Name: Balancing the Dream of Being Champion with Reality
Uploaded: 2023-08-02T17:57:59.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Balancing the Dream of Being Champion with Reality' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-08-02. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Balancing the Dream of Being Champion with Reality' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-08-02. Transcript available.

the Joe Rogan experience. Man it's interesting watching these guys come and
go and you know and come in with so much promise and it doesn't doesn't
quite you know injuries yeah this injury Darren Taylor had a bunch of knee
injuries yeah well you know the UFC is a is a promotion machine so they sell
the
world a dream for each and every one of us you know what I mean so a lot of
people out there in the world have this have this idea of me that you know it's
complete could be completely wrong you know what I mean so we all have these
expectations everybody has these hopes and dreams and stuff like that and us as
far as especially with the mics in front of our faces are allowed to share ours
so
everybody definitely believes us when we say what believes me when I say I'm
gonna
be a champion one day you know what I mean I seriously believe myself when I
say
that so um but a very few of us are gonna make it to that to that level you
know
what I mean a very few percentage of us are gonna make it so that's the reality
of
it you know and that's the reality I had already come to terms with when I
first
started this so when I first started doing uh MMA I already had a full-time job
a good
comfortable job you know what I mean um I was able to take care of my family so
I
was good and I was able to go train so I was happy um I just told myself I'm
just
gonna go as far as I can go you know what I mean um pretty much make myself no
promises you know what I mean cuz I understand that I understand my ability and
I
had confidence in myself which is why I did it in the first place but I
understand the reality of it and I should be and I was blessed to have already
have
a full-time job to be able to take care of myself because there's a lot of
fighters a lot of fighters out there are broke trying to fight yeah you know
the
majority majority of fighters are in broke situations trying to fight so um
yeah
when I first when I was training it wasn't my goal to be a UFC fighter I just
wanted to go as far as I can learn as much as I can while I have this time here
on
earth so this is as far as I've gotten well you've gotten pretty fucking far
yeah
you've got a great approach man you got a great approach to life a great
approach to this this path that you're on to to be a better martial artist and
a
better person like that that's a it's it's it's a fascinating approach it's
very
samurai like you know well thank you it is I do take I take for me I like to
take
energies from all places and try to create this I don't want to say character
but
create this avatar and equip this avatar with all these different perks and
stuff that I
find admirable that I find moral and things that's going to make me a bigger
stronger better
what am I a human right a man right a black man if you want to use those labels
and terms
you know what I mean but uh for me being who I am and uh that's a great way to
think about it
yeah and not necessarily try to distinguish myself from any and everybody else
you know what I mean
look to any and everybody else to see the potential that I have because we're
all human
we all have the potential to do great and wonderful things or terrible and
bad things you know what I mean I tell I said this is one thing I tell my
children my children you know
we have the ability as humans this is what makes us unique from any other
species on this planet
that we have the ability to be an animal or we can be something better than
that we have the ability
to be a demon or a devil or we can be a celestial or a god or a goddess you
know what I mean
not that we would physically embody our definitions of these things these are
just conceptualizations but
I think for me that allows me to take the trajectory of my life and point it to
where I want
I want to ascend you know what I mean to concept to use the word that has been
so conceptualized
and I realize that I'm not the almighty but I am living a uh an aspect I am
generating a perspective
I am so many different ways to put it living an experience you know what I mean
that God can look
back and say yep I've done this you know what I mean maybe this has already
been done maybe it hasn't
but for me I just want to go up be better I want to be able to levitate and
shit like that you know
what I mean yeah do things that nobody else does which is probably one of the
reasons why I joined
the army and do martial arts in the first place because everybody where I'm
from where I grew up
definitely wasn't joining the army and nobody was doing martial arts that I
knew of so um
I guess I was just born a uh non-conformist if you will and I just like taking
the route that I find
best suits me you feel me yeah I do feel you yeah no that's a fascinating path
I like what you just
said I like it I like what you just said a lot yeah I think uh if people could
adopt that mindset and
adopt that way of thinking I think that would be very very beneficial to a lot
of people yeah it's
very admirable sometimes when you hear someone's philosophy the way they think
about things and the
way they approach their life you go oh that's admirable and that's what I just
felt when you're
saying that I was like that's that's very admirable I I like when someone has a
very clear disciplined
sort of view of what their life is and what they're trying to accomplish and
you have especially with
this mindset that you have about constant growth about looking at like that
like you're always on
the path yeah and and to approach that as a martial artist and then you know be
a martial artist while
you're still an elite fighter in the ufc yeah you're still a martial artist and
I think that's why you're so good