Name: JRE MMA Show #157 with Craig Jones
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'JRE MMA Show #157 with Craig Jones' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-05-28. Transcript available.

JRE MMA Show #157 with Craig Jones

the joe rogan experience train by day joe rogan podcast by night all day
what's going on i like the one ear side thank you yeah that's professional a
lot of guys do
that help my hearing hey it's fading in my old age do you have uh fucked up
ears because of the
cauliflower does it fuck up your hearing yeah just one of them i thought it was
cool until
the inner ear started to swell and it was messing with my hearing and i was
yeah i was like that's
not cool anymore did you get it fixed i just face it at the women i'm talking
to did you get it fixed
or do you oh it eventually drained out but it's as good as it's going to get i
think yeah i i always
wore ear guards i was always scared of the ears because it's just it there's a
design like it helps
capture sound and bring it into your ear i didn't know the airpods were coming
that threw a curveball
and how cool this was oh right stuff them in there i jam them in but they pop
back out yeah you got to
wear it over the ears so uh let's talk about your tournament the tournament all
right what did where
this come from first of all because you've competed at abu dhabi this is what i
don't understand
you're you're you're gonna go head to head with adcc which is the biggest
grappling organization in the
world by the way that's gordon ryan's belt up there if you want to look at it gordon
ryan oh man i might
take that home with me yeah how can i got the money to buy it well i mean what
started it well obviously
you can't win a tournament you put your own tournament on that you can win and
probably lose anyway
um i mean really it's for the growth of the sport we're getting some beef
involved some two-pack biggie
drake kendrick energy to this but really to compensate the athletes well and to
raise some money for
charity along the way and who's funding this thing that's one of those things
you know your girl takes
a trip to the uae she comes back with a handbag you don't talk about it you don't
have too many
questions you brought with you uh a million dollars in cash which i've never
seen before i've never seen
a million dollars in one place i've never even seen a million dollar check
should we tip this out yeah i
guess tip it out let's make sure we don't spill any
ladies and gentlemen that is one million dollars in cash all stays
that is so ridiculous look at that that's so crazy
wow whoever uh is running this really trust you they should those are loose
they're like a lot of
these are just kind of flying around flopping around here you know they have
way too much faith in me
yeah a lot of faith in you i mean this was to prove i had the idea i was like i'll
bring
a prop million dollars on joe rogan but people will i was thinking then they
already don't believe
i have the money so if i pulled out a prop million and you were like oh that's
fake money then i'm
like oh my tournament's so we had the source had to do some bad things for that
um so how's one even get a million dollars out of a bank that's got to be a
pain in the ass right
yeah so my buddy that's helping me out with this basically called his bank he
said i need a million
dollars on thursday they said yo that takes two to three weeks and he's like
get me the million on
thursday or i'll find a bank that can and that i mean that put the energy in
him to get it here we
are so what does this guy do that he has all this loot i i really don't want to
say i'm going to
keep it all directed at me it's all above board legal you know what i mean but
we're sort of keeping
it mysterious i want any negative energy towards the tournament come in my
direction not the anonymous
sugar daddy in the background okay so you you don't want to say like what the
business is or
does the business profit off of this at all does this benefit the business to
do this whatever he's
doing i mean we're running it as a non-profit so like obviously for people that
want to support the
sport of jiu-jitsu like we're going to donate basically all the ticket sales of
this event towards
different charities so we really want to do this as a non-profit because my
thoughts were
if jiu-jitsu doesn't make a profit we might as well make a non-profit okay well
does jiu-jitsu make no
profit like abu dhabi doesn't turn a profit right it's done primarily because
of the shakes uh love of
the sport like the yeah it's like a passion project but i mean sort of my
problem with the latest event
is like we're selling so many tickets and they their event is in t-mobile t-mobile's
super expensive as far
as i know i remember their event organizer posted the amount they paid for t-mobile
and it was basically
two of these so i was just to rent out the venue just to rent out and then you
were at the thomas and
mac yeah so the previous event we're at they were at thomas and max i just
thought hey i might as well
check how much thomas and mac costs and it was a lot cheaper so in my opinion
we're really doing this
because the prize money's been the same for so long a lot of events don't pay a
lot of money but
obviously 80cc is the biggest right and this sells a lot of ticket sales but
really they made a lateral
move in uh the venue that didn't really grow much in the way of seating and
none of that money really
how much does thomas and mac seat uh i think we'll have about 11 000 seats for
this one and t-bumbles what
18 i think 18 yeah so not not massive difference and really adcc prize money
stayed the same
so their prize money you have to win four matches to get 10k not that i'd know
because i could never
win it but we're gonna pay we're gonna do two divisions and pay a hundred times
that amount of
money to the division winners so 10k is the winner of adcc and we're gonna pay
ten thousand and one
dollars to show up to our tournament ten thousand and one throw an extra dollar
that's for me personally
so anybody who competes gets ten thousand dollars really so even if you just
get smoked yeah i mean
i'm thinking of the the other guys like me in these tournaments that don't make
the final compensate
everyone you know well that is nice but adcc has never made money right so for
them raising the
money would just be losing more money yeah i mean but if i mean if if you could
sell 11 000 seats you
know what i mean like if you could sell streaming rights to an event i feel
like some of that should
go back towards the athletes rather than just spending it all on production
like a lot of people talk about
the cost of production and it's important to grow a sport but i really feel
like at least the
athlete compensation should go up a little bit you know like in terms of ticket
sales some of that
should go back towards the athletes even if the adcc is not making any money at
all but in terms of
they do make money but it's where they spend it they choose to spend it on
production rather than
the athletes they right but it's not profitable like it's in terms of the the
organized organization
itself is not really profitable i don't believe well i would imagine if they
chose thomas and mac with the
streaming rights and the cost of the venue like that they've spent on t-mobile
for sure they would have
made a profit off this event you could curtail production costs down like it's
not going to be
that crazy if you choose the right venue my opinion is grappling's amazing but
i don't think we're ready
for t-mobile that's that's a massive expensive venue right well the thomas and
mac was very impressive last
year it was very impressive the the whole overall production and just the scope
of it and the the
the amount of fans that came out to watch adcc it was pretty impressive it's
crazy yeah it's crazy
obviously yeah i've never competed in that many in front of that many people
before it was awesome
it was awesome spectacle and that was basically my opinion it's like why are we
making a lateral move in
my opinion when we could still keep the same venue so what was the idea about
going head to head with
adcc if you want to grow the sport wouldn't it be better to do it in an
alternative weekend that way
the people that compete at adcc can also compete at your event well we kind of
we i mean yeah obviously
athletes can't do both but in terms of for the fans the fans will be able to go
to our event friday
saturday still see adcc finals on sunday but in terms of doing it the same
weekend where i mean
we're really trying to make a stand that uh like the athletes can unify in this
sense and we can uh
get compensated better because again none of that i mean none of the athletes
care where we compete
you know what i mean like we want to make as the sport grows grappling's
growing obviously thanks to
people like you you've blown it up when you whenever you shout us out our
followers go up so
i mean the events are getting more eyes on it people are more ticket sales like
we should get at least
some token gesture of a payment increase well i think the best case scenario
out of this is that
adcc does ramp it up and that the sport does get more eyeballs because people
are aware of this huge
increase in pay and then over look i always feel like competition is good i
just don't necessarily
like the idea of going head to head because i feel like it just kind of messes
with the athletes
because you know it gets puts them in a situation where they have to choose
first of all between
adcc and the craig jones invitational and if they do that adcc is going to
probably hold a grudge
i mean hopefully not well hopefully they don't know but likely they will i mean
doesn't it make sense
that they would i mean if you're kind of crippling their organization by taking
the elite guys and
offering them potential for like how many people are going to jump ship do you
know oh i mean who
will we got confirmed already we've got fion davies past champion the tacker
brothers were the first
two we've got nikki ryan i'm going to announce today nikki rodds jumping across
uh we got luke rockhold
in there we threw him in because he's just he's honestly pretty impressive he
tapped me out in the
gym i was like fuck it we'll throw him in uh in terms of the under we've got joseph
chen so i mean
a lot of people are going to make the move and what's interesting to me i i can't
say any names
in particular but a lot of the old legends obviously want to be a part of this
event i think
they believe they want to support the cause you know i mean and you say make
the athletes make a
choice i mean really they should be able to make the choice if there's an event
with such a huge
amount of prize money on display you know the argument is prestige first prize
money and my
argument is if the prize money is there that becomes the most prestigious event
yeah it does it
does ramp up the prestige but will this happen again is this a one-time thing
or are you guys
planning on doing multiple ones of these yeah we want to do it we don't adcc
every two years so most
of the time guys have to wait every two we want to do it every year well that
would be good then
there would be a year where it's not in competition we don't want to just kill
another organization and
then i just disappear off into the sunset maybe right sneak a couple million
but we want to do it every
year for sure the goal is really to raise money for charities and do some film
projects around the world
using jujitsu really helping out some underprivileged kids and stuff well that
the the whole idea of using
it for charity is beautiful that's that's amazing um but is this guy willing to
fork up this kind of
like does he have a commitment to do this more than once i mean basically he
says hey we do a good
job of this one you can do it every year he's super invested in sport of jujitsu
loves it and this
guy's just throwing loot away throwing a lot of loot away thank god thank god
that's a crazy thing to
commit to though i mean even no matter how rich you are i mean because if you're
giving away three
million dollars in prize money is that what it is uh yeah so i mean so 