Name: JRE MMA Show #134 with Belal Muhammad
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'JRE MMA Show #134 with Belal Muhammad' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-01-19. Transcript available.

JRE MMA Show #134 with Belal Muhammad

Joe Rogan Podcast, check it out.
The Joe Rogan Experience.
Train by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day.
We're up. What's happening, brother? How you doing?
Good, man. How you been?
Very good to see you.
Excited, man. It's one of those milestones that you achieve.
Oh, come on here?
I get to talk to Joe Rogan.
That's hilarious. That's hilarious, man.
Well, it's an honor to have you on. I appreciate you.
I'm a big fan. You're in a great spot right now, man.
You're on the run. You're there. You're at the fucking door.
Yeah. It's been a long road.
When I look back at it, where I've been, where I'm at right now,
I still don't even believe it, but I still need to get over that hurdle
where people still don't believe in you, people still looking for excuses
of why you beat this guy, why you beat that guy,
why you don't deserve the title shot.
But isn't that always the case, and then all of a sudden you're the fucking man?
Like, that was Charles Oliveira, right?
For the longest time, people thought, oh, he falls apart, he falls apart,
and then all of a sudden everybody had to go, you know what?
He's the fucking man, you know?
Until Islam got a hold of him, he was, you know,
he was like a completely different entity than he was like back when Cub Swanson
knocked him out.
Yeah. When you look at the way his career is, the way,
like, people don't give him enough credit for that,
and the way he dominated some of the best guys.
Oh, my God.
Once he was in his title reign.
When he beat Gaethje, the way he beat Chandler, I mean, my God.
But, I mean, now people know how good Islam is.
I know.
People are respecting him the same way I feel like.
I'm not getting respected.
Yeah.
Now when he plays with him like that, beats him on the feet,
and then finishes him on the ground, I think that now people are realizing,
all right, well, Islam isn't all talk.
Like, when DC and all of them are saying that, like,
he's going to be better than Habib, now they're realizing it.
Anybody who said it was all talk is a fool.
If you watch the way he submitted Drew Dober, he just smushed him.
Yeah.
I'm like, there was no getting up there.
It was just a matter of time before he put the smush down on him.
Training with those guys, I tell people, I'm like,
if you never train with the guys from Dagestan, from somebody on their team,
you don't know what it feels like.
It's not regular jiu-jitsu.
It's like quicksand where you're in there, you think you're moving,
you're looking for a way out.
You know, I'm really good at flow rolling and everything,
and I'm training with them my last camp, and I'm like,
I cannot move with these guys, none of them.
Like, everybody on their team has that same style, same pressure on top,
and I'm feeling it, and I'm like, I need to change what I do in Chicago.
I need to change what I'm doing because these guys are so dominant
with the way they play, the way they grapple.
It's like, they're going to beat everybody.
Nobody's going to mess with them.
What is the difference?
Well, for the mentality, I think, is a big thing, too.
You know, when you're rolling with somebody new,
you'll get a flow roll with them.
You'll play around to see how they're feeling.
With them, they don't have that at all.
I'm not going to lose a round.
I'm not going to lose a minute when I'm going against you.
If this is our first time rolling with each other,
you know, I'm on my back.
I'm going to my back, starting on my back,
and I'm like, all right, let's move.
So I'm trying to play, like, guard, trying to go for armbar or anything like
that,
and then Khabib just yelling at me, get up.
We're not playing jiu-jitsu.
This is get up.
This is MMA.
We're not playing jiu-jitsu.
You're on your back.
You're losing.
And their mentality is, let me hold you down because I'm not going to lose this
round.
I'm going to stay on top of you.
I don't care if I'm in your guard the whole time,
and I'm just staying on top of you with pressure.
You just lost.
Even though the round's over, I'm sitting there like, man, we haven't done
anything.
It's like, I'm just laying on my back.
You haven't done any pressure, no ground up on or anything.
But I just lost because I'm on my back.
And I figured that's their mentality.
They don't want to lose any round in practice.
They don't want to lose any minute in grappling.
If they get taken down, they're popping right back up.
It's not, let me get taken down.
Let me play on my back a little bit.
Let me flow a little bit like that.
Knots.
Rough.
Hard, hard, hard, hard, hard.
And I think that's what transfers their mentality into the cage when there's no,
there's no, let me warm up here.
It's like right into it.
Khabib goes in there, he grabs you, he holds you down.
You never felt it before because his strength is another level.
And that's why I feel like a lot of these guys break once they feel it.
I would be really interested to see.
I mean, the best guy off his back, arguably in the lightweight division,
is Olivera and Olivera really couldn't do anything with Islam.
I mean, he really, he, he gave, you know, some difficulties.
He made it, he got into the second round.
It was like, it was work, but he didn't really threaten, you know,
where he threatens everybody off his back.
That's the thing about Olivera is like, he'll catch you on the feet
and he'll trade with you on the feet.
Because if you drop him, he, like, gladly goes to his back to invite you into
his guard.
Yeah.
But with Islam, he couldn't do a damn thing.
Yeah.
A lot of those guys before Islam were afraid to go to the ground with him.
Like, Gaethje dropped him a couple of times.
Chandler dropped him.
And then, like, they stood up.
It's because you had that fear.
With Islam, it was like, I don't care.
He's going to feel what it is on the ground.
Like, they always say, Sambo is better than Jiu-Jitsu.
And he just has that mentality.
Like, I want to beat you at your own game.
And the way he tapped him out from half guard with that arm triangle.
I'm like, nobody's ever treated Olivera like that.
Well, that squeeze must be another level.
Yeah.
I was rolling with him.
And that first week, he's catching me with, like, an anaconda choke every time
I'm going with him.
And it's just squeezing, squeezing.
And I'm, like, tapping.
And then Islam is nice.
So, like, he'll tell you, like, you need to do it.
You need to do it this way.
And he'll show me the technique with it.
When Habib's on top of you, he's, like, breaking me at every single point.
And I'm asking him for it to, no, brother, you just got to keep going.
And I'm like, all right, cool.
So, the next time he does it, he's just on top of me again.
He's, like, mounting me, then I'm turning, giving him my back.
And then he's, like, just laughing as he's talking to the guys outside of the
cage as he's on top of me.
And I'm feeling, like, disrespected.
But it's, like, this is Habib.
But, like, at least, like, Islam, he'll be, like, brother, do this way, do this.
This is the way you get out of it.
He's giving you some tips.
Yeah.
So, by the third week, he wasn't catching me with it anymore.
But his squeeze is a different type of squeeze.
They have a very, very disciplined camp, right?
Like, you have to have your hair cut a certain way.
Like, you can't be fucking around showing up with blue mohawks or nothing crazy.
Like, it's very disciplined, right?
Yeah.
I think that's one of the reasons why they're all successful, I feel.
Like, when Habib walks into the room, it's like an army.
We all get up.
We all stand in line.
He'll stand in line.
He'll point to who's sparring hard in the cage because it's a different type of
sparring, too,
where normally, for us, we have a sparring day in Chicago, or most teams I've
trained at,
we'll have a sparring day like Monday or Wednesday, where it's, for them, they're
doing everything every day.
It's small glove sparring every day.
Then right after that, you're taking off the gloves, and you're grappling every
day.
Then right after that, you're going in the cage, and you're wrestling on the
cage every single day.
Small glove sparring every day.
But it's light, so it's where it's, you don't want to, you're not trying to
knock each other out,
but then if he points to you that you're going to your hard sparring, hard sparring,
then you're going in the cage with big gloves on.
And those guys were going hard, and he's cornering, and then Javier Mendes is
in there cornering,
so you're getting that real fight feel.
For me, I was down there with him for five weeks, so Habib would corner his guy,
and my coach, Louis Taylor, was down there with me in Dubai, and he would
corner me.
So it's like, it's a real fight feel.
The guys outside of the cage will sit there, peek in.
So you get those little nerves that you would get in a fight.
And I'm sparring with somebody, his cousin Abu Becker, who's also in the UFC
welterweight.
You're sparring with somebody you're really not used to.
So you also still have that tension that you feel like, I don't know what this
guy's going to do.
He's not one of my normal training partners where I know, well, he's got a good
left kick,
or he's got a good cross.
I know what he's going to bring to the table.
It's like, no, it's a real fight feel every single time,
because I don't know what he's going to bring to the table.
He doesn't know what I'm going to bring to the table.
And we have two corners cornering each other in there.
So when it's your hard sparring, you're in the cage.
When it's not hard sparring, you're outside of the cage.
You're doing a little bit of technique.
Then it's light sparring going.
So was this camp going there and training there for five weeks?
Is that just a big change in the way you look at things and like an eye-opening
experience?
Yeah, because, you know, I'm a guy that I like to cross train a lot.
I'll go to a bunch of different gyms.
I've been to Sanford, MMA.
I've been to Fortis.
I've been to Canada before to train with Frost Hobby.
And I want to bring that knowledge back to my team and back to my coaches.
Like, yo, these teams are successful.
This is what they're doing.
This is what we've got to start doing too because we're a small gym in Chicago.
And, you know, we had a real champion, Juliana Pena, with us.
But still, you have to keep evolving.
You have to keep trying to do what the best teams are doing.
And seeing how their team is, how disciplined they are, it's like none of the
guys are going to show up late to practice.
You're not going to show up late and smile and laugh.
It's like once he lines everybody up, you better sprint there in that line
because it's going to tell you what your duties are for that day.
And then when it's grappling, every single one of those guys is an amazing
grappler.
There's guys in there that you don't even know their name.
They're still young, 19 years old, 18 years old.
They're just starting, but they still had the same type of grappling as Khabib.
They still feel super strong.
And I'm like, who the heck is this guy?
So I'll look up his name and I'll be like, oh, 12-0, 15-0, 16-0.
And the whole team is full of killers.
But I just want to bring their mentality, I think, is a different type of
mentality that a lot of gyms don't have of being more disciplined.
And I think that comes from being Muslim.
I think a lot of it comes from that is just being religious, you're bringing a
different type of discipline where you have to pray five times a day.
And every single one of the guys is doing that.
None of the guys are drinking.
None of the guys are going out and partying.
If there's guys that come to practice and they look a little bit tired, Khabib
will take their phone away from them.
And he won't give it to them until the next day, tomorrow morning.
So he'll take their phone at night, 9 p.m.
And then you have to go to sleep, get a good night's sleep.
And then next practice, he'll give you a phone back because you're probably on
your phone all night playing games or something stup