever been through a camp like this where he's coming in fresh, where he's not overtrained.
john rallo
Well, we're going to see.
We're going to see.
And my question is, too, if he gets in a bad spot, is he going to push through it?
Will the bully crumble?
He didn't crumble with Gilbert, did he?
matt serra
He didn't crumble with Strike.
john rallo
sat down by Gilbert too though.
matt serra
But Drake has even said in that fight how he's There's a certain amount.
He was counting how many minutes he was just standing in front of him.
He said that with both those fights.
His fight with Gilbert and Kamara Guzman.
He had the exact amount of time.
He goes for three minutes and whatever seconds he was just standing in front of him.
Are you saying that for both guys?
joe rogan
Kamara was coming out strong in that third fight.
I know.
din thomas
He was coming down strong.
joe rogan
That was a five-round fight.
din thomas
i bet the betting would shift for sure oh sure 100 he started coming on at the end of the second yeah started to yes yeah in the third round it was half of the clear yeah It was all Usman, I thought.
joe rogan
Yeah, I mean, but it...
din thomas
No one.
john rallo
Yeah, he's a wrestling too.
Like, I don't know.
Do you know Pat Downey?
joe rogan
Yes.
john rallo
All right.
Well, I've known him since he's a little kid.
And he was in Tomzot's camp and said, like, he said his wrestling, he goes wrestling is like real good.
He said he's got top-notch wrestling.
Like, he talked about, he said, we probably both did better with each other than you would think.
Like, he did better with wrestling and I did better with the Jiu-Jitsu.
He said, but he said, like, he said the guy's a a beast.
He said he's strong.
He said he's and he said he's a high level wrestler.
joe rogan
Schaub was down there watching him train and you know they they asked Schaub to they asked Schaub to spar with him.
He's like fuck you.
He's like I'm forty something years old.
I'm not no I'm done.
I'm not doing this anymore.
And he said Khamzat was just lighting people up.
He says he looks really good.
unidentified
Nice.
joe rogan
The thing about Khamzat should be a good one.
All these guys were 170s, right?
You you're right about that.
But with 170 comes speed, right?
And Khamzat's speed is a factor.
It's a big factor with his hand speed.
He's, you know, people forget because like what he did to Kevin Holland, the way he could rag dog guys in the gro ground, but what he did to Gerald Mirchard is pretty fucking spooky.
He did.
din thomas
He has a really good punch.
He has a really good punch.
joe rogan
He's technical, he's sharp, he's straight on the ground.
john rallo
He's a very well rounded guy.
joe rogan
He's fucking good standing up, man.
He's good standing up.
And that's where it's going to be weird.
That's where I want to see, because duplicity makes everyone look stupid.
He finds a way.
john rallo
He takes every mistake, people.
din thomas
He must have got a lot of power.
joe rogan
But they're not mistakes.
For he fucking, for sure, has a lot of power.
Someone did a great breakdown of what he did with Robert Whitaker, where he set up that right hook.
And the way he was recognizing that Whitaker had this certain pattern.
And it's not like it looks weird because he just moves different than everybody else.
unidentified
He's stiff.
That's all.
din thomas
He's stiff.
joe rogan
Whatever it is, it works.
john rallo
It works.
joe rogan
And when he hits you, it's like he can't hit by a car.
matt serra
It doesn't have to be that pretty.
din thomas
That's what I'm saying.
Right.
He's got to have power to make guys so nervous about getting hit by him.
joe rogan
Bro, that guy is so big.
He looks like a fucking heavyweight when you're next to him.
How are you a middleweight?
How are you 185 ever?
matt serra
the thing that i that uh that comes that I keep thinking about is like when's the last time he actually though fought a guy with comes out style?
I mean, who's ever, who's trying to shoot on him besides maybe there was a Derek Brunson or something, but yeah.
joe rogan
When's the last time you fought a guy that's just going to be no one has a Hamzaat style in the UFC?
john rallo
Well, what I like, but even a grappler, a straight wrestler, like what DDP said, he said, look, I'm fully prepared.
I'm going to get taken down.
Like he's not in there saying my wrestling, I'm stuffing him.
He said, I'm going to get taken down, but I'm going to weather the storm and I'm going to be able to get back up and I'm going to be able to survive a strong warm up in a rubber suit.
unidentified
Man, you're so stupid.
joe rogan
If you don't want to cheat, you can bend the rules.
Because it's not cheating.
john rallo
I mean, it's not cheating.
When he gets on top of somebody, man, you definitely don't see see guys getting them off of you, so.
joe rogan
Well, when you got a guy who's got, I mean, that actually might not be a bad idea.
Give him those track suit things.
din thomas
To get warm up with that.
joe rogan
Might not be a bad idea.
Whitaka.
Because you totally can do that.
Like, no one could stop you from doing that.
matt serra
Whitaka was defending okay when he was down there.
Well, I mean, everyone remembers his teeth getting shattered, but before that.
joe rogan
Yeah, he wasn't defending.
Probably he would have survived because Kamaro survived it too, right?
It's possible to survive.
Unless he just, like, what he did to Kevin Holland was kind of crazy.
john rallo
Holland almost.
joe rogan
He just went one to the other just, just.
din thomas
Well, here's the thing with him.
He just crushed him.
Gilbert, his guard.
kept him out of it.
joe rogan
Yep.
din thomas
Yep.
You got to have a decent guard.
Because he doesn't like it.
When Gilbert started moving his hips, he said, Nah, I'm out of here.
matt serra
Gilbert's actually a really world class Eugene.
john rallo
Yeah, how he's doing.
joe rogan
World class.
Yeah, Gilbert's dangerous as fuck everywhere.
You know, it was interesting watching him roll with Rockhold, because I know that, you know, it's not like Rockhold was in camp or prepared for this, and this is Rockhold at its best.
I don't even know how much he had been training, but Khamzat just handled.
john rallo
Yeah, man and handle.
joe rogan
Just handle them.
And we know how good Rockhold is.
matt serra
Yeah, very good.
joe rogan
Yeah, bro.
matt serra
Listen, what's so exciting about it is there's a chance he could just take him down and do what he does to everyone else.
There, there is that chance.
Definitely.
Because he's so good on the floor and he's He comes out so aggressive, but that's the if he survives it, you know, history shows.
joe rogan
And does he have the confidence to go for it and possibly empty the gas tank?
matt serra
Oh, I think.
joe rogan
And get the finish.
And if he doesn't, how fucked is he?
matt serra
He has no other way.
I don't think he can take down and smash.
That's what he wants.
That's what he's.
He makes no, you know, you can't adjust.
That's disguising it.
Yeah, this whole thing.
joe rogan
You can't adjust now in the World Championship fight.
You got to just hit the gas.
john rallo
Yeah, I think Brent's instinct's going to kick in and he is a sprinter.
You know what I mean?
joe rogan
Right.
But that's the question is, can he sprint for five rounds?
Because we know DDP can.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
Him and Sean Strickland, they were ready to have heart heart attacks at the end of that fight.
They were ready to have heart attacks.
This is probably like the most elevated heart level we've ever seen in a world championship fight.
matt serra
Getting his nose busted like that.
john rallo
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
And fighting with staff.
He had staff.
He had staff to the second fight.
That's why he was listless.
Yeah.
He was on antibiotics and everything.
He was all fucked up.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
It fucking's terrible, man.
That happens all the time.
john rallo
All the time.
joe rogan
That happened with Marab.
unidentified
He fucking...
matt serra
No one even noticed.
unidentified
No one even noticed.
joe rogan
Mirab's different.
He's outworking everybody.
Like, that's crazy.
unidentified
That was the which fight was that?
matt serra
With the staff?
joe rogan
Yeah.
Was it the Umar fight?
john rallo
I think it was the Umar fight.
joe rogan
Yeah, it was the Umar fight, which was crazy because there was pace that melted Umar and he's doing it while he's on it.
john rallo
His back was hurt too for that, wasn't it?
matt serra
Yeah, yeah.
There were times he wasn't sleeping through the night.
He couldn't.
unidentified
Yeah.
matt serra
It's different.
joe rogan
Yeah.
din thomas
I saw John Wood the other day.
They think they're just going to run through Corey.
joe rogan
Oh, I don't know.
din thomas
Did Murrab just go run through Corey?
unidentified
Well, something about running through him.
joe rogan
You gotta be real careful with hubris.
din thomas
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
john rallo
Murrab's not joking.
like that.
matt serra
Yeah, that's not Marab saying that.
Did John Wood say that?
joe rogan
Well, he, I mean, Marab could have had leg amputated.
unidentified
Jesus.
din thomas
Dude.
joe rogan
That's Marab.
unidentified
They don't need legs.
joe rogan
They could have taken that.
unidentified
They only need one leg.
joe rogan
He said, oh, he was just taping it up and going back to practice.
unidentified
Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no.
joe rogan
Someone close to Marab told me that regular people would have probably had their leg amputated if they had to deal with the staphylococcus infection that he had on his leg.
john rallo
Jesus.
joe rogan
He was just like taping it up and going, I don't believe that.
Whoever told you that, that's not true.
They would put antibiotics on that.
john rallo
Yeah, they'd be good.
joe rogan
That's not true.
They don't just randomly amputate people's legs, I hope.
unidentified
I hope.
joe rogan
It said he had broken his hand early in the fight.
Oh, Nurmagomedov did.
He said he had broken my back in training camp.
And some days I couldn't get up from the bed.
I just lay down.
I don't have a training camp.
I don't have a Khabib Nurmagomedov to help me train.
Some days at the PI was closed.
It was Christmas.
It was New Year's and weekends.
And it happened a couple of times.
Umar was there and the security goes, I'm sorry we can't let you in.
Yeah, Murrab's different.
matt serra
Yeah, Murrab's build different.
joe rogan
But there's also something about dudes that were from that part of the world.
That is a war-torn part of the world, and it makes a different kind of man.
matt serra
He's the American dream, man.
I just had him on my pod, and we were talking for over an hour about his whole journey.
And when he came over, he did not see him.
I couldn't even communicate with him.
I could because I have a way, but he didn't speak any English.
When I see him doing the skits now, the chicken, banana.
He's funny.
as shit he's funny he's he's just he goes back and now he goes back to his to Georgia just there the chariots next to him trying to jump on the bus.
It makes me so happy, man.
Because you've seen his whole journey.
When he first came to New York, he was got linked up with fucking retards.
And these guys were morons.
And thank God he ran into Longo at the Racey Academy.
And then he found his way to Longos.
joe rogan
And then that's a problem, right?
If you don't know where to go and you wind up at a real bad camp and then they claim you forever.
matt serra
Oh, man.
He had to do it in the gold.
joe rogan
He had to do it in the gold just like a bad wife.
matt serra
This guy was a bad wife.
din thomas
That's what I always say.
It's like a bad marriage.
joe rogan
Just like a bad marriage.
Yeah.
matt serra
Yeah.
But he found his way.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Oh, you guys are so good.
You and Longo, without a doubt, need a reality show.
I'm gonna need some sort of reality show with you two guys coaching people and then going to dinner with your girls.
It would be a great show.
I fucking love it when you guys, I would really love it when you guys were, you know, in the corners when you get miced up.
matt serra
I know.
joe rogan
It's the best.
matt serra
We have a good time.
It's great.
joe rogan
The two of you guys together, it's a fun team.
matt serra
Everybody's held out.
din thomas
Everybody wants to see a show with you guys.
john rallo
I told him last night when he's on your podcast, he's the best.
matt serra
You know what's so cool now, man?
I have my 16-year-old over there.
He's holding for us.
It just makes me emotional.
joe rogan
That's awesome.
matt serra
It's so cool, man.
You know, he's 67.
He's still fucking going, man.
Longo.
john rallo
He's the best.
joe rogan
But you two in the corner are so uniquely fun it's so fun to watch like if i was a television producer i'm like that is a no-brainer we took our guy down to the flagpole amy paramount plus listen to this paramount plus new merger whatever was happening here new deals so exciting i guess be a paramount show thank you so much pao and ray longo paramount plus going to pizza places talking shit I'm not against it.
din thomas
Going to the fights.
joe rogan
Going to the fights, like talking about your fight.
See, it's like a built-in show.
You have fighters that you're training.
You talk about how he's doing.
Talk about how he came to you.
You two guys just talk about the world.
unidentified
Yeah.
matt serra
Fucking producers out there.
Somebody get a listen to Joe.
joe rogan
Who keeps dinging?
Is that me?
matt serra
It's not me, is it?
joe rogan
It might be me.
matt serra
I don't think it's me.
john rallo
I'm pretty sure I've aeroplaned it.
joe rogan
I think it's me.
Yeah, it's totally a built-in show.
You can't miss.
matt serra
We have a good time.
joe rogan
You know what I mean?
You should do it.
matt serra
You know.
joe rogan
If you have the time.
unidentified
All I'm doing is.
matt serra
You can find me at my school or my...
my podcast matt's every channel on youtube i'm having fun with that so what guys and then uh dude i'm having dude i do movie reactions you know what i do with that i watch a movie and they react to real time.
I'm just talking shit watching a movie.
joe rogan
Oh, that's crazy.
matt serra
Fucking fun.
I play my VR, which is fucking fun.
And then I have people in.
Like I had Murray and I had, oh, I had Keith Jardine in the other day.
Keith Jardine, man, let's plug his new movie.
What the fuck?
din thomas
Kill me again.
matt serra
Me and my wife went to Tribeca for the, and I saw Tate.
Tate's in it.
Your buddy, Tate Fletcher.
What a sweetheart.
joe rogan
He's the best.
matt serra
He's such a nice guy.
He's just what a guy you want to be.
joe rogan
A big huggable person.
matt serra
A huggable bear.
And it's almost this movie, Kill Me Again.
He written and directed it, Keith Jardine.
And it's basically Groundhog Day, but a serial killer.
Oh, it's really good.
It was, listen, I wouldn't even bring it up if I thought it was shot, to be honest.
It was a fun movie.
You can get it on Amazon Prime.
joe rogan
I believe you.
din thomas
Yeah, it's on Amazon Prime.
matt serra
It's on Amazon Prime.
din thomas
You can buy it.
matt serra
It came out August 8th.
And I'm proud of him.
And what a sweetheart that guy is.
Yeah, he's Jardine.
joe rogan
Jardine's awesome.
matt serra
He was in a great movie called Shot Caller.
john rallo
Yeah, that was a shot caller.
That was a good movie.
matt serra
Fuck, Jamie Landis.
john rallo
Jamie Landis.
matt serra
He gets in, you know, he's driving drunk with his couple.
He's like a yuppie with another couple.
You know, something happens.
The guy gets killed in the backseat.
He goes to jail.
Kind of like, you know, white collared.
But next thing you know, he's got a fucking show.
He's not a bitch.
And now he's a hardened motherfucker.
Fucking shanking people.
John Bernathal's in there.
john rallo
Shot call.
matt serra
You like it.
Shot call is fun.
joe rogan
Oh, I remember that.
Look at this.
Yeah.
matt serra
This was a good fucking movie.
And Keith Jardin is in this.
joe rogan
Was Keith a bounty hunter?
matt serra
No, he was in this movie.
joe rogan
He was a ripper.
No, but was he an actual bounty hunter at one point?
in his life.
matt serra
Shit, man.
joe rogan
up on the show unless he did I would have remembered see if that's true he was I went over his whole fucking stuff I hope I'm not a magician he was more of a grappler than he was even a striker yeah he was a bounty bounty hunter it was a fucking bounty jarneen worked as a personal trainer uh firefighter football coach minor and bounty hunter minor and bounty hunter that's two of the hardest human beings that have ever lived connected It's so funny.
matt serra
He's very soft spoken though.
He's very like nice.
It's just like he's a great guy.
He looks like a fucking guy.
joe rogan
Had some awesome fights.
matt serra
I asked him if he ever, uh, because I said, you know, sometimes I'm at a UFC thing and they'll go, hey, Joe, can I have a picture?
I'm the wrong ball guy.
unidentified
I asked him.
matt serra
They're not asking about Dana.
They think I'm Dana.
I asked him.
I go, look.
I go, you gotta answer this for me because have you ever been mistaken for the tech?no Viking.
You know who I can say?
john rallo
He does look like him.
You know what he does look like.
unidentified
Oh my God, he looks exactly like you.
matt serra
The techno Viking.
john rallo
Yeah.
matt serra
He's a fucking guy.
joe rogan
Jamie pointed out that that might have been staged.
john rallo
Really?
unidentified
I don't know.
joe rogan
That looks like Jamie.
Jamie does not like the wool being pulled over his eyes, so he thinks that everything is staged.
matt serra
I don't know.
Everybody's having a darey.
Keith Jardine.
joe rogan
He came in.
He kicks the guy.
din thomas
He looks just like Keith Jardine.
jamie vernon
It's already questionable that's being filmed and this guy's like center stage.
john rallo
Yeah, I mean, Jamie, you do have a point there.
joe rogan
You got a point.
matt serra
Give this guy a bottle of water.
Let's go.
joe rogan
Yeah, so here he goes.
matt serra
If I was still clubbing, this is how he looks.
joe rogan
Yeah, 100%.
john rallo
Look at him.
He's all mollied up.
He's ready to go.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
Mollied.
He's probably got that guy's a boss.
He's probably got one of those cruising doses in his system.
unidentified
He's got his minions behind him carrying his bottle.
joe rogan
Probably legit Viking genes too, man.
At least some of them.
john rallo
He looks like it.
joe rogan
Yeah.
john rallo
Got his Thor's hammer around his neck.
joe rogan
Well, he looks like the 21st century version of it.
matt serra
Yeah.
joe rogan
You know, what would come on, man?
The original Vikings probably look like those strong men dudes that you see coming out of Iceland.
I bet that's what showed up on the fuckers.
unidentified
Can you imagine that?
I'm trying to imagine that.
john rallo
A bunch of half-thorb jorgs and show up.
joe rogan
Bro, who's that guy, that Viking dude that fights in welterweight?
He just fought Chaos Williams.
john rallo
Oh, the one looks like a fucking caveman.
unidentified
And he brought his name.
john rallo
He got famous for being ugly.
joe rogan
Is it Andreas?
What is his name?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
He looks just like Keith Jardine.
That's crazy.
din thomas
It is Andreas.
joe rogan
Jamie, could you go to Chaos Williams Wikipedia and look up his MMA career?
Because Chaos is fucking good, man.
din thomas
He's hard.
He's hard.
joe rogan
Dangerous guy and he got warned to fuck this is another one of those dudes what me and DC have been talking about this like extreme physicality is a tool you know and Coleman used to say this yeah he used to say that strength is a skill and I was like it kind of is a skill Andreas Gustafson yeah this guy's fucking terrifying and what you said see go to Andreas Gustafson workout Just Google workout.
And this dude is a hardcore power lifter.
Like when you see some of the shit he's doing, the amount of strength that this guy has, you're like, oh, Jesus.
Like there's guys that are not that big, right?
Like, you know, see that janitor who pulls pranks on Instagram who walks up to these big meatheads and lifts up the stuff.
He's not that big, though.
But these super strong dudes who practice power lifting, you can be incredibly strong and not look like a bodybuilder.
And that's this guy.
He's a 185.
he's a 70 no excuse me 170 170 oh man but this motherfucker is so strong man when he gets a hold of guys he's just ragdolling people.
You know, Chaos has been very consistent in his career with good takedown defense.
He knows how to fight guys off, dangerous striker, and he couldn't do shit to this guy.
din thomas
It was like he was all over one side.
joe rogan
Ass whooping, like a real one sided ass whooping that I didn't expect.
I was like, that is, I thought it would be a good fight and it was just a mauling man.
din thomas
I thought Chaos was going to clip him.
joe rogan
You can easily have the power that Chaos has.
He puts guys out with one shot, but this dude just tucks his chin down and wades bombs at you until he grips on you.
and then just starts throwing you around.
matt serra
It's 170?
joe rogan
He's well up to 170.
matt serra
I'll tell you who's the dark horse in that division.
john rallo
It's pretty impressive.
matt serra
Sean Brady.
din thomas
Sean Brady.
joe rogan
I don't even think he's the dark horse.
matt serra
Yeah, I don't know.
joe rogan
Yeah, after that Leon Edwards fight.
matt serra
People aren't talking about him enough though.
That's what I'm saying.
joe rogan
Bro, that Leon Edwards fight was crazy.
din thomas
I'll be with them tomorrow.
Yeah, tomorrow, yeah.
matt serra
Yeah, dude, he's looking great, Sean Brady.
joe rogan
I love his.
He's a monster.
Yeah, he's a monster.
matt serra
It's so funny.
I had him on and he's like, you know, people always talking about me being short for wealth of weight.
I'm 5'9.
It's not like I'm 5'6 or I'm like, Sean, I'm your fan.
unidentified
Dude.
matt serra
Come on, dude.
It's funny.
joe rogan
But that turtle muscle on his back.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
He's trying to get a crush your head muscle.
din thomas
He's trying to get that Ian Gary fight.
I love this.
joe rogan
Is that what he's looking for right now?
din thomas
Well, he'll fight with anybody.
joe rogan
It's just, well, you know, I would love to see him fight for the title.
I mean, I think that's a reasonable fight.
Like with Jack Della, like who's next after if Jack Della and Islam fight, which seems to be exactly what's going to happen.
Who's next after that?
Like who's in number one position right now?
matt serra
I think Ian Gary has to be up there.
din thomas
It's either it's Sean or Bilau.
joe rogan
Well, right.
Ian Gary has one loss, right?
unidentified
Yeah.
din thomas
Because he just, well, he lost.
matt serra
That comes out.
joe rogan
Shock got, right, real close fight, but that one loss sent him back a little bit.
So Bilal's number one, but you know, I bet they're going to want Bilal to fight somebody else.
They seem to have a heart on for Bilal.
matt serra
I know.
unidentified
You know what I mean?
din thomas
Yeah.
Nice looking guy.
joe rogan
The numbers don't mean that's the fight that gets made, right?
Not always.
matt serra
I think Sean Brady's only, the only problem, the only one loss he has is from Bilal, right?
joe rogan
Can you put that back up, Jamie, so I can see who else is in there?
matt serra
No, man.
joe rogan
So it's like, if you look at that division, you know, that division has gone through so many different changes.
So you got Shavkot who just had some kind of surgery that's undisclosed, right?
We don't know what injury he's recovered from, but he had like a pretty significant injury apparently.
And then you got Leon Kamaru.
din thomas
Michael Morales is the real dark horse of that division.
joe rogan
Right.
din thomas
He fucked Gilbert Burns.
joe rogan
He fucked him up.
Yeah, that looked like Gilbert just didn't belong.
unidentified
Sure did.
joe rogan
And that's weird to see, right?
And I know it's Gilbert.
A lot of miles.
A lot of fights.
matt serra
Yeah, I'd like to see Sean Brady get his shot.
din thomas
That's what we're working on.
matt serra
Dean Thomas.
How shitty he must be strong.
din thomas
He's strong as fuck.
Yeah, he wears all of us.
matt serra
I dude, I like his positional.
His, his Jiu Jitsu is very, very good for fighting.
I'll tell you, nowadays, I can't even watch some Jiu Jitsu matches.
I watch, it's just fucking a lot of scissoring and I'll tell you what, man.
joe rogan
I was blown away by Kamaru versus Joaquin Buckley.
I was blown away.
din thomas
Oh yeah, yeah.
He looked great.
joe rogan
He looked like Kamaru the champion.
He looked like a real champion.
He looked like if Joaquin was challenging Kamaru for the title, that's the Kamaro that you would expect to see.
That's what he looked like.
din thomas
He showed some good IQ.
joe rogan
But also the ability to move, right?
Right.
Like you didn't seem hampered by his knees.
matt serra
Right.
joe rogan
Things that people talk about.
din thomas
And that's what we thought he was going to see.
We thought he was this old ass man with those bad knees.
joe rogan
It didn't look bad at all.
And I think, you know, it's a lot of it's mental strength, of sure.
But it's also like he hasn't really taken a lot of damage other than the big high kick from Leon.
And, you know, if you go and you watch his fights, it's he had a pretty good war with Colby before he won.
I mean, they they they they exchanged a lot of blows.
You know, Gilbert dropped him.
Remember that?
din thomas
Yeah.
joe rogan
But but overall not a lot of damage in his career.
Mostly he's been the dominator.
You know, so even though he's 37, I think.
din thomas
Yeah.
He's pretty fres fresh.
john rallo
I thought it was good to see him go back to his wrestling roots a little bit.
A lot of times the wrestlers get good with their hands and all of a sudden they forget about what got them to the show and he just straight manhandles it.
joe rogan
Yeah, he did, but he also looked good on the feet.
unidentified
He looked good.
john rallo
He looked good.
joe rogan
Yeah, he looked good.
din thomas
Yeah, he looked good.
unidentified
And just good straight run.
john rallo
I just saw Sean Brady look great in his last fight with his hands too.
joe rogan
100%.
And to do that to Leon, well, you know, Leon knows he can't lose again.
He, you know, lost the title and he wants to come back and get it back.
And now all of a sudden you got this turtle shell motherfucker in front of you.
din thomas
Right?
joe rogan
He seems insanely strong.
din thomas
How's Colby still in these rankings?
john rallo
I was thinking the same thing when I saw it.
joe rogan
It kind of crazy.
I wonder how much of that would be, like, because he's still super valuable.
Like, if you're gonna be.
Yeah, because if you're a guy, like, why kick him out if you're a guy like Shovkott and they offer you Colby, you know, in the main event of a fight night or something like that.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Like, that's a great fight.
For both guys, they'll probably make way more money.
So how does that work with Paramount now?
din thomas
I don't know.
john rallo
That's a.
joe rogan
Here's the question.
john rallo
I thought you'd have the insight.
joe rogan
Yeah, man.
I don't I don't talk to Dane about business.
john rallo
Right.
joe rogan
You know?
din thomas
Yeah.
joe rogan
I heard they're raising the I'm more of a I'm almost a socialist when it comes to that shit.
I would be the worst.
They'd fucking fire me for sure.
I would change the pay structure immediately.
You know, but I wonder if you're, if there's no paper for you.
Yeah, you want a mint?
That's a mind mints.
That's neuro gum.
The neuro mints.
john rallo
I have the gum.
joe rogan
I need it for my fucking brain give me some of that nice take the last one oh thank you it looks dirty on the outside I had a gummy Yeah, I'm always giving myself mind mints and all shit and I'm still stupid.
What were we just talking about?
din thomas
The pay structure.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
So they used to get the money from pay per view, right?
So if you were a guyy like Conor McGregor that's going to get two million pay per views, like you get a percentage of that and you know you're set for life, right?
You get one big one like that and whoo.
matt serra
So how does that work now?
joe rogan
So how does that work now?
How does it work now if it's for free?
There's no more pay per view.
matt serra
He did say, I did hear him saying he's up in the fight night.
john rallo
Yeah, the bonuses.
I did see that.
joe rogan
The low hanging fruit that's easiest to answer.
Bonuses are obviously going up.
That's great.
That'll be big.
And forget about the tide rising with all the other fighters.
Just the number the bonuses bring to a fighter.
It's millions of dollars.
Okay.
Well, that's great.
Okay.
So then there's a bonus structure like if that many people.
watch your thing, you get millions of dollars.
That's what he said.
That would be cool.
That sounds great.
Paramount's got a ton of loot.
And this is a great move for them.
matt serra
And good content too.
joe rogan
How many people are going to sign up for Paramount Plus if you get free UFCs forever?
john rallo
And South Park.
joe rogan
That's great.
And South Park.
And South Park.
And a bunch of other shows too.
This is a shitload of shows.
All of Taylor Sheridan's shows are all Paramount.
john rallo
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
unidentified
Actually.
din thomas
But did anybody see this coming?
Nobody saw this coming.
john rallo
Nobody saw this coming.
joe rogan
Bro, I'm tight with Dana.
And I talked to him about, we were talking about the problems with this and the problems with that.
But I need to ask him this weekend in Chicago if it's true that the Netflix people wanted to stop the fights in the Apex.
They didn't want any fights in the Apex.
They wanted fights with big crowds.
din thomas
Yeah.
joe rogan
Like they wanted it to be big.
We wanted it to be big, big, big.
din thomas
Like all the fights, big, big, big, yeah.
joe rogan
One of the best heavyweight fights of all time in terms of the result was Francis Nganno versus Stephen Miocic with no crowd at all in the Apex in the small ring.
din thomas
Yeah.
joe rogan
It was like one of the best like you want to watch a guy in his prime who's fucking terrified who's figured it all out versus a guy who's got he's a legend, he's a champion, but he's got a lot of miles on him and there's a lot of wars and you see it with him no one there.
You hear in the huff and huff of each breath.
Every time Francis hits him, you you fucking feel that thud in your cells.
din thomas
Hey, you don't gotta sell me, man.
I love watching fights at the Apex.
Oh, I love it.
joe rogan
That's my favorite.
din thomas
Me too.
john rallo
I mean, I've really believed that the smaller cage just forces more action.
din thomas
That's why my fights are so good.
john rallo
I just wondered if they would downsize the arena cage because of the, you know, the quality of the fights that was in the smaller cage.
joe rogan
The problem with that is, like, when you got a guy that is just very footwork based and has developed his style.
Yeah, you're fucking large.
He's not a large one.
john rallo
You're fucking him.
joe rogan
Yeah, but he's developed his style based on his ability to move around a full-size cage.
jamie vernon
The Netflix thing is from a troll account, I think.
joe rogan
Oh, trolls did it?
jamie vernon
I think so.
joe rogan
Oh, that's good.
Well, who knows why they decided to not do it, but man, whoever gets the UFC and does the no pay-per-view model, you just gained millions of subscribers instantly.
john rallo
But I'm also like, do you think it'll be better for the casuals now that everybody can?
joe rogan
100%.
100%.
din thomas
Yeah, for sure.
joe rogan
Because everybody's going to get every pay-per-view now for free.
You're going to be scrolling through the channel, it's like, oh, let's see who's writing.
john rallo
I wonder how much money I'll save a year and then I'm not fine.
joe rogan
You know, you tune it in and you watch one Alex Pereira high kick knockout.
You're like, oh shit.
And then you're hooked.
And then the next time it's on, you're like, oh, the UFC's on.
And then boom, you've got more fans.
I mean, it's the most exciting for the average spectator because you don't have to know anything.
You don't have to know shit to watch guys just go to war.
unidentified
True.
din thomas
I'm just surprised that ESPN didn't step back.
Well, just, yeah.
Well, I mean, at seven point, yeah, that's what I'm saying, at seven point seven, like they probably was like, nah, we're good.
john rallo
Their app was shit anyway.
joe rogan
Well, Paramount's giving them a billion dollars a year for seven years.
I mean, that's wild.
That's a lot of loot.
matt serra
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah.
matt serra
I'm excited about that, Aaron Pico.
Oh, yeah.
john rallo
This whole card is a very good card.
joe rogan
Ron Murphy's no joke.
unidentified
I don't know.
din thomas
who you got on this?
john rallo
I might be Renan Murphy's way.
din thomas
I'm still in.
I still am.
Yeah.
I think that the UFC jitters is a real thing, man.
It is.
joe rogan
The UFC jitters are a real thing and Murphy is no joke.
din thomas
No joke.
joe rogan
He is super solid.
Super technical everywhere.
Super footwork.
john rallo
And if Aaron wants to be a boxer, this kid is really explosive on his feet.
matt serra
He's got the wrestling.
john rallo
Murphy is he does, but he doesn't use it enough, I don't believe.
joe rogan
Murphy to me is very much like Leon Edwards in his prime at 45.
din thomas
For sure.
joe rogan
Very similar, very similar, strong everywhere, super technical, doesn't make any mistakes.
He's good, man.
john rallo
I think Barbosa, I think he's a more aggressive version too.
Leon could kind of cruise at times where I think Murphy's looking to finish you.
joe rogan
He's a world championship potential.
He's certainly a world championship potential.
john rallo
He's coming on short notice too.
matt serra
Who is?
john rallo
Murphy.
joe rogan
Yeah, but he's a consummate professional.
din thomas
He's just having a guy.
john rallo
They said straight up, he's ready.
They said three weeks might be too much time because he's ready all the time.
joe rogan
Well, this is the word out of that part, that camp is that that guy's always training, and which is what you want to see from a guy like that who's undefeated and also not getting the shine that a lot of other guys in that division are getting.
john rallo
Props to them for taking the fight too.
joe rogan
There's so many good guys in that division, you know, and Ilya is such a star that everybody with Volkanovsky in there, Yair, and everybody kind of got lost.
john rallo
Diego is a is it a five rounder?
It's the co main event.
din thomas
It's a three rounder.
john rallo
That's a three rounder.
unidentified
Yeah.
matt serra
Oh shit.
john rallo
That could change.
unidentified
It's not listed on the website as the co main, but I thought it was.
joe rogan
It's in their space.
din thomas
It is, it is, but it's still three rounds.
I read that today.
john rallo
That's cool.
Well, that changes things.
joe rogan
What about?
It's interesting because Pico is really good, man.
But I would have liked to see him against someone, you know, to establish a name for himself.
din thomas
I thought you had a really good shot at beating Mozart.
joe rogan
Well, Mozart is crazy because the grappling for Mozart is just off the charts, but you're not dealing with the kind of kicks that you're dealing with Murphy.
din thomas
Yeah.
joe rogan
With Murphy, he's he's going to chop you up on the outside and if you're heavy on that front leg because you like boxing, like, ooh, a couple of those calf kicks change everything.
john rallo
I mean, he's got a lot of spinning attacks.
joe rogan
Yeah, a lot of everything.
He's a pretty dynamic person.
He's a pretty dynamic person.
din thomas
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
matt serra
I thought Aljo beat Mozart.
john rallo
I thought Mozart wasn't that fun.
I thought Mozart wasn't that fun.
joe rogan
Only because the round ended with Mozart on top, but he was dominating.ating that fight I thought Aljo won that fight as well I thought Aljo won that fight it was close but I thought Aljo was close but most far is very very good but that's a good fight for Pico because Pico's an elite grappler and he's got real dangerous hands real dangerous I thought Pico would have beaten him it would have been a great fight for him it would have been an interesting fight for him this is a different fight yeah this is a different fight and I think a more dangerous fight in a lot of ways just because of his style the footwork yeah it's gonna be tough for
Pico he's tough man Murphy's tough.
And again, he's one of those guys that is way better than his public persona.
john rallo
Like, people don't know about him.
joe rogan
him.
There's so many guys in that division, man.
That division's crazy.
It's filled with killers.
Filled with killers.
john rallo
This card's a good one.
matt serra
Killers from Star Wars too.
din thomas
And Diago Lopez, Diago.
joe rogan
John Silva.
din thomas
John Silver Bro that fight Is gonna be Incredible I know That's in Guadalajara.
joe rogan
No, no, no, no.
din thomas
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
It was, but you said it was on your birthday.
joe rogan
Yeah.
That's in Texas.
I might go to that.
Yeah.
That John Silva guy looks like a world champion.
That's another one.
He looks like a world fucking champion.
din thomas
For sure.
john rallo
He's a character, too.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
The barking and shit.
matt serra
I like that.
joe rogan
Bro, what he did to Bryce Mitchell was just, he sent them down.
john rallo
You showed yourself lightheaded barking out at the wolf earlier.
matt serra
Yeah, I got a little lightheaded.
joe rogan
The fact that he was like so relaxed and laughing and like it's just he just knew it was a matter of time and then submitted him and put him to sleep.
matt serra
What's funny about that is Bryce Mitchell who just went down in weight looked great.
joe rogan
That's the right division for him.
That's the right division for him.
And I mean, he's got two choices bulk way up and cut down, which is what most of these guys are doing.
din thomas
Yeah.
joe rogan
Or go to 135, which he looked great.
din thomas
And that was just discipline for him.
Just got to live a better life.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
Because he was never like real ripped.
din thomas
No.
joe rogan
At 45.
Yeah.
matt serra
Yeah.
joe rogan
He's eating cornbread on the farm and shit right now.
I don't know what he eats.
I'm sure he eats healthy.
He's, I mean, he's a very good grappler, I'll tell you that.
That guy's dangerous.
He's got really, really good Jiu Jitsu, really smart.
I've seen a lot of his tutorials online, like, very, very good stuff.
But, you know, John Silva's just a different thing, man.
There's guys that are just better everywhere.
din thomas
Yeah, and I thought he would have given Ilya a problem.
joe rogan
I think so too.
din thomas
Yeah, I think if Ilya stayed down and he fought John Silva, I thought that was gonna be a problem for Ilya.
joe rogan
Yeah, both have one punch knockout power.
And John Silva's a very good kicker.
Yeah.
It's different.
Like Ilya does not throw a whole lot of kicks and most of them are to the legs, right?
Ilya's not throwing any head kicks.
din thomas
Right.
joe rogan
Sure he can.
I mean, he might do that just because we're talking shit right now.
din thomas
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
But what Ilya does do is he touches you and that's what Farazah Hobby calls the touch of death.
He's got that touch of death, man.
When he did that shit to Charles, I was like, I can't even believe I'm seeing this.
din thomas
They folded him.
joe rogan
Folded him.
matt serra
You're on the bed on the car right there.
din thomas
Yeah.
I know.
joe rogan
I know.
din thomas
Remember we talked about that?
Like, yo, yeah.
matt serra
I think we were in the back talk.
unidentified
It was like, yo, this is crazy, man.
din thomas
No one should be doing this.
And he goes out there and does it.
Yeah.
john rallo
It's like Arnold on Pump and Iron when he was, remember, he's telling me Fregno at breakfast.
joe rogan
Yeah.
john rallo
But I've called my parents on one already.
din thomas
Yeah.
unidentified
Oh, he's crazy.
joe rogan
That's a big difference though.
All he has to do is flex.
john rallo
And his underweight.
joe rogan
Ilya had to go out there and knock out Charles Oliver with one punch.
That was wild, man.
That dude has pow.
matt serra
He looked good on the floor, too.
He wasn't.
john rallo
He's a good, like, man, I saw, like I said, I saw footage of him and Mirab wrestling, like, you know, I don't know where they were, and I didn't see anybody get caught in the video, but like, Ilya just seemed to be one step ahead in the wrestling exchanges, you know?
So he's definitely, he's at least on Mirab's level, and Mirab's a savage.
joe rogan
You know what he does?
It's really interesting.
He talked about it on the podcast.
He trains each sport individually and then he puts them all together.
So he doesn't train MMA Jiu Jitsu, he trains Jiu Jitsu with Jiu Jitsu guys.
So he trains with elite Jiu Jitsu guys, elite wrestlers, he wrestles with elite wrestlers, boxes with elite boxers, does everything and then puts it all together himself.
matt serra
I mean, that is the way to do it.
joe rogan
But if it's like putting it together, right?
matt serra
Yeah, right.
joe rogan
Interesting how some camps don't do that.
You go there and you know, you have everybody doing MMA.
He's like entering into Jiu Jitsu spaces, training there, entering into boxing spaces.
john rallo
I think it's funny.
joe rogan
And because of that, like, we all know that the boxing in boxing is at a higher level than the boxing in the UFC.
There's no way to be as good as.
as good as David Benavidez if you're not boxing your whole fucking life and doing it every day and only doing that.
There's no way you're not going to be as good as I am for sure.
And so we're we know that.
So but if you can get more closer to that by training with them and only training with them, you get Aaliyah Tiberia.
din thomas
Yeah.
joe rogan
I mean, that's what you get.
That's what you get.
You get a guy who's boxing with boxers.
john rallo
Yeah, I think you retain more details.
unidentified
Yeah.
john rallo
You know what I mean?
joe rogan
But man, the discipline you have to have to do all those things with the same kind of intensity and then put it all together.
Well, that's what I mean.
din thomas
He's got a very like he's and that's the benefit of not having like this big camp doing it all.
Like when you're just yourself and everyone around you is helping you get to these places and do those things, it's a huge benefit.
joe rogan
Yeah.
And it's also like today we know what everyone else can do too.
Like if you're at a certain level like Illy is already, you know your abilities, like you don't necessarily have to be in a camp where there's a bunch of people.
Right.
din thomas
Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
Like you don't need that.
joe rogan
Yeah.
You know which guys you have to bring in for sparring partners.
Concentrate everything on you.
That way you're not dealing with all these dudes in the locker room that maybe you got beef with and Colby's talking shit about your girlfriend.
You're just trying to use the sauna.
Fuck off, Colby.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
You know what I mean?
It's like there's something to be said for those really small camps.
din thomas
Yeah.
I think, you know, as we move forward and evolve, man, I think that's the direction it's going.
Like all the big guys are going to be like, Yeah, for sure.
Could you imagine Floyd Mayweather in class with everybody else?
Yeah.
unidentified
Okay.
din thomas
You go, I go.
That shouldn't happen.
joe rogan
Exactly.
With a blue belt Jiu Jitsu club.
Yeah, exactly.
That's a good point.
Yeah.
I mean, and most of those guys would take their camps outside.
You know, like Muhammad Ali did it.
Tyson did it.
A lot of these guys., they would go somewhere.
Go to Big Bear.
Yeah, La Hoya did that.
unidentified
yeah.
john rallo
Shoo, what about Crawford and Canelo?
joe rogan
What do you think of that?
john rallo
Personally, I'm a big Crawford fan, so I'm going to lean his way.
My only concern is just the size.
It didn't look like Terrence's power transferred in the last fight, so we need to up some more, you know what I mean?
joe rogan
Part of the problem with that is Major Bob is really good.
really fucking good.
john rallo
I mean, but I just think Crawford is...
joe rogan
It's going to be interesting.
to tell you that.
john rallo
What do you think?
joe rogan
I don't know.
You know, it's a big jump to go from 54, which was a step up from 47, right?
And so it goes to 54, and now he's going to 68.
That's so much weight.
A lot of weight.
But Terence is, I think, he's the best switch hitter since Hagler.
john rallo
They claim Hagler was my favorite.
They claim, I mean, they claim he's walking around like a buck ninety or something.
And you do know he's a wrestler.
joe rogan
Yeah.
john rallo
So he's got that mentality.
joe rogan
He also built up slowly.
Like he took his time.
Like it's been a long time training for this fight.
He was, he came on this podcast more than a year ago and he was talking about that, that's the fight he wants.
And that was a long time.
So he's been trying to get that fight for a long time.
So knowing after he beat Errol Spence that he wasn't ever going to fight at that weight again and then going up fighting Madrymov and then knowing he's got like at least a year before he fights Alvarez.
He got pretty big.
john rallo
Yeah.
din thomas
Yeah, I like Yeah, I'm leaning, bud.
Yeah.
joe rogan
He's slick, man.
He's slick.
He's super intelligent.
Like he sets traps.
He does stuff.
And then, you know, there's a bunch of great breakdown videos of particularly the Errol Spence fight, like him setting traps.
It's just he's a very high level guy, but Canelo is dangerous.
He broke Billy Joe Saunders' whole face.
Broke his whole face.
What he did to Amir Khan, remember that?
din thomas
Oh, yeah.
Oh, embarrassing.
joe rogan
Slordy.
din thomas
Barrassing.
joe rogan
Slordy.
And never been down.
Never been dropped.
john rallo
Canelo just started.
din thomas
Yeah, Terrance and I, they rented out the Apex for a while.
I was training there.
Kids running, I was the kids running around all on the mat.
I was going, get these badass kids out of here.
joe rogan
He was using the Apex?
din thomas
Yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
Why was he using the Apex?
din thomas
I don't know.
unidentified
I don't know.
din thomas
I'd see it with thirty people, you know, talking about running over thirty people.
Yeah, half of them in suits.
joe rogan
How many?
How many times did he use it?
din thomas
Oh, he was there for a while.
unidentified
Really?
din thomas
Yeah, they were training at the Apex.
joe rogan
Interesting.
And this was getting ready for this fight?
din thomas
Yeah, getting ready for this fight.
joe rogan
Well, that makes sense because the UFC is co-provided.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
Dane has a part of it.
john rallo
I saw on their website, I saw, like, you know, by the Canelo Crawford fight.
In my head, I was like, holy shit.
And then I was like, oh yeah, Dane is involved with this.
joe rogan
Yeah.
john rallo
That's something you never thought you'd see.
joe rogan
It's interesting.
It's because it's like, wonder how that's going to affect combat sports.
Like, what's going to happen?
I mean, if the UFC model gets, if they start making fights that people want.
Like, there's a lot of fights that people just want.
They just don't get, like, if David Benavides and Canelo Alvarez were in the UFC, that would be the fight to make.
The UFC would have to figure out.
We're going to make it.
Hey guys, hey guys.
No, no, no, no.
These are the guys.
You guys have to fight.
This is the fight.
It can't be, I'm going to do something else.
I'm going to fight Jake Paul.
It's got to be, this is the fight.
john rallo
They've got to change their culture, though, you know, because a loss in boxing means a lot more than a loss in MMA.
Like, the MMA fans are more accepting, especially if the fight was good, where in boxing, their whole role is to build you to 20 so they can get you title fights.
And they're finding people for you along the way.
joe rogan
Well, Canell lost to Bival and he lost to Floyd.
And I don't think it really damaged him that much.
He's still a superstar.
john rallo
Well, Floyd, he was, at that time, Floyd was the superstar so i think it probably i mean you know floyd jumped him at the right time and bival uh like i mean again canelo was doing his thing moving up and wade and things of that sort yeah as far as business model i wonder if he's gonna with daner involved like the problem with boxing is nobody gives a about the undercard they show up with the main card is it possible for him to make it as exciting as a ufc where he's got the whole lineup with his fights you want to see is there that many
din thomas
boxers out there that oh yeah for sure they can do that and that they're they're trying to do that and that's one of the things that they're doing with uh those riad series fights yeah so like you're trying to create the league and i think that's where it gets all into the legislation and all that stuff is changing the Ali Act and all that stuff.
So I mean, it gets a little tricky, but I mean, the goal is to create a league to where boxers can go and then like losses won't mean as much.
matt serra
That might see that might change right there.
Because nobody really gives a fuck that much with the mixed martial arts.
You got your fan favorites, you got guys you want to see, you got fights you want to make.
joe rogan
People give them shit about what Herrera got knocked out by Izzy and he didn't lose anything.
din thomas
Nothing.
Nothing.
joe rogan
Zero.
din thomas
Exactly.
joe rogan
And then he came back and won the light heavyweight title and everybody's like, he's back.
din thomas
Yeah.
unidentified
Yeah.
matt serra
Shooting his arrows.
joe rogan
He's back.
Yeah.
Best walk out ever.
Best walk out ever.
No one's walk out is like his.
matt serra
It's h a good fight.
joe rogan
Calum Walsh and Fernando Vargas junior.
john rallo
That's a good fight.
Fernando Vargas junior.
joe rogan
That's great.
Yeah.
So these are two good fights.
There's two good fights underneath that as well.
But it's like they're going to have to do this consistently and build these people up and have, you know, real good video series like the UFC does with Embedded and what they do with the countdown shows and just really get everyone excited about it.
din thomas
I mean, is that a bad thing, no, for that?
I mean, no.
Because people are being critical of the idea of that, but to me, it sounds like a good thing.
matt serra
Nonsense.
joe rogan
To get a bunch of high-end fights on one card.
din thomas
Well, no, I'm just saying like the idea of like a league for boxers to where there's a promotion that will do stuff like that for them because boxing's not doing it for them.
joe rogan
Well, it's all in how much money is getting distributed, right?
So the boxers that make a lot of money are the Canelos, the Floyds, the people that are the superstars.
They make a lot of money.
But dudes that fight on undercards that you're watching on TV don't make shit.
And that's where everybody gets confused.
din thomas
Yeah.
joe rogan
You watch UFC fights and there's people that are undercards that are making way more money than the undercard people in a boxing game.
din thomas
Right.
joe rogan
way more money.
john rallo
Tons.
joe rogan
Yeah.
it depends on who's on the card you know it really the the the Whereas in the UFC, it's probably a more spread through a little bit more spread through the bigger middle class.
Yeah, but they don't have a high end that's the same.
Like Usyk made 114 million something like that.
How much does that feel?
din thomas
Last fight with Dubois.
john rallo
How many buys is that?
joe rogan
And Dubois made like 70 something million.
john rallo
They're just throwing that oil money.
joe rogan
I might even be selling Usyk's number wrong.
I think it might have been like 130.
john rallo
That's ridiculous.
joe rogan
Yo, crazy money.
Crazy money for that Dubois fight.
So that's the difference.
So that's only possible with the boxing model.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
So the guys who eat the most are going to eat the most most with the boxing model.
But the people underneath that are not going to be doing nearly as well.
john rallo
You think that fight made any money?
That's a good question.
If I'm giving $200 million out between the two guys that are fighting the fight, they're not getting that many pay-per-views.
din thomas
Where do the money come from?
joe rogan
Bro, they got that black gold flowing out of that crown, baby.
din thomas
I was about to say, that's crazy.
john rallo
How do you sustain that business model, though?
if that's how they're doing it right now.
like people scream about these guys making more money but a like the ufc would be out of business if they paid that money because they're just not bringing that money in more get the saudis to pay everybody the same.
joe rogan
Let's take advantage of that black goal.
Those dudes don't give a fuck.
That money for them is like me ordering a pizza.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Like, hey, everybody gotta love pizza.
john rallo
I'll make a call.
joe rogan
I'll get a pizza delivered.
They don't give a fuck.
They're making insane amounts of money.
Like, we don't even know how much money they have because it's not public.
It's not like us.
Like, you know, like Bezos has to like disclose his wealth.
Like, the richest man in the world.
Like, are you sure?
din thomas
Yeah.
Well, you gotta think it's gotta be so much if they're paying these guys $100 million to box.
To box.
Not even do nothing like world changing.
joe rogan
I think that's why Canelo was holding.
out with Benavidez, because the number that I heard was 200 million.
He wanted 200 million dollars.
Wow, damn.
To fight Benavidez.
unidentified
Got my money.
joe rogan
Like, it seems like they're kind of close to that.
din thomas
Yeah.
joe rogan
Well, you know, if they're getting in the 130s for Usyk, like, this is crazy.
That's so much money.
To guarantee some money.
matt serra
You gotta, if they do a new model, they gotta, like, look, the early prelims, shit, I don't miss those.
You got Edson Barbosa on early prelims.
john rallo
That's a Dracar close.
That's a deep man.
matt serra
I mean, that's a fucking sick fight right there.
john rallo
Yeah, two guys that want to bang it out.
matt serra
I like that Dracar close.
He's never had his, his quite his day like he gets to a certain level yeah and then uh what is his name the fucking uh parouche parouche dareush yeah give me another uh minfin but uh you know he looked great in his last fight yeah yeah but he looked real good against moicano he looked real good against moicano right yeah he's He's a great fighter and he's getting a little bit older too.
You know, he fools you with that great head.
din thomas
And he looks like he's 50.
joe rogan
Yeah, he's like 36.
din thomas
Yeah, he's like, oh, yeah.
matt serra
He's a savage.
He did great in that Moicano fight.
joe rogan
Yeah, he's very good, man.
It's a great time for watching fights.
You know, who else is on the card this weekend?
matt serra
I was that Jeff was Jeff Neil.
din thomas
Jeff Neil and Protes.
joe rogan
Oh, that's right.
john rallo
Tim Elliott and Kai Asuka.
din thomas
Yeah.
joe rogan
Bro, Protes.
Protes and Jeff Neil.
That could be a banger.
din thomas
And I think it all depends on which Jeff Neil shows up.
joe rogan
100%.
100%.
din thomas
If the good ones show up, I think he knocks Protes out.
matt serra
What about I think Carlos Protes takes this in the first round with a knockout.
joe rogan
Oh, and then it's Jared Cannonier and Michael Page.
john rallo
Yeah.
joe rogan
That's the puzzle.
john rallo
Yeah.
joe rogan
What about how that dude just goes from middleweight to welterweight?
It doesn't give a fuck.
Yeah.
Just and no one even seems to talk about the fact that he's going up and down in weight.
matt serra
I'm just a huge fan.
din thomas
and he's like 6'4.
matt serra
I'm a huge fan.
joe rogan
He's crazy that he can make light that he can make welterweight, but also that he's a super fight, I think.
The only person who figured him out was Ian Gary.
You got to drag him to the ground.
matt serra
Yeah, man.
joe rogan
Brian Bowne and Ruizaboyov.
That's a good fight.
din thomas
Yeah, that's a good fight.
joe rogan
That dude is gigantic.
He was welterweight for a while too, but he couldn't.
Yeah, remember?
din thomas
Yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
He lost to Joaquim.
din thomas
Yeah.
joe rogan
He was like a 6'5 welterweight.
din thomas
But he hits hard.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
Dangerous.
Dangerous dude.
What?
Yeah.
So he went up to 185.
din thomas
Yeah, he trains in Philly.
I think he was out training with Homes out a little bit though.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
din thomas
Yeah, a little bit for this camp.
joe rogan
Was this his second or third middleweight?
Because he quit, well, I think that last Buckley fight, he was like, enough of this welterweight bullshit.
matt serra
Brian Battle is, I love when he fucking, so it's a second fight.
I love smallest man.
Brian Battle fought in France, was it?
In Paris?
din thomas
Oh, yeah, yeah.
matt serra
He's like, there's no way he thinks I'm going to lose a fist fight to a French dude.
There's no way the punch on him.
din thomas
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
matt serra
He's going to lose his life.
din thomas
He's got a lot of fun, man.
matt serra
Brian's got a lot of fun, man.
unidentified
Brian's got a lot of fun.
matt serra
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
To a French dude.
Oh, yeah.
Don't boot him.
Oh, he's fucking bad.
joe rogan
Well, everybody's got to remember that' that's what Colby did when he beat Damien Maya.
Beat Damien Maya in Brazil.
matt serra
He was less classy though, like way less.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
But he was going full WWE heel.
john rallo
It saved his life.
It saved his career.
unidentified
Yeah, for sure.
joe rogan
Oh, it made him millions.
It made him millions.
john rallo
Because they were cutting him.
joe rogan
Yeah.
It's not to sell your soul if you want to be set.
I agree.
But there's something to be said.
If you're if you're purely business minded, talk a lot of shit.
matt serra
Yeah.
About people's dead fathers, about wives.
What a piece of shit.
joe rogan
No, his way.
matt serra
You know what I mean?
unidentified
Yeah.
matt serra
You talk like that.
You look over your shoulder.
He could be having a cup of tea in fucking London a year from now, ten years from now.
Now, if Leon Edwards runs into, what do you think is going to happen?
Remember you brought up my dead father, motherfucker?
I mean, dude, there's stuff, stuff, some stuff you could do for the entertainment, but then, amen, there's a line we've talked about repercussions, bro.
You don't want to talk about someone's wife or kids or a dead parent.
unidentified
Yeah.
john rallo
Well, it's the same thing.
Even McConnor in the beginning, he was a funny shit talker, and then it seemed later in the career, it was more almost like forced, like trying to be darker.
joe rogan
It got darker.
john rallo
You know what I mean?
joe rogan
It got darker.
matt serra
It's no fun.
joe rogan
Well, it's also you're dealing with people that are dealing with the pressures of being at the top of one of the most dangerous occupations in the world.
And every day when you go to bed, you know there's some dude out there that wants to kick you in the fucking dick.
Like, he's out there right now.
He's out there training and that pressure, like, sometimes wears on guys.
And over the course of time, they get, like, neurological fatigue.
Like, like, you're just fatigued from the, just the strain.
din thomas
Just don't give a fuck no more.
joe rogan
You just start saying dump.
And then you got CTE.
And, you know, so there's a lot of things going on.
john rallo
I mean, also, the pockets get fatter under that microscope even more.
joe rogan
And then there's, you have to take him out.
matt serra
He gets crazy.
joe rogan
And he probably gets the good stuff.
unidentified
I might try Connor's Coke.
joe rogan
I've never tried Coke, but if I was gonna, I'd try it from Connor.
matt serra
Man, it's not even like hiding it, man.
It's closer to the truth.
joe rogan
Hey, bro, you gotta love that part of him.
john rallo
Yeah, he don't give a fuck.
joe rogan
He's a pure savage.
din thomas
Yeah, he don't care about his body.
joe rogan
He's a pure savage.
That's also why he was so good at fighting, man.
In the middle of the Jose Aldo fight, I remember looking in his eyes and watching how calm, like genuinely calm he was.
I'm like, this guy just, and Dana said it best.
He's like, he eats pressure.
He just eats it.
He likes it.
He wants it to be chaos.
I was just.
It's got a guy say that, but they don't really believe it.
john rallo
Yeah, I was at that fight.
Thank you, Joe.
And when he came in, like I told a story to everybody about him, when he came in, did his thing, he ran around the cage, and then he went in the center of the cage, and he just fucking went like this.
joe rogan
Yeah.
john rallo
And the place erupted, and I was like, God Almighty, how fucking...
I don't think she came.
joe rogan
I did the walk-out song for that one.
It was one of them.
She did the walk-out song for it.
Yeah, my wife sang it live.
And it was bone chilling.
john rallo
Right, right.
din thomas
Oh shit.
matt serra
You know what's a funny thing is when you see a clip of him saying that there's somebody's interviewing him and he goes about partying.
He goes, partying is weakness for your soul or some shit like that.
And then there's a clip of him now.
unidentified
Fucking going.
john rallo
At least he's the Blade music behind him.
din thomas
The soul took a head.
unidentified
Right?
That opening scene of Blade.
din thomas
But no, he was something else.
His Chad Mendes fight.
my god like how much shit he was talking to him but you're still in it like even he got rocked he goes down he still comes up and still knocks him out eddie alvarez oh new york that was a master class yeah My God, I mean going up to challenge for a second world title and hitting the Matrix.
Yeah.
joe rogan
The whole Matrix in a fight with a killer.
Like Eddie's a fucking killer, man.
matt serra
Definitely.
joe rogan
What he did to Rafael Dosangos to win the title.
din thomas
Yeah.
joe rogan
Wild performance.
Those fights that he had with Chandler that those guys took ten years off each other's lives.
din thomas
Sorry, my ass.
joe rogan
Yeah, go, go, go, go.
unidentified
Sorry.
joe rogan
We got those toilets.
They're the best.
There it is.
Here she goes.
unidentified
This was the fight before.
din thomas
This was the Chad Mendez fight.
UFC 189.
unidentified
Oh.
Didn't sound as loud, tartan.
But the angel of spells or the lefty swounds rang out it.
joe rogan
And the best part about this is how he walks out with his giant fucking leprechaun smile on his face.
Yeah, watch this.
Get to where he walks out, Jamie.
unidentified
The rain so tight in the springing of the air.
While the world did go.
joe rogan
Look at him.
unidentified
He's with deep amaze at the fearless man.
joe rogan
But yes, That dude just knew how to handle pressure.
unidentified
Yeah, he thrived in it.
joe rogan
All right, Jimmy.
That was a fight that he couldn't even grapple.
He couldn't even grapple in training camp.
He fucked his knee up.
And that's one of the reasons why Chad was able to take him down so easily.
He had a hard time training for that fight.
din thomas
And he fucked Chad up.
john rallo
He got up off the sofa for this one.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah, he did too.
john rallo
He took it on seven days or something.
din thomas
Yep.
joe rogan
Bro, Chad's second fight with Aldo, he got fucked.
I remember I reached out to him after the fight.
I'm like, damn dude, because the first round after the bell, Aldo cracks him and rocks him.
Like for the first time in the fight, he got rocked.
And clearly after the bell, I'm like, damn, that's terrible.
din thomas
Yeah.
joe rogan
After you got knocked out by the guy in the first fight, you come back in the second fight.
The first round is wildly entertaining.
And then you get hit with a shot after the bell, yeah.
din thomas
I mean, it was still a great fight though.
joe rogan
It's still a great fight, but it makes me wonder, like if that shot doesn't land, that's a real shot, man.
That was a different, that was like a real, like you're almost outshot yeah and if you get hit with one of those in a fight that significantly changes the fight yeah significantly changes it give me some volume left on the side of the head of mendez uppercut i mean that's kind of way after the buzzer right way after the shut in too but and that dropped him but aldo was coming on strong clearly aldo was coming on strong Yeah,
john rallo
dude, prime Aldo, I don't know who's better.
That guy's a fucking monster.
joe rogan
It's amazing how good he still is when he fought Zahabi.
And I think he had his gloves down.
din thomas
Yeah.
joe rogan
I was like, damn, dude, he's still really fucking good and really fast.
john rallo
And down a weight class instead of up as he got older.
Most guys don't go down weight class.
joe rogan
I know, but I mean, when you look at how muscular he is at 45 and then you think about like what Max did to him, that muscle comes with a price, you know, and when Max put that pace on him, like he could keep up.
He was the first guy to really expose him and put that pace.
john rallo
Jose was all fast twitch.
You know what I mean?
I mean, when he double kneed fucking Cub Swan.
joe rogan
Oh, how about this?
Marab didn't take him down.
din thomas
I know.
How could he take him down?
joe rogan
How crazy is that?
john rallo
He does a great takedown deal.
joe rogan
38 years into his career.
din thomas
Yeah.
joe rogan
Right?
Like, and Marab couldn't take that guy down.
din thomas
Couldn't take him down.
joe rogan
Bro, he, his balance is crap.
din thomas
He took down, what's his name?
Pewter Jan like ten times.
Yeah, he couldn't take down Aldo.
joe rogan
Couldn't take Aldo down.
Yeah, that's wild.
john rallo
Yeah, and Aldo's Jiu Jitsu was good.
joe rogan
Yeah, very good.
Here's that double knee.
Like, wow.
john rallo
What the fuck, man?
And Cub was a stud too.
joe rogan
Oh, bro, he was a monster.
Aldo was a.
Look, he's trying to hit him even after the referees pulled him off.
john rallo
WEC was a double knee to the dome.
He had some talent.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah, for sure, man.
And this was when Aldo was in his.
He was different.
din thomas
He was different.
He was doing leg kicks.
john rallo
Remember he murdered Uriah?
Uriah's leg kicks.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Oh, my God.
Yeah, Uriah, like, that leg was fucked up, man.
john rallo
Yeah, he told me two weeks he was on crutches.
Two weeks he was on crutches.
unidentified
He said.
joe rogan
Yeah, man.
He was in his prime.
He was something really special.
But, you know, it's like, how long can you keep that up?
He's kept it up more than anybody, like really, because he's still at a world cloud, like a world class caliber at Bantamweight.
john rallo
I mean, he was dude for 10 years, nobody touched him.
That's a long time to reign, especially in a weight division like that, where the talent keeps coming.
joe rogan
He just kind of gassed out in that last round because he was going for the finish.
He emptied out and Zahabi survived.
john rallo
Yeah, I mean, you could make an argument for Aldo in that.
It was a close fight.
I didn't think he got stomped out or anything.
din thomas
But I mean, how good was he to himself to know that he's retiring probably because he feels like he can't do it at the level he knows he can't.
And he's still doing it at a high level.
You know what I'm saying?
But in his head, he's like, I'm not doing it at the level I want to be able to do it.
So I'm just going to retire.
joe rogan
Crazy.
Crazy.
Yeah.
That division, man.
Between 35 and 45, it's interesting that 25 gets so little love.
Like Pantoja is only 10 pounds lighter.
din thomas
I know, I know.
joe rogan
He loves him.
He's a straight up killer.
He's a straight up killer.
john rallo
It is crazy though.
Nobody cared about Mighty Mouse, and that guy was maybe the top martial artist in the league.
matt serra
Oh, that takedown to arm lock that top.
joe rogan
Oh, red board.
john rallo
I don't know if you'll ever see something like that again.
joe rogan
But it's crazy that it's only 10 pounds.
din thomas
I know.
joe rogan
How do you guys know?
din thomas
You can't tell the difference.
matt serra
How do you tell the difference?
joe rogan
People get real weird.
They get real weird with sizes.
din thomas
They just have this bias.
I mean, it was like our shit.
We were lightweights, and they cut our division after that little tournament.
And who would have thought that the lightweights would be the best division in the UFC?
matt serra
It was going away, too.
joe rogan
back up to welt the weight i didn't just go why i mean i was making weight i was making guys you know well the ufc just had a weird position i mean when when before it really took off, they were just trying to figure out, we got to figure out a way to make money doing this thing.
What do people not want to see?
And if someone has this idea, oh, the problem is the lighterweight divisions.
din thomas
Yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
Those are the most exciting ones.
Look at them now.
Like the crazy fights you've seen.
35, 45, 55.
matt serra
Pantoshi is a great champ, man.
How he defended it?
What, three, four times?
joe rogan
What did he do?
He's so good too.
john rallo
And he massacres everybody.
matt serra
Great Jiu-Jitsu.
He's not really striking.
joe rogan
Yeah.
john rallo
He takes torture well too.
joe rogan
Yeah.
He's an animal.
din thomas
He made Kai Carr France look bad.
joe rogan
And the first fight was good.
din thomas
I know.
joe rogan
They had a good fight like nine years ago or eight years ago, what it was.
But the difference between how much better Pantozio was right away was obvious.
matt serra
He's another guy.
He was doing Uber Eats when he was here fighting in the UFC and he was still fucking working.
He's a real humble guy.
din thomas
Yeah.
matt serra
He's like a real Yeah.
Just the sweetheart of a guy.
john rallo
Good for him.
matt serra
You know, he's a guy you want to see do well.
joe rogan
Exactly.
But that's why I wish the guy got more love.
It's like, I don't understand.
You know, if he was 145, he'd be a superstar.
unidentified
Right?
joe rogan
You know?
din thomas
Just the idea of being a flyweight just has people spooked out to root for him.
joe rogan
I know.
john rallo
I don't get it.
din thomas
Yeah.
joe rogan
It's weird.
It's weird, but it's always been that way.
Even Sehudo.
when he was a champ.
And when Mighty Mouse was a champ, kind of with everybody.
Figueredo didn't get the love that he deserved.
Brandon Royval.
matt serra
Rob's getting the love.
joe rogan
He's getting a lot of love.
unidentified
Definitely.
joe rogan
But it's always like, yeah, but they're flyweights.
din thomas
Yeah, I know, yeah, but flyweights are worse to vicious.
No, they're not.
joe rogan
I wonder what the biggest flyweight pay-per-view of all time was.
Like how many people...
You know what I mean?
It would have to be...
din thomas
It's got to be pretty low.
joe rogan
It would have to be a Mighty Mouse one, probably.
john rallo
Yeah.
joe rogan
Wouldn't you think?
john rallo
I saw him talking about that before.
joe rogan
Maybe the more pay-per-view buys these days.
din thomas
Yeah, I would think it may have been when Pantoja did it in Brazil because they probably had a lot of Brazilians on the card.
joe rogan
Right, right.
Pantoja, Ursaig.
That was a good fight, too.
But I bet it's like not high.
din thomas
Yeah, it's pretty low.
joe rogan
Yeah.
matt serra
Shit, man.
I enjoy it.
I enjoy...
joe rogan
I love it.
matt serra
I enjoy all the fucking weekly.
It's all I watch, man.
Even though I can't even watch the boxing.
I wish I could.
unidentified
I don't know.
matt serra
It's just so, it's not nearly as entertaining as the mixed motion.
john rallo
arts and the fact that there's one on like every week i just i need it to be a good one like i like two good boxers i'll i'll tune in i'm a boxing fan too but i mean if i have a choice i'm gonna watch it did you watch usic and dubois i did yeah usic's like Lemenchenko plus 100 pounds.
He's got great footwork.
He's a great technical boxer.
Now he's starting to put people out too.
Before he was just out boxing people.
joe rogan
Especially Dubois, when you see what he did to AJ.
john rallo
What is he going to do?
He's beat everybody twice in the heavyweight division.
Who do they have left for him?
joe rogan
Well, Tyson Fury was talking about coming back, but then he looks like he changed his mind.
john rallo
He decided.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's like he's a young man in sport.
john rallo
Yeah.
joe rogan
He's not that old.
But if anybody could have beaten him, it could have been Tyson Fury in his prime.
Because particularly, you know, in, you know., in moments in the first fight, especially in the early rounds, before he got dropped in the ninth, he was doing really well.
He was lighting him up.
More damage, if you heard it.
I've never seen Usyk take in a fight, ever.
And more clean shots that were landing.
john rallo
I mean, look, Tyson was a fantastic boxer.
Oh, yeah.
Don't let the dad body fool you.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
john rallo
I mean, he was late on his feet, you know, very technical.
Like, I mean, he obviously has a size and reach advantage over Usyk.
And when he gets that jab poppin' he's tough to beat.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's not just a jab.
He's got a slick uppercut.
He's got a crisp right.
He's got a great head movement.
john rallo
His defensive slick.
joe rogan
He's a all time great boxer., all time great.
matt serra
Is Francis still boxing or is he doing everything?
joe rogan
He's going to do both.
john rallo
Is he going to do it again?
joe rogan
Yeah.
They were talking about setting up a Francis Deontay Wilder fight.
john rallo
That would be interesting.
joe rogan
Yeah.
din thomas
They should they need to make that happen.
joe rogan
But boxing, you always get sucked in.
It's like there's these stories like, are they doing that?
din thomas
Are they doing that?
joe rogan
And then they don't do it.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Are they doing it?
john rallo
Are they doing it?
And then they don't do it.
unidentified
Yeah.
Are they doing it?
din thomas
Are they doing it?
john rallo
I mean, that's one of the problems with the sport.
joe rogan
Well, this is the Benavidez Canelo situation.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Because if you ask the average, if you want a hardcore boxing fan's dream fight, it's not necessarily Canelo and Crawford, which is a great fight, but you got this thing where Crawford's jumping off all this weight.
You're like, man, I don't know.
But the great fight is Canelo Benavidezides.
Everybody knows it.
din thomas
Right.
joe rogan
Everybody knows it.
That's the fight.
din thomas
Can't make it happen though.
john rallo
It's been going on forever.
Pacquiao should have fought Floyd alone.
din thomas
That's what I was going to say.
Like it happens all the time.
You can't never make the big fights happen.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
That has to happen.
That fight has to.
If you if boxing is to be complete, if the circle of power is to be folded over to whatever.
The rocks you get for your ring, whatever Thanos gets.
unidentified
The infinity stones.
Sorry guys.
Now I'm back in the conversation.
matt serra
He had the gauntlet.
joe rogan
That's the only way it happens.
Like you have to have that fight.
That's the fight.
And if they fuck that up and if like he goes up and now now Benavides is fighting light heavyweight more, you know, it's like I don't think it happens.
din thomas
Fact, I don't think it's terrible.
I don't think it happens or it's going to be too late.
joe rogan
Canelo's back surgery.
unidentified
Did he?
john rallo
No shit.
joe rogan
Yeah.
He had it on his Instagram.
He said his back's been fucking with him for 10 years and he finally got surgery.
john rallo
Well, that might or might not help.
joe rogan
Back surgery is always like, right?
john rallo
50-50.
Should I have one and knock on wood?
It gave me my life back.
I had sciatica fucking horribly.
joe rogan
Would you get which surgery?
john rallo
Well, they did a laminectomy from L2 all the way through S1.
joe rogan
Oh, so all of them were bulginging?
john rallo
Like, well, I had stenosis is what was happening.
So the bones were growing and pushing on the nerves.
I mean, I would get up in the morning and be fucking holding my wall to get to the bathroom.
joe rogan
And still rolling.
You know, still rolling.
That's how dumb she did it.
unidentified
You see what Bis said in the beginning, 40 years old, always hurt.
matt serra
The back shit's the worst.
But I had to get an epidural shot.
john rallo
Yeah, I remember.
matt serra
When I blew my back.
john rallo
Oh, I tried.
joe rogan
When you tried GSP the second time, your back was fucked.
matt serra
It was back in January, New Year's Eve.
I couldn't, I could hardly walk.
But, and then I got a, the doctor Yasha on my black belt.
See, I went to the city, got the epidural shot, and that fucking started to bring me back.
john rallo
Yeah.
matt serra
Yeah.
I literally couldn't walk.
When I would go to brush my teeth, I couldn't...
It was the worst thing.
joe rogan
Think about that, and then knowing that you have a cage fight coming up against a guy who's the best wrestler in the division.
john rallo
That's what I said.
How do you fight that motherfucker with a bad back?
matt serra
Yeah, well, shit, you saw the rematch.
The first one's way better.
joe rogan
Shit, but yeah, there's stuff that you can do for your back, but man, it takes a long ass time to heal back injuries naturally.
john rallo
What's going on with yours, you were saying?
joe rogan
Mine's a lot better now, man.
And one of the things that I made sure I did this year is I do twice a week, I do lower back exercises, like core exercises with twists and lifting, like do back extensions with weights.
That changed everything.
john rallo
Yeah, I do hypers and the reverse hyper machine for my lower back.
joe rogan
I do that too.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
It used to bother me when I played pool.
I'd be done.
I'd be like a real stiff.
And that completely went away.
Good.
And really what it all fucked up was from archery.
Because, you know, you pull one way all the time.
And this side started getting this.
It's almost like a tendinitis.
No, no, no.
I just ignored it and beat it into the ground.
And even though I was in pain, I still kept shooting while I was in pain.
So I fucked it up for months.
Now I draw, I have a cable pulley system at my gym.
So I hold a ten pound weight and then I draw eighty pounds like I'm pulling a bow.
And I pretend I'm shooting a bow.
So I do that for as many reps as I shoot arrows.
I do that with my left side.
So nice.
More balanced now.
And then the lower back exercises.
But fuck, it takes forever to not, if you don't, if you want to really heal something and really get it better and not get surgery, it takes forever.
matt serra
Let me ask you, with the bow hunting, why, what do you have got against the gun?
What makes you want to, is it more primitive?
Is it more primal?
john rallo
It's definitely harder.
matt serra
It's more, that for sure.
joe rogan
It's more difficult for sure.
And it requires more concentration and it's much easier to fuck up.
And that's why I like it.
matt serra
Oh, it's harder.
joe rogan
But is it more satisfying?
john rallo
But is it more peaceful to the animals too?
joe rogan
I can't compare.
I've shot a lot of animals with a rifle hunting and it's great.
It's very effective.
It's real smart.
It's a good way to hunt.
If you're hunting for food, like if I had to provide food for my family, I would 100% be hunting with a rifle.
100%.
No questions asked if that's what I'm doing doing.
But what I'm doing is I'm trying to get meat with my hobby.
So my hobby is archery.
And it's, I call it a hobby is like a little disrespectful.
It's almost, it sounds very corny, but it's almost like a spiritual journey.
Like you're going into the woods and you're sneaking up.
I'm doing it with a guide who's a good friend of mine, and we go together.
And we're sneaking up on these animals that are trying to avoid mountain lions and bears.
And you're getting within archery range of them and just launching a perfect arrow.
And that's how you're getting your food.
So every time you eat your food, it's the best food in the world, but you're also thinking how you got it.
Like you worked hard for a whole year to prepare for it.
You trained for it.
I do cardio for it.
I do weighted.
I carry a weighted backpack.
I put this fucking 45-pound plate on my back and I walk around for hours.
I do a bunch of shit with it.
These different exercises just for hunting training.
din thomas
Well, how much is how close is archery range?
Like how close you have to get to them?
joe rogan
I'm comfortable anything inside seventy yards.
If I don't think the animal's like moving a lot.
So if an animal's moving a lot, like in the rut, sometimes they're fighting other males.
So they'll run at each other and they'll come back.
And then you can't take a shotot like that because they're not going to be there when you shoot the air.
They're moving so fast.
It's not ethical.
With a rifle, you could.
With a rifle, you just need them to stop for a second.
din thomas
Dent.
joe rogan
Just stop for a second, baboom.
And you got them.
matt serra
Did you ever shoot him but miss the kill shot?
You got to go over to it and...
unidentified
No.
joe rogan
What are you doing with it?
matt serra
I mean, it's a horrible thing to think of.
joe rogan
You hit them with a second arrow.
Even if you hit them perfectly, and I've hit an elk perfectly before, they don't, if they don't go down, they're standing there.
If they're, as long as they're standing, you hit them with another arrow.
matt serra
And that usually takes them out.
joe rogan
Yeah.
unidentified
You want to do it as quickly as possible.
john rallo
Now you got to track them down.
joe rogan
Bro, they're so tough.
You'll track them and you're like, this is so much blood.
There's no way this thing's not going to be dead five feet from here.
And then you'll find them 800 yards away dead.
john rallo
It's crazy.
joe rogan
They're so tough.
Because you're dealing with an animal that's like every day is mountain lion season.
Every day there's mountain lions just sneaking up on them everywhere.
matt serra
You know?
joe rogan
You know, and then, you know, if they make it to be seven, eight years old, which is when I start hunting them, like these motherfuckers.
john rallo
They're gangsters.
joe rogan
They're gangsters.
They're wise, some of them have one eye, out by another dude because they get those antlers jabbing in each other's face.
matt serra
My favorite meat is the venison.
joe rogan
Oh my god.
matt serra
I like that.
joe rogan
Have you had elk meat?
Have you had any?
matt serra
I don't think so.
No.
joe rogan
I wish you lived here.
I'd give you some.
unidentified
My father-in-law, he said he's gamey.
joe rogan
I have frozen elk out there right now.
If I had a freezer box, I could give you.
matt serra
Shit, man.
I mean, my, because they say that the venison, they say it's gamey or something.
Dude, not the way he makes it like a fish.
john rallo
Yeah, he knows how to make it.
matt serra
He, he, he.
joe rogan
It's all in how you.
It's all in taking care, proper care of it once you shoot it.
If you let the animal, like, lay out in the heat or if the meat gets dirty.
or if you accidentally cut the glands.
They have these tarsal glands in their legs.
That's a nasty smell that they're putting out so that the ladies hear it.
You know, the ladies smell it rather and the other men know that they're there.
If that stuff gets on your meat, you're fucked.
Like there's a lot of it is like bad preparation, bad care, but if you take care of venison and do it well, it's the best meat.
Oh, delicious.
matt serra
So delicious, man.
I love that shit.
I don't have it often, but when I do, it's my favorite, man.
joe rogan
The UFCPI should be serving that shit.
I bet they serve like Buffalo, though, which is also How's horse meat?
matt serra
Have you tried that?
joe rogan
I did try it.
How is it?
unidentified
Pecos.
It was lovely.
joe rogan
Yeah, remember that?
I tried it in Montreal.
In Montreal, there's a place called Joe Beef.
Shout out to Joe Beef.
One of my favorite restaurants in the world.
It's an incredible restaurant.
I went there.
It's fucking great.
matt serra
Does it make you feel powerful?
Is it tasty?
joe rogan
Oh, well, I didn't ask for it.
Let me just say that.
They served it to us.
It was like the guys who run it are awesome.
We know them.
I met them through Bourdain.
And so they just served us whatever they wanted to serve us.
And one of the things they gave us was it was like a loin of a horse.
And I was like, really?
Like this is like tender loin, like horse tender loin?
And it was really good.
It tasted like game meat.
din thomas
I actually went to Joe Beef with Vitor Bell for Anchon Brady.
joe rogan
Oh, wow.
din thomas
Yeah, it was a good restaurant.
joe rogan
That's cool.
That's cool.
matt serra
Fogo the chow last night.
john rallo
Just fucking wearing it out.
matt serra
Yeah, man.
john rallo
With the dark lord, John Danaher.
joe rogan
How's he doing?
john rallo
He's doing good.
matt serra
He's good.
He wasn't in a rash guard.
He had a jersey on.
john rallo
He had a jersey on, yeah.
But he walked up.
I was like, what the hell?
matt serra
And he's walking very nice.
john rallo
It's true.
matt serra
His hips are fucked up for a while.
joe rogan
So did he get both of his hips replaced now?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Zoe's got that.
matt serra
Yeah, he's teaching over exercise.
john rallo
He's been three months out of his second hip surgery.
joe rogan
It makes you wonder, like a guy who's that smart and that driven towards jiu-jitsu, Like, what would happen if he didn't have a crippled body?
din thomas
Oh, I know.
joe rogan
You know what I mean?
matt serra
Well, even with a crippled body, when he was rolling, he used to fuck people.
joe rogan
I know.
Isn't that crazy?
Like, blown apart knee, you know, reconstructed to the point where it doesn't even like fully extend, right?
Has to get, what has he gotten replaced so far?
john rallo
I mean, I know both hips.
Did he get a knee too?
matt serra
He might have got his knee.
john rallo
Because he said after the hip damaged his knee so bad that he thought he's going to have to get the knee done.
matt serra
Oh, he's walking great, though.
I was so happy.
john rallo
Yeah, he looked good.
matt serra
I'm like, man.
john rallo
Look good.
It's always good to see him.
matt serra
Yeah, that's my thing now.
I get to see him when I come out.
joe rogan
Your knee doesn't fuck with you, right?
matt serra
My left knee?
No, but I fucking, the one thing that really is, if I could just, it just haunts me is because I fucked up where you're supposed to step down with your bad leg when you get the surgery.
I went up, I went to put up my curtain, I stepped down, and if you see, I'll just show you here.
Is this missing here?
joe rogan
Yes.
matt serra
Oh, damn.
My bicep.
Yeah, you tore my bicep.
Man, so fucking...
Like I, you know, so it sucks.
I went to go butterfly sweep.
I felt it get real tight.
So I got the stem cells shot right in that bitch.
That's the only one that hurt because they said they had nowhere to go.
I would have done that earlier.
unidentified
I didn't even know I did it until I went back to PT the next day.
matt serra
And then I was dealing, I didn't want to go through another fucking surgery.
I just got a new knee.
So man, the knee itself, dude, titanium.
Adenamium.
What do the Wolverines call it?
It's anti-body.
joe rogan
My knee's not bothering me at all.
matt serra
But I could block a kick with that.
I feel great with it.
And I'm rolling.
I'm flexible.
But I fucked up that.
It's a little weak.
It's a little compromised.
joe rogan
Is there anything you can do with weights?
matt serra
I'm doing squats.
I'm doing my regular squats.
I have to do more with the weights.
joe rogan
I'm thinking of single leg lunges with that leg.
john rallo
What do they call them?
Bulgarians?
Squats?
I hold a 100-pound kettlebell and do them one-leggers.
matt serra
It's noticeably weaker, so I just got to do something with that.
But besides that, the knee itself, I just wish I didn't do that because I hear about Bisping running still.
If I run this fuck, I could dip with this.
john rallo
It's mine.
joe rogan
The running thing is weird because it's like, How much time do you have on those knees?
like you kind of have to be and you got to get them fixed again but i mean can they do that can they chop the thing off and put a new one in and unscrew it i'm not holding off on my right one for as long as I can.
Is it right?
Is it still fucked?
matt serra
My right one, I just got shot some stem cells in there, but yeah, if I'm walking too much, I'll feel that bitch.
Yeah.
They're both just severely, not my left now, it's new, but then it's just fucking arthritis, man.
Fucking sound like an old man with the arthritis.
Oh, my arthritis.
joe rogan
It's jujitsu.
unidentified
Yeah.
matt serra
I mean, I also to get to 55, I used to just fucking have to run in the morning for 45 minutes.
low intensity but just still i was on a treadmill just fucking on enduro rush fucking just running so i must have wore that down man you know i'm sure but that's what bisping says he ran a lot on the streets too, you know, which I'm sure is a lot of extra power.
That's no good.
I can't do that.
Yeah, he's still doing it though.
He's fucking.
john rallo
He's been running.
matt serra
Especially because he just sued his wife.
joe rogan
I think he's doing better now, luckily, because for a long time his neck was fucking with him so bad he could barely get out of bed.
unidentified
Jesus.
matt serra
In his body.
din thomas
Yeah, I remember he had surgery and like a week later he was right back on the call.
Right back calming.
john rallo
I was like, you gotta be careful with your neck too.
Like that's where the spinal cord is.
Like it only I didn't I thought your spinal cord went all the way through your back till I had my back surgery, you know, but it doesn't.
It comes down like maybe halfway.
And so that's why when you have it, your neck impingements cause a lot of those fucking problems.
unidentified
There's fucking problems.
joe rogan
That's why the Ernesto Hoost neck kick is so effective.
You know, with Hoost you can see, yeah.
Oh, Hoost kicked so many people in the neck.
Just wow.
john rallo
He was a saint.
din thomas
He was always one of my favorite guys to watch.
joe rogan
Mr Perfect.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
One of the most beautiful kickboxers of all time.
Like just the combinations he would throw, pop pop, left hook to the body, white low kick.
matt serra
Wow.
john rallo
Yeah, and they ruined him with Bob Sapp.
joe rogan
I know, not crazy.
john rallo
He was spying on him.
He beat him twice.
Two times.
din thomas
You know, see, that'll always baffle me how Bob Sapp beat that guy.
joe rogan
Well, you know what it is?
Like, this is one of the reasons why Ernesto wasn't like the best candidate for kickboxing to enter into MMA.
because he was like smooth and super technical and very fast but not explosive, right?
Not like just launching himself, but Crocop was.
din thomas
Yeah.
joe rogan
When Crocop fought Bob Sapp, Crocop fucked Bob Sapp up because Crocop would just blast on you Like full power, full blast on you.
It's like it was a different kind of thing that he would do.
And that's why he was so effective in MMA.
Like when he went over to MMA, like all of a sudden he's this fast, powerful striker.
It's not like a boxer who's going to move around a little bit and pick you apart for a few rounds.
din thomas
Styles matter.
Styles matter.
matt serra
I wish he would have been in the UFC in his prime.
He got over a little late.
john rallo
He had pretty good takedown defense too.
He was able to keep good range.
He would frame guys off and everything.
Yeah, he was, I mean, and we all know about his, was it left kick cemetery?
unidentified
What was it right kick hospital left kick cemetery?
joe rogan
Bro.
He fought Heath Herring and there's a there's a shot of him throwing this low kick or this body kick deep into Heath Herring's cage.
Like his whole rib cage is just collapsed and you just see Crocop's shin like basically touching his lever.
It's insane.
It's so deep that you just it's one of the most painful pictures you see from an MMA fight.
john rallo
Heath Herring.
Remember that dude kissed him before the fight?
joe rogan
I've done it before.
din thomas
Oh, I can.
joe rogan
You can with one shot.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
In pride.
matt serra
Listen, man.
You get one.
joe rogan
It's the one in the upper left hand side.
The second one, up, that one right there.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah, that one.
Look at that.
unidentified
Bro.
din thomas
Concave.
joe rogan
Bro.
john rallo
Gotta be some broke.
joe rogan
And when you know how powerful Crow Cop's kicks are, and then you think about eating that on the ribs like that.
matt serra
Yeah.
joe rogan
Oh my God.
That is.
din thomas
It's like it's folding around his leg.
joe rogan
Yeah.
I mean, that's another one that he landed on.
That's Josh.
That's Josh Barnett.
Bro.
The power that that dude had.
And what about the one that he landed on Vanderlein when he flatlined Vanderlein?
john rallo
Dude, he had some wheels on him.
It's like, woo!
joe rogan
And power.
It's just the difference was like when he was throwing kicks at you, it was 100% gas.
He was not feeling you out.
He was trying to like let you know, motherfucker, there's some darkness behind that shot.
You will see darkness and then you have a flashlight in your face.
And they'll be like, you okay?
Stay put, stay put.
You're gonna be okay.
But then Gonzaga did that to him.
Oh, remember?
din thomas
I was there for that.
john rallo
And then he rolled over his ankle.
din thomas
Yeah.
john rallo
Remember that man?
joe rogan
His ankle popped.
unidentified
And that went back.
din thomas
Forever be known as the Crow Cops.
Whenever you see that happen, you always think back when it happened.
matt serra
I was in London.
unidentified
Yeah.
matt serra
We went after that, man.
joe rogan
Yeah.
matt serra
I had to, that's right after I got the belt.
And I remember me, you and Eddie went out and got some pasta.
joe rogan
That's right.
din thomas
Yeah.
matt serra
That's so funny.
joe rogan
That was crazy.
People forgot about Gonzaga.
din thomas
I know, you know?
joe rogan
That was a big win, man.
matt serra
Huge.
Huge, huge.
unidentified
Huge, huge.
joe rogan
Big, fucking dude.
Big, natural dude.
The heavyweight division right now is so shallow in the UFC.
It's so shallow.
john rallo
It's like, without, you know, you think they're all playing football and basketball, you know?
joe rogan
100%.
Yeah.
matt serra
What about Johnny?
What's Johnny?
I hate to say.
din thomas
Walter Walker.
matt serra
Walter Walker.
What about him taking leg locks at everybody?
din thomas
Yeah, I know.
Like three in a row?
matt serra
Yeah.
unidentified
Walter Walker.
din thomas
Yeah.
joe rogan
Looks good.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah, I mean, we need more of that.
We need someone to, like, if Aspinall's going to have, he's got Cyril gone, right?
So that's an interesting fight.
And then who?
din thomas
There's no one after that.
joe rogan
Jackie Lewis, just on name.
din thomas
Yeah.
joe rogan
Derek would be fine.
matt serra
By the way, Cyril gone didn't have a bad movie.
Not to keep bringing up movies, but I love movies.
But he fucking KO with Cyril gone?
joe rogan
What is it?
matt serra
It's a movie on Netflix.
He has his own movie.
He's an action star.
joe rogan
He's the star of the movie.
matt serra
He's the star of it, and you might be thinking, all right, how's his acting?
It wasn't bad.
unidentified
Really?
matt serra
Fucking.
He's the new action Jackson.
I'm only fucking asshole.
joe rogan
He's the new action king.
matt serra
Is it in English?
It's dubbed in English.
But it's a fresh song.
joe rogan
So how do you know if he's any good?
matt serra
Well, I watched it.
joe rogan
Yeah, but I'm saying it's like it's not even his voice.
matt serra
Well, you could see him.
joe rogan
I would say his acting is really good, but like some other dude's voice, that's kind of crazy.
You don't have to call him KO.
unidentified
It's called KO, but it's not bad.
matt serra
There he is.
Hey, listen.
joe rogan
You know, it's not the best sign when a fighter starts starring in movies.
din thomas
Yeah, you're right.
joe rogan
I'm not saying that it's not fun.
din thomas
Is this new?
matt serra
Is this pretty new?
joe rogan
Yeah.
din thomas
Everybody watching for him and his chances against Tom Aspen.
john rallo
Yeah, like, that's what I'm saying.
You better better be training.
joe rogan
Yeah.
If there's a world that can soften you, it's the world of acting.
matt serra
It's a weird thing, man.
din thomas
I mean, acting and music kills fighters.
joe rogan
There's also a thing, like, once you become a movie star, like...
Like, remember Tommy Morrison when he fought Ray Mercer?
din thomas
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
Right after Rocky?
john rallo
Oh, that was a hard knockout.
matt serra
Oh, yeah.
john rallo
He beat him down.
joe rogan
Ray Mercer had him tangled in the road.
unidentified
And Ray just punching and seeing him blasting away.
matt serra
Didn't Ray Mercer knock out Tim Silver also?
unidentified
Yeah.
din thomas
He did.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
One punch.
matt serra
That was great.
joe rogan
One punch.
Ray Mercer, man.
And he did that.
He was like 46.
john rallo
Remember when he, who the hell did he fight in, it was like K1 or Pride, and they kicked him, and he just left the ring?
It was Ray Mercer.
din thomas
Yeah.
john rallo
So when I threw a head kick, he looked at him like he's speaking a foreign language, and he fucking just left.
joe rogan
Really?
matt serra
Ray Mercer.
Are you sure that was Mercer?
john rallo
I'm pretty sure.
Can we find that?
matt serra
I don't know.
joe rogan
I mean, I think one of the most interesting boxers that entered into MMA or entered into kickboxing was when Masato fought both of them.
Cool Vince.
din thomas
Oh yeah.
unidentified
That's Phillips.
din thomas
Vince Phillips.
unidentified
Yeah.
That's Phillips.
john rallo
He did all right.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
What are you talking about?
din thomas
He couldn't do with them leg kicks.
joe rogan
Yeah.
din thomas
He couldn't do with them leg kicks.
joe rogan
Chopped apart.
Chopped the leg kicks.
That's what's interesting when you watch a boxer who goes over there and's like, Oh shit.
Like, what is this?
matt serra
They never got kicked in the leg before.
unidentified
Yeah.
din thomas
That's when Shannon Briggs fought Tom Erickson.
joe rogan
That's right.
unidentified
Same thing.
din thomas
Yeah.
joe rogan
Shannon was on the podcast.
He was telling me about it.
din thomas
Oh yeah.
joe rogan
He's like, Champ.
Every time he hit me, Champ.
I was like, Oh, don't let him kick me again.
I gotta quit.
matt serra
How did that go?
joe rogan
He knocked him out.
Shannon knocked him out because Shannon hit him with a jab to the body.
unidentified
So, uh oh, here's Tim Sullivan.
joe rogan
So what happened was Tim was not supposed to kick.
They only had this authorized as a fight, but since it was like an MMA fight, they were supposed to be a boxing match, right?
One shot.
So what was it supposed to be a boxing match, they couldn't get authorized for it to be a boxing match because Tim Silvia didn't have a boxing record.
din thomas
Right.
joe rogan
And so you can't fight a former world champion and you've had no boxing record, but you could fight him in MMA.
It's a world champion versus a world champion.
He knows that boxing is a sport that's in MMA, you could do that.
And so they made an agreement, okay, don't kick me, and I'll fight you in the cage.
And then Tim opens up with an inside low kick.
That's why Ray Mercer, you see, he drops his hands.
din thomas
Yeah, what are you doing?
That makes a lot of sense.
joe rogan
Because the original fight they were contracted for was a boxing match.
And Tim's like, once I got you in here, I'm going to kick your fucking legs.
And then Ray cracks him.
din thomas
That's kind of a cheap shot, though.
If you make an agreement about that, that's a cheap shot.
joe rogan
Jamie, play it again.
Because when you see when Ray gets that inside low kick, he drops his hands.
He's got this look in his face like, what are you doing?
What the fuck is this?
watch he steps out watch this throws the kick bro bro what is that oh i can't believe okay i love him Timber.
matt serra
Timber.
joe rogan
Out cold.
Ray Mercer.
matt serra
Good for him.
joe rogan
I mean, Ray Mercer could fucking punch, son.
din thomas
Into the shot, too.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
matt serra
That's the full mount right there.
joe rogan
It's kind of amazing how few boxers have actually entered into MMA.
Not, you know, this was like, you got tricked into this one, but it's only like, you would think more would, too, right?
Well, I...
din thomas
Yeah, but how many guys get there?
joe rogan
Right.
Think of, you know, relatively speaking, Spence and Crawford made.
That was like a big fight.
din thomas
I mean, they probably still made a lot., a couple, you know, a gang of millions.
joe rogan
Right.
john rallo
I mean, I'm guessing in the single digit millions, though, not fucking hundreds of millions.
joe rogan
I bet it's disclosed.
So let me find out what the purse was, Jamie.
matt serra
We need the next Art Jimison in hand.
unidentified
Yeah.
jamie vernon
25 mil.
joe rogan
25 mil each.
jamie vernon
Nice.
Nice.
At least 25 mil for their fight doesn't matter.
din thomas
But even still, like it's such a small population of boxers to make that, as we said.
joe rogan
Right.
din thomas
So you would think that more would go, you know what?
I'm probably not going to make 25 mil.
I'm not good enough to make that, but I'm good enough to maybe go to MMA and make 100 grand, 200 grand.
john rallo
I think I've just learned how many other skill sets though that's true but if you're a guy like crawford it started out as a wrestler well then yeah that's the amount and there are some of them i think like the citron brothers right one of them was a wrestler too i thought yeah curman Citron.
Yeah.
unidentified
Yeah.
jamie vernon
I was digging through a boxing forum.
They didn't believe the Oosic payout numbers.
joe rogan
Oh, they didn't believe it?
They think it's bullshit?
unidentified
Yeah.
john rallo
I don't understand how they're going to do that.
Unless you're just lighting money on it.
din thomas
Yeah, it does.
joe rogan
You mean about the Oosic numbers?
jamie vernon
Yeah, the payout.
joe rogan
Oh, really?
unidentified
Yep.
jamie vernon
No one believes it.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah, but that's just because they're haters.
jamie vernon
I mean, no one proved it.
din thomas
No one proved it.
jamie vernon
It was $200 million.
It wasn't on pay-per-view.
There's no, unless someone just gave him the money.
john rallo
Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
Like, actually, let that money on fire.
joe rogan
This is the thing.
Those Saudis are known to do that.
Yeah, they probably.
I mean, look what they did with that Liv Golf Tournament.
They basically they just bought the tournament.
And if they did that with basketball or with anything else, they have enough money to do that with basically all sports.
jamie vernon
Suppose they did it with the John Jones fight.
joe rogan
So John Jones asked the UOC for thirty million dollars to fight Tom Aspinall, then pulled out two days after they agreed.
He didn't think we'd come up with the number, and they did.
Saudi Arabia was involved.
He was hoping they wouldn't meet the number.
john rallo
We literally just saw that this morning.
That's what the UOC said, yeah.
joe rogan
Interesting.
I wonder where he's getting his information.
That's interesting.
john rallo
He said earlier in the thing that he priced himself out of the Ngannou fight.
And he thought that strategy would work again, but apparently they met the 30 million.
And then John, a couple days later, did the retirement thing and said he wasn't going to fight.
matt serra
Why the fuck would he even want to do that then?
john rallo
I'm gonna Yeah, I'm with you.
joe rogan
Well, guys, listen, it's a dangerous fight.
john rallo
I'd ask that man, for sure.
Especially at this point in John's career.
matt serra
30 fucking million, no?
din thomas
Yeah, I'd take the L for 30 million.
joe rogan
Yeah, but he doesn't want the L. Here's the thing.
The real thing is, John's rich right now, right?
He's already a millionaire.
So what is he going to, what's that extra?
It's going to be nice to have an extra 30, but the reality is he's rich right now.
He probably doesn't have to work for the rest of his life if he doesn't do anything currently.
john rallo
He still makes money doing his appearances and whatever else.
joe rogan
And he doesn't have to take that ass kicking.
Not saying that he would, but if you wanted to look at it from that perspective, like if it's a tough fight, he's been through all wars, the Gustafson fights, all of them take something out of you.
And you gotta know when you don't want to do that anymore.
And if that's where he's at right now, I hope he stays retired.
But then he jumped right back in and said he wants to fight at the White House, right?
So it's like, it's so hard for those guys to let it go.
When they do let it go, it's, it's difficult to figure out who you are.
john rallo
Man, we gotta see where that train's going off the tracks when he's not like an Aerosmith song, son.
joe rogan
I mean, guys at all time great, though.
I mean, if not the all time great.
din thomas
Yeah.
john rallo
I know who's mean.
I don't think so.
matt serra
I've been really good lately.
And I, I, it's, I'm like, I forgot who, I forgot who he's going to be fighting, but Dominic Reyes is.
unidentified
Oh, he's like Carlos Oberge, right?
din thomas
Oh, he's like, that's in Australia.
john rallo
That should be a good one.
din thomas
In Australia.
joe rogan
That's a real good one.
john rallo
That should be, yeah.
joe rogan
That's a real good one.
matt serra
Oberge's majestic.
joe rogan
Oberge's fast.
din thomas
I know.
He's fast.
He might be faster than than Dominic Reyes.
joe rogan
I'll tell you what, man.
I rewatched Dominic Reyes as Jon Jones and I could see Dominic Reyes winning that decision.
matt serra
That was a, that was a tough decision.
joe rogan
It's close.
fight.
I mean, I'm not saying I sat down and scored it, but I'm like, okay, I could see the argument.
john rallo
I want to know John's story.
How much coke did he do the week of the fight?
You know what I mean?
How about when he told DC that?
unidentified
Yeah, right when I was on cocaine.
That's the coldest thing I could ever say, right?
joe rogan
You know, they say there's nine years that a fighter can fight at his very best.
It's most for most athletes and I think they did this someone's explaining it to me they think they did this based on tennis because tennis is all about like fast twitch and movement and the ability to explode back and forth and they're not taking any damage and you could kind of keep your level going at the highest level for about nine years and then everything just slows down a little bit.
There's just too many injuries.
matt serra
I mean the training for these things that's the biggest thing is the camps especially as you get older.
unidentified
Fuck yeah.
matt serra
You know getting there in one piece is just it's just the fastest possible if you have to if you want to just check all the boxes getting ready for these fucking things.
Yeah.
joe rogan
And when guys get to be like 37, 38, 39.
din thomas
It's so hard to predict them to show up to fight.
joe rogan
I know.
din thomas
I gotta make predictions.
I'm like, well, they're 38.
joe rogan
uh now i'll tell you what dude i'm not counting out cannonier anymore yeah After he beat Gregory Rodriguez, I was like, god damn.
john rallo
Put it on him too.
joe rogan
Put it on him.
And Gregory tried to take him out in that first round, man.
He went all gas.
matt serra
Gregory's a beast too.
Robocop.
He just came back and knocked out the joker, fucking Hermanson.
And that was brutal.
din thomas
Yeah, I think Gregory Rodriguez would be the biggest threat to Reiner de Ritter.
matt serra
Oh, that's interesting.
din thomas
Because just like when you think about styles, like just the biggest threat, I think he would come back to Reiner de Ritter's head off.
matt serra
I like that.
joe rogan
His striking's terrifying.
De Ritter's got that knee to the body that is so interesting, the way he fucking forces you to clinch and then yeah yeah yeah yeah it's just tricky it's tricky so good in the in the entrance with that knee to the body yeah and when he did that over and over and over again it's like wow like paid for it one time with that overhand that's true and that's where Rodriguez would be yeah throw that knee in fucking RoboCop started waiting that locked on his jaw yeah but uh perfect nickname for him too RoboCop he looks like he does look
like that's a fight right the Riddler and RoboCop's that would be a crazy fight yeah that's a good one that's a real good I'm impressed with his Jiu Jitsu that the Riddler man am I seeing his name right the Riddler's the Riddler the fucking everything goes back to the comics, but he was so big.
din thomas
Yeah.
joe rogan
He's so big for 85.
din thomas
But so was RoboCop.
joe rogan
Yeah.
matt serra
The way he handled Bo Nichol made the punch.
john rallo
I thought he was awful.
I thought that was a horrible matchup for Bo Nichol.
joe rogan
But it was a lot of those knees to the body.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Those knees to the body were nasty.
He was so good at it.
He was so good at throwing that knee to the body.
matt serra
He's very calm too.
unidentified
Oh yeah.
joe rogan
Well, he's been through it, man.
I mean, we haven't seen him, but over in one episode, see knee to the body.
So nasty.
It's so nice.
It's so nice.
matt serra
And he took one and he took a punch for it too.
Doesn't matter.
Oh my.
That's so.
din thomas
And on the ground, he's a monster yeah what he did to kevin holland i was like whoa okay he was on point man so that's another 85er i mean think about that division you got fluffy who just like has this breakout performance last weekend you got you know the whole division fluffy what about that african dude oh my god oh my god i'm scared of one he might be the one like of all the dudes he you know i was like you know he's not 185 no he but he's fast does anybody know the african dude's name attier something
like that is it goutier goutier it's a you know it's not a tapi tapi goutier yeah yeah that sounds more like Am I saying that right, Jamie?
john rallo
She's looking for verification.
joe rogan
Yeah, he's from Cameroon as well.
din thomas
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah, he's scary.
He's real scary.
din thomas
There's there's dudes that just God just gave him an extra little extra little extra little He gave him more than an extra little because I was Kate, you know, Kate's side man, we watch these dudes and he's punching this guy like in the back and the guy's like going There he is.
joe rogan
A T-bug on the TV.
john rallo
Yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah.
And he's like 1,94 m, 185 m, doesn't have an ounce of body fat on him.
I mean, look at that photo of him.
Just look at that photo that's crazy you know that's like one of those the guy your girlfriend tells you not to worry about photos yeah yeah yeah there's a few of those guys that just they don't even look real Rodolfo Viera he's another one yeah you see him you're like how's that a real dude so here he is man this is in his last fight I mean vicious power he's power Like that guy's just getting hit like yo, somehow stop him.
matt serra
You were talking about the heavyweights, man.
I was upset by Bushema, man.
din thomas
Oh, Bushema?
matt serra
Bushema.
joe rogan
Steven Bushema.
unidentified
I've been watching Paul Paul.
joe rogan
That was a send by Burata.
din thomas
Yeah.
Yeah, he looked bad.
matt serra
He looked bad.
joe rogan
He didn't look bad.
john rallo
Horrible.
joe rogan
How about they fucking got rid of the other dude?
matt serra
That's weird.
joe rogan
They let him go.
Like, you fucked up.
din thomas
I think they're going to resign him.
I think it's just a matter of, like, just not having so many guys on the roster to have that burden to keep fighting him.
joe rogan
That doesn't make any sense.
If the guy's on, like, a win streak.
Guys on a win streak.
din thomas
Yeah, but I think they're going to resign him, though.
joe rogan
So it's just like they didn't sign in time?
din thomas
Well, you know, it's like when they have so many guys on the roster, they have to promise them certain amount of fights.
So it's like...
Yeah, so they don't have to promise some fights.
joe rogan
But is that for sure?
din thomas
Are you just speculating?
Because that's why they pay them if they don't Yeah, because they have to pay them anyway if they don't get a certain amount of fight or not.
joe rogan
I mean, imagine you just fought your ass off, you beat Buchett against Buchett cut you, right?
You're like, what?
din thomas
I think what they'll do is that when they need him again, they'll just get him back.
john rallo
I was disappointed.
As opposed to just how bad his shape he was getting cardio wise.
matt serra
Well, he just I think he banked on that single leg, which was getting pretty good.
john rallo
Have you seen him fight that rug rug guy or whatever and won?
That was a crazy fight, a crazy war.
He took a lot of torture.
Like, I was impressed because most Jiu Jitsu guys, when they get hit like that, they're not out there for the fight.
And then in this fight, didn't look at all like the guy that fought at one and I thought he was gonna be better, you know, because he's training.
joe rogan
Let me ask you this.
What kind of drug testing do you think they're doing over there?
john rallo
Yeah, nine.
din thomas
Where?
john rallo
Man, nine.
joe rogan
Yeah, I love killing.
What kind of drug testing?
john rallo
Nine.
din thomas
Drug testing?
john rallo
You got a point.
matt serra
Yeah.
din thomas
Yeah.
joe rogan
I mean, this is this is a problem with a lot of guys we got from Pride.
din thomas
Yeah.
joe rogan
You know, a guy they come over with different physiques.
They look different.
din thomas
Oh yeah.
matt serra
100%.
joe rogan
Moudet signs with Octagon MMA faces off with the heavyweight champ.
unidentified
All right.
matt serra
Well, he's staying busy.
joe rogan
You know, the guy's good and we need good guys in the heavyweight division.
There's just not a lot of people.
I mean, the thing about it is, it's like, you gotta be exciting.
john rallo
I mean, I think part of that too.
din thomas
You gotta be exciting.
john rallo
Physically, he looks horrible.
joe rogan
Yeah.
john rallo
I think if he was looked more marketable, I bet you would still have a contract.
joe rogan
I know, but isn't there like something to a guy who looks like shit, fucks everybody up?
din thomas
There is something to that.
john rallo
Especially when he's always overlapping somebody up.
joe rogan
Look, when Fedor was in his prime, that was part of his charm.
Part of his charm.
Part of his charm.
din thomas
He's a chubby fucking guy.
joe rogan
He's a little roll around his place.
john rallo
Right?
joe rogan
Dead behind the ass.
din thomas
Old man backing shit.
matt serra
How many guys didn't root for fucking Roy Nelson?
I'm not saying he looked like shit, bro.
He's like an everyday guy knocking guys out., fucking, you know, people like him.
joe rogan
Bro, people loved him.
That power that Roy had was crazy.
Like he came over from Jiu Jitsu.
Everybody knew he was a black belt in Jiu Jitsu.
Like, always competing in Abu Dhabi and the circuit.
unidentified
Then all of a sudden he's throwing hammer.
din thomas
He got this mullet shit up here.
matt serra
He's a little savage.
joe rogan
Takes a shot better than any living human that's ever lived.
I mean, who took a shot better than Roy?
He took some bombs, dude.
That guy took some bombs and absorbed them.
matt serra
Nah, he was badass.
joe rogan
And people loved watching him fight with that big belly.
They loved watching him.
unidentified
That's maybe weighed it up too.
joe rogan
Yeah, so I don't buy that that they look like shit.
It's just the performance was it wasn't exciting.
If you watch that fight, that fight wasn't a good fight.
You know, Buchetta did wrestle at a high level.
It looked like going to the race.
If you're going to be a Jiu Jitsu guy and everyone knows he was a multiple world champion in Jiu Jitsu and you're fighting in MMA, son, you better have some take downs.
Because hey, no one's going to want to be fucking grappling with you.
Why would they do that?
john rallo
You're right.
matt serra
He was just banking on that single leg.
And once he started taking that, he had he was taking away that single leg very well.
And then I'm like, oh shit, it's a long way.
I was all excited.
I'm like, oh, Bishop.
unidentified
Oh, yeah, shit.
I thought too.
john rallo
I was like, shit, shit, shit.
Let's see how this goes.
matt serra
It's a shit.
Really?
joe rogan
How many times have you watched a high-level Jiu-Jitsu match between two black belts and it starts in a standing position and no one goes down at all for like 10 minutes?
It's annoying.
They're just tying up.
There's no good shots.
There's no one threatens to take someone down.
Everyone's afraid to commit.
john rallo
When you start on your...
matt serra
In Abu Dhabi, I pulled guard every fucking time.
If you trust in your guard or being able to get back, now they call wrestling up, but I was doing that back in the day before it was called that.
But, you know, if you're good at not letting somebody pass, especially in Abu Dhabi rule set, after five minutes, you know, all right, now I'm on my back.
If I'm good at getting out and getting up and putting the guy down, I'm, you know what I mean?
I don't know.
It's all strategy with that.
But I hate when it's a stalemate with just two guys just fucking pummeling them.
joe rogan
But I get it from the wrestler's perspective, too.
It's like, hey, fuck sitting on your ass.
Take me down, bitch.
You want me on the groundund, you have to take me to the ground.
I get that too, because that's correct.
And that's one of the things that you see that's like very humbling for a real good Jiu Jitsu guy when he's there's no way he can take a guy down and then the guy starts beating him up standing up.
And you just have you just rushing forward, trying to grab him.
You can't get the fight to your expertise level, your area of expertise.
din thomas
It looks so bad.
matt serra
It's especially bad.
Nothing to fear from you standing.
So it's like, yeah, yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
Exactly.
john rallo
What about Don Fry and Amri Batech?
That was a bad call for that.
joe rogan
He was a modest.
matt serra
And he was tiny, by the way.
Amri Batech was a stud, but he might have done well if they gave him anybody else.
joe rogan
But one, if you watch that again, he's way smaller and that's a small don fry back then too don fry was 200 that was before he really got on the gas pride don fry's a lot different than that don fry's a superhero you know yeah he got gigantic even his mustache got bigger i didn't know that that guy the big japanese guy that they were punching each other in the face yeah i didn't know that guy became a quadruplegic something happened i saw a picture of him visiting him on the mall he is yeah i ain't gonna die dude yeah dom
Don was not big.
You know, look at Don.
I mean, he wasn't a big muscular.
I mean, obviously, super athletic.
matt serra
Different weight classes right here.
joe rogan
Yeah, big difference.
matt serra
This is crazy.
joe rogan
But not the Dom from Pride.
The giant roided up Don Fry from Pride was a different animal.
unidentified
This poor Amari was just trying to get him down the whole time.
john rallo
He just grabbed the fence.
unidentified
I was going to say he grabbed the fence, yeah.
john rallo
No rules at all.
joe rogan
Full-on grabbing the fence.
Look, he's hanging onto the fence with shoes on.
That's the other thing.
He's got wrestling shoes, which is also kind of crazy.
matt serra
That sucks.
Poor Amari.
I mean, he didn't have any fun.
din thomas
Yeah, it was bad.
joe rogan
with amari back old school top team back it was a long fight what do you think amari buttech weighed in this fight i'm gonna just say an absolute what do you think a buck 70 or something he looks he looks small i mean look at the size this thing weight close look how young he is i know he's just big difference no gloves yeah yeah sure.
john rallo
It was 30 years ago.
So crazy.
matt serra
What?
jamie vernon
30 years?
john rallo
It was 96.
matt serra
Sometimes I forget I'm fucking in my 50s.
51.
john rallo
I'll be 57.
din thomas
It was a catchweight?
joe rogan
Did it say Henri Batouch's weight?
jamie vernon
I'm looking up a different spot.
joe rogan
He looks like a doubleweight.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
There was a lot of those fights back then.
john rallo
Oh my god.
Tons of them.
din thomas
Catchweights?
joe rogan
No, just crazy fights.
No crazy fights.
Fighting someone way smaller than them.
john rallo
It's like Kerr and Gajel, Fabio Gajel.
din thomas
Yeah, that's one of my favorite fights of all time.
john rallo
I was a big Fabio fan.
matt serra
I was a big Fabio fan.
I give credit to Marillo Bustamante fighting Tom Erickson for 45 minutes.
john rallo
Marillo was a Jiu-Jitsu guy that had some stand-up and had some wrestling.
He took Linland down.
He had it on the feet with Chuck Liddell.
joe rogan
I thought Marillo had Linland twice.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
matt serra
Marillo Bustamante is one of my favorites to watch.
The thing about the Jiu-Jitsu guys back then, some of those guys.
Fabio Gojel's another one.
john rallo
Fabio is a man.
matt serra
Marillo is their Jiu-Jitsu games.
It could transfer over from Gui, NoGui, MMA, and it all resembles the same skill set.
You know what I mean?
But it could cross.ross over.
joe rogan
Mario Sperry.
matt serra
Mario Sperry.
unidentified
Yeah.
matt serra
He was great too.
joe rogan
Yeah.
matt serra
You know?
Yeah, man.
joe rogan
A lot of those guys from that Carlson Gracie team.
He had a really solid team.
john rallo
He had a really good team.
joe rogan
Yeah.
din thomas
Yeah.
john rallo
Can't doubt Carlson's teaching.
Like a lot of savages came out of that camp.
A lot of them.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Including Vitor.
unidentified
Yeah.
din thomas
Well, that's where I got my black belt from, from Laborio, from that camp.
john rallo
Yeah, well, yeah, Laborio was...
He was a good dude.
matt serra
Where has he been?
din thomas
He's in Orlando.
He's got a school in Orlando.
john rallo
He still got a school.
din thomas
He still got a school.
And like a whole network.
matt serra
He's not going to do MMA anymore.
din thomas
No, no MMA.
unidentified
stuff.
matt serra
Because I used to see him roll out of top team.
din thomas
Never.
Nice guy.
matt serra
What a sweetheart guy that guy is.
john rallo
Yeah, he was.
joe rogan
When did he leave top team?
din thomas
He left before I did.
unidentified
Really?
din thomas
Yeah, so.
I mean, in fact, when he left, that's when they really hired me to kind of take his place.
That makes sense.
joe rogan
That makes sense.
It's like 2019 coming up.
Oh, Joe Pfeiffer.
din thomas
Oh, yeah.
matt serra
Joe Pfeiffer, yeah.
din thomas
He's fighting Abu Smegametoff.
unidentified
Yeah.
Oh.
din thomas
Joe Pfeiffer.
matt serra
I like Joe, man.
He's fucking tough.
He's got some hands in that.
joe rogan
Joe Pfeiffer thought that I was too hard on him in the commentary of the last five.
Yeah, we just because it's just because it has potential.
That's all he has.
knew that he was looking for the big shot instead of like just letting it come and yeah he was so good in the first round that unfortunately like he had so much success and almost took him out that he started looking to take him out yeah and if you load up with kelvin and i think it's still box i think it freaked him out a little bit that kelvin was still there you know like like he's like yo i didn't hit this dude with everything he's still here what the hell's going on nobody's got a chin like that guy yeah it is a little chubby though kelvin yeah he's a 70 he's a 70 yeah
he shouldn't be he's always had such problems making it yeah but you know what man it's just like if that guy was at the ufcpi and they gave him all his meals and he had someone babysit them and make sure you don't just don't fuck off.
Don't eat anything other than this.
And it's like too many guys just want to feel comfortable.
din thomas
Yeah.
joe rogan
It's like, okay, but you're not going to feel comfortable losing.
unidentified
Right?
joe rogan
So you're fighting a giant.
din thomas
Yeah.
joe rogan
And that this guy's coming down from an extreme weight.
jamie vernon
185 first, 210.
And that's why.
joe rogan
Oh, Amrei Batatch was 185.
Yeah.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Okay.
Damn.
jamie vernon
He's also a late replacement.
matt serra
I gotta go back again.
I'm sorry.
joe rogan
Well, let's wrap it up.
matt serra
Whoa, man, guys, my ass is stopping us.
unidentified
No, no, no.
joe rogan
We've been doing this for three hours.
We've been doing it for three hours.
matt serra
Okay.
joe rogan
So it's fine.
matt serra
I feel you guys are gonna fucking curse me after this.
I'm sorry.
joe rogan
No, no, no, no.
We understand.
matt serra
Me and my ass.
joe rogan
You got a legitimate isssue.
matt serra
I have a lot of issues.
joe rogan
Ground Patrol, Baltimore, Maryland.
matt serra
Can I have a fucking shirt?
john rallo
Groundpatrol, baltimore dot com dot Crazy that I didn't bring that shirt on fights dot com.
I got you, Matt.
Don't worry.
matt serra
Thank you.
Medium now.
din thomas
And Dean Thomas Fight Court, the new podcast.
unidentified
Yes.
joe rogan
Oh, you got a new one?
din thomas
I'm always got a new one.
Dean Thomas Fight Court.
john rallo
So.
No, at BMORE MMA on Instagram too.
joe rogan
I'll see you this weekend, Chicago, right?
din thomas
Yeah, I'll be there.
matt serra
Matt's our channel on, oh, I'm sorry.
We're done.
din thomas
No, no, I'm done.
matt serra
Matt's our channel on YouTube.
I'm having fun with that.
I got a, that's a little podcast that can, like 30 something thousand.
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