JRE MMA Show #157 with Craig Jones

Joe Rogan (0:13)

I like the one ear side.

Craig Jones (0:15)

Thank you, yeah.

Joe Rogan (0:15)

That's professional. A lot of guys do that.

Craig Jones (0:17)

It helped my hearing. It's fading in my old age.

Joe Rogan (0:20)

Do you have fucked up ears because of the cauliflower? Is it fucked up your hearing?

Craig Jones (0:23)

Yeah, just one of them. I thought it was cool until the inner ear started to swell, and it was messed with my hearing. I was like, that's not cool anymore.

Joe Rogan (0:31)

Did you get it fixed?

Craig Jones (0:32)

I just face it at the women I'm talking to.

Joe Rogan (0:35)

Did you get it fixed?

Craig Jones (0:36)

Oh, it eventually drained out, but it's as good as it's going to get, I think.

Joe Rogan (0:41)

I always wore ear guards. I was always scared of the ears. Because there's a design.

It helps capture sound and bring it into your ear.

Craig Jones (0:51)

I didn't know the AirPods were coming. I threw a curveball on how cool this was.

Joe Rogan (0:54)

Oh, right.

Craig Jones (0:56)

I jammed them in, but they popped back out.

Joe Rogan (0:58)

Yeah, you got to wear it over the ears. So let's talk about your tournament.

Craig Jones (1:03)

The tournament, all right.

Joe Rogan (1:05)

Where did this come from, first of all? Because you've competed at Abu Dhabi. This is what I don't understand.

You're going to go head to head with ADCC, which is the biggest grappling organization in the world. By the way, that's Gordon Ryan's belt up there. If you want to look at it.

Craig Jones (1:21)

Gordon Ryan, I might take that home with me, yeah. How can I get the money to buy it?

Well, I mean, what started it? Well, obviously, you can't win a tournament. You put your own tournament on that you can win.

And probably lose anyway. I mean, really, it's for the growth of the sport. We're getting some beef involved, some two pack biggie, Drake Kendrick energy to this, but really to compensate the athletes well and to raise some money for charity along the way.

Joe Rogan (1:47)

And who's funding this thing?

Craig Jones (1:49)

That's one of those things, you know, your girl takes a trip to the UAE, she comes back with a handbag. You don't talk about it. You don't have to do any questions, you know.

Joe Rogan (1:55)

You brought with you a million dollars in cash, which I've never seen before. I've never seen a million dollars in one place. I've never even seen a million dollar check. Yeah, I guess tip it out.

Make sure we don't spill any.

Ladies and gentlemen, that is one million dollars in cash. Oh, it all stays. That is so ridiculous. Look at that, that's so crazy. Wow. Whoever is running this, really trusts you.

Craig Jones (2:36)

They shouldn't.

Joe Rogan (2:36)

Those are loose. They're, like, a lot of these are just kind of flying around.

Craig Jones (2:41)

They're just flopping around here, you know? They have way too much faith in me.

Joe Rogan (2:44)

Yeah, a lot of faith in you.

Craig Jones (2:46)

I mean, this was to prove it. I had the idea, I was like, I'll bring a prop million dollars on Joe Rogan, but people were, I was thinking then, they already don't believe I have the money, so if I pulled out a prop million and you were like, oh, that's fake money, then I'm like, oh, my tournament's fucked. So we had to do some bad things for that.

Joe Rogan (3:03)

So how's one even get a million dollars out of a bank? That's gotta be a pain in the ass, right?

Craig Jones (3:09)

Yeah, so my buddy that's helping me out with this basically called his bank. He said, I need a million dollars on Thursday. They said, yo, that takes two to three weeks. And he's like, get me the million on Thursday, or I'll find a bank that can. And that, I mean, that put the energy in him to get it.

Here we are.

Joe Rogan (3:23)

So what does this guy do that he has all this loot?

Craig Jones (3:26)

I really don't wanna say. I'm gonna keep it all directed at me. It's all above board legal, you know what I mean? But we're sort of keeping it mysterious. I want any negative energy towards the tournament come in my direction, not the anonymous sugar daddy in the background.

Joe Rogan (3:39)

Okay. So you don't wanna say what the business is?

Does the business profit off of this at all? Does this benefit the business to do this? Whatever he's doing?