JRE MMA Show #21 with Brendan Schaub

Joe Rogan (0:02)

4, 3, 2, 1 And we're live! This is a bummer of a Fight Week, but also an awesome Fight Week.

I'm very excited. Did you see the latest countdown? What is it?

All Access? What do they call it? No.

Brendan Schaub (0:17)

Embedded?

Joe Rogan (0:18)

Embedded, yeah. I'm always trying to come up with the name of those.

Brendan Schaub (0:21)

They're all the same, but All Access, Embedded, 24-7.

Joe Rogan (0:24)

Embedded's very good. I should remember the name. It's very good.

Brendan Schaub (0:28)

They're all, yeah, they're all good.

Joe Rogan (0:29)

And this new one is really good because it's got Max Holloway running on a treadmill, two treadmills over from Nurmagomedov, who's also running on a treadmill. And they're fucking very cool to each other. It's very interesting.

Brendan Schaub (0:40)

They're cool. Khabib thanked them for taking the fight, which he should. Which he should. Thanks for taking the fight. And then they have the same weight coach.

Joe Rogan (0:47)

Yeah.

Brendan Schaub (0:47)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (0:47)

That's crazy. Lockhart, right?

Brendan Schaub (0:49)

Yeah, it's Lockhart.

Joe Rogan (0:50)

Yeah, it's Lockhart. Lockhart is going, is Lockhart working with Nurmagomedov as well?

Brendan Schaub (0:54)

Yes, both of them.

Joe Rogan (0:55)

So Lockhart was, like, Lockhart is legit. Like, he goes over calculations of, like, how much you weigh, how much water you're gonna take, and he's weighing things out. It took him an hour and a half to do the calculations.

Brendan Schaub (1:07)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (1:07)

It wasn't like, hey, we're gonna wing this. It's like, no, no. We're gonna do this weight cut correctly, and he's got it down to the day. You know, like, it's six days to lose, I think he was 171

Brendan Schaub (1:20)

Is that, I was wondering what did he start at? Is it 171?

Joe Rogan (1:23)

Yeah, so I think he's gotta lose 16 pounds.

Brendan Schaub (1:26)

What's crazy is, when Max was on my show, I was talking to him a little bit off air, and this is on record, I'm not spilling anything that he didn't say, but he just goes, you know, with the injury, Jesus Christ.

Joe Rogan (1:38)

Embedded, I think, is better than that UFC, not UFC, the HBO ones, I think it's better than all of them.

Brendan Schaub (1:44)

The 24-7? Yeah. How dare you?

Joe Rogan (1:45)

I think it's better than all of them.

Brendan Schaub (1:47)

The 24-7 when there's a big fight?

Joe Rogan (1:48)

Yeah, you know why?

Brendan Schaub (1:49)

I think in general, they're better. Because this is raw. Well, I think in general, they're better, because they do more of it.

But a 24-7, they're very good. They're fucking good. They're very good. Leaves Shriver?

Joe Rogan (1:58)

Oh, I love that guy.

Brendan Schaub (1:59)

Bro, watch your words, son.

Joe Rogan (2:01)

But I like these better.

Brendan Schaub (2:02)

Remember when they had the alley cat, Leaves Shriver?

Joe Rogan (2:04)

Yeah.

Brendan Schaub (2:04)

He's like, tonight, here we go. But it was nowhere near the same.

Joe Rogan (2:09)

I like this because there's almost no narration, right?

Brendan Schaub (2:13)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (2:13)

It's almost just all the footage. I wanna see the footage.

Brendan Schaub (2:16)

I would have liked the video of when they called Max with the fight, because from what I heard, he goes, Khabib, that's the toughest guy in the world. Fuck yeah, let's go. Which is insane.

Joe Rogan (2:25)

Well, why don't they have a video of that?

Brendan Schaub (2:27)

No one knew. I don't think they knew to turn the video on. I don't think Max knew why they were calling him.

Joe Rogan (2:32)

That would be an amazing video.

Brendan Schaub (2:34)

Of him being like.

Joe Rogan (2:35)

Especially if he wins.

Brendan Schaub (2:37)

This is my thing with Max is, I think Khabib is the toughest fight in the world on six days notice. I'd rather fight anybody else in the world than Khabib on six days, because his style and just his tenacity.

But for Max, win, lose, or draw, whatever happens Saturday night, if you don't respect and like him even more after this, you're a moron. You're a fucking moron.

Joe Rogan (2:57)

There's very few champions on a run like Max Holloway's on, that would be willing to take this fight on six days notice. And also, I should say, coming off of a broken foot.

Brendan Schaub (3:07)

Correct.

Joe Rogan (3:07)

So he had to pull out of a fight with a broken foot with Frankie Edgar, which just happened. So, I mean, how healed is he?