Name: JRE MMA Show #118 with Julianna Peña
Uploaded: 2022-01-27T00:00:00.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'JRE MMA Show #118 with Julianna Peña' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-01-27. Transcript available. Joe sits down with UFC Women's Bantamweight Champion Juliana Peña.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'JRE MMA Show #118 with Julianna Peña' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-01-27. Transcript available. Joe sits down with UFC Women's Bantamweight Champion Juliana Peña.

JRE MMA Show #118 with Julianna Peña

the joe rogan experience train by day joe rogan podcast by night all day
it's dope right yeah it's i don't think that's technically an nft it's like a
digital
representation of the nft he gave me an nft too but you have to put that in
like an nft wallet
i don't know what does that mean like what is an nft wallet that's how you
store it exactly what does
that mean i was right there with you and you were talking about like you have
no idea what this stuff
is and it's really complicated and everything it's it's weird that they're so
valuable that's what's
weird well and but i'm actually gonna like try to start one you should yeah it
seems like a scam
that like people were willingly participating in so like okay but this guy beeple
like he's an
amazing artist he does art every day puts a new piece of digital art out every
day and he's done
it for 12 years i saw it yeah and he's got a gallery that they're building of
all these these kind of
things like this elon thing of these giant digital artwork pieces where it's so
that's like he's a
different thing some people are just making nfts of like a an image of them
like at the park or
something like that i'm trying to figure out like what i can give to like the
super fans right so
like i'm like do they want like an old like fight bra or something like do they
want like tickets to
the fight like what do these guys want like what do you mean they definitely
want a fight bra yeah
yeah so i think i was gonna like stick some of that stuff like some some weird
stuff in there
you know and like be like these are my old hand wraps do you guys want that
like is this an nft is
it hand that's valuable jeremy stevens gave me his wraps and his shorts from
one of his fights one of
his victories and it's up in my uh studio in la oh nice i gotta bring that over
here yeah so in the
beginning like when i first met you uh today rather when i ran into you first
thing i was saying i was
like are you still on cloud nine like what is this like like you you you know
it was matt sarah and gsp
that was like the biggest upset ever in the history of sport right but this is
like i think this is
there or bigger it might be bigger yeah i i mean i that wasn't my era i'm in
the new generation yeah this
is my era so of course to me it's it's the biggest but it was huge because amanda
was terrifying like
everybody was scared of her and you were the one that wasn't scared of her yeah
no you can't be
you're fighting like i know but it's still it's like it's the way you did it
yeah was so wild
like while it was that like dc dc said you laughing because you uh were
counting me out the whole time
no i'm laughing because dc sent me a text and in the video you're very very
very ready dc sent me a text
and uh it was a video of me and him doing commentary on your fight he goes bro
he goes listen to us we're
just making weird noises because during the fight he's like ah he's screaming
like a little girl it
was wild yeah it was wild you know when you were standing toe-to-toe with her
and smashing her with
the jab in the middle of the octagon we were like gripping each other we were
like oh shit oh it was it
you can't describe what that's like to watch because it's like you can't it's
hard to believe
that it's happening i felt like if you had a chance to beat her it would be in
a scramble you would
catch her and submit her yeah a grapple exchange wear her down and submit her
yeah but to see you
standing in the middle of octagon and smashing her with a jab it was like ah ah
it was it was crazy it
was so wild to see it was almost like the world changed yeah but the whole
world changed like what
is not possible is now possible yes well there's there's two things first is um
there's styles we've
already talked about that styles makes fights but i knew stylistically that i
have the perfect uh style
of fighting to beat her and because there's for example i'm not the type to run
around the ring the
whole time and do the point sparring thing and go to decision it's like one of
us is coming out of
here and that's it that's just the way that my fighting style is i'm the type
where it's like
if there's a big puncher the only way to meet that is meet fire with fire and i
have to stand in the
pocket so i'm not the type of person to run away in the fight i'm the type of
person to meet that fire
head-on right and match it with my own fire and i knew that that was how i was
going to win and so
that's pretty much all i did is just game plan that specific type of you're
going to be in the pocket
you're going to have to meet this fire and you absolutely cannot shy away from
it well you said
it leading up to the fight that you're going to drown her yeah i mean i've been
calling for this
fight for five years everyone's like this girl's talking all this crap you know
she's this and she's
that and getting upset at me like but i've been calling for this fight since i
won uh kat zingano
at ufc 200 she beat misha that night i beat kat kat had just recently beat her
and in the press
conference amanda saying uh that i'm next and then ronda got to cut the line
and you know ronda had
just got knocked out by holly holm and instead of her you know having to fight
somebody else she got an
immediate title shot and she got to cut the line and i was like that was my
fight she's the champ said
that i was next and so ronda came in she got knocked out and then i you know i
got put to the
back of the line again but i was constantly saying even when ronda was champ
and i won the ultimate fighter
i kept saying i want to fight ronda i want to fight ronda and they wouldn't
they wouldn't give
me that fight but the fact that she knocked out ronda helped your fight it
really did when you
finally got her yeah because she's a legend by then true because before then
she was super dangerous
everybody was very aware that amanda was like super dangerous and a vicious
knockout artist but
beating ronda the way she did put her on the world map right when she knocked
her out in 48 seconds
everybody's like holy right you know and your your fight with her was bigger
because of all the delays
like it because she achieved this goat status six years i think she's been unbeaten
just knocking
knocking people out for like the last six years so the fact that she knocked
out cyborg like that too
incredible right and then you just stood right in the pocket yeah i know and
that's great is if i can get
people emotionally invested in me whether it's in my successes or in my losses
whatever it is as long
as you're watching and as long as you're you know gripping your seat at the end
of your seat and
and freaking out i want to invoke that emotion in people and that's why i love
fighting i think is
because you know whether you're invested in the loss of the success you're you're
watching and you're
like feeling some type of way and your heart's you know going through your
throat and and to get that
reaction from people and to see the you know um outpour of people reaching out
to me and how i made them
feel it was like it almost made me feel guilty in a sense i'm like really yeah
my dad lost 15 pounds
like this guy's throwing up you know people are like putting you know that this
guy's like putting um
you know pissed off that they lost all this money you know and then there's
people that are like super
happy but like the emotions of like people close to me is seeing how much i put
them through i'm like i'm
sorry i did that to you guys you know like it makes me feel bad you know i'm
like oh man i'm really
putting these people through the ringer like i feel i feel guilty you know that's
hilarious well listen
they're all invested now yeah you know after that fight everybody's invested
yeah that was one of the
best fights i've ever seen thank you in terms of like like what do you want out
of a fight you want
to you you want to be completely immersed in the world goes away all you're
thinking about is what's
happening right in front of you and because of your effort because of what you
accomplished that night
you change the way people think about what's possible and not possible that's
everything we
want from a fight everything you were the underdog you came in you were counted
out by so many people
you fought the greatest of all time and you her up yeah and the way you did it
like the whole world
everybody that watched that was like holy shit the world is a different place
now yeah it just goes
to show you how strong the mind is and how you know it's gonna sound corny but
my mom always used
to tell me you can do anything you set your mind to and that's almost true i
mean you can't swim across
the ocean no okay so it's almost true but i mean you got to be realistic
obviously and people were upset
about me like oh yeah you can't do this you can't do that set some realistic
standards for yourself you
know what i mean you know some old lady is not going to be obviously a world
champion in the ufc but she
could find something that she's passionate about yeah she can pursue that with
her whole heart and she
can achieve whatever that goal is for whatever it is that she wants you know so
you got to be realistic
but if you're passionate about something how sad would it be for somebody to
die with no passion
you know to not be passionate about something that's a very common thing you
know a lot of people never
find the groove they never find a thing that excites them and then never
realize that facing that fear
and then challenging themselves actually feels good because you accomplish it
you get through it and
then on the other end of it you feel better that's something that people that
everyone wants to seek
comfort and comfort's a terrible place to be it's horrible it's only good after
you've already worked
really hard and you deserve a little break that's what comfort's for comfort's
for like these small
moments when you're not grinding right and and i think that that's um probably
the thing that's been
hardest in my life is having to choose the easy route or go the tough route and
just me by personality
i'm always gonna choose the harder road it's almost like i know that i could go
the easy route but that's
just not in me that's not who i am as personality it's like if everyone's going
this way i have to go the
other way when you had that catastrophic knee injury i mean that was that was
such an enormous setback
but how dark were those days like how hard was that for you it was uh very
depressing talk about
wanting to hide under a rock and and never come out how did it happen what
would explain the actual
extent of the injury for people who don't know i can tell you that i was in
that moment very angry at the
time i was angry at my uh the relationship that i was in at the time and i went
to the gym angry and
ready to like mess something up and the training partner that i was with who
couldn't take me down
and we were fighting for real and uh and so at one point he was just hugging on
my neck trying to take
me down in desperation and we ended up being like shoulder to shoulder and he's
like pulling me from the
neck this way trying to pull me down and my leg got stuck in the mat and it
just completely caved and
sideways sideways sideways yeah i tore four out of five ligaments and when i uh
went to step down on
the mat my whole knee just like was came out from underneath me it was like one
of those disgusting
things like just flopping all over the place so you know i made a mistake
because on the way you know i had
just won the ultimate fighter and i was getting ready to to go to my next fight
and i was getting ready
to fight jessica andrage actually and when my my first reaction was i'm out of
the fight and so i was
on the way to the hospital i was on my way to you know go but i was screaming
bloody murder freaking out
and my coach was like called call dana tell him that you're out of the fight
and so i called dana
as i'm on my way to the hospital crying telli