JRE MMA Show #37 with Mark DellaGrotte

Joe Rogan (0:02)

Five, four, three, two, one. Boom, and we're live, Mark DellaGrotte.

Mark DellaGrotte (0:09)

What up?

Joe Rogan (0:10)

Most of the time, if you and I are talking on a microphone, it's when you're in the truck, and I'm talking to you, and like right before a big fight, people don't realize, like, you're the guy I talk to.

Mark DellaGrotte (0:19)

Yeah, man, a lot of shit talking going on.

Joe Rogan (0:21)

Do a lot of shit talking, a lot of things we probably shouldn't say.

Mark DellaGrotte (0:25)

Luckily, it doesn't make the broadcast.

Joe Rogan (0:27)

Well, when that one got leaked, when Aldo was about to fight Connor, and I said, he does not look good.

I said, he looks nervous as fuck, I remember that. His body looks flat.

Mark DellaGrotte (0:37)

Soft and flat.

Joe Rogan (0:37)

Yeah, and then he got flatlined.

Mark DellaGrotte (0:39)

Yeah, well, you were right.

Joe Rogan (0:41)

I was right in that regard.

Mark DellaGrotte (0:43)

That did make program, didn't it?

Joe Rogan (0:45)

Well, people, what happened was somebody recorded it. As I was talking to you, I think, and I was talking to Bruce, and it just, somebody just decided to be a little twat.

Mark DellaGrotte (0:58)

Dude, I'm paranoid in that truck sometimes. I'm gonna push the wrong fucking button, and I'm gonna be talking shit to you, a man, or something.

Joe Rogan (1:06)

Well, that was one where it was interesting. I was like, oh, okay, well, somebody's a fucking asshole. Like, you're privy to this sort of inside banter to release that and make it public. I would never say that publicly, so I was very upset that they did that.

But it was honest.

Mark DellaGrotte (1:24)

No, you're right.

Joe Rogan (1:25)

It was honest. He did look like shit.

But damn, he looked good last weekend.

Mark DellaGrotte (1:29)

He looked unbelievable.

I love Jeremy Stevens, great guy. I mean, you know, we're cool with everybody. You know, we work for the company. You gotta get to know everybody. You gotta be cool with everybody. But it was good to see Jose Aldo back on top, man. He needed that bad, dude.

Joe Rogan (1:44)

Well, when someone, I'm always happy when someone wins with a liver shot, because it's such a, it's one of those weird punches. Like, you'll see someone, you'll see two guys, and they exchange good shots to the body, and they seem like they have no effect. Obviously, they hurt, but they'll deal with it and keep fighting. And then every now and then, you see, whap!

Mark DellaGrotte (2:04)

And then, ugh!

Joe Rogan (2:06)

You see that liver shot where the legs go out, the body gives in. It's like, man, that is crazy that we have this one area that sometimes works. Because sometimes it doesn't work, right?

Mark DellaGrotte (2:18)

That's right.

Joe Rogan (2:18)

A liver shot's weird.

Mark DellaGrotte (2:20)

Man, and it's delayed. That's the funniest part about it. There's like a split second delay where you're like, I got this.

Just fold over. If you saw that too, like there was a body shot that he threw. He threw like a rear, a right hand to the body, and then the left liver shot. So I think it's kind of like, you know, you take the first punch, you're like, and then you brace and you got it. And then you relax for a second. And that's when, your diaphragm and your liver starts vibrating.

Joe Rogan (2:44)

I wish it made sense.

Well, here it is right here. We can see it again. Weird video.

Mark DellaGrotte (2:49)

Yeah, watch, he throws the right hand to the body first.

There it is, and there it is. Double body shot.

Joe Rogan (2:58)

Yeah.

Mark DellaGrotte (2:58)

In Jeremy, he's a bang of two, man. That's a tough dude, man, to get dropped from a body shot.

Joe Rogan (3:02)

Yeah, and to make that face too.

Mark DellaGrotte (3:04)

You can't hide it.

Joe Rogan (3:05)

It must hurt so bad.

Mark DellaGrotte (3:06)

Yeah, man.

Joe Rogan (3:07)

Well, Kevin Ross is the only guy that I've ever seen hide it. Kevin Ross got, he was fighting in Bellator, not his last fight, but maybe the previous fight.

And he got hit in the first round with a spinning back kick right in the liver. And he just went like this.

Mark DellaGrotte (3:24)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (3:25)

You can see, he just kept moving. And he said he was in ultimate agony.

Mark DellaGrotte (3:28)

Absolutely.

Joe Rogan (3:29)

But he didn't show shit, and his opponent didn't know. I mean, he really pulled it off. He really pulled it off. He figured out how to just, he's so mentally strong though, that guy.