Name: JRE MMA Show #105 with Derrick Lewis
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Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'JRE MMA Show #105 with Derrick Lewis' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-03-12. Transcript available. Joe is joined by UFC Heavyweight Derrick Lewis.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'JRE MMA Show #105 with Derrick Lewis' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-03-12. Transcript available. Joe is joined by UFC Heavyweight Derrick Lewis.

JRE MMA Show #105 with Derrick Lewis

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The Joe Rogan Experience.
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All right, Mr. Lou, what's up?
What's up?
Thanks for being here.
Thanks for finally having me.
My pleasure, dude.
Yeah, we talked about it a couple times.
Yeah.
My balls was hot, one was the famous one.
I don't remember that one.
So how's things, man?
Things have been crazy.
It's been real crazy.
I can only imagine.
Yeah.
After that knockout of Curtis Blades, like, whew, I mean, that got a lot of
attention.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
And it felt real good to knock him out because he was talking a lot of trash
before the fight.
Isn't that, like, par for the course, though?
Everybody talks shit before the fight.
Even whenever I'm doing good, though.
He's been talking at least three years now.
He's been talking mess to me.
Really?
Yeah.
Do you take that shit personally?
I do because I'm not in there trying to sell tickets.
Don't just come to me, try to sell tickets to talk trash.
You know, I take everything personal.
Yeah, some guys do just try to sell tickets.
And then they'll say it's not personal.
It's just, like, when Khabib Nurmagomedov was fucking up Conor, when he was on
top of
him, pounding on him, going, let's talk now.
Let's talk now.
Remember that?
Yeah, yeah.
And he goes, it's just business.
You know, it's like, this is not business.
No.
No.
I go into every fight, like, life or death.
And I enter a deep, dark place every time I step inside the octagon.
So it's not business for me.
What was interesting is after the fight, I mean, it was just such a spectacular
knockout.
But after the fight, you were so nonchalant.
You were just so relaxed.
And you're like, I couldn't get started in there.
And everybody's like, what the fuck are you talking about?
You couldn't get started.
You just, it was one of the most spectacular knockouts in the history of the
heavyweight
division.
And you're like, ah, I couldn't get started.
Yeah.
So I went back home and got my blood and everything tested.
And my T levels was, like, in the 300s.
So I had very low T.
So it's like.
You mean testosterone?
Yes.
You?
Mm-hmm.
Have low testosterone?
Yes.
That's ridiculous.
Yeah.
I would never, if I was going to make a bet.
It's so, like, I try to spend all my energy on my wife.
So it's kind of hard because if I don't have the energy for her, then she'll
think I'm
out there messing around and stuff like that.
So.
Do they know why your testosterone was low?
Um.
Maybe you overtrained or something?
No, I don't.
We don't know yet.
So I want to go to another doctor that the lady was just telling me about.
Oh, wow.
Yeah.
That's crazy.
So that's why you felt lethargic.
Yes.
Yes.
It was like that all week.
So I, at first I was, I thought it was the jet lag or something like that, but,
and it
ended up just meeting my T levels.
That was like one of the most perfectly timed uppercuts I've ever seen.
It was perfect.
Yeah.
We practiced that for the last few months.
So that was the game plan when he shoots to catch him coming in?
Yes.
Either the knee or the uppercut.
Um.
We knew he was going to be there.
We knew he was going to try to play the game, try to stand up for a little bit.
Then the way he shoots, he don't really shoot like, um, a real wrestler.
He shoots like from the hip down and come in like that.
He doesn't bend the knee and try to come in.
Hmm.
That's interesting.
So he goes, he hinges, he goes forward.
Yes.
Why do you think he does that?
Um.
I don't know.
I don't know.
You know, it's usually the wrestler, they drop a knee, then shoots.
Yeah.
But he just bend down and I'm guessing he was just trying to grab my leg to
pick it up or
something like that.
I don't know.
So how did you get involved in fighting?
What was your first experiences?
First experience was like, because everyone knew I loved fighting in the
streets, like every
weekend at parties and stuff like that.
And so one of my friends that told me, um, about MMA and I was like, I didn't
really know
anything about MMA at the time.
And he told me to watch videos.
It's like 10 years ago.
Did you have any martial arts training at all?
No, I don't.
I, I still don't have any martial arts training.
That's ridiculous.
Of course you do.
You're a professional martial artist.
I'm watching YouTube videos now.
So I'm learning some stuff now.
Really?
Yeah.
You're not, you're not fucking around?
Like really?
You learn from YouTube videos?
I learn, I learn from my coach as well, but I watch YouTube videos and stuff
like that
too.
So 10 years ago, you had no martial arts training at all?
No martial arts training.
And where did you first start training?
I just started training at a gym called Silverback MMA.
And so this was 10 years ago, you just decided to learn.
Were you thinking about being a professional?
Were you just doing it for fun?
Um, they say that back then I thought like 500, 500 was pretty good money, you
know?
So they were saying that you can get paid, um, $500, um, just three rounds or
three minutes.
I said, just three minutes?
I didn't think three minutes was a long time until I got in there.
It's like, damn.
Okay.
And so we just started training from there though.
And I fell in love with it.
So to me, it's almost like street fighting.
So it's like, yeah, I could do that.
Well, one of the things that's changed about you over the years is your
endurance.
Your endurance is, it came up in a big way.
Like you can see in the Gabriel Gonzaga fight.
You can see in a lot of your fights.
It's like, you can, you can put pressure on people now and, and you have a lot
of high
volume with, which in the beginning of your career, I think you had a harder
time with.
Oh yeah.
And so that's really what we focus on now at, um, Main Street Boxing Gym is my,
um, conditioning
and my endurance and stuff like that.
Cause we feel like that's the only weakness, um, in my game right now.
Yeah.
But it's like, you're so big.
I don't even know if it's a weakness.
I think it's just part of being a giant person, you know?
Yeah.
Yeah.
But the Travis Brown fight's another example.
Like that was a crazy fast paced fight, but you, you know, you overwhelmed him.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Um, I love that fight too.
Before the, this, this past fight with Kurt, that was one of my favorite.
And that, that week going into the Travis Brown fight, I took some laxatives,
um, just trying
to help me cut some weight.
But, you know, I took it that Wednesday and he was still lingering around.
So it's like, man, he kicked me in my body, but he also broke my ribs, but I
also did have
to take a shit.
So I wasn't lying about that.
So, yeah.
That was a ridiculous interview though.
Yeah.
That fight was, uh, that was, that was a heavy duty fight.
So there's a lot of bad blood in that fight too, right?
Yes.
And ever since then, like whenever I do my, um, you know, how they come in a
few days before
the commentators try to talk to you.
And ever since then, I stopped telling the guys what's my game plan and stuff
like that.
Cause I didn't know him and Brian staying at the time was friends.
And so our game plan was to come in and try to, um, like kick his legs because
he used to
stand real wide.
But whenever me and him fought, he didn't stand like that at all.
Like not one time.
So you think Brian Stan went to him and told him?
I believe so.
I believe so.
Oh, Brian.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's kind of dirty.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So, and he didn't tell you his strategy.
No, he didn't.
Damn.
Brian Stan.
So I'm just believe that's, that was the case because he didn't do that at all.
And I watched previous fights of, um, Travis and he always used to have that
wide stance
and he didn't do that at all for my fight.
That's interesting.
Um, do you watch a lot of tape on fights?
Who?
Do you watch tape on fighters when you're going to face them?
I used to, like early in my career, I used to, but then I stopped because they
fight
me different.
Like if I'm watching tape on a wrestler, then by the time me and him fight, it's,
he's
going to try to stand up with me.
It's just like whenever I fought big country, um, I thought he was going to
stand up the
whole fight and he just tried to take down, take down.
But don't most dudes try to take you down?
I mean, you have some pretty ridiculous punching power.
I think a lot of guys, if, if the option presents itself, they're going to try
to take
you down, right?
Yeah, I guess so.
But I prefer that anyways.
Um, I, that's where I, I, I started to breed and catch myself and my drilling
be pumping
too high.
Like, um, I fought growing pots and my drilling was out of, out of this world.
And so I told my coach, if that happens, like in the fight with him, then I'm
going to need
him in the nuts on purpose.
And so.
I don't think you should say that.
Cut that out.
Cut that part out.
You can't say that, man.
No, my drilling was just crazy.
I just needed to calm down.
So it was like beginning of the fight.
And so I did it on purpose and.
Oh no.
No.
I knew I was going to get a warning.
So I was like, okay, I'm calm down now.
So, all right, we can go in there.
Yeah.
That's an interesting strategy.
Yeah.
Do you, so what, what makes you, what makes you get more amped up for some
fights than others?
Um, what's getting me amped up is, um, if I'm looking at something that I want
to buy, um,
after the fight.
And so I'm like, okay.
So you get excited?
Yeah.
I get excited for that.
You start counting your win bonus?
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
I'm already counting my win bonus before I even get it.
So I'm like.
Like, give me an example of something that would, that you would want to buy
that gets you excited.
Um, we had wanted to buy some property in Colorado, um, a few years ago.
And so I was like, man, if I could get this knockout right here, that we could
buy cash.
And so that right there, it gets me excited to do stuff like that.
Like, there's no more cars.
I got all the cars.
I'm like, that don't excites me anymore.
I used to, but like stuff like that.
What are you going to do in Colorado?
Are you going to get like a vacation spot?
Yes.
We got, um, got like 80 acres.
Oh, nice.
Nice.
Where at?
In St. Louis.
Where's that at?
It's like south of Colorado Springs.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
It's like two hours away from New Mexico.
Oh, all right.
I fucking love Colorado.
Yeah.
It's so beautiful out there.
Beautiful.
So peaceful too, right?
Especially at night.
It's, I didn't, those, that many stars at night, it's like, it don't even seem
real.
I know.
It's crazy.
It's so quiet out there.
It lets you know that, you know, we really are in space.
You look up like that.
Yeah.
Especially if you're high, right?
Man, that's a different story right there.
So for a guy like you, I'd imagine like you need some serious downtime.
Because like the chaos of being a professional fighter at the highest level in
the heavyweight division, like there's a lot of pressure and stress.
Oh, yeah.
That's why I don't watch fights.
You know, whenever I watch fights, I catch myself starting to sweat or like
holding my breath.
So like this past weekend and I was watching one of the guys fighting, I was
sitting next to my wife and she noticed that I just started breathing heavy out
of nowhere because I'm already daydreaming about, okay, if I was in that
situation, this is what I would do.
And so like, that's why I don't watch fights because it's still stressful.
Yeah.
So there was a rare thing, you watching the fight Saturday night?
Um, just wearing how that one guy that's fighting like Khabib and I was like.
Oh, Islam Makachev?
Yes.
And I was like wondering like if a guy would hold me down like that, like the
whole fight wouldn't be able to do anything.
What would I do?
That dude's a bad motherfucker.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Islam's, he's, he's for real.
That, that grappling is serious.
Because that kid, Drew Dober, is very good.
For him to handle Drew Dober that way, I was super impressed.
What did you think of that main event, Blachowicz and Stylebender?
You know, I was going fo