Name: Joe Asks Gina Carano About Being a Pioneer of Women's MMA
Uploaded: 2022-06-28T18:05:25.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Asks Gina Carano About Being a Pioneer of Women's MMA' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-06-28. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Asks Gina Carano About Being a Pioneer of Women's MMA' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-06-28. Transcript available.

well there was a moment um where you were gonna come back you're the og oh well
i mean
gosh there was no you're the og thank you is in terms of women's mma who the is
more
og than you you're the original star well like not mma but like lucia reicher
yeah for sure
yeah and muay thai yeah and in boxing yeah and then there's christy martin and
you know a lot
of other folks and and then there was like the debbie purcells and aaron um and
wolf yeah there's
been a lot of like women combat sports athletes but in terms of mma you're you're
the og well i
i appreciate that coming from you that means a lot i always wasn't like back
then um because like you
were the og when it was weird to be fighting and it was weird to be fighting as
a woman yeah it was
just um you would go into the gym and it was just uh well we started at master
toddy's so there was a
a couple girls there that really liked to fight but they liked to more look
good and the attention
that that fighting came from oh yeah um it wasn't all about like the fight so a
lot of that now right
now it's like like that but um it was like that then too um i don't know a lot
of like the what's
her name aaron god is debbie purcell and aaron something and towhill towhill
yes so they were
actually the people i would say that started way before yeah aaron was she's
been around a long time
and cyborg was doing it as well um so tara la rosa tara la rosa um old school
yeah i can't i know
no early days we're old yeah we're old but the early days were interesting
because like you know there
was a lot of uh people disparaging women fighting yeah you know including dana
white yeah um including
most of the guys i trained with which i love them but you know even mark beecher
he was like no get out of
here i'm not going to train any women okay fine i'll train you gina it'll be
cool but um and now
that's all he does you know um you know even uh let's say the diaz boys like i
remember fighting on
the same car as a card as nick diaz and he was sitting next to me and of course
i was just nervous
because i absolutely adored him um still do i think he's amazing i just haven't
seen him in like a
decade but he was like you know we're sitting there before our fight having our
post you know way in
dinner and he was like you know i gotta tell you i don't really like women
fighting you can obviously
say it like that he's like you know i don't like what you do i don't like women
fighting and i was
like i was like that's okay you know maybe you're just a little old-fashioned
and i was like do you
think my dad likes this do you think anybody in my family likes me fighting and
he was like no old
fashion okay so i'm just old-fashioned i'm like yeah you just might be a little
old-fashioned and then
he was like pulling out my chair and opening my door he took it to the next
level yeah he was
like so sweet i was like he just needed to be told it's okay you don't have to
like it you know it's
old-fashioned so yeah some people get disturbed watching women get bloodied up
that's a big one for
some folks yeah was it a thing for you it feels different obviously i'm a big
fan of women fighting but
when i watch a big cut on a woman it feels different like advice like yuri perhaska
and that fight with
glover to share had this giant cut over his eyebrow it's a massive cut but it
didn't bother me but if
that was you if that was it was a woman it was you know valentina shevchenko or
something like that
i'd be like jesus that's a big cut and honestly in my perspective that's sweet
you know wow that's nice
it's nice you don't like to see women get cut out yeah i think that's a really
nice um i don't know why
women or anybody is trying to get rid of that well i get it but i mean that
look if you're going to
land elbows it is a part of the sport you're you're going to get cut up it's
like people are going to
get cut yeah it's just part of the game it's but you know if you if you want to
say that like here's
a good example like the the last ufc uh where it was uh zhang weili versus yuan
jay check and then uh
valentina shevchenko um versus uh jesus christ why am i not remembering her
name is it the chinese
girl that no no no valentina shevchenko had a really tough fight talia santos
which was an
amazing fight split decision which could have gone either way um and a lot of
people are like oh this
card sucks i'm like because of those two fights like you you think the card
sucks because two like
super ultra competitive women fights that were insane and one of them was a
spinning back fist
knockout do you have a problem with that yeah right like i i don't care i don't
understand where people
get off on the internet um judging any like when i'm in a building or at a
fight when people are booing
it like it boils my blood yeah it's like you get in there and do that you know
until you've done that
then you can you know talk about it it's just like do you boo like that at
baseball because baseball at
its most exciting is not as exciting as two people clenching yeah maybe the
fight fans just need to
like get a couple more i don't know hot dogs or beers and just sit back and
enjoy a little bit well it's
it's casuals unfortunately you know it's a lot of people that don't they don't
appreciate what's going on
or how hard it is look i can understand some fights where people get bored and
they boo especially
in comparison to some other fights you know i'm i'm never going to be the one
booing no i'm wouldn't
boo either but you know there's some times where it's just like oh jesus christ