JRE MMA Show #22 with Bas Rutten

Joe Rogan (0:02)

Three, two, one, boom! And we are live with El Guapo as he tries to navigate his phone with his left hand.

What did you punch with your right hand?

Bas Rutten (0:12)

A table, a table that was stronger than me. Like, yeah, this size table.

Joe Rogan (0:18)

Why did you punch a table?

Bas Rutten (0:19)

Okay, so I was in three states in six days. I slept four hours per night. I just came from Chicago. And this whole thing, I had to get up at four, and then I had a shoot, a commercial shoot for my body action system, starting at 10 And this happened at 10:30 p.m. So I was 12 and a half hours in. And I already said, okay, I'm not gonna do it anymore because I couldn't retain information anymore. I had some lines, two lines to remember, they were feeding me lines. I couldn't do it anymore. I said, this is it, I stopped. But then I said, yeah, but if you can do this little thing, okay, I'll try that one more time. And of course it didn't work. And I said, you know what?

I threw out my gloves and somehow, this is how stupid you are. You throw out your glove and two seconds after I took it off, I hit the table somehow. I still needed to hit something and I decided to do it without a glove instead of with a glove, a solid thing.

Guess what's gonna lose?

My pinky knuckle. And they incapacitate your entire arm for that, pretty much, I think, just for a pinky knuckle.

Joe Rogan (1:24)

They call it a boxing Fretcher. That's like bringing us back to karate combat. Old school karate days, I would always recommend that you punch like this.

Bas Rutten (1:31)

You know what I did? And I know, and I was going to do that, but the amount of force I was using at this moment, I really fastened milliseconds and you had to go, say it's better to spread out the impact even more.

Joe Rogan (1:41)

Because you're hitting it so hard?

Bas Rutten (1:42)

Yeah, I knew I was gonna break the big one too, if I would do it. Yeah, it was just one of those stupid things.

Joe Rogan (1:47)

You just lost your marbles.

Bas Rutten (1:49)

And five seconds, because I hit, boom, they look at me, everybody's freaking out, and I go, no, it's over. It's just, you don't pain? I said, no pain, but it's broke. He said, how do you know? I said, trust me, I can feel it. So I was right away, I was calm again. Everything was good.

Nobody died that night.

I know.

Joe Rogan (2:05)

That right arm's been through hell.

Bas Rutten (2:06)

It been, and you know, this for me to lose cool like that, that happens once every five years or so. But I get angry, I never get angry. I don't have that, not that kind of anger that I hit something. I mean, how old am I? Right?

Joe Rogan (2:20)

You seem to always be a happy guy.

Bas Rutten (2:22)

That's what I am. But I think it's also because I'm happy. So when it gets angry, that's what the fights. That's what always happens. I'm nice, nice. Try to defuse it. Then I realize, wait a minute. And then I'm asking them, I say, you don't think I'm afraid, right? I say, I'm doing this for you. I'm protecting you right now. That's why I don't wanna fight. And at the moment you say that, you know, some of them call you bluff.

And then because you did it for such a long time, yeah, then I'll make sure that...

Boss smash, yeah.

Joe Rogan (2:54)

But those are the old boss days.

Bas Rutten (2:55)

Those old boss days, no more. No more boss like this.

I like that actually. And I don't think it's a healthy boss either.

Joe Rogan (3:03)

How is your arm doing in terms of like the atrophy? Is it growing back?

Oh, it's definitely growing back though.

Bas Rutten (3:08)

Yeah, it gets a little bit bigger now. I have this new stuff that I'm trying.

I have it at home. I need bacteriostatic water for it. It's a peptide called BPC 157 Did you ever hear of that?

Joe Rogan (3:20)

Yeah, Ben Greenfield told me about that. It's great for tendons and ligaments and stuff.

Bas Rutten (3:24)

Yeah, even nerves and regrows apparently everything. And rats, I mean, they regrow tendons, everything. And I'm going to try it. I'm going to try it locally here on the biceps, see what it does.