Name: JRE MMA Show #64 with Khalil Rountree Jr.
Uploaded: 2019-04-26T04:17:53.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'JRE MMA Show #64 with Khalil Rountree Jr.' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2019-04-26. Transcript available. Joe is joined by UFC Light Heavyweight fighter Khalil Rountree Jr.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'JRE MMA Show #64 with Khalil Rountree Jr.' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2019-04-26. Transcript available. Joe is joined by UFC Light Heavyweight fighter Khalil Rountree Jr.

JRE MMA Show #64 with Khalil Rountree Jr.

And
What's up, man? How are you? Good. Thanks for doing this. Thank you for having
me on. I was so impressed with your performance from that
Past UFC that I had to I had to talk to you
I was like that was what I've seen guys make like you were always a very
dangerous striker from obviously from the Gokhan sake fight
Everybody got to see that mm-hmm, but to see how fluid you were against a beast
like Eric Anders
I mean, Eric Anders is a scary cat. Yeah, he's he's coming for blood, right?
And you were so fast man. It was crazy to watch. It's really interesting. Thank
you
Like what if you had to give yourself a percentage leap that you've gone up
Over the last year. What do you think it would be compared to like who you were
before that?
Not that high of a leap. I mean like that performance for me was like I feel
good about it, but
That was only four months so I'm like I know that there's so much more for me
to gain that's what I'm like
Yeah, I gotta go back so the leap not not too much because I know there's still
a lot more to go a lot more
Yeah, wow
So you've decided so for people who don't understand what we're talking about
you went to Thailand you spent four months down in Thailand and
You stood you foot we're fighting like a Thai boxer. It was crazy. Like Martell
Grote who works in the production truck?
He's the guy who picks out the instant replays. He and I talk back and forth
sometimes while the fight's going on and
Mark Mark you know with his heavy Boston accent like dude classic
He's classic Thai stance and he would just so light on that front leg
That inside leg kick was so ferocious. It was fun to watch man, so it's just
Usually wherever I go. Um, I've always been good at just like kind of absorbing
the culture
I'm a guy like I can go into a room full of people and I can just kind of pick
up
What the energy is like and that's another reason why I wanted to go to
Thailand
so just the way that they train and
The discipline
the power
but the relaxation like everything I was learning just like man, there's so
much more to Muay Thai so I would just even the days that I didn't train
I'd just sit around and just watch these guys because
Muay Thai is more than just punching kicking elbows man. There's balance. You
know what I mean? There's there's
Repetition like how many kicks are you throwing? You know the guys at the
stadiums. They're like they're kick kick kick kick
So I was able to learn a lot man, and there's still a lot to go. It's beautiful
to see someone on that pursuit and I think it's um
it's much like
Roger Mayweather said about boxing like most people don't know shit about
boxing and when he said that's like if anybody is gonna say that
He's gonna say that because there are levels and layers and there's there's
paths to go down and it's interesting when you see someone
like
committed with a very
Like a very specific style like you're you like your adoption of that Muay Thai
style
So if it's so effective as a striking style
It's really interesting when you think of all the different ways to attack with
striking that that one way became very particularly successful
You know what before I even
started training
MMA as a whole
my first
Mixed martial my first martial arts class was a Muay Thai class. I knew that I
wanted to train Muay Thai or learn Muay Thai
um and
So since I've started I always thought like yeah, I want to go there, you know,
just maybe it's cool, but
um
Muay Thai has always been my thing, but I had never really learned it like the
actual way, you know, like from from the root
Yeah of uh of where it comes from always just kind of like passed down or like
Brazilian style Muay Thai, right?
You know like shoot the box type stuff. So mmm, um that's completely different
from stadium Muay Thai and
most people don't know shit about stadium Muay Thai, right?
Like unless you go to unless you go to Bangkok let's characterize it for people
you
Would you say that that curatiba style just way more aggressive different?
Different way they utilize techniques. Yeah, it's not light on the front leg.
So
Sometimes they are like more shogun would be light on his front leg a little
bit
One thing that they were doing a lot that's pretty similar is just like they go
at it shoot the box
They'll go at it and you just go until the other guy stops pretty much
um, but from the shoot the box that was like very combo based
Like punches and kicks like one two like you have to memorize these crazy
combos cordero is
He like I think he's one of the guys that just like passed it down a lot diego
limo guys like that
But yeah, they have this system and it's very like combination based
um
memory slipping punch kick all this stuff, but the ties are just like
it's just
Straight kick, you know like punch you you fall down on that front foot elbow
Knee it's just it's broken down completely differently. Um
It's just a whole a whole different style. Yeah, it is like so the the shoot
the box stuff
punches kicks knees elbows combinations same
Tools that you're going to use in muay thai, but muay thai has got a whole
different game plan. Hmm, you know clinching like
I've never trained as much clinching in america as I have in thailand in just
four months and i've been fighting or training now for like nine years
so just in four months i've gotten
More clinch time in thailand than I have you know in my whole career and that's
Because it's a whole different game. You got to master the clinch in muay thai
you have to
For effective like real true muay thai. Are you getting a lot of wrestling over
there? Yeah, so
That's one thing too. I heard um, I heard shab talking about it. Um tiger has
amazing like it's an amazing gym
40 to 60 guys on the mat from everywhere chechnya wow, you know in everywhere
and everywhere man those guys
They come there maybe for a week maybe two weeks
um
Maybe for a month, but you're getting constant. Um good training grappling
everything mma boxing
Crossfit
Everything you need is in one place. It's it's it blew my mind being there
honestly. Um, that's fascinating and you're
Do you are you?
The coaches that you were working with before are you still working with them?
And thailand are you just gonna I know you talked about actually moving to thailand.
Yeah
Yeah, the plan is to move there like as soon as possible really. Yeah
So I was like hitting you up like joe. I want to get on your show. I want to
talk a little bit
Um, but yeah, I want to um, the plan is to move to thailand like within the
next couple weeks for at least a year
and
I want to go there just because
I can just train the lifestyle is completely different. I can walk to the gym
hop on a motorbike. It's just it's so simple
Um, but to answer the question about my coaches, um, I always have my brother
in my corner
He's just kind of like moral support. We started this together
Um, I had a conditioning coach slash friend slash
Mental type of like support
Lorenzo pavlica and then my head coaches have switched
Probably two or three times in the last couple fights. I had kenny johnson from
black house
Um, john wood from syndicate and now I have george hickman from
Tiger muay thai. Yeah, and so this change that you decided to make, uh, did it
come after the johnny walker fight?
yeah, so
the johnny walker fight like
That camp was tough man. Like I was doing so much to try to improve in my
wrestling and grappling because
That was always like a big hole in my game
Um, so I spent so much time wrestling over at black house with kevin casey and
This guy that I fought blake troop. They're huge and these guys are great grapplers.
So in casey's a powerhouse. Yeah, he'll put you into the ground
And he feels like cement block on top of yourself. It's old-school hicks and jujitsu.
Exactly. That pressure man. Yeah, so um
Yeah, I would I was just grinding myself into the mat every day for that camp
expecting like okay
I'm comfortable on the feet if it goes to the ground i'm ready and um
I think I just completely lost sight of like my striking my muay thai in that
fight his size everything
I just kind of froze up man. I was just like, uh
I didn't know what to do how to get there. So that's all part of the education,
right?
I mean, this is what this this career of fighting that you're you're on this
path is what it's all about
Yeah
And fighting for me is like big self-awareness too, you know
I think it's always important though when a guy has a setback to see how he
responds
Some people get discouraged some people get encouraged some people just decide
like they're gonna be much more committed
And that's what you did you just I mean making that move to do your camp in thailand
and seeing how it paid off
I mean eric anders is a very tough customer and you essentially shut him out
Yeah, I mean it was very very impressive man. That was the that was the the
plan though because I knew he was tough
He's I've trained with him before I sparred with him before that everything and
like he's
I've watched all of his fights. The guy's hard to put away. We were making a
case for the fight being stopped. Yeah
We were making a case. I mean dc was saying like we can stop this fight
I was saying it. I was like you're you were fucking his legs up
I didn't even think about it during the fight. I wasn't like i'm sure you weren't
But that guy is so damn tough. He kept coming man. I mean he he never stopped
trying to win that fight
Yeah, there's no quitting him. None. I mean even in the santos fight remember
like it was just
Do or die. Yeah, no any tweets. He's like I haven't been that tired since like
my wedding night or something like that
He's always got good good tweets after the fight shout out to eric handers
I love what john annick said too. He loves when he fights because then bruce
buffer has to say your boy
Yeah, boy
Hey, why does it where does he keep his suits man? He's got a new suit. Oh, he's
a bad motherfucker dude
The insides of always has like different decorations and shit. They commemorate
different places where we're at bruce buffer. He's
He's got style. I just imagine him have a level on his house. Just
Oh, yeah, it's like a malt, you know what I mean? Like you know
Nordstrom or something but his is just all the suits that he's worn before
I mean unless he donates him he might donate them to charity
That might be one of the or auction them for charity or something like that.
That'd be good. Yeah, he's uh, he's a fun dude
He's the best ring announcer of all time too, man
When that guy starts wailing, he gets so pumped up. Seriously, his fucking head
gets red
He's so intense man
Like if you watch boxing they're much more smooth
Bruce buffer gets into it, man
He digs in I remember seeing him first yell at like at tj dillashaw and he was
like, oh, I was like, oh
He gives you goosebumps
He really does he gives you goosebumps. Yeah, you just feel his energy, right?
You're just like i'm there wait ready for a fight like i'm kind of nervous and
then bruce comes over like yeah
Out of the blue corner. You're like, we're talking about a dude who blew his acl
out from jumping up in the air while he was reading
Remember that name. Oh my god. That's how intense he gets
He's fucked his knee up from just getting crazy. Oh, yeah. Oh, joe really quick.
What do we got?
Okay, so, um, remember I told you to turn your airdrop on during the show
Um, so I didn't want to come here empty-handedly
So I haven't slept in probably
24 hours more than 24 hours, but last night
I was drawing and I know you like art. So I was like, oh, yeah, let me draw
these illustrations for you
So I just want to send them to you. Okay, so turn your airdrop on it's on
And as soon as it comes through I'll send them but yeah, I really
Just like man, I just want to if you want to keep them use them for like wallpapers
or post them up whatever you want
You made this? Yeah, I did all these man. Dude, that's I look ridiculous. Yeah,
I did the little like
I'll put it on instagram later. 