#2439 - Johnny Knoxville

Joe Rogan (0:01)

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Joe Rogan (0:12)

Yeah, yeah, he said, fuck you, old man, he choked him to sleep.

Johnny Knoxville (0:18)

I would pay for it to say that.

Joe Rogan (0:19)

How did you meet Judo Gene LaBelle?

Johnny Knoxville (0:21)

I met him first on Men in Black 2 Oh. He was a stunt man.

Joe Rogan (0:27)

Oh, OK.

Johnny Knoxville (0:29)

And people would, the stunt people would line up outside his trailer. So they, so he would choke them out and he would give you that little, he would give you a patch afterwards. You've been choked out by Judo Gene LaBelle.

Joe Rogan (0:42)

Oh, God. He had all those cartoonish patches.

Johnny Knoxville (0:46)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (0:46)

Like gave me a bunch of those. He's a character man.

Johnny Knoxville (0:49)

He, one guy, I saw one, the stuntman right before Gene choked him out. He goes, one second, this Irish dude. And he turned around and he slapped Gene in the face. And Gene's like, okay. And then, what, after Gene choked him, they were standing up, Gene just dropped him straight to the ground for slapping him.

Joe Rogan (1:12)

You can get hurt like that.

Johnny Knoxville (1:14)

Yeah. Well, that's what you get for slapping Gene LaBelle.

Joe Rogan (1:17)

Don't slap him. Give him a kiss. Kiss him in the cheek before he chokes you out. Don't slap him. He had one of the very first ever mixed martial arts fights.

Johnny Knoxville (1:26)

Oh, yeah. It was that he fought.

Joe Rogan (1:27)

Milo Savage. Yes.

Johnny Knoxville (1:29)

And didn't Milo Savage grease himself up beforehand?

Joe Rogan (1:32)

Oh, yeah. But also, Gene was wearing a gi, which kind of negates most of the grease.

Johnny Knoxville (1:38)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (1:39)

Because you're wearing this like very frictiony gi. So he grabbed him.

Johnny Knoxville (1:43)

And where was, I guess the rumor was Milo Savage's gloves were loaded?

Joe Rogan (1:49)

I don't know. I would do that, though, if I was Milo Savage.

Johnny Knoxville (1:53)

Oh, yeah. I would have some kind of weapon against Gene LaBelle.

Joe Rogan (1:56)

Well, most people that have never grappled a guy like that, they don't have any idea how helpless you actually are until, like, you think, I'll be able to push him away from me. I'll be able to push him away and get some punches off. You really don't know until that guy grabs you. And it's like being grabbed by an orangutan.

Johnny Knoxville (2:11)

Yeah, because his mom ran the Grand Olympic Auditorium, right? And he grew up training with all the disciplines of fighters that came through there.

Joe Rogan (2:20)

Well, he definitely knew pretty much everything. He knew a lot, but, you know, obviously he's a judo specialist. But he's the guy who taught Bruce Lee about the importance of grappling.

Johnny Knoxville (2:29)

Yeah, because he worked with him on the Green Hornet.

Joe Rogan (2:32)

Yeah, I think he worked with him on that. But when he locked up with Bruce Lee, like, Bruce Lee was like, Oh, OK, I'm helpless. Like, apparently the story is that Gene picked him up and carried him around over his shoulder. And then Bruce Lee was like, OK, fuck this. Because like, Gene was a light, I think he was a light heavyweight judo champion. So, I mean, he's probably at least 190 pounds. And, you know, Bruce Lee was a pretty small guy.

Johnny Knoxville (2:59)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (2:59)

And Gene just grabbed him.

Johnny Knoxville (3:02)

His face just looked like a catcher's mitt.

Joe Rogan (3:04)

It was just just looking at that guy's face.

Joe Rogan (3:07)

Yeah, he was a classic.

Johnny Knoxville (3:09)

And always check out a guy's ears before you talk shit with them. If they have that, you know, Cauliflower. Cauliflower ear, just buy him a drink or give him a hug.

Joe Rogan (3:19)

Did Steve-O have that? Didn't he get it from like, didn't he have John Jones fuck his ears up?

Johnny Knoxville (3:23)

He tried to get it. I don't know if it happened. We, you know, we tried to do, I tried to do that to the director, Jeff Tremaine on Jackass Number Two. Every time someone would walk past him, they would grab his ear and twist. And we were just hoping it would cauliflower up by the end of the film, but it didn't. You gotta earn that.

Joe Rogan (3:41)

Yeah, there's a lot of guys who fake it though. I know a lot of Jiu-Jitsu guys who fake it. They have guys fuck their ears up on purpose. Cause they want to look cool. It's kind of weak.