Name: Joe Previews the Kamaru Usman/Colby Covington Rematch
Uploaded: 2021-11-05T18:03:30.000Z
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Previews the Kamaru Usman/Colby Covington Rematch' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-11-05. Transcript available.

- The Joe Rogan experience.
- Yeah, the reason why I brought that up
is 'cause Kamaru's definitely talking about
he just wants a big money fights now.
- Yeah.
So, I get that.
- Well, he's probably a year away from a knee replacement.
- Yeah, right.
- I mean, if you watched him walking down the stairs
like that, he's-- - I know.
- Michael Bisping had both his knees replaced
once he retired.
- Yeah, I mean-- - Same shit.
- And his eye re--
well, his eye is not replaced, but it's fake.
- Yeah, he has a, well, he has like a contact
that he puts in that makes it look--
- Yeah, it looks good.
- Yeah.
- But I've seen him pop it out.
- I have too.
- It's incredible.
- It's snarly, I mean.
Yeah, so, I mean, my point was, if Kamaru starts,
I was wondering if he's thinking about like the money,
so you, you know, that, what's the saying is
the wolf climbing the hill is always hungry
and the wolf on top of the hill, something like that.
So, I mean, you know, Colby's still trying to get up there.
Kamaru's been up there.
Do you lose that hunger a little bit?
- I don't think so.
I don't think so, not with that guy.
I think at the championship level, like the true champions,
and I think Kamaru is like a champion of champions.
I think he's in this all-time great category.
Like, let's imagine this fight is not taking place right now,
and you're not comparing him with Colby.
You just look at what he's done so far,
and his skill level, I think you got a real argument
that he is right now the best pound-for-pound fighter in the sport.
If you look at what his accomplishments are.
One loss ever in his entire mixed martial arts career
has run through everyone in his division,
including winning the title over a dominant Tyron Woodley.
Five-round rout just destroyed him.
He's beat him pillar to post every round, and then you look at his fights with
Masvidal.
You look at his fight with Colby.
You look at his fight with Gilbert Burns.
Gilbert Burns is a dangerous man, and he put him away.
Gilbert hurt him.
He hurt him in the first round.
Kamaru recovered and smashed him, knocked out Masvidal with one punch in the
second fight.
He's a real argument that he's the best guy in the sport.
But if you wanted to see him challenged, you would want a guy who's got killer
wrestling,
that's Colby, amazing gas tank, that's Colby, unstoppable mentality, that's Colby,
and a guy who's been in there with him and knows what adjustments to make.
You know, I think, you know, when Masvidal took that first fight,
he took the first fight on short notice, and he had some good moments in the
fight,
but ultimately, he fell prey to Usman's conditioning, and Usman had said,
the reason why he was willing to fight me then was because he had a built-in
excuse.
Yeah, I saw that.
Which is interesting, because that would have fucked with a man's head.
You'd call him a journeyman, and you know, that fucks with a guy's head.
Like, the difference in the accomplishments of the two are very different.
Like, Masvidal obviously has that giant Ben Askren knockout,
and he beat up Nate Diaz in that fight, and Masvidal's a bad motherfucker and a
very clever fighter.
He's one of my favorite guys to watch fight, because he's so intelligent.
But Usman just demolished him in that second fight, demolished him.
That's what separates, like, very good fighters from all-time greats.
And he had a full camp that time, Masvidal did.
It didn't help.
It actually helped him less.
Like, he was better.
But I think Usman's better than he was before.
I think he continues to get better, and he's training with Trevor Whitman.
Like, he moved camps.
You know, he used to be down in South Florida, and then he made his way-
Henry Rove.
Yeah.
It was originally the Black Zillions, then it was Stanford's, but he's now with
Trevor Whitman,
who's, like, a real striking genius.
Mm-hmm.
You know, Trevor Whitman is a brilliant guy.
Yeah.
I've always loved what he's done.
I mean, because with Gaethje and with Rose, it's like, man.
He's got three fighters in the main card.
That's incredible.
That's pretty crazy.
That shows you how good Trevor Whitman is.
Yeah.
He also makes the best gloves in the business.
Yeah.
His gloves are fucking fantastic.
Yeah.
You've been lobbying for those.
Oh my God, they're so good.
Well, not just his boxing gloves.
I use his gloves to hit the bag.
He makes the best shin pads.
He makes the best equipment.
Like, it's crazy that you got a coach who is also designing equipment, and he
was explaining
to me that the foam that they use, the foam that most people use is not the
best foam.
It's like the best cost effective foam.
So he uses like the best top of the food chain, space age technology foam.
And like, you really feel the difference when you like hit things with his
gloves.
Like, it's better protection for your hands.
Yeah, I know.
I've seen, I've watched some stuff on him, and I'm a fan.
He's a wizard.
I'm a fan.
He's a fun guy too.
And they have a good, he has a good relationship, a good rapport with his
students, you know,
which is so important because he's a good guy to get along with.
You know, he's a fun guy.
And so like watching him coach these people and seeing like three top flight
fighters on
the same card.
It's incredible.
It's incredible.
I'm pretty intrigued too with the coaching changes for Usman and Colby.
They both changed camps.
Yeah.
So what happened with Colby?
You're friends with Colby.
He, what was, uh, what led him to switch camps?
Because he was with ATT forever.
It seemed like, I mean, I don't know.
It seemed like there's a bunch of drama down there, you know, because I think
Poirier's
down there.
And, and, uh, I don't know.
It seemed like he's, he said that, or for what I'm seeing on interviews, um,
you know,
there's drama going into train and, and he just wanted to get away from that.
Didn't want to deal with it.
Yeah.
And it's a, that's a big organization down there.
Basically it's a lot of fighters.
And so then he switched to this, I think it's MMA masters and, you know, small
gym.
They give him the full attention.
So yeah, I don't know.
Well, he brings the drama.
He shouldn't be shocked.
I mean, who the fuck causes more drama than Colby?
I know.
Yeah.
Still though, that's how he's so popular.
It's, it's both things, right?
Which is rare.
Like he has incredible skill level.
He's as tough as they come.
And he talks a lot of shit.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's good.
And most people don't know that he got forced into talking shit.
Like the UFC was about to cut him.
They didn't like his style.
They told him.
And so then he fought Damian Maia in Brazil and then called him a bunch of
filthy animals
and, you know, and said a bunch of crazy shit.
Places a dump.
Yeah.
They went crazy.
They took exception to that.
He went pro wrestling heel.
Yeah.
And it changed.
It worked.
It changed the trajectory of his career.
What people don't know about Colby, what you know about Colby is when you're
with him
in person, super nice guy.
Oh, he's actually soft spoken.
He's a great guy.
He's, he's had dinner at the house.
We had elk and, uh, just polite, soft spoken.
Yeah.
My wife and daughter, everybody's there just being as nice as can be.
He's a gentleman.
That's, that's who he is.
That's the real guy.
Yeah, for sure.
This other thing is like a character that he does, which is so fascinating.
It works.
I mean, I watched to interview him and DC just did just a couple of days ago.
And, uh, and I mean, DC gave him every opportunity.
He's like, do you ever get tired?
Do you ever sit at home and say, I would, you know, could, could give it a rest
and just
be, and he's just like, no, he's like, I'm always, he's something like he's
always on.
And then he's like, you know, DC said, do you respect Usman?
You know, I'm like, as a fighter, he's like, no.
So he, he wouldn't even, I mean, he's sticking to the script.
Yeah.
Well, he's got that pro wrestling heel character down.
And if he ever decides to leave the UFC and go to pro wrestling,
he would have a giant career in pro wrestling if he wanted to.
Probably.
Oh my God.
If he, if he decided, if he fought, you know, let's say, you know, whatever
happens
with his career, but like five years from now, if he decides to go to pro
wrestling,
my God, would that guy have a fucking career over there?
Yeah.
He's talked so much shit.
Oh, I know.
It's good.
I can't wait.
Yeah.
It's going to be an amazing fight.
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