Name: JRE MMA Show #71 with Rico Verhoeven
Uploaded: 2019-07-25T03:00:02.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'JRE MMA Show #71 with Rico Verhoeven' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2019-07-25. Transcript available. Joe is joined by Glory Kickboxing Heavyweight Champion Rico Verhoeven.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'JRE MMA Show #71 with Rico Verhoeven' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2019-07-25. Transcript available. Joe is joined by Glory Kickboxing Heavyweight Champion Rico Verhoeven.

JRE MMA Show #71 with Rico Verhoeven

and boom right when you take a drink of water that's when we go live always
that's when we go live what's up my friend good to see you good thanks for
having me bro my
pleasure i'm a big fan i've been a fan for a long time thank you so much and i'm
very excited about
this bader hari rematch so we were just talking about it that's going to be in
december yes sir
yeah it's going to be huge i think it's going to be the biggest fight in kickboxing
history
i think it's already i mean you were just saying that the tickets go on pre-sale
today i think
yeah today or tomorrow so yeah um where is it going to be held is it in holland
yeah it's going
to be in holland yeah so it's um it's called the the helder dome and how many
seats is that
i believe around 25 30 000. wow so it's crazy how big kickboxing is in holland
as opposed to america
yeah it's but holland europe it's it's a lot bigger than it is here so we i do
i do not for the life of
me understand why it hasn't taken off in america i don't get it well i think it
the the step of
going to mma then to kickboxing is so much closer for example from high school
it's so much more
logical when you do wrestling right do a little bit of boxing well let's jump
into mma then because
it's so close to each other and when you go to kickboxing it's totally
different right it's totally
different so many people in america when they watch mma they want guys to stand
up yeah i know that's
why it doesn't make any sense but still i think like every country is like very
patriotic they want
their own guys right to to be very good at something sort of but like when anderson
silva was at the top
of the heap in in mma everybody wanted to see him fight yeah it didn't matter
that he was from brazil yeah
that's true in america they still wanted to see him fight he's just they want
to see high level stuff
everyone here is such a fan of knockouts yeah and and striking and high level
striking i just don't
understand it no muay thai too you muay thai doesn't sell at all no i mean
there's no big muay thai events
like they had a pro muay thai league event here and it was in like nikki holtzkin
fought on it and um
bull cow and uh a few other big name guys um fought on it but it's like you
know nobody in the crowd
no but also like muay thai is also with the clinching and they hold too long it's
it's like i think it's a
a little bit boring like with what we do with glory now is it's like more
commercial because you can
hold like just for three three seconds right and then break and then continue
continue fighting so
and in the end that's what people want to see i get that but i like clinch work
too and i like elbows
elbows and knees the clinch you don't like it no i like the knees but the
elbows no no too many cuts
that nasty yeah very nasty so cuts are nasty yeah so i had what do you think
about how like the
amateur muay thai guys have elbow pads yeah that that's that's i think that's
probably in all that's
preventing for people who don't understand what we're talking about it's weird
that uh like we see you
could you can see with bare knuckle boxing there's a lot of bare knuckle boxing
matches now and you see
these guys faces are just getting destroyed yes i mean they just ripped apart
it's crazy it's not healthy
no it's not it's definitely not good for the longevity of your career no and so
in amateur muay thai
they have these elbow pads they wear and that would mean you still can knock
guys out just as easily
but you're not going to get the cuts exactly cuts of the so i think that's that's
that's a good thing
yeah but i'm just not a big fan of uh of the elbow of the elbow work but i love
to see it but i don't
like to get it i remember i remember i remember uh i was where was i was i
think i was training with the
black zillions like years ago i think it was even before i would be gonna
became champion and i was
training there doing a little bit of mma helping some guys out and i was
training and somebody just
he said on accident he just bop threw an elbow right on the nose and he just
opened it up just a little
bit and i was like what the hell are you doing yeah i'm sorry i'm sorry yeah
just an accident
yeah an accident so well i gave him a few extra low kicks after that in mma i
mean it's such a staple
technique yeah you know it's probably hard to not do it yeah you've had a
couple mma fights right
how many one just one yeah and you mounted the guy yeah that was it was crazy
you took him to the
ground yeah i was like let's let's give it a try when we're in there we got to
try everything but
when i saw it i was like damn if he makes his way to mma because the heavyweight
division particularly
in the ufc is extremely shallow yeah extremely shallow i mean you have some
great talent but there's
like four or five really good fighters you know it's like there's obviously cormier
there's stipe
francis and ganu there's a few other guys but it's you you know with a couple
of wins you're in the
the mix for a heavyweight title shot yeah you know have you ever thought about
doing that yeah i thought
about it you're still young right how old are you 30 yeah see which is crazy
because you've had a lot
of fights right yeah i had about 60 70 fights yeah that's crazy you know and it's
um and but the thing is
as european like fighting in glory like the it's a that's what people don't
understand it is enormous
overseas it's it's hard for people to in america they're like what kickboxing
but if you go to see
those events i mean i watch all of them you watch the events on television it's
like crazy packed
crowds and always full the first fight you had with butter holy was that crowd
hot that was a wild crowd
they even like jumped to the to the ropes and everything everything went crazy
so well it ended
in a up way yeah you know uh butter said his arm was hurt like what was the did
he get an mri or
anything like that i have no clue not from the organization or something so
yeah he did some
bandage or something over his arm in the night because that's what he posted on
instagram but
i don't know i don't know for me it was um yeah you know it was like a anti-climax
that yes that
wasn't the way i wanted to end that fight right but i think for the rest for
for him this was the
perfect way to end the fight because this is the way you could you could get a
rematch because if you
would would have lost no point in doing a rematch if you would get knocked out
no point in doing a rematch
so well unless it was a really close fight and then you eventually won yeah you
know but from
for my feeling uh everybody's like yeah but uh rico walked into the jabs the
first round and everything
that's true but i was pressuring him i was pressuring him the whole time and i
was trying to feel like
where is my distance where i can hit and where i can where i get hit so of
course that's right you get
tagged yeah you get tagged sometimes so my my nose was already uh during
training my nose opened up
so when he hit it it opened up again so i was like yeah it is what it is you
know i'm not really
bothered by it so i was pressuring pressure and i was like okay now i got now i
got it so after that
first round and yeah then we jumped into the second round i was fit i was ready
for i was ready for this
fight and that's what i like to do i would like to drag people into the deep
waters well you're very
fit for a heavyweight you have crazy cardio that's one of the things that i've
always admired about
your fighting style so you put insane pressure on guys for a heavyweight
because heavyweights bigger
guys tend to fight at a slower pace and with less volume but you you push a
pace and when the fight gets
the third fourth and fifth rounds you fucking pile it on man yeah because i've
been training with
uh light guys for like my whole career so when i started at the gym i started
it with the super pro
sports center uh with dennis carril he had uh albert kraus he was the first k1
max champion and he had
elfier lima like multiple uh middleweight champion world champion so i was
working with those guys
like every day and they just kept on pressuring me and like blah blah blah blah
blah i was getting
my ass whooped like almost every day by like guys that weighed like 75 kilos so
i was like i can keep
hitting him keep hitting those guys hard or just go with less power and
pressure them like they try to
pressure me and of course in the beginning is like still you get tired but at a
certain moment you get
like hey this is going better and right yeah don't try to hit them hard but
just try to keep the work
pop up like a machine gun is that something that happens in a fight as well
where you have to balance
out how hard you swing versus like not going full blast but going technical of
course knowing that
you can start unloading in the third fourth and fifth rounds you start to see
them fade but it's for me
it's like i'm playing a game for me this is we always say fighting is a
thinking man's game because
fighting everybody can fight when they have to everybody can fight when doesn't
matter what person when you
put them in a corner and it's life or death everybody can fight but it's it's
so much more than that it's
so much more than just fighting so and that's how i try to uh step into the
ring with that mentality
like people don't understand that who've never competed the managing of the
resources yes is a big
factor right like when do you decide to hit the gas and you see like guys in mma
you see it with a guy like
nick diaz like nick diaz is famous for not hitting guys hard he just stays on
you he just stays on you
with a lot of volume and then you get tired yeah and then then he starts unloading
exactly you know
with big shots so and that's that's what i like to do um the biggest compliment
i could get from an
opponent and i had it like for my like my last six opponent i got like three or
four times this like
rico now i understand why you are the champion i fought everybody but this i've
never felt before
and you're on a different level and that's the biggest compliment i could get
because i'm in the
in the ring for five rounds with this guy and they they got every opportunity
to do everything they've
trained for with me for five rounds so i didn't knock them out we just fought
for five rounds but they
just did not know what to do and that's yeah for me the biggest compliment i
could get yeah to be
technical and to just play your game exactly yeah i i really loved your rematch
with uh jamal bensadiq
yeah that was one of my favorite fights i believe that it was a great it's like
it that was like
the the full rocky version of a fight that people would love to see you get
tagged in the beginning
and then you overwhelmed him and then when you put him away it was like holy
what a fight
yeah what a fight that was that guy's a big too yeah he's a big guy and uh like
i lost against him like
back in the days and when i was like just a little little kid and so this fight
brought something
with it as well he's like yeah he's the champion now but i beat him but it was
like six seven years
ago i'm a totally different fighter than i was back then so let's go i'm ready
for you so yeah this
was the the the best thing and he spit in my face during a press conference so
i got some extra
motivation for that fight well you played it out perfectly too where even when
he hit you and hurt
you early in the fight you stayed calm you didn't get emotional you used good
defense and then once
you got him into the deep water you stopped him in the fourth in the fifth
fifth round yeah once you
got him into deep water then you piled it on and then put him away but then
again it's the same thing
for me everybody i said but how did you do that you got tagged and i said but
then again like i said
it's a thinking man's game so i got hit from my my point of view i made a
mistake i switched to south
pole but instead of switching and stepping outside of his front