Name: JRE MMA Show #66 with Michelle Waterson
Uploaded: 2019-05-29T01:00:02.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'JRE MMA Show #66 with Michelle Waterson' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2019-05-29. Transcript available. Joe is joined by UFC Strawweight fighter Michelle Waterson.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'JRE MMA Show #66 with Michelle Waterson' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2019-05-29. Transcript available. Joe is joined by UFC Strawweight fighter Michelle Waterson.

JRE MMA Show #66 with Michelle Waterson

two one hello Michelle how's it going I'm getting ready to crack my neck go
ahead crack your neck
put it on put the microphone to it so we can hear it does it pop oh that was a
good one that was a
good one do you do that all the time just when I'm getting ready to throw down
yeah pull this
microphone like a fist from your face there we go is that better yeah perfect
all right so what's
happening no we're just in town my brother-in-law just moved just got stationed
here in California
so we drove them down and then we did the whole San Diego um no I think it's it's
actually an hour
south of here I think so it's not close by but cool air force okay we did the
whole Edwards yes
okay yeah okay I know where that is yeah yeah so we got stationed there that
was the first time I ever
saw a stealth bomber it was like at right after 9-1-1 we were filming um uh
fear factor out there and I
saw one fly overhead it's like a UFO it's like wow that is crazy does it look
like a UFO yeah it doesn't
even look real you ever seen one in real life it looks like like a Batmobile
like like Batman's plane
it's so crazy when you see one flying you're like wow the engineering involved
in something like that
it's insane and that was a while back yeah sure it was 2001 because it was
right after 9-11 so it's
2000 that's it right there that's what we saw one of them it's uh there's a b2
and then this is like
a f-116 or something like that I don't know which one we saw but it was black
and wicked looking nice
yeah that's crazy it looks like your Tesla yeah like flying around one of those
things that's what
we thought well imagine back then that's what it looked like back then so what
what is there now
right you probably can't see them they probably look like the sky probably are
you from military
background my dad yeah my dad was so that's what my parents met my dad was
stationed in Germany
my mom was fleeing Thailand um to her her first husband was like physically
abusive to her so she
was leaving Thailand and she came to Germany to find her a GI and then found my
dad she came to find
a GI specifically well you know I think she was coming to get away but you know
she wanted to
she wanted a better life for her son at the time and my dad was in the hospital
and so my mom was
taking care of him and cooking him food and made him fall in love there you go
and my dad always jokes
he says it's he tells us a story all the time he's like yeah your mom was
taking care of me
and then she told me that you were pregnant and then 12 months later you were
born
oh that's funny so but no they fell in love it was just a really long pregnancy
just weird
just kind of weird I don't know why yeah it's like 12 months I don't know but I
was pretty small but
no yeah and then so then we moved to Colorado and I was born then we lived in
Germany for a little
bit when I was younger and then back to Colorado and I grew up in Aurora
Colorado oh cool when did
you start training um probably around 10 yeah yeah around 10 um I have I have
an older brother he's
four years older than me he's my half brother and um I really wanted to do
gymnastics as a kid and my
parents just we just couldn't afford it was really expensive and so my brother
found um a little karate
spot at the church just across the street and it was a community like a
community uh karate thing and so
something that all three of us could do and so yeah we jumped into it and I
fell in love with it I just
it just took over my life and changed changed my life did you start competing
really quickly yeah I think
so um and at first it's funny because at first um so I would do like the the
karate tournaments and
so there's point sparring and then there's the katas and I thought the katas
were silly and I remember
going in and doing point sparring and um getting knocked on my butt and I was
like okay I think I
want to do some katas then I want to bring some trophies home so but um so yeah
I competed
uh karate from 10 all the way up until I was 18 and so I did a lot of the like
the flashy
like um extreme martial arts katas with the um like the flips and stuff like
that but I always
I always came back to sparring because I wasn't good at it like I was like uh
it bugged me it bugged
me that I that I wasn't good at it and then I found my niche because it's point
sparring so you get
two two points to the head for kicks to the head so I would just sit back and
let them come in and
just kick him in the head kick him in a couple times and win the fight so how
did you go from that
did you go from that to kickboxing or did you go right into MMA like when did
you when did you start
training MMA so so I did I did karate and then I got my black belt in karate
what kind um American
freestyle and then so I think around 18 or 19 I was kind of just exploring
doing a couple different
things so I did wushu for a couple of years and I competed in wushu and then I
did a little bit of
campo and um and then kind of dabbled a little bit into um kickboxing and uh so
it it all kind of just
happened pretty strangely I was in college I was working at Hooters and I was
doing the all these like
little side jobs um like doing photo shoots for this and that and um I was a
ring girl for an MMA show
I had never seen MMA and I remember uh just walking around the cage and
thinking man I want to be like
on the inside I said that one that looks cool I think I could do it because it
was mixed martial arts
you know and I remember talking to a promoter and he kind of laughed me off and
was just like whatever
you know you're a ring girl and um it was a smaller local show Donald Cerrone
was actually fighting on
that show and he overheard me yeah and so he came to my work at Hooters and I
wasn't there and he was
just like left me a note if you're serious about fighting get your ass in the
gym wow and then where
was this is in Colorado Colorado and then I so I went to go train I went to go
training with
with Donald and you know we we gym hopped from place to place I trained with um
with Dwayne I
trained um with Trevor I trained with with all the guys wow and um and so I
took a couple smokers we
drive you know drive around the region and took a couple smokers and then um it
was like at that
point when I was still in college and um I just was not happy in college I I
was kind of wandering
around aimlessly as really successful in high school and uh you know um it just
didn't transfer
over to college I I still I got good grades I was 3.8 you know I was going to
DU but I wasn't happy
I just I there was something missing and it was it was the martial arts it was
a big part of my life
and you needed a real challenge you need something physical too probably right
yeah I would imagine
that someone growing up doing martial arts as long as you did you like the the
thrill of using
your body and moving around it's like that it's so important like once once you
do that and you
compete and it becomes a part of you the idea of like sitting in the classroom
all day and then
eventually sitting in a job all day was probably not not that compelling yeah I
think so I think that
I just yeah I was losing myself what were you going to school for I was going
to school so I was double
majoring in theater and um sports science so I was majoring in theater because
I got a scholarship for
it and I was doing sports science I wanted to be like physical therapist for um
like a sports team
or something like that or even a martial arts team but uh yeah so I decided to
take a like a little bit
like a break from that and my mom my grandma was sick in Thailand so then I was
like I told my mom I just
go with her for the summer and I went to visit my grandma in Thailand and while
I was out there I um
I went to sit your tongue uh Muay Thai camp and I absolutely fell in love with
it they made fun of me
because of my my karate kicks yeah it's interesting how different karate kicks
are yeah Thai kicks yeah and
they were looking at me like I was crazy but I was like but no I'm a black belt
I it's just like I know
what I'm doing they're just laughing at me we're training on concrete outside
these little five
year old kids are doing 10 year old 10 minute rounds and um my feet are blistering
up from kicking over
and over and over on the concrete but I loved it I fell in love with it it
kicked my butt and I fell in
love with it and I came back and I dropped out of college and I decided to
pursue fighting wow so where
did you learn grappling so so my first MMA fight was kind of just it was
supposed to be an amateur fight
and um like I said I was training with um with Donald and he was training at a
school in Vail
and so I would I would go to I would um I would work on the weekends and then
drive up to Vail and train
uh my grappling and all of it like the like all of the MMA and so so you
basically trained MMA together
like you didn't take specific grappling classes but I would imagine that that
was the thing that
you needed to concentrate on the most right yeah and I figured okay my my pro
did or it wasn't it was
supposed to be amateur but the girl that I was supposed to fight fell through
and um the only girl
that they had available was already pro she was like 2-0 pro and of course you
know how Donald is he's like
whatever fuck it just do it and so that's a good Donald accent so I was like
all right I mean
we've been training so I literally had four weeks in my in my like throughout
my my karate career we would
have grappling nights when we would do grappling but it wasn't anything like
substantial so yeah four weeks
of of grappling training and I figured okay you know I'll just use my stand up
to to win the fight and
she was swinging from from way back here and trying to take my head off so I
ended up taking her down
I ended up taking down like six or seven times and winning the fight by taking
her down and ground
and pounding that's crazy yeah did you say while you were doing it like wow
this is so weird that I'm
doing this it was I I wasn't thinking at all I was just in the moment having
the time of my life
were you thinking that this was what you're gonna wind up doing like
professionally or were you just
thinking I can't believe I'm doing this I yeah that's exactly I was like this
is so much fun
um it was at the Broomfield Event Center I don't know if it's that's still
called the Broomfield
Event Center in Colorado but yeah I think a bank owns it now or something yeah
there was changed names
it was so much fun but never in my life I thought I would be a top UFC contender
never and on your way
your goal is to be the first mommy yeah to ever win a title yeah that's
possible 100% you're in the
you're in the hunt right now like what are you ranked I'm ranked seven seventh
but I don't think the rankings are
anything they're weird they're weird yeah there's like sometimes someone will
beat somebody and then that
person's still ahead of in the ranking I'm like explain that I just I don't
understand the rankings
though I feel like I've won my last two fights and I've gone down in rankings
um Joanna hasn't fought and she's gone down in rankings
um and some of the girls haven't fought and they've gone up in rankings I just
think the rankings are
crazy yeah well it's a bunch of people get to submit their positions right like
a bunch of
journalists and accepted experts on MMA get to have no idea I guess when I look
at the rankings
sometimes I feel like it it shifts depending on who they're trying to push or
you know just
sometimes I feel like just storyline kind of can dictate yeah the rankings you
know obviously I'm a
giant fan of the UFC I love them to death I'm so happy and I just I would do
nothing for any other
organization I'd never want to work for another organization but I don't like
the way they do
things there's a lot of things that I don't like they just they just cut Elias
Theodoro really yeah one loss
Derrick Bronson cut I'm like what they cut Derrick Bronson no 