Name: JRE MMA Show #85 with Max Holloway
Uploaded: 2019-12-18T20:00:01.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'JRE MMA Show #85 with Max Holloway' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2019-12-18. Transcript available. Joe sits down with former UFC Featherweight Champion Max Holloway.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'JRE MMA Show #85 with Max Holloway' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2019-12-18. Transcript available. Joe sits down with former UFC Featherweight Champion Max Holloway.

JRE MMA Show #85 with Max Holloway

you know took yoga hung out my dog and now we're here all right we're live what's
up max how are
you brother good to see you yeah how you doing i'm good finally here i think uh
what 17 17 fights
straight we tried to organize it a couple of times but maybe you live on an
island in the
middle of the ocean i know it's a little it's a different thing you know logistically
i know i
know but uh we you finally made it happen yes you're the man made it happen you're
the man i can't wait
so how you doing man everything all right everything good walking good walking
great yeah you look totally
fine oh yeah i was i told you guys i was i had an apple party after the fight i
was boogieing i was
doing the power slides yeah chain smokers they uh they was they was actually at
excess well i that
they had their concert thing at excess and uh they thought they brought me up
into their booth and i
was trying to get him to let me jump on and off the stage with him because he
looked like he was having
fun that's amazing man because your left leg it looked like at least during the
fight it was getting
busted up yeah yeah you know it's yeah it is what it is you know i i heard i
saw i got to watch the fight
live it over you know and uh but you're not talking about the fight a lot of
people actually about the
press conference when i said i thought i won i think so people i uh people is
taking it uh taking it the
wrong way a lot of his fans is taking the wrong way it's like when i was in
there in my mind i thought i
won because i when you think about it i i thought i was landing more damaging
shots to the head and body
you know i know the leg kicks he was landing here and there but i didn't think
it was too much until
after i saw whatever happened you know but at at the end of the day you know it's
like it's what i said
i just my my legs fell fire i went to the after party i danced and and if if i
put it in this way you
know out of my all my title fights this is the least damage i took in a title
fight and i lost my belt so
you mean like to the face into the body yeah to the face into the body you know
and he hit me because
some of the i know he was landing some leg kicks and and some um some was power
and but then a bunch
of other ones i i thought so it was like you know i didn't know that there's it
was landing that much
to that to that extent and um then again this is uh it's not a street fight you
know it's not a street fight
it's a it's a it's a game and he helped wanted me in the game so you know good
for him yeah it's it's
an interesting game when it comes to scoring right because like what should be
scored more punches or
leg kicks like uh you know it's it's hard like leg kicks are damaging they mean
a lot i mean fights
have been stopped on leg kicks you know but barboza i think stopped two people
yeah two people
i think yeah yeah um but it's just it's i think the system sucks the 10 point
must system it's boxing
system it's not our system yeah yeah we shouldn't have that system yeah we
should have a more
comprehensive system that recognizes everything and then sometimes it's weird
too you know especially
like uh not technically my fight but like other fights like people you see
people who stick and move
nice and this and that and just because the guy is walking forward he's winning
the fight right and then
like you see them get into uh uh and you see people get into scuffles and then
one guy bounce back it
looks like he's retreating but he's actually not he land more in the scuffle
and he since he bounced
back to like oh i think that guy that was staying there was actually winning
the fight so it's just
it's what you said is this super like you know some guys like they they favor a
little bit more thing
than another thing and uh i think there's a real problem with judges not even
being martial artists
that's why that's a giant that's why burt watson say don't don't leave their
judges yeah but that's
easier said than done it is especially when you're fighting the best guys in
the world too you know
you can't expose it it's not smart it's not a smart way to fight you know the
way you're fighting
is the best way to fight but the the judges should at least have some martial
arts experience and i know
there's a bunch of them that have never even trained i just took some courses i
was talking to
uh some people was talking to uh that was behind the scenes just talking to uh
they they came from
the dc was the dc event in front of our zone yeah and uh some of the commission
there at the dc
event was like i heard was was crazy like some people was just not like they
didn't know anything
yeah not supposed to be there i was like what is going on and like uh to put it
in perspective for
people out there it's like you know like it's all i do for a living right it's
all i do so like to me
i gotta put the trust in someone that doesn't know what they're doing when i'm
over here sacrificing
my time it's it's kind of hard you know i'm not talking about my fight again i'm
just talking about
other people yeah anytime there's a bad decision you know it's just it's just
tough you know it's horrible
it's horrible and they don't do anything about it and there's people that have
put in bad decision
after bad decision and then you see them still uh being listed as judges and
you're like this is crazy
i want to show them a video i heard that the last one was inside right before i
did my uh press
conference and stuff i heard you go who is judging this we need to fire
everyone they do need to fire
everyone they you know what they should do man they should hire ex-fighters
they should they should
they should i was uh i talked to uh frank trigg before he moved off to hawaii
and um he was trying to
become uh become a uh he's ref he's reffing and now he finally got to bellator
and you have i think so
he just did ufc for the first time a couple a couple weeks ago a couple months
ago and i was
telling him like why would they not just let you put in there there's like oh
you there's a time
system you need to do this i was like you like fought for a championship belt
in the highest
organization what who in the right mind is being like yeah this guy's not
qualified i would go i would
want you sitting or judging my fight you know what i mean like just because
someone okay maybe they
did take a class but it's like it's like license you know just because you
drive it like a passage
license test doesn't mean you could you should be allowed to drive on the road
well you know what
it's like it's like passing a written test but never haven't driven a car
exactly that's what it's
like here's your driver's license you don't even know how to hit the gas you
don't know how much
brake you should apply when you you see some of these people that are judging
you can you know
they've never done anything they've never done they don't they don't have any
idea what's going on
they just have a cursory understanding of fighting and that's not acceptable
for the highest level of
the game yeah there's so many ex-fighters that would make amazing referees or
judges and there's so
well i don't have much of a problem with referees there's a lot of great referees
but there's so
many people that could be great judges there's so many super fans out there
that have been training
their whole life that just they they're really really into the sport and a lot
of these fans these
these uh judges rather they're not even fans yeah they're just people that are
doing it for a job
they're getting a paycheck and then and yeah and then getting to watch the feet
the fights for free
live you know front row and they don't even care they're not even fans it's
ridiculous yeah it's
crazy it's it's funny yeah like i said like the fans i i actually think of uh
what is his name i'm
brain farting right now joe the old matchmaker joe silva joe silva yeah i
actually think you ever
heard his story of how he got to work for the usc yes that that's when you were
saying like they're
super fans like he's one of the guys he was a super fan he shot yeah hey joe
silva was the guys
shout out to joe silva he was the first guy that actually like shot his shot
yeah he told me how i
heard his story he told me his story in person like he wrote down he told me
what he did he wrote a
letter to ufc this and that and like what he think he should change this and
that and then
they called him up and be like hey would you like to come up we like your ideas
the dude the dude got set up you know like wow joe silva is the first shot
shooter guys yeah well
he's a legit fan i mean still is to this day yeah yes he made enough money he
retired he's a smart
man he just said this i'm out i don't want to work like this anymore why why
you just got you just
use a part of business when they got bought out you might as well chill with
your family you know yeah
he just decided to just lay back built himself a nice house i know even that
like what is uh his
story is so mean like there's like saying like oh yeah you gotta move here this
and that he's like nope
i'm doing i can do it from home i was like joe you are a boss joseph is a boss
when he's telling me
like my gosh joe you're a boss it's a hard gig it's a hard gig setting up
fights well mma fights in
particular because guys get injured so much more than in boxing anything yeah
uh that's one thing
that um i like talking to people or telling people they're like oh there's so
different with this and
that and blah blah i'm like guys boxers mlb nba what nfl they had they had the
set schedule
they have a set schedule like i can sit down lebron can sit down before the
year uh right when uh they
announced their first regular season he know exactly where he's gonna be the
whole year
boxers do the same thing they know exactly we're gonna fight this month and
this month they don't
know the opponent's name but after a fight they already kind of know who they're
fighting you know
mma fighters they're like don't you know what's going on i was like i have no
clue right well how
about when you almost fought khabib yeah for the title on super short notice
six days how much did you
weigh when you were trying to get down to 55 and they stopped you when they
stopped what did you weigh
when you started i was i was uh when we got the call when i got there when i
checked in i was already
uh the day before weight check i'll tell you what i was the day of the weight
cut i was 170. 170 the
day of the weight cut and i and i tell you i'm not gonna tell you exact number
i was before they stopped
me but i was like in reach like i was right there but why did they stop you
they came in the room they
looked at me they said they said oh yeah you don't look good yeah we're cutting
it i was like what i
was like i feel good let's do it you know it was right there and then uh that's
just what they said
you know and it is they had a real problem with new york in the beginning i
mean especially there's a
lot of people that just weren't prepared for mma yeah i mean i i mean like i
mean the new york cards
period don't have a lot of luck at all every time you see when something
happened i and i told
and then i i heard them they're going back to brooklyn or whatever where is tony
fighting tony and brooklyn
it's fine why why not fighting vegas or something they had a brooklyn card
already scheduled and that was
a good fight yeah and so they put it in there yeah i know but god you got to
keep tony away from cables
the day before the fight tony just someone needs to just be around him all the
time just ready to
catch him just please this is the fifth time they scheduled this fight hey you
know what they say
it's a great fight though i love it i can't wait i can't i'm excited i'm
excited stylistically i think
he's the best guy that that khabib's ever faced because he can fight off his
back yeah he's a guy
that doesn't survive off his back he attacks and he's a guy that just he just
he throws a lot of
weird