JRE MMA Show #178 with Dan Hardy

Joe Rogan (0:03)

The Joe Rogan Experience.

SPEAKER_3 (0:06)

Trained by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day.

Joe Rogan (0:14)

Good to see you, brother.

Dan Hardy (0:15)

Great to see you, man.

Joe Rogan (0:16)

What is this around my neck? What is that?

Dan Hardy (0:18)

Oh, this is a moldavite. Have you heard of a moldavite before? No. So a meteorite hit in the Czech Republic millions of years ago, and the particular tectite that was created from the earth matter falling back down to the ground became moldavite. Most tectites are like a black or a brown, but moldavite is green. Let me show you.

It's really interesting.

Joe Rogan (0:44)

Jamie's got some on the screen already.

Dan Hardy (0:46)

Hold it up to the light.

Joe Rogan (0:48)

Oh, that's fucking dope. So it's basically like nuclear glass.

Dan Hardy (0:53)

Exactly that, yeah.

Joe Rogan (0:54)

Wow.

Dan Hardy (0:56)

And then that's the case my wife had made for me, and it's wrapped in an old chain that belonged to my dad.

Joe Rogan (1:00)

Oh, that's so dope.

Dan Hardy (1:02)

Yeah, keep with me all the time.

Joe Rogan (1:03)

Yeah, that's fucking cool, man.

Dan Hardy (1:05)

I used to have a piece in, you know, the old Thai amulets with the little bronze? I used to have one in that, took it out.

I took the butter out and put a piece of moldavite and it wrapped in a piece of UFC canvas, and I wore it just all the time. But then my wife upgraded me, she tries to do all the time.

Joe Rogan (1:24)

So the UFC gave you a chunk of canvas?

Dan Hardy (1:26)

I have a whole canvas.

Joe Rogan (1:27)

Ooh, nice.

Dan Hardy (1:30)

From which fight? It was Vadum Volkov from UFC London, and it's just covered in Vadum's blood. He got his nose busted pretty badly.

But it had to be in quarantine for like 12 months until they gave it to me.

Joe Rogan (1:43)

Really?

Dan Hardy (1:44)

Yeah, yeah. Because of the blood? It's a biohazard.

Joe Rogan (1:49)

So does it all die after 12 months?

Dan Hardy (1:51)

I guess so. I mean, I guess so. It was kept in a warehouse and then they dropped it off for me.

Joe Rogan (1:55)

Do they have to check it?

Dan Hardy (1:57)

I don't know. I wouldn't lick it, but it looks fine to me.

Joe Rogan (2:00)

What could possibly be in the blood? I mean, doesn't everybody get tested?

Dan Hardy (2:04)

That's a good point. That's a good point. Maybe there's just some kind of rule. I think they incinerate them all now, don't they? I don't think they keep them. I mean, they've got the pieces with the names, but I think the rest of it gets disposed of now. Huh. Yeah.

Joe Rogan (2:17)

I wonder if there's any logic to that.

Dan Hardy (2:19)

I don't know.

Joe Rogan (2:20)

Or if it's just people being scared.

Dan Hardy (2:21)

Yeah, maybe, maybe. It's a cool thing. I've actually got it on the wall of my house, believe it or not. Oh, really? Yeah, I had it in the gym, but then it's on the wall of my house now.

Joe Rogan (2:29)

Oh, that's nice. That's pretty cool.

Dan Hardy (2:31)

Yeah. It's just a nice thing to have, you know.

Joe Rogan (2:32)

Dude, what happened with you in the UFC? Like, I don't know the story.

I know you got into it with Herb Dean about a stoppage, a late stoppage, and you were upset. This was during COVID, right?

Dan Hardy (2:47)

Yeah, this was, I think it was Fight Island 3, and it was the second fight of the night where it had happened. There was a heavyweight that had gone down and just took a bunch, too many shots before the fight was stopped. But the Jai Herbert Francisco Trinaldo one was the one where you heard me shout up and yell, stop the fight.

And it was a weird circumstance. And look, you know, Herb's a great referee, he's refereed me a lot, but every now and then people do make mistakes. In Fight Island, everyone was tired. It was quiet in the arena as well. So you can, I mean, you can hear me yelling. It wasn't the first time I'd done it though. I yelled at him in Moscow for a CB Dalloway fight. And it's, the thing is, there's a point where I'm there for the knockouts. I'm there for the blood. But I'm also there to make sure that once it's done, it's done. And those fighters are protected.