Name: JRE MMA Show #108 with Stephen Thompson
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'JRE MMA Show #108 with Stephen Thompson' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-04-22. Transcript available.

JRE MMA Show #108 with Stephen Thompson

Joe Rogan podcast check it out the Joe Rogan experience during my day Joe Rogan
podcast by
night all day wonder boy in the house ladies and gentlemen what's up brother
what's going on man
glad you're coming in thank you man appreciate you having me glad to be on with
you long time
coming should have had you in a long time ago but I know you know schedules
time things we had
planned on it like last summer or something like that it was one of those
things but then obviously
the COVID the COVID the vid yeah but dude you're still rocking at the top of
the food chain it's
amazing I'm saying I'm people people will say I'm too old I'm 38 well look at
your victory over
Vicente Luque and then look what Luque just did to Tyron Woodley you're still
at the top of the
fucking food chain because that was real recently that you beat him yeah it was
I mean it was what
a year was two years ago mm-hmm two years ago I beat Vicente but uh yeah man
people saying I'm I'm
I'm too old and I guess once you get knocked out one time you just they throw
you to the side
that's people that don't understand the human chin it's just like it's just it's
just a fact you can
hit with the perfect shot there's what even hard it wasn't even hard you know I've
been hit harder
Tyron hit me harder Jake Ellenberger hit me harder this was just right on the
button it's crazy isn't it
to be honest with you it was like it was like a relief being knocked out I mean
I've got close
to 80 something fights with kickboxing MMA together and I've never been knocked
out and it was always
one of those that you know Lee going into a fight this is going to be it this
is this is going to be
the time I get knocked out this is always going through my head and now that it
happened it's not
that bad it's really not that bad I would rather get knocked out than get just
the crap beat out of
me for five five minute rounds have you ever been knocked out in training no so
that was the only time
ever in your whole career you've been knocked out and it was a wild punch too
the fact that he caught
you with a Superman punch I know man the memes after that were hilarious I don't
know if you saw it but
it was funny you gotta think though you've dished it out so many times I know
you know through your
kickboxing career and MMA I mean there's so many times you flatline people and
then yeah I get I get
knocked out by a guy in a lighter weight class my dad my family is pretty rough
they don't they they bring it up as
as much as they can I was in the hospital that night and my dad's doing it like
a face book live thing
because you know we had a bunch of pants bunch of you know karate karate
families and karate kids
there we pretty much sold out that arena Greenville South Carolina where I mean
everybody was there to watch me fight and then I get crushed I get knocked out
and
then you know everybody's want to know how I am so I did it like it was
probably 2 a.m did a
Facebook live and my dad's just eating me alive eat me alive yeah I got knocked
out he's like yeah
by a smaller guy too and he's just let me have it but that's how he is it is
what it is yep you
know you you took it really well in terms of like the way you reacted in social
media and the way you
reacted and you were asked about it you know showed poise thank you I mean what
can you do I mean you
can't just sit there and cry about it no you know yeah it bothered me for a
while that you know
why did I not see it coming I normally see this stuff coming do you think you
were relaxed when
he hit you is that what it was I think it was definitely a distance thing
because when I when
I had psychic I watched it over and over and over again I don't remember any of
the second round I
don't remember any of it all I remember is getting up off the stool looking
across the the cage and I
seen his bloody nose he's banged up and I'm like all right time be time to pick
it up I'm gonna finish
him this round this was going through my head that's all I remember and I got
knocked out five seconds
left in the second round wow I don't remember anything I don't remember sitting
up talking to
him in the cage the people say I was like high-fiving people as I was walking
by all I remember is like
these sparkles kind of fade away and I see Chris Weidman's face right there he's
laughing at me he's
like smiling at me and he said if you ask me that again I want to slap you I
guess I asked him the
same question I kept saying you know what happened how'd I get knocked out I
got knocked out just kept
saying that's what people do when they get knocked out they they ask the same
question what happened over and
over again it was such a weird thing and then you know not remembering any of
that and then just being
in the back it's like I got teleported there I was fighting and then I was
there and I remember him
helping me trying to answer the doctor's questions yeah like you know what day
it is I'm like Chris like
Steven come on you know what day it is he's like trying to help me how answer
these questions but uh that's
all I remember man is is that but uh it's it was a relief like I have nothing
what else I mean that's
like the worst thing that can happen why why do you feel like it's a relief
well you know it was such a
worry you know I've knocked out people I've seen how they are you know getting
up off the canvas and
the the you know what is done to people psychologically getting knocked out and
that's always been kind of
like how would I handle that you know how would I handle that how would how
would you see people get
knocked out and they they try and come back maybe as soon as possible which is
not a good thing they
should terrible thing yeah they should give their time you know time for their
body to heal up but um
you know I've seen people do that it was always a worry for me how would I
handle that yeah I always
get concerned when I see someone who gets knocked out they want to get right
back in there and like
oh you're asking for trouble because you might feel fine but you probably are a
little loose
yeah it's funny you said that because they UFC wanted me a fight wanted me to
fight two months
later in my hometown wow and after the day after was going to get some
breakfast with some with some
friends um still in Knoxville with the fam and I get a call from um Dana I
think was Hunter hey man you
still want to fight in Greenville South Carolina of course the athlete and
myself said yes like I
wanted to jump back in there and yeah but then you know reality kicked in and
you know I look over at
my pops and he's like that he I think he already know who it was he said that
he just shook his head
who was it that you were supposed to um I don't think we had anybody the UFC
should have made it
Anthony Pettis mm-hmm it was only like two months later I should have been
Anthony Pettis in my hometown
but um and I didn't find out that the UFC was in Greenville I found that out
watching some fights
like uh so you saying the UFC should have made a rematch with Anthony Pettis or
you should have
had that should have been when you fought Pettis yes was in your hometown yes
we would have sold that
out yeah my first MMA fight was in the arena the UFC was at um the Bancicor
Wellness Arena and it was
standing room only what organization was that for it was a it was a uh
promotion called fight party
and a lot of UFC fighters came up OSP was on my first card it was crazy OSP was
fighting um I think
who else was on that card uh both uh Lima brothers were on that card and it was
my very first MMA fight
in my hometown and the main event I think it was OSP was main event but his
fighter ended up not making
weight or something that didn't happen so they pushed me to to the main event
main event what year was
this this was 2010 wow 2010 and I was like what I had no wrestling no I mean
blue belt
barely blue belt probably in jiu-jitsu and I'm like all right and I'm fighting
a wrestler
and I'm knocking him out in the second round and I almost threw up all in the
ring that would have
been twice that would have happened to me twice because I had no idea how to
cut weight I hadn't been
170 since 11th grade in high school what were you weighing when you were kickboxing
uh I would
actually fight up and wait I would weigh in with keys in my pocket weights in
my pocket I fought at
185 fought at 195 I fought for the world combat league I would fight up in that
but nobody's
grabbing a hold of you there so yeah you really didn't have to worry about the
weight and I was
a lot faster than the guys that were you know heavier than me so um that was a
that was a crazy
experience that world combat league was an interesting situation it was wild
right yeah I I went to one
of them uh which one I'm trying to remember I think it was in Atlantic City I'm
trying to remember
where it was at I might have been on that card you might have been on that card
I think I fought a guy
named Carlos Tierney Carlos Tierney I'm not I don't remember if you were on
that card not I definitely
watched you fight on in those events but I watched you a lot when Feras Ahabi
was talking well about
you I was like let me check this dude out and then I saw some of your kickboxing
fights and I saw you in
the world combat league I was like oh shit you you uh when you got into the UFC
I got really excited
because you represented a style that I had been talking about for a while
because everybody was
like you know for striking it was Muay Thai for submissions it was jujitsu and
then there was
wrestling like that's like kind of everybody had this idea of like what was
effective and what wasn't
and I was like man I'm telling you if you if you find a guy who really
understands karate
who has that sideways stance and a really good front leg he's gonna fuck a lot
of people up and
they're not gonna know what to do with it and a lot of people like dismissed me
they're like what
are you talking about they thought it was just that I was reminiscing about my
traditional martial
arts days and I was like no I'm telling you man dudes with a good front leg
like that's a totally
different animal to get in on when a guy has that sideways stance and then when
you are fighting
like with your hands down and no one knew what to do and you lean back like a
snake when guys are
punching you go forward I'm like that's a totally different style and it's a
fucking really sneaky
one it's hard to handle it is definitely a a very difficult style to prepare
for as well yeah well
try finding I know and you got like you Raymond Daniels there's like a couple
guys out there
they can emulate that style and it I think it was because I remember in the
early US especially
when Lyoto Machida was coming in he's a traditional to a Kyokushin is it Kyokushin
style I think so
Shotokan I think it was Shotokan I think it was Shotokan okay I know I know GSP
was Shotokan as well
that was kind of his background let's find out what is a Lyoto Machida's
original karate style
I want to say it's Shotokan his dad was straight Japanese right he married his
mom who's Brazilian
yes so um and people think didn't think karate worked karate was just a frou-frou
style McDojo style
um you know not geared toward real applications you know yeah and in the early
UFC's it was looked
down upon the karate style I guess because I don't know if karate kid you know
I think that era the 80s
you know a lot of people saw that karate can make them a lot of money and so
they were opening up
those McDojo schools left and right same with Taekwondo same with Kung Fu there's
a lot of
traditional martial arts that did have some real life applications and they got
severely watered down
yeah because people didn't want to lose a lot of students so they didn't want
to make it really
difficult for you to advance and to move up and even Shotokan Shotokan yeah I
didn't even notice that
13 this right here that's ridiculous wow I love this I need one of you there's
only one I know I n