Name: JRE MMA Show #113 with Chad Mendes
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'JRE MMA Show #113 with Chad Mendes' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-08-04. Transcript available.

JRE MMA Show #113 with Chad Mendes

Joe Rogan Podcast, check it out.
The Joe Rogan Experience.
Train by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day.
All right, we're up and running.
Money Mendez, what's up?
Good to see you, brother.
Finally, man, we've been talking about doing this a long time.
Too long, bro.
Oh, Jesus.
Look at that, Jamie.
We splattered.
I tried to push the plunger down on the French press and it splattered
everywhere.
So if my microphone explodes, we know why.
Sorry, this table needed a little seasoning.
Needed some color.
I'm going to throw one over here.
I'll get this.
That's all right.
So what's happening, man?
How you doing?
How's the retirement life?
Oh, man.
Retirement from fighting, but maybe not really.
No, man.
I'm actually more busy now not fighting.
I'm actually want to get back into the training part of it so it can slow down
a little bit.
But it's been good, dude.
We got a ton of stuff going on, a lot of stuff on the plate.
My wife's about to kill me, but we got some shit going.
You're working too much?
Too much, man.
Way too much.
But it's good, man.
After fighting, I had to channel that energy of getting shit going and being
successful somewhere.
I almost felt like I jumped into a little bit of a depression there for a
couple weeks after because I had no sense of doing.
And so I was like, fuck it.
I'm going to start just trying to grow a couple brands and building a couple
companies and see what happens.
So I honed all my energy onto that stuff.
And it definitely took over.
So it's been nice.
It's been fun being able to just basically channel that stuff into that and let
it rip.
It's one of the most difficult things for a fighter is the stopping fighting,
but you don't know what to do with all this intense energy that you've been
focusing your whole life in one way.
And now all of a sudden, and for a lot of fighters, it's like their whole
identity, right?
It is, man.
Like I started wrestling when I was five years old.
Like I wrestled from five years old every single year up and through college.
And then the day after graduation, drove up to Fabers.
Fucking lived in his, I lived in his spare room and started training.
Trained for three months and had my first pro fight and then just basically
never stopped.
And so it's like when you have that identity of an athlete and then that's like
your routine, that's what you do.
Like when I stopped, I was just like, dude, what am I doing?
Like what do I do with my life?
And how old are you now?
I'm 36.
I just turned 36 in May.
So you're still in this like athletic zone where you're still, you know, until
you're in the, once you're around 40, people start going, man.
Yeah.
Time to do something else.
But 36, it's like, man, Anderson was in his prime at 36.
Yeah.
I was going to say, unless you're Dan Hendo or even Couture, but those are freaks.
Well, Couture didn't even start his career, I think, until he was 35.
Yeah.
I want to say he might have been, it was 34 or 35 with his first UFC fight.
Yeah.
It's crazy.
Let's find out what that is.
Find out.
It's like 1997.
I was there for it.
That was the tournament.
And it was, it was the same weekend that Tito Ortiz had his first fight.
Guy Metzger had his first fight.
Like, Tito beat Wes Albright.
Yeah.
I don't know how I remember that.
And then he fought Guy and Guy tapped him out.
Guy caught him in a guillotine.
Yep.
I remember watching those.
Yeah.
I remember going to Blockbuster.
Do you remember Blockbuster?
Sure.
Yeah.
Me and my brothers were right over there on our bikes, and I'd go straight to
the section
that had all the VHS for the UFC events.
Right next to, like, Faces of Death.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
We'd grab as many as we could, take them home and sit there and just watch them
for hours.
I remember.
I believe it was UFC 2 was the only one that was available.
I believe you couldn't get UFC 1 on VHS for a while.
Yeah.
Because I think Horry and Gracie owned it or something.
I don't know.
I might be wrong about that.
Yeah.
He would have been, like, turning 34 that year.
Uh-huh.
There you go.
A couple months, like a month after.
That's crazy, man.
Yeah.
34, starting his career, and goes on to become the light heavyweight and the
heavyweight champion.
One of the best in the world, yeah.
One of the best ever, and then fights, like, well, for more than 10 years.
So this is 97.
When did he retire from the UFC?
I thought he was, like, 43 or 40.
Man.
I mean, he fought Liotta Machida.
He was, like, he was deep in his 40s.
Mm-hmm.
Or in his 40s.
He wouldn't have been closer to 50.
Would he have been?
Well, when did he fight Liotta Machida?
I know, I can't.
2011.
2011.
April 30, 2011.
Wow.
Yeah.
Dude, that's crazy.
14 years.
So, yeah.
I can tell you I'm not fighting that long.
So he's 48.
He was 48.
Yeah.
Yeah, he's 48 when he fought Machida.
That's what I thought.
He was almost 50.
Yeah, that's wild.
That's crazy.
Yeah.
That's super rare, though.
Super rare.
You know?
Like, Bernard Hopkins was the only other guy that fought, like, at a world-class
level
into his 50s.
Bernard was, like, at 50.
That's insane.
Yeah.
I mean, I hope that I feel that good to be able to compete when I'm 50, but I'll
tell you
what, I do a lot of hunting and fishing stuff with Hendo, and that guy's, like...
Yeah, he's, like, a robot.
He barely can move.
Like, Dan, and he's, like, huh.
It's like...
Now, does he feel all right when you talk to him?
Oh, yeah.
That guy still spars.
He tells me he still spars.
Does he really?
Yeah, I'm like, dude, Dan, you're insane.
Why does he spar?
It's a good workout.
I'm like, Dan, I could give you, like, 50 other things you can do that's a good
workout
that you don't have to spar, get punched in the head, but...
He's so stiff.
It's, like, is he stiff because he's just stiff, or is he in pain?
I think he's just stiff.
Even if he's in pain, he would never tell you.
He's got cauliflower hands.
I, like, look at his hands sometimes, and I'll just grab them, and I'm like,
dude.
And they just feel hard, like, harder than most people's bones, like, in their
hand.
Well, all of Dan's body feels weird.
Yeah.
Like, when you put your hand on his back, it's like mahogany.
Yeah.
It's like, what are you fucking made out of oak?
It's just petrified wood.
Yeah.
He's not.
He doesn't feel like a regular person.
I talked to the lady that massaged him.
She goes, I have never met someone more dense.
Yeah.
He is dense.
Like, he's just dense.
Yeah.
He's crazy.
Well, that's where he got all that power, too.
You know what I mean?
His whole body's just fucking rawr.
Yeah.
He's solid.
He's an odd dude.
He is.
I love him.
He's an amazing, amazing person.
I mean, you got to realize, this guy competed as a heavyweight and knocked out
Fedor.
Remember that, right?
That's crazy.
That was when Fedor was still Fedor.
This is like, Fedor's still fighting, right?
But this was like more than 10 years ago.
This was in the Strike Force.
Yeah.
Crazy.
Yeah.
We sat and watched a bunch of those highlights from a lot of those fights.
We were over at my buddy Chad Belding's house, and we were doing some filming
and stuff,
and we just sat down, and everybody just kind of quit what they were doing and
just watched
that dude just KO dude after dude.
Everybody's like, man, damn it.
Because a lot of the girls that work there and stuff that help us, I don't
think they
really understand who Dan Henderson is.
Right.
And they're just watching this stuff on TV, and they're like, Jesus.
Dan's just like, huh, huh.
He's like, huh, you know?
I love the guy to death, man.
He's quite a character.
Yeah.
He's quite a character.
And a real pioneer.
I was there for his first fight, too.
Oh, yeah?
Yeah.
That was, I think his first fight was versus Alan Goaz.
If that wasn't his first fight, I mean, in the UFC, it was one of the first
fights,
and I think he was in, like, a tournament with Alan Goaz.
Yeah, I remember him talking about that.
I missed it.
I didn't see it.
But he told me, if I remember right, he beat someone.
Carlos Nudin?
The crowd got really upset by the call, and there was people storming the cage
or the ring.
I think that was the Alan Goaz fight.
People were pissed, he said.
Yeah.
Yeah, that was a, I don't remember the fight enough to comment on the decision,
but I think some people were pissed at it.
But, you know, that's one thing that's never changed, shitty decisions.
I mean, they still exist.
You know, Francis Ngannou had a very good point the other day that there should
be some protection
for fighters because, you know, losing half of your purse because someone made
a bad call.
There should be a way around that.
That's funny you say that because I, years ago, was talking with a buddy of
mine,
and we were thinking of, like, an insurance plan for fighters just for that
reason right there.
For injuries, like, say you're, because this is the shitty thing that, I don't,
I mean, a lot of people probably know this,
but you go through a 10-week training camp, and this has happened to me
multiple times in my fight,
in some fights where the week before the fight, your opponent gets injured,
they back out,
they can't find anybody to fill in, and now your fight doesn't happen.
Right.
Well, guess what?
You just went through all that training, paying your trainers, you know,
you still got to pay managers and everything for everything they do work-wise.
You don't get paid.
Yeah.
So you're just like, damn it, man.
And for some fighters, if you get injured after that, you're talking, I mean,
what if you tear an ACL after that?
Then you're a year and a half out.
Like, oh, Jesus Christ.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's a hard world.
It's a hard world.
I wish somebody would come up with that.
I don't have the capacity now to do it,
but I think it would be a smart business move,
and it would be cool for fighters to have, for sure.
Well, you know, there was a lot of uproar this weekend because of,
who was the gal that was in the co-main event who won,
and then she got the $50,000 win bonus?
I saw the videos.
Let's see if she can pull up her name.
And people were really mad at the UFC because of her reaction
because it changed her life.
Go ahead.
Was this the same girl that I saw started a GoFundMe page?
Did she?
I remember seeing there was a female fighter that started a GoFundMe page.
I don't know.
And it could be her.
I don't know.
But I did see the video of her where she's, like,
taking a drink of her Coke and then just, like, hits the ground.
Yeah, that's it.
Yeah, so go back up.
Good.
So, yeah.
Cheyenne buys Banks a bonus for UFC 33 co-main event finish.
So, it was a beautiful finish.
She caught the girl with a head kick and then finished her off.
It was pretty awesome.
But afterwards, they were talking about fighter pay, you know,
and she was crying.
And then all these people got online and they started complaining about the UFC.
And I see everybody's point.
I see their point and I also see the UFC's point because a lot of people don't
know who she is yet.
I mean, they know who she is more now.
But the whole thing about this sport is how many people are going to watch you
fight.
That's really what it is.
How exciting are you?
How entertaining are you?
How engaging are you, your personality?
And do you put asses in the seats?
I mean, it's clear now, you know, who puts asses in the seats and those are the
people that get the most money.
Yep.
And it's a complicated thing for people, you know, because they think, well,
the best fighter should make the most money.
And you go, yeah, but the best fighter doesn't put the most asses in the seats.
And that's what this game is all about.
It's a weird sport, right?
It's like, it's prize fighting, but it's also entertainment.
Yeah.
And it's, I mean, it is tough for a lot of guys because bottom line, you know,
you could be the best in the world.
I hate using this as an example because I love the guy, Demetrius Johnson, in
my opinion, was one of the best UFC fighters to ever, ever stand in there.
Of all time.
If not the best.
Bu