JRE MMA Show #39 with Donald "Cowboy" Cerrone

Donald Cerrone (0:02)

Yes, sir.

Joe Rogan (0:06)

Cheers.

Donald Cerrone (0:07)

Cheers.

Joe Rogan (0:08)

And we're live.

Donald Cerrone (0:09)

And we're live.

Joe Rogan (0:09)

There's so much to talk about. So much to talk about.

Donald Cerrone (0:13)

Three years.

Joe Rogan (0:14)

It's been a while. It's been a while.

And one of the reasons why you're here is because I was supposed to have Jackson. I mean, we should just get right into this.

Donald Cerrone (0:22)

You think we should get into it or should we?

Joe Rogan (0:24)

Yeah. Let the.

Let the Budweiser.

Donald Cerrone (0:27)

I haven't even eaten breakfast. I physically didn't eat breakfast. I'm like, I'm going to drink beer with Joe. I already know he's getting me beer.

And that way it can hit me a lot faster and I'll loosen up my lips a lot sooner.

Joe Rogan (0:37)

We could do whatever you want.

What's up to you? You're looking thick, dude. How much do you weigh now?

Donald Cerrone (0:42)

Man, so I've been.

So here's a crazy story. I go to the PI to because Dana tells me I can't go to 55 So I go to talk.

Joe Rogan (0:52)

He told you you can't go. Why?

Donald Cerrone (0:53)

Look, he says I'm getting old and older. Mike just said he said old, I'm getting old.

And the way it's too hard, right? So I said, I'm going to go to the to the PI.

Joe Rogan (1:03)

You guys have this amazing facility with the PI stands for Performance Institute for people who don't know.

Donald Cerrone (1:10)

There you go.

Joe Rogan (1:10)

UFC Performance Institute.

Donald Cerrone (1:12)

And they have trainers and dietician nutrition, right? So I'm going there to meet with them to get a guideline and some kind of plan that we can attack so I can go down, like, look, I met with your guys, they said it's OK.

While I'm there, second day into all this like crazy testing you do, right? They have all kinds of tests that they run where you get on these bikes and I mean, like, fuck, I was the Olympic Training Center testing. I wanted to say Joe Silver walked in, but then that's not right because he's not there anymore. So.

Joe Rogan (1:43)

Nick Maynard?

Donald Cerrone (1:43)

No.

Sean Shelby comes in and says, Cowboy, Mike Perry really wants to fight you. You want to take this fight and I was like, I thought I was going to 55 and he said, yeah, he called you out and really wants to fight you.

And I was like, well, fuck, OK, I'll find it. Sure. Done. That's fine. But next one, can I go to 55? You know, like, God damn. So how this Perry thing all started was Felder's opponent got hurt.

I called to fight Gage because Vic got hurt.

So I was like, I'll go to 55, fight Gage and crazy shit just happened. And then to Perry fight, they offered me and I called Perry, say, hey, man, I know we're training together, but this is 10 days notice. Let's do this. Like, fuck him and be great. Let's do this. So that's how that started. And then I didn't get the fight. That was the end of it for me. I went to the UFC to go back to 155 Then all of a sudden, he's calling me out.

Joe Rogan (2:33)

So Felder winds up fighting Perry. You were going to fight Perry or you were at least thinking about it.

Donald Cerrone (2:38)

I was like in the mix, right? But I couldn't I didn't get cleared because I had stitches because I just fought what? I don't know, 10 days before.

So plus, I was in the hospital having my new son. So it's kind of a weird time for everything. But it was wild, wild, wild shit. And now now I'm fighting Perry November 10th in Denver.

Joe Rogan (2:58)

Well, what was what was going to happen was Jackson and Winklejohn were supposed to be here today. Right.

Well, you had I mean, you've been with them for how long?

Donald Cerrone (3:14)

Man, I want to say before my WC days, so I went on more than 10 years. Yeah, easily. Yeah, easily more than 10 years. I don't think there's another athlete there that's been there longer besides Diego Sanchez, who's been there since the beginning. But Diego left for a little while, left for a little while, came back.

So me, you know, Holly, but she was with Wink before they merged.

So, but like with actually Jackson Jackson, I'm like there, I'm like the one, I'm like it. You know, everyone else kind of either left the gym or is retired.