Name: JRE MMA Show #55 with Kelly Pavlik
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'JRE MMA Show #55 with Kelly Pavlik' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2019-01-10. Transcript available.

JRE MMA Show #55 with Kelly Pavlik

One, two, three, two, Youngstown in the house.
How are you, brother?
Good.
How are you doing?
Thanks for doing this, man.
I appreciate it.
No, thanks for having me on.
I appreciate it.
You're out here working with Danny Garcia?
No.
No, Mikey Garcia.
Mikey Garcia and Garcia Camp.
Also, I came out, you know, a couple things.
As we mentioned earlier, a buddy of mine, Mark LaMica, throwing some ideas
around and kind
of just taking a week out here in California to, you know, keep moving.
It's nice, right?
It is nice.
Yeah, it was nice in Ohio, believe it or not.
And then this morning, they woke up to like three inches of snow.
So I'm out here enjoying, and they got the snow.
Well, the thing about L.A. is no one's from here.
So everybody grew up in a place like Youngstown or something like that.
Like you were saying, you're running into a bunch of Youngstown people out here.
Tony Hinchcliffe got super excited to see you.
Absolutely.
And, you know, that's what's weird about that.
I'm excited to see him, and he's excited to see me.
And it was really cool.
You know, I've heard of Tony, and I knew of Tony, you know, before and
everything.
And then to finally be able to meet him and somebody from Youngstown that's
doing, you
know, great things, it was kind of cool.
Yeah, no, it was cool hanging out with you when we were in Columbus, too.
That was a fun time.
I was.
That was Good Eatings, too.
Yeah.
What was the name of that place again?
You guys picked it, I believe.
I think it was...
Italian Market, I think.
Whose joint was that?
It was your friend's friend of a friend.
Matt Brown's friend, right?
Yeah, I don't remember the name.
Matt the Immortal.
Yeah, another good guy.
Yeah, no, he's a fucking scary dude.
He's such a savage.
I got to tell you a funny story with him.
We're at my gym, and he came and did a seminar at my gym.
And I have just a fitness gym right now there.
And he was going over, and he was showing people, and he kind of came in, and I
was showing
like a little punch and a hook, and he started doing the elbow off the hook.
Now, I'm a pretty big guy now since I retired, and I'm working on losing weight.
But he hit me with that elbow on my arm, and it just hurt.
And it was slow motion.
He wasn't throwing it hard.
And I'm going, if this son of a bitch really wanted to turn that over, I wouldn't
want to
get hit by it.
Yeah, elbows are awful.
Bones are awful.
It's like, it always weirds me out that the UFC has little padding on the
gloves, but there's
no padding on your shins, no padding on your elbows, no padding on your knees.
It's a terrible way to take a beating.
It is.
And people get into the brutality of it.
Unfortunately, not because I boxed.
I think boxing is more brutal.
The only reason is because if you get dropped in boxing, you got 10 seconds to
get up.
Your brain could be rattled in the first round, and you could get dropped four
more times in
that fight.
You got 36 minutes to fight.
And unfortunately, in MMA, yeah, they're hitting you with the knees, the elbows.
And if you go down, they usually stop to fight, rightfully so, because somebody
could
come down with an atomic knee drop.
That's not legal.
I know, but I'm just saying, or anything can happen in it.
When you were fighting, MMA wasn't as big as it is now, but did you ever think
about
doing it?
No.
And to be honest with you, no.
But I was always interested in it.
I was.
I was always interested in the martial arts.
Actually, that's how I got into boxing, was a young kid taking taekwondo.
And I don't know if that's how you pronounce it, but...
That's how you pronounce it.
Okay.
And I got into it.
To me, it was kind of like boring.
I'm a young kid.
You know, I was full of piss and vinegar, and I wanted to actually get in and
do something.
And I played other sports.
But, you know, then after I retired a little bit, I kind of strayed away from
everything
in the fight game.
And I started getting interested in jujitsu and stuff like that.
How old were you when you retired?
30.
30.
That's young.
Yeah.
Still am pretty young.
How old are you now?
36.
Yeah.
You're still in the range, you know?
It's an effective range.
Oh, that's why I've been working out.
And, you know, I kind of slow down on the powerlifting a lot and been doing,
getting flexible again.
So, you haven't had a fight in six years.
Do you ever get the itch?
That's why I'm saying...
Are you getting the itch right now?
Yeah.
Really?
Yeah, I've been.
Well, another reason why I came out and was talking with Mark and everything.
But, you know, I don't want to lead nobody ever on either.
You know?
Right.
This is something...
You're just thinking.
I'm really thinking about it and I'm working out, losing the weight.
But at the same time, there's a lot of process behind that, too.
I would have to sit down with the family, just go over a lot of things, you
know?
Are you doing any boxing these days?
I've been working out, just sitting in the bag, pads, stuff like that.
You know, I'm still lifting, but nothing...
You're jacked, dude.
Look at the size of your fucking arms.
I know.
You ain't fighting middleweight, son.
No, and cruiserweight is the nice area right now.
That's the range?
Yeah, anybody but Yusek.
And I'm not fighting that monster.
That guy's scary as fuck.
Yeah, and I don't...
You know, the thing is, everybody...
I mentioned this a couple weeks ago, and the first thing that came out about it
was,
he needs the money.
So I can't win for losing.
You know what I mean?
Because there's other things right now that we're talking about.
I've actually been in contact, believe it or not, with Dancing with the Stars.
Oh, Jesus.
So I'm having fun with it now, I guess.
Don't make no jokes on that.
I'd rather take a fight.
I'd rather fight Yusek, believe me.
Dancing with the Stars is fucking hard work, man.
Talks.
Talks of it.
Yeah.
Which my buddy Mark's doing.
I've had a couple friends that have been on that.
Yeah.
And they said it's brutally hard work.
It is.
That original tease, who was a fighter, been on it.
Yeah.
So that's where it's going, why I don't want people also...
The rumor mill starting that, he's broke.
He needs the money.
Because it's absolutely not the case.
So you retired healthy.
Yeah.
You retired young.
Yeah.
And you set some money away.
Yeah.
But you still...
Look, you were a world champion for a reason.
You know, you had to become a real world champion.
You have to have some crazy drive, some competitive fire inside you.
There is.
A lot of people don't understand any combat sport.
Combat's combat.
I'm not patting myself on the back.
I don't know if it's even good to say, but, you know, combat role champion
athletes and
fighters, mentality-wise, you're always going to have that mentality, you know?
Right.
And my only reason why I'm even throwing this around, and I guess that's the
right term to
use, because if nothing comes of it, I don't want to backlash on that either,
because I'm
still only 36.
And I'm at that point where I got that small window still, you know, where I'm
not 40.
Right.
I'm not 38.
And, you know, I've been healthy for, you know, four and a half years, and I've
been
working out.
What made you decide to go powerlifting?
I know.
Tell me.
Just fucking show bitches what's up.
Yeah.
That's another one.
Exactly, right?
I was tired.
Think about it.
I was so damn skinny.
If I turned sideways and stuck my tongue out, I looked like a zipper.
You know what I mean?
And being six foot two, having to make 160 pounds, even between fights, you
still had
to maintain, you know, your weight.
And I got tired of that.
What was your walking around weight?
I would walk around about 173.
That's not that bad.
No, it's not.
For MMA, that's real light.
Yeah.
And, you know, but as I got older, yeah, I started getting a little more
difficult to,
you know, keep that.
And I started getting up to like 175, you know, almost 180.
So now you're looking at a, and I'm still skinny at that point.
So now you're looking at having to lose 20 more pounds again to get down at
that age.
And it came to a point, um, which caused a lot of issues for me in one fight
with the
Martinez fight.
And, uh, after that we had to jump up.
Hmm.
Yeah.
That point of diminishing returns, right?
When you're just cutting too much weight.
Yeah.
When you fought Jermaine Taylor, that was 160, right?
Yes.
Yeah.
Dude.
I was one fight where I remember getting angry at Larry Merchant.
Larry Merchant is calling the fight.
I'm like, he's not, he wasn't recognizing that you were tuning him up and you
were hurting
him.
And it got like, he was, he was commenting on a, almost like it was a trend
that he expected
to see rather than what was actually happening.
There was a lot of things about that fight.
I love them guys because believe it or not, in my opinion, that was a great
fight.
And I seen that they had that fight in the top 10 middleweight, uh, one of the
top 10
underway fights of all time.
And that's kind of a cool thing.
But also, you know, some of that commentating note really made that fight,
especially at
the end, in my opinion, made that fight kind of what it was also, you know,
besides the
fact of me getting dropped and everything.
But, um, you know, I didn't agree with the judging of it, you know, cause I
still had me
ahead.
I went back and watched it.
I'm not one of those egotistical people either.
Like I like to really break down what happened in that fight.
And I, and if I lost a round, I would say I lost a round, you know, I was hard
on myself
with that.
I watched that fight now probably 10 times and I don't see where they had Jermaine
winning,
you know?
Yeah.
I gave them one round and plus the 10 eight.
So that's a total of three rounds.
And, uh, I don't see how that happened.
Well, you know, I mean, we, we've had this conversation a hundred times in this
podcast,
but judging and boxing and judging and MMA judging is just terrible.
Yeah.
It's just terrible.
It's what it's sad.
It doesn't make any sense.
There's so many experts out there.
There's so many really reliable people that you can call on that would do a
great job of,
of, of figuring out what's going on in a fight.
And for whatever reason, they don't get those jobs.
I think they got to start doing something soon in boxing with that.
Yeah.
They have to figure something out with the judging.
You see the Charlo fight?
Yes.
Yeah.
And there's a handful of people I had the argument with that actually thought
Charlo lost.
Um, I didn't think that he looked as good as he could have in that fight.
Yeah.
But I thought he won the fight, you know, um, 116 and 112.
Uh, but I don't know what system they could try to break down for that or try
to get to
actually start making some of them fights fair, but boxing is doing fantastic
the past two
years.
I mean, the numbers are crazy.
You've seen what the zone, um, did with Canelo and yeah.
So it's, it's there, the attention's at the sport and the popularity of it's
coming back.
But what could eventually hurt it again is things like the judging of the
fights and the outcomes.
Well, there's certain ones where you want to like, you want a criminal
investigation.
Like, uh, Tim Bradley, Manny Pacquiao.
That was one where after that was up.
I was like, I was looking at the TV.
I was looking to the side.
I was looking away.
I was like, what the fuck did I just see?
What just happened here?
That fight right there.
I actually had to walk away with my head down.
I, that, that was probably one of the worst robberies that I've ever seen.
It was a horrible robbery.
I searched to give Tim Bradley two rounds.
I gave him one.
I was trying to give him rounds to kind of like say, how, how, where did you
get this
at?
Yeah.
In other words, and I couldn't do it.
Yeah.
I loved Tim Bradley too, by the way.
Awesome guy.
Awesome.
Awesome fighter too.
I mean, he's just all heart.
I mean, that guy's, he's amazing, but that just was a bad decision.
And, you know, I think there was a, there was a lady that was responsib