Name: JRE MMA Show #78 with Andre Ward
Uploaded: 2019-09-04T01:00:03.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'JRE MMA Show #78 with Andre Ward' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2019-09-04. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'JRE MMA Show #78 with Andre Ward' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2019-09-04. Transcript available.

JRE MMA Show #78 with Andre Ward

two one boom Andre Ward ladies and gentlemen how are you brother I'm good man
how you doing thank
you very much for doing this man I'm a big fan so I was very excited to do this
appreciate you
having me you did it in terms of like if you're a young fighter and you got
aspirations what do
you want to do you want to be an Olympic gold medalist you want to win multiple
world titles
two division world champion and you retired undefeated you you're the one you're
like a
unicorn man you're a rare dude because you retired at 35 right 33 33 that's
crazy like you're in the
peak of your athletic abilities and you go you know what I did enough I'm out
yeah I mean it sounds it
sounds all neat and buttoned up uh but it wasn't it wasn't that easy like I
didn't know how things
were going to go throughout the course of my career um but for whatever reason
like I always even as a
young kid I'm talking 10 years old like I had this thought like you know I don't
want to end up like
a lot of fighters end up like they seem to go high really high and then all of
a sudden they come
crashing down like they start well but they don't end well yeah that's what
that's what drew me to Roy
Jones Jr. um country boy had swag and he'd always talk about himself in the
third person he'd be like
man you know Roy Jones I don't you know I don't love the sport like that man I'm
gonna get in and get
out I'm just special at it and I'm gonna be fishing on my farm one you know one
day in Pensacola Florida
and I was like man this dude is different fighters don't talk like that so he
was the first one that
gave me the thought of getting in and getting out and then again I just I just
studied it throughout
the course of my career even other athletes and entertainers like I just I was
enamored by it so
that was always a goal just as much as I wanted to win a gold medal world
championship I wanted to
leave on top when people were asking why are you leaving yeah well it's so
difficult to make that
decision though for so I mean Roy Jones Jr. didn't even make that decision he
said he was going to do
it and then I mean he had some rough knockouts it was late in his career hard
to watch that some of
them that people even didn't even see yeah yeah heartbreaking yeah especially
if you followed him
and supported him like I have especially if you know his decision was based on
Gerald McClellan a lot
of it was yeah yeah when Gerald McClellan for people who don't know was a
murderer man I mean he was a
savage light heavyweight but he caught he was cutting a lot of weight yeah and
um you know he wound up
having a serious brain injury and in in that epic fight with Nigel Ben which is
an amazing amazing
fight when Ben got off the deck it looked like the fight was over because
Gerald McClellan would just
murk people man absolutely uh like a prototypical cronk destroyer yeah you know
and right hand
whoo tall strong as fuck super aggressive knockout striker and for whatever
reason Roy um decided you know
let's just keep doing it fuck it it's a lot of different reasons why people do
that man I just
didn't want to be one of them simple simply put um but it is like the
retirement is coming up on two
years September 21st um it's harder than I thought it was going to be one of
the most hardest things I've
ever had to do but one of the most rewarding and the way I reconcile it in my
brain is that okay
at some point I'm gonna have to do this at some point I'm gonna have to face
the emotions and
and the pull to come back and you know trying to figure out if your body can
still do it and just all the
different things you go through whether I'm in my prime or rather I'm 40 45
years old so you can't
avoid it it's just when do you want to take take on that task so you're retired
at 33 35 now so
god damn man you're right there I mean you've like four more years to be unless
you're Bernard Hopkins
then you have another decade but to Bernard's credit he started late he did
Bernard started at
20 some years old and graded for state prison yes I started at nine years old
well also Bernard
developed this insane discipline while he was in prison that the hardships of
prison were so awful
the feeling of being locked up and contained that he fucked up his life he was
so bound and determined
to become something special that means so disciplined well even beyond that
like he opened up his eyes and
he looked at the landscape and he realized that most fighters are not
disciplined most fighters they like
the idea of being a champion they like the idea of winning you know
championships and what that brings
not just the championships of what the championships and the money brings the
ladies that you know the
party and all the stuff and he said I'm gonna do it a different way like these
guys are out gaining weight
20 pounds in between fights I'm gonna live like a Spartan he under he got the
revelation and he just stuck to it
yeah he ate clean he lived a clean life and he fought so disciplined yeah he
fought so smart he was one of the
best defensive fighters ever just and people didn't like that style man he
would pop you and grab you
pop you and grab you and people get frustrated they would get out of composure
and they would start
doing the things that maybe they shouldn't have done and then he would
capitalize on those things
i remember when he fought trinidad man i mean that was my favorite fight whoo
he's trinidad was a killer
and i love tito i do too i mean he was a killer i got a chance to see tito
fight live in vegas once
it was amazing but when bernard started putting it on him i was like wow this
is first of all this is
a like a legitimate middleweight fighting guy who's really a welterweight and
this is also a really
special fighter who just figures people out he fought tito in new york city in
madison square garden
which is which is little puerto rico yes like you know i think it was the week
of the the puerto rican
day parade yes like and previously to that fight in puerto rico bernard hopkins
took the puerto rican
flag threw it down caused a melee had to run out of there get snatched out of
the arena wherever they
were having a press conference get thrown on the plane like the the beef was
real oh yeah and uh to be
able to like like perform under that kind of pressure unreal one of my favorite
fights when he was running
away from the crowd in puerto rico and he realized like oh my god he's on his
own here like literally
people are trying to kill him but what what's even crazier is he knew that was
gonna happen
yeah like he knew okay this is getting ready to happen in three two one threw
the flag down and it
was on oh man but it worked first of all it got so many people to pay attention
to that fight
yeah and then two it got you know it got tito emotional if he lost that fight
he was back to
the back of the bus if he wins the fight which he did he moves on to become
great yeah he moves on to
greatness you know it's interesting when you watch his style as well that very
technical very disciplined
style versus roy's style which was so athletic and explosive and very unusual
with that lead left hook
that he would fire off more than a jab i mean roy had a crazy style and then
you watch roy out point
bernard early yep but then bernard comes back later in his career and really
kind of like shut roy down
yeah and showed like when the athleticism starts to slip away a little bit roy
is normal he's a
human he's a human yeah whereas bernard was still this incredibly disciplined
very well-schooled boxer
it was a real good lesson for fighters to see the deal like this is why you use
the fundamentals this
is why you fight correctly you can get away with being roy jones jr but roy jones
jr with his physical
gifts i feel like he could have got away with fighting discipline too he could
have got away with fighting
technically but you know he just chose to fight his way it worked for a long
time it worked until it
didn't work but it worked better than anybody i mean it was amazing to watch in
the day when he was on top
yeah you know when he was knocking out virgil hill with body shots and putting
his hands behind his
back and knocking dudes out i mean that was the guy i fell in love with you
know but he could have
roy could have he could have gone and had a full career and rode off in the
sunset and been in
pensacola fishing hunting doing whatever he does and still not really been
super fundamentally sound
but i mean after he beat john ruiz for the heavyweight championship of the
world
uh and i had been going to multiple roy fights leading up to that heavyweight
fight
antonio tarva who i have a lot of respect for you know they were rivals in florida
when they were young
um antonio was following roy around trying to get him to notice him trying to
get him to take a fight
and i remember clear as day in the post-fight press conference after roy became
the heavyweight
champion of the world after being the middleweight champion starting at 160
uh antonio tarva interrupted the press conference he said roy jones you've been
ducking me you've been
running he's going on and on and on roy looks at tarva and and gives him the
attention that he's been
after and he said oh he said i'm gonna whoop you i'm gonna whoop you we're
gonna make that fight
happen and at that moment i'm thinking like no roy no don't do it you're the
heavyweight champion of the
world tarva was still light heavyweight and sure enough roy went down stripped
off 25 pounds of
muscle that he had built up with mackie shieldstone to get ready for the heavyweight
fight went down
there fought a close fight but he didn't look like himself took the rematch now
even after the first
fight with tarver man you run for the heels you know what i beat him i wasn't
myself i'm going back
up took the rematch and then got knocked out yeah i didn't that's weird i
thought the re the first
fight was earlier now my brain scrambled here because i thought that that was
immediately after
the ruiz fight that he got knocked out yeah it was he went back down yeah so ruiz
light heavyweight
went down fought tarva the first time then fought the rematch and then got
knocked out so they fought
two times in a row they fought two times in a row and then they ended up
fighting a third time like
way down the road did they really i didn't even know they fought a third time
in florida yeah the loss of
weight was a terrible idea and also let's be realistic about how we put that
weight on is most
likely there's some mexican supplements involved and if you're gonna put that
kind of bulk on you
know i mean i don't know yeah roy jones is one of my heroes and there's not
disrespect no i hear you
but and i've heard people say stuff like that but like i'm that's my guy i'm
like i'm a kid so i'm like
no i get it i don't know i get it i'm believing that it was just roy mackie
shieldstone and hard work
i believe it is that it's possible it's possible but i mean what is he like he
was like 33 34 at
the time he was somewhere around there yeah very hard to put 25 pounds of
muscle on yeah very well
it didn't really see he cut weight to make the light heavyweight limit right so
you got to think he
he was probably like 185 190 probably yeah and so he really only gained maybe
10 15 pounds
still he was lean as fuck yeah he was pretty lean he was thick though too roy
had that kind of build
oh he was country strong yeah very muscular i mean he had crazy biceps and no
triceps yeah it was all
just whipping was weird right he had a crazy body i didn't notice dude his his
body was very unusual
the way he was built like he was all biceps it was just whipping you know he's
just from whipping
punches with body shots yeah no he was phenomenal you got a picture of him jamie
yeah all the tvs are
yeah that's my guy no listen i'm a gigantic roy jones jr fan but i mean i feel
like like that's there's one
example right there you see how gigantic his biceps are but you see it almost
mor