JRE MMA Show #184 with Aljamain Sterling

**Joe Rogan** (0:01)
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**Aljamain Sterling** (0:13)
What's with the gold teeth?

**Joe Rogan** (0:14)
What's going on? Give me a smile.
Oh, you got a top and bottom, man. What did you do?

**Aljamain Sterling** (0:20)
It's amazing. I've always wanted to have money so I could get one of these when I was a kid growing up.

**Joe Rogan** (0:27)
Now, was that one of the ones you could take out? Or is it? Okay, that's good. Because that's such a commitment. One day you got to go to the White House.
You got diamonds and gold in your teeth. That's crazy.

**Aljamain Sterling** (0:41)
It might be your first time.

**Joe Rogan** (0:43)
How does it fit? Is it like a retainer?

**Aljamain Sterling** (0:45)
Yeah, so they fit it. They mold it. I got it done in Dallas, actually.
They just fit it, mold it to your teeth and then pop them in. It's almost like wearing a retainer.

**Joe Rogan** (0:55)
Texas loves grills. They love grills down there.
Yeah, Paul Walls is going to hook us up.

**Aljamain Sterling** (1:02)
He's going to hang.

**Joe Rogan** (1:04)
Yeah, I'm not sure.

**Aljamain Sterling** (1:05)
I just remember, what was the one episode with Theo, and you asked about the headphones, and he said something like, it's like sitting there with the condom, and she's just looking at you.
I forget exactly how the joke goes, but it was funny. It's like one of Theo Vaughan's greatest moments where he says all these things. He was like, when I feel like saying it, I just write it down. I don't know if you saw this clip, but it's hilarious.

**Joe Rogan** (1:34)
I mean, I'm sure I was there when it happened, but he says so many ridiculous things I can't remember. Here it goes.
Over here.

**Aljamain Sterling** (1:41)
I just see you put it on.

**Joe Rogan** (1:43)
On.
I feel like I'm alone here. I fall in.

**Aljamain Sterling** (1:47)
Yeah, it is weird, huh? Now you're back.

**Joe Rogan** (1:49)
It's like when you put a condom on, and the other person is just still looking at their phone. You're like, oh, this is weird.
And the person, I mean, is a woman, too. You got to tell everybody, huh?

**Aljamain Sterling** (2:00)
Well, I'm just saying. I'm just saying.
There he is. Yeah. That's why we said the headphones, that just came to my head like immediately.

**Joe Rogan** (2:10)
Yeah, sometimes I have them off, sometimes I have them on, but it's better to have them on.
It locks you in. It locks you in, you know?

**Aljamain Sterling** (2:17)
I feel that.

**Joe Rogan** (2:18)
Did you watch the UFC this past weekend, the Apex?

**Aljamain Sterling** (2:23)
I watched the main event, Khomein.

**Joe Rogan** (2:25)
Bro, the main event. Sal Kil is legit.

**Aljamain Sterling** (2:28)
I wasn't too sure about him, but now I'm very sure.

**Joe Rogan** (2:32)
As a man who has one of the best back controls in the sport, you had to appreciate that back control.

**Aljamain Sterling** (2:37)
Oh, it was amazing. He took him down, which I was kind of surprised at. I was like, why is he going for the takedown?

**Joe Rogan** (2:41)
Crazy.

**Aljamain Sterling** (2:42)
Proving a point.

**Joe Rogan** (2:43)
Proving a point. Because his stand up is so sick, too.
That guy is so complete, man. To do that to Gamrot?

**Aljamain Sterling** (2:49)
That's what I was going to say. He's a sick grappler in his own right. I thought he was going to get out that one moment where he had the leg hiked up, he had the ankle, and all he had to do was swim inside, but he kept it too long, allowed him to hit the ground, and he was able to readjust and lock in that figured four, and it was over.

**Joe Rogan** (3:06)
Well, when he reached over and grabbed the far arm and used that to hang on to the back, that is slick. That was slick.
He was fucking slick, man, and just very high level. Everything was like an elevated level. I had a very high opinion of him before the fight, but now I'm like, oh, this dude could do it.

**Aljamain Sterling** (3:27)
He could do it. He knows the ball.
I was really surprised with that. And the fact that it went so quick, all his fights have been in the first round.

**Joe Rogan** (3:34)
And these scrambles from this position, now generally in this position, it's so hard to keep back control. Like right here, grabbing the arm and this adjustment, bro, that's really skillful.