JRE MMA Show #68 with Will Harris

Joe Rogan (0:02)

And Will Harris, you're live.

Will Harris (0:05)

Man, this is crazy.

Joe Rogan (0:06)

You're on the other side of the camera now.

Let me give you an introduction for people who don't know. Will is the man behind Anatomy Of A Fighter. If you ever seen any of those videos, particularly the most famous one was when Conor McGregor threw that dolly at the bus with Khabib Nurmagomedov was on it, and it became a huge part of the promotion, which I thought was weird, that it was this shameful act that he did that. I mean, really awful. Cut a bunch of innocent people that were on the bus, but they used it over and over and over again.

That was your footage. A lot of people didn't even know, including me.

Will Harris (0:40)

No one did. I was telling a friend the other day, what's funny, no one has ever heard this, but when it happened, I showed Khabib at the back of the bus, because he had a smile on his face, and I showed him and everybody else on the bus that I actually caught Conor doing it, because they didn't really know it was Conor.

So I remember Khabib looked at the footage, I was holding the camera, and he was like, brother, you could get paid from this. It's like, bro, this is worth $100,000. He looked at his manager Ali, a shout out to Ali, and he was like, get him some money, he deserves this. And then I gave it to the UFC to use for Embedded, and I thought that was just it, and they promoted the fight with it, and I was like, damn, I should have just leaned my head to the right and got hit by the dolly, so I could not have to be doing GoFundMe's and shit.

Joe Rogan (1:29)

Well, what you should have done is ask for money for it. That video footage was, it turned out it was very valuable, because it set up the fight, which also set up the post-fight brawl.

I mean, there was so much that was involved in him throwing that dolly, and you caught that video, and they played that shit over and over and over. I was actually kind of shocked that they did that, because at the time, we were like, whoa, Connor might go to jail. Like, that was like legitimate assault.

Will Harris (1:56)

They used it the next day. I was like, damn.

When I saw it on Fox News and CNN, I was just like, that's my footage. Because when you're building a channel or a series like that, you think, oh, this is my moment. Everybody has a moment. And unfortunately, the UFC promoted it. And shout out to them, because they've been nothing but good to me. I can't say anything.

I still wish I would have got something from it.

Joe Rogan (2:25)

You should have got something from it. Pull this mic up. Just get it up there. Like, fist from your face. There you go.

Will Harris (2:30)

Right there, right there.

Joe Rogan (2:30)

Yeah, no, you do a fantastic job. I mean, you really do. And like I said, until that video footage came out, I didn't know that you weren't even a part of the UFC's promotion team.

I didn't know. I thought maybe WME had hired you, and this is another thing that they're working on. I did not know that you were independent.

Will Harris (2:48)

Well, what was crazy is that I started it almost two years ago. I was just sitting at home in Florida. I was living in South Florida, and I was hanging out with the guys at the Black Zillions at Jaco. I had stumbled over there one day at the gym, and I seen it when I was grocery shopping, and I just stopped in. And I was doing stuff for Shannon Briggs. Let's go, champ.

Joe Rogan (3:09)

Let's go, champ.

Will Harris (3:09)

You did his stuff? I was going to the Heavyweight Factory. You do all those Shannon Briggs ones? No, I wasn't doing his phone videos. What happened was I reached out to him, and he invited me to the Heavyweight Factory.

Holyfield was there, everybody, and I just went there a few times, and I created some creative videos for them.

Joe Rogan (3:26)

Holyfield's still working out?

Will Harris (3:28)

He was when I was there. I seen him.

Joe Rogan (3:30)

He still looks good.

Will Harris (3:31)

He does, man. He like what?

Joe Rogan (3:32)

It's crazy.

Will Harris (3:33)

He's like 50 something years old.

Joe Rogan (3:34)

At least 50 years old.