Name: JRE MMA Show #172 with Gable Steveson
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'JRE MMA Show #172 with Gable Steveson' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2026-01-01. Transcript available.

JRE MMA Show #172 with Gable Steveson

All right, what's happening? Pleasure to meet you, man. How are you? Great. I'm
great.
When you got a name like Gable and you're named after Dan Gable and you go on
to win an Olympic
gold medal in wrestling, that is kind of, it's crazy. It's kind of prophetic.
My mom,
when I was young, she was trying to find names for me and she liked Cale Sanderson
because Cale
was a guy at the time, but she was at a tournament in Iowa with my older
brother and she kept hearing
Gable, Gable, Gable. And it was Dan Gable at the time. And you know, Dan Gable
was a huge figure
in the Midwest for wrestling. And so she was like, why don't I name you Gable
Dan? And the rest was
history, which is really crazy because his whole timeline is my timeline, which
is fantastic.
Except the MMA part. That too. Yeah. Which I wish he would have done.
I think he would have been amazing. I think he would have been amazing.
But it wasn't around. I mean, when he was wrestling bare knuckle, maybe, I don't
know,
do it on the street or something. He could have found a way.
It's kind of fucked that there's no real professional outlet for actual
wrestling.
It is fucked. And wrestling needs a real way to go out there and be something
big.
And I think they have a really good one now with RAF, if you haven't heard
about it.
Yes, I have. It's an American freestyle. They're trying. And I think they're
trying really well.
And I think it's going to come to a point where, how do you make matchups
continue?
Because, you know, wrestling gets to the point where, and fighting in a lot of
the sports,
you can get to the point where, you know, maybe you draft a guy. In fighting,
there's a next big thing.
There's a next guy out there that you can kind of create. And with wrestling,
they're trying
to create an atmosphere of how can you create that person. And I like it. And I
think it might work.
And hopefully it keeps going the way it needs to go.
It would be interesting if the problem is MMA is so huge now and people kind of
associate
wrestling with either MMA or pro wrestling now. Like those are the two things
that they think of.
And it's one, I think it's one of those things like soccer, where soccer should
be huge in America.
It's huge all over the world, right? It's a very exciting sport, but nope.
You know, it's crazy how popular soccer players are. And I feel like in America,
we have so many sports
that like we can't hit that market for soccer. And I think that might be the
biggest case. Why?
Because if you go overseas, Ronaldo's paid 500 million dollars. And if he
scores a goal,
he gets a million dollars a goal or something. So he's out here doing bicycle
kicks.
But it's like we have so many professional sports that LeBron James is our
biggest athlete.
But even then, I think it's at a point where some people see LeBron and, you
know,
it's not like the crazy wow factors. If you saw a soccer player in Italy or
Spain,
it'll be like, man, it's him. Right. Well, they have less sports though, right?
I think so. Italy. I think Italy got like basketball, soccer.
Well, they're not really known for basketball though. Soccer's big. Boxing.
There's a lot of
boxers come out of Italy. But other than that, Rome. Yeah.
They got a couple of fighters. But other than that, I think we're kind of at a
halt with
with creating that, that big guy for America. Well, it's just, it's just
strange to me because
it's such a wrestling itself is such an exciting sport. It really is very
exciting to watch and
everybody understands it. It's not complicated. I think, I really think
everyone understands it
to a certain extent. I think, um, but they can learn the points and all the
other stuff.
Have you wrestled? Yeah. Wrestling in high school.
How'd you do? Just one year. I was doing Taekwondo at the same time. Why just
one year?
Because I was doing Taekwondo and I couldn't do both of them at the same time.
Hmm. And I was pretty good at Taekwondo. You know what's crazy? I think since
you've done Taekwondo,
maybe I should try. If you are such an athlete, you'd probably be awesome at it.
I might, I might be able to pull it off. I don't know if I can get to your
level.
Well, you would figure it out, man. You'd figure it out. Are you flexible?
It depends how and what are we doing? Well, you would get flexible. The thing
is like,
I feel like you'd figure out how to get flexible. The flexibility thing drives
me nuts. Cause like,
I've tried to show stuff to guys before, MMA fighters and they're like, I'm not
flexible. I'm like,
what does that mean? What does that mean? This is not like, you're not tall.
Okay. Like you can get
flexible. Okay. Like you just stretch. Okay. We can rewind now and I could say
I am flexible.
I am flexible. Well, you certainly could get flexible. You can. Anyone can get
flexible.
But it's, it's not, can you get flexible? Do you want to get flexible? That's a
good question. Do you
want to do something? This is a good question. It's a lot of work to get
flexible and would it compromise
anything? You know that some people say it compromises some stability, you know,
like to have like
completely over flexible hips and flexible joints that it could possibly
compromise some
stability that maybe, but I mean, Yoel Romero is pretty flexible. And he's
explosive. Crazy. Super
explosive. Bro, how about that match with Pat Downey? He went out there and
made Pat Downey look
like a beginner wrestler. And it's crazy because Pat Downey's really good.
Really good. Yoel's 48.
I know. 48 shooting blast doubles. Like he just, like he's back in 04 Olympics.
It doesn't make any
sense. He's a freak. He's a real freak, man. And I mean, he's 48 allegedly. We
don't even really know how old he
is because he's from Cuba. How old do you think he is for real? Oh, I don't
know, man. 35 at this point.
I mean, I, he's obviously at least 48, but it's just crazy. But you know what
the best part about
it is? When, when guys get older and they kind of get a little bigger, um, they
don't look good in a
singlet. And this is crazy to say, but Yoel looks really solid in that singlet.
Oh bro. He looks solid
everywhere, man. He's still got a six pack. Still does. And you know, now he's
doing dirty
boxing and he's still fighting MMA. He's just, he's a freak. I mean, and we
really didn't even get him
in MMA until he was past his athletic prime. Yes. I mean, he really started
fighting in the UFC. How old
was he when he first fought in the UFC? I want to say he's like 35. I don't
know that, but it was,
it seemed really late because when he was going through Olympics, he was sound
in every position.
And like you said, I mean, in a couple of interviews back, if he would have
started that
early, just imagine. Oh my God. Just imagine. Yeah. It's, but that's the thing
that you have too,
is athleticism. And the thing about MMA is the real freak athletes, they go to
football,
they go to basketball, they go where all the money is and they go where all the
traditional sports
avenues are. And it's just not, there's not a lot of freak athletes that wind
up making
their way to MMA. And when they do, they really shine, you know, and when I
first started seeing
you competing, you know, first, obviously in wrestling and you know, if you can
win a gold
medal in the Olympics and wrestling, I mean, you have to have everything. You
have to have everything.
You have to be a freak athlete. You have to be unbelievably dedicated,
disciplined. Nobody gets
there easy. No, that is not a, you know, like, oh, he's just gifted. It doesn't
exist. You gotta,
you gotta have everything, man. There's gotta be a lot of tools. Yeah. A lot of
tools. A lot of tools
and a lot of fortitude. The thing about wrestling that I've always said is like,
not only is it the
best base for MMA, because if a guy can dictate where the fight takes place,
that is the most important
aspect of fighting and you can learn everything else. But it's also, it's like
the mental toughness
that wrestlers have, the ability to grind out those practices, the conditioning
that's involved in
wrestling. It's above and beyond, I think, all other sports. Yeah. It's, I
think it's a next level
thing. And then you see in UFC right now, the guys that are dominating and
winning are kind of putting
that wrestling base first, but making it MMA wrestling. You know, um, I feel
like when a lot
of guys, a lot of D1 wrestlers come to MMA, they'd kind of don't make the
switch of how to take the right
shot and how to finish the right shot and how to use your feet to trip their
feet out on the cage.
And if you get stuck with a stuck in a guillotine, how do you move from that
spot? And I think, um,
you see the guys that are doing it best, the Islam, the Hamzats are really
going out there and
attacking and making sure that people can understand that, Hey, you got to fear
this.
And then next I'm going to come with the hands. And so I think that's the
biggest thing that we're
working on now is that I've wrestled my whole life and I've done great things
and won the Olympics
and multiple national championships. But I think the main thing is going out
there and understanding that
you are that bad dude, but when you show them hands, now you got to have to
respect both. And
I think that's where a lot of this is going to come into play. When I finally
get to that point of,
of reaching that, that competition. Now, how long have you been striking for?
I've been going into a little, so I'm from Minnesota, Apple Valley. I'm
actually from Portage,
Indiana. I moved to Apple Valley, Minnesota when I was 11 years old. And, um,
in college,
I met a guy named Billy Simon. He's from Pryor Lake. He fought, um, nothing too
big,
just on a regional scene in Minnesota. He has a house on Pryor Lake and he has
a place in his
basement that is built out for, for MMA and stuff like that. When I was maybe
21 years old,
I started hitting the pads and mind you, stiff as a board, don't really know
what I'm doing,
but he's kind of started and guided me along the way.
And how old are you now?
I'm 25.
So just four years?
Just four years, but I think really, really striking, seven months.
That's so crazy. Like really after it, really time consuming. Hey, this is what
I want to do.
I'm not going to wrestle. I'm doing MMA. I would say seven months.
But when you watched your dirty boxing match, I would have never believed that.
Except I know what an athlete you are. It's just, it's so crazy how someone who
really knows how to
use their body can learn other things.
What I think the main thing also is I'm all ears. You know, you, you can't have,
you can't go out
there and, and, and think that you can, you can do something without putting
that time and effort.
And like we talked about with the Olympics or like you talked about, but I
think the main thing is,
if I can go out there and be all ears and, and soak up game from the people
that are trying to,
trying to show me the way, I think I can do a lot of great things. And that's
all I do.
I'm all ears. I want to show up twice a day. I want to do the best thing that I
can.
If I got to show up three times a day and I feel like it, I'm going to go do it.
Because it's also to be an elite athlete like yourself. You, you have to be
coachable.
You have to really like the guys who like already know things and like,
I'm going to do it my way. Like they didn't never get elite.
It doesn't work. No.
And I think, um, you got to put that guard down. You got to trust somebody.
And if you don't trust anybody and man, I think I can do it alone.
I think I can kind of wing it. I think I can maybe not practice today.
You got to trust somebody and you got to put your heart into somebody.
And I feel like I have a good group of people around me to kind of put that
heart into.
And they're kind of, they're not even, they're kind of, they're leading me in
the right direction.
And I'm, man, I'm grateful.
So you were doing a bunch of different things, right?
So you, you become an elite wrestl