Name: JRE MMA Show #87 with Kamaru Usman
Uploaded: 2020-01-28T05:40:24.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'JRE MMA Show #87 with Kamaru Usman' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2020-01-28. Transcript available. Joe sits down with UFC Welterweight Champion Kamaru Usman.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'JRE MMA Show #87 with Kamaru Usman' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2020-01-28. Transcript available. Joe sits down with UFC Welterweight Champion Kamaru Usman.

JRE MMA Show #87 with Kamaru Usman

three two one champ what's up how are you what's up joe how are you man i'm i'm
i'm good i'm good
life is good life is good it's good stressful but it's good well i mean it has
to be stressful
you're the king of the hill yes yes and it that's a lot of things they don't
tell you
dude i remember up there matt hughes when he lost to bj pen i was interviewing
him in the octagon he
said something like really honest and very shocking he said honestly he goes it's
a relief
he goes like being a champ and the stress of it all he goes i'm i feel relieved
to have been lost
like first of all to lose it's very like the fact that he had the balls to say
that like just admit
it like hey it's a relief like you know he just choked me out but i'm happy i'm
happy it happened
it is for guys like that that have reached that status it is the anderson silva
yeah the george
st pierre those guys it is a relief because you know and i'm just i'm starting
to see a little
bit why because as soon as i walk out of there defending your title as soon as
you just beat this
kid up fans can't wait to say oh no this is the guy that's gonna beat you right
that's the guy that's
gonna beat you so there's there's really no come down you know let me take a
vacation let me do this
no because fans are on it they want a guy to step in there with you tomorrow to
beat you that's always
gonna happen isn't it yeah you know but everybody anybody who's a champ yeah
but that that's now
imagine doing that five six seven times over and over like these guys george st
pierre decades have
done yeah over it just gets overwhelming because it's like nothing's ever good
enough for you guys
you know i can't go out there put on a flawless performance win and just have
you guys say you
know what he's the best no it's like you were good but yeah this guy's gonna
beat you this guy this guy's
good enough well there's always gonna be a certain percentage of people that
are not happy with
anything i saw a lot of people that are tweeting talking about connor after he
just won flawless
victory 40 second knockout of donald cerrone and they were like that doesn't
prove
shit you know he's gonna fall apart if he fights anybody good as soon as he
gets in there with a
wrestler this and that blah blah blah it's like some people are just negative
absolutely you can't
fix them you just gotta accept them the way they are just like i know and it's
one of the advice
that rashad gave me early on is uh make friends with this make friends with uh
because i you know you
get worked up before a fight you know you just so he's like no make friends
with that feeling
because that that's a good feeling you know or you're backstage before you
fight you're super
nervous you want to take a shit you know you want to pee you pee like 50 times
you're barely drinking
water but somehow there's some kind of pee coming out and he's like no make
friends with that feeling
you know the moment you accept that feeling it's not that big of a burden
anymore rashad's a wise man
super wise man that's a very that's a very wise piece of advice because you can
really change your
perception based on how you approach something and just deciding this all right
this is a part of the
process this is what's up it's big for me right now it's very very big for me
because i uh i'm a
creature of uh of a routine i love having a routine and and it's a fine line
between routine and obsessive
compulsive it's a very very fine line yeah because and it started on for me
early on when i when i
started to succeed in wrestling i was like okay this is my routine okay i'm
looking at the okay i'm 10
matches out so that means i need to get up and i need to warm up my warm-up was
the same okay i'm
gonna jog back and forth twice before i skip back and forth twice before i i do
my lunges back and
forth twice before i do my stance in motion back and forth twice like it was it
was that routine i had
to do it at that time and oh i'm going to the restroom i need to pee before i i
go for this match but i'm
gonna go into the same bathroom i'm going to the same stall you know i'm gonna
pee and i'm gonna come
out i'm gonna use the same sink to wash my hand get one or two paper towels
throw it away go back out
like it got to a point where it's like that's my routine and then
i go out there and i perform and i win i'm like yeah that that's why that's why
i'm performing so
it's like ocd it becomes there's a fine line so i had to realize that that's a
fine line because
it's not necessarily ocd because when you when it becomes obsessive compulsive
is when for me when
it's when you feel like you can't succeed unless you do those things right so
it's like dang i i forgot
to do that well oh i'm gonna lose i'm gonna lose no it's i had to learn how to
control it early
because it's like my that's my routine but even if i i didn't do that i didn't
have enough time to do
that because sometimes you don't have enough time to do it right they you know
something goes out of
whack matches and early but you don't have enough time to to get your routine
in so it's like i had to
be able to adjust my mind okay we still go out there and perform we'll still go
out there especially
in the fight game you know you go out there's quick two quick knockouts boom
boom boom you thinking
you've got 30 minutes to warm up and stuff like no you got to come in back you
got 10 minutes it's like
oh i got 10 minutes i can't get my whole routine in how much time do you need
like say if you're in the
locker room and you you like before you walk out for the fight how much time do
you need to get
everything loosened up what do you like i mean i'm older now my joints make
noises now so um not too
crazy because i work out that morning before the fight i work that's when i
really get the hard
workout in you have a hard workout the day of the fight yeah the day of the
fight i work out holy
shit all my coaches you know my training partners everybody we're going and we
get a good a good
sweat i like to blow it all out because the night before i don't because that's
that's the day of
weigh-ins so you just cut that thursday night you cut a lot you cut the weight
dehydrated you weigh in
that morning of that friday morning so that friday is dedicated to just rehydrating
and eating how much
do you cut i don't get that that that last fight was um probably one of the
biggest i stayed
throughout and i think i was up to about maybe 197 and but when i start really
full-fledged going two
days in camp i try to keep my weight around 192 191 because that's where i feel
strong
you know but not my fastest because i've seen you walk around in between fights
i'm like how the
does that guy make 170. it's it's it's fake it's just you know it's fake they're
air muscles they're
nice i i i do a couple of uh you know i just have those there's no air in those
muscles i've got a
back and i i you know i um i do a couple of you know freaking curls and my arms
just swell up just
just swell up but but 197 if you're getting up to 197 you're cutting 27 pounds
yeah how much does that
take out of you well like i said i'm a creature of of a routine and and and i
like to get into that
routine so i i'm dieting well eating well so by when i'm down to uh about three
percent i think it's
probably some of the leanest i've been about three percent yeah when i'm down
to this from calipers or
from a dunk from from calipers they say that caliper thing's not totally it's
not i mean yeah of course
it's not going to be completely accurate right you know but around that area
because i i just have
nothing i'm just extremely lean and at that point i'm um 180 i want to say 84
85 pounds so you're just
cutting 15 pounds of water yeah about about i would say 12 anywhere from 12 to
is uh as water but
you know i have an amazing team behind me you know amazing strength and
conditioning coach amazing
you know nutritionist i work with clint up at the pi now and is he the one who
hooks hooks up the weight
cutting and all that well yeah they they help with it you know because uh he
lives in vegas and i'm
in south florida so me me and clint we stay in contact you know and uh and one
thing that i
liked about clint is the fact that he gave me the time to say hey you know let's
let's really test
your body look at all this and that you know you're the kind of athlete you
carry a lot of muscle and
and you know there's that stigma that if you have a lot of muscle you run out
of gas really really fast
but the way you work we got to make sure that you're eating the right way to
make sure you sustain
that and of course my strength and conditioning coach dr cory peacock i mean phd
and uh you know the
uh associate professor over at nova university you know in exercise physiology
i mean smart brilliant
guy you know i've been working with him since my first fight in the ufc and you
have particular
needs because you've got problems with your knees so you can't run exactly like
like and that's why i
started working with him it is is before that i was working with jake bonacci
and jake is amazing you
know jake was like extreme couture for a long long time and jake knew what he
was doing but jake you
know the thing with jake was jake was a mastermind with a you know if you're an
athlete you gotta
all your body parts work so like this is what we need to do to get you tip top
state shape
and then when cory came in was after i had that injury because i had a micro
fracture surgery
and then i had to fight the finale like three and a half months after that so
micro fracture
surgery is that they do to try to rebuild cartilage in your knee is that what
it is which was
yeah that now some doctors are like oh yeah that's from the stone age you don't
do that anymore
really but it's they go it's when they go in and i guess they create tiny
little fracture right and
whether it's the you know for mine was in the knee so either it's the femoral
conda or the um
i forget what the bones call but they try to tibia you know they try to uh i
guess let it bleed in
and create you know the cartilage you know and um did it work at all no it didn't
work i think it
actually set me back a big that's right we talked about that the last time yeah
but have you ever
done stem cells yeah i did i took your advice i went and did stem cells did you
do it in panama
no i didn't go to panama but that doctor did it for me in dallas dr neil reardon
yeah yeah yeah
they can do some crazy in panama yeah panama that's what that's what yeah a lot
of guys i sent my mom
down there twice really yeah they told my mom she needed a knee replacement and
uh i was like before
we do this let's let's just see what happens and it took you know my mom's in
her 70s so it took a while
but about eight months in the pain went away and then i sent her down for a
second time and
it looks even more improved what's really crazy is i saw her over christmas and
she looked younger
well yeah so i mean i'm sure it has a lot of different effects a lot of
different ways that
that that thing could help out but in my case the the thing about it is i'm so
active
that is very very hard to to sit back and just say oh man that worked because i'm
still kicking every
day i still feel that pain of kicking every day i still feel that pain of
bouncing on my knees taking
shots if you really wanted to heal up you're gonna have to take time off but
that's not time i can
afford but what about just swimming like could you do that for a couple months
just swim only for
strength and conditioning and just do that i do swim you know i don't i don't
really run a lot you know
know that's the thing with uh cory peacock is uh when he came in was adjusting
me to not being so hard
on my knees you know working away from that because i haven't really done a
back squat since
maybe 2014 is that something that's particularly rough on your knees oh yeah
yeah i mean imagine
carrying all that load and squatting and that was bad and then you know the 