Name: JRE MMA Show #97 with Henry Cejudo
Uploaded: 2020-06-09T04:00:17.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'JRE MMA Show #97 with Henry Cejudo' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2020-06-09. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'JRE MMA Show #97 with Henry Cejudo' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2020-06-09. Transcript available.

JRE MMA Show #97 with Henry Cejudo

henry sajudo how are you sir i'm doing good good to see you man what does it
feel like
what does it feel like having stepped back you step away you get to look at it
from a fresh
perspective what does this feel like i it feels good man it feels uh i think
the biggest thing
with me joe is there's satisfaction in my life you know what i'm saying i've
done so much in the
sport and i can compare myself a little bit to daniel you know if daniel would
have beat
stipe miochik and he would have retired on top like he you could almost say
retired at the two
division world champ and i don't feel like i have that chip on my shoulder you
know as a wrestler
i retired from the olympics at a very young age you know decided to come back
three years later but
you know what i mean it was it was already done you know i retired at the age
of 21 and then now
i'm not the age of 33 i'm i'm i'm truly calling it quits unless there's there's
a couple fights that
if i do come back i like that word unless i like that word yeah and as you know
and and and a little
bit it's before it was about the money a little bit with the usc and obviously
you know everybody does
have a price but i think there's there's there's a fight that i would really
like in the usc and that
would be against alexander volkanovsky really yeah 45 at 45 if they're to give
me an opportunity to go
up and obviously be compensated then that would be a fight that would really
that would really wake me
up in the morning be like hey man this is this is a challenge this is a whole
new mountain you know a
chance to be a three division world champion a chance to be a three division
world champion as you know a
lot of people have counted me out against dimitris against tj against marlin
maybe it was you too joe and i think
that's what i love about it you can't find any evidence of me counting you out
sir never
so i love that i love challenges since i was a kid i knew i was i knew i was
different i knew i was
special and uh these are the things what is it that you knew like what what
separates you oh my god i
think it's i think it's a couple things if i was to explain it to you like what's
what's made me
successful and and i've seen it you know being at the olympic training center
and as a high school kid
and living out there for four years and that's actually where i met daniel and
i was a 16 year
old kid when i first met these guys and i was able to analyze a lot of the
greats like you know uh
steven abbess daniel core me a lot of the olympic team and uh what i've learned
now at the age of 33 i
learned that there's been two things that have separated me from from the rest
of the pack it's
it's it's two things what i call heart and ability and i was actually able to
tell this story to uh
uh to chachri you know the the father and ceo of one fc and uh you know so it's
two things i call
it heart and ability what is your heart your heart is your passion your will
your desire your determination
your heart is something that you're willing to suffer for in order to obtain
now the next one is
ability you know ability is as a gift that you have since since you know it's a
coordination it's it's
something that you've repped over time where you become a master at it and what
happens a lot of
time it's i always tell people it's good to question one or the other it's good
to question the mind
i'm sorry i'm sorry the heart or or the ability because to be the one percent
of the one percenters
like both these things have to match what happens is a lot of people have heart
but their ability is
like way down here you know their ability doesn't match their heart or their
abilities up here and
they're just a little lazy and can't really put the you know because there is a
separation between
mind and body and your job is to connect them both and i'm going to use an
example uh with marlon
mariah you saw me getting my ass kicked you saw me getting late kicked you know
from the first all
the way to the second round but i knew that i had to connect it and make that
transition that was a
combination of combining the heart and the ability you know so i was able to
kind of so what separated me
i'd say that i think it's being being gifted through the ability and then just
having a a
passion of will that's just second to none there's a lot of other factors
though isn't there there's
like not just ability it's also you have to be coached by someone who really
knows what they're doing
it's there's there's so many guys out there that are really tough and they have
will and they they
work out hard and they're in shape but they just make technical mistakes and
they've never corrected those
those mistakes yeah well i think that also goes back on the ability uh i i
would put that into the
ability portion the reason why is because you got to put yourself in the right
situations like i didn't
start winning until i let go of my coaches the first time i lost to demetrius
johnson it was uh
man i i it was hard and this sounds this is some very crazy and cynical but it
was kind of hard to
blame myself even though i was training because i knew coming from the olympic
sport that i had
a coach that could take me to the top and there was no ifs or what's like i
knew he knew the recipe
and it may was still a fairly news and it's still a fairly new sport so i knew
that i had to find the
professors i knew that i had to find the scientists and all this together in
order for me to become that
perfect storm so that's exactly what we did you know putting putting the
science the recovery of
finding the right coaches listening to my ability understanding my biomechanics
like it was a mixture
of of of all these things that's that's made that separated me from the first
time i fought demetrius
to just being uh just being a legend killer man to being all these guys that
they said that you
know demetrius johnson tj you know marlon mariah's dominant cruise man that's
that's a hell of a list
joe hell of a list you know that's a hell of a list it's one of the reasons why
it bums me out that
you've retired like i have conflicting feelings one i'm happy i'm happy you
retired young and healthy
and you could do anything you want man i really believe a guy who can
accomplish what you accomplished
inside the octagon and also winning an olympic gold medalist you're winning olympic
gold medal in
wrestling at 21 years old retiring from the sport then getting into mma
becoming a two-division world
champion in mma and then stepping away while you're still healthy and at the
peak of your abilities
part of me loves that i love the fact that you did what you wanted to do and
then you step away but
part of me looks back at like say when you fought benavidez or say when you
fought uh demetrius the
first time and then looks at you now like you're a completely different animal
nobody had been able to
shut down domina cruz's footwork game but you came in and just chopped the out
of his legs
just right off the bat you you whatever advantage we thought that he would have
with his footwork and
movement what is was actually becoming a disadvantage because you you were
using that against him you
were you you found the angles and you found the the perfect times to attack his
legs and then you put
him away which is also something no one's ever done before except uriah caught
him in a submission and
finish finished him but no one's ever putting him away put him away the way you
did yeah and i think
it's all about game planning i think people uh you know you i think the ability
that i have too that
separates me too is the fact that i'm watch all my fights man i fight everybody
different like i really
do man there's times where i have to use wrestling as i did with the well the
wilson hayes fight's a
great example you came out like a karate guy yeah i was like holy look at this
you were like wonder boy
sideways stamps like hands down you really fought like a karate guy and then
you when you caught him
with that straight punch and dropped him i was like look at this this is crazy
like you fought a
different style yeah and i think with dominic too just to get back to him it's
in order for you to
understand the uh in order for you to understand the funk like you have to
train for the funk you know
if you don't train for dominic if you think you can just go out there and just
fight or train the way
you train and try to fight dominic you're gonna be missing so throughout my
training camps like i i
treated almost like a wrestler like a boxer like my training camp like i build
a team around me i have
a good i have a a mentor actually who's here dave zoan who's uh you know who's
been helping me to
shape he's a businessman but he's been able to help me to form like you know
obviously the perfect storm
and you know we brought guys in from california that mimic just like dominic
that were just a little
faster than dominic and i knew that i wasn't even trying to touch his face
because i knew that he
was a hard hit but i also knew that he would leave his legs a lot you know you
can you can push your
body backwards but your legs will always be in that same position so the whole
game plan since the
beginning this is why i felt so confident in that fight through training was to
continue just keep
taking his legs out as much as i can did the first round of your fight with marlon
mirai sort of open
your eyes to like how effective that can be in a fight absolutely man we saw it
this weekend yeah we
saw it this weekend everybody you mentioned it actually not and i was i was a
little bummed out
you mentioned it because a lot of people don't see those little details those
cap kicks man you start
to take out that lead leg man and you lose your mobility it's it's insane how
we've had all these
years of mma right 1993 the ufc starts here we are in 2020 but it's really only
been the last two years
or so i give credit to benson henderson because benson henderson was the first
guy to really bring
it to mma yeah but for whatever reason it wasn't as devastating when he was
doing it i don't know if
he was doing it differently but there was no moment in a fight where he kicked
someone's calf and you
saw immediately them buckling but you're seeing that now with these guys like
immediately one two kicks
and their leg is semi-useless yeah you look at somebody like justin gaethje
justin gaethje is
man if people don't catch on to that if khabib don't catch on to that man he's
in trouble and i know
them both he said why like wide out in the open he said when i fight khabib he
goes i'm not even going
to try to kick him in his thighs i'm just going to kick him with that low calf
kick he goes i'm going
to kick him four times he goes after four times he's yeah and he saw that you
watched the fight with
him and etin barbosa and etin barbosa he's a high level striker but what really
broke down etin barbosa
was what justin did to him he started whipping that that that calf kick and
actually right before i
even fought dominic like i went on youtube like this is like maybe an hour
before i went to the arena
and i just put like some justin gaethje highlights just just ruthless man just
really just swinging those
kids with bad intentions almost just to murder you and also the reason why i've
been able to kick and
do things like that because i'm very confident with my takedown defense you
know it's like john jones
john jones is so comfortable with the standard because he knows his ability to
stop tony from
taking him down which is so much higher yeah and i feel that same way so i
become a little more free with
my kicks and punches and things of that matter we saw two guys uh in one of the
weight classes that
you ruled over alex perez and juicy formiga this past weekend and alex perez
stopped him with those
low leg kicks two ufcs in a row we've seen guys get stopped with low leg kicks
it's crazy it's crazy
how prominent that that that technique has become it has it has and i thin