Fight Companion - May 27, 2018

Joe Rogan (0:00)

, two, one.

Bam, we're live, we got up early as a motherfucker, ladies and gentlemen. Not really, it's 10 a.m. Didn't we do one at like 4 a.m. before?

Brendan Schaub (0:13)

We did one at 5 a.m.

Joe Rogan (0:14)

What was that for? Damn, what was it for?

Brendan Schaub (0:16)

It was a, it was a England card, right?

Joe Rogan (0:19)

Was it?

Something. Maybe it was like China or something, Congo.

Eddie Bravo (0:24)

It might have been China.

Brendan Schaub (0:25)

It might have been China.

Joe Rogan (0:26)

Like, what time is it in Africa right now?

Is it yesterday? Is it yesterday?

Eddie Bravo (0:29)

I think it's, they're 12 hours ahead.

Brendan Schaub (0:32)

Is it Wednesday in Africa?

Joe Rogan (0:36)

It's definitely 1960

I forgot he knocked out Whitaker. We're looking at Wonder Boy stopping Whitaker.

Brendan Schaub (0:43)

That's big.

Joe Rogan (0:44)

That's big.

Brendan Schaub (0:45)

At 70

Joe Rogan (0:46)

Yeah, but that was, Whitaker was diminished, man. Getting down to 170 was a fucking battle for him.

Brendan Schaub (0:51)

Dude, you look at Wonder Boy, what he's accomplished, it's so impressive.

Joe Rogan (0:55)

Amazing.

Brendan Schaub (0:55)

Although indicators would point that Wonder Boy should win this fight, but I'm on the fence, man.

Joe Rogan (1:00)

Well, I think Till really is a bad, bad man. There's no question about it. But he did come up real short on the weigh-in, which really bums me out. Now, I had heard that his pregnant girlfriend is in, this is what everyone's saying, is in the hospital, and that she's had some serious issues, and he's been going back and forth to the hospital, and he hasn't, he just didn't have a chance to cut the weight right. A lot of people claim, you know, that that's exactly what the issue was. I don't know.

Brendan Schaub (1:31)

That drama's never good, especially your first main card, main event in your hometown against Wonder Boy. There's enough pressure as it is.

Joe Rogan (1:40)

Well, the cowboy fight was a big pressure fight, but he rose to the occasion of that in a big way.

Brendan Schaub (1:43)

Not really though, was it? Was it because we didn't know who he was, really?

Joe Rogan (1:46)

Yeah, but it was his opportunity to fight a cowboy.

Brendan Schaub (1:48)

For sure, but you're fighting a smaller guy, it's against cowboy, you know? So he goes forward and does work. Now it's like, man, I mean, there's been guys who have blown up before, but the hype on Till, and I'm all up on his dick, but there's a ton of hype on him. If he wins this one, it's off to the races.

Joe Rogan (2:04)

It is, but he's fucking four and a half pounds over championship weight. That is a lot. That's not a little, that's a lot.

Brendan Schaub (2:11)

It's such an advantage, too.

You know, fighters that have missed weight are undefeated this year. When they still fight, they're undefeated.

Joe Rogan (2:17)

Yeah, it's a big advantage. It's a form of cheating.

If you do it on purpose, for sure. I think what's interesting with Wonder Boy did, he said, you gotta weigh 188 the next day.

Brendan Schaub (2:26)

Tight move. Yeah, very smart. Because Till's a big boy. Yeah. Till's a really big boy.

Joe Rogan (2:30)

Very, very smart. Like, whatever advantage that he got from not cutting that extra three pounds, you know, now he's three and a half pounds, now he's, you know, lost a little bit of it, I guess.

Brendan Schaub (2:40)

Still. If you're Wonder Boy, though, you wanna drag this into later rounds. You know, he's gonna come out aggressive. You know, he's had some drama, cut in weight, and he had to cut more weight to maintain it the day, you know, the day of, so.

Joe Rogan (2:51)

Yeah.

Yeah, it's all fascinating, man. It's all fascinating. We're gonna find out a lot. The other thing is, too, the styles. Like, what Wonder Boy does is at kicking distance. Like, if you watch, like, the exchanges that he's at, he moves real good at the waist, like a snake, like back and forth, but he wants to keep you, not even at Muay Thai kicking distance, he keeps you at karate kicking distance.

Brendan Schaub (3:15)

Far.

Joe Rogan (3:15)

Which is sideways and very far.

Brendan Schaub (3:17)

Far. Stuff to reach.

Joe Rogan (3:18)

And Darren's gotta close that gap, and closing that gap is when Wonder Boy's the most dangerous. And if you see some of his training footage, he seems to be concentrating on blitzing in and then encountering and sidestepping and countering. Yeah, and getting out.