The Joe Rogan ExperienceJRE MMA Show #33 with Brendan Schaub
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150 min read · 30,002 words- 0:00 – 0:51
World Cup banter and Boulder’s “soccer guy” culture shock
- JRJoe Rogan
(clears throat) Three, two, one. Yee-haw! I walked in, you guys were watching soccer. I was hugely disappointed.
- BSBrendan Schaub
Dude, England's in penalty kicks.
- JRJoe Rogan
Oh my God, is that okay?
- BSBrendan Schaub
Dude-
- JRJoe Rogan
What happened? (laughs)
- BSBrendan Schaub
... 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.
- JRJoe Rogan
They just won?
- BSBrendan Schaub
England just won.
- JRJoe Rogan
We missed it?
- BSBrendan Schaub
They just fucking won.
- JRJoe Rogan
Missed it? Are you guys rooting for England?
- BSBrendan Schaub
Yeah, I'm- I'm-
- JRJoe Rogan
Are you?
- BSBrendan Schaub
... I'm English, man. I'm half English. My mom's-
- JRJoe Rogan
Are you?
- BSBrendan Schaub
My mom was born and raised there, bro.
- JRJoe Rogan
I thought you were bi.
- BSBrendan Schaub
What's up, bro? I know, most people do.
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- BSBrendan Schaub
English, son.
- JRJoe Rogan
So you really root for England?
- BSBrendan Schaub
Yeah, big time.
- JRJoe Rogan
No shit?
- BSBrendan Schaub
Yes.
- JRJoe Rogan
Wow.
- BSBrendan Schaub
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
Oh.
- BSBrendan Schaub
I know.
- JRJoe Rogan
Do you-
- BSBrendan Schaub
Well, if U.S. isn't in it, you know-
- 0:51 – 2:22
Colorado sports recruiting, outdoor lifestyles, and why Boulder feels different
- JRJoe Rogan
(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.
- BSBrendan Schaub
I went to school there, son.
- JRJoe Rogan
Boulder's rough.
- BSBrendan Schaub
Yes.
- JRJoe Rogan
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."
- BSBrendan Schaub
That'll make you hate it.
- JRJoe Rogan
"Ew." (laughs)
- BSBrendan Schaub
That'll make you hate it. But if you-
- JRJoe Rogan
It was just-
- BSBrendan Schaub
But if you go to England-
- JRJoe Rogan
Right.
- BSBrendan Schaub
... you'll feel good about it.
- JRJoe Rogan
But it was this certain type of white dude.
- BSBrendan Schaub
All right, that's you, bro.
- JRJoe Rogan
You know? (laughs)
- BSBrendan Schaub
That's you. You know?
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- BSBrendan Schaub
I fucking-
- JRJoe Rogan
They mean well. They probably had a dad that was in the Navy or some shit, you know?
- BSBrendan Schaub
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs) Got bullied around at home and they just went the total opposite hard way.
- BSBrendan Schaub
No, it-
- JRJoe Rogan
That shit happens, man.
- BSBrendan Schaub
... seems a tough sell, especially if you're like an athlete, like a Black athlete. Like y'all-
- JRJoe Rogan
Oh my God. It's like no Black guys.
- BSBrendan Schaub
That's what, that's why they struggle a little bit.
- JRJoe Rogan
Oh yeah.
- BSBrendan Schaub
Like, look at the beautiful mountains. They're like, "Bitch, I don't hike."
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- BSBrendan Schaub
"I'm from Comto-... I don't give a fuck about your mountains."
- 2:22 – 3:48
Bears in hot tubs: Colorado wildlife returns and suburban animal encounters
- JRJoe Rogan
Did you know that, uh, wolves and bears are, and wolves and grizzly bears are making their way back into Colorado?
- BSBrendan Schaub
Really?
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah. About goddamn time.
- BSBrendan Schaub
Interesting. Why were they gone? Hunters?
- JRJoe Rogan
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.
- BSBrendan Schaub
He knows his shit.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah, it was in the San Juan Mountains in Colorado last, uh, September. So they think that there's a population of grizzly bears.
- BSBrendan Schaub
Adam would know.
- JRJoe Rogan
He would know.
- BSBrendan Schaub
And if, if you watch the news, like the local news in LA, which I do, especially when I get depressed, you-
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- BSBrendan Schaub
There's, there's a bunch of black bears, like, in hot tubs and shit.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yes.
- BSBrendan Schaub
Just popping up.
- JRJoe Rogan
In Pasadena?
- BSBrendan Schaub
Just chilling in hot tubs.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- BSBrendan Schaub
Why do they love the tubs?
- JRJoe Rogan
Well, they don't know that it's a hot tub. They just know it's water.
- BSBrendan Schaub
And they love it.
- JRJoe Rogan
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.
- BSBrendan Schaub
You know how hot it is too, and the chlorine? Like what the fuck is this?
- JRJoe Rogan
The chlorine, that's what I'm saying. Like if the bear's drinking all that chlorine, it's gotta be-
- BSBrendan Schaub
Jizz in that pool. You know what you do in hot tubs, bro.
- JRJoe Rogan
Oh yeah, that's like... That's dick soup. (laughs)
- BSBrendan Schaub
Yeah. (laughs) Got that cock soup for them black bears. (laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
(slaps leg) Yeah, what percentage of hot tubs do people fuck in?
- BSBrendan Schaub
100% is the answer.
- JRJoe Rogan
(smacks lips) Probably.
- BSBrendan Schaub
100%.
- 3:48 – 7:54
Bear and mountain lion attack talk: what to do (and why advice is messy)
- JRJoe Rogan
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)
- BSBrendan Schaub
And the bear doesn't do shit?
- JRJoe Rogan
The bear doesn't know what to do and he just runs.
- BSBrendan Schaub
Both of them are like, "What the fuck?"
- JRJoe Rogan
See if you can find that. Th- uh, so this, homie is just not paying attention.
- BSBrendan Schaub
Dude, I would shit my pants.
- JRJoe Rogan
Oh yeah, for sure. It's very dangerous.
- BSBrendan Schaub
Like, like you saw the, uh, you saw the homeboys in Seattle get fucked up... Well, one died by the mountain lion?
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah, yeah.
- BSBrendan Schaub
That super hungry mountain lion?
- JRJoe Rogan
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.
- BSBrendan Schaub
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."
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah, they hit it with the bike apparently. It didn't do shit.
- BSBrendan Schaub
How about homeboy was like, "Dude, you're getting attacked. I'm gonna run and get help." Way to go, asshole.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- BSBrendan Schaub
Runs off and that lion goes, "Where the fuck you going?"
- JRJoe Rogan
And the lion killed him.
- BSBrendan Schaub
And kills him.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- BSBrendan Schaub
Homeboy got away.
- JRJoe Rogan
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.
- BSBrendan Schaub
Yeah, that's what you get.
- JRJoe Rogan
She got outta the car, the tiger attacked her. Here it is. (laughs) There he is.
- BSBrendan Schaub
Damn, that's a big bear, bro.
- JRJoe Rogan
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)
- BSBrendan Schaub
Dude, that's a big ass bear.
- JRJoe Rogan
Where... Here, here it is. Here it is. Watch. The dude's on his phone.
- BSBrendan Schaub
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
Look at this. (laughs)
- BSBrendan Schaub
(laughs)
- 7:54 – 11:00
Training theory: water workouts, explosiveness, and the end of ‘bro science’
- JRJoe Rogan
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?
- BSBrendan Schaub
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
Ali used to do a lot of shadow boxing under-
- BSBrendan Schaub
In the water?
- JRJoe Rogan
... water. Yeah.
- BSBrendan Schaub
And Jon recreated it. Have you seen the Jon Jones one?
- JRJoe Rogan
Oh, yeah. That's right.
- BSBrendan Schaub
It's fucking dope.
- JRJoe Rogan
That's right.
- BSBrendan Schaub
It's dope.
- JRJoe Rogan
You know, GSP does a lot of work in the water.
- BSBrendan Schaub
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)
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- BSBrendan Schaub
I did it for two weeks. And then he goes, he goes, (imitating GSP) "You coming in on Wednesday?" And I go-
- JRJoe Rogan
That's the worst GSP ever.
- BSBrendan Schaub
It's the worst. That sounds more like someone with a mental disability.
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- BSBrendan Schaub
I have problems with ... I sound like a ... Right? I sound like Stephen Hawking or some shit.
- JRJoe Rogan
You definitely sound like someone who doesn't know English that good.
- BSBrendan Schaub
Not good.
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- BSBrendan Schaub
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.
- JRJoe Rogan
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.
- BSBrendan Schaub
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.
- JRJoe Rogan
So you should mix it up.
- BSBrendan Schaub
Yeah. He goes, "If you're just doing that, you're actually, it's actually gonna make you less explosive."
- JRJoe Rogan
Wow. See, those dudes-
- BSBrendan Schaub
GSP, GSP begs to differ.
- JRJoe Rogan
... 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.
- BSBrendan Schaub
'Cause there's no more bro science, though, also.
- 11:00 – 14:04
Firas Zahabi’s ‘never be sore’ philosophy and fight-camp workload management
- JRJoe Rogan
Firas was on.
- BSBrendan Schaub
Looking for deca.
- JRJoe Rogan
Firas was giving us some insight into that, that, like, his philosophy on training.
- BSBrendan Schaub
What did he say?
- JRJoe Rogan
He goes, "The m- most interesting thing he said-"
- BSBrendan Schaub
He's a smart, smart man.
- JRJoe Rogan
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-"
- BSBrendan Schaub
Come on, bro.
- JRJoe Rogan
"... 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-"
- BSBrendan Schaub
In, in, in working out or training too?
- JRJoe Rogan
In, in training. He was talking about training, he was talking about everything.
- BSBrendan Schaub
Dude.
- JRJoe Rogan
He was talking about just do more, do more v- of it in a day.
- BSBrendan Schaub
(gasps) Interesting.
- JRJoe Rogan
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.
- BSBrendan Schaub
This is his example?
- JRJoe Rogan
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?
- BSBrendan Schaub
How many, how will you have recovery stamina?
- JRJoe Rogan
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.
- BSBrendan Schaub
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-
- JRJoe Rogan
Right.
- BSBrendan Schaub
... 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-
- JRJoe Rogan
Right.
- BSBrendan Schaub
... hard in sparring. You have to kind of monitor those things and figure it out.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- BSBrendan Schaub
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.
- JRJoe Rogan
Mm-hmm.
- BSBrendan Schaub
'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."
- JRJoe Rogan
Right.
- BSBrendan Schaub
"You gotta figure this out. You gotta figure out this formula, man." That was a long time ago.
- 14:04 – 18:42
Gymnastics, body types, and the ‘stunts your growth’ myth
- JRJoe Rogan
Does anybody your size do that stuff?
- BSBrendan Schaub
Uh-
- JRJoe Rogan
There's gotta be some dude-
- BSBrendan Schaub
I was the biggest one in there for sure, and the rest were all eight-year-old girls who were just monsters.
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- BSBrendan Schaub
And then Nate and GSP.
- JRJoe Rogan
(sighs)
- BSBrendan Schaub
I used to look like this big Shrek character in there.
- JRJoe Rogan
Gymnastics is probably like the sport that gets dudes the most jacked. When you see like ring guys-
- BSBrendan Schaub
They're tiny, though.
- JRJoe Rogan
Right, but they're jacked.
- BSBrendan Schaub
It doesn't count. The does ain't count.
- JRJoe Rogan
Doesn't... Well, if you're being active-
- BSBrendan Schaub
You ever seen a skinny midget? You ever see a s- skinny small person? Have you ever seen like a real thin small person?
- JRJoe Rogan
How dare you. Just how dare you.
- BSBrendan Schaub
I'm sorry, small person. Uh, they're all jacked.
- JRJoe Rogan
Are they?
- BSBrendan Schaub
Yeah, they're all fat asses. (drum roll) They're all jacked fat asses, bro.
- JRJoe Rogan
I don't think it's the same thing we're talking about here.
- BSBrendan Schaub
No, I'm saying-
- JRJoe Rogan
I'm seeing... (laughs)
- BSBrendan Schaub
Dude, I'm saying the smaller-
- JRJoe Rogan
...I'm seeing jip-sis.
- BSBrendan Schaub
I know they're small though, bro.
- JRJoe Rogan
I, I see what you're saying.
- BSBrendan Schaub
So they're jacked.
- JRJoe Rogan
Mm-hmm.
- BSBrendan Schaub
Like if, like if LeBron got in gymnastics, he's not gonna be jacked.
- JRJoe Rogan
Well, what's the average size of a, like, Olympic gymnast?
- BSBrendan Schaub
5'3".
- 18:42 – 21:47
Chuck vs Tito and the ‘older legends’ fight economy
- BSBrendan Schaub
And Chuck Liddell and Tito are fighting. So what else you got?
- JRJoe Rogan
Ooh, what do you think of that?
- BSBrendan Schaub
Not my cup of tea, but you know, I'd go to-
- JRJoe Rogan
You're gonna watch it?
- BSBrendan Schaub
The, I f- for sure will.
- JRJoe Rogan
I'm gonna watch it.
- BSBrendan Schaub
Yeah, we'll watch it. If you're fucking paying for it.
- JRJoe Rogan
There's p- some people say it shouldn't happen, right?
- BSBrendan Schaub
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.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- BSBrendan Schaub
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.
- JRJoe Rogan
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.
- BSBrendan Schaub
Yeah, I miss playing baseball.
- JRJoe Rogan
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-
- BSBrendan Schaub
But how old is Chuck now?
- JRJoe Rogan
Well, let's say, let's say he's going, he's 48. So let's say we're gonna live to 100.
- BSBrendan Schaub
Mm-hmm.
- JRJoe Rogan
Let's say Chuck lives to 100 and I'm being nice. He's halfway there.
- BSBrendan Schaub
I'm being friendly right now. Let's say he lives to 100.
- JRJoe Rogan
Hey, you never know.
- BSBrendan Schaub
Athletes don't live long, brother.
- JRJoe Rogan
Well, today's medicine-
- BSBrendan Schaub
Oh, I have another, what am I? I'm 35, 30 solid years left in me. So let's say Chuck is gonna live-
- JRJoe Rogan
Medicine's son. Science.
- BSBrendan Schaub
True.
- JRJoe Rogan
New shit.
- BSBrendan Schaub
I know. I'm big, though. Great hound-
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- BSBrendan Schaub
Great Danes, bro. So let's say-
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- 21:47 – 29:24
Steroids, TRT Vitor, Jon Jones testing, and micro-dosing realities
- BSBrendan Schaub
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.
- JRJoe Rogan
Oh, he's going to.
- BSBrendan Schaub
Have you seen his tits lately?
- JRJoe Rogan
Yes.
- BSBrendan Schaub
You better shut-
- JRJoe Rogan
Looks amazing.
- BSBrendan Schaub
Fantastic.
- JRJoe Rogan
I'm so happy with him.
- BSBrendan Schaub
He will wheel kick the fuck out of all those old dudes at the same time.
- G2Guest 2
(laughs) He really will.
- BSBrendan Schaub
Dude, I was looking at his Instagram the other day.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- BSBrendan Schaub
I was like, "Oh my God."
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah. Dude, something happens to Vitor when he fills up with super unleaded.
- BSBrendan Schaub
Dude, it, it's like-
- JRJoe Rogan
He's-
- BSBrendan Schaub
... 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.
- JRJoe Rogan
It's not-
- BSBrendan Schaub
He looks great. His skin's vibrant. His tits are popping.
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- BSBrendan Schaub
He's all tan. His teeth get whiter.
- JRJoe Rogan
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.
- BSBrendan Schaub
Professional sports, yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
I know it, you know that, especially in fighting, especially when the, the weigh-ins were the only day you had to pee-
- BSBrendan Schaub
Yes.
- JRJoe Rogan
... 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-
- BSBrendan Schaub
But he's fucking gigantic now.
- JRJoe Rogan
I love that video.
- BSBrendan Schaub
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-
- JRJoe Rogan
He's the heavyweight.
- 29:24 – 33:56
USADA controversies: Barnett, Tim Means, JDS, and the problem of public vindication
- BSBrendan Schaub
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-
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- BSBrendan Schaub
... 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.
- JRJoe Rogan
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.
- BSBrendan Schaub
No, he did.
- JRJoe Rogan
So explain it-
- BSBrendan Schaub
No, he... They, they even admitted-
- JRJoe Rogan
... and tell me what you know.
- BSBrendan Schaub
They ad-
- JRJoe Rogan
They admit it?
- BSBrendan Schaub
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?
- JRJoe Rogan
Tim Means.
- BSBrendan Schaub
Tim Means, they came out that, "Our, our bad."
- JRJoe Rogan
Over-the-counter.
- BSBrendan Schaub
Yeah. "You didn't take anything."
- JRJoe Rogan
Took some...
- BSBrendan Schaub
Yeah, it's all good, right?
- JRJoe Rogan
He took, like, some protein powder that wa- that ha- was slightly contaminated.
- BSBrendan Schaub
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."
- JRJoe Rogan
Is that really what they did?
- BSBrendan Schaub
I promise you that's what they did.
- JRJoe Rogan
See, that seems-
- BSBrendan Schaub
That's, that's-
- JRJoe Rogan
... to me to be a, a case where you've made an error that should be... You should compensate that fighter.
- BSBrendan Schaub
That's what I'm saying. He should be-
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- BSBrendan Schaub
... fully compensated. He should have went-
- JRJoe Rogan
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."
- BSBrendan Schaub
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.
- JRJoe Rogan
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?
- 33:56 – 39:20
MMA judging: 10-8 rounds, draws, and why the 10-point must system feels broken
- BSBrendan Schaub
Your boy, your boy, uh, Whittaker was like, "That motherfucker's..."
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- BSBrendan Schaub
Did you hear his interview? He's like, "Mm."
- JRJoe Rogan
He said it was magic.
- BSBrendan Schaub
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-
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- BSBrendan Schaub
... he's even harder. He's like, "Something's up there, son."
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah. Um, here's the thing. Maybe, but you know what else maybe? Maybe crazy Cuban genetics. I think that shit's real.
- BSBrendan Schaub
Could be crazy Cuban genetics. But how much more-
- JRJoe Rogan
He-
- BSBrendan Schaub
... impressive, whether whatever-
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- BSBrendan Schaub
... he's on, let's say he is on something, Whittaker beat him twice.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- BSBrendan Schaub
There should not be a third fight.
- JRJoe Rogan
I don't think this decision was just in the second fight, though.
- BSBrendan Schaub
Nah, you're crazy, brother.
- JRJoe Rogan
I think there should've been 10 eights.
- BSBrendan Schaub
No.
- JRJoe Rogan
I, I think if anything-
- BSBrendan Schaub
You want new rules?
- JRJoe Rogan
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.
- BSBrendan Schaub
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
A draw and fi-
- BSBrendan Schaub
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
And I don't think they give draws out enough.
- BSBrendan Schaub
I don't think they do either.
- JRJoe Rogan
A draw is fine 'cause then they're forced to have that trilogy fight.
- BSBrendan Schaub
That's what I'm saying. Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
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.
- 39:20 – 1:02:14
Fight breakdowns and matchmaking excitement: Holloway–Ortega, DC–Stipe, Lewis–Ngannou
- BSBrendan Schaub
Dude, how about that Max Holloway Brian Ortega fight?
- JRJoe Rogan
That's a great fight.
- BSBrendan Schaub
The greatest fight at 45 since Conor-
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- BSBrendan Schaub
... and Aldo.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah, I agree. I agree. It's-
- BSBrendan Schaub
It's such a dangerous fight for Max.
- JRJoe Rogan
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-
- BSBrendan Schaub
Finish Frankie, never been done before.
- JRJoe Rogan
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.
- BSBrendan Schaub
Free him up.
- JRJoe Rogan
And I know that Max finished Cub as well.
- BSBrendan Schaub
Mm-hmm.
- JRJoe Rogan
But Cub was hurt in that fight. I think he had either a broken jaw or-
- BSBrendan Schaub
Yeah, he went into the fight injured, yeah?
- JRJoe Rogan
Something was fucked up.
- BSBrendan Schaub
Something I remember that.
- JRJoe Rogan
And something went real bad during the fight.
- BSBrendan Schaub
Mm-hmm.
- JRJoe Rogan
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."
- BSBrendan Schaub
Standing.
- JRJoe Rogan
"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-
- BSBrendan Schaub
Five more seconds, that fight's over.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah, that fight's over. That fight... That was a tight fucking thing.
- BSBrendan Schaub
And he did the exact same thing again.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah, yeah.
- BSBrendan Schaub
He went, "Oh, cool. Cool."
- JRJoe Rogan
He just knew he could do it.
- BSBrendan Schaub
Cool.
- JRJoe Rogan
The thing is-
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