JRE MMA Show #70 with Aljamain Sterling

Joe Rogan (0:02)

Boom, and we're live. You're the first guy with a high top ever to wear these. I was wondering whether not the microphones were gonna sit, but it's perfect.

Aljamain Sterling (0:08)

Yeah, it's just right in there. It's like a little crevice.

Joe Rogan (0:11)

It's like fluffy, like a little rest area. Does that, does having that much hair on the top of your head, is there any benefit of that?

Aljamain Sterling (0:19)

I think when you get like elbowed or anything like that, I think it helps out a ton.

Joe Rogan (0:22)

Like if someone, if you have someone in their guard, and they're trying to elbow the top of your head, I would imagine.

Aljamain Sterling (0:27)

Yeah, it's a little cushion on it, so I think it protects you. And I kind of grew out the beard for that kind of, that same reason, but it doesn't get as burly as I kind of wanted to, but it works.

Joe Rogan (0:36)

I think in boxing, they used to make people shave their beard.

Aljamain Sterling (0:39)

Yeah, that's probably why, impact. I, you know that kid Desi Green, I used to live with him, he's in the UFC also.

And whenever I put that guy in the guillotine, because he has these big dreads, and he would always get out of them, because the dreads were like, it gave his head, it made his head appear like it was bigger, so you wrap around it, and you squeeze the cushion, and it just compresses, and then his head just slides out of it, completely out. So it's like a cheat code.

Joe Rogan (1:03)

Slippery, slippery dreadlocks.

I would also imagine, though, that having a bald head, if you get sweaty, would make it a little greasier. Like if you have stubble, like on the top of your head, that would provide like a little bit of friction.

Aljamain Sterling (1:16)

Yeah, it makes sense.

I follow you, I follow you on that. I haven't had a bald head though, so I don't, it's hard for me to know.

Joe Rogan (1:23)

I like how your shirt even has a gold chain on it.

Aljamain Sterling (1:26)

I was going to wear the big boy chain today, but I don't know. I don't know.

Joe Rogan (1:31)

You only carry that out when you fight?

Aljamain Sterling (1:32)

I usually do. I try to keep it not like too ridiculous all the time, you know, try to be like only in character, like make it for like a special occasion type of thing. There's even, I would consider this a special occasion, but I try to make it more of a like an MMA thing.

Joe Rogan (1:44)

There's something extra special about a t-shirt with gold chain on it. It might be more special than an actual gold chain itself.

Jamie (1:51)

It works, it works.

Joe Rogan (1:52)

It's kind of silly. Yeah, man, how much does that thing weigh, the real one?

Aljamain Sterling (1:57)

Not very heavy. Not very heavy.

Joe Rogan (1:59)

It looks like it's like 10 pounds.

Aljamain Sterling (2:00)

Nah, I wish it was 10 pounds. That'd be 10 pounds of gold, but it's not, it's not.

Joe Rogan (2:04)

So is it like an Easter bunny, but like hollow? Yeah, it's hollow.

Aljamain Sterling (2:10)

That thing is massive, right?

Joe Rogan (2:12)

So is it hollow? They're like hollow tubes? Yeah, I would think that would be so heavy.

Aljamain Sterling (2:17)

You would think, I get a lot of people that come up to me and start grabbing my chain. I'm like, yo, this is supposed to be a mystery, you know, to the human mind. You're not supposed to know what this feels like. You know?

Joe Rogan (2:28)

It's really light.

Aljamain Sterling (2:30)

Give them the illusion that I spent like $25,000 on a big ass gold rope chain, but nah.

Joe Rogan (2:36)

Well, you remember when Rampage used to wear the motorcycle chain?

Aljamain Sterling (2:39)

Yeah, the links.

Joe Rogan (2:39)

Yeah, real heavy links around his neck.

Aljamain Sterling (2:43)

I was gonna actually go, there was two routes I was gonna go. The old school route with my chain, like the way my dad used to wear it and how we used to wear it when we were kids, or Rampage Jackson and be like the new generation of Rampage Jackson. Even though I wasn't slamming people, but I would have to somehow work that in there.

Joe Rogan (2:59)

Yeah, that should have been sick. Still fighting.

Aljamain Sterling (3:02)

Crazy.

Joe Rogan (3:02)

Crazy. Still competitive after all these years. I mean, Rampage was a fucking pioneer, man. Yeah.