Name: JRE MMA Show #86 with Josh Thomson
Uploaded: 2020-01-24T20:00:04.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'JRE MMA Show #86 with Josh Thomson' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2020-01-24. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'JRE MMA Show #86 with Josh Thomson' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2020-01-24. Transcript available.

JRE MMA Show #86 with Josh Thomson

three two one joshua what's happening my man what's going on good to see you so
uh i looked
at your instagram yesterday and you had that video of stephen a smith and
immediately i was like oh
my goodness this explains so much play this play play this jamie watch this
watch this
first of all someone needs to explain to me what's happening here
it looks like a dick punch to the left i don't even think it's a dick unless
that guy's got a
two-foot dick look how low he's punching no idea man this guy should not be
allowed to talk about
fighting yeah look um just i'm gonna cut him a little bit of slack only i
seriously we had this
here's the thing with strike force we had kind of a similar situation not like
this though by the way
with gus johnson remember us yes was trying to talk him and i love gus when he's
talking basketball i
think he's got the energy and the voice that makes people like oh wow they're
gripped to the tv
this i can understand with stephen a but this is not what you want to release
after you just called
someone who's a pioneer in the sport you basically call him a quitter you call
the guy a quitter first
of all he had a broken orbital bone okay you're saying he was a quitter he got
his face smashed yeah
okay he got cracked by one of the biggest punchers in the sport yeah he uh he
has the most wins in the
sport he has the most wins by finish he has the most bonuses i mean come on he
has the most fights
come on you're calling that guy a quitter he got cracked that's what happens
look fighting is
the only sport that you could end it early right you can't end a football game
in 40 seconds imagine
imagine if you just your front line was so strong your quarterback was so
badass you could storm a
football game in 40 seconds it'd be a different sport yeah my concern with him
though was that like
look he's fine he just did the video i get it like it's good that you're trying
to learn the sport
but i gotta tell you like dc sent me this video and he basically commented on
it and i said i said dd's
trying to protect the dc's trying to protect him i said you cannot protect this
guy not from this
no you can't call someone like cowboy serroney or any other i'm sorry any other
top guy in any
organization i don't care if it's ufc bellator one any of them all the all
these organizations you
cannot do that to these guys these guys lay it on the line every time we're not
slapping a puck or
hitting a baseball okay we're really out there getting hurt yeah and when
someone calls you a
quitter like that you better be i'm not saying he should be careful like watch
his back but don't
expect these fighters to be very courteous to you next time you walk in the
hall and that's the issue
that i think we come across here with top fighters are very offensive when they
get offended when things
like this rightly so yeah it's a different thing there's the the emotional cost
of losing a fight
is so much different than losing a game it's not the same and there's a culture
in sports broadcasting
whether it's radio or television this just diminishing of people there's this
talking that goes
with sports you know he always falls apart that guy that needs to give his
money back
he sucks he this and that and the other guy's like oh i can't believe you're
saying that you could do
that in sports radio and people love it because if you're on the job site and
you're listening to the
radio and you know you're hammering nails you're like you're right he does suck
and there's a mentality
that goes along with that kind of sports radio sports guy talk i hate that i've
resisted
that from the beginning and i've i've on those guys from the beginning because
it's not the same
thing you're not talking about the same thing you're talking about fighting you're
talking about
unbelievable physical consequences including knock on wood in our sports very
rare but death yeah no
it's true but the other thing though too is that you're criticizing someone for
being a quitter and
someone who's been been there on every level of the game every level but not
only that but then you
look like you've never played basketball or baseball or any other sport in your
life either
hits like that i'm sorry so you cannot criticize people and to be on the talk
show like you're
saying those talk show radios that's the energy you need to bring when you're
going against someone
like max kellerman or any of the other or skip bayless and those guys go ahead
and have that
conversation with them but you cannot can't look like that and then talk i'm
sorry man that culture
the culture of the sport look max kellerman is a different animal max kellerman
is incredibly
knowledgeable when it comes to sports and really so when it comes to boxing he's
not a talker he's
just more honest about it yeah that's true but there's a lot of currency in
being a steven a smith
you know he's really entertaining but that talking that he does he's a he's you
know he's he's a guy
that's fun to watch he talks a lot of he gets real loud and everybody disagrees
with him and look
it's made him a fantastic career that's why and he carries that over to mma i
think it's a bad idea
is it a shtick though that's my thought my process like you know how chael has
his shtick like he did
and like the camera turns off colby has his shtick and when the camera turns
off they're not that
person right is he that person in real life i think it blends in you know is he
just now inherited that
person so that's who he is now in real life andrew dice clay andrew dice clay
his real name is andrew
silverstein and the dice man was a character that he used to do in his act dice
clay is like one of the best
impressionists ever yeah and he does like he does john travolta and all these
different people and
it's amazing and in his act he would do all these impressions and he would do
this guy the dice man
and he would do these rhymes and he put this jacket on and everybody loved that
so much he just became
the dice man and then after a few years he was a dice man 24 7. he's wearing
these leather jackets
everywhere everywhere he goes he's got weightlifting gloves on every time you
meet him he's got weightlifting
gloves he became this guy right and it's a thing that happens to people
sometimes where people love
one thing you lean into your fans and i think steven a smith i don't know him
as a human being
i've only met him a couple times he's a nice guy nice guy to me we had a nice
conversation on air we had
a little weirdness because he was just saying we didn't learn anything about
connor i'm like the
fuck you didn't yeah he just destroyed cowboy in 40 seconds like you learn
something you learn he could perform
under the bright lights and a giant pay-per-view after more than a year and a
half out of the game
yeah you learned something you just don't know what you saw yeah i i agree with
you 100 that
he did learn something i mean like i learned something from him like somebody
who taken that
that amount of time off and i'm gonna say this um to be frank obviously i work
for bellator and i do
a lot of work for them but the thing is you you can't have to give credit where
credit is due i give
credit to all the fighters it doesn't matter if you're in one look eddie to me
is one of the best 55
pounders to ever walk the face of the earth conor mcgregor to me i thought he
did things in that fight
against khabib that no other guy has been able to do first off he won a round
yeah that's something
no one's ever now people say oh well khabib took the round off yeah because he
maybe he tried to
finish him at the end of the second but the bottom line is he still won the
round yeah okay and there's
not only that but there was a lot of times and opportunities where khabib had a
hard time getting
the takedown we didn't see that against guys with wrestling backgrounds like abel
trajillo and
those other guys where he was flinging around winning records basically for the
most takedowns
in one fight yes there's tons of things that conor does that people overlook
and underestimate because
he's such a knockout artist and he's so good and his stance and his style and
things like he brought
this to the next level and i you cannot discredit what he's done in the sport
what i learned from
that is that from somebody who can take 15 months off and come back and perform
the way that he did
against someone like donald cerrone is absolutely amazing that's why you need
guys like you doing
post-fight commentary and discussing these not people who don't understand the
sport and practice
dick punches well i would it's a different thing he's basically he's hitting
babies yeah i want to ask you
this though because it was funny because i could see your face in the middle of
it all how awkward is
that for you to stand between the two of them and go what are you guys talking
about yeah i mean i would have
preferred to talk to dc or felder or you or anybody who understands the sport i
don't think it's the
right way to do it uh the one gentleman to my right michael what jamie what is
his last name
he was great and stephen smith was very nice to me too and he said he's going
to get into podcasts
i have no problem with him as a human being i just think look i don't know jack
about baseball
i don't know jack about basketball i literally don't even know the rules i don't
know what when people
foul people i'm not sure why i don't know what's happening yeah i know mma i
understand it so if
you want to talk about mma i'd like to talk to mma about someone else who knows
mma like you were
saying though i was watching this in one of your podcasts the other day with
mike baker okay and he
said like look i don't agree with bernie sanders policies okay but he bernie
sanders probably is a
really nice guy yeah but it doesn't mean that i have to like what he does in
front of the camera
okay for for him to call mma i don't have to like that i can still like him as
a person yeah that's
where we need to make sure that we differentiate between the two things like
look he probably is a
really good guy and i actually have met him i met him at the floyd mayweather
and connor fight
and said hi i said hey how's it going like hey what do you think and that was
the conversation it was
real quick real brief maybe two minutes but he seemed like a nice person at
that time but when when i
was listening to him talk and calling cerrone basically a quitter to me i just
lost i lost respect in the
avenue that you're not supposed to be working in our sport yes okay and you
need to make some sort of
adjustment whether it's dick punching or something else but you need to figure
it out you need to
like i understand i get that it's a good idea for all people that have never
covered the sport to
try to get into it okay um maybe hold off on the videos like that for a while
before you post them
before you post them yeah but i like that he's trying and i'm going to give him
credit for that and
i think like with gus there was a lot of rumblings about gus johnson in the
very beginning
but we gave him a run for a while and i really like gus he's a great person
always been great
every time i've talked to him and met with them and worked with him side by
side as well calling
fights with strike force great person but his forte is basketball and for him
whatever his forte is
steven a smith yeah he's got i think he may have to stick with that and i think
i agree they have to
bring dc back in to work with you alongside us well yeah dc's phenomenal and dc
and me having that
conversation would have been a completely different conversation and it would
have been it would have
been better for the sport because look there's no there's no positive in downplaying
the career
of donald cerrone or what he can do as a fighter what that showed to me was how
phenomenal connor
performed that's what it showed me and if if either you or i was talking about
cricket we're on on tv
doing commentary on cricket we wo