Name: JRE MMA Show #57 with TJ Dillashaw
Uploaded: 2019-01-31T22:53:34.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'JRE MMA Show #57 with TJ Dillashaw' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2019-01-31. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'JRE MMA Show #57 with TJ Dillashaw' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2019-01-31. Transcript available.

JRE MMA Show #57 with TJ Dillashaw

five four three two one tj yo how are you brother i'm doing good man what is it
like now what is
this uh what first of all what was it like that night if her people don't know
let me just give
you the rundown just so you don't have to say it cool you were involved in one
of the most high
profile flyweight fights ever you're the bantamweight champion you dropped down
the flyweight
you went through this extensive training routine to get your body down to a
manageable weight where
you can cut the last 10 pounds or so and make 125 the fight starts cejudo lands
a good shot early
there's a lot of a lot of action and the referee stops the fight and i was i
was shook by it
everybody that i was watching the fight with was like what the fuck dude and it
was almost universal
like no one thought it was a good stoppage it's one of those stoppages where no
one goes yeah it's a
good stoppage stoppage no one everybody was like what the fuck you jumped off
and you're like dude
come on come on man it's been rough man it's a rough one to rough one to
swallow on on multiple reasons
you know um like you say he landed a good shot um that everything's being overshadowed
by this shot
that landed behind my ear you know um i was over off balance i threw a right
hand i came in a little
too aggressive that's the way i fight right he pushed me over i was off balance
he threw a kick
i blocked it and he went to throw a right hand and i tried to dip out of the
way and it was one of
those shots that hits you behind the head like right behind the ear not illegal
right we're on our feet
it's completely illegal but uh it was an unfortunate situation one of those
punches just kind of takes
your feet out from underneath you you're 100 there but your equilibrium's off
you know and he jumps
on me um i remember hearing the ref say dillashaw show me something i told him
i'm good
and i remember talking to him before the fight in the back and he said like if
i'm telling you that
make sure you're talking to me give me show me something you know but how are
you talking i said
it i said i'm good i mean but in his you know from from his perspective how
does he expect you to
talk while you're blocking punches he even said too in the back before the
fight too like you know give
me a thumbs up or something if you're gonna choke this or that you know so uh
to be honest i think he
was i didn't i didn't know who he was i think he's really inexperienced
watching him ref as well too
jumping around as soon as the commotion kind of happened he was looking for a
reason to stop it
almost um but you know i can't i think he was amped up yeah i mean it's a big
fight for him too
you know for him to get a high profile fight first time on espm plus yes big
deal 100 huge huge deal
100 so that's i think that's the part that almost bugs me more is that i was
there um but it was the
shot that hit me behind the head um and then obviously the controversial stoppage
so it's it's a rough
one to swallow you know it's it's definitely uh been bugging me but uh i'm good
about keep my mind
off of things and staying busy i'm already back in the gym um doing business
things and uh trying to
stay as busy as possible so i don't think about it and want to punch a hole
through the wall every
time i walk by one well it's such a different fight because it was such an arduous
task for you
to get down to flyweight i mean people are looking you look great right now
your face is full you look
healthy but goddamn dude i saw you the week of the fight on television yeah and
i was like look at his
face i looked like a tweaker yeah you did you you looked like you were uh you
know cejudo said it
best you look like an ultra marathon runner like some guy who runs long
distances if if i would have
decided to lose all the way at the end i wouldn't look like that right but i
got my body down to five
to six percent body fat you know so when i start losing anything towards the
end it's going to come
you're going to see it out of my face right you know and i'm one of those guys
that loses and gains
weight out of my face you know after my fights we call myself fat tyler because
that's my my real
name is tyler and i go by tj and so uh justin buckles gave me that name back at
alpha male like fat
tyler i'd always get puffy face after my fight so my alter ego is fat tyler you
know i'm going out
and eating and being an asshole but um spaghetti and shit yeah exactly um but
uh so when i when i decided
like if i did it over 12 weeks so my body weight was down i mean my bought my
my body fat percentage
down to five percent that's crazy and so when you lose any more water weight or
anything you're going
to see it come out of your face and because i was doing it for so long now what
was it like being
that low uh on you as far as your body fat goes what was your performance like
physically how'd you feel
i actually so i felt the best i've ever felt before i walked out before the
fight really dude that and
that's another reason why i'm just so bitter about this thing is because i didn't
get a chance to show
the work that i put in i didn't get a chance to show all the science behind sam
calvita and what
he did to my body i was stronger for this fight than it was my last cody fight
i walked out two pounds
heavier for this fight than i did my last cody fight what did you walk out to
before i started warming
up i weighed 149 what yes and i felt great i didn't feel bloated i didn't feel
nothing wait a minute
you went from 125 to 149 yeah i was a glycogen battery i was ready to fucking
go i couldn't get
tired before the fight when i was warming up in the back i seriously like i've
never felt better than
this before a fight like my my mood my energy levels like me hitting mitts with
duane in the back warming
up i was feeling smooth i was feeling good i remember even walking out in the
cage and everything felt
too good almost too i remember looking over duane smiling him i felt awesome um
and that's even more of an
unfortunate situation i didn't get to really show that you know well i mean
hats off to henry because
he's a beast of course i mean he he did catch you and he is one of the best and
he's a i mean there's
a that kind of caliber of athlete is what made this fight so special you being
the bantamweight champion
going down the flyweight yep and i think the way you did it is probably the
only way to really do it
i don't safely yeah for sure i i yeah i mean i guess you were safe because you
were only you were
like what 135 ish the day before i made weight the night before the fight the
night before uh weigh-ins
so i went to sleep um 1.3 pounds over and i floated that i actually took a shit
the morning of weigh-ins
which is insane that never happens like my body was still working um i wanted
to make the weight the
night before because obviously i hadn't made 125s i didn't want to wake up in
the morning and
yeah see what my body was going to do and if it was going to give me that extra
water
um but i made i made weight super easy man like don't get me wrong the 12 weeks
was a motherfucker
it was hard it was a lot of work but though the actual weight cut was easy i
had no hiccups nothing
like sam would tell me like what to go to bed at he knew what i was going to
wake up at
he tells me the water loading i'm doing um the amount of electrolytes i'm
taking in the the amount
of food i'm eating and so he knows exactly what my body's gonna wake up and do
he's been tracking it for
not two years now that guy sounds brilliant i really need to talk to him i've
watched videos of him
talking about it and seen the work and just what a what a unique individual he
is i mean that's why
i decided to move back down to southern california for him for him yeah i mean
and everything else
kind of came along with it my life is wonderful now the people i got around me
i'm lucky that i have
duane ludwig that's willing to try about travel out and train with me out there
um but i moved down
to southern california because of sam calavita and i came down to two weeks
with him and started
noticing like yeah this guy knows his shit you know yeah i didn't really
uniquely know i mean
there's a lot of people out there who know their shit but he seems like he's on
some new level i
mean he sent me graphs that i have on my phone of like the like he like two
every week we knew
exactly where my body weight wanted to be at he was telling me weights that i'd
be at before i would
even be there my body would just do it you know um so you didn't need a
separate person so he's
your this is what's unusual about this normally if you would hire somebody you
you would hire like a
george lockhart or someone like that mike dolce and then you would you would
hire them almost
specifically just for the weight cut and some nutrition advice he's training
you physically as well
he's telling me uh my low base like so my long distance running when i or my
fasted low base
yeah he does everything my strength conditioning my nutrition he they make my
meals they do all my
meal prep he's telling me like how much uh low base i need to do per week like
either morning or night
he's telling me when i should train um it's a everything is completely mapped
out i don't there's
no guesswork in it there's nothing like he's telling me everything like he's
listening to my heart
rate when i'm sleeping my heart rate variabilities he's telling me what
supplements to take um all of
it you know like everything i i seriously and and and that's that's another
reason why it's just so
tough that this fight didn't get to like really let me prove anything not only
for myself and who i am
but the work that this guy put in you know like i'm gonna sit here and brag
about him and talk about
how badass he is but then people want to tell me like oh you're malnourished
you don't have a chin
125 was a bad cup for you they're giving him crap all over the place and uh i've
almost feel just as
bad for him as i do for myself for how much work you put into it how actually
how great i felt before
the fight and i didn't get a chance to show it like i said i walked out at 149
glycogen battery ready
to go um i've really never felt better i know man it was insane like i i i
really couldn't believe
like how my body absorbed everything you know so what are you walking around
like now i'm in low 50s
i'm in low 50s right now but that's because i'm trying to be at low 50s my body
instantly wanted
to just store everything and i got up to like 60s low 60s and i was like oh
shit so i started i started
doing some uh uh hot yoga and going to where i just worked out with sam
yesterday i'm going to his house
later after this you know so um that's kind of the only way my mind can stay at
ease right now with
everything that's been going on is that i need to get back in the gym what was
that night like after
it was over i mean going back to your dressing room and going back to your
hotel um it was rough man
uh it was definitely a motherfucker it was i was pissed you know everyone wants
to call me like a sore
loser i've never said i wasn't a sore loser i fucking hate losing more than
anybody i mean you you show me
a champion or a high level competitor that likes losing and i'll call you a
liar you know what i
mean i think you're 100 correct and jamie and i have talked about this many
times when you know
we're talking about uh lebron james or michael jordan those guys were infamous
for being terrible
losers i hate losing yeah i mean i just don't think you get to be that elite of
the elite unless you're
a fucking maniac yeah i really think that i mean i think about it constantly
you know i'm one of those ocd
guys it's if i'm not in the gym i'm thinking about it i'm thinking about my
training and sometimes i need
to distract myself you know that's why i distract myself with other businesses
or things i got going
on because i think about it too much um and so especially when it's a
controversial thing when
people a