#1072 - Joey Diaz

Joey Diaz (0:00)

not showing up, so I'm flying them out after Luke Rockhold. I'm gonna do a podcast of him with subtitles in Spanish, and I'm bringing them up here on Friday. What? Yeah, I'm gonna complete to do it for me in Spanish with subtitles.

And then I'm gonna bring him up here on Friday, and we're gonna have a three-way about Cuba, and what it was like to rest on the whole thing, if you don't mind. I don't know if you oud mind. So I'll do mine about subtitles just in Español.

So no, it will not clash with you.

Joe Rogan (0:31)

Dude, The Three of Us Together would be the greatest podcast ever.

Joey Diaz (0:34)

Yeah, because I could interpret, and You Would Be would be, it would be a real MMA. You could really talk about Underhooks and Russia.

Joe Rogan (0:43)

That's a fantastic idea.

Joey Diaz (0:45)

Early training in Cuba and where they ship them, because they ship you off when you were a young kid. That's what a lot of people don't know. Yeah, they look at you and they go, Pelotero, you don't have a choice.

They look at you and they go, Duase Lucharero, and that's it. Now they take you to a certain age, or they either send you to Nicaragua or Russia, and you train. And that's why a lot of Cubans are judokas, because they go to Russia and learn judo.

Joe Rogan (1:14)

Wow.

Joey Diaz (1:15)

So he's gonna tell you how they ship them off. And they don't just tell your mom, we'll take them tomorrow.

Joe Rogan (1:22)

It's always been interesting to me because the Cubans and the Russians in particular were always thought of as being very technical, really the Russians. Russians are super technical. That was what a lot of people attributed George St. Pierre's success in wrestling. George didn't wrestle in college or in high school, but he trained with a bunch of Russian nationals in Montreal and apparently phenomenal wrestlers. They have this incredible wrestling program.

Like when you see Nurmagomedov, the way he mauls people inside the octagon, like what in the fuck? Like that is like a perfect example of that, like style of super hard, super technical wrestling. They're so good at it. There's so many. Did you see Lomachenko used to be a wrestler? There's a video of Lomachenko. Looks like he's doing Sambo. It looks like he's got like a gi on and it's him and some other cat and he's like 11 years old or something like that. So his father put him in everything. His father made him, you know who Lomachenko is, right? One of the best boxers ever. Like literally one of the most technically beautiful to watch boxers that's ever lived. But this guy used to wrestle too. Like this is, I don't think this is it, is it?

Does him, okay.

Is this him wrestling with somebody? Yeah, this is one now where he can still do this shit. This is like pretty recent. Like he showed some of his wrestling moves. But the other one was him when he was a little boy. Like he's really technical, man. He knows how to wrestle. This is legit.

Like when you see the way he's moving his body, he's not faking that. He's done that a bunch of times. And yeah, this is one when he's a little kid, man. It's crazy. It says Greco-Roman wrestling, but they're wearing a gi, so I'm not exactly sure what it is.

But he gets his kid and gets behind him and sends him for a ride.

So he's always been an amazing athlete. Like in every, I think there's something to that. There's something to, his father had an idea. It's a crazy idea. His father took him out of boxing and put him in a dance for like several years.

A Ukrainian traditional dance style, apparently. They were talking about it on one of those HBO shows. For like four years, I think it was the HBO show. But for four years, I think, he just danced. You imagine that? His father's like, you wanna learn how to box? You gotta dance. And now, nobody's got foot lurk. Have you ever seen him, Joey?

Joey Diaz (3:45)

Yes.

Joe Rogan (3:45)

You've seen like his highlight reel? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Joey Diaz (3:48)

It's insane.

Joe Rogan (3:48)

It's insane. Jamie, pull up a Lomachenko highlight reel.

Joey Diaz (3:51)

Cause my daughter goes to ballet, and 80% of the class is Russian.

So I was thinking about it yesterday. I was watching the movements, the last parade movement, and I'm like, Jesus Christ, if people did ballet, could you, and I was thinking of the GSP. Like, you know me, I'm like, the GSP probably fucking does ballet.