Name: Joe & Bas Rutten Remember the Early Days of the UFC
Uploaded: 2023-05-23T18:23:59.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe & Bas Rutten Remember the Early Days of the UFC' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-05-23. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe & Bas Rutten Remember the Early Days of the UFC' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-05-23. Transcript available.

- The Joe Rogan Experience.
- Yeah, '93.
This is when I started fighting.
Imagine if that's how long I'm a freaking fossil.
- I remember in '90, I think it was '94 or '95,
I watched Pedro Hizzo workout at Beverly Hills Jiu Jitsu.
And that was when I realized
how hard someone can kick you in the legs.
- Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- I watched him kick the heavy bag
and I don't think there's ever,
I've never seen a human ever in all my days.
I've seen a lot of people kick.
I've never seen a human kick harder than Pedro Hizzo.
- Oh, he's an animal.
Because he's got technique and he's got the weight.
- And he's got these giant fucking legs.
- Yeah.
- Oh my God.
- Yeah, can't kick by him, it's not fun.
- He was kicking the bag and I remember thinking.
- Yeah.
- One of those.
I remember when he fought Rico Rodriguez.
He kicked Rico once and Rico was looking at his face.
He's like, what the fuck is that?
- Freaking tank happened.
- Yeah, look at that.
Look, he's spinning somebody around.
Dude, caught air!
Pedro Hizzo, Dan Severin fought him too.
He stopped Dan Severin with leg kicks.
I mean, his fucking leg kicks were insane.
I mean, Randy Couture, when he fought him,
like they had to really convince Randy
to fight him a second time.
And, you know, he had battered his fucking legs.
Kevin Randleman too.
- What are you telling about?
- Oh yeah, he knocked out Josh Barnett too.
And it was a lot of that.
His fucking Muay Thai.
And he was Marco Luas' prize pupil.
He was his number one pupil.
Pedro Hizzo was the fucking man.
- Oh, dude.
- He's another one that people forget.
Pedro Hizzo, his fucking leg kicks, man.
And I'm telling you, I've seen so many people kick the bag.
And no one has ever impressed me with a leg kick,
a low kick on the bag like Pedro Hizzo.
Look at the size of his fucking legs.
I mean, they're tree trunks and he just had this power
that was, you couldn't take them.
And this is before the calf kick.
You know, this is early days.
He was fucking people up with just kicking the thighs.
- As soon as he hit you a couple of times,
it was just like, oh Jesus Christ.
- Oh.
- Everybody was just like, that's it, that's it.
I'm done, I'm done.
Please, please stop this fight, please.
Referees were a little bit more lenient back then.
- And these are fighters.
You mentioned this happening to a person on the street.
- Oh God.
- If you don't know what a low kick is
and you're not flexing.
- Well, Forrest Griffin kicked a reporter.
He had some deal with a reporter.
He said, "I'll do an interview with you.
Let me kick your leg."
- Oh, and he's not holding back.
- And he full power low kicked him
and put a hairline fracture in this dude's tibia.
Was it a tibia or is it a femur, one of the major bones?
- We just had to sign some autographs together.
- Oh, this is it, yeah.
- Oh no.
- Oh, God!
- Oh, you know, this is, oh.
- He didn't even kick him full blast.
- No, I don't think you can.
I literally, you go to break.
- It would be evil.
It would be evil.
Check himself, treat him for a hairline fracture,
the femur, yeah.
- Yeah.
- Jesus Christ.
Don't, reporters.
If someone says that to you, say, "No, thank you.
I would rather not interview you, sir."
- I'm at a circus shrine with my wife
and this whole bus, people are yelling out of the bus.
It's these skits.
And they stopped the whole bus and they come out
and they want me pictures and they want me to hit them.
- Oh, God.
- So I go, you know, and he goes, "Thank you."
But they look at me like asshole.
And I go, "What is the look?"
And my wife says, "I think you have to hit him harder."
I go, "Are you serious?"
Yeah.
I go, "Come back."
"Bunk!"
And he's going, "Ah!"
I go, "Oh, thank you."
- Oh, in the shoulder?
Oh, God. - They loved it.
And then I start kicking the crap out of people, legs.
It's fun.
But, you know, they were much happier.
That's the weird thing.
They want you to hurt them
because somehow that makes it, I don't know.
- I don't get it.
- I don't get it.
I don't get it either.
- Didn't Jason Ellis let Chuck Liddell
in his prime, punch him in the arm, full blast.
I think there's a video of that.
- That's not a smart thing to do.
- Jason Ellis is a psychopath, though.
- Yeah. - He's crazy.
- Yeah.
- Funny. - He's very funny.
I think he enjoys a little bit of pain.
There's something about that gentleman
that's a little bit off. - Be a mixer.
- Yeah, here it is.
This is Chuck in his fucking prime, too.
Oh, no. - Oh, okay.
- Oh, God!
- Oh!
- Yeah, oh.
- I don't, yeah.
- You just heard the sound of Jason getting knocked.
- That, that's a .
- Yeah.
In the arm.
- And did you see Chuck, he wanted to go.
You saw his-- - Yeah, he gets crazy.
- He gets crazy when he hits it.
- That fucking switch gets turned.
- Oh, yeah.
- Chuck, that's another one.
Chuck Liddell, in his prime, was a fucking monster.
- Monster. - Yeah.
- Cause he could take it.
- Yeah.
- He could take a shot in the chin so good,
that he would just fucking wade forward,
almost daring you to hit him,
and just fucking, rawr!
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- And then when he would win, he would, rawr!
- That was a freaking exciting dude, man.
- It was crazy, man. - It was crazy, man.
- He made the UFC. - Yeah.
- In 2005, when the UFC became popular,
it was popular because of the Forrest Griffin,
that the big final between Stefan Bonner and Forrest Griffin,
the Ultimate Fighter, made the UFC.
- Yeah, 100%.
- Everybody watched it on TV, they're like,
"What is this? This is wild!"
But then you got to see the champion.
- Yeah. - You got to see Chuck Liddell,
when he was a fucking beast.
- Put up Chuck Liddell versus Babalu.
See if you could find that.
He was hunting people. - Yeah.
- He was hunting people.
And he was a wrestler that never wrestled.
He never used his wrestling in the octagon,
other than to get up.
He just wanted to fuck you up.
- And he was really good at it, too.
- And trained by John Hackleman,
who's old school, just old school.
That place that he had in San Luis Obispo,
the pit, where he would make these guys do it.
He was like the originator of all these crazy workouts
with wheel barrels and shit.
There he is. - Oh, freaking kicking.
- Chuck Liddell, man.
People forget he was a fucking monster.
'Cause he was a big, tall, light heavyweight.
He was a huge guy, crazy power.
And you couldn't take him down.
His wrestling was incredible.
And Babalu was tough as fuck.
- Yeah. - Babalu was another guy.
Elite, elite fighter.
Babalu was a fucking animal, man.
There's a crazy Babalu soccer kick knockout
of this really thick, muscled guy.
Forget who the dude was,
but Babalu cracked him and then soccer kicked him.
And it's, oh, oh, see if he can find that.
- See if he can find that. - See if he can find that.
You gotta give Babalu his props.
'Cause Babalu was another guy,
a guy that people forgot.
Oh fuck, there it is.
- Is that it?
- Yes.
- I forget who the guy was.
So he gets the, yeah, it's right before that.
Boom! - Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
- I mean, with wrestling shoes on back then, right?
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 'Cause they would let guys fight with wrestling shoes.
Brad Kohler, is that who it was?
- I forget who the guy was, I think that's Brad Kohler.
- Oh yeah. - Who was another tank.
God damn those early days.
Those early days were wild. - How fun were those?
- They're crazy.
When guys would fight with wrestling shoes on,
which is very interesting because, you know,
you could, you could do so much more with movement
and with that grip from the wrestling shoes.
- I just had an event was asked me to,
for a student of his to, for karate combat.
So I'm at the show and he's already there.
And I go, oh, this is two months ago.
They already allowed you.
I go, yeah, man, I'm looking forward to this.
But he's, you can see that he's trained by Eves, you know?
But Eves, that was also one of those guys
that you should keep an eye on.
- Oh yeah. - He did the one knockout
that he did one time.
- Josh Thompson.
- The jumping knee when he had the single leg.
Did you ever see that?
- Yes. - Yes.
- I always told my students, I go,
if somebody has a single leg on you,
imagine you jump up with the same leg that you jump with,
him in the face, and then land on that same foot again.
- Yeah. - And freakin' Eve pulled it up.
- Yeah. - He did it.
- Oh, Eve was elite, man.
- Yeah. - Eve was elite, man.
So here, oh, this is the Josh Thompson KO.
And this, by the way, this is when Josh Thompson
was one of the best in the world.
So it's in a scramble.
They break loose here.
Josh Thompson gets up and Eve catches him right here.
Boom! - Oh yeah, I remember that, yes.
The jumping round kick.
And then Josh Thompson was the first guy
to ever stop Nate Diaz.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah, I was there.
- Josh Thompson, same kick.
- Yeah, yeah.
- Head kick, head kick of Nate Diaz.