JRE MMA Show #1

Joe Rogan (0:10)

And we're live. So literally this morning, I had this thought.

I thought about it a bit yesterday, and this morning, I thought of it. I was like, why don't you just do it? I said, I need to do some sort of an MMA recap show, because there's always so much shit that's happening that I miss a lot of it. I don't get a chance to talk to a lot of it. I love doing it with Brendan. He's my favorite because we get so silly, and because he loves MMA as much as I do. I could talk to him forever about it. So, I'm sure I'll do some of those definitely in the future with him.

He's really good at breaking down fights too, man. He has a, he's got a skeptical eye for things, and he has a great, obviously he was a high level professional heavyweight fighter, but he also has a real good understanding of where someone is at various stages of their career. I think that's big because fighters have like these peaks and valleys and you never know where they're at. You know, like fighting is a hard, hard business, and the idea that you could stay at like a super high level for a long period of time, that just doesn't seem to be the case. It seems like everybody's body starts giving out after a certain period of time. After a certain amount of time cage fighting, your body's just given out.

Unless you're a guy like GSP that takes all this time off, which I think was brilliant now in retrospect, he knew what we all didn't know. He really was in fucking amazing shape. He really was fighting, I don't say amazing cardio shape because that's one legit criticism that Brendan had, is that he looked like he was getting tired and it was pretty early in the fight. The guy was off for four years and he's stepping right in fighting Bisping, who's the middleweight champion. That is not easy. That's very hard. Bisping keeps a fast pace. He's got amazing cardio. He's tough as shit. Like there was a tall order, like to see him come back like that, but I think he recognized that grind was too heavy on him, but he wasn't done yet. You know, he was only 32 I think when he retired, 32, is that right? Somewhere in that range? Comes back at 36 and like, wow, what are the odds he's actually gonna be better than he was before or look good? He looked fucking amazing. He looked like a bigger, better version of the the welterweight champion, George St. Pierre. It was weird. It was weird to see. I mean, I don't want to say that I doubted him because I did not doubt him because I'm very open minded and I have a deep respect for George. I think he's amazing. He's just a great person, a great example of, in my opinion, how a champion should carry himself. George has always been one of my favorite examples because you see him and you're like, that guy is well spoken, he's friendly, he's genuine and he's super open minded in terms of his willingness to listen to coaches and formulate a good game plan and always be trying out new stuff. He spent a lot of time working with those guys in Hens O'Gracy's, the Donaher Death Squad. There was a lot of images of them training together. If he's training with Gary Tonan and some of these fucking animals, John Donaher is a wizard and he's done just this amazing job with Eddie Cummins and these kids that he has in New York that are these leg lock masters. I mean, it's just Gordon, Ryan, they're just animals. These guys are killing people. And for George to be in the mix with those guys, like he's getting down with some serious fucking strangle experts.

So for just knowing that he's training with those guys, because Eddie Cummins has been killing tournaments, Gary Tonan has been killing tournaments, they've all, Ryan's been killing tournaments, all those kids, Nicky Ryan is a brother too, they're all animals. So these guys, like Donaher has this great group of really savage jujitsu players. And George is diving into that mix. Comes to LA, he's doing boxing with Freddie Roach. You know, he's one of the best boxing coaches in the world, many Pacquiao's trainers. So he's like getting down with like real boxing trainers. He's getting down with real jujitsu coaches and he never stopped, he never stopped. Which is just amazing. And it's amazing that you can just jump right back in.

Dominic Cruz sent me a text message right after it was over. He said, I told you, ring rust is bullshit.