JRE MMA Show #137 with Jorge Masvidal

Joe Rogan (0:04)

The Joe Rogan Experience.

Thank you, sir. Good. Yep. King of Miami, what's up?

Jorge Masvidal (0:17)

What's up, my brother?

Joe Rogan (0:18)

Good to see you, man.

Jorge Masvidal (0:19)

Always a fucking pleasure.

Joe Rogan (0:20)

Always a pleasure to see you, too, man. Bro, I've been a fan of yours since back in the day.

When I saw you fight a bow dog.

Jorge Masvidal (0:27)

Bow dog. Snap.

Joe Rogan (0:28)

Yeah. So you fought Eve Edwards on bow dog.

Jorge Masvidal (0:30)

Yes, I did.

Joe Rogan (0:30)

I'm like, damn, this dude's fucking dangerous.

Jorge Masvidal (0:32)

Yes, I did, man.

Joe Rogan (0:34)

Yeah. You're still in the game, man.

It's beautiful to see, you know? Crafty veterans.

Jorge Masvidal (0:40)

Yeah, man. I attribute a lot to God with the gifts that I was born and also the training that I do. I never get too far away from the training. And another thing is that I've kept it natural for my most part. I've seen a lot of guys come in four or five years.

They do a little bit of the enhancements and cheating and then tear this, break that. So these guys ain't around no more. I just feel like I want to couldn't afford it when I was coming up into that stuff.

So I just never did it. You know, so I've always kept like my body more or less healthy. I've had injuries that are horrible, obviously, in combat sports, but I've always just been able to like heal through them. And always one thing I've always believed in for the sport for anybody listening, wanting to get into the sport and have longevity is like, as long as you know that every day you could learn something new from whoever it may be, you'll always be going forward. You know, the moment you think you know it all, that's it, bro, you fucked up, you know. So I've always had that mentality since I was young.

And I still have it to this day, you know, a white belt could teach me something or like a setup or something, not necessarily maybe the greatest technique, but just a different way to do a technique and I might be able to pull it off. So I've always stuck firm to that commitment, you know.

Joe Rogan (1:46)

Yeah, for sure. That's very important to have that beginner's mentality.

You know, what is the worst injury you've ever had?

Jorge Masvidal (1:54)

Like, pain wise, eye poke for all. I shot like a high crotch and the guy's elbow was like resting on his hip and he just like locked out and it went right into my thumb and his thumb went right into my eye and I was throwing up immediately like 10 seconds after I started throwing up and I couldn't I was doing like the Harlem Shake. I couldn't control my body. I was just shaking and throwing up. It was so much pain. After that, I had to wear eye patch for about like five weeks because I had double vision. So I would like look at you and see like two, three of you and that would last for like five weeks. So I was supposed to have surgery on it and they scheduled me for surgery. I came back in and the doctor's like, hey man, maybe you don't need surgery. You did amazing healing like sweating has gone down a little bit.

You kind of don't need the surgery. So I was like, oh, let me not get the surgery and I wore the eye patch for five weeks. That was the most painful injury of my life. The other ones have just been like long lasting injuries, like my hand is all fucking wrecked.

Back's pretty messed up, but I get through it. Cold plunge, sauna, a lot of stretching, things like that.

I could work through it, but the eye and the hand have been the worst probably.

Joe Rogan (3:02)

Did you break the hand?

Jorge Masvidal (3:03)

No, but I've torn like numerous ligaments and tendons on the hand. That's why my fingers look like they're throwing up gang signs and all crooked and stuff.

But yeah, that's been like one of the more lagging ones, in the knees and stuff. You know how the sport is pulling on your joints, meniscus there here, ACL there.

But those are, I've been able to rehab and work through them. They suck like when I'm running on like on a cold day, but it's nothing that I can't work through. The hand is like sometimes I got to just give it a pause like a week. I can't throw my right hand. I just got to use my left and stuff like that.