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JRE MMA Show #33 with Brendan Schaub

Joe sits down with Brendan Schaub to discuss upcoming fights.

Joe RoganhostBrendan SchaubguestJamie VernonguestGuest 2guest
Jul 4, 20182h 53mWatch on YouTube ↗

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  1. 0:000:51

    World Cup banter and Boulder’s “soccer guy” culture shock

    1. JR

      (clears throat) Three, two, one. Yee-haw! I walked in, you guys were watching soccer. I was hugely disappointed.

    2. BS

      Dude, England's in penalty kicks.

    3. JR

      Oh my God, is that okay?

    4. BS

      Dude-

    5. JR

      What happened? (laughs)

    6. BS

      ... well, like, (laughs) it's the World Cup, man. If they win, they move on. So, uh, but the penalty kick thing- And they just won. They just won.

    7. JR

      They just won?

    8. BS

      England just won.

    9. JR

      We missed it?

    10. BS

      They just fucking won.

    11. JR

      Missed it? Are you guys rooting for England?

    12. BS

      Yeah, I'm- I'm-

    13. JR

      Are you?

    14. BS

      ... I'm English, man. I'm half English. My mom's-

    15. JR

      Are you?

    16. BS

      My mom was born and raised there, bro.

    17. JR

      I thought you were bi.

    18. BS

      What's up, bro? I know, most people do.

    19. JR

      (laughs)

    20. BS

      English, son.

    21. JR

      So you really root for England?

    22. BS

      Yeah, big time.

    23. JR

      No shit?

    24. BS

      Yes.

    25. JR

      Wow.

    26. BS

      Yeah.

    27. JR

      Oh.

    28. BS

      I know.

    29. JR

      Do you-

    30. BS

      Well, if U.S. isn't in it, you know-

  2. 0:512:22

    Colorado sports recruiting, outdoor lifestyles, and why Boulder feels different

    1. JR

      (clicks tongue) Dude, I was in Boulder. You know, Boulder's like the People's Republic of Boulder. I don't have to tell you. You're from Colorado, you know what it's like out there.

    2. BS

      I went to school there, son.

    3. JR

      Boulder's rough.

    4. BS

      Yes.

    5. JR

      It's, uh, they're, they're like super duper liberal. And people were unnaturally happy about the World Cup, like super excited that they know so much about soccer and yelling... I was at a bar, and I was like, "Ew."

    6. BS

      That'll make you hate it.

    7. JR

      "Ew." (laughs)

    8. BS

      That'll make you hate it. But if you-

    9. JR

      It was just-

    10. BS

      But if you go to England-

    11. JR

      Right.

    12. BS

      ... you'll feel good about it.

    13. JR

      But it was this certain type of white dude.

    14. BS

      All right, that's you, bro.

    15. JR

      You know? (laughs)

    16. BS

      That's you. You know?

    17. JR

      (laughs)

    18. BS

      I fucking-

    19. JR

      They mean well. They probably had a dad that was in the Navy or some shit, you know?

    20. BS

      (laughs)

    21. JR

      (laughs) Got bullied around at home and they just went the total opposite hard way.

    22. BS

      No, it-

    23. JR

      That shit happens, man.

    24. BS

      ... seems a tough sell, especially if you're like an athlete, like a Black athlete. Like y'all-

    25. JR

      Oh my God. It's like no Black guys.

    26. BS

      That's what, that's why they struggle a little bit.

    27. JR

      Oh yeah.

    28. BS

      Like, look at the beautiful mountains. They're like, "Bitch, I don't hike."

    29. JR

      (laughs)

    30. BS

      "I'm from Comto-... I don't give a fuck about your mountains."

  3. 2:223:48

    Bears in hot tubs: Colorado wildlife returns and suburban animal encounters

    1. JR

      Did you know that, uh, wolves and bears are, and wolves and grizzly bears are making their way back into Colorado?

    2. BS

      Really?

    3. JR

      Yeah. About goddamn time.

    4. BS

      Interesting. Why were they gone? Hunters?

    5. JR

      Well, they killed them off in the 1800s and then they reintroduced them to Yellowstone. And mostly they stayed around Wyoming and Montana where Yellowstone is and they made their way into Idaho, but now they've definitely spotted them in Colorado and they've also, a very credible source, in fact, my friend Adam Greentree took video of g- what he said was a grizzly bear and he knows the difference.

    6. BS

      He knows his shit.

    7. JR

      Yeah, it was in the San Juan Mountains in Colorado last, uh, September. So they think that there's a population of grizzly bears.

    8. BS

      Adam would know.

    9. JR

      He would know.

    10. BS

      And if, if you watch the news, like the local news in LA, which I do, especially when I get depressed, you-

    11. JR

      (laughs)

    12. BS

      There's, there's a bunch of black bears, like, in hot tubs and shit.

    13. JR

      Yes.

    14. BS

      Just popping up.

    15. JR

      In Pasadena?

    16. BS

      Just chilling in hot tubs.

    17. JR

      Yeah.

    18. BS

      Why do they love the tubs?

    19. JR

      Well, they don't know that it's a hot tub. They just know it's water.

    20. BS

      And they love it.

    21. JR

      And so like for them to find a spot that's filled with water, it's probably terrible for them unless you have a salt pool.

    22. BS

      You know how hot it is too, and the chlorine? Like what the fuck is this?

    23. JR

      The chlorine, that's what I'm saying. Like if the bear's drinking all that chlorine, it's gotta be-

    24. BS

      Jizz in that pool. You know what you do in hot tubs, bro.

    25. JR

      Oh yeah, that's like... That's dick soup. (laughs)

    26. BS

      Yeah. (laughs) Got that cock soup for them black bears. (laughs)

    27. JR

      (slaps leg) Yeah, what percentage of hot tubs do people fuck in?

    28. BS

      100% is the answer.

    29. JR

      (smacks lips) Probably.

    30. BS

      100%.

  4. 3:487:54

    Bear and mountain lion attack talk: what to do (and why advice is messy)

    1. JR

      Yeah, there's a lot of bears up there. There's a funny video, man, of this dude in Pasadena and he's on his phone and he's walking down an alley and as he turns and walks down the alley he's just on his phone and he's looking down. He's not looking where he's going. He looks up and there's a fucking bear right in front of him. (laughs)

    2. BS

      And the bear doesn't do shit?

    3. JR

      The bear doesn't know what to do and he just runs.

    4. BS

      Both of them are like, "What the fuck?"

    5. JR

      See if you can find that. Th- uh, so this, homie is just not paying attention.

    6. BS

      Dude, I would shit my pants.

    7. JR

      Oh yeah, for sure. It's very dangerous.

    8. BS

      Like, like you saw the, uh, you saw the homeboys in Seattle get fucked up... Well, one died by the mountain lion?

    9. JR

      Yeah, yeah.

    10. BS

      That super hungry mountain lion?

    11. JR

      Yeah, just on a bike. Apparently the mountain lion was emaciated, it, it was all fucked up and sick and it only weighed like 90 something pounds, but it still fucked both of those dudes up.

    12. BS

      But they, they tell you like, "Oh, use your bike as a shield and scare him off." That lion's like, "What? I don't give a fuck about your Trek bike, son."

    13. JR

      Yeah, they hit it with the bike apparently. It didn't do shit.

    14. BS

      How about homeboy was like, "Dude, you're getting attacked. I'm gonna run and get help." Way to go, asshole.

    15. JR

      Yeah.

    16. BS

      Runs off and that lion goes, "Where the fuck you going?"

    17. JR

      And the lion killed him.

    18. BS

      And kills him.

    19. JR

      Yeah.

    20. BS

      Homeboy got away.

    21. JR

      You know, that happened in Beijing too with, uh, the lady who got outta the car and a tiger attacked her at the Wild Animal Park.

    22. BS

      Yeah, that's what you get.

    23. JR

      She got outta the car, the tiger attacked her. Here it is. (laughs) There he is.

    24. BS

      Damn, that's a big bear, bro.

    25. JR

      He's a, he's a big bear. That's a fucking terrifying bear. So this guy, he's on his cellphone. Where's the, uh... (laughs)

    26. BS

      Dude, that's a big ass bear.

    27. JR

      Where... Here, here it is. Here it is. Watch. The dude's on his phone.

    28. BS

      (laughs)

    29. JR

      Look at this. (laughs)

    30. BS

      (laughs)

  5. 7:5411:00

    Training theory: water workouts, explosiveness, and the end of ‘bro science’

    1. JR

      That's so true. I've thought that exact same thing. I've thought that exact same thing, like, how much could you generate under water? Like, people go under water to work out. You seen that famous photo of Ali?

    2. BS

      Yeah.

    3. JR

      Ali used to do a lot of shadow boxing under-

    4. BS

      In the water?

    5. JR

      ... water. Yeah.

    6. BS

      And Jon recreated it. Have you seen the Jon Jones one?

    7. JR

      Oh, yeah. That's right.

    8. BS

      It's fucking dope.

    9. JR

      That's right.

    10. BS

      It's dope.

    11. JR

      You know, GSP does a lot of work in the water.

    12. BS

      He was the first one I knew who was doing work in the water. And actually, for, I mean, months, would drive down to Laguna Niguel where he was working out, and we'd do these water workouts. And we're in the pool, we're in the pool for, like, two hours. And I was like, "Bro," and I ... (laughs)

    13. JR

      (laughs)

    14. BS

      I did it for two weeks. And then he goes, he goes, (imitating GSP) "You coming in on Wednesday?" And I go-

    15. JR

      That's the worst GSP ever.

    16. BS

      It's the worst. That sounds more like someone with a mental disability.

    17. JR

      (laughs)

    18. BS

      I have problems with ... I sound like a ... Right? I sound like Stephen Hawking or some shit.

    19. JR

      You definitely sound like someone who doesn't know English that good.

    20. BS

      Not good.

    21. JR

      (laughs)

    22. BS

      So anyways, he goes, "You coming on Wednesday?" I won't do the accent again. And I was like, "Nah, I'm not, man. I'm sick of the fucking pool." He'd be in there for, like, two hours. He'd have these things, he'd just be in there doing that stuff.

    23. JR

      Yeah. Well, he does a lot of jumping, which is really interesting. I was thinking about it. I was like, "Yeah, like, you could generate maximum force, like, jumping in the water." And it's probably, like, real easy on the joints in comparison.

    24. BS

      It's, it's easy on the joints, but, um ... I was listening to one expert talk about it. Um, actually, I think Loren Landau was telling me this. He's a, a strength coach for the Denver Nug- or Denver Broncos now. He was saying it's good to mix in, but to do it every week all the time, especially in the sand or water, you're not getting the same explosiveness. You're not generating the same explosive power.

    25. JR

      So you should mix it up.

    26. BS

      Yeah. He goes, "If you're just doing that, you're actually, it's actually gonna make you less explosive."

    27. JR

      Wow. See, those dudes-

    28. BS

      GSP, GSP begs to differ.

    29. JR

      ... like Landau, but those dudes that are just on the cutting edge. They're constantly, like, comparing studies and just trying to get that little extra edge. And it is so interesting now. It's so ... Like, the world of strength and conditioning has never been, like, more complicated.

    30. BS

      'Cause there's no more bro science, though, also.

  6. 11:0014:04

    Firas Zahabi’s ‘never be sore’ philosophy and fight-camp workload management

    1. JR

      Firas was on.

    2. BS

      Looking for deca.

    3. JR

      Firas was giving us some insight into that, that, like, his philosophy on training.

    4. BS

      What did he say?

    5. JR

      He goes, "The m- most interesting thing he said-"

    6. BS

      He's a smart, smart man.

    7. JR

      Psh. About as smart as people get. But one of the more interesting things that he said was that you should never feel sore. He's like, "You should work out and-"

    8. BS

      Come on, bro.

    9. JR

      "... you should build yourself up to the point where you never feel sore, and never push yourself past your limit." Should never be like, "Ah." Never. He's like, "And just-"

    10. BS

      In, in, in working out or training too?

    11. JR

      In, in training. He was talking about training, he was talking about everything.

    12. BS

      Dude.

    13. JR

      He was talking about just do more, do more v- of it in a day.

    14. BS

      (gasps) Interesting.

    15. JR

      Yeah. He was saying that if you do, like, sets, like do a set at like here, here's a for instance. This is, I'm taking it out of context.

    16. BS

      This is his example?

    17. JR

      Yeah. It was like if you did, um, certain amount... I forget the numbers he was talking about, but if you did a certain amount of work, let's just to paraphrase say if you do, uh, 20 chin-ups and you do two sets of 20 chin-ups, you like barely can get 20 and you're burnt out afterwards and you're wrecked. Or instead of that, you're, you're doing 40 reps, right, either way. Do 40 of them throughout the day, but do it five reps at a time, but do the same amount of work. How would you recover?

    18. BS

      How many, how will you have recovery stamina?

    19. JR

      It's a good question. But the idea being, well, I think it's a different thing, but the, the idea being, like, to get yourself into this position where you can train hard, especially with, like, physical fitness type stuff, shouldn't break your body down totally. You should just give your body enough of a chance to fully recover and then build up.

    20. BS

      I, I think we have to be a little careful with that because for us specializing in mixed martial arts, well, there's so many disciplines-

    21. JR

      Right.

    22. BS

      ... where you can't go balls to the wall in strength and condition, you can't just break yourself with wrestling, you can't just go-

    23. JR

      Right.

    24. BS

      ... hard in sparring. You have to kind of monitor those things and figure it out.

    25. JR

      Yeah.

    26. BS

      So I, I think it's a little bit of a bias thing. He's right, I think, as far as it goes as mixed martial arts. Loren Lando's been saying that forever.

    27. JR

      Mm-hmm.

    28. BS

      'Cause I'd go super hard in the weight room. He's like, "I'm telling you, tonight you have wrestling, you're gonna be screwed, man."

    29. JR

      Right.

    30. BS

      "You gotta figure this out. You gotta figure out this formula, man." That was a long time ago.

  7. 14:0418:42

    Gymnastics, body types, and the ‘stunts your growth’ myth

    1. JR

      Does anybody your size do that stuff?

    2. BS

      Uh-

    3. JR

      There's gotta be some dude-

    4. BS

      I was the biggest one in there for sure, and the rest were all eight-year-old girls who were just monsters.

    5. JR

      (laughs)

    6. BS

      And then Nate and GSP.

    7. JR

      (sighs)

    8. BS

      I used to look like this big Shrek character in there.

    9. JR

      Gymnastics is probably like the sport that gets dudes the most jacked. When you see like ring guys-

    10. BS

      They're tiny, though.

    11. JR

      Right, but they're jacked.

    12. BS

      It doesn't count. The does ain't count.

    13. JR

      Doesn't... Well, if you're being active-

    14. BS

      You ever seen a skinny midget? You ever see a s- skinny small person? Have you ever seen like a real thin small person?

    15. JR

      How dare you. Just how dare you.

    16. BS

      I'm sorry, small person. Uh, they're all jacked.

    17. JR

      Are they?

    18. BS

      Yeah, they're all fat asses. (drum roll) They're all jacked fat asses, bro.

    19. JR

      I don't think it's the same thing we're talking about here.

    20. BS

      No, I'm saying-

    21. JR

      I'm seeing... (laughs)

    22. BS

      Dude, I'm saying the smaller-

    23. JR

      ...I'm seeing jip-sis.

    24. BS

      I know they're small though, bro.

    25. JR

      I, I see what you're saying.

    26. BS

      So they're jacked.

    27. JR

      Mm-hmm.

    28. BS

      Like if, like if LeBron got in gymnastics, he's not gonna be jacked.

    29. JR

      Well, what's the average size of a, like, Olympic gymnast?

    30. BS

      5'3".

  8. 18:4221:47

    Chuck vs Tito and the ‘older legends’ fight economy

    1. BS

      And Chuck Liddell and Tito are fighting. So what else you got?

    2. JR

      Ooh, what do you think of that?

    3. BS

      Not my cup of tea, but you know, I'd go to-

    4. JR

      You're gonna watch it?

    5. BS

      The, I f- for sure will.

    6. JR

      I'm gonna watch it.

    7. BS

      Yeah, we'll watch it. If you're fucking paying for it.

    8. JR

      There's p- some people say it shouldn't happen, right?

    9. BS

      Oh, no. I d- see, I don't think it shouldn't happen. I, I look at it more like if, uh... See, I think if Chuck Liddell was still an employee of the UFC getting paid $400,000 just to chill or whatever the fuck he was doing for the UFC, he would not be fighting. I think there's more of a money play, which bums me out 'cause I think Chuck Liddell and Tito Ortiz, what they did for the sport, should be compensated for the rest of their lives.

    10. JR

      Yeah.

    11. BS

      I, it bums me out they have to fight to make money. That bums me out. I don't know if Tito does so much 'cause he was very smart. Chuck, you know, it, it seems like maybe that's the, what's going on there.

    12. JR

      But he's, he also has been saying, now you gotta wonder what, where this is coming from, but he has been saying that he misses it. And it's th- it was his favorite thing.

    13. BS

      Yeah, I miss playing baseball.

    14. JR

      And he misses it. Yeah, but it's different. Like, i- if, if y- if we're gonna live forever, if we were gonna live forever, I would say yeah, definitely don't do it 'cause you're just gonna keep damaging yourself. But if you're not gonna live forever, and you're-

    15. BS

      But how old is Chuck now?

    16. JR

      Well, let's say, let's say he's going, he's 48. So let's say we're gonna live to 100.

    17. BS

      Mm-hmm.

    18. JR

      Let's say Chuck lives to 100 and I'm being nice. He's halfway there.

    19. BS

      I'm being friendly right now. Let's say he lives to 100.

    20. JR

      Hey, you never know.

    21. BS

      Athletes don't live long, brother.

    22. JR

      Well, today's medicine-

    23. BS

      Oh, I have another, what am I? I'm 35, 30 solid years left in me. So let's say Chuck is gonna live-

    24. JR

      Medicine's son. Science.

    25. BS

      True.

    26. JR

      New shit.

    27. BS

      I know. I'm big, though. Great hound-

    28. JR

      Yeah.

    29. BS

      Great Danes, bro. So let's say-

    30. JR

      (laughs)

  9. 21:4729:24

    Steroids, TRT Vitor, Jon Jones testing, and micro-dosing realities

    1. BS

      Both, both great guys. Now, I will say this. Everyone who's fighting in these older leagues or if they, if Golden Boy, if that's your thing to do, like these, this Master League, everyone fighting that league better pray to the MMA gods Vitor Belfort does not enter that fucking thing juiced to the gills.

    2. JR

      Oh, he's going to.

    3. BS

      Have you seen his tits lately?

    4. JR

      Yes.

    5. BS

      You better shut-

    6. JR

      Looks amazing.

    7. BS

      Fantastic.

    8. JR

      I'm so happy with him.

    9. BS

      He will wheel kick the fuck out of all those old dudes at the same time.

    10. G2

      (laughs) He really will.

    11. BS

      Dude, I was looking at his Instagram the other day.

    12. JR

      Yeah.

    13. BS

      I was like, "Oh my God."

    14. JR

      Yeah. Dude, something happens to Vitor when he fills up with super unleaded.

    15. BS

      Dude, it, it's like-

    16. JR

      He's-

    17. BS

      ... peanut butter and jelly. He's a different being, man. Let him do his 'roids, bro. Like some people don't, don't, don't do well with 'roids, they get all red and shit.

    18. JR

      It's not-

    19. BS

      He looks great. His skin's vibrant. His tits are popping.

    20. JR

      (laughs)

    21. BS

      He's all tan. His teeth get whiter.

    22. JR

      He's doing straight testosterone. He's not, I mean, when he was on... See, think about this, right? We know for sure, we all know absolutely 100% that people have cheated and taken steroids and got away with it. We know that.

    23. BS

      Professional sports, yeah.

    24. JR

      I know it, you know that, especially in fighting, especially when the, the weigh-ins were the only day you had to pee-

    25. BS

      Yes.

    26. JR

      ... and there was no randoms that didn't just come by. We know for a fact, but when you watch someone who's just doing testosterone and what else he's doing, with his human growth hormone and-

    27. BS

      But he's fucking gigantic now.

    28. JR

      I love that video.

    29. BS

      I love it, too, but what you get there, it's a different thing. Like, for Vitor, like something happens with him, like when you, wh- when they allowed him to take it, like during the Rockhold fight-

    30. JR

      He's the heavyweight.

  10. 29:2433:56

    USADA controversies: Barnett, Tim Means, JDS, and the problem of public vindication

    1. BS

      How about, how about, uh, there's guys like, you know, Josh Barnett and even Ly- Lyoto said this. He goes, "With signing with the UFC, because of USADA..." And obviously they've all been busted.... previously, so they have a little different, you know-

    2. JR

      Yeah.

    3. BS

      ... agreement with him. But they're saying, listen, uh, well, Josh Barnett was not busted by Nowitzki, right? They... It came out he never took anything, but he lost a year of his career.

    4. JR

      Yeah, I don't understand the Josh Barnett case. I'd like to have him explain it 'cause it sounds like... What I've read sounds like he got fucked.

    5. BS

      No, he did.

    6. JR

      So explain it-

    7. BS

      No, he... They, they even admitted-

    8. JR

      ... and tell me what you know.

    9. BS

      They ad-

    10. JR

      They admit it?

    11. BS

      The... They, they know for a fact he did not, right? Like, he, they, they came out that... Same thing, like, they've had other guys, right? Like the, the, The Dirty Bird. What's his name?

    12. JR

      Tim Means.

    13. BS

      Tim Means, they came out that, "Our, our bad."

    14. JR

      Over-the-counter.

    15. BS

      Yeah. "You didn't take anything."

    16. JR

      Took some...

    17. BS

      Yeah, it's all good, right?

    18. JR

      He took, like, some protein powder that wa- that ha- was slightly contaminated.

    19. BS

      And that came out as true. And with Josh Barnett, it took a year to figure this out. And then they go, "My bad, bro. Yeah, yeah, I know you missed a year in your, you know, older fighter and it's a year of not getting paid. My bad. You're back... You're welcome back now." And Barnett's going, "Fuck this, man, I'm out."

    20. JR

      Is that really what they did?

    21. BS

      I promise you that's what they did.

    22. JR

      See, that seems-

    23. BS

      That's, that's-

    24. JR

      ... to me to be a, a case where you've made an error that should be... You should compensate that fighter.

    25. BS

      That's what I'm saying. He should be-

    26. JR

      Yeah.

    27. BS

      ... fully compensated. He should have went-

    28. JR

      But you can't force a guy if you made the mistake. That's, that's like a... I mean, I'm not a business person, but if I was a business person, I'd be like, "Well, this is a clear case of someone owing someone money because you fucked up."

    29. BS

      But what, what the USADA's going to say is it was an investigation, it took us that long to figure... to get to the bottom of it. That's the process. That's how long it took.

    30. JR

      Yeah, but they were wrong, right? So if they were wrong, so all their investigation stuff they did that took so long to get to the bottom of, you accused a guy who's innocent, right?

  11. 33:5639:20

    MMA judging: 10-8 rounds, draws, and why the 10-point must system feels broken

    1. BS

      Your boy, your boy, uh, Whittaker was like, "That motherfucker's..."

    2. JR

      Yeah.

    3. BS

      Did you hear his interview? He's like, "Mm."

    4. JR

      He said it was magic.

    5. BS

      He's like, "It's magic." See that man go from that to that? And he goes... And, and obviously, you find him before and he's aging and this time-

    6. JR

      Yeah.

    7. BS

      ... he's even harder. He's like, "Something's up there, son."

    8. JR

      Yeah. Um, here's the thing. Maybe, but you know what else maybe? Maybe crazy Cuban genetics. I think that shit's real.

    9. BS

      Could be crazy Cuban genetics. But how much more-

    10. JR

      He-

    11. BS

      ... impressive, whether whatever-

    12. JR

      Yeah.

    13. BS

      ... he's on, let's say he is on something, Whittaker beat him twice.

    14. JR

      Yeah.

    15. BS

      There should not be a third fight.

    16. JR

      I don't think this decision was just in the second fight, though.

    17. BS

      Nah, you're crazy, brother.

    18. JR

      I think there should've been 10 eights.

    19. BS

      No.

    20. JR

      I, I think if anything-

    21. BS

      You want new rules?

    22. JR

      Y- yeah, I think it should've been a draw then. I don't think Yoel won that fight. If any... If you're gonna give Yoel a 10-8, then that's a draw.

    23. BS

      Yeah.

    24. JR

      A draw and fi-

    25. BS

      Yeah.

    26. JR

      And I don't think they give draws out enough.

    27. BS

      I don't think they do either.

    28. JR

      A draw is fine 'cause then they're forced to have that trilogy fight.

    29. BS

      That's what I'm saying. Yeah.

    30. JR

      That I'm fine with. I didn't think that a decision... I thought, like, there's too many moments in the fight where Yoel hurt Whittaker.

  12. 39:201:02:14

    Fight breakdowns and matchmaking excitement: Holloway–Ortega, DC–Stipe, Lewis–Ngannou

    1. BS

      Dude, how about that Max Holloway Brian Ortega fight?

    2. JR

      That's a great fight.

    3. BS

      The greatest fight at 45 since Conor-

    4. JR

      Yeah.

    5. BS

      ... and Aldo.

    6. JR

      Yeah, I agree. I agree. It's-

    7. BS

      It's such a dangerous fight for Max.

    8. JR

      It's a dangerous fight for both guys. I mean, this is the first... Well, for Ortega it's not his first time in world-class territory, right? He had Cub and he had Frankie. He w- won both of them in spectacular fashion. I think-

    9. BS

      Finish Frankie, never been done before.

    10. JR

      Never been done before. But the crazy thing, I thought just as crazy, maybe more crazy, was the way he finished Cub. He almost got Cub in the first round. Cub is a real Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt.

    11. BS

      Free him up.

    12. JR

      And I know that Max finished Cub as well.

    13. BS

      Mm-hmm.

    14. JR

      But Cub was hurt in that fight. I think he had either a broken jaw or-

    15. BS

      Yeah, he went into the fight injured, yeah?

    16. JR

      Something was fucked up.

    17. BS

      Something I remember that.

    18. JR

      And something went real bad during the fight.

    19. BS

      Mm-hmm.

    20. JR

      Anyway, y- you know, all credit to Max, he, he did finish him. But it was the way... When they went to the ground, Ortega locked up that d'arce at the end of the first round. I was like, "Jesus."

    21. BS

      Standing.

    22. JR

      "This is tight." It was... This was tight, man. When they went to the ground and they were... When it was... When he was cinching it up and then the buzzer went off-

    23. BS

      Five more seconds, that fight's over.

    24. JR

      Yeah, that fight's over. That fight... That was a tight fucking thing.

    25. BS

      And he did the exact same thing again.

    26. JR

      Yeah, yeah.

    27. BS

      He went, "Oh, cool. Cool."

    28. JR

      He just knew he could do it.

    29. BS

      Cool.

    30. JR

      The thing is-

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