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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'JRE MMA Show #162 with Belal Muhammad' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-09-03. Transcript available.

JRE MMA Show #162 with Belal Muhammad

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Alright, what's up? Good to see you, man. Congratulations.
Good to see you, brother. Appreciate you, man.
The champ is here! Everybody has to shut the fuck up now.
That's the best part right now, is now I can just talk as much as possible, and
they can't say nothing.
They can't say nothing. There were so many doubters, so many naysayers, so many
people didn't want you to get that title shot.
It was so unfair, dude. It was really wild. It was wild to see. It really was.
It really was.
Because I'm like, are you guys not watching his fights? Like, what the fuck are
you guys seeing?
I do not understand when people don't appreciate excellence. I really don't get
it.
Like the Sean Brady fight, you see that fight, you don't think this dude is a
fucking problem for everybody?
You see the Wonder Boy fight, you see all your fights.
And all of them, they've been different, right?
Like with the Sean Brady, all I did was stand up. I didn't shoot one takedown
on him.
Gilbert Burns, I didn't shoot one takedown.
Wonder Boy, I took him down. Obviously, I'm not going to strike with a kickboxer,
so I've showed you guys all forms of martial arts.
And people still hate it. They're still hating.
So crazy.
Even with the Leon fight. So even for this fight, I was like, bro.
Absolutely, Leon fight. I think they have to shut the fuck up.
I think everybody has to shut the fuck up and just recognize what you did.
Because you put so much pressure on him standing up.
You were in his face from the very first second of the very first round.
You just advanced.
And you could tell he wanted that space.
And you could tell it was a different experience than what he thought he was
going to get from you.
Yeah, I mean, when we saw him against Kobe and him against Usman, the third
fight,
we saw that he's an expert at distance.
He manages the distance. He puts it at his own pace.
So we were like, bro, we've got to make this the dirtiest fight, the hardest
fight for him.
So we've got to step right away.
So even when the ref was looking to me, telling me to back up,
when he looked at Leon and said, you ready? You ready?
I'm walking for it right away.
So I'm right in his face before he even looks up.
So I was like, I've got to get him on his back foot right away, make him
uncomfortable.
And I knew he's not good uncomfortable.
No striker is really good moving backwards.
But I knew Leon specifically, I don't want to be in his kick range.
I don't want him at his slow pace like he did against Kobe and these guys where
he kicks, moves, kicks, moves.
I'm like, I'm going to be in his face nonstop, punching him in his mouth and
taking him down whenever I see an opening.
The Kobe fight I thought was going to be different.
I think Kobe broke his foot real early in that fight.
I mean, I think Kobe sucks, but for me, I think that Kobe wasn't, he's just not
a good striker.
Even with the fights that we see that he was really good at, it was just
because he put a good pace on all these guys.
And he dictated the pace with RDA and Robbie Lawler, all these guys.
But none of those guys really had that type of cardio.
When we saw him against Usman, Usman showed you, all right, he could keep up
that pace with Kobe.
And then Kobe can't take him down.
So it ended up being like a kickboxing match.
For Leon, he knew if he dictated the pace with Kobe, Kobe wasn't going to be
able to do anything to him.
And I don't think the time off, I think, hurt Kobe's distance management
because his shot takedowns were terrible in that fight.
If he's telling the truth, though, I think the foot had a big factor because I
think he broke his foot.
I think Leon checked the kick real early on or he kicked low and hit the shin
and broke his foot, hit the knee, something.
I don't remember exactly what happened, but apparently in the first round, he
broke his foot.
If you can't move against Leon, you're in real trouble.
Yeah, I mean, especially because Leon's so good at his lateral movement and his
kicks hurt so hard.
So for me, I was like, I can't be in kicking range at all.
I think I felt like one body kick early and I was like, all right, let me step
forward on it.
So even with my mindset the whole camp, I probably took two to three thousand
body kicks and then move forward on each of them.
And if I backed up at all, my coach is yelling at me, look what you did here.
You did this wrong. Move forward. Move forward.
We can't take one step back.
So I was like, I was writing it down.
I was putting it in my head. Do not take a step back. Do not take a step back.
And then it just came out in the fight.
It came out perfect. It was a master plan. It really was.
When you executed, I was just so shocked, first of all, his inability to deal
with you on the feet.
Because even if it was just a kickboxing match, there was so much pressure and
so much volume of strikes.
You were constantly on him.
Your boxing was so on point, man.
It would look better than it's ever looked.
Yeah, I think people just underestimate me when they look at me because they
say, oh, he doesn't have a bunch of knockouts.
But when you look at my fights and you see the way I pieced up a lot of these
big names like Gilbert and Sean Brady, I beat them both on the feet.
And for the Leon fight, my gym is small, but I work with, I think, who's the
best striker in the UFC right now.
He's a 55er, Ignacio Balamondes.
Like, this kid is a monster.
He probably has, like, you saw his spinning heel kick knockout.
I'm like, I'm sparring with this dude every single day.
So, I'm like, nothing that Leon was going to throw at me was going to surprise
me.
Nothing was going to make me uncomfortable.
And for me, if you're beating me up, I want to keep going to you.
So, for Nacho, I'm like, bro, throw the kitchen sink at me.
I want you to throw everything you have in your tool bag at me.
So, whatever Leon throws, I'm just going to be comfortable in that fire.
So, for me, it was just nonstop, nonstop sparring, sparring, sparring.
Even if it's not hard sparring, light sparring, just enough to see everything
and have my reaction time.
And I think that helps a lot with the way I've been fighting lately.
How much time did you have to prepare for Leon?
I had about eight weeks.
Did you kind of have an inkling that it was going to happen before that?
Like, had you been preparing mentally before that?
That was the hardest part, right?
The lead-up, because it was after beating Gilbert, they were like, you're
guaranteed next.
And then, you're like, when is it happening?
They were like, well, Kobe has to fight first.
So, then I'm sitting there playing the waiting game.
And then they offered me Usman.
They were like, well, you know, if you don't want to wait, we can give you Usman.
So, we were at talks with Usman, and then Usman ended up fighting Hamza on
short notice.
So, then I was like, all right, well, there's nothing else they could put in
front of me.
It's going to be me against the winner of Kobe and Leon.
Then that fight happens, and then Leon's trying to brush it off.
Like, nah, there's still other guys I could look at and see who's next.
And he even brought up Gilbert Burns.
And I'm like, bro, I just beat Gilbert Burns.
So, I'm sitting there, you know, in limbo.
Like, what's happening?
I'm calling my manager every day.
And Ali is my manager.
And he's like, bro, trust me, Dana's not going to go against his word.
He's going to give you the shot.
He's going to give you the shot.
And then, all of a sudden, a 300 comes up.
And I'm like, oh, so we're probably going to be 300.
And then they say, oh, they offered to fight to three other guys.
And I wasn't one of those guys.
So, then, like, I'm sitting there like, bro, wait.
No way am I about to get screwed right now.
Are they going to give it to somebody else?
Did you ask, like, why didn't I get the fight at 300?
If they were trying to get Leon to fight at 300, why didn't you get that title
shot?
For me, it was just, I put it out there.
I said, if they really wanted Leon to fight there, they would have put me on
there.
Because I said, yes.
You know, they said they asked Islam.
They said they asked Shavka.
They said they asked Hamza.
And they all said no because of Ramadan.
But I fought multiple times during Ramadan.
So, for me, I'm like, if they really wanted Leon, they could have had him with
me.
But I think they just wanted to have that shock factor with 300, where it's
like, oh, double champ status for Islam.
Or Hamza's obviously a huge star.
He comes back down.
So, I think they just wanted that.
And Leon's not a promoter.
He doesn't really promote his fights in general.
Obviously, he's a great fighter.
But for 300, I think they want somebody that's going to try to push the event.
Yeah, but still.
Yeah.
The rules are the rules.
You know, a guy makes it to the top of the heap.
He's supposed to be next in line for a title shot.
Yeah.
I mean, for me, I'm like, what else do I got to do?
All the purists felt that way.
I didn't see anybody who's like a real solid MMA fan who felt that was a lot of
the casuals.
A lot of the casuals jumping in with their goofy opinions on things.
But that's the age we live in, right?
I know.
The trollies.
Nobody has a profile picture.
They just say the dumbest stuff.
Well, not only that, you have a dispro...
Look, the reality of the numbers is...
I had a joke in my act that 90% of all Twitter is done by 10% of the people.
And those people are 100% retarded.
But it really almost is that.
I mean, it's a joke, but it's kind of almost true.
Because are you commenting on shit all the time?
Do you go to someone's YouTube videos and talk shit?
No.
You're busy.
You're busy being the fucking welterweight champion of the world.
You ain't got no time for that.
So the people that have time to be doing that all the time are, unfortunately,
generally not doing that good.
They're not...
Michael Jordan's not leaving YouTube comments.
You know what I'm saying?
It's like the people that are engaged in these attacks on specific fighters in
particular.
They're usually just dorks.
And I get it that these dorks buy pay-per-view.
And I get it that these dorks...
But they're not most people.
Most people want to see the best people fight the best people.
And would it be exciting to see Islam go up and try to win at 170?
Fuck yeah, it would be.
I'd be all in for that fight, unfortunately for you.
I mean, it sounds great.
But if I was running things, I'd be like, the fights are going to be fucking
great anyway.
It's UFC 300.
Everyone's going to be super hyped up.
There's so much on the line.
It's a crazy fucking card.
That's a great fight.
It's a great fight.
Yeah.
And it's two guys that are on 10 fight winning streaks.
Yeah.
So, I mean...
But how weird was it to have to do the fight at like 5 in the morning?
Oh, my God.
Explain...
So let's explain that to people who don't know.
The UFC that was done in England was done on American pay-per-view time.
So the card had to start...
What did it start at?
Like 1 a.m.?
Yeah, it started...
Yeah, the first fight was 1 a.m.
First fight of the night.
1 a.m.
Undercard.
UFC fight pass.
First fight of the night.
That's crazy.
That's so crazy.
As if we can't watch it earlier in the day.
As if UFC fans on a fucking Saturday are going to say,
Oh, the pay-per-view starts at noon.
Okay.
We watch football games at noon.
We watch world title fights at noon.
Making you guys fight at 5 in the morning to me was bananas.
I was like, that is so contrary to anything you would want from optimum
physical performance.
Yeah, it was wild.
Like, we got down there the week before on Saturday.
And, you know, we found a gym.
So we're like, let's start trying to work out at 4 a.m.
Because being the main event, they said we'll probably be on around like 5, 5.30.
So the hardest part was just trying to stay up from midnight to 4 a.m.
to go drive to this gym.
And, 