Name: JRE MMA Show #100 with Cody Garbrandt
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'JRE MMA Show #100 with Cody Garbrandt' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-02-12. Transcript available.

JRE MMA Show #100 with Cody Garbrandt

Joe Rogan Podcast, check it out.
The Joe Rogan Experience.
Train by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day.
Hello, Cody.
What's going on?
Good to see you, brother.
What's happening, man?
Enjoying Austin.
Yeah.
So you're coming here?
Possibly.
Do people know?
Not yet.
Did I blow the...
Not yet.
They're going to know now.
Did I let people know?
I think so.
I mean, it's probably the move we spoke about earlier.
Yeah.
I've always loved Texas.
Like we spoke earlier, I got signed here to the UFC.
I was on it for so many years.
Came out here during fight camps for a week and kind of just unplugged but
focused on training
and had a good time out here.
It was always a pleasure.
Yeah, it's a beautiful place.
I'm enjoying the shit out of it.
Dude, first of all, congratulations on your comeback.
That, you know, you're a great guy.
And when there's someone I like who loses a bunch of fights in a row and you
get into
this skid, it's hard to watch.
I can't imagine what it was like being you, you know, to have a young child and
to be dealing
with all of this going on.
I mean, it's like losing your time.
But then to come back the way you did against a really fucking tough guy in a
Sun Tau and
get arguably the KO of the year.
I mean, you got to be feeling pretty fucking good.
I feel great.
You know, back from the brink.
Back from the brinks.
I mean, that time in my life, that time frame period and going through that,
you know, from
on top of the world, world champion to three fight skid.
Honestly, it feels like a lifetime ago.
I feel like I'm just a different person where I was at from there, you know,
removed.
And the thing is, I'm just doing differently, thinking differently, you know,
how I was able
to approach the game, picking myself back up time and time again.
I mean, it's internet is a horrible place to get get knocked out on, you know.
You got the trolls, this and that, you know, it's, but besides that point, you
know, just
coming back to that and having a love for it.
A lot of the times I got to the fight and not to make excuses, I was just, I
didn't feel
myself.
I didn't feel like, and the training and leading up, I felt physically, I'm
always ready to
fight, like flip the switch.
I'm always physically ready to fight.
I think mentally going into those fights, I was just out of body.
I wasn't, I felt like I was going through the motions.
You know, my passion wasn't there.
I wasn't waking up every day, like, what's your reason why?
I mean, I was just trying to find that.
And I think the reason why I had so many people infiltrated in how I should
train or how I
should live or what I should do to get back there.
And really it wasn't nothing that I needed to learn new.
I didn't have to reinvent the wheel.
It was just doing the slight edge theory, like getting out of your comfort zone.
Like you're doing your sauna sessions, like you're pushing yourself to go in
there and
just be uncomfortable.
You know, so I had to go out there and with that comeback, you know, I moved to
Jersey,
the training camp out there.
I split time between.
Yeah, I want to talk to you about that.
I'm a big fan of Henry.
Mark Henry's a bad motherfucker.
He's great.
I love, I enjoy him so much.
His passion for it, his love for it.
He's so interesting too.
His crazy codes and the fact that the dude makes pizza on the side.
Dude, I was so nervous going out there because I heard of the codes and, and
like, you
know, I was with Lance, so Lance kind of gave me a little insight on it, on
everything.
I'm like, damn codes.
And I just fight, dude.
Like, I don't have really said things.
I kind of go off of my instincts and, and game plans.
And he was trying to, you know, brief me on it.
When I got to the first two weeks, holy shit, we go down to his basement and he
has like
pizza scrolls from the pizzeria where we have off about 50 things that we're
working
on, um, before camp.
So what does he write them on boxes, pizza boxes, pizza scrolls, like the, just,
uh,
basically white paper.
Oh, down and it's tapes it there to the wall.
You have like Corey's fight camp.
You have, you know, Frankie's and all these codes and have, you know, he's
working with
14 fighters at one time.
He knows all the codes and all different kinds of fights too.
Like he's got a beat there.
He's got Frankie.
It's like all these different styles.
Yeah.
Different styles.
And we'll kind of, you know, what I like about that is he'll try things that
his beat
does, he does these crazy double jump scissor kicks and spinning, you know, the
Russians
are really good at spinning shit, you know?
So we threw that into the, into the game and it's, it's, you know, it was nice
to get that
kind of stuff that Frankie's done and had success over the years.
Um, so we meshed that together.
Um, he got to know me really well.
Uh, we worked, you know, extensively with Ricardo Almeida up there as well.
Um, but yeah, coach Henry is just, uh, there's nothing, he's obsessed with
winning,
but what I loved about him was the first thing that he said to me.
Um, was that his job is he's competitive.
If he wants to win at all costs, but his job is to get us back to our family.
And, um, I watched your podcast with, uh, Andre Ward and he said the same thing
about his
trainer.
And I, once he said that to me and I have a child now, my whole thought process
is, has
changed, you know, a transition.
And they're like, I want to be able to be around for my son's life.
I want to have, you know, um, speak to my grandchildren.
I'm not drooling, you know, that's what coach Mark.
I want you drool when you're, you know, you're 50, 60 years old.
And, and I kind of, the style that I fight, I can punch and move.
I don't have to brawl with these guys, you know, and, um, just reiterating the
defensive
part of the technical offensive part with him is I could go in there and hit a
six, seven
punch combo.
Dude, he would, he would care less.
He's like, what did you do after you moved after your head was off?
Your hands was up.
Like he's all about defense and, you know, I think he just helped me out a lot
with saying
that, like getting me home to my family safe, like that's what I want to do.
It's such an important approach to be defensively sound.
And, and yet there's so many fighters who don't think like that at all.
They just think about offense.
And if you, you know, it's, it's really like in jujitsu, like Hicks and Gracie
had a, I had
a conversation with him once about jujitsu and one of the things that he said
is that
the most important thing is defense.
He said, because I'm always safe.
This is what he said.
He goes, I'm always safe.
And he goes in every position, I'm always safe.
Like he lets guys on his back with a fully locked in rear naked choke and he'll
start
rolling like that.
He he's always safe.
So he never, and that's interesting.
Also, I read that about the Donaher death squad, John Donaher's guys, like, you
know,
Gordon Ryan and all those guys, they'll start in really bad positions.
All the time.
They train constantly in bad positions.
So they're always defensively sound.
And that makes sense with striking as well.
So many guys are so concerned with offense and, you know, you've had so many
spectacular
knockouts like the Thomas Almeida fight that it's just like, you probably just
want to
blast guys.
True.
I get, I got to like pull the reins back sometimes.
I'm like, dude, I'm so amped up.
Just get in there and get the fight, you know, like forget the walkout, forget
the, you
know, I'm going to, I want to get the first blow.
I want to get that exchange.
And then that's when the fight unravels.
Sometimes I think I get so amped up that, you know, taking it back, you know,
doing that
kind of having defensively sound, it sets up your offense.
Yeah.
And my uncle was training me my whole entire life.
And this is what he said.
Your offense sets up your defense and vice versa.
But okay.
Like my offense was so good.
And then you get to this point where you, people are breaking down your footages
and
your films and, you know, your speed and power, you know, you have to have that.
You have to be defensively sound.
If you're so offensive, I'm a forward fighter.
I can fight going back.
A lot of fighters can't go.
I can feel like I'm going to fight positional.
And like you said about Dan and his guys, Chris Holdsworth has adapted into a
phenomenal
coach.
You know, he's my right-hand guy from martial arts to the T. And he makes us
start in horrible
positions like that when we're dog dead tired and then get up and we're shadow
sparring
each other.
And then going back to the ground, like really fight simulated things to where
you're feeling
uncomfortable in those positions.
Like, yeah, I can go in there and knee wrestle all day during jujitsu.
I didn't get tapped out.
I didn't tap anybody, but I was safe.
But I didn't put myself in those positions when the fight really happens.
You have to see how, you know, you're great.
You got to be able to fight off the hands, fight off the body, try and go fight
all those
bad positions.
So you're comfortable with whatever the fight goes.
And I feel like that's where I'm at now.
I've transitioned into that fighter.
I was so green when I got to alpha male and a lot of my speed and power catapulted
me
to the top where I have to kind of draw back a little bit and do the correctional
errors.
Not reinvent things, not do things, but the defensive part of things.
Like, you know, I was up in training in Jersey and I knew I had the good head
slips and movements.
But some of the slips coach was watching me, I would get caught on the, you
know, at the
first or second, I usually would get hit with a fourth punch, you know, like a
combo
puncher.
So I would slip, slip, and then I would slip down this way and I would get hit
with the jab.
I'm like, hi, every time, he's like, dude, just bring your hand up a little bit
when you're
slipping to the right and moving to the right.
And I, you know, he's like, how do you feel after sport?
I'm like, dude, I feel great.
I don't have a headache.
I'm not getting my ass kicked.
Like, I'm not getting hit really.
Like, my defense has gotten so solid working with them and just constantly.
And Chris is the same way.
My coaches out in alpha male are the same with hands up, hands up, hands up.
But I was just, at that point in my life, I was just so aggressive and angry.
And just, we had so much success attacking that way too.
At doing that.
But this last fight, I was honestly, Joe, when I was, you know, doing those feints
on a sun sound,
and Coach Henry said, hey, don't feel like these feints aren't going to work.
Like, he's defensively sound.
He's a great fighter at that respect.
Keep doing these feints.
They will work.
I'm feinting this guy, dude.
I'm feinting.
I'm feinting.
He's not really biting.
He's not really coming in.
But I kept on the feints, and we ended up, you know, I started catching him
with some shots that I saw,
and his eyes were hurting him.
And then feinting, did the Tyson two, overhand right, dropped him.
And I knew once I had that range and the power and speed and his timing that he
would come in with something.
So, you know, go back to him.
The KO, the way you did it where you dropped your hands and looked to the side
and waited for him to move.
Oh, my God.
That was, like, one of the best walk-off KOs ever.
I felt great because the first round, I kind of had myself to the cage.
And Coach, man, he'd probably kick my ass being on the cage, like, get off the
cage.
Get to the, you know, movement more.
We're movement fighters.
You know, he made me.
And I know my back was in this cage, but I saw, and the round was ending, but I
saw a sunset.
I was like, oh, here's my opening.
I saw that in the first round.
And the second round, I was staying off.
I was moving.
I was speaking.
I was switching, you know, stances.
But towards the end of that, I heard the clapper.
So I'm like, all right, I'm back in swell.
Let him come in.
I kind of leaned 