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JRE Fight Companion - September 6, 2025

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Bryan CallenguestBrendan SchaubguestGordon RyanguestJoe RoganhostJamie VernonguestJohn Danaherguest
Sep 7, 20254h 3mWatch on YouTube ↗

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  1. 0:011:06

    Going live in Paris: crowd energy and broadcast setup

    1. BC

      Don't get-

    2. BS

      I'm just trying to-

    3. BC

      ... my earbuds. (paper rustles)

    4. GR

      I've never seen this guy.

    5. JR

      Yeah, he's always do it, he does a lot of the UK ones.

    6. BS

      France has the best crowd, though. Great crowds.

    7. JR

      Are they?

    8. BS

      Yeah. (can opening) Rowdy as fuck.

    9. BC

      Really?

    10. BS

      Rowdy.

    11. JR

      Oh, yeah?

    12. BC

      OFC, UFC.

    13. GR

      Yeah.

    14. JR

      We good?

    15. GR

      Yeah.

    16. JR

      All right, we're live.

    17. BS

      Three whites, three.

    18. JR

      We're live, ladies and gentlemen. We're live.

    19. BC

      Here we are.

    20. JR

      Hey, Gordon Ryan in the fucking house.

    21. BC

      Mm-hmm.

    22. JR

      Brian Callan, Brendan Schaub-

    23. GR

      Hey, man.

    24. JR

      ... let's go, let's go.

    25. BC

      Let's go.

    26. JR

      Fight Companion. Um, Jamie, send me the link so I could... Did you send it to me?

    27. JV

      Hold on one second.

    28. JR

      All right. All right, we'll tweet it out, uh, to let all the folks at home... Look at Paul Felder, looking like a guy from the '40s.

    29. BC

      Do you know what he majored in in college?

    30. JR

      Dance.

  2. 1:063:31

    Michael Bisping toughness: injuries, one eye, and never quitting

    1. JR

      (laughs)

    2. BS

      What's, Bisping did not major-

    3. BC

      That's a tough actor.

    4. BS

      ... in theater, and he's booking a ton of roles.

    5. BC

      Uh, he b- did the commercial I wrote.

    6. BS

      Yeah, but I'm talking real roles.

    7. BC

      Oh, yeah.

    8. BS

      Yeah, your commercial-

    9. BC

      He's great.

    10. BS

      ... was for UFC guys. He's booking, like, movies.

    11. BC

      Oh, I'm glad then.

    12. JR

      Is he really?

    13. BS

      Yeah, like, legit movies. He's-

    14. BC

      Bro, that guy-

    15. BS

      ... he's crushing it.

    16. JR

      You wanna talk about a guy who has had to struggle? His fucking neck was so bad, dude. He could barely get out of bed to do podcasts-

    17. GR

      Yeah.

    18. JR

      ... and to do his commentary work, and then he's in bed most of the day after that.

    19. BS

      Ugh. And he has one eye.

    20. JR

      He has one eye.

    21. BC

      Yeah.

    22. JR

      He's had his neck fused, like, three different times.

    23. BC

      Really?

    24. JR

      Oh, his neck's-

    25. BC

      I was on a plane with him when he was-

    26. JR

      ... fucked.

    27. BC

      ... he was in a, he was, he was, he was in this, right after his surgery with that, you know, brace. And he was miserable. I go-

    28. JR

      Ugh.

    29. BC

      ... "How you doing?" He goes, "Ah, you know." (laughs)

    30. JR

      Bro, he's, he's been miserable for years.

  3. 3:316:07

    Benoit Saint-Denis vs Mauricio Ruffio preview + weight-cut extremes at 155

    1. JR

      This is gonna be an interesting fight, Benoit Saint-Denis and Mauricio Ruffio.

    2. BC

      Yeah.

    3. JR

      Ruffio's fucking crazy at 155.

    4. BS

      He's like a Brazilian Conor.

    5. JR

      But he's huge.

    6. BS

      He's huge.

    7. BC

      I don't know how this guy-

    8. JR

      It doesn't make any sense-

    9. BC

      ... sucked that way.

    10. JR

      ... that he is 155. He's, like, 6'2". He's strong.

    11. BC

      6'2"?

    12. JR

      He's huge.

    13. BC

      Oh my God.

    14. GR

      Where has he been?

    15. JR

      How tall is Ruffio?

    16. BS

      He's undefeated in the UFC.

    17. BC

      Unbelievable.

    18. JR

      Bro, he wheel kicked Bobby Green into another dimension. He's r- super talented.

    19. BS

      Car- cardio is the only question. Hasn't fought top competition.

    20. GR

      5'11".

    21. JR

      Is he only 5'11"?

    22. GR

      It says on Google.

    23. BS

      That's it.

    24. JR

      Gah, I don't believe that.

    25. BS

      Google be bullshit, man.

    26. JR

      I think he's tall- I think he's taller than that.

    27. BS

      Come on, Jamie. Come on, bro.

    28. GR

      It says 5'11", 156.

    29. BS

      Yeah, that's good.

    30. BC

      In MyFantasy, he's 6'2".

  4. 6:077:38

    ‘Who made weight?!’ Pereira at 185, Rumble at 170, and combat-sport body myths

    1. JD

      Well, the, the craziest thing to me is Pereira making 85.

    2. JR

      Oh, that's the nuttiest.

    3. BC

      That's the-

    4. BS

      Yeah.

    5. BC

      ... that's the nuts.

    6. JR

      Hands down, hands down.

    7. JD

      I met him, I was like a jack 235 once, and I wa- he was, like, way bigger than me. And I was like-

    8. BC

      Yeah.

    9. JD

      ... "How the fuck does this guy make 185?"

    10. JR

      (laughs)

    11. BC

      And his hands, his hands.

    12. BS

      Okay, let me, let me take that back.

    13. JD

      He's taller than me. He's longer than me.

    14. BC

      Ugh.

    15. JD

      Like, his, every, every part of him is bigger than me. Like, how does this guy make 185?

    16. JR

      The craziest one was Rumble Johnson.

    17. BC

      Rumble.

    18. BS

      Yep, yep, yep.

    19. BC

      Rumble was cra-

    20. BS

      Rumble was the craziest.

    21. BC

      Dude, when I-

    22. BS

      Buddy, Buddy.

    23. BC

      ... I was doing, I was doing warrior with him. He was 235.

    24. BS

      Mm-hmm.

    25. BC

      And, and I go-

    26. JR

      Fighting at 170.

    27. BC

      Dude, he fought at 170.

    28. BS

      (laughs)

    29. BC

      He was two... Um, when I say 235, like-

    30. BS

      100%.

  5. 7:388:51

    Grief and mortality: losing friends, losing parents, and how death ‘doesn’t feel real’

    1. BC

      It's kinda crazy. Happened to my friend, just died, had wh- n- we didn't know, but he had bone marrow cancer.

    2. JR

      Ugh.

    3. BC

      We didn't know. And then he went-

    4. JR

      Well, he went out to that restaurant, didn't he?

    5. BC

      Via Veneto.

    6. JR

      Yeah.

    7. BS

      Yeah, yeah, yeah.

    8. BC

      My boy Fabrizio, one of my favorite people. And he, he just, uh, he stopped answering texts. And I was like, "You know, what's going on?" And he, and he goes, "No, I'm good, brother. I'm just, I'm just taking a break from everything. Not you, but just, like, you know, taking a break and relaxing." And I was like, "This doesn't make sense." Turns out he was in LA, and then I think he, he got septic and, or something like that.

    9. JR

      (laughs)

    10. BC

      His family keeps it close to the vest, but that was a good buddy of mine. But just crazy that I get a call and it says, "Hey, he, he passed last night." What are you talking about?"

    11. BS

      But this is Brian in a nutshell. We do the show Monday. I'm like, "Hey, Ben." He's like, "Good, man. Good, man. Oh, yeah! My friend died." (laughs)

    12. BC

      (laughs)

    13. BS

      Jesus Christ.

    14. BC

      Well, I don't know how to, I don't know how to deal with it. I'm not good with emotion. (laughs)

    15. BS

      Yeah.

    16. JR

      It's hard when someone dies 'cause it doesn't feel real.

    17. BC

      It doesn't feel real.

    18. JR

      Especially if you don't see them dead.

    19. BC

      Right.

    20. JR

      It's like, "What? You're not there anymore?"

    21. BC

      Right, right.

    22. JR

      "I call you, you don't answer? Where are you?"

    23. BC

      My buddy called me, and... My buddy calls me and he goes, "Hey, man." Uh, "Hey..." Just literally like this. He goes, "Hey, man. Uh, we lost Fabrizio last night." I go, "What? Where is he?"

    24. BS

      Yeah, like-

    25. BC

      "What are you talking about?" And he goes, "He passed." I go, "Wh- what?"

    26. BS

      'Cause you had no clue.

    27. BC

      I had no di- I had no idea.

    28. JR

      He was such a good dude.

    29. BS

      He was the best.

    30. BC

      The best.

  6. 8:5111:00

    Sports-car tangent: Nürburgring talk, Corvette ZR1 hype, and ‘dual aspirations’

    1. JR

      The other day, the other day, they fucking released, like, the ZR1-X specs, or ZR1 around, like, Nürburgring. I'm like, "Oh, man, let me send this to my dad." I'm like, "Oh, he's been fucking dead for five years." (laughs)

    2. BC

      Oh.

    3. JD

      Oh.

    4. BS

      That's crazy.

    5. BC

      (laughs)

    6. JR

      Ugh.

    7. BS

      You took it to another level. I'm sorry.

    8. JR

      Oh, my gosh.

    9. BC

      That's tears. (laughs)

    10. JD

      That's the trump card.

    11. BC

      Corden, Corden, Corden.

    12. BS

      As he's having that fucking bowl of ƒ5,000.

    13. BC

      He just watered down pizzaiolo. My head, my head just goes down. "Ah, never mind." (laughs)

    14. JR

      Yeah, it's weird when people die.

    15. BC

      It is.

    16. BS

      It's very odd.

    17. JR

      That ZR1's badass, though. Your dad would've loved it.

    18. BS

      It did, the ZR1. They, you see the, they, they did the, uh, Nürburg fucking test. And, uh, they called it- He was doing it with Professor Bernhard Noe.

    19. JR

      Nürburgring.

    20. BS

      No, it was with the engineer.

    21. JR

      The Nürburg was, that's Nazi Germany.

    22. BS

      (laughs)

    23. JR

      You mean Nürburgring.

    24. BS

      Yeah.

    25. BC

      Nürburgring, yeah. Yeah.

    26. BS

      (laughs)

    27. JR

      (laughs)

    28. BC

      I have no idea how to pronounce it.

    29. JR

      The Nürburgh trials. (laughs)

    30. BS

      We go to Tassendero B- (laughs)

  7. 11:0013:55

    Early card begins: France’s MMA scene, immigration background, and one-eye fighters

    1. JR

      All right, so this is the first fight. Gomes is very good. He's from France. That's that dude right there.

    2. BS

      Yup.

    3. JR

      Very good striker.

    4. BS

      Yeah, he is.

    5. JR

      And then who is this gentleman?

    6. BC

      Some white guy.

    7. BS

      That guy looks like he plucked him-

    8. BC

      Poland.

    9. BS

      They plucked him right outta Kentucky.

    10. JR

      (laughs)

    11. BC

      Yeah. Poland or Kentucky.

    12. BS

      Mm.

    13. JR

      I've never been to Paris. I've, I just had a layover there once at the airport.

    14. BS

      I have no desire to go.

    15. BC

      Great city, great city.

    16. BS

      I have no desire to go.

    17. JR

      Rucha- how do you say that name? Ruchala, Ruchala.

    18. BS

      Ruchala.

    19. JR

      Ruchala.

    20. BC

      Ruchala.

    21. BS

      Ruchala.

    22. BC

      Anybody's who's fighting in France usually isn't French. It's like, by way of, like, Russia. You know what I mean?

    23. JR

      Mm.

    24. BC

      Armenia.

    25. JR

      Yeah, France is very heavy in terms of its immigration.

    26. BC

      Yes.

    27. JR

      Lot of immigrants.

    28. BC

      Yes, a lot of Algerians.

    29. JR

      Including Francis, Francis Ngannou. That's where he fought.

    30. BS

      Oh, that's right. But even, even with Imavov, you know, that was the build-up to this fight. They're like, "He's not really French." You know, he's originally Dagestani.

  8. 13:5518:17

    MVP at 185 and upcoming matchmaking: Shavkat, Brady, Edwards, and Muay Thai volume

    1. BS

      Yeah, his only hiccup was Michael Venom Page.

    2. JR

      Well, that just shows you how fucking good Michael Venom Page is. That, that's the puzzle.

    3. BS

      I like MVP at 85.

    4. JR

      Yeah.

    5. BS

      Love him at 85.

    6. JR

      Yeah, man. Well, no struggle-

    7. BS

      The Cannonier fight, I was like, "God, the size, this is where he might meet his match." Where you're like, "Man, he fucked him up."

    8. BC

      Yeah.

    9. BS

      But the third round-

    10. JR

      He fucked around too much.

    11. BS

      ... Cannonier got him on his back.

    12. JR

      Yep.

    13. BS

      Yeah, and that's on MVP.

    14. JR

      Yep.

    15. BS

      Like, if you have a guy at that caliber, Hert, fucking finish him, dude. Don't wait around.

    16. BC

      How about Cannonier at 42? He looks like he's-

    17. JR

      I know.

    18. BC

      ... made of metal.

    19. JR

      He is.

    20. BC

      Hand me that lighter, buddy.

    21. BS

      It's interesting with, with, uh, uh, MVP, because he's, like, so hard to take down 'cause he always has down block hands. Yep. So he, all the punches come from the bottom and he also has the down block hands. Yeah. But then once he actually gets put on bottom, he didn't, wasn't, he couldn't get up.

    22. JR

      Those guys with that point fighting style are so hard to touch, because they're so used to playing that tag game, and their ability to close distance is nuts.

    23. BC

      Yeah, when you're an athlete like him, his speed.

    24. JR

      Like the blitz. Oh, accuracy too. I mean, he makes everybody look stupid. He make, he made Kevin Holland look stupid. He just looks stupid.

    25. BC

      But missing, missing.

    26. BS

      I wonder what they do with him at 85 though, 'cause you start going towards those up- upper echelon guys, it gets dicey.

    27. JR

      Well, it's gonna be interesting to see. You know, it's gonna be interesting to see. As long as he doesn't fuck around like he did in the third round with Cannonier, I think people are gonna have a really hard time even touching him.

    28. BS

      Early on, for sure.

    29. JR

      Yeah.

    30. BC

      He's just so fun to watch anyway. I would keep him as... He's just so entertaining.

  9. 18:1725:31

    Boxing state-of-play: Canelo–Crawford hype, exhibitions, and the ‘money grab’ era

    1. JR

      Speaking of boxing, what do you think about, like, next weekend?

    2. BC

      Canelo? Can't wait.

    3. BS

      Oh, Canelo-Crawford?

    4. JR

      Oh, Crawford-Crawford. I see, I don't think it's gonna be that entertaining of a fight.

    5. BS

      What?

    6. JR

      Mm-mm.

    7. BS

      What makes you say that?

    8. BC

      Why?

    9. BS

      I mean, I guess if Crawford takes some chances, but he's jumping up such a high weight class. I- I- Canelo by distance?

    10. BC

      I'll tell you what, though. Crawford looks thick.

    11. BS

      You've seen the photos of him that he put on his Instagram?

    12. BC

      Yes. He's got big legs.

    13. JR

      Bro.

    14. BC

      I know.

    15. JR

      He's fucking jacked. I- I would demand-

    16. BS

      Look at him. Look at his demand of his testicles.

    17. JR

      So we think that makes him faster?

    18. BC

      It's a good question.

    19. BS

      You think it makes him faster?

    20. BC

      That's a good question.

    21. BS

      Piss test, how dare you?

    22. BC

      But I'm not- but, B, I'm not sure-

    23. JR

      I don't think he's doing anything, but he might be.

    24. BC

      Yeah, I'm not sure, though, B, that his- his skills-

    25. BS

      Look at that. Come on, son. Look at that.

    26. JR

      Yeah.

    27. BS

      Callen's jerking off to this later.

    28. BC

      I am. I am.

    29. JR

      (laughs)

    30. BC

      I am 100%.

  10. 25:3128:22

    Psychedelics, ayahuasca ‘sweetness,’ and Bryan’s infamous mushroom meltdown story

    1. BS

      You know what the problem with Wilder is?

    2. JR

      What?

    3. BS

      He did all that ayahuasca and he's too friendly.

    4. BC

      (laughs)

    5. JR

      (laughs)

    6. BS

      Whenever someone does too much ayahuasca, I'm like, "Oh, he's losing."

    7. JR

      Or any ayahuasca, if you wanna be a fighter.

    8. JD

      He did, he did the interview at one time and then he's like, "I just, I lost it. I lost the killer..."

    9. JR

      Yeah.

    10. JD

      "... thing. The killer instinct."

    11. BS

      Really? Ayahuasca took his darkness.

    12. JD

      "I think so," yeah. Yeah.

    13. BC

      Yeah.

    14. JD

      "I think so," yeah.

    15. JR

      That happens to a lot of guys.

    16. BS

      Really?

    17. JR

      Yeah, they come back and they're just, like, too sweet.

    18. BS

      Some, some, some, say all of 'em.

    19. BC

      My, my buddy's just-

    20. JR

      Too sweet.

    21. BC

      My buddy just did... Came back from doing a 10-day ayahuasca retreat. He's made billions of dollars. And he goes... I go, "How was it?" He goes, "It was intense." And I go, "Oh, that's cool." And he goes, "I just have a deeper appreciation for my friends." (laughs)

    22. BS

      Fuck you. Did he say that?

    23. BC

      It was great. He goes, "I thought about you."

    24. BS

      (laughs)

    25. BC

      And I was like, "Oh boy, this is getting awkward." But it was great.

    26. BS

      I was rock hard, thinking about you. Did you tell-

    27. JR

      You should say, "Hey, give me some money."

    28. BC

      Yeah, I know.

    29. JR

      "While the bar is still hot."

    30. BS

      (laughs)

  11. 28:2242:49

    Politics and society spiral: guns, immigration, censorship, bots, and digital ID control

    1. JR

      This is one of the funniest things ever. (clears throat) They are now saying they're going to look into taking gun rights away from transgender people.

    2. BS

      (laughs)

    3. JR

      So what happens now is liberals-

    4. JD

      (laughs)

    5. JR

      ... have to defend gun rights.

    6. BS

      (laughs)

    7. BC

      I love it. I know, it's genius. (laughs) This is like the ultimate trap.

    8. JR

      This is like the ultimate trap. It's like, do they fall into this?

    9. JD

      It's like the meme and the guy's sweating with the two buttons.

    10. JR

      Yeah.

    11. BC

      Yeah. (laughs)

    12. BS

      (laughs)

    13. JD

      (laughs)

    14. JR

      It's like... (laughs) First of all, he says things that he doesn't mean. Like it's wild when a president says, "We're looking into taking away Rosie O'Donnell's citizenship."

    15. BS

      You can't do that.

    16. JR

      I saw a meme... I saw a meme yesterday. It was like, imagine Rosie O'Donnell moves to Ireland to escape Trump and then McGregor just becomes the leader.

    17. BC

      Oh, that's hilarious.

    18. BS

      He might... He very well might. He re- really might win.

    19. JR

      I saw some video he posted, like campaigning for it's at like 50 million views.

    20. BS

      Yeah.

    21. JR

      Apparent- apparently he has like 60% in the poll.

    22. BC

      Wait, who's this?

    23. JR

      Conor McGregor, being the president of Ireland.

    24. BC

      Wow. Wow.

    25. JD

      Yeah, he just did like, yeah.

    26. BS

      You know what that motherfucker... Basically Arnold Schwarzenegger, but for, for us.

    27. BC

      Uh...

    28. BS

      For the UFC.

    29. BC

      Well, I, I, me...

    30. JD

      Yeah.

  12. 42:491:15:00

    Health, training, and skin infections: staph diagnosis, DIY treatment, and Danaher’s stomach issues

    1. BS

      Oh, there we go, it's back.

    2. BC

      Here we go.

    3. BS

      UFC's leaving ESPN, and ESPN said, "Why don't you guys suck on this one?"

    4. BC

      Is that staph on his tit right there?

    5. JD

      (laughs)

    6. BC

      Has he got staph on his titty?

    7. BS

      I hope so.

    8. BC

      Looks like a bruise.

    9. JD

      Uh, he's got something, but-

    10. BS

      Yeah.

    11. JD

      ... it doesn't-

    12. BS

      Could be big toe to the titty.

    13. JD

      Doesn't look like staph.

    14. BS

      No.

    15. JD

      Staph is usually raised. It just looks kind of red, doesn't really look raised from here, but I can't tell.

    16. JR

      The worst one ever was Kevan Lee. Remember when Kevan Lee went to the...

    17. BC

      Oh.

    18. JD

      Oh.

    19. JR

      He had like this welt on his titty.

    20. JD

      Yeah, he had like makeup on it.

    21. BS

      Yeah.

    22. JD

      Uh...

    23. JR

      Was that when he fought Tony? Was it that fight?

    24. BS

      That could be anything. That doesn't look raised though.

    25. JR

      Dude, how about Tony got a win the other night?

    26. BS

      Mm-hmm. Think it's a YouTuber.

    27. JR

      Thank God.

    28. BC

      Uh, I heard that staph doesn't come from the mat. It comes from the person you're rolling with. Is this true?

    29. JR

      What's up, Jamie? Oh, that, that is staph.

    30. BS

      Oh, okay. They love on the mat.

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