Name: Matt Serra Reflects on His Fights with Georges St-Pierre
Uploaded: 2023-07-05T17:11:32.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Matt Serra Reflects on His Fights with Georges St-Pierre' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-07-05. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Matt Serra Reflects on His Fights with Georges St-Pierre' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-07-05. Transcript available.

The Joe Rogan experience when the UFC came on the scene, it's like look at jiu-jitsu
So then then and then all sudden everything started coming back around so that's
when Longo's like told you cocksucker
Look at this. Oh my god, this is all thanks to Ray Long. Oh, look at that right
hand dude
This was the craziest you had some crazy power Matt Sarah
I'm sure you still do but you really did then thanks, but dude look at that
boom not boom
I mean it was freaky power. It was one of those things where like watching
George tap to strikes in this situation
I mean this was a
Wild wild upset had a house full of people the crazy thing was you know again?
You were known as the jiu-jitsu champion. You are known as one of the best jiu-jitsu
guys ever to come out of America
So if do you for you to see you knocking guys out like that was wild when I had
to fight
Thank you. First of all, thanks when I had to fight Carol Parisian
I
Took the fight and I was I was healthy
But when I first got the call a few weeks before that a couple weeks before
that I had a torn meniscus
So when they asked me I'm like I
Go I could I could run I go defeat the floor didn't feel good the wrestling
I couldn't do so I I felt like it's gonna tear off I did that but I could do
some jiu-jitsu
I could run like a box so we did a lot of boxing for that he would ray would
and I think that truly helped me because
it's weird because I got tired in that fight and I very rarely get tired and I
truly believe is because I did not
Mimic the fight with defeat the floor sparring right and doing so, you know
when that's it. That's a that's a
That's a different kind of wind that you need to do it. It's like wrestling
It's up and down up and down and I didn't have that and I got one of my few
times in my career
I got winded and it was Carol
One of the he's probably one of the worst guys to get winded with cuz I'm on
the fuck out a good gas tank
So I almost knocked him out in the beginning because all that boxing play
I just did nothing but hands with that fucking thing and I was really getting
used to rolling and coming back and landing and
Longo was happy with it
He was taking me into Brooklyn to work at Lou Negley his school to in Brooklyn
I was getting fresh faces and I was really starting to feel good and get the
timing and that I never had with the with the stand-up
So where I fucked up with I had him hurt
I had him up against the fucking thing. He got a fucking judo grip inside my
fucking pants
You see me go to the ref. He's got a grip that by that time he weathered it
I still had to shoot my load got tired. It went the way it went that got me
into the tough house, which led to good things
But two things the one when I got him hurt. I didn't line that shit up. You
know what I'm saying?
I just fucking so when I hurt George he longer pointed that he goes when you
heard him
Manage your distance keep your distance manage and line it up
And that's what we did and a couple of things Longo had me doing with a B had
me having a fucking ball
I met like I'm like a medicine ball kind of it was
Rubber, but it was heavy and you'd have me just throw it if each it during the
circuit training
Even if the sparring 25 times that's his fucking head
So fucking Longo really made me believe that that could fucking stand with this
guy
He goes they think you're gonna try to get him down
You're not gonna try to get him down and I remember looking at that Jeff Munson
fight and that's cemented it
I go dude did you wasn't gonna do that, right? I'm not doing that
I'm not gonna do that. I go I'm so I didn't know I was gonna knock him out, but
I knew
that I had a very good chance of doing it cuz I was hurting guys with the 60
ounce gloves and
you know longos longos look man, he's fucking had any he goes they're standing
up. He's doing some karate shit
It's not that baby's listen. I love George and he's better
The stuff he was doing standing at the time long ago had guys feeding me the
exact shit. It was weird
It was some matrix shit cuz then in the fight
I remember one point he did a high kick a low kick a high kick. I don't much it'd
be like being being
It was a good it felt like a good day of sparring, you know
And by the way everybody out there don't watch the rematch
When when you went into the rematch were you injured you never well
Just tell you the word the word was before the rematch Matt had hurt his back
and that I'd heard that you'd hurt your back
Well, the thing is this I
This is what happened. I was supposed to fight
Matt Hughes right and that's when you hurt your back
I hurt my back. Yeah
And then I was out and then that's when they fought Matt. This is New Year's
Eve
So this was New Year's Eve when I was out with my back
So they fought New Year's Eve. I know cuz we did a watch party at MSG, you know
And they fought so I didn't know who I was fighting at that point
So then I had my back was out so then George beat
Matt, so now I was fighting George. I was gonna fight Matt as my first title
defense
So now I was gonna fight George and then I fought George. So my back was out on
What is that a uh the 31st of December this is the very injury you were talking
about?
Yes, the very same injury. I talked about earlier because I was supposed to
fight. No
Yes, that is the that is the same injury. I was supposed to fight Matt. That's
right. I ended up fighting Matt
Eventually, right, but that's what it was. I'm trying to think of the timeline.
So this was the December
What is it 20 31st?
That's when they fought
So that I had to fight George in April
So that's months there for me to but I had to go through a campaign. Yeah, but
if you have herniated discs and you go to a chiropractor
so
Yeah, you're making it worse
I wasn't walking then
But I ended up getting the weight off and and and you weren't being able to
fight. I wasn't what I wasn't
Well, I was walking but how about this when I'm when you bend over to brush
your teeth. I wasn't able to do this
Okay, I wasn't for how long it was doctor Mike thought my my black belt dr. Yasha
I'm giving him a shout-out because he gave me an epidural in the city. You know,
yasha
Had two epidurals before that fight. I didn't want to say it unless you well,
he gave that to me in
I guess January so what does that do that just kills the pain? It got I don't
know what it did exactly
But it got me back. It got me back to being what does that do?
It's just it's a pain more of it's a surgery thing. It does not always work
either. You know it helped me
I was afraid I wasn't coming back
And he got me back, you know, but that's what they what they do with women
I've had it provides anesthesia that creates a band of numbness from your belly
button to your upper legs
It allows you to be awake and alert through labor as a case, but it's also
It's not that there's also an epidural for back back injuries, but we're all
Google that epidural back injuries
It must be like some sort of a pain epidural it is
Blocker so it was January. Yes. Yeah, so there it is right there Cleveland epidural
steroid injections
Yeah, so anesthesia's injection when I inject an anesthetic into the epidural
spine around your spine
So it could stop pain signals. So that's what it is
But your back is still weak. Yeah, it's still fucked up
Did it affect your movement?
With the epidural?
I don't want you to say this because you should make an excuse. I'm just asking
you as a human being like what what was it like?
The kid I'm gonna say this is what I'll say the epidural it took me a little
bit to get back into into being able to train properly
but you got to think I
Got to that fight. I got I got I it wasn't my fucking best my best
Camp, but I got there and I showed up and I took my shot and I and I signed the
dotted line and
I feel George was so on point that night
What a fucking night that was - man. That was fucking 50,000 dude, right?
Longo doesn't speak quietly. I couldn't hear him in between rounds chance. Oh
fuck you, Sarah
You know what it was it was around the time of
Talladega nights
Where I go he should just drink his red wine and shut the fuck up
I was doing some some I go first call him Frenchie, but it was all from the
movie
Yeah, of course, and I love George and it was uh, it was you know, I was a kid
- it was you know, whatever it was but
My I feel George was so on point that night
That if I had my even if I wasn't fucking tip-top
I think I probably it probably would have resembled him in and and and Nick Diaz
would be like so I didn't like that
I got I stopped you know what I mean it that that that tortured me a matter of
fact when I was gonna fight Frank Trigg
there was pictures of Frank Trigg's face photoshopped on George saying I
remember reading a thing who else thinks that Frank Trigg's gonna
Wrestle fuck Sarah. I go what the fuck
Anyway
So it just like I told crone
I had to get I had to kick somebody else's ass because I don't like the way the
second fight went it felt horrible