Name: Will Gordon Ryan Transition to MMA?
Uploaded: 2021-05-01T20:05:27.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Will Gordon Ryan Transition to MMA?' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-05-01. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Will Gordon Ryan Transition to MMA?' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-05-01. Transcript available.

- The Joe Rogan experience.
- Now, obviously, the next course of progression
for a guy like you would be MMA.
- Yeah.
- Now, I know that you had talked about doing MMA
in the past, but now it seems like
it's actually gonna happen.
- Yeah, so John doesn't want me to compete in MMA
because he feels like Jiu Jitsu is just about to
break into that next level of professional sports.
So, for me at least right now, I feel like
I need at least someone from my team
to be able to do the things that I'm doing
before I can kind of move away from Jiu Jitsu into MMA.
Because right now, we have Gary in MMA.
He's carrying our flag, our team's flag in MMA.
We have me at the top of the heap in Jiu Jitsu.
So, like, if Craig or Nicky Rod and my brother
can start doing the things that I'm doing
and they win in ATCC Absolute, maybe,
or they go out and they start beating
and submitting all the high-level guys,
then I feel like maybe I can leave Jiu Jitsu.
Because if I start fighting MMA,
I'm gonna focus on MMA.
So, I feel like if one of my teammates
can kind of take my place,
then I can start moving into MMA
and then go from there.
- So, you look at it as a,
you really do genuinely look at it as a team effort.
You're not looking at it just as your,
as an individual.
- Most athletes are very selfish
and they just take, take, take.
Whereas, we have a very great,
a very good team cohesion.
And, you know, we're always looking out for one another.
And, you know, I find that
that's the way that people operate best.
If you look at most teams,
it's basically just a bunch of tough guys in a room
who train together, who have no loyalty.
And if someone offers them a better deal,
they're gonna go somewhere else and train there.
Whereas with us, we're very loyal to John.
And, you know, everything that,
everything that we do is the same.
Like my game is very similar to John's,
very similar to Gary's,
very similar to Craig's.
We all are taught by John
and we all follow the same ideas
and the same philosophy of jiu-jitsu.
So, the loyalty within the team is very strong.
And, you know, I feel that
it's always gonna be a team effort.
You know, without John,
I wouldn't be as good as I am.
Without Gary, I wouldn't be as good as I am.
Without Nicky, it's the collaboration of minds
in the gym that really pushes you forward.
So, you know, I feel like we're different in that sense
that we're not a team that recruits people.
We're a team that builds athletes
from almost the ground up.
Like you see, like a lot of the big MMA teams,
or even the big jiu-jitsu teams,
like Atos, for example, they recruit guys,
guys who are already successful.
They recruit them, they give them a place to live.
They give them a training program
and they just recruit tough guys.
But if you look at a guy like Andre,
and you look at his black belts,
they all have vastly different games.
Kynan's game is different than Andre's,
Hanger's game is different than Andre's,
Keenan's game is different than Andre's.
And it's basically just a team of recruited guys
who are a bunch of tough guys
training in the same room.
Whereas John, we have a team of homegrown guys
who all do the same thing.
Like, they all have discernible games
that all mimic what John teaches.
And they just have slight changes and variations
due to our physical attributes and personalities.
- Now, when you say you think of it as a team,
this is taking it to a completely different level,
'cause you're not willing to progress your career
outside the realm of jiu-jitsu
until someone else can carry the crown.
That's next level commitment to the team philosophy.
- Yeah, I mean, like I said,
you have a guy like John,
who's like the most selfless person in the world.
Like, he shows up every day and he gives you everything.
Like, you know, I want what's best for the team,
even if it's not what's best for me.
You know, I want to, I want what's best for John's team.
You know, I want him to go down in history
as being the guy who had the absolute best team in the world.
And, you know, right now you can make the argument that,
sure, you know, Gordon's the best in the world,
but the rest of the guys don't win as much as him.
So I want to get those, the rest of the guys on my team
to my level so that you don't have the argument anymore of,
sure, Gordon's good, but he's the only one
who really wins when it counts.
You know, I want, I want to go into ADCC with my team
and I want to win every single division, so.
- That would be insane.
You know, that's not outside the realm of possibility either.
That's what's crazy.
- Yeah, I mean, next year we have,
Gary might cut to 66 kilos.
So if Gary's at 66, my brother will be at 77.
Craig will be at 88.
I'll be at 99 if they let me do the division.
And then Nicky Rod will be at 99 plus.
- What do you mean if they let you do the division?
- So, for ADCC, when you win the absolute,
you go to the super fight.
So, the super fight champion fights the winner of the absolute.
Now, I won the absolute last year,
so I'm only supposed to have one fight.
But I have requested to do the weight division as well.
Because you normally would just do the super fight.
But I want to do the super fight and I also want to do my weight division.
So instead of having one match, I'd have five matches.
No one's ever asked to do that.
People have asked to do the absolute before.
But the problem is, if I win the absolute and then I win the super fight,
the super fight winner is supposed to fight the absolute winner.
So you can't fight yourself.
- Right.
- So it doesn't make sense to do the super fight and the absolute.
But it does make sense to do the weight division and the absolute.
So if they let me do the weight division, I'll be the first person in history
to ever do the weight division plus the super fight at the same time.
- Wow. Now how is Gary juggling training for MMA and Jiu Jitsu as well?
- And Jiu Jitsu as well.
- Dude, that guy's a machine.
He basically just, he didn't do less Jiu Jitsu to do MMA.
He just added MMA on top of the Jiu Jitsu sessions.
So he trains MMA seven days a week and he spars lightly seven days a week and
then he finishes that.
And right now we don't have a gym set up in Puerto Rico.
So we're working around the schedule, the class schedule of the gym owner.
So we have, he does MMA at nine and then he trains for like an hour, spars.
Then he has like a 30-minute break and then he does, and then he does Jiu Jitsu
at 11 and he just adds the session on.
So he does MMA and Jiu Jitsu seven days a week and like within like two hours
of each other.
- And when he's training MMA, he's also grappling.
- Yeah.
- So he's grappling twice.
- Yeah. Most, most of the MMA training is, is shoot boxing is standing to take
downs because he's already so good on the ground.
He needs to get, he needs to work on fence wrestling and, and shoot boxing.
But he definitely, he definitely is some grappling when he does MMA.
So he, he grapples and, and spars and then he pretty much goes right to Jiu Jitsu
and has to do that.
So, I mean, that's definitely not an easy thing to do and seven days a week is
definitely not an easy thing to do.
- And how is he doing in terms of striking coaching?
Like is he, did he bring someone with him to Puerto Rico?
Was he using a different person in New York?
What was he doing?
- He uses John.
John is our striking coach.
- Really?
- I'm telling you, John knows just as much about every martial art as he does Jiu
Jitsu.
Like John is our wrestling coach.
John's our Jiu Jitsu coach.
John's our striking coach.
John's our MMA coach.
Like John coaches Jake Gary for every aspect of MMA, wall wrestling, everything.
- Holy shit.
- Yeah.
- So he coaches him for kicking and everything?
- Yeah.
Dude.
People don't know this about John.
John's first martial art was Muay Thai.
John did Muay Thai for over a decade when he was growing up and he studied all
the best Muay Thai guys.
I mean John knows a lot about striking.
I mean he, he coached, like I said, like people don't know this about John.
They think he's just a leg lock guy or just a grappler.
Like he coaches Gary and like Gary's like, he's progressing fast as far as the
striking he's going.
He's only been striking for a year and a half now and he's a, you know, he
looks, he looks comfortable out there.
- He does.
That's shocking that he's only been doing it a year and a half.
- Yeah, a year and a half, two years maybe.
I was surprised.
- But yeah, John's his coach.
John, John, John coaches everything.
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