Name: JRE MMA Show #68 with Will Harris
Uploaded: 2019-06-25T01:00:02.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'JRE MMA Show #68 with Will Harris' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2019-06-25. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'JRE MMA Show #68 with Will Harris' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2019-06-25. Transcript available.

JRE MMA Show #68 with Will Harris

and Will Harris you're live man this is crazy you're on the other side of the
camera now yeah
let me give you an introduction for people who don't know Will is the man
behind Anatomy of the
Fighter if you ever seen any of those videos like particularly the most famous
one was when Conor
McGregor threw that dolly at the bus with Khabib Nurmagomedov was on it and it
became a huge part
of the promotion which I thought was weird that it was this shameful act right
that he did that I
mean really awful caught a bunch of innocent people that were on the bus but
they used it over and over
and over again that was your footage yes a lot of people didn't even know
including me no one did
um you know I was telling a friend the other day was funny no one has ever
heard this but when it
happened uh I showed Khabib at the back of the bus because he was had a smile
on his face and I showed
him and everybody else on the bus that I actually caught Conor doing it because
they didn't really
know it was Conor right so I remember Khabib looked at the footage I was
holding the camera
and he was like brother you could get paid from this it's like bro this is
worth a hundred thousand
dollars he looked at his manager Ali a shout out to Ali and he was like get
this get him give him some
money he deserves this and then I gave it to the UFC to use for Embedded and um
I thought it was that
was just sitting they promoted the fight with it and I was like damn I should
have just leaned my head
to the right and got hit by the dolly so I could not have to be doing uh you
know go fund me's and
shit well what you should have done is ask for money for it that video footage
was it turned out it was
very valuable yeah because it set up the fight which also set up the post-fight
brawl I mean there
was there was so much that was involved in him throwing that dolly and you
caught that video and they played that
shit over and over and over I was actually kind of shocked that they did that
because at the time
we were like whoa Conor might go to jail like that was that was like legitimate
assault they used it the
next day like I was like damn like WME is when I saw it on like um when I saw
it on uh Fox News and
CNN I was just like that's my footage yeah you know because you know when you're
building a like a channel
or a series like that you think oh this is my moment every everybody has a
moment yeah and
unfortunately the UFC promoted it and shout out to them because they've been
nothing but good to me I
can't say anything uh I still wish I would have got something from it you
should have got something
from pull this mic up just pull it just get it up there like this from your
face there you go right
there right there yeah no you do a fantastic job I mean you really do and I
like I said until that video
footage came out I didn't know that you weren't even a part of the UFC's
promotion team I didn't
know I thought maybe WME had hired you and this is another thing they're
working on I did not know that you were
independent well what was crazy is that I started it almost two years ago um I
was just sitting at home in
Florida I was living in South Florida and I was I was hanging out with the guys
at the Black Zillions at
Jocko I had stumbled over there one day at the gym and I seen it when I was
grocery shopping and I just stopped
in um and I was doing stuff for Shannon Briggs let's go champ let's go champ I
was going to the
heavyweight factory you you do all those no I wasn't doing his phone videos
what happened was I
reached out to him and he invited me to the heavyweight factory Holyfield was
there everybody
and I just went there a few times and I created some creative videos for them
still working out
he was when I was there I seen him he still looks good he does man he like
crazy he's like 50 something
years old at least 50 years old I got some I got some amazing stories about
like that I've never released
about Tyson fight like crazy things like his oh man I got some stuff
yeah when are you putting it up well initially anatomy of fighting was just
supposed to be a documentary
that was it and I was that was it just an hour-long documentary um I never knew
who a
Khabib was or nothing like I just didn't know I I knew Michael Johnson all
these guys because they was at
the Black Zillions so I knew the first day I ever went in a gym like Michael
Chandler Kamaru Uzmane shout out to
Kamaru Uzmane because I the first time I ever saw him I thought he was a bum
what because Michael
Chandler gave it to him and I got it on camera and I thought Michael Chandler
was the stud right
and then it was like oh he won the ultimate fighter things like that so that
was almost two years ago
you thought he was a bum yeah just because I saw a rough day in the gym it was
sparring it was just
sparring so I'm you know I'm going around filming people and then I just turned
to the cage and like
Michael Chandler just dropped him with like a low shot and then Michael Chandler
like walking around him
like I created this film called the portrait of the Black Zillions that was
like the first thing I ever
made because it was Glenn Robinson r.i.p to him and Tyrone Spong that really
pushed me to do MMA they saw the stuff that I did with Shannon Briggs
and they called me into the office that same day that I gave whoever the
manager was at Jocko the
the footage and Glenn just said listen we need this type of work in MMA like
this is high quality
stuff and Tyrone Spong was boxing so I knew he was probably loving uh the
footage with Shannon Briggs
because he didn't boxing and that's after he broke his leg against Kokon Saki
and he decided to just go
straight to box so he you know Tyrone he's very uh persuasive and he was like
hey hey this we need this in the
gym so they gave me a pass to go to a sparring day and really work out with
them and um yeah there
it is right there but uh yeah that's how it happened and I just kept going to
the gym every day put that
back up chance and the other okay yeah that's the first thing I ever filmed in
my life called the
portrait of the Black Zillions and that shot of uh Michael Chandler uh r.p to
Jordan Parsons that was a
fighter that you know died after getting hit by a car um but that's the first
thing I ever filmed for
anatomy of fire uh that that was the sparring match and um yeah that was it and
from there uh everything
was born um I still was like focusing on doing like a documentary um until I
moved to Vegas uh like a
summer after that during a Conor McGregor and uh Floyd Mayweather fight I just
wanted I felt like I needed to
move to Vegas because the energy was taking me there and I felt like ah if I'm
gonna do a documentary I
might as well be in Vegas where a lot of fighters is this is a giant shift for
you right so what were
you filming before two years ago when you were at the Black Zillions uh before
that like I have a wedding
business so I was doing weddings my big black ass is doing weddings which is
funny I'll go to these
weddings and people be like because we'll sit down was gigantic I'll tell you
six five so he's towered over all
these people flowing their wedding yeah I I I really thought like man my life
is miserable at one point
I was like I'm just shooting these uh yeah after a while like you win an award
and another award and
another award and it's all based off reviews right it was like man I got I got
to do something more
than this so I did like basketball documentaries in Italy I lived in Italy for
a minute I went to China
did a basketball documentary there because that's my background basketball but
after that I was just like
man what what else can I do and I literally just stumbled I saw the gym one day
Jocko and I was
like that's where them Black Zillions trained and I went over there and that's
how all it just walked
in no martial arts training nothing I just saw the gym and I was like that's Jocko
I know the Black
Zillions trainer so I went in there like midday nobody was in there and I just
said listen I'm a
filmmaker I would love to film some of these fighters and that's how it
happened did you go to school for
them yeah so I went to college at University of Southern Indiana in Evansville
on a basketball
scholarship I was a top senior in America coming out of high school and I went
to this top division
two school after I tried to wait my senior year to get some division one offers
obviously if people
know like division one is the top level of basketball and then division two is
right under that probably
not now but back then it was and um I went uh Bruce Pearl was my coach he was
very persuasive to get
me to come to the university he coaches at Auburn now uh they just went to the
final four this year if
you know anything about basketball but I played my first year and then going
into my second year I tore
my ACL and uh I my life was over all I knew was basketball if anybody know
anything about Carbondale
it's about 25 000 people people don't leave that town it's kind of a miserable
you know thing I think
like the average household median income there is like 16 000 a year for
families Jesus yeah like so
you come from the bottom did you get it repaired yeah so I had surgery I had
the red shirt so when
you're in college and you sit out of your red shirt so one day I was dating
this girl and she was going to
Walmart and she literally was just like oh you want to come to Walmart with me
and I was like yeah
I had some pale grant money and I I was addicted to the you remember the MTV
show Road Rules and Real World
yeah I used to be addicted to that stuff so I used to watch it all the time and
I went to Walmart that day
and bought a camera that was my a Sony Handycam the one you used to put little
mini DVDs in
and that was the birth I literally my life changed as soon as I bought that
camera and I was like oh I'm gonna
just film my rehab and uh come back more ferocious and all I was doing was like
filming girls at parties
doing bongs and shit like that like literally for four years I had a camera
every day so you just
stopped playing basketball no I can I continue to play basketball I I came back
a year after my red
shirt um I finished it one of the top five scores in school history and
university history top four
rebounds all-time leader and field goal percentage all-american my senior year
we went to the national
championship played on national tv everything after that was done I wasn't the
same player after I told my ACL I
can just admit that like I was this high-flying super freak athletic 45-inch
vertical type of player
to I couldn't do that anymore so I had to adjust my whole game what was wrong
I don't know maybe I just you know it was different back in 2001 right as far
as
yeah as far as surgery and you get the patella tendon
I got patella yep that's a rough that's and they don't do that anymore they
still do they do yeah
George St. Pierre had that done yeah they they do that sometimes because they
think that the patella
tend I had it done in 90 no yeah 93 I had it done on this leg and then this one
I had the cadaver which
was way easier yeah cadavers like a six-month rehab and I was back to jiu-jitsu
100% I was always like
slightly knock-kneed right and it's like that surgery made my left knee even
more knock and it's like
that's why I was telling jamie like I need that because I feel like I need to
like strengthen my
it even yeah it has this crazy roller thing what is that thing called again jamie
a roll here so
pull it all right now I got it uh yeah that I need something like that jamie's
showing everybody there
yeah there you go it's crazy heavy clamp that thing down your thigh yeah it
didn't seem that good for
my my calves well you were like standing on you got like you can't have any
tension on it or whatever
yeah like have a but your thigh it seems like it would be a lot of pressure
because it's for sure
like a spring get a thicker your muscle yeah it's like uh it's hot I don't kno