Name: JRE MMA Show #168 with Khalil Rountree Jr.
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'JRE MMA Show #168 with Khalil Rountree Jr.' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-07-24. Transcript available.

JRE MMA Show #168 with Khalil Rountree Jr.

the Joe Rogan experience
How you feeling what's going on oh man back from a
Amazing Thailand vacation. Oh really after that after the after the fight
It just feels like I've been on like just a great vacation journey Baku was
amazing
Let me start off there. Please let me start off with Baku Azerbaijan. Oh my god.
What a place
I heard it's amazing. They're absolutely incredible everybody who went there
was raving about how great absolutely incredible when we
Got the news like okay, the fight's gonna be postponed. It's gonna go into Baku.
I had never heard of the place in my life
I agreed without even looking it up, you know, but in my mind I was thinking
like, okay
This is a place. I've never heard of, you know
I started thinking like I don't know
It's probably gonna be something similar to like Saudi and it's probably just
like a lot of desert
blah blah and I get there and my mind was absolutely blown
amazing treatment from Baku city circuit welcome this in
the fans were
some of the best I've ever
Encountered man. They were so happy to have the UFC there. Um
Everyone in the streets like people who weren't even fight fans were just
excited that the UFC was in Baku
so like that added to the experience and then
It's just beautiful man. It's like what was it like? What's the fuck?
So where we were yeah, so that's old town. So I did a tour through there
Four's old town it I forgot I so I forgot but I know that 4,000 people still
live in old town. There's boutique hotels in there
um, there's just so much history
That's like when it was built
Kind of what they're known for. I don't remember what that building is
But the architecture there is one of the things that that's the the the flame
towers
So at night, there's just projections and like it'll be like the flag or it'll
just it'll actually be like flames
because Baku is
Known for oil like being one of the first oil countries. This is the carpet
museum an amazing place full of
Carpets that are like century years old. They built it to look like a carpet.
Oh fuck. It's crazy
And all these carpets are handmade like passed down generation after generation
So like they tell you how deep the the the culture and like the stories of
these carpets and like how oh my god, they
the and clean clean friendly people
Uh, that's a bunch of people that went there decided to stay for a few days. I
would I honestly I wish that I would have stayed longer
I've already booked family trips. I've told everybody we're going back to Baku
Wow
Man like cool. Just thinking about I'm like dude
This is a place that I want to I want to visit for the rest of my life. I want
to just keep going back to Baku man. That's dope. Yeah, so
And obviously you had an amazing result there too. Yeah, I think I think that
the you know
I think that it really played into just my performance. I was just in a really
good place
Let me okay. I was in a good place, but I was also in kind of a fucked up state
like not gonna lie. I
Was just so happy to be
Across the world doing what I love to do and to be like treated
Like we're actually appreciated for you know
Like for what we do and so that helped me get through all the other shit. What
was the other shit? What was going on? Oh, man, so I
Knew that we were gonna be jet lagged no matter what I knew it because we're
traveling, you know super far 16 hour flight
Right. Yeah super long flight. So I knew we were gonna be jet lagged
so I made sure that we got there two weeks early to adjust
um
It took about
Six almost about a week to like fully adjust and then so during fight week say
second day first day of fight week. I'm like
thrown up and shit and
Non-stop. Oh, no, okay. This is great. It is exactly what I want to be feeling
right now
You know pressures on I got a fight, you know, like I'm super motivated
Yeah, and I'm just like I don't know what I'm gonna do man like what was it?
I don't even know food poisoning. I don't think so because everybody
Everybody that I was with we all ate the same thing
You were the only one that was the only one man. It was the only one and so and
you don't cut a ton of weight
No, so
I think what would you walk around that right now? I mean vacation modem, you
know
228 230 something around I don't get over 230. I'm never era. Yeah, you know,
he cuts a ton
Yeah, if I I just do not let myself get over 230
That's just like my that's my oath to myself and then in camp. What do you get
down to?
20 I'd say between 20 and 25 is where I like to balance 220 to 25 and anytime
in there
I'm good because I know that that's where I'm gonna fight at so when I'm in
camp
It's you know, and then when do you start your cut? So the way that it happens
is
The last kind of two weeks, I don't necessarily do too much
Of like a diet change. It's just my like I'm always looking to peak on fight
day not like a peak plateau
format that a lot of people go by so
I'd say usually let's say we weigh in on Friday that Tuesday. I'm around
14
Oh, okay to 13 something like that nice and then you know those last days kind
of like water load
Proteins and fats. Oh nice cut. I sit in the sauna no matter what like an hour
Maybe like my weight cut this time took I
Hit mitts for an hour and a half
I laid down in a sauna blanket and I was on weight like I so it was like under
two hours for me to be on
So you're not depleted not at all feel good
And how long did it take for that cold to get out of your system or whatever it
was?
I still felt it
I
Still felt it a bit on fight day, but there was nothing that was going to like
my mind
For like through this camp through this fight man, like I'm so happy for
everything that I went through
Honestly, like there was nothing that was going to take away like my shine or
my joy or my
Feeling of like being ready being prepared
It was it was a battle with my mind and every day I had to make a choice to
like
To just be better to be bigger to be
To be happy to just you know to just like embrace everything
This was all like everything's just been about embracing the obstacles that
that come so the last time we talked was before the Pereira fight
Yeah, and it was great fight. Thank you. You had some great success. It was a
tough fight
and then
What is what is it like after that fight? So you face the best in the world and
You know that you can hang with them. You lost the fight
But you didn't gained a ton of experience you went five rounds with one of the
greatest and what is it like after that?
I'd say
Everything seems very different now I
I have been since the Pereira fight I've been to I'd say more than
six countries and
Every I've there's fans there everyone like knows who I am now and
That is something that was a shock to me
Especially coming off a loss and just knowing that like I gave my all in that
fight and that's
I guess what the people wanted from me to get that type of like acknowledgement
because I've been in the UFC for so long
But that fight I guess really showed people like who I am and I got to show the
world who I am and
against the guy like Alex so
now I feel like I've at least kind of made my mark and
Been like hey, I'm here, you know, and so people are now like, okay, Khalil
I know this guy is you can say the name and now people kind of you know, they're
they're familiar with with who I am now
But the other thing that it showed me was that I
know I know I now know who I am and what I'm capable of I
Spent
Majority of that fight just
Soaking in the moment and just like I'm here. I'm here. I'm here. I was excited
to be there
I gave everything I had but then going back and watching it. I'm like, I saw a
lot of the mistakes that I made what mistakes specifically
the number one mistake that I think was made in that fight is that
It was my first five rounder and
When I was going into the fourth because I took a lot of damage and in the end
of the like middle to end of the third
So I was up one and two
The beginning of three I was starting to kind of
He started to kind of take over halfway through the round and once he started
hitting me I
Was like, oh shit, he's established his range and now I'm feeling it so it wasn't
necessarily like a cardio thing
It was just like I started taking damage and everybody knows this guy hits hard.
So
I was taking the damage
I was rocked. I was dizzy going into the fourth in the in the break
I remember John Wood saying all right, man
Like you're doing great ten more minutes like you can do anything ten minutes
just stick in there
we got this and
Because I wasn't familiar with the five rounds. I took ten minutes as sellout
So in the fourth round I came out like
Ready to you know
I wasn't thinking with the mindset of like I'm up to he just took the third
fourth round. I need to maybe
relax, you know, maybe not get hit, you know, whatever fourth round I came out
I bit down and I went to war I
Think that's what lost me the fight for me personally
So you made a lot of adjustments in the Jamal Hill fight one thousand percent.
Yeah, you could see it
You could see first of all what a performance. Thank you. I mean
He dominated a world champion. I mean dominated him
It was such a clear-cut victory and it was a victory where a lot of people
thought that you were going to struggle with him
And you know, you just really you really showed a
level above the Pereira fight and I think
Maybe part of it is what you're talking about like choosing when to engage and
when not to engage like there's moments in that fight where
You were dominating the fight, but there's moments where he was coming after
you just moved
You just moved he moved away from and I know it pissed him off
But it's like hey, man, you know, you're way ahead
You're way ahead and you were done. You were dominating the exchanges then when
you chose to exchange with him
You were hurting him. Yeah and dropping him. It was very impressive man. Thank
you. And that was
That was the product of you know, really
Reviewing mistakes and you also do some wild shit like standing hammer fists
Is that something you practice?
Absolutely man. That's a crazy move man
We're artists, you know, I think that that's one thing that you know, I try my
best to always
Embody the artist in mixed martial arts. I think it gets lost in the growth of
the sport of mma, you know
But you know from this the past conversations we have and you understanding
kind of
How I was before like man, I need some type of outlet for creativity, you know
And that's what it is standing here. I mean my mind, you know, just my essence
is art. So i'm like how can I?
You know paint this picture of like expression of combat, you know what I mean?
Like there's so many different we got it's a lot we got krav maga we got all
these things and it's like
Let me paint, you know, like what can I use to you know to to to
That's a bold thing to do to use something very creative like that on the world
champion too
Jamal hills dangerous guy. Yeah, he's dangerous man
Standing hammer fist. Yeah, I'm dangerous too. You know, like I try to yeah, I
try to like I I always try to
Insert myself into you know into these things too because I think about it
Yeah, alex fucking hard-hitter dangerous guy and I have to like, yeah, someone
might let's do it, you know
Alex or uh, jamal same thing like I know he's got one punch power, you know all
these things
I'm like, let me insert myself. Let me take some chances. Let me be bold. You
know, I think
That's that I think there's an advantage that you have also as a lighter guy in
that division is that you move quicker
And that was kind of evident in that fight that you're like
You know, there's a range of light heavyweights and you're on the smaller range
Like there's a lot of guys like trickus. He's bigger than you. Yeah, who's the
middleweight champion. Yeah, he's fucking huge, man
It's the opposite thing, right? He's cutting a ton of weight. I don't know what
he cuts, but
Every time I interview him, I'm like how yeah, how the fuck are you 185 pounds?