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JRE MMA Show #132 with Joaquin Buckley

Joe Rogan Podcast, check it out.
The Joe Rogan Experience.
Train by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day.
Mr. Buckley, how are you, sir?
Man, I'm doing good, Joe.
Good to have you in here, man.
Hey, man, thanks for having me.
You are the owner of the most highlighted, the most viral video in the history
of MMA,
I think.
That fucking jump, spinning back, kick to the face.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I think so, man.
You know, it took a minute for me to actually, like, think that it is, you know
what I mean?
Because there's so many other, like, awesome knockouts out there.
You know, like, my man, you know, Dan Hendo over, you know, Bisbee, you know,
with the H-bomb.
And then with my man, S.M. Barboza with the, you know, spinning heel kick on
Terry Edom, you know.
And, like, Francis Ngannou, you know what I'm saying?
Like, just so many, like, different heavy hitters out there with great KOs, you
know.
But once I really, like, sat back and looked at it and it took some time to
actually, like,
take everything in, I'm like, yeah, that's pretty dope that I did that.
Well, yours was crazy.
Because he's holding one foot and you jump spinning back, kick him in the face
with the other foot.
I mean, that is just wild.
I mean, have you ever done that in a fight before?
Nah, so that was my first time.
So, you know, if you want to really hear it, man, it's a long story with it
because nobody taught me that kick, you know.
What?
I never had an instructor.
Really?
No, not at all.
You know, I was just fascinated with martial arts, you know, since I was a
little kid, you know.
And, you know, once I got, you know, started with MMA and stuff like that, the
gym where I came from, it could only teach so much.
The instructors only knew so much, you know what I mean?
It was just like a mom and pop, you know, gym type stuff where, you know, a lot
of, you know, people would just get there to, you know, get into shape, you
know.
Right.
But overall, though, when I used to go on YouTube, I used to watch a lot of
different videos, you know, on how to, you know, not just train as a mixed
martial artist, but just to learn, like, different moves and techniques from
different disciplines.
From not just Taekwondo, but, you know, Hapkido, you know, Kushin, Sanshao, you
know, all these different disciplines that I used to take from.
And then once I looked at the disciplines, I looked at who are the best people
in it, right?
And then I looked at different people that's in those disciplines, whatever,
and guess who I ran into when I got into Taekwondo?
I seen one of your videos.
No, no, for real, for real.
On, you taught George St. Pierre, like, how to correctly throw the spinning
back kick.
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
But you, at first, showed them how to throw the side kick.
And I used to watch those videos, you know, over and over again, you know.
And then it evolved when I seen Raymond Daniels perform the two-touch.
Oh, my God.
Yeah, he did that two-touch.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's probably one of the biggest highlight reels in kickboxing history.
Big facts, right?
You know, but I seen that.
I was like, man, that's dope because it's a level up from what you're showing,
right?
Yeah.
So I used to perform that on the bag, on the heavy bag all the time.
And people are like, man, what are you doing?
Like, whatever.
But I used to generate so much power when I used to balance, you know, my right
foot on the,
not my right, but my left foot because I would come in like a roundhouse kick
because I'm a softball.
I would balance on the bag and then I would propel myself off the bag and I
would spin.
And we used to make this hard pop like a shotgun, right?
And would bend the entire bag.
So I'm like, bro, I feel like so powerful like throwing this kick, you know
what I mean?
But regardless, though, just seeing these people like do this stuff and just
learning from them
and just imitating these moves, you know, years later, then I ended up
performing that kick.
You know who's got some of the best instructionals of that, of like traditional
kicks like sidekicks
and turning sidekicks?
Michael Jai White.
I'm already hip.
I'm already hip.
Watch the thousand.
Michael Jai White has some sharp technique.
Yeah, big facts, big facts.
And on top of that, even before him, Bill Superfoot Wallace.
Oh, yeah.
Come on now.
You know what I mean?
So, you know.
Well, he had the best hook kick ever.
Oh, my God.
His hook kick was incredible.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Because, you know, he only had one knee.
His knee was fucked up.
Yeah, big facts.
Yeah, and that's why, because he used to do like judo, you know, he used to do
throws.
And stuff.
He couldn't do it anymore.
So, he ended up transitioning just to kickboxing.
But, like, he taught himself how to just fight on that one side, you know, make
himself, you
know, just like a line, hard to hit, you know.
But he made his leg like a jab, you know what I mean?
He would stick guys, but he would hit with a roundhouse, like you said, a heel
hook kick,
you know what I'm saying?
Or just like the spinning back kick as well, you know.
See if you can find a highlight of Bill Superfoot Wallace.
Oh, man, it got plenty, man.
Because the fact that he only used one leg, because he had one knee that was
just really fucked
up, so he couldn't kick with it.
So, because he did everything off that one leg, his one leg had so much dexterity.
Yeah, yeah.
It's like that old school quote from Bruce Lee.
Yeah, that's one of his little instructional videos.
That's why I used to watch.
I used to watch stuff like this all the time, you know.
And it's cool just coming back to it.
And he was so fast, too, with it.
Like, it was hard to see.
Yeah, this is old school.
And he would joke around about, like, you know, the camera not being fast
enough to see
his feet, you know.
Yeah.
But he had the very best kicks off the front leg.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, man.
And he's still getting after it.
Yeah, he's still getting after it.
I don't want to try to be funny, but I think my man's still alive, yeah.
Yeah, I think he is, too.
But he did commentary in the first UFCs.
Yes, he did, yeah.
In the very early days.
Yeah.
Wow, so he's still out there.
Look at that.
Yeah.
So this is just a year ago.
Yep, yep.
Good for him.
Yeah, man.
Well, see if you can find some of his fights, because he knocked a lot of
people out with those
Yeah, just try to put, like, verses in there, it'll pop up on his own, so, like,
be a super
foot in there, just, like, verse, and then it'll show.
It was just so hard for people to deal with.
Oh, that was in a force of one.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I think he fought this guy named Joe Lewis.
Yeah, yeah, Joe Lewis down there.
And Ray McCallum.
Yeah, watch that one right there.
Yeah, that's a good one.
So Joe Lewis, not the heavyweight boxer, but the heavyweight kickboxer, was a
legendary karate
fighter.
Yeah, exactly, yeah.
And this is a fun fight to watch.
And look at that.
Boom!
That style with that front leg.
The thing about that style, though, I always wondered, like, how would those
guys do against,
like, a Muay Thai guy who threw leg kicks?
Because we saw that with, you know, with a lot of fighters that had that style.
Yeah.
Once they encountered, like, Rick Rufus.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Once they encountered leg kicks, they got kind of fucked up until they realized
how to
deal with it and how to use the leg kicks.
Right.
Then Rick Rufus became an incredible leg kicker.
Well, I mean, perfect example.
Peter Cunningham.
Yes.
So you know who Peter Cunningham is.
Oh, Superfoot.
Sugarfoot.
Sugarfoot.
Sugarfoot.
Not Superfoot, Sugarfoot.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, so, but he fought Muay Thai guys than he used to whoop their head.
Yes, because he could throw leg kicks.
Yeah, he could throw leg kicks and he had hands.
Yes, he had everything.
Yeah, yeah, bro.
That's, like, the beautiful thing about MMA is we're seeing all those
techniques being
incorporated.
Yeah.
Like, a guy like you who can do all the other things, now you're learning jump
spinning back
kicks and all this other stuff.
See, I always assumed watching you fight that you had some sort of a
traditional martial arts
background because you throw so many sidekicks and they're so clean.
They're so sharp.
I assumed.
I guess I can attribute that all from martial arts movies.
That's wild.
Literally all from martial arts.
Wow.
And, like, people think it's a joke, but literally when I was a kid, you know,
just growing up,
you know what I mean, my mom, you know, would raise me.
She was a single mother and stuff like that.
So she can only do so much, you know what I mean?
So I was on the TV all the time.
That's what raised me.
You know what I'm saying?
Just watching and throwing kicks.
Just watching, yeah, big facts, you know, because I was around a lot of women,
you know.
So when she needed help, I was with my godmother Erica and stuff like that.
And I was with, you know, my god sisters and stuff like that.
So there was a lot of, you know, women around.
So I was looking for male influences, and the fastest way I could find it was
just on TV.
Wow.
You know what I mean?
So just looking at Bruce Lee, looking at Jackie Chan, looking like Michael Jai
White,
Donnie Yen, Tony Jai.
Like, these are the guys I'm like, oh, man, I want to be like them.
You know what I mean?
So, yeah.
It's amazing how many people got influenced to fighting and to traditional
martial arts from movies.
Big facts, yeah.
That's like the best.
Some of the greatest kickboxers will tell you who, Bruce Lee.
Oh, yeah, Bruce Lee.
Bruce Lee is the one that got them into it, you know.
It's the best salesperson ever is those movies.
Yeah, big facts.
I mean, you look at, like, the emergence of karate academies in the country
after Bruce Lee movies, like, through the roof.
Yep, yep.
Everybody wanted to learn.
Mm-hmm.
Including Chuck Norris, you know?
Yes.
Yeah.
Yeah, including Chuck Norris.
So when you—what was your first actual, like, coaching in martial arts?
My first coaching, that was the gym at Finney's MMA.
And how old were you then?
That was called All-in-One.
I was 18.
I started as soon as I got out of high school, man, because school wasn't for
me at the time, man.
You know what I'm saying?
I was, like, you know, not taking it seriously.
But, you know, I just always wanted to be a part of martial arts, you know,
when I was younger.
And I knew that wrestling was going to be a great foundation to start in.
You know, so when I was in middle school, got into high school, whatever, I got
into wrestling.
And then after that, after I graduated, went to Finney's MMA in 2012.
So when you were wrestling in high school, were you thinking that you were
doing this to prepare to fight?
Yeah.
Really?
Yeah.
Interesting.
Well, I mean, like, low-key, but, like, I knew, like, that's what I wanted to
do.
And it was the closest thing to a discipline, to a martial arts discipline is
wrestling.
That's the only thing.
And probably the most important thing.
I wasn't good at football, wasn't good at basketball, wasn't good at baseball,
you know what I mean?
Couldn't catch water if I fell out of a boat, you know what I'm saying?
Like, so my biggest thing was, like, you know, I never really liked sports
anyway.
It was just martial arts.
And the only thing that I could apply those skills to was wrestling, you know?
Because my mom didn't want to put me into, like, any karate.
All that stuff costs money, you know, at the end of the day.
But wrestling was free.
And so when you first got into actual coaching, you already knew how to kick
then, just from watching movies and shit?
Somewhat.
I wouldn't say I actually knew how to kick, but, like, that's what, it's
imitation, you know what I'm saying?
Life imitates art, right?
So that's my biggest thing is just, like, I used to watch these guys and you
got to realize, like, these guys that's playing or actors are real martial
artists.
Oh, yeah.
You know what I mean?
So they're using real techniques at the end of th