Name: JRE MMA Show #88 with Frankie Edgar
Uploaded: 2020-01-28T20:00:06.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'JRE MMA Show #88 with Frankie Edgar' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2020-01-28. Transcript available. Joe sits down with former UFC Lightweight Champion Frankie Edgar.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'JRE MMA Show #88 with Frankie Edgar' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2020-01-28. Transcript available. Joe sits down with former UFC Lightweight Champion Frankie Edgar.

JRE MMA Show #88 with Frankie Edgar

boom what's up frankie how are you good to see you man good to be here good to
have you we talked
about this many times we have you know uh my buddy chris lagore i gotta shout
him out because he got
me listening to you you know years ago and he's been telling me to come on this
podcast for forever
so i'm glad to finally get it done so shout out to chris i know he's listening
hi chris um so you
got your own podcast now i do uh me and roger matthews from uh jersey shore
fame he was the
ex-husband of j wow uh so we the champ and the tramp champ and the tramp yeah
that's hilarious
that's hilarious so uh what's happening man you just got off of the um chan
sung jung fight yeah
and what's next what are you up to i'm gonna go down 35. yeah you know uh how
much you walk around
at i'm probably like 56 right now wow you know so for 45 well marlon's gotta be
bigger than you right
marlon is about a little bit bigger than me yeah i think so i think he walks
around a little heavier
he's a little bit more of an eater than i am dude that guy i can't i have a
hard time believing
he makes 35 sometimes you look at him he's so jack he's got such a small waist
though i mean he's so
his legs and shoulders are so big but his waist is kind of small so maybe that's
how he carries it
so have you done a cut like that before i haven't been but i mean my last fight
i think i was you know
getting down to 45 got down to like 44.5 i mean it's only eight and a half over
where i got to be for
to make 36 and it was such an easy cut for this last time so it's you're you're
an interesting
situation man because like you won the title at 55 and you didn't cut any
weight at all and a lot
of people were like well man frankie edgar could do because you the thing about
you at 55 was you
were so durable like that was one of the craziest things about some of your
fights like the gray
maynard fights yeah amen who who reffed those fights um eve levine both of them
no the first one
the first second one i think was josh rosenthal well shout out to both of those
guys yeah because uh a
trigger hungry referee who's got an itchy trigger finger they would have
stopped those fights now
i think nowadays someone might stop it yeah you know back then i feel like they
let it go a little
more i mean so of course there's still sometimes they let it go a little too
long now it depends you
never know you never know it all changes it's such a weird thing right it's
like the referee is trying
to help the fighter they're trying to make sure that the fighter doesn't take
unnecessary damage but you
know more than once you see fights stopped we're like oh that guy wasn't done
right he was he was
getting through a bad patch and that's part of what a fight is about it's like
trying to figure out how
to survive for sure i always want the benefit of the doubt i you know yeah i
don't want to get
unnecessary punishment of course um but i'd rather get the benefit of that i i've
never been turned off
even with ortega and shan zong jung fight i got both those fights uh even
though i got rocked in my
other fights these fights i kind of was more coherent um i'm not complaining
about the stoppages
or anything like that you know i could see why they stopped it but uh in the
great fights even
the benson henderson fight where i got up kicked i don't remember any of those
fights you know i
don't remember like three four rounds of those fights just because it was so
wild because you're
getting hit yeah because i got hit and i kept getting hit maybe maybe that's
why i didn't remember
um the the ortega fight i got rocked pretty good and i remember in my head
saying all right there's
short time left let's get through let's get through it obviously uh didn't make
it to the end
and uh you know but i did i remembered being coherent even this last one with
what uh korean zombie i
remember the ref saying you know you got to do something down there you got to
do something down
there and i was you know i was trying to do my best my body maybe wasn't
reacting the way i needed to
be but uh yeah you know i never been turned off you know i don't know if that's
a good thing or not
but uh i don't know if it's a good thing either it's like some people say if
you get turned off it's
better because then you you're you don't absorb as much punishment i've heard
that argument but then
if you do get turned off your body gets turned off easier next time that's that's
pretty true
yeah well it seems like it seems like yeah guys that get cracked that can kind
of continue to get
cracked and get rocked a little easier um i'm hoping that's not the case for me
well it's not it's
more of the actual knockout itself yeah like yeah i think a bit like a bad
knockout yeah it's crazy
that you have had a bunch of fights where you don't remember most of the fight
like that that's
a thing that a lot of fighters don't necessarily talk about but it's a reality
of hard fights yeah
my second fight with gray where um eve levine was the the referee i remember uh
i think the fourth
round mark my coach mark was like you know telling me we got one more round in
my head i'm like
one more round what happened to three and four i didn't remember at all and
also i i when he dropped
me i i rolled my ankle really bad probably a great two sprain and i remember in
the fourth round
coming to and my ankle was hurting me i'm like what happened i have no idea
what happened my ankle
and even walking back you know i was that's kind of you know i don't know
sometimes you get rocked
you get depressed for some reason i noticed that even in the gym when they get
when i get rocked
they i get a little bit of depression going on for some reason like what does
it feel like when
you say depression like my middle ball you know you're just down on yourself
you know um i was
emotional i think i was crying after the gray fight in the in the locker room i
think they they have
camera back there and there's a video of me even the second fight when you
stopped him not the second
fight but the the the second well that was the second fight not the third fight
the third fight
you stopped the third second fight you won right the fights that you had with
gray were so crazy
they were so he was so big yeah he's a big boy man i was so big for 55 you know
and you were a guy
who didn't cut any weight at all nothing i was i literally would eat breakfast
on weighing day wow
that's crazy yeah did you ever think back then about dropping down or were you
just like it i'm the
champ yeah well that's why i was like i'm the champ why should i go down i mean
i'm winning i'm beating
these guys yeah um even the ben sanders fights they were super close you know i
could have win either
way and um but i just felt you know all right i'll go down now i lost two in a
row here what you know
what more can i gain from here let me go down to 45 and that's that's when i
fought aldo for for the uh
for the 45 pound belt when you think about it like if you had a chance to do it
all over again
like if you had to engineer your career all over again would you do it exactly
the same way would you
fight at 55 well you definitely would against bj right yeah i mean i i can't
you can't go back and
change those things you know it all worked out for me you know i got a world
title um i had a you know
i'm continuing to have a pretty good career uh there's always things you wish
you could do differently
you know you just i can't be that guy that's gonna say i wish i did this wish
that things went the way
they went well they went pretty good i mean yeah i'm not complaining especially
the bj penn fight
i remember the first one in abu dhabi uh i was there for that one i was like
holy yeah you know
that was that was a big victory man and the second one that was big yeah the
second one was probably
even better just because i you know more mentally one you know and um i felt
like too like you know
bj had my back in uh in that second fight and uh you know everybody thought you
know bj gets your back
back back then you're in trouble and i was able to defend i think it reversed
them so i kind of showed
a little bit of all my complete skills in that fight out of all the guys that i've
ever seen fight
i've never seen anybody who controls people with the legs the way bj does he's
got the craziest
dexterity in his legs he does i heard when he was younger he could stand up and
put his leg over his
head standing up jesus christ yeah i don't know if that's true like just lift
it up and put it back
there just like not even grab it not even grab put it over his head i don't
know if that's true
we've seen him jump out of the pool too that's pretty wild yeah no he's an
incredible athlete
yeah and his his physical talents were unusual but he worked on it like this
other thing a lot
of people don't realize like there's some great videos of bj stretching right
and he would stretch
with bands so he has all this crazy like he would grab his foot like put it on
his chest he's got bands
and he's stretching the out of himself so it wasn't just natural ability it was
also like he realized
well he realized that his legs were like other arms like because he when you're
in his guard he would
just those legs would come up and just pinch you down and and his mount he
would cross his legs
underneath dudes and his back mount was incredible yeah he was uh one of a kind
i think you know uh on
the ground and just as a fighter i mean i looked up to him coming up you know
he was the man licking
licking blood off his off his hand so you know i mean it's uh i was actually
with him we were just
did the ufc gym uh 10 year anniversary uh party up in uh uh concord dana was
there and bj was there
so i was hanging out with bj beach is a good dude man we get along really well
is uh is he
is he done fighting or what is he going to do um i don't know i think he wants
to fight uh i don't
think dana wants him to fight but uh i'm pretty crazy brawl in hawaii yeah yeah
outside of a bar
i mean people are also like oh look at bj you're getting mad at a fighter for
fighting uh you know
come on is it is it that surprising it is a funny way to look at it right like
if a singer gets in a
fight like what is he doing right but a fighter fighting it's like a basketball
player having a
pickup game yeah exactly so i can't get mad enough for that that is kind of
weird when you stop and
think about it you know i mean and that's the nature down in hawaii i i think a
lot of people get
down that's how they get down out there yeah they get down yeah tough motherfuckers
in hawaii yeah
for sure you know that fight that was so sad to watch like that dude clipped
him with the left hook
and dropped him and bounced his head off the concrete i was like did he say hit
me he said yeah he let
him hit him and then he came back he went out he flashed out and and went down
and then i don't
know if the video was continuous or what but later is a video of him having the
guys back and smashing
him it's like god damn it yeah i mean you gotta be careful you never know what
happened in the street
fight too so so you gotta be careful guys go home open the trunk come right
back yeah that or i mean
should throw some on their head and they don't wake up you know that's a big
one yeah you know um that
happened to a buddy of mine in long island kevin james actually the the
comedian yeah his his buddy
they're working together as bouncers and he was working with this guy and this
guy got in a fight
with a patron punched the guy knocked him out the guy fell banged his head off
the ground died wow
dude wound up doing jail time wow and that happens i heard a story of some
wrestler kind of same thing
got into a fight picked the guy up slammed him on his head and ended up in jail
oh my god do you
imagine a wrestler like a yoel romero suplexing you on the street what the fuck
that's it's over
forever absolutely yeah it'll flatten the top of your head you know yeah i'm
like oh god he's