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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'JRE MMA Show #155 with Max Holloway' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-04-26. Transcript available.

JRE MMA Show #155 with Max Holloway

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Have you ever had to deal with jet lag for a fight? No, not really. I mean, we
try to go up like early, that's why. So the first two days is whatever, but
then after that we're all good.
Where's the furthest that you had to fly to to fight? I think so, Abu Dhabi,
Fight Island.
And so how long does that take to adjust? Brother, that one was weird because
then you remember they had us fighting at weird times, like, you know, like, so
we had to change, we had to sleep during the, during the day and then wait,
like train during the night.
Like, I remember going to sleep around like eight or nine o'clock a.m. Whoa.
Yeah, because we was fighting like around that time, like early in the morning.
So it was just, uh, that was insane.
So you had to get your body acclimated to that. Acclimated, yep.
That's, that's got to play a factor, right? Like if you live in Abu Dhabi, that'd
be a big advantage.
Oh, for sure. For sure. I mean, did you not just see the, uh, the July card
that got announced in UK?
Mm-hmm. 3 a.m., brother.
Yeah, that's crazy.
Is, is the main card start. So they're saying whoever's main line, uh, headline
is fighting at 6 a.m.
That's crazy.
That's insane.
You know how drunk that audience is going to be.
Mother, you see.
Great. I saw, you know what is funny? I saw a clip, I saw a clip, uh, a meme of
a video of like, uh, a UK fan.
He's like living in the UK. He was like, he watched our fight. Our fight just
got done.
Mine's in Justin. He played our clip. And then he was like, great. Now I can
start my morning.
He opened the door. It's, it's, it's light out and stuff. I'm like, holy shit.
Yeah. They have to deal with different, I mean, it's funny. The American pay-per-view
time schedule just trumps everything.
Oh yeah. I mean, crazy.
I guess we're the ones who buy it the most. I got, I wonder what the numbers
are in the rest of the world.
I, I, I think UK is, UK is another hotspot, right? And UK big?
Mm-hmm. Yeah, it's pretty big.
I mean, they, they, they, some, there are some fight fans to be doing that
every, you know, once a month, they're planning a, there's a pay-per-view card.
And they're like, look, honey, um, 3 a.m. I'm probably going to be screaming.
So please don't, you know, don't divorce me. So it's pretty awesome.
Yeah. You just got to get one tolerant wife and have everybody go over to that
house.
Yeah. I'd be like, Hey guys. Or you get the single friend, you know, you know,
you know, one of the guys that he's just single, you don't have nothing going
on.
He's like, yeah, you come to my house.
Yeah, that's perfect. So what has it been like for you, uh, after 300?
I mean, it seems like, I think for whatever reason, people go through, uh,
phases of their career.
And with some fighters, they, if a fighter gets a loss or two, they start to
think that that fighter has started to decline.
Uh-huh. Uh-huh.
And with you, I think some people had written you off for some strange reason.
Brother. Oh, brother.
I don't get it.
I heard the noise.
I heard it. I heard the noise. I'm like, listen, he's only 32.
Yeah. 32, right?
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
There's only 32. That's athletic prime. I'm like, there's not, no beatings.
There's no knockouts.
There's no, like, there's no decline in the expression of skills inside the octagon.
Everything looks the same and better every fight.
You know what the problem is? The problem is that I got, these guys got to see
me grow up.
You know, I got in the UFC when I was 20.
20 years old.
And a lot of people think I'm DC's old ass, like 42 years old or something, you
know what I mean?
And then I'm like, brother, I'm not DC. I've been calling out DC, but I'm a
young guy, you know?
Just because I've been harassing his potato-looking butt, like, come on, his
bag of potato-looking ass?
You two together are hilarious.
Brother, I love that guy. I love that guy.
Everybody loves that guy. He's the best.
A lot of guys just think I'm old because I've been fighting since I was 20.
And it wasn't, and it's not like I've been fighting 20.
I've been fighting since I was 20, and I fought a who's who in my division, you
know?
You've been fighting the best in the world since you were 20 years old, just
past teenager.
Yeah, so, like, especially with the, you know, with the Vogue fights, you know?
It's like, the first two fights was all right, and the third fight is what made
everybody go,
Oh, he's done for.
I'm like, brother, like, that was just Vogue's night. He was on.
You know what I mean? Like, it is what it is.
Everybody's like, Oh, yeah, look. Look at Max.
Vogue just did this, and now they're doing MMA math because Ilya did that to Vogue.
Uh-huh.
Even with Ilya doing MMA math, I beat a guy that beat you, I'm like, brother,
this is not how it works.
I lost to Dustin. Dustin just got knocked out from Justin, and now what?
Now what can I say? I beat Dustin now? No.
Right. It doesn't work that way.
Yeah, you know, styles make fights.
It's also, like, what happens in camp?
What kind of condition are you coming into the fight in?
Are you fighting injured?
How did, yeah, exactly.
Did you just fight Islam Makachev and get head kicked?
Yeah.
I mean, that's a big factor, man.
Brother, that was crazy.
You know, a lot of people was giving me a shit when, because Islam talked about
our fight,
about me and Justin saying it was useless fight or whatever, and I'm like,
bro, like, if you took the fight in February when, like, you should have
because you came out clean,
I think so, Justin would have fought you, you know?
But, like, how the hell is someone that you just knocked, like, that was a
scary knockout, brother.
Like, that was a scary knockout, ass knockout, and that guy turning around in a
couple months,
like, bro, you're not even supposed to get hit for that long.
Right.
And then now you're doing a camp, even if you're, okay, say you do a camp, you
don't spar our camp, right?
But then you still training hard or whatever, and, like, maybe you just
accidentally fall over,
or bump your head on something, you know, or, like, you're scratching your head,
you know,
or you're screaming or something because you're stressing out, you know?
I'm like, I don't know what could happen, but...
You got it.
You have to have a long time.
Yeah, chillin'.
I mean, look at Justin.
I just saw Justin finally doing interviews after this fight, and he just said,
like,
I'm not doing nothing for six months.
Like, nothing.
And I'm like, bro, that's smart, you know?
When Marquez knocked out Manny Pacquiao, Freddie Roach made him wait a year.
One year.
One year.
That's crazy.
So you got to really heal up.
That was a bad knockout.
Bro, you only got...
I remember it was you that talked about it, that talked about our brain.
This is, like, a long time ago when you're talking about the cotton candy thing
in your brain
and how once that disappears, that shit don't grow back, right?
Exactly.
And I remember watching that.
That was a long time ago.
I don't even know how many years that was ago, and that really meant a lot.
And everybody keep telling me, like, oh, Max, you get hit so much and blah,
blah, blah,
this and that.
I'm like, yeah, okay, in the fight, you might see me get hit, but I'm not sparring,
you know?
Like, I'm not sparring.
I'm being sparring.
This Justin Gaethje one, brother, I'm just going to the gates of hell.
We had to bring back sparring.
You know what I mean?
Like, I was ready to be a crash dummy against it.
I told my cousins, look, this is a man that is very dangerous.
We need to get in the thick of it and get it done.
So we bring back sparring for this one, but it still wasn't crazy, you know?
It wasn't crazy.
Like, we had our hard days far outside of camp, like, outside of camp, and then
we kind of
toned it down.
But getting ready for a Justin Gaethje, you had to.
But then with your brain health, you need to protect your brain, you know what
I mean?
Like, there's so much movies, like, on concussions and the movie Concussion.
And we have so much, what is it, information now about the brain and how you
can help yourself
and how you can mentally and physically help yourself get better and help the
brain out.
So why not use that?
You know, a lot of people call me crazy.
A lot of people, I keep hearing the talk about his chin got to go this time,
his chin.
Like, when the hell is my chin?
My chin was supposed to go the last 20 fights, you know what I mean?
Like, what are you guys talking about, you know?
Yeah, it's ridiculous.
Someone either has a good chin or they don't have a good chin.
Yeah.
But you're not getting hit clean a lot.
One of the things that you do a lot is you roll with shots.
You're very good at rolling with shots.
When you're getting hit, you're getting hit, and I see you turning your face.
I see you taking some steam off of a lot of shots.
And your style is so, it's a fun style to watch, but it's also a nightmare to
deal with.
You're switching stances.
You're constantly cutting angles.
Like, the volume that you put on Justin.
Like, when Justin was having a hard time catching to you, it was very evident
early on that you were on it.
But it was one of those fights where it's like, damn, Justin with one punch can
fuck people up.
And it's just like avoiding that one punch.
And then when you start tuning him up, then he dropped you.
He dropped you in what round was that?
Second?
Third.
I think third or fourth round.
I forget.
Fourth round.
I think it was the fourth round.
Yeah, but it didn't count as a drop, which is crazy.
You know what I mean?
Like, a lot of people.
It didn't count?
No, it didn't.
So, like, ESPN is, like, posting it and saying, like, in however many fights I'm
with the UFC, right, I stayed and it dropped.
And I'm like, that's some bullshit.
That's bullshit.
Get Justin down with you.
I'll take it.
You know what I mean?
But I'm not, I'll be a man to sit here and be, I wouldn't be a man sitting here
and telling you that I did.
Bro, he, bro, all I remember getting hit by that punch and then, like, I sat
and then I came back up.
I was like, what the fuck did he hit me with?
You know what I mean?
I was like, holy shit.
I was like, that was a good punch.
And then when I rewatched it, he hit me, like, right on the top of my dome.
I was like, holy smack, brother.
This guy smacks.
And then I was fine as soon as I got it.
It was one of those, like, boom, you know, like, the legs just give out, the
legs just give out.
Like, I was there, even when I was standing, I was looking at him, but that, I
don't know how that didn't count as a drop.
But I don't know what they count as a drop because.
That has to count.
Because, yeah, yeah, that was, that was crazy.
No, that's 100% a knockdown.
Somebody just made a mistake.
But, like, did you ever see Ilya Teporia when he fought Jai Herbert?
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, I saw that.
I saw that.
What's funny, I never saw the fight, but then when people was, when he was
talking about fighting and we was fighting and saying, and he was, he said
something about dropping me or killing me.
And then I see the comments of him getting that, that hit, that left high kick
getting dropped.
So, I was like, oh, yeah.
I didn't see the fight, but I saw that part happen.
It was an amazing comeback because he knocked him out in the second round.
But, man, he could take a shot because he got hit so clean with a switch kick
off the left side, right shin to the chin.
Just perfect.
I mean, it was just whack.
And then his whole body just goes out.
And then he grabbed a hold of his thing.
Oh, check this out.
Watch this.
Boom.
I mean, dude.
Watch the head snap back.
Look at the head snap back.
I mean, that is just shin to the chin.
Yeah.
That is just a perfect Jai Herbert head kick.
But he grabbed a hold of him.
And he managed to maintain his composure, got him to the ground, survives the
round, and actually was winning the rest of the round.
But tha