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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'JRE MMA Show #167 with Cory Sandhagen' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-06-26. Transcript available.

JRE MMA Show #167 with Cory Sandhagen

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The Joe Rogan experience.
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Good to see you, brother.
What's happening?
We were talking about golf and Jamie, who's a full-blown addict.
What's up?
What's up?
What do you want to know?
I don't know.
I don't know.
I feel like everyone is now.
So you're saying Gagey's fully hooked?
Oh, fully hooked.
It's crazy.
He, uh, yeah, I don't know.
Do you know what Fanatics Fest is?
No.
So Fanatics Fest is, I was just at it on Sunday, but it's just like a, it's
like kind of like
Comic-Con, but for athletes.
And Gagey got to do like the Fanatics game, which is like a celebrity thing
where it's
like 50 pro athletes do it, 50 normal people, and they compete in a bunch of
sports or whatever.
He said he won because he was good at golf.
So the fucking guy won a Ferrari because he got second place.
Tom Brady got first.
He got a million dollars.
And then like a normal, like non-professional athlete got third place.
He got like 200k.
Whoa.
He got a Ferrari?
Yeah, dude.
Golf got him.
Holy shit.
Golf got him this fucking Ferrari.
I think he took.
Holy shit.
Yeah, so he's, so that kind of just enforced his addiction more than, damn, he's
that good?
Yeah, he's pretty good.
I mean, for, I don't know shit about golf, but from what I know.
Daniel told me, DC told me that he started off and he was just kind of okay.
But over the time between the Holloway fight and his fight with Fazeev, he didn't
do anything
but play golf for a year.
Sounds right.
He played like 260 days in a row.
And he said his handicap just kept getting better and better and better and
better.
He said the next time he played him, he's like, holy shit, he's really good now.
Sounds about right.
Yeah.
Makes sense, though.
He's a psycho.
He is a psycho.
Yeah.
Completely dedicated to something.
And he's single.
He's going to, yeah, he's going to excel.
If that guy gets his mind on something, he's going to excel.
Yeah, he's a, he's a unique dude for sure.
I've really liked, because obviously, you know, I started working with Whitman
not too long
ago.
I really enjoyed getting to know like that crew, like Trevor, Gaethje, Kamaru.
Trevor's a unique guy.
Yeah, he, yeah, all of those guys are pretty unique in their own way.
He makes the best fucking MMA gloves that have ever been made and the UFC
should have bought
them out a long time ago.
I think he wanted some crazy amount of money or something.
I think it was like some nutty deal.
Unfortunate.
I know.
You know, I know.
They should have just licensed it.
They should have just made some sort of a deal.
Like, we'll sell the gloves.
You make the money.
Yeah.
Let's just get the athletes the best gloves bought.
They're so much better.
They're way better.
Yeah.
The foam in them is really good.
The shape is better.
The protection of your hands is better.
Yeah.
Trevor's one of those guys where I'm kind of similar to like most things aren't
stimulating
enough.
Like TV, kind of playing on my phone isn't really super stimulating to me.
So like, he's always like doing something.
So he's always like making shit.
But he'd be, when I would go into Onyx, he'd just be in the back like with this
smile,
like working on the gloves like every single morning that he's there.
And the style that they have is real cool.
People keep asking me when they're going to come out with them.
And I think he's getting pretty close.
So I just really wish that him and the UFC could make a deal.
I know.
Because they spent so much time and money to develop those new gloves and then
they threw
them out.
Yeah.
I hate that too.
I liked the new ones.
Did you?
I have really thin.
Like my hands aren't massive like some of these guys.
The old ones are better for like, if you have like a really thick hand, the old
ones are
way better.
But I have a thin hand dude and those things used to fit me like perfectly.
Because the old ones when you, when I would make a fist, they would stick out
like this
much, but the new ones, they would be like perfect.
So I can make a fist and not have this like really awkward big space right
there.
But what is the, what's the issue with the new gloves?
Like what did they not like about them?
I, uh, I honestly don't know.
I think some people were just complaining probably because they were just guys
with thicker hands
because that's what it would come down to.
There was no other reason that it was, I mean, the leather was different and
stuff, but I
mean, how important is that?
It can't be that important.
And I think the whole idea was, it is easier to close your hand.
So it was going to eliminate some of the eye pokes.
They were a little bit curved, but honestly, I mean, maybe, I mean, even if you
bring it
down like 10 percentages, I guess that's saving 10% of people's eyes.
But yeah, um, but I mean, honestly, I don't think it was like significant
enough to be like,
oh, no, one's going to poke me in the eyes when they're wearing these things.
Well, I think the Whitman gloves would cover that because they're much more
curved.
Those ones were curved.
Yeah.
I mean, your hand is in a permanent position like this.
So for you to do that, it's an effort.
Yeah.
Which, when do you do that?
You only do that when you're blocking things or, you know, maybe, you know,
when you're
sliding an arm under, like you get a choke or something like that.
But I don't think they're specific, significantly bulkier.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I'm not, I'm not too sure.
Honestly, I don't really recall where, I think that that was a while ago when
they were doing
all that.
So I kind of don't recall super close what the curved ones, how impactful it
would have
been on grappling.
I think the idea of the new gloves was that there weren't as many knockouts,
which also
doesn't totally make sense.
That doesn't make any sense to me.
No.
They, they probably ran a number that was from like all of the years of the UFC
and
then maybe just when they started using the new ones instead of like just last
year,
how many knockouts?
I don't think they would do that.
No?
No, I think, but there were a lot of people complaining, said that they weren't
hard, as
hard as the old gloves.
I should have brought you some.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, I liked them.
But Whitman gave me some of his and I was like, these are the best gloves ever.
Yeah, for sure.
Just fucking A, man.
Work it out.
I know.
They're good to train in too.
Like, you can actually feel like you could hit the person and not be like,
sorry, you know,
because that's a pain in the ass when you always have to, when you get like a
stiff pair
of gloves and then you have to hit someone and you're just like, sorry, man, I
know that.
But with these ones, you can fire away.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
How important is that?
And it's like having training partners that are, that are conscientious and
that aren't
going to fucking blast you.
Like the miles that guys take off of the clock when they're training is so big.
Yeah, it's big.
I think I don't, I mean, we spar, I spar pretty hard still.
I know that like not a lot of people are crazy about that, but.
You don't get hit a lot though.
That's true.
That's the thing is you're slick.
Yeah, that's true.
Like for a guy who's just like a fucking face first, you know?
Yeah.
You know, that's, there's, there's styles that enhance longevity and you have a
style
that enhances longevity.
Cause not only do you not get hit a lot, but you're also like, you're a puzzle.
You know, you're not, it's not like, oh, here he comes.
It's like, where, what's going on here?
You know, there's a lot of thinking that a guy has to do when they're
interacting.
You know, you have so much, so many feints and so many stance switches.
Definitely.
It's such a smart style, man.
I love watching you fight because it's like, it's so, you can see that the, the
fighter,
if they don't, and by the way, they're probably not used to training with
somebody like you
because there's not a lot of guys like you, you could see how there's all these
adjustments
that they have to make on the fly that makes you think.
Yeah.
I mean, uh, I always really looked up to all of the defensive guys that I would
watch.
Like, I know that in boxing defensive, just winning the defensive battle is a
big piece
in boxing and the judges almost even score a little bit for it.
But in MMA, it's just all like only offense scores.
So that's not really the way that I grew up thinking was good martial arts,
really.
Cause my, some of my favorite guys were Mayweather, Pernell Whitaker, Nanito
Donaire,
like all of these really awesome, like movers that did a phenomenal job at
protecting themselves.
And, but now, man, people, I feel like even more so now people want more blood
and more offense.
The casuals.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That, that shit drives me nuts.
It does, man.
It just drives me nuts.
And, and catering to the casuals.
I know.
Fuck off.
Like whenever someone like boos and then they separate people or stand people
up, I go crazy.
I know.
What are you doing?
I know.
Fuck the crowd.
I think grappling is really hard to understand unless you've done it.
Yeah.
Like striking is easy to understand.
Like, okay, that guy hit the shit out of that guy more than the other guy hit
him.
Right.
Grappling is like, it's a whole, it's like super proprioceptive.
You know, like a lot of what's going on in grappling isn't, it's like hidden to
the eye.
You know what I mean?
It's where am I sitting my weight?
Where am I doing this?
And, and yeah, so it kind of just, people just don't think it's cool.
But when you understand grappling, like it's amazing to watch.
Yes.
You know, like I'm a Rob, for example, who's obviously a guy that I watch a ton.
It's amazing.
Yeah.
Like he does such a good job with like the little nuancey things in wrestling.
That's just like, yeah, that, but it's hard to appreciate unless you really
understand it.
Well, it's hard to judge too, which is a real problem because there's judges
that don't train
and never have trained, which is to me fucking crazy.
I know.
That's like judging a Chinese spelling bee and you don't speak Chinese.
Like who's knows who's fucking winning here?
I know it.
They don't understand it.
They understand when someone's on top.
Oh, he's on top.
I know.
But, you know, there's so many like near submission attempts that I think
should count.
Like, like I always go to the Oliveira, Armand Sarukian fight because I think
Oliveira won that fight
because Oliveira came close to finishing him twice and Sarukian stayed on top
and he had
a lot of control and it was a very close fight.
But I think those fucking moments where a guy is like at nine, you know, if 10
is checkmate,
he's at nine twice.
That's big, man.
Yeah.
You don't want to be there.
That guy got you there.
He's got a fucking locked in triangle.
Yeah, you got out of it.
But still, that's big, man.
That should count.
And damage leading up to a KO or that doesn't lead to a KO is very significant
in the scorecards.
But a submission that doesn't lead up to a submission doesn't count.
And I don't understand that.
You can't just count damage.
You have to count like near falls or near subs.
I agree.
Yeah.
I mean, if you want to take, for example, too, like even like a me and a TJ
fight, like TJ
was limping out of that cage and I was kind of, you know, like, oh, cool, you
know.
And I don't think that that should count for everything.
But like you're saying, like the reason that he was limping out of that cage is
because
I popped his knee really bad.
You know, like he had to spend the next 18 months making his knee better so
that he could
fight again.
And I was able to fight, you know, pretty shortly afterwards.
So, yeah, there's got to be something to that.
Like if you pop someone's shit really bad, it should count just as much as a
knockdown or
something like that.
What do you think about the idea of like 10-8 rounds for like things that are
known, not
just like, okay, this person won by a mile, but it's like in kick