Name: Masvidal Breaks Down His Famous Ben Askren Knockout
Uploaded: 2023-03-22T17:25:49.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Masvidal Breaks Down His Famous Ben Askren Knockout' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-03-22. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Masvidal Breaks Down His Famous Ben Askren Knockout' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-03-22. Transcript available.

The Joe Rogan experience.
It takes a lot of attrition and conditioning and skill to do that.
But when guys fight like that, they're doing the complete opposite of fighting.
They're doing everything in their power for them not to land the blow and me
not to land the blow.
And it's kind of like, bro, you're almost trying too hard to sniff a crotch or
sniff an armpit, you know.
It's fighting, but it's also entertainment, you know, and he wasn't finishing
guys.
He's just literally hugging guys to death, you know, so.
My perspective was I'm fascinated to see who he can do that to because he did
that to a lot of guys.
I mean, he did it to a lot of guys, guys that were like killers, and he just
put that fucking wrestling on.
Yeah, yeah.
You know, and the beautiful thing about the way you knocked him out is you preyed
on his instincts.
You went at an angle and then right to him and his instinct was just
automatically to grab you.
That is one of the most iconic photos in the history of the fucking sport.
You know, also from--
And then you use that even in your papers.
Let's just show.
Let go.
Jorge has papers.
305, baby.
305 papers and it says at the bottom, super necessary.
Let's go, man.
It's super necessary.
You get them papers, brother.
Yeah, knockout.
I mean, I remember watching that going, oh, my God.
You know, a lot of it was also psychological, man.
I knew from hanging out that he wasn't good in adapting.
What were you saying to him?
It's like, hey, you got to come prove it now, something like that.
I was saying, like, all that shit talking, you got to do it now.
And these guys just flapping gums at each other.
Any chance they get, the fight clock--
Go to the side and then boom, right in, out cold.
Boom.
But the whole thing is the walking over him that really gets him, the change of
speed.
I saw that on Twitter, you know, he's, you know, I always like to study my
dudes in different ways,
but I saw that in a--
This is the bestest shit right in your celebration.
On Twitter, I saw that he was very, like, you know, witty, you know, he's
constantly writing
shit like that.
I'm like, you know, he's a dork and a nerd, but, you know, he's got a little
bit of wit
behind the computer screen.
When I saw him face to face every time and it was straight, my cue versus yours,
improvisation versus your improvisation, or maybe you've been thinking about
some
stupid shit for like a month and you're going to say it to me now.
But he froze up every single time.
And these were like a lot of encounters we had off camera.
Like, I remember I saw him and I was like, ducked off in a corner and he was
walking by this.
So I'm like, well, I'm just going to spring up on this dude and scare the
living shit out of him.
So I did pop, pop up on him, hands behind my back, literally short circuit.
Hey, hey, hey, master, I heard you're a very tough guy.
I got to use the bathroom and I'm following.
No, no, no, let's talk, but I just want to talk.
Don't worry, I'm not going to do nothing to you.
Come over here, let me talk to you, bro.
Why are you such a corny motherfucker?
And I'm just, you know, trying to probe at him and I noticed every single time
that it was unscripted, unimprovised like that, like just spur of the moment,
short circuit.
Couldn't fucking, you know, keep it together.
So I was like, I not only need to run at him, but I need to have like a change
of speed
because that's going to make him go into his natural crotch sniffing instincts.
If I just change the speed on him, he's going to fucking duck.
So that's why I came out slow, cut the little angle and let him like, oh, okay.
You know, we're going to circle it up.
As soon as I change speed, what does he do?
Go to his fucking initial instincts as a fucking crotch sniffer.
Go sniff the crotch and say, you're going to kiss his knee goodbye, though.
You know, that was one of the greatest knockouts in the history of the sport
without a doubt.
I mean, one of the best ever.
Thank you, sir.
Plus it doesn't take up too much of your time.
You know, you got that.
You want to see a dead body real quick?
Bam, you know, and it's over.
It was just a giant screen.
And that was like you fucking launched into him.
It was hilarious, though, like right away on Twitter.
He's like, well, that sucked.
And then I and then I counted his ass out, you know, boom.
I mean, he leaned into it, too.
I mean, he was dying to sniff the crotch.
He was dying, bro.
He's like, he should have been invited to the Sam Bankman freed party.
Yeah, horrible knockout.
One of the worst ever and one of the greatest ever.
It's just the way you set it up, though.
It's just and then watching video footage of you practicing that over and over
and over again
and knowing that that was a plan.
So when I'm doing it the night before, I'm like 95% certain because of the way
he's been acting all week.
Like, all I got to do at any given moment is just get this guy uncomfortable.
Go from like chill to invaded space, whether it was in the opening bout or like
in the second round
or midway through the third.
I just knew I had to invade his space and he's going to go to his natural
instincts.
I know I keep saying it, but I just knew it like the way he'd freeze up every
time we talked,
the way he'd walk, the way he'd get stiff.
Yeah, as you practice it.
I mean, you literally practice the exact same thing over and over and over
again.
It's so it's so wild to see.