Name: Joe on Hafthor Bjornsson Transitioning to Boxing
Uploaded: 2021-10-28T17:18:44.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe on Hafthor Bjornsson Transitioning to Boxing' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-10-28. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe on Hafthor Bjornsson Transitioning to Boxing' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-10-28. Transcript available.

- The Joe Rogan experience.
- What we do doesn't make sense, and I do it.
You know, like at World's Strongest Man in 2019,
we had to pull two monster trucks
because one was too light.
Like, come on.
Like, personally, that pissed me off
'cause I suck at that event.
- Do you?
- Yeah, and it was a slight incline.
- Is that a weight event,
like where it helps to be like a 400 pound guy
versus a 280 pound guy? - Absolutely.
With that event, mass moves mass.
- Yeah. - Right?
Like, so in that year,
I had Thor in my group.
The dude weighed 4.30, 4.40
when we were competing against each other.
- Bro, he's pretty light now, isn't he?
- Yeah, he's, I think, about 3.30.
- He's actually right down the street.
- Oh, really? - He was at the Onnit gym.
He put up Thor's Instagram.
- I knew he was in,
I knew he was here lately. - He's hitting pads.
- I know Rain had them in LA and stuff like that.
He might even be here this weekend, I don't know.
- I think he's here right now
'cause he was at Onnit gym,
and he put up video of him hitting the pads,
and I have to say,
like he's doing everything right.
- He looks solid.
- He looks really,
but it's interesting because he's learning how to box
'cause he's having these boxing matches,
but the way he's doing it is very intelligent.
Like he's not just like gritting his teeth,
and throwing his arms as far,
and using all his physical muscle power.
- Yeah. - He's learning how to do it correctly,
and everything is like real smooth,
and polished, and technical. - 'Cause when you're fighting,
like you do have to be pretty relaxed.
- Yes. - When you're doing it.
- You have to be able to generate force quickly,
but you also have to be supple.
You have to be relaxed because if you're relaxed,
you actually can move faster.
When you're really tense up and wind up,
you lose a lot of your ability
to close the distance quick.
It's gotta be like efficient. - Yeah.
- And the way you get efficient is by repetition
with proper technique,
and learning how to hit paths with proper technique.
And when I first saw him doing that,
I was like, "Oh my God." - Here we go.
- Imagine going from being strong man,
and being the mountain on Game of Thrones,
to trying to box.
Like this is so awkward, but not anymore, man.
When you see him, did you find it?
- I don't see it at home.
At least not at Onnit. - Oh, maybe it's in the Onnit gym.
- I was looking, I switched to that,
and I wasn't seeing it there either.
- God damn, maybe it's one of the trainers I find.
- Really new, or is it like recently?
- Yeah, today.
- Okay.
- Maybe it's one of the trainers I follow that posted it.
But fuck, I really think it was him.
Shit.
- I mean, I know he's in the States right now,
'cause he was just in LA, like, less than a week ago.
- No, he's in Austin. - He's in Austin.
Let's see that right there, see that right there.
That's not at the Onnit gym, that's just him.
- Yeah, he's lost, like, about 100 pounds.
- Yeah, he looks great.
- Yeah, no, he looks awesome.
- It's crazy, it's like a totally different
kind of human now, you know?
- Big time.
- Now he looks like a big athlete.
I wonder what his, like, long-term goals are in that are.
- I don't know.
- There's a lot of money in, like, freak boxing matches.
- I know.
- You know?
- It's crazy.
- If he could get, like, Logan Paul to box the mountain.
Oh yeah, Pujnowski. - Oh yeah, Pujnowski, yeah.
He just, yeah, he won.
- But he's been fighting for a long time now.
- Yeah, ever since he stepped out of World's Strongest Man,
he went into the MMA world.
- Watch this.
This is an interesting fight.
- Pretty quick KO.
- The guy, watch this, right here.
- And boom.
- Boom, yeah.
Crazy, and the guy who fought is a giant, too.
- Yeah.
- Crazy, but Pujnowski's been fighting in MMA for a long time.
He fought Tim Sylvia, who was the former UFC heavyweight champion,
and that was a crazy, stupid fight, like, he got his ass kicked.
- Was it good?
- No.
- No, he got his ass kicked.
But I mean, like, of course he got his ass kicked.
- Yeah.
- He's literally fighting a former world champion,
and he's just a really strong guy learning how to fight.
- Exactly.
- And he was the guy, like, when he first started fighting,
he could see, like, he'd hit pads, and it'd be like,
it would be all arms.
- Just Neanderthal.
- Yeah, but now he's, like, throwing his shoulders in
and moving his hips.
He's become, he's got, he's still big as fuck,
but he's, like, he's lost some weight and gained a lot of weight.
- I feel like none of us strongmen are ever gonna be small.
- Right, for the rest of your life, probably.
- When you get to this level, like, I think you're just like,
you know, I look at my life, and I'm like, eh,
probably the lightest it'll ever be is, like, 230 to 240.
- People are always coming to you to open the mayonnaise jar.
Always.
- 100%.
- Yeah, yeah, you're probably always keep,
I mean, you only lose so much of it.
You're not gonna ever be, like, a marathon runner.
- Nor do I want to be.
- Right.
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