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JRE MMA Show #159 with Quinton "Rampage" Jackson

Joe sits down with Quinton "Rampage" Jackson, a mixed martial artist, co-host of "The Jaxxon Podcast," and entrepreneur. https://linktr.ee/rampagejackson4real

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Jul 9, 20243h 3mWatch on YouTube ↗

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  1. 0:00 – 15:00

    (drumming music plays) Joe Rogan podcast.…

    1. NA

      (drumming music plays) Joe Rogan podcast. Check it out. The Joe Rogan Experience.

    2. JR

      Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day. (rock music plays) What's up, Quentin?

    3. QJ

      What's up, man?

    4. JR

      How's it going? Good to see you, sir.

    5. QJ

      Yeah. Good to see you.

    6. JR

      Salud. Cheers.

    7. QJ

      Good to be here.

    8. JR

      So tell me about your drink. What is this called? It's called F3?

    9. QJ

      Yeah, F3. It's, um, it's a newer energy drink. It got, like, um, (cap pops) supplements and stuff in it, BCAAs.

    10. JR

      Oh, this is good. (cap snaps)

    11. QJ

      Yeah.

    12. JR

      Uh, ginseng, BCAAs, theanine, okay, good for the brain.

    13. QJ

      What the hell is theanine? I don't know what that-

    14. JR

      It's a nootropic. It's in, uh, this gum.

    15. QJ

      Oh.

    16. JR

      This gum, NeuroGum.

    17. QJ

      Yeah.

    18. JR

      Yeah, I take a bunch of different brain supplements.

    19. QJ

      Does it make your dick hard, though?

    20. JR

      No, doesn't help there.

    21. QJ

      Oh. I've been looking for something.

    22. JR

      There's other stuff for that.

    23. QJ

      (laughs)

    24. JR

      You know? (laughs)

    25. QJ

      But, but how good would it be if you can drink dick hardener?

    26. JR

      I'm sure they have it. I'm sure there's, like, a, a Viagra soda somewhere-

    27. QJ

      Man.

    28. JR

      ... Thailand or some shit. (laughs)

    29. QJ

      (laughs)

    30. JR

      (laughs)

  2. 15:00 – 30:00

    I- I'll tell you-…

    1. JR

      was. He really was. He was tough.

    2. QJ

      I- I'll tell you-

    3. JR

      Very good jiu-jitsu, strong as hell.

    4. QJ

      ... I was losing that fight up until then because he was kicking the shit out of my leg.

    5. JR

      Hmm.

    6. QJ

      And I didn't wanna check that. I didn't wanna check that. H- his kicks was coming so hard. I've- I- I fought K-1 and I fought a lot of kickboxers but his kicks is the hardest by far.

    7. JR

      Wow, really?

    8. QJ

      Oh, yeah. I was- I was act- every time he would kick me, I was acting like it didn't hurt. And after the third kick, I remember thinking in my head like, "I don't know if I can keep acting like this shit don't hurt."

    9. JR

      Wow.

    10. QJ

      Because I didn't want to show him in my face.

    11. JR

      Right.

    12. QJ

      But it... Got the hardest leg kicks I ever felt.

    13. JR

      Have you seen that new stupid thing that they're doing, like slap fight?

    14. QJ

      Yeah. (laughs)

    15. JR

      Where they leg kick each other?

    16. QJ

      No, I haven't. No, no, no, no. I haven't seen that shit.

    17. JR

      This is a new one. Have you seen it, Jamie?

    18. NA

      I didn't see it, no, but...

    19. JR

      I could send it to you if you want me to. I sent it to Dana. It's, uh, yeah, they're having slap fight competitions but leg kicks.

    20. QJ

      That's-

    21. JR

      These dudes just standing in front of each other just teeing off leg kicks.

    22. QJ

      That's dangerous.

    23. JR

      Ugh. It's horrible.

    24. QJ

      Man, y- yeah, that could-

    25. JR

      Did you find it, Jamie? I'll send it to you.

    26. NA

      Oh. How Kyokushin.

    27. JR

      Here you go.

    28. QJ

      That can fuck you up real bad.

    29. JR

      Oh, it's rough. It's rough to watch. And some guys are kicking, like, right... You're supposed to kick the thigh but some guys are kicking really kind of like right above the knee, and buckling... And you just stand there, you can't even move. You have to just eat it.

    30. QJ

      Hmm. I wouldn't... I would... No, that's not my shit. How you feel about that slap fighting, though?

  3. 30:00 – 45:00

    Oh. …

    1. JR

      So, uh, Hoyce beat Sakuraba, but then tested positive. He was supposed to be on the card. Ray Sefo and Marvin Eastbun dropped from the card with no explanation given. He was supposed to be on the card and Gina Carano.

    2. QJ

      Oh.

    3. JR

      Oh. And Joey Morton. Gina Carano. So that wa- that was at K-1, right? Uh. Yeah. That was, like, up until... And Brock Lesnar won real quick. That was his first fight ever.

    4. QJ

      Mm.

    5. JR

      Yeah. But so Crazy Horse was backstage and I guess all the shoot the box guys got into it with Crazy Horse and, uh, didn't Christian Marcello-... he, I think he choked Crazy Horse out, right?

    6. QJ

      With a triangle.

    7. JR

      Put him in a triangle-

    8. QJ

      Yeah.

    9. JR

      ... afterwards too.

    10. QJ

      Yeah. I heard this story, yeah.

    11. JR

      So Crazy Horse apparently knocked out Wanderlei, and then got choked out, and then w- he went and fought, and, or had d- had he already fought?

    12. QJ

      I don't, I don't remember, but I heard Wanderlei fought, after he got knocked out.

    13. JR

      He did, after he got-

    14. QJ

      And won.

    15. JR

      ... out, out cold, fought and won. But won by decision.

    16. QJ

      Who, who did he fight that time, you remember?

    17. JR

      Let's find out. Let me see Wanderlei's record. I'll tell you when I see it, because you could tell he was, like, fighting a little cautious.

    18. QJ

      Mm-hmm.

    19. JR

      You know, like maybe didn't want to get hit.

    20. QJ

      Bro, that's crazy. What if they had cameras back there in the locker rooms?

    21. JR

      I think there is video footage of it. I'm pretty f- sure there's footage. There's definitely footage of Marcelo, uh, choking out Crazy Horse, 'cause he gets him in a triangle with his jeans on. I remember watching it. Like '07, right? Is that what we were looking at? Yeah. It wasn't Mirko Cro Cop. I think it might've been Fujita. Nope, that's not it, be- because he won that one by soccer kicks.

    22. QJ

      Mm-hmm.

    23. JR

      Does he have any that he won by decision? Right here?

    24. QJ

      Hmm.

    25. JR

      Maybe it was... No, he lost to Arona? Is it tha- is that possible? That it was that...

    26. QJ

      May- maybe you should look for the same card with, uh, Crazy Horse-

    27. JR

      He lost to him and then he beat him. He lost to Arona and then he beat him. Decision split. I wonder if it was that one. And then he went-

    28. QJ

      2005.

    29. JR

      ... defending the cham- the belt, so... Wonder if it's that one. Pride Sho- pr- click on Pride Shockwave 2005. Let's see. Who else is on that card? Is Crazy Horse on that card? Charles Bennett.

    30. QJ

      Yeah.

  4. 45:00 – 1:00:00

    Whoa. …

    1. QJ

      uh, so I got to Japan that, I think that Tuesday and the fight was that Sunday, so I, I think I broke my fast. I, I, so I think I ... It was like, uh, four days before the fight when I, when I ended my fast, but I think I fasted for three or four days.

    2. JR

      Whoa.

    3. QJ

      Yeah. I never did that shit again.

    4. JR

      And you were training while you were fasting?

    5. QJ

      Yeah.

    6. JR

      How bad was that?

    7. QJ

      Bro, I was on anot- I was in another place. It was the weirdest, weirdest thing. I, I didn't have to cut weight. That's my first time never had, I didn't have to cut weight before my fight.

    8. JR

      Wow.

    9. QJ

      I thought that was a good thing. But I, I thought I was doing good. I was winning the fight, then I got knocked the fuck out and I, I, I tried to cop it up to me, um, fasting. That's my, that's my excuse, I think.

    10. JR

      Well, it certainly would've drained your body to not eat for three days. (clears throat) I mean, if you're going for performance, and they say it does, it's healthy for your body every now and then to take a few days off-

    11. QJ

      Yeah.

    12. JR

      ... and not consume any food, but not before a fight.

    13. QJ

      Not before a fight, yeah.

    14. JR

      No. I mean, I wouldn't even say before camp. I would, I mean, I would say make it to like, you're out. Like, you, you got time.

    15. QJ

      Yeah. I've, I be trying to fast now for health reasons and I can't, I can't even get past two days now.

    16. JR

      Yeah?

    17. QJ

      Yeah. Can't do it.

    18. JR

      Do you eat a lot of carbohydrates?

    19. QJ

      No. I, I cut that shit out.

    20. JR

      (clears throat) Yeah?

    21. QJ

      Remember, I got super fat.

    22. JR

      You-

    23. QJ

      Espec- especially my last fight with Fedor, my God.

    24. JR

      Yeah.

    25. QJ

      I got, I got super fat. I got, uh, mixed diagnosed with, with hypothyroid.

    26. JR

      Mm-hmm.

    27. QJ

      And they had me on this fucking medicine and shit, and that shit fucked me up, man. Uh, I started training with this, um, this crazy social media, uh, guy, uh, name's Sean Rez. He's been my friend for years. I met him from, from one of my other friends. And I, I used to always see him. We used to kick it and party and stuff like that, you know, go out drinking and we eating up at his house with girls and stuff and hang out, and he was always ripped, like a Persian guy, but he, he looked like a fucking Viking, right? So one day I asked the guy, I'm like, "Man, how in the fuck you stay ripped like that all year round?" He, and he told me, he said, "Man, this is what I do." I said, "You on that shit, ain't you?" He said, "No, I ain't on shit." And he said, "I, I, I do two hours of cardio." He, he works out like two or three times a day and he don't eat carbs.

    28. JR

      How of- Jesus Christ.

    29. QJ

      Yeah. That's my, that's my trainer, that's my coach, man. He changed my fucking life, bro.

    30. JR

      Damn.

  5. 1:00:00 – 1:04:18

    Narcisse Marbod? Yeah, he's…

    1. QJ

      seen?

    2. JR

      Narcisse Marbod? Yeah, he's big.

    3. QJ

      Yeah, he's big. Like a lot of fighters go through that, like, um, Ricky Hatton. I think he got his, his self under control now. But he used to blow up, and that, that fucks you up.

    4. JR

      Yeah, but it's also like fighters, when they're not training and they're not fighting anymore, they just start eating.

    5. QJ

      Oh, man. Yeah, I was bad for that.

    6. JR

      Yeah, they just eat like crazy.

    7. QJ

      You enjoy yourself, 'cause you had to be so disciplined-

    8. JR

      Mm-hmm.

    9. QJ

      ... in training camps. And then after that, you just, you just, uh, I o- I just always say, "Oh, I'm just gonna enjoy myself for like a week, then get back, and I'm never gonna get fat again."

    10. JR

      Mm-hmm.

    11. QJ

      I used to say that shit all the time.

    12. JR

      (laughs)

    13. QJ

      Two weeks, bro. Two weeks, I'm back fucking fat as fuck.

    14. JR

      Uh.

    15. QJ

      It's crazy.

    16. JR

      Isn't it crazy how quick it gets back on you?

    17. QJ

      Yeah.

    18. JR

      Especially if you're eating pizza and bullshit, and if you're drinking.

    19. QJ

      Oh, yeah, drinking.

    20. JR

      Drinking is number one.

    21. QJ

      Yeah.

    22. JR

      Yeah, drinking, drinking puts it on you quick, and I think that's where Ricky, Ricky Hatton was having a little bit of a problem.

    23. QJ

      Yeah.

    24. JR

      That happens with a lot of fighters, especially, uh, guys who've got some brain damage. You know, they, they really crave alcohol, you know?

    25. QJ

      Mm-hmm.

    26. JR

      There's something about, um, your dopamine levels drop. And like, when, when you've had significant amount of brain damage, you know, you've been KO'd a bunch of times, a lot of guys lean towards alcohol to make them feel better.

    27. QJ

      Mm.

    28. JR

      But it's all... You know, some people get KO'd and they're fine. Like-

    29. QJ

      Like those K- those K-1 guys.

    30. JR

      Mm-hmm.

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