#898 - Bas Rutten & Mauro Ranallo

Joe Rogan (0:05)

Mauro's packing in a pokin over there.

We're live, Mauro Ranallo and The Great Bas Rutten, the dynamic duo of Pride Fighting Championships back in the day, classic fights. You guys are attached to some of the greatest fights of all time.

Bas Rutten (0:20)

We are. I used to tell him every time after a single fight, I say, because at the time, it was six billion people, I go, hey, understand, two in six billion people just did the commentating for this show, because we love that show, it was great.

Mauro Ranallo (0:33)

And I owe it all to this man, Mr. Rogan. Bas Rutten, in many ways, saved my life.

Joe Rogan (0:40)

Uh-oh, it's getting dark early.

Bas Rutten (0:42)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (0:42)

I thought we were going to go down a happy road, but no, Mauro Ranallo wants to immediately go down to Bas Rutten, saved my life.

Mauro Ranallo (0:49)

No, no, no, let's keep it positive, because my two worlds collided on my very first event in Pride at Bushido 1, October 5th, 2003 Pro wrestler, Dolscottis Jr. remember the guy in the mask?

And they had to actually cut out even bigger eye holes because he was fighting Mirko Krokop, the one. And can you imagine a commission in North America would never allow that? And yet, good old Alberto went in, boom.

Joe Rogan (1:19)

Did you see the recent one with Gary Garcia, the Ryzen fight?

Bas Rutten (1:22)

It was scary. I just saw like a repeat thing, like a little loop thing.

Joe Rogan (1:26)

But she fought an old lady. I don't know if she was 52, but whatever she was, she was hobbled. She couldn't walk, her knees were totally wrapped up, she was limping. From the moment she got in there, and then Gabby Garcia towering over this old lady.

She just beats the shit out of her. I mean, it was just an assault.

Mauro Ranallo (1:48)

Giant Silva taking a two by four into the pride ring against Takeshi Segura. Remember big Giant Silva? He took a two by four? To hit him with it? Well, at the end of the angle, yeah, on the Pride Fighting Championship event.

Joe Rogan (2:02)

Why did he do that?

Mauro Ranallo (2:03)

It was, again, the marriage of pro wrestling and pride in many ways. The larger than life storylines in production could lead to things like that. And we saw firsthand the freak fights, if you will. It wasn't, I mean, it wasn't a part of the actual fight. The fight itself was there. But you remember Aleister used to bring the the the acts there were pro wrestling entrances, which a lot of people loved.

Joe Rogan (2:29)

Was this a part of his entrance?

Jamie (2:31)

This was after the fight.

Mauro Ranallo (2:33)

Yeah, this was after the fight. We remember Takeshi Suga and Giant Silver. And it was like, yeah, he had the two by four.

Joe Rogan (2:42)

Do you think it was just choreographed? It was a prop choreographed?

Mauro Ranallo (2:44)

I think it was it was maybe a part of the the presentation and not something that, like you say, he wanted to assault someone with the two by four.

Joe Rogan (2:53)

There was a few fights in the early days that you were like, oh, OK, that's a fixed fight. There's a few.

Bas Rutten (2:58)

Oh, you know, listen, do you remember it was the funniest thing ever. Coleman was fighting Takata.

Joe Rogan (3:03)

Yeah.

Bas Rutten (3:03)

And he told me there was going to be he was going to get finished in six minutes by way of heel hook.

So now the press comes to me and they tell me, what do you think is going to happen in this fight? It's easy. Takata is going to win six minutes heel hook.

And everybody froze because this was before the fight. So they had to change their whole gimmick, what they were going to do. It went like to one and a half minute now.

But I just, I guess I spoiled it for him.

Mauro Ranallo (3:25)

You had the back to the future pride result.

Joe Rogan (3:28)

They had it all planned out.

Bas Rutten (3:29)

They hold up, you know, everything with Takata, I would say.

Joe Rogan (3:33)

Hickson mauled Takata.

Bas Rutten (3:34)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (3:35)

That was 100 percent real.

Bas Rutten (3:36)

But you know, Takata came in our studio training at the Beverly Hills Jiu Jitsu Club. We had white and blue belts tapping him. So it was it was not like this guy was.