JRE MMA Show #143 with Sean Strickland

Joe Rogan (0:04)

The Joe Rogan Experience.

What's happening? We made it happen.

Sean Strickland (0:15)

I made it, bro.

I'm finally pseudo-famous enough to be on The Rogan Podcast. Fucking let's go.

Joe Rogan (0:20)

Oh, you're pretty famous after Saturday night. Hey, how's your eye?

It's still pretty red.

Sean Strickland (0:25)

The guy was trying to fucking slew his fur, bro. Oh fuck, he's straight to the eye.

Joe Rogan (0:32)

He's Russian. You can't say that. He only moved to Germany when he was 15

Sean Strickland (0:37)

Well fuck, I don't know, man. Fucking life's weird, dude. It's fucking, is he Muslim? We all know how that goes. Oh fuck, I'm already getting canceled.

Joe Rogan (0:43)

Let's, it's... He's just joking.

Sean Strickland (0:45)

I'm just joking.

Joe Rogan (0:46)

Can't we just joke around, folks? Isn't this America?

That was a great fight. It was a really, really good fight. And it was really interesting too because that guy is so used to blowing people out in the first round. Yeah. You know, he came out so hard in that first round.

And it was very interesting. You have a very interesting style. There's no one like you. Stands straight up. Even the way you hold your hands is different than everybody else.

Sean Strickland (1:11)

It's more of like boxing. I like to box, you know.

Yeah, no, it's funny. Like when he was throwing kicks, he was kind of like giggling and laughing a couple of times when he hit me in the teeth. And once or twice knocked the wind out of me in my mind. I'm like, you fucking pussy.

You, like, you ever been in a 25 minute fight before, sir? Like, we'll see how this, we'll see how this adds up.

Joe Rogan (1:28)

Yeah, that's the thing, right? It's like, people need to understand that, like that if you're sprinting in the beginning, you can't do that for very long.

Sean Strickland (1:37)

Well, he broke quick. I mean, he-

Joe Rogan (1:38)

Three minutes in.

Sean Strickland (1:40)

I was shocked how fast he broke. And I'll tell you when I knew he broke.

After he took me down, there was a moment where he was on my back. I'm like, fuck, this kind of sucks. You know, I was thinking, like, there's a moment. I'm like, oh, that's kind of sucks. Well, we know what to do. Get to a hip, get your way up, break the hands.

But whenever I broke his grip and he let go, it was like soft. It was like delicate. Like he broke like it's like, I think I hit him. At that moment, I was like, what the fuck, dude?

Joe Rogan (2:03)

So he's saving energy. He realized it was falling.

Sean Strickland (2:05)

Like it wasn't that he was saving, he just broke. Like, so when you're fighting, you guys, wrestling's fucking hard. Wrestling's fucking difficult. And you have to make the juice worth the squeeze. So if you take me down and you're on my back, you gotta hold that position, loose grip for as long as you can. Maybe knee me in the back of the thigh, hit me in the head.

If you could hold me there for 30 seconds and do light damage, that's 30 seconds of a round you won.

And the fact that he didn't even attempt to do it, it was like, oh man, you're done. You're fucking done.

Joe Rogan (2:39)

I was watching it at home and I noticed like at the three minute mark, you know, there's a thing that you could tell, especially when you've seen so many fights, where you see a guy in the beginning and you see like how his body moves and then you see a diminishment.

And I saw like at three minutes, I saw the feet were heavier, the movement was different. He was still, he still looked good, but I was like, oh, he's already feeling it three minutes in.

Sean Strickland (3:03)

Well, he knocked me off. He fought my buddy, Soddy Psy. And dude, Soddy Psy's a fucking savage. Like he's a PFL champ. The fucking guy could strike.

And he wrestled hard against Soddy for like, you know, hard three rounds. So I went in there thinking, oh, this guy has like a tank. I watched him wrestle my friend.

Yeah, it was shocking, man. But you know.

Joe Rogan (3:21)

Well, he's only had two UFC fights. He had that one fight, was it in France?

Sean Strickland (3:25)

Yeah, against like Dustin. Dustin's a fucking can, dude. Like he should not be in the UFC.

Like he, again, I like Dustin. He's a fucking yogi, dude. Like he does more yoga than training. He came to Vegas. I think I broke his nose in the first minute. And like, and then he came to Extreme. I pretty much told Chris Curtis, I'm like, Curtis, if you let Dustin walk out of this fucking round, I will respect you less as a man, you know? Like you're not part of our fucking team.