Name: JRE MMA Show #93 with Alexander Volkanovski
Uploaded: 2020-03-11T19:00:12.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'JRE MMA Show #93 with Alexander Volkanovski' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2020-03-11. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'JRE MMA Show #93 with Alexander Volkanovski' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2020-03-11. Transcript available.

JRE MMA Show #93 with Alexander Volkanovski

love no okay no here we go three two one the champ is here how are you sir i'm
good i'm good
how are you uh sucker up about a bit closer yeah like a fist from your face all
right is that good
good to see you brother what's happening oh not for much mate not for much just
has it settled in
that you're the champ uh yeah does it still feel real or is it yeah yeah it's
it's settled in you
know what i mean like it's weird it's a hard to explain like i'm the type of
person that you know
as soon as i'm home i'm daddy i'm the regular bloke that everyone knew me 10
years ago but at the
same time obviously you got you know the the media obligations and everything
needs to be done
so it's uh you know it is different you're going to get recognized a little bit
more on the street but
what is it like in australia now do people get excited to see you now yeah yeah
australia you
know obviously that's where i'm from so that's a you know the supports are big
especially where
i'm locally like you know every time i fight literally out there you know our
city like stops
you know just to watch the what's the city uh woolen gong the gong say it again
woolen gong woolen gong
the gong the gong where we call it the gong just south of sydney oh okay so you're
close so you go
to sydney when you want to get crazy uh yeah yeah yeah you know not really uh i
don't i don't do too
much uh partying and that except for uh a couple of days ago when we were in vegas
so vegas got me
got me good did it get you after is he won got me before and after so so yeah i
mean i'm on real
struggle street but we're good well we'll get you some water we got water here
we need electrolytes
oh yeah we got some uh bring in some of those um liquid ivs just bring the
whole box of it in there
oh okay yeah liquid iv is great have you ever tried that it's good it's real
good all right it's uh
it hydrates you twice as fast as regular water alone it actually tastes good
salt electrolytes all kind of
shit in it all right and we got this uh coffee turmeric coffee yeah the laird
hamilton superfood coffee
yeah i'm addicted to these little uh i'm addicted to the coffee but i'm
addicted to these all right
here we go look at that rip one of them bad boys okay chuck it in your water
well yeah well now we're
got to do that i guess so you know i mean there's becoming the champ and then
there's becoming the
champ the way you did because you beat the consensus greatest featherweight of
all time in his prime you know
yeah that's a that's a big deal my friend yeah exactly right you know it's it
was huge you know
huge for me obviously i love being the underdog as well you know i have been in
my last three fights
and you know i love sort of proving that the doubt is wrong you know what i
mean and then obviously
again to beat him like i did as well to you know out fight him you know outstrike
him and and stuff
like that again he's a great champion nothing but respect to him but for me to
go out there and
and do it like that you know that's something i'm very proud of oh you should
be you should be
proud of your whole run man i mean you haven't been in the ufc that long yeah
it was you know i mean
how many years you've been in there now less than two i think it's uh two and a
bit or two to three
oh is it okay yeah yeah closer for a year but it feels like well since the chad
mendez fight that's
when people started really paying attention that's where yeah things went quick
that's when people were
like holy well before that i wasn't even ranked right and that's why i wanted
that oh no no i think i was
ranked 10th maybe sorry so that's why i wanted that fight you know i knew i
knew if i took him on
that'll get me straight to you know fifth rank and then that's why i wanted to
call out you know aldo
after that because i knew that would put me in a position where i could you
know fight for a title
yeah shoot for them ranks as i always said what is going on at city kickboxing
you need to tell me man
yeah well that's another thing that a lot of people uh don't realize i'm
actually based in wollongong like
it right yeah but i go there for my camp right so i go there a lot and man it's
just one in new
zealand or do you guys have one in australia no no no we go to new zealand so
how far is that flight
uh about two hours two and a half hours yeah what made you decide to make that
trip well i've known the
guys for a long time you know eugene uh easy even and brad riddell brad riddell
was actually when i was
in thailand uh you know tiger muay thai yeah i do a bit of training out there
and uh he was a striking
coach for a while so i was working with him a fair bit and uh you know that's
when they bring eugene
and uh israel and that's when i started like you know got to know them and
stuff like that and just
ever since then we've we've always uh you know sort of got along and now we're
just you know we're a
part of a part of team me and joe lopez is my head coach but we go there to you
know to city kickboxing
and train with the boys or every camp we'll go there you know we'll go there
you know a couple of
times each camp so i'll do like two three weeks get back to the family and
train and then go back
there again for the last couple of weeks and then i head head to my fight
usually and where do you
train when you're home i train a freestyle fighting gym so that's uh locally
where i am that's where
i first my first day ever in the gym was at that gym so that's still where i am
today that's awesome
what made you need to make a shift though you need a higher level of
competition to train with well yeah
that's always going to be a big part you know again it's not a massive right
where i am you know what
i mean we've got some some people but it's just you know we're starting to get
a team in that now but
that competitive sort of training partners is is a big deal and my coach has
always you know joe's
always been a strong believer of you know training with so many different
levels of you know styles
you know everything you know that's a great coach a great coach that's not
worried about you going to
another camp and training is a great coach exactly right so and it works you
know like no surprises
come fight time because i've seen so many different body types so many styles
you know i put myself in
that position every time like you know what i mean like every every fight camp
i'm doing as many
different bodies as i can yeah just so uh you know there's no surprises come
fight time is that your
phone yeah it was my phone no worries so um when did you start training what
year did you start
i started uh i've been doing it for about yeah not even 10 years nine years so
i actually started uh mma
training as just to keep to keep fit while i was playing rugby league so i was
uh you know that was
when i was 214 pounds so that's something that uh obviously uh when we're when
you when i'm fighting
and you say 240 and it'll slow you're getting up it's your your language you
guys have that australian
language yeah things different yeah 14 yeah sounds like 240. yeah exactly what
it's out 214. that makes
more sense yeah but still it's ridiculous amount of weight 100 you know i'm
five foot six on a good
day you know i mean give me a good stretch out do some yoga sessions i might
make five five foot six
but you know what i mean it's just uh yeah i was a you know a lot bigger and i
wanted to stay fit in
between yeah in in between uh like sort of the season pre-season so that's why
i went and started and
just loved it ever since so that was about yeah again nine years ago so and how
old are you now uh
31. look at you there look at you you gorilla oh yeah there you go see look at
the size of you jesus
christ you're 31. look at that head so you were you know early early 20s and no
martial arts training
at all before that um i wrestled so i wrestled uh before i even done rugby
league i wrestled for about
probably a year i can't even remember it was you know honestly i was i've done
it for about a year
and uh you know i've done pretty good it was something that i was actually
pretty good at but
you know i wanted to play football with my mates and i got over wearing the
tights you know wrestling
and stuff like that so uh you know it was just something that yeah i ended up
just playing football
with a mate so i sort of gave it up and i was actually pretty good at it so we
won the when the
nationals like you know obviously it's the wrestling's not as big in australia
as it is over here but
you know i still won like the australian championship twice and stuff like that
but then i just
i just gave it up and started playing football yeah so that's crazy so you won
the australian
nationals twice yes wow yeah so that was uh yeah they'd have them every year
and you'd only been
training for a year you've only done it for a year yeah honestly i remember we
used to have a games
night we called us at a pc yc police boys club it's just a local club usually
they'll have like games
nights and they had wrestling there and uh i just went there one time and the
you know the trainer was
just like oh you should come and do training because i was doing all right so i
just started doing it and
then i was actually pretty good again i was always like i literally you know
come out the the mother's
womb like this you know what i mean so i've been i've been this big i've been
this big or or you know
this side and look this old like for you know since i was like 12 so i was
always so i was always
versing guys twice the size of me and you know what i mean so i was you know
older much older as well
and i used to do well so that's why a lot of people you know thought i was mad
you know when i gave that
up because i was doing so good and then the same was the rugby league when i
played rugby league even
people thought i was mad giving that up as well because that was something i
was pretty good at as
well so what made you decide to make a switch to mma professionally um just my
last year of football
uh rugby league uh we you know we won the comp you know i got player of the
match i scored a 40 meter
try so you can imagine that guy running 40 meters um yeah so it was just a you
know it was just yeah
a good year to finish on you know what i mean i had a couple of fights as well
that year so i was
training at uh mma and having a couple of fights while i was playing rugby
league oh really yeah so that
was uh during the season yeah yeah so during the season you're having fights
yes you'd have a game
and then you'd have a fight yeah yeah pretty much yeah yeah so it was a pretty
full-on and still work
and still concreting really so yeah yeah christ it was pretty pretty full-on so
a lot happening you
know and i guess that's probably where i get some of my fitness today as well
you know what i mean
i've just always been a bit of a gamer and you know just that's just something
i've always done
but maybe from back in them days as well well i would imagine that just the the
sheer tenacity and
cardio that you would get from rugby rugby is a tough sport yeah i mean that's
what i think americans
should play i really do i look at american football i'm like take off the
helmets what's up with the
shoulder pads and not honestly i think it's safer i think rugby's safer i don't
think it's safe it's
obviously a very rough combat sport in a lot of i mean it's kind of a comp it's
kind of like a team
combat sport almost but you were at least not under the illusion that you're
protected like american
football players have been for so long with the helmets and the pads and that's
what's causing a lot
of the brain trauma yeah with them hard helmets yeah i get what you mean slamming
into each other you
know yeah it's uh yeah i guess i know i can see what you're saying there as
well but uh you know then
again then you're looking at that you know someone running at you know no no
helmet as well but i get
what you're saying i actually think uh you know 