Fight Companion - July 11, 2020

Joe Rogan (0:05)

Booyah, and we're live. The COVID crew cannot make it.

Brian Callan, Brian Callan's still coughing, not doing so good. Brendan Schaub is 100%, he even tested negative, but there's a 14-day mandatory quarantine, bitch. You gotta take it. Joey, motherfucking Diaz is in the house.

Joey Diaz (0:24)

My brother and my different mother are very excited about these fights tonight.

Joe Rogan (0:27)

I'm very excited.

Joey Diaz (0:28)

This is an amazing card.

Joe Rogan (0:29)

This is an amazing card. And of course, the golden pony in the house, Tony Hinchcliffe.

We are taking precautions for COVID. Everyone gets their own joint.

That's how we do it here. And Buffalo Trace will kill anything. If you have any problems, just put it on your microphone, put it on your fingers, whatever you need. You want a drink?

Tony Hinchcliffe (0:48)

I'll have a little one, yeah.

Joe Rogan (0:50)

Come on, that's what I'm talking about. Ice or no ice?

Tony Hinchcliffe (0:52)

Ice.

Joey Diaz (0:56)

On the way up here, I told myself I'm going to have a drink. I'm such a pussy.

Joe Rogan (1:01)

You can have a little drink.

Joey Diaz (1:02)

I can't.

Tony Hinchcliffe (1:02)

No?

Joey Diaz (1:03)

Because I can't lie to a cop. He pulls me over and he says, I've been drinking.

Joe Rogan (1:07)

Joey, we'll be here for three hours.

Joey Diaz (1:08)

I know, but still.

Joe Rogan (1:09)

One drink right now.

Joey Diaz (1:10)

400 fucking pounds. I haven't drank the whole...

Joe Rogan (1:12)

Okay, then don't have a drink.

Joey Diaz (1:13)

I haven't drank the whole quarantine. I haven't drank, I don't think, the whole year.

Joe Rogan (1:17)

Bro, my neighbor hasn't stopped.

Joey Diaz (1:19)

No, no.

Joe Rogan (1:20)

I got neighbors that just every time I see them, they look drunk.

Joey Diaz (1:23)

Oh, yeah.

Joe Rogan (1:23)

So a lot of people are really wrecked by this shit, man.

They're just trying to get by. And the booze is... They said booze consumption is up, even though the bars are down.

Joey Diaz (1:33)

They're drinking...

I talked to my old coke dealer. He says he's don't stop making deliveries. He doesn't know where people get his money from. Six in the morning deliveries.

Joe Rogan (1:42)

Jesus Christ.

Tony Hinchcliffe (1:43)

Crazy.

Joe Rogan (1:44)

I'm not shocked. I'm not shocked. So this is the first fight from Fight Island. And if you don't know the history of Fight Island, it is fucking amazing what they've done.

I do not know if through the sale to WME, if the Sheikh of Abu Dhabi still owns a piece of the UFC. I would assume that he wouldn't want to get rid of that. Because you know, Dana still owns a piece.

But anyway, they constructed this insane structure on Yaz Island just for fights during quarantine.

And obviously, they'll have it for fights after quarantine if they choose to do it. But the place is sick. There's a W Hotel there. It's all top, you know, top of the food chain.

It's all beautiful. And they set this structure up. They built this structure just for these fights during quarantine because they needed a place where they could ship the international fighters into. Because they can't get into the United States right now. They test everybody, they test everybody before they leave. Then they test them again when they land in Vegas. Then they test them again when they land in Abu Dhabi. They quarantine them for 48 hours. Then they test them again. Dude, they test the shit out of these people. It's great.

Joey Diaz (3:02)

That's what needs to be done.

Joe Rogan (3:03)

They've done an amazing thing.

Joey Diaz (3:04)

Who likes Paige Van Zandt?

Joe Rogan (3:06)

She's a big underdog in this fight.

Joey Diaz (3:08)

Jamie?

Joe Rogan (3:09)

This girl she's fighting, Amanda Rebus, is no joke. She just beat Mackenzie Dern, who she was supposed to fight Paige Van Zandt, but Paige got injured. Now Paige has had some serious injuries. She broke her arm in one of her fights with a spinning back fist. She threw a spinning back fist and hit a girl in the forearm. Same thing that Paul Felder did to Mike Perry.

It's a real common injury. You spin and instead of hitting with the back fist, you wind up hitting with the middle of the forearm and it just snaps. And so she's had multiple surgeries on that arm to try to fix it.

But this girl is a beast.

Tony Hinchcliffe (3:46)

Brazilian, right?

Joe Rogan (3:47)

Yes, she's very good and lifelong martial artist. Her father was a Jiu Jitsu instructor and he taught Muay Thai and Judo. She's badass. She's very good.