Name: The Mental Toughness of Wrestlers
Uploaded: 2021-01-13T18:25:41.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'The Mental Toughness of Wrestlers' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-01-13. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'The Mental Toughness of Wrestlers' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-01-13. Transcript available.

the Joe Rogan experience we were getting like major athletes like major
athletes
and I remember I interviewed um why Chris Weidman and he was fighting um uh he
wasn't fighting the other guy we are the Anderson Silva no Machida I can't
remember Luke Rockhold it might have been when he was fighting Luke Rockhold I
can't remember um what year this was about 2015 was he the champ he was the
champ so the odds are it's either Vitor Leota Machida or it was Vitor he was
fighting Vitor oh and it was the first time I'd like sat down with like you
know
guys who were trained fighters and the calm it's just like a calm and a peace
that like I was trying to put my finger like what is that calm and then I
realized like if like I'm in I get insecure you know but you know I'm like
got nervousness and a lot of that is because I always in a situation know
there's a probability that I could get fucked up but if I walked around and I
knew that 99.7 percent of the people I could fuck up I'd be calm
well Chris Weidman is calm like I would be calm if I was hanging out with 10
year old
girls and they were trying to tell me how the world works and I'd be like that's
cute let me tell you how the world really works yeah that's like that yeah
especially when he was the champ yeah I mean when he was the champ first of all
when Chris Weidman was coming up and the limitations of Chris Weidman
legitimately
are the limitations of the human body because his body started to break he
started to he had knee problems and neck problems and back problems but the
limitations of his mind were limitless it was there's a lot of these guys like
and a
lot of them are wrestlers because I think wrestlers have the strongest brains
because the strongest minds the strongest determination because that sport is
so
fucking brutal but these great wrestlers who get into fighting like Chris Weidman
and Cain Velasquez was another one the limitations of Cain Velasquez were the
limitations of his body because he started getting shoulder surgery and back
surgery and knee surgery and then it all started falling apart but when he was
at
his peak Chris Weidman was a motherfucker man strong not just but the mind too
it's
not it's not just the body his body was surely strong but his mind was just
unbreakable he would break guys you know and and Cain was the same way Cain was
a
guy who broke guys you break them because I really firmly believe this to this
day
that wrestlers because there's no good I had Jordan Burroughs on the other day
he's a
wrestler right Olympic gold medalist four-time world champion stud of a human
being and when you talk to him you realize like he's just so exceptional in
every way and one of the reasons why he's so exceptional is because wrestling
has no
glory like the people that get into wrestling they do it because it's the
pursuit it's not it's not like a Bentley and a mansion and watches and rings
and all
that bullshit like the the the glory is in victory it's in the pursuit and also
in
victory in the most difficult of circumstances which is like amateur high
level world-class wrestling like those it's so fucking hard so the guys like
Chris
Weidman the guys like Jordan Burroughs the guys like King Velasquez guys who
excel in wrestling they there's a mindset that they have that's it's so
interesting to be around them because they're there because they are that calm
they have that that there's a there's a level that they've reached that very
few
human beings outside of wrestlers ever reach that's fascinating you think that's
changing now because they do have an outlet with MMA which is great like they
can
go pro and become rich and kind of famous some of them but you know like Jordan
Burroughs doesn't have any interest in fighting especially his wife
doesn't want him to fight because he does make good money wrestling just has an
ambassador to wrestling but I don't think I don't think they go fall into the
same pitfalls that a lot of the other fighters fall into you know like a lot of
them they just they get into fame and glory and all that shit and Weidman never
really got into that he was just into smashing people yeah smashing yeah just
smashing people like Khabib I'm gonna smash your boy he's the perfect example
Khabib's the perfect example the guy drives a Toyota yeah okay he's worth
fucking millions of dollars he's the most dominant fighter in any weight class
in
the history of the sport and he is as calm and as humble as can be while also
being incredibly confident yeah yeah and super religious yeah doesn't drink
doesn't smoke doesn't party doesn't do anything is just dedicated to smashing
people I'm gonna smash your boy I'm gonna smash your boy
I'm gonna smash your boy
that's like Samuel Jackson in Pulp Fiction you're like ah fuck it's greater
because it's not fake right and he did it yeah and he did smash him and he you
know
what the best the scariest thing that he ever said he goes I want to change his
face yeah yeah I want to change his face
how much is the mental bad did like Conor when he fought Conor it was like
opposites going against each other like that ultra ultra humility versus that
like you know absolute boastful well like do
you think Conor knew before just no like you think he was gonna win and look he
he won a round with Khabib he won the third round and
that's probably the only round that could be lost in his entire career like
there's an argument that maybe he lost one or two rounds earlier that are real
close
but I mean he's he's 29 and oh you have to understand how insane that is and
then
you have to understand the weight class he's in he's in the 155 pound weight
class
which is arguably the most competitive in the history of the sport right it's
like the arguments are like 45 55 and maybe 70 are the most competitive weight
classes ever and he's the the most dominant guy ever in the most competitive
weight class yeah he's a monster he's a beast man you're in that weight class
and
you know you got to fight him you're like yeah do you think you question
everything about yourself yeah do you think wrestlers on to that level are
have an advantage in MMA like because you just eventually gonna get your hands
on a
guy yeah well that's what he has an advantage in I mean he when he wrestles
guys when he grabs them you could see the look in their face like oh my god
this
is different it's like an anaconda got you just different well look at his
last guy that he fought is Justin Gaethje who's a fucking killer right smashes
Tony Ferguson smashes Edson Barbosa I mean he's a fucking beast and a really
good wrestler too but when Khabib got a hold of him every time just drags him
to
the ground and almost submitted him at the end of the first round and then
submitted him in the second well he said he wanted to submit he didn't want to
hurt him do you think that was true yeah he said like I didn't want to do it
that way because his parents were there well not that's some fucking ill shit
to
say like I'll just wait till next round do it a little softer well they were
friends Justin actually they have the same manager and Justin actually helped
him
cut weight earlier in his career because cutting weight is I don't know if you
ever spent some time in the sauna I have I went I did some shows in Sweden yeah
there's a there's a moment in the sauna that comes around like minute 13 14
especially if it's like a hot minute three for me you start looking around
you like you look at your wash you're like fuck like how do I do this I want to
get out now and you don't you don't get out you stay in and so it's like you
need
support and like a lot of times guys will have guys cut weight with them and
they'll come and sit with you and give you support because like as much as is
Khabib is like his mind is a fucking of a vault of a bank vault I mean his mind
is
impenetrable even a man like him we will use encouragement from other people
and
you support and love and friendship from other people and Justin helped him cut
weight well and I think they were he was they had a bond because of that so
when
he fought Connor he wanted to change his face he wanted to smash your boy with
Gage he's just like I'm gonna beat him and I'm gonna beat him the way I would
beat a friend it's like you're beating up your brother yeah like you go like
you
know I'm gonna hurt you but not you're my brother so it's gonna like I'm gonna
do
it so you can he he went to submissions faster than he has in any other fight
he's ever had god he's that good he's that good he almost caught he fought with
a
broken toe too by the way Wow snapped like he took a they showed an x-ray of
his
toe after the fight he broke his toe in training right and a lot of guys would
have pulled out of that fight if you looked at the fight I watched it
yesterday actually while I was working out he had his toes taped together right
that's it that's the brace right that's the cast right a little piece of tape
connecting his toes when you break your toe that's all you can do right is
really
just tape it up he's a extraordinary human being and it's his mind it's I mean
his body obviously is ridiculous too but his body is ridiculous because of his
mind yeah you
know and he just comes from a place that like you know what a Joe DiMaggio say
like it's rich rich guys can't make the big leagues he comes from a place that
probably like getting in the octagon is like the easiest thing he's done in his
entire life I mean there's videos of him as a kid wrestling
bears I mean it's like you guys you got to get in the ring with him you're
going like how can I
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