JRE MMA Show #65 with Corey Anderson

Joe Rogan (0:03)

Corey Anderson, ladies and gentlemen. What's up?

Corey Anderson (0:06)

What's going on, Joe?

Joe Rogan (0:07)

We finally did it.

Corey Anderson (0:07)

We finally did it, we're here.

Joe Rogan (0:09)

And got some techno hunting as well.

I told you about that game. That game's very addictive, isn't it?

Corey Anderson (0:15)

I'm already trying to get back out to do some more when this is over, so.

Joe Rogan (0:17)

You get itchy, right? Yeah. No, it's amazing, man. That game's incredible.

How long have you been bow hunting for?

Corey Anderson (0:23)

I've been bow hunting since I was 16 or 17 I've been hunting my whole life.

Joe Rogan (0:29)

What switched you over to bow hunting?

Corey Anderson (0:30)

I'm a high school teammate, actually. I used to go rabbit hunting and stuff with a shotgun. And I've been shooting a bow since I was like 12 or 11 Just 3D shooting. Like, you ever bow hunting with it? You can hunt with this? Like, yeah. Like, we go hunt all the time.

So one day before school, he picked me up, and he went over to my buddy's house and got up in the stand. Well, he got in the stand.

I couldn't climb, because I didn't know what I was doing. I got stuck at the bottom of the tree, sitting there with my bow on my lap. So, but that was my first time. And after that, I just kept going. And every now and then, in between practices and whatnot, but now, when I got time between fighting and whatnot, I'm all hunting, that's it.

Joe Rogan (1:03)

Oh, I could tell by your Instagram, man. I follow your Instagram.

You're constantly shooting and hunting and practicing, and it gets in your blood.

Corey Anderson (1:12)

I mean, it's just like fighting. Like I said, we're doing technical hunts.

I do it so much, just muscle memory. Like everybody think, oh, you spend too much time hunting, you're not training. But I go win a fight, and they're like, oh, that was impressive. Like, I still train two, three times a day, but I get on from the gym, and I always have a bow in my truck. I have three bows, and one is always in my truck. So I pull up, pop the doors open, grab my speaker, and the target is right there.

Get like 30 to 60 shots, and then go in, spend time with the family, eat, go back to the gym, go to the range, and shoot indoors when it's dark. And I'm always shooting, I just enjoy it.

Joe Rogan (1:42)

Wow, so is it like a part of meditation for you, do you think?

Corey Anderson (1:45)

100%, coming off the OSP fight. That was actually the first time I hunted in Jersey. I've been in Jersey since 2014, when the show came out. And at the OSP fight and all that stuff, and everybody told me, don't pay attention, you was winning that fight, you got caught. Don't let the people get in your head and tell you you're not there. So actually, the next day I went home, went and bought my hunting license, and bought a stand and hunted in Jersey for the first time.

And that helped me, I didn't think about it all. From November to February 1st, I was in the tree stand every day.

And I went back to training, like full camp, whatever thing in my mind. I forgot all about that OSP fight. That's when I told my wife, I found my balance. You know, the thing was, I was always in the gym, and that's why the name 258 came, because Corey never, at the time, I didn't do anything else but train. You know, I was trained to go to the gym and train, to go therapy, go back to the gym and train, go home, run, go to the garage, hit the heavy bag, go to Mark Henry's hip pads, and go train again. So, I got selling wheel on the way here, when I first went to UFC, and I say, oh, Corey's grew, he's gotten bigger. I've always been a big guy. I was 300 pounds one time. But when I got down to 205, I always told myself, I don't want to get heavier than like 210, 212 So every day I had like a goal.

I wanted to end the day off no heavier than 212 So if I was like 215 from eating too much, and it's 10 o'clock at night, I got to lace up and go for a run. So I was all, every morning I wake up at 210 So that's why I took the fights like Yon Block, which on two, three weeks notice, five-year-mild not on Brazil on a week notice, because I didn't have to cut weight. It was like, okay, just go. But when I got to Jimmy Manuel, and he told me at the bar, he's like, bro, you're a good fighter, you're just too small. Like I weighed in Friday and Saturday, I stepped in the cage, looking at his ex saying, I gained like six pounds.