Name: JRE MMA Show #81 with Dave Leduc
Uploaded: 2019-10-29T02:00:00.000Z
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'JRE MMA Show #81 with Dave Leduc' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2019-10-29. Transcript available.

JRE MMA Show #81 with Dave Leduc

three two one what's up dave how are you live bitches yes indeed you wanted to
say that huh
no thanks for doing this man i appreciate it thanks for having me dude i've
watched you fight
a bunch of times online and let way is probably one of the most brutal combat
sports in the world
and it's so interesting watching a guy like you uh are you quebecois is that
what you say you're
good yeah how's your french it's not bad okay it's terrible it's way worse than
i don't know anything
in french but how do you how do you go from montreal to being the king of let
way yeah it's
it's a crazy journey man and uh like like in a way to it was uh if we go there
right let's go there
right basically uh when i was i used to play baseball i was a baseball i was a
pitcher in
pennsylvania i was like doing a bunch of uh like university baseball um
traveling team and then i
got into uh like a fight with my father a shout out to my father but this fight
with your father
it never went physical oh but it was like going very hard and they said like my
both my parents said
dave please please leave like that you're like you're kicked out of the house
wow how old are you 17 18.
wow so like i had no money and i was like uh like almost like industry it was
minus four fire nights so
for you guys like minus 20 degrees celsius it was like like okay i called my
friend like come pick me up
and i couched her for a few months and uh finally got a place got my together
but then i had like
a fire you know we didn't we didn't speak for many years now uh we actually
have a good relationship
now but so then and i believe that nothing good comes out of comfort right like
hardship so i was
i was i had a lot of like i said baseball that's like i wanted to fight because
of that
yeah that's so crazy so because of getting angry at your dad that's what made
you want to learn how to
fight it's like uh resuming maybe like that a little bit i hope it doesn't take
it the wrong way
but uh yeah it worked out so you shouldn't take it the wrong way i mean it all
worked out well true
and then actually funny enough my first love was grappling i was uh i did um
like i did a lot of
competition like no gi i won some like in gi like but uh it was mostly no gi
and then i actually had my
league called the sfl it was like a submission fight league once a month i had
guys uh organized
i was or i was only i was not fighting i was just organizing it and i got the
guys fighting and
submission only not ibggf just where was this in quebec in quebec yeah near
montreal so then we're
doing this and then i said my coach my sifu sifu patrick again shout out to my
coach uh he said
i said i never want to do anything other than grappling he said well you're
tall and you know you're
good reach maybe you should consider i know i don't want to do i only want to
do no gi he's like
okay he lets me do my shit and then uh yeah eventually i started i started uh
doing like
i come from sanda background like uh sanda right which is a style of martial
arts yeah so chinese
martial arts all the army in china does that pretty much and it's pretty cool
so wide stance spinning
attacks you know and cool stuff a lot of throws i was actually with kung lee in
san jose no
shit yeah we did some nice headbutt videos oh wow we need to do one together
after all right
have you done a headbutt before uh no not really i've never headbutted a person
on the pads i've
around you know and hit headbutt the bag but just joking i've never i've never
like i've seen your
pad routines where you incorporate headbutts into the pads yeah it's i feel
like you fight like you
train so if you don't if you don't train it how the hell you're going to throw
in the store it has
to become do a lot of people headbutt pads or are you i'm i'm teaching them now
okay so you
originated it yeah i've never seen anybody do it but you i mean i've seen
people headbutt
people in fights particularly in the ufc the early days mike mark coleman when
he was the heavyweight
champion he was the godfather of ground and pound big gigantic wrestler and he
would take guys down
get on top of them it didn't matter if you were in the guard he had but the out
of you yeah i mean
when they took away his headbutts you know because they changed the rules they
took away
fucking 20 of his game 20 of his game he'd control you bang bang just slam his
forehead into your nose
you know you couldn't see then he'd pound the out of you okay i mean that was
one of the ways
he became the channel took it out from the ufc they took it out of the rules
which i don't totally
understand why if you can elbow in the face and the eye sockets and the nose
why can't you headbutt
i don't know it's because a headbutt cuts elbow cuts and you actually can do
way more with an elbow
than sure and so knees knees cut as well true yeah i think i think it should be
legal i think so too
yeah obviously you do yeah you're excellent at it um so how did you get explain
the path to that way
okay so now we were basically at the doing starting to do striking so then i do
a couple fight nights
and i i love it uh i start fighting but then it's legal in canada you can't do
like full even muay thai
it's illegal so muay thai is illegal in canada pro pro muay thai yeah what yeah
no elbows yeah
but how come the ufc is legal tell me about it oh my god that's so crazy you
can do mma but you have
to do headgear and for muay thai wow even in france shin pads i'm not sure but
there's no elbows
no elbows so amateur muay thai no elbows well that's not muay thai then you
know it's not oh that's crazy
even in france i think muay thai like thai fight when you go there they have
head elbow pads really
yep with sunshine was fighting with elbow pads last time yes yes no sunshine
with elbow pads is
hilarious in france yeah wow that's crazy and then what else and then basically
um i uh i went to
thailand for the first time because my friends were there and just easier to
because miyamar was like
for those who don't know it used to be called burma and now it's miyamar and it
was super hard to
get visas and you know a bunch of things stuff like that so i go there i do my
first uh pro muay thai
fight because and i was i was like partying and i was like i want to get a
fight so they give me a
fight i win how much training had you done you did sonda and then what else uh
well i did sando and
grappling and uh and mma yeah but so basically like so no muay thai no never
did muay thai before my
first muay thai fight yeah it was a brawl that it was that is crazy it's not
beautiful to watch but yeah
wow how many people could say that i never did muay thai before my first muay
thai i don't know
but i got lucky i got a nice elbow in the clinch and cut him up right here so
you started thinking
about elbows then that's my elbows now yeah but like just to back up a little
bit basically my
coach sifupat told show me back then a black belt magazine uh burmese boxing
probably the same that
you saw sure and then i'm like i want to do this right and uh starting watching
videos but there was
nothing it was like black and white it was super hard to find there was nothing
about literally
so i just put it on the ice but my dream was always to go to miyamore one day
but at the time
you know tiger muay thai was super big it's like easy fights every week he was
visas like you don't
even need to get a visa it's 30 days for canadians right away right really so i
was like okay my friends
are there they invite me to tiger and uh i have a good relationship with them
now basically uh ended up
winning their tryouts and uh i i do it was a big year that year we had like dan
hooker myself
we wanted like alec rosnowski was there uh peter yan so all the guys were oh
great so it was yeah
a good fight and um and then i was like i was for me they were for the mma i
was for muay thai
so we got a scholarship so look you're still following me yeah so then and then
uh i go to uh i get that
little like i mean thank you for giving me that room guys but it was like a
shitty room with a
with a toilet it was a bed and a toilet you know but i'm happy at the time i
had no money
uh you know i just like i'm happy i'm happy with this we had like actually my
wife is watching right
now we had like a call that the the black hole in the toilet there was the
human ac was leaking and
it was so like it was so disgusting there was like we called it a black hole it
was the mold oh that's
terrible for you i know tell me about it yeah let's have some some of that mold
can be toxic right
yeah and my wife was not very happy about it i'm sure they weren't testing that
mold either
so then we get this and then like i remember like it's yesterday we're on the
bed and uh like i'm
making one fight a month in thailand and um i'm you know it's like uh i'm
telling i'm i actually got
myself in myself in the max muay thai tournament it was i was trying to get my
name you know in the
phuket stadium in the phuket circuit and then and then um one time like with
the manager pulled me out
and he's like you're not good enough because they wanted me to be super stadium
like you know check
block check block and i'm not i want i was wide stance i was super i was
catching kicks
punching back i was not like like they want me to do at all not good for gamblers
because gamblers
they want you to they start gambling a second round and i was knocking i was
winning like the
first round so they don't make money with me oh so they wanted you to for
people don't understand what
we're talking about in thailand it's traditional that the fighters fight slowly
in the first round
they just sort of feel each other out once the bets are all in place then they
go hard in the second
and third round but a lot of fighters would go over there especially from other
countries and just
people up in the first round yeah and that's what you did yeah and they didn't
like me for that so
what did they tell you to do they tell you to slow down they tell me to just
they just pull you didn't
tell me anything just pull me out of the tournament and say you're not good
enough not good enough yeah
and i was winning i was winning fights yeah so that's how i'm starting to get
pissed a little bit and
then um i'm making money and i sold everything that i had that i had at the
time to go to thailand
so i'm like a bit in you know like hardship like i'm like what am i gonna do
and then i meet irina
and my wife uh now we're married by the time we were we were just together and
uh she said i wonder
we won't have kids we're gonna you're gonna buy you have kids with two hundred
dollars a month you
know like we need to do is that what you're making for a fight two hundred
dollars two dollars a fight
in the book it's like ten thousand baht sorry six thousand baht it's disgusting
wow that's what
people get like even for a whole month you were living off 200 bucks i was
getting in debt thank
god i had credit before coming to that i was burning through that too fast 50
bucks a week that's kind
of crazy yeah i was i was spending it like 500 a week so i was i was i was
getting that pretty fast
wow like fast so um by the time you know and i and i'm like okay what i'm gonna
do so we're like we're
crying on the bed uh my wife is like you know i believe in you you can do
whatever you want i
think you're you know you can be champion i said i don't want to be just
champion anywhere i don't
want to be i want to be championing like the most brutal in the world like but
let's wait was like
it was almost unattainable at the time explain to people the rules of that way
because we keep
talking about it true so let's headbutts no gloves takedowns allowed so suplex
to the spot on
the head elbows to the back of the head they don't care right uh you know takedowns
allowed so soccer
kicks soccer kicks not i mean yes to the body but you can sort of on the all
the way on the way down
yeah you can kick them in the hell can i body lock and on the way down