JRE MMA Show #42 with Teddy Atlas

Joe Rogan (0:02)

Four, three, two, one.

And we're live, Teddy Atlas. Thanks for being here, man. I really appreciate it.

Teddy Atlas (0:10)

Sorry I'm a minute late. I didn't make you guys get anyone out there mad at you.

Joe Rogan (0:17)

No one's mad at anything. There's no real set time. You know, I gotta tell you, since I announced you were going to be on the podcast, I had about a hundred people tell me to get you mad.

They want you to rant and get screaming, ever since the We're Firemen speech you gave to Tim Bradley. Everybody wants you to start screaming and get mad. You get people hyped up.

Teddy Atlas (0:35)

Well, hopefully if there's only an occasion for it, and I don't think there'll be an occasion, but I'm looking at this stuff here. You got a nice place here, by the way. Thank you. And it's making me think about the Denzel Washington movie, The Equal Eyes, the first one, where he was in with those Russian guys that were like messed up guys, and he was trying to protect that girl, and he started pointing, there were skulls and stuff at the guy's desk, you know.

He was pointing this stuff, he was trying to explain to the guy, listen, let this girl go. You know, I'll give you $9,000, whatever it was, let her go. She was like 15 years old, and he didn't want to listen to him. And so he started, he had stuff like this, with this skull, I don't know if the people could see it, and he started pointing it towards him.

The guy didn't like take the hint, you know, the guy, and about a couple minutes later, he killed everybody in the room. But it's just, it looks exactly like the thing from that movie, The Denzel Washington, where he also had guns and stuff.

Joe Rogan (1:43)

There it is, right there.

Teddy Atlas (1:44)

There's the scene.

Joe Rogan (1:45)

Jamie pulled the scene up.

Teddy Atlas (1:46)

Oh, really?

Joe Rogan (1:47)

Yeah, I never saw that movie.

Teddy Atlas (1:49)

Yeah, so you see, like, it's a scene where he starts pointing.

They might have taken this from here. I mean, they could have gotten it from you.

Joe Rogan (1:57)

That's from Mexico.

Teddy Atlas (1:58)

For props. So they pointed, he pointed it all towards the guy to kind of warn the guy what was coming next.

Joe Rogan (2:06)

But Denzel, that movie is probably the only good movie that ever came out of a terrible TV series. You remember the TV series, The Equalizer?

Teddy Atlas (2:15)

I remember the name, but I don't know that I ever really watched it.

Joe Rogan (2:19)

It was a fat, sloppy, white guy driving a Jaguar that supposedly kicked everybody's ass. And you'd watch it and you'd go, get the fuck out of here with this movie.

Teddy Atlas (2:27)

No, I didn't watch it.

Joe Rogan (2:29)

I heard it, Dom. It was a dumb TV show. It didn't make any sense. And when they turned it into a movie and had Denzel Washington in it, I'm like, what? How is this possible?

Teddy Atlas (2:38)

I'm going to turn this guy into a movie.

Joe Rogan (2:40)

Is he freaking you out?

Teddy Atlas (2:41)

Not really, but I was just thinking about that. It didn't end well.

Joe Rogan (2:48)

So listen, man, you just came back from the Canelo Triple G fight, which was a phenomenal fight. That was a phenomenal fight. I really enjoyed that fight a lot.

Teddy Atlas (2:56)

I think people exaggerate how good fights are nowadays. If they're around, everything's great.

I think everything, if a pitcher has one good year in baseball, he's great. He's like the next Sandy Colfax, people don't wait to see and truly grade it against things that were out of their ire. Because we're human, like, hey, I was there, I reported on it, it's the greatest fight ever.

Joe Rogan (3:25)

You really think so?

Teddy Atlas (3:26)

No, no. But that's what people do when they're there. I think it was a really good fight. Yeah, but everything's relative, you know, and it depends on everything is influenced, the judgment of people is influenced, at least I see it in my view, for whatever that's worth, by what's around and how hungry they are.

Like everybody bought the Pacquiao Mayweather first fight because the fans were hungry, their imagination was like, there's no good fights, there's going to be a good fight, so they're anticipating it. So you got them at the right time. If it was the 80s, and you had Lennon, Durand, Penel, Whitaker, Hagler, you know, you had Hearns, I mean, you had all these great fights, Aaron Pryor, you had all these guys fighting each other, you probably couldn't have pulled off the Mayweather, Pacquiao thing that you pulled off, and it turned out to be a bit of a, I don't want to say scam, but it definitely wasn't what it lived up to be.