#1548 - Roy Jones Jr.

Joe Rogan (0:04)

The Joe Rogan Experience.

Roy Jones Jr. (0:12)

Roy Jones Jr. ladies and gentlemen.

Joe Rogan (0:13)

Hey, what's up, my brother, how you doing?

Roy Jones Jr. (0:15)

I'm honored to have you in here. I've been a fan forever.

Joe Rogan (0:18)

I know this, and I was going to tell you that I am very happy to be here for you and for me, because I've been a fan of yours as well, but I always love the support that you give me. You've always supported me since day one. You've been one of the best people that I can hear talk about me since day one. I just want to say thank you, man, for all the support, for being a brother.

Roy Jones Jr. (0:36)

Thank you, sir. My pleasure.

Joe Rogan (0:38)

I feel like we're brothers now.

Roy Jones Jr. (0:39)

For sure. I've been a fan forever. Thank you. From way back in the day, your song, Y'all Must Have Forgotten... I didn't forget shit.

I remember all of it, man.

Joe Rogan (0:49)

Yeah, it is.

Roy Jones Jr. (0:50)

I remember when your fights were basically executions.

Joe Rogan (0:52)

Yes, exactly.

Roy Jones Jr. (0:54)

There was some years, man, where you would just see, how is this guy going to survive and how long?

And there was a time in your career when you were at your peak where you had devised this style that was so different than anyone else's. Very few jabs you would throw. A lead hook. No one knew how to prepare for it because there was no sparring partners that could emulate it. Your speed was off the charts. Your movement was off the charts.

I think to this day, you're the only person in CompuBox history that went a full round without having a single punch scored on him.

Joe Rogan (1:29)

And they say I'm not the best defensive fighter ever.

Roy Jones Jr. (1:31)

Listen, that's...

No one's ever... I mean, maybe Willie Pepp might have done that back in the day.

Joe Rogan (1:38)

Before CompuBox. Before CompuBox era, nobody has ever gone a complete round without getting a punch scored on them.

And you tell me he ain't the best pound for pound, or he's the best at least defensive fighter, and we know about the offense, but I don't argue, I just listen to what people say.

Roy Jones Jr. (1:53)

No, there was a time where I always said, like people would say, oh, but he didn't fight anybody. I'm like, the fuck he didn't.

They just couldn't, they couldn't compete. That's all it was. You fought world champions.

Joe Rogan (2:03)

Like the song say, I just make them look like nobody. Y'all must have forgot.

Roy Jones Jr. (2:09)

You had such a strange style, man. How did you devise that style?

Joe Rogan (2:12)

Honestly, man, it was a lot. My father was a fighter who was trained by Sarge Johnson in the, I think, some part of the armed services. Anyway, my father learned a lot, but he also learned a lot of things not to do.

So by learning those things, he was able to give me a very good foundation.

With that foundation, my father had roosters, fighting roosters when I was young. So I would watch the roosters all the time, because roosters develop a pecking order. And people always talk about fighting animals, that they develop a pecking order on their own anyway. They're going to do that anyway. So I would always watch them to figure out what made one the king of the pecking order, what made him better than the rest. And when I learned what that was, it was a few things I figured out. Once I would figure them out, I started emulating those things in my boxing style.

Roy Jones Jr. (3:09)

So from fighting chickens, what was the thing that you noticed?

Joe Rogan (3:13)

Well, first of all, the one that used it was on top. He knew and he carried ouself for the era of confidence that he wasn't going to be messed with. So when he fight, he do a lot more faking, a lot more fainting, never let him know when he coming. All of a sudden, there he goes.

And he stayed powerful. He stayed the same the whole day. And it's like, anytime he wouldn't get sent by anybody, he did the same thing. He used the same fanks, same fanks. And he often would do things that other chickens just didn't know to do, but that's God given.

Man didn't teach them that. God gave them that. So if you learn his characteristics, which I will watch how he would carry himself all day long, the way he carried himself when he wasn't around the other ones, the way he got rid of when the other ones came around, people say, people used to think that I was very egotistical. I've never been an egotistical person, but what I was was a highly confident person.