JRE MMA Show #100 with Cody Garbrandt

Joe Rogan (0:04)

The Joe Rogan Experience.

Cody Garbrandt (0:14)

What's going on?

Joe Rogan (0:15)

Good to see you, brother. What's happening, man?

Cody Garbrandt (0:16)

I'm enjoying Austin.

Joe Rogan (0:18)

Yeah. So you're coming here.

Are you letting the people know?

Cody Garbrandt (0:22)

Not yet.

Joe Rogan (0:22)

Did I blow the...

Cody Garbrandt (0:23)

Not yet. They're gonna know now.

Joe Rogan (0:25)

Did I let people know?

Cody Garbrandt (0:26)

I think so. I mean, it's probably the, you know, move we spoke about earlier. Yeah.

I've always loved Texas. Like, we spoke earlier. I got signed here to the UFC. I was on it for so many years. Came out here during fight camps for a week and kind of just unplugged, but focused on training and had a good time out here. It was always a pleasure.

Joe Rogan (0:44)

Yeah. It's a beautiful place. I'm enjoying the shit out of it. Dude, first of all, congratulations on your comeback.

You're a great guy, and when there's someone I like who loses a bunch of fights in a row and you get into this skid, it's hard to watch. I can't imagine what it was like being you, to have a young child and to be dealing with all of this going on. I mean, it's like losing your top, but then to come back the way you did against a really fucking tough guy and a son's out and get arguably the KO of the year.

I mean, you got to be feeling pretty fucking good.

Cody Garbrandt (1:24)

I feel great, you know.

Joe Rogan (1:25)

Back from the brink.

Cody Garbrandt (1:26)

Back from the brinks. I mean, that time in my life, that time frame period and going through that, you know, from on top of the world, world champion to three fights kid, honestly, it feels like a lifetime ago. I feel like I'm just a different person where I was at from there, you know, removed. And the thing is, I'm just doing differently, thinking differently, you know, how I was able to approach the game, picking myself back up time and time again. I mean, it's, the internet is a horrible place to get, get knocked out on, you know, fuck, you got the trolls, this and that, you know, it's, but besides that point, you know, just coming back to that and having a love for it. A lot of the times I got to the fight, and not to make excuses, I was just, I didn't feel myself, I didn't feel like, and the training leading up, I felt physically, I'm always ready to fight, like flip the switch, I'm always physically ready to fight. I think mentally, going into those fights, I was just out of body, I wasn't, I felt like I was going through the motions, you know, my passion wasn't there. I wasn't waking up every day, like, what's your reason why? I was just trying to find that. And I think the reason why I had so many people infiltrated in how I should train or how I should live or what I should do to get back there.

And really, it wasn't nothing that I needed to learn new. I didn't have to reinvent the wheel, it was just doing the slight edge theory, like getting out of your comfort zone, like you're doing your sauna sessions, like you're pushing yourself to go in there and just be uncomfortable, you know, so I had to go out there. And with that comeback, you know, I moved to Jersey, the training camp out there, I split time between-

Joe Rogan (2:58)

Yeah, I want to talk to you about that.

I'm a big fan of Henry. Mark Henry's a bad motherfucker.

Cody Garbrandt (3:03)

He's great. I love, I enjoy him so much, his passion for it, his love for it.

Joe Rogan (3:07)

He's so interesting too, his crazy codes and the fact that the dude makes pizza on the side.

Cody Garbrandt (3:12)

Dude, I was so nervous going out there because I heard of the codes and like, you know, I was with Lance, so Lance kind of gave me a little insight on it, on everything, like damn, codes and I just fight, dude, like I don't have really set things, I kind of go off of my instincts and game plans and he was trying to, you know, brief me on it. When I got to the first two weeks, holy shit, we go down to his basement and he has like pizza scrolls from the pizzeria where we have off about 50 things that we're working on before camp.

Joe Rogan (3:40)