Name: JRE MMA Show #147 with Sean O'Malley & Tim Welch
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'JRE MMA Show #147 with Sean O'Malley & Tim Welch' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-09-29. Transcript available.

JRE MMA Show #147 with Sean O'Malley & Tim Welch

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And we're up.
Boys, we did the first one together.
Yep.
Was it like five years ago?
Yeah, I think it was 2017, right?
Er, 2018?
I was 2-0 in the UFC.
I was just coming off the Andre Soccer Mom fight where I broke my foot.
Yeah, I was 23.
Yeah, that was just after your broken foot.
Yeah.
And now here you are, the fucking champ of the world.
We did it.
Living in a dream.
It's crazy because that whole fight week, I always take a lot of naps fight
week,
especially because it was on the East Coast and we were trying to stay up late.
And I would have crazy vivid dreams, not necessarily about the fight,
but just really vivid dreams.
And so after the fight, it just felt like I was kind of in one of those dreams.
I'm like, there's no way that went out, that played out perfect.
There's no way that played out literally how I wanted it to play out.
So for a while, I kept thinking like, I'm going to wake up in my bed
and still have to go out there and do that.
But I haven't woke up from a nap yet, so we're still rolling.
Well, it makes you wonder what dreams really are.
Yeah.
It's so weird that we just accept that we close our eyes every night
and scenarios take place that don't really take place and they seem super vivid
and then weird things happen in them and then you wake up and you're like,
oh, that wasn't real.
But we just accept that there's many times where I've been in a lucid dream
or many times I've been in a dream that felt so real.
Yeah.
Like, what's going on in our heads?
Probably a lot during Sober October for you too,
because I noticed when I quit smoking weed in camp,
like when I get closer to the fight, my dreams are so fucking vivid.
Yeah.
It's kind of scary.
It's like a snapshot of another dimension.
I'm like, could that possibly be us in another dimension witnessing our life
play out some other way?
It could be that what you're doing is like peaking.
You're like every night you like peak into another dimension
and then pop back up in the morning when you wake up.
That's one of the theories about DMT.
It's some sort of a chemical gateway to the next dimension
or the next realm of existence and that when the lights go out
and then your brain floods with that stuff,
if your consciousness uses that chemical as a gateway.
Yeah.
We've never done DMT.
I've told myself I want to do like DMT,
ayahuasca, that stuff after fighting.
Because right now I have a mindset to I want to be world champ.
I want to be the greatest.
I want to kill in the cage.
But I feel like if I do something like that,
maybe I switch that around.
I want to wait.
Yeah, it might be a problem.
You might become loving.
Yeah, that's literally the issue.
I'm like, all right.
I still have that fucking want to kill.
Not Sean Strickland want to kill, but like in the cage.
Like dominate.
Yeah, dominate.
When we were talking to Dana too,
he said Cheeto has recently started doing mushrooms
when he was training and stuff.
I wonder if that has anything to do with his performances
versus Sanhagen and stuff.
Just looks stuck in the mud.
I think it's just Sanhagen.
I think Sanhagen was just way faster.
He's so diverse.
He's got so much going on.
I love watching that guy fight because like when he's going after folks,
he's giving them so many looks.
There's so much going on.
And you don't – there's – the patterns are non-existent.
I'm sure they exist, but I'm not picking them up.
There's – you know, you think he's going to kick, he shoots.
You think he's going to punch, he kicks.
There's movement to the side.
You think he's going to engage and he doesn't.
Yeah, his last three fights too, he's been really wrestling a lot.
So you've got to think like – because I don't know.
I could fight.
I mean there's a couple different people I could fight next,
but like thinking about fighting Corey, it's like okay,
is he going to be turned into that wrestler or is he going to want to strike
or is he going to mix it up?
I'm assuming, you know, going into a fight with Corey,
he's going to want to mix it up a bit.
But yeah, it's interesting.
He can do anything.
Yeah.
And the fact that he pulled that fight off with a completely torn tricep,
first round, tears the tricep from the bone, needs surgery.
And –
I was excited for that fight too.
Yeah, me too.
I watched – I mean I stopped watching at one point.
I think that was the same night like Jake, Nate,
so I was kind of flipping back and forth.
But yeah, I was so excited for that fight.
I thought it was going to be one of those bangers.
But I mean he did what he had to do to win.
Yeah.
And just super – not in –
it wasn't super entertaining.
Yeah, I was really interested in seeing him fight Umar.
Yeah.
That was the interesting one.
Yeah.
You know, and when –
Fuck, I forgot that was it.
Yeah.
Umar Nurmagomedov is a fucking – he's a problem.
I want him to start – I mean he's got the name Nurmagomedov.
I don't know how many fights he has in the UFC,
how many wins he has.
I've actually never really watched a fight,
but I know he's got the name
and I know he's fucking super skilled.
He trains with those guys.
That could be a huge fight someday.
I want him to fucking start winning some fights.
I was excited for him to potentially beat Corey
or for Corey to get a win over him.
Right.
Just to build characters and build like big fights
because that's what I want.
I want big fucking fights.
Well, you're going to bring big fights.
That's what's so exciting about having someone who's a champ
who's such a big personality.
Yeah.
And there's so many eyes on the Bantamweight division now.
You know, the Bantamweight division has always been like just a fucking
murderer's row
from Hennenborough to T.J. Dillashaw,
like across the board, Dominic Cruz, you know.
Goddamn.
I mean, Cody Garbrandt, like people like forget because of Cody's losses,
but how good Cody is when he's on.
Yeah.
You know, Cody's just a guy who's been in a lot of wars, you know.
Seems like he's got just injury issues too, right?
A lot of injury issues.
Which sucks.
I remember after one of my fights I got injured and he said some people just
aren't built for this
and that didn't age well for him.
But, I mean, hey, dude, I feel like I'm fragile sometimes too.
If I didn't start working with Brandon Harris, like my strength and
conditioning coach,
and Dan Garner for nutrition, like I feel like I was getting injured all the
fucking time.
Yeah.
It sucks.
This sport's brutal.
It's the most brutal.
And there's no way to prevent that.
No.
You know, some people are incredible, like Jim Miller.
Yeah.
Jim Miller's never had surgery.
I feel like it's their genes.
It must be.
It's got to be.
He's got some weird fucking woodsman gene.
Yeah.
Some blogger gene.
Right?
Like a Benson Henderson.
It's crazy there's just so many different paths to make someone a champion.
There's not just, there's this one way, you got to do it.
Yeah.
No, there's just so many ways.
Like Sean Strickland's sparring all the time, and then I fucking literally only
spar in camp.
It's like just two opposite styles, both just one single time.
It's wild.
What Sean is doing is so unique because, you know, they put a mouthpiece on him.
You know, the UFC had some device.
I think it was a mouthpiece.
Did they use it with you where they try to figure out how many times you get
hit in sparring?
Well, they gave him this thing, and they found out that he spars more than all
the other fighters they tested, and he gets hit less than all the other
fighters they tested.
He gets hit less than anybody, which is amazing.
But it's the timing is his distance control.
He's like so tuned in to the idea of hitting a person, not just hitting a bag,
not just doing drills, but all of his moves, all of his movements when he's
training are hitting people.
I wonder how many of his sparring partners are like, I don't even want to
fucking hit him because he's just going to turn it up and it's going to be a
full fight.
Because there's guys you spar with and it's like, okay, if I hit this dude, we're
going to fight.
He's just going to, there's no, so I wonder how many of those guys know going
into sparring, like, okay, if I even hit him, it's going to turn into something.
I might as well just kind of play around for five minutes, get to the next guy.
I'm sure.
But, I mean, you look at the guys, he's got talented guys he trains with, like
Chris Curtis.
Chris Curtis is talented.
And really, Chris Curtis is really talented in the pocket.
You know, he's really good at, like, ripping the body.
His boxing is excellent.
He's got really good defense.
So him and Sean together, I mean, that's like, it's just two savages.
Yeah.
Just good boxers, too.
And Strickland.
Solid boxer.
Strickland just doesn't switch stances at all.
Just orthodox the whole time.
Man, that's just fucking sweet to watch.
And, dude, his leg checks, the checks from those kicks was so on point.
Yeah, it was impressive.
None of them snuck in.
The best at that of all time of sneaking kicks in is Pejeda.
So scary.
Yeah, it doesn't, like, make sense the way he doesn't.
It's just, like, his shin moves, nothing else.
Yeah.
It's wild.
He keeps his shoulders completely square, and you do not see it coming.
So he sacrifices, I mean, but he's got so much power.
He can sacrifice some power, and it doesn't matter.
He's just doing numbers on that calf.
Yeah.
And Izzy's leg was fucked after the first round of the second fight.
You could tell.
I can't, that's crazy.
They just added that to the co-main event for Jon Jones and Stipe.
Because neither of them are champions, so they're going to stack that fucking
card and only have to pay out Jon Jones because he's the champion for pay-per-view.
Oh, that's interesting.
That's probably why they...
Look at you, you're thinking like a businessman now.
The champ thinks like a businessman.
I've been thinking like a businessman.
Yeah, I hear you.
I feel like I've been champ for a long time, just finding the official.
But, yeah, no, that card's going to be fucking sweet.
Who else is on that card?
That's a good question.
Pull it up, Jerry.
I think there's another banger on that card.
Yeah, they always try to stack New York City.
Yeah.
That Madison Square Garden card is special.
There's something special about that arena.
That arena gives you goosebumps just walking in.
You're like, god damn.
That TD Garden was fucking crazy.
Because my first nine fights in the UFC were all in Vegas.
Vegas, Vegas, Vegas.
And then I fought in Abu Dhabi.
And then we went to Boston.
So it was the first time fighting somewhere other than Vegas in the United
States.
Yeah, so those are the two big ones.
And scroll down, we'll see the rest of it.
Jessica Andrade, Mackenzie Dern.
That's a good fight.
Okay, some decence, but not what I was thinking.
Jared Gordon, Mark Madsen.
That's a good fight match.
No, yeah, I thought there was more bangers.
Sometimes they have a nice prelim, nice main event prelim.
Yeah, what's the prelim?
Go to the ESPN.
Mackenzie Derns, Jiggly.
It would be right here if this just shows the fight.
Okay, so that's what makes sense, because this doesn't look like the actual
order.
Because here, we're talking in September.
And I believe that's the main, the co-main, and probably maybe the fight before
that.
But they might move all this shit around.
Yeah.
This is just the announced fights.
Yeah, okay, that makes sense.
Well, that shit's coming up.
I don't think they would open up the pay-per-view with these matchups.
I guess it's not even October yet, so.
Right.
I'm very interested to see how much Stipe's got left in the tank.
You know, one of the things I really like is that he spent all this time off.
So he hasn't been hit.
He, you know, no punishments, no wars, no KOs.
He's been two solid years of recovery.
That's huge.
It's big.
Even if he wasn't training crazy, but his body was able to kind of recover, I
feel like there's so 