Name: JRE MMA Show #59 with Kamaru Usman
Uploaded: 2019-03-19T02:32:05.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'JRE MMA Show #59 with Kamaru Usman' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2019-03-19. Transcript available. Joe is joined by UFC Welterweight Champion Kamaru Usman.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'JRE MMA Show #59 with Kamaru Usman' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2019-03-19. Transcript available. Joe is joined by UFC Welterweight Champion Kamaru Usman.

JRE MMA Show #59 with Kamaru Usman

and we're live what's up how are you what's up joe dude you're a roller coaster
ride what is
it like to be the champ oh what's the feeling like this is fresh for you oh
well first of all
i just want to say man it's such an honor to be here um the honor is mine i
never i'm gonna i'm
be honest i'm i'm my thing is i'm just gonna be 100 totally transparent i was
never i never really
watched the show i never really kind of heard of the show of course i heard of
you and all the
things you do i'm like oh yeah it's fair factor guy you know but i never really
heard of the show
until like after like a fight or two in the ufc and people are like tagging me
and shit like
yo joe rogan's talking about you're gonna talk about you in pocket i'm like
fucking podcast because
i never listened to pockets at the time i was like what are you talking about
until i finally
started listening i'm like oh this dude is for real this dude got some some
some pool he got some
people watching this shit random people would tag me oh joe was talking about
you today on the podcast
i'm like oh man this guy's for real and then every time after that that i see
you i'm like
what's up joe
yeah we've been talking about you for a long time man we were just with your
friend out there
we're watching a video of us talking about you back when you were ranked number
12th and i was
saying i think you could fight for the title right now yeah man um and i i like
to attest it to i
think because i went back once i started kind of researching you i like to go
back and do a little
research and i'm like fucking joe's been with this this sport for the beginning
like you were in the
back with hair
97 yeah with hair freaking interviewing the guys that were doing during the
tournament that were
finding multiple fights at night and you were interviewing those guys and i was
like even back
then joe had skills joe was a beast at interviewing these guys there was no
shaking behind it because
i you know one thing about me i've gotten into comment and commentating and
things like that
now and i'm like dang joe it didn't seem nervous you were just like a freaking
natural at it
and the sport was just growing at that time i was like there was nobody
watching back then it wasn't
as much pressure you know it wasn't like coming into it today yeah espn pay-per-view
all that deal
it would be a lot of pressure but back then it was just fun yeah it was it was
weird man the first
one i did was in dothan alabama and it's weird like i don't know if it was a
high school gym or
something some small auditorium tiny little place it was very weird they have
you made it look like a
freaking certain little walk in the park i mean it was i was like damn joe's
good at that joe's been
doing this shit for a while well it's uh it's an interesting thing to see you
know to see it
progress from 1997 to where it's at at 2019 the biggest difference is not just
uh the amount of
eyes that it gets and the amount of people that are paying attention to the
real difference is the
level of athlete it's a it's a giant giant leap like in no other sport i don't
think there's
another sport from 1993 to 2019 where the athletes are almost it's almost unrecognizable
how much better
the fighters are absolutely uh you know it's now back in the day it was like
okay you finished your
college career you finished all this you've got to the height of whatever you
know sport you could be
let's start fighting and so guys were coming in at 28 27 starting to learn the
tricks now you got
freaking 10 year old kids yep sparring yeah there's all these crazy videos and
like little bitty kids
fighting in like russia or other places like they're full-on mma fighting now
yeah it's a totally
different world yeah whole promotion i'm like man by the time these guys get to
16 17 they're gonna be
killers yeah if you go back and watch like a boxing match from like 93 a world
champion boxer like
marvin haggler perfect example marvin haggler from the 80s could absolutely
hang with middleweights
like he's he would fit right in with world champions today absolutely but uh a
ufc champ from 93 i mean
god it's just not the same it's not by any stretch it's it is such a back then
it was like a it was
wild it was crazy but nobody had endurance and you know there was a few guys
that had some skill and
certainly or van orlando v or hoist gracie there was guys are really good at
their individual arts but
there was no real complete fighters yet yeah you got the transition because it
was everyone came in with
their special skills and that was that was a big thing i think ufc even sold
that as oh yeah you got
the wrestler fighting the com the combo the the you know sambo guy and the jujitsu
guy and uh so that
was the thing everyone came in with their one skill and they put it to the test
to see what was better
it's freaking crazy joe my first fight first time i ever watched a ufc fight
i was visiting john jones in college freshman year this was our our freshman
year true freshman year
i was visiting him because i went to a a small school uni william penn
university which was about
two hours away from him he was at iowa central in fort dodge iowa so i went to
go spend my fall break
a whole week with him just hanging out because we had met the previous year in
high school and just
you know it's two brothers in wrestling it was like hey two brothers what's up
man where you going to
school next year it's like i'll be iowa i was like yo me too and so we kept in
touch and i went up to
hang out with him and during that week i was a fight on someone like a friend
of the team something
like that invited us to come to his house and watch it then we went over there
to watch the fights i had
never really heard of it i never really cared i was just a freshman just trying
to hang out with john
and party was this around this was 2005. i think yeah 2005. so it's like first
season of the ultimate
fighter yeah 2005. so we go i think it might have been randy couture or someone
john just reminded me
but i forgot who was fighting and we went to the house party and watched it i
really didn't really
remember the fight i because i didn't really care i never paid attention to it
i never thought i would
ever do something like that so i just watched it and and then i remember the
guy saying hey man you
guys can do this why don't you guys try this and i was like me me and john kind
of looked at each other
like hell no ain't no way we gonna do that you know wrestling is controlled you
know there's rules
you know certain things you can or can't do there's no way we're doing that so
we kind of laughed it off
and left that day never knew that i freaking years later i'd be doing this
doing not just doing it
you dethroned the guy who many people including me were saying as a is a very
good argument for the
best welterweight ever i felt like tyron is like you got to give it there's
like two there's legendary
status right there's like matthews has legendary status for being the original
he was one of the
first wrestlers who really knew how to submit guys and then george st pierre
was of course
many people's eyes the greatest of all time in the welterweight division went
on this long run but i was like man when you
you if tyron beats usman i was like there's a real good argument for him being
number one of all time
beating wonder boy beat smashing darren till beating damian maya knocking out
robbie lawler to win the
title absolutely i considered him i put him in that conversation yeah he's in
that conversation for sure
for sure i put him in that conversation i you know nothing but respect for tyron
it was nice to see
afterwards it was there's a video of you and tyron's mom and tyron and tyron's
mom after it is a beautiful
video yeah man it's a tear jerker i i freaking i i let it go because i'm one of
those guys i never really
sit and and stop and smell the roses and things like that i always i always
have a chip on my shoulder
and i'll explain why that is but i i always had this chip on my shoulder with
everything that i do so
i never really sit and celebrate and say oh yeah i accomplished this or i did
that or did that
but i had known i known his mom i i've met her previously to to that the fights
i fought in st
louis one time and of course i'd seen her several times at his fights but i was
fighting in st louis and
i was there early and she was at the hotel tyron wasn't fighting or anything
but she just came to
the hotel i think she was just hanging out and i got to sit with her before
like all the fighters
even came into town i had to sit with her i think we sat for a couple hours
maybe three four hours
just talking i got to know her and she was she was just such an angel but at
the same time
she's she's a gangster too like you you can't you know she she was everything
and the only thing the
biggest thing i could compare her to is if you ever seen that show for way back
it's called touch by an
angel and i forget what her name is she's like the famous like black actress
and um do you remember
that woman's Adele i forget her name what is it it was Maya Angelou it wasn't
no it wasn't Maya Angelou
it was that like i mean she was Maya Angelou status how big as she was and
inspirational but
that's kind of what i compare her to and so we got we got you know i knew her
and tyron obviously wasn't
who i would have chosen to take the belt from but it's how long can you hold
yourself back because
being a champ there's a huge and tyron said himself there's a huge difference
between being a challenger
and a champion yeah and of course i i need i needed to have my family in that
that argument
i i need i need to get them to that status to where now i'm setting my daughter
up i'm setting
my my everyone up for you know life better life forever and i couldn't continue
to hold that back
so yeah it was unfortunate that i had to take that from him and i kind of in a
sense i felt like
i was taken away from what he was doing for them so when i saw her walking
backstage i just
couldn't control it i just let i just let go and i just can't help but cry on
her shoulders this is
a great it's a great video what what is her name was woman's actresses roma
downey roma yeah yeah
that's her the video is amazing because she's hugging you and she's telling you
congratulations
and she's telling you that they're coming they're going to be coming for you so
train hard yeah yeah
and just like her attitude man it's it's beautiful man it's it's amazing her
character that she handled
that i mean this is her baby her baby just lost and lost every round and it was
a you know pretty
dominant victory by you and for her to treat you that way afterwards just shows
amazing character
yeah and it's there it is right here you can see it up here look at her she
just embraces you open
arms it's all good it's all good baby look at that oh good honey that's your
heart it's all good amazing
that's an amazing woman right there keep on working because it's gonna come for
you and you take it to
it it's all good wow that's amazing man yeah and even tyrant the way tyrant
here it's crazy right
it makes me cry something in the air over here what's going on dude i got it
made me cry when i saw
it it's making me cry now yeah man um and in the way she treated tyrant too the
same thing i mean she's just
that's and that that's that's kind of that's how my mom is too that so i felt
such a connection to that to
her because my mom is the exact same way my mom would have done the same thing
to tyrant and um it just
it was powerful man it was moving and because it's and it goes to attest to how
how the sport has how big
the sport is as well yeah like it's not oh man it's just a regular fight you
guys hate each other and
you're fighting no this was a competition yeah you know this was two men that
went in there for a
competition and one guy won and you know you saw the aftermath to see the
family receive each other
people lo