Name: JRE MMA Show #48 with Henry Cejudo & Eric Albarracin
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'JRE MMA Show #48 with Henry Cejudo & Eric Albarracin' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2018-10-31. Transcript available.

JRE MMA Show #48 with Henry Cejudo & Eric Albarracin

I don't speak too much, man.
Three?
Seriously, man.
Boom, and we're live.
Henry, motherfucking Cejudo, world champ.
And, sir, introduce yourself to everybody.
Captain America.
That's right, Captain Eric Albaracín.
Henry's coach.
What do you do with him specifically?
Well, I've been with him since 2004 and recently became his coach
right before the first Demetrius Johnson fight.
And I'm his head coach for MMA.
And you're in disguise in case some other athletes try to swipe you.
And it's Halloween.
Happy Halloween, everybody.
Happy Halloween, folks.
So, first of all, man, congratulations on your victory.
What does it feel like?
Oh, man, it feels good.
It feels good.
Try to keep this fist away from your face.
Yeah, it feels good because it's, God, it's, I think as a competitor,
you live for these moments.
You live for these fulfillments, you know.
Yeah.
I think somebody like, and then I told people since the beginning,
it wasn't so much, you know, the UFC belt, but it was because it was,
I made it about Demetrius, and it was about Demetrius, you know,
because he's.
Well, I mean, he is widely considered to be the best pound-for-pound fighter
ever.
And you're the first guy, not only to beat him, but the first guy who, not just
to beat
him, but I mean, beat him in like 11 years, but the first guy to win an Olympic
gold medal
in wrestling and a UFC championship.
I mean, those are two gigantic accomplishments.
Yeah, no, for sure.
It's almost like, God, it's, it's, I beat the greatest of, to me, the greatest
of all time.
And then on top of that, I beat, you know, I can, I can make the run for, you
know, who's
the greatest combat athlete of all time.
Yeah.
Like, it's a, I'm a two-sport world champion, I'm just like, damn, that's crazy.
I mean, you're absolutely in the running now.
I mean, if he's not the greatest of all time, I think he is, but the argument
is that he didn't
face people as good as Jon Jones faced, and then Fedor is the other, Fedor and
Anderson
Silver are the other people that are in consideration for the greatest of all
time.
I mean, it's just a subjective argument.
I mean, who knows who's right, but obviously you beat, without a doubt, one of
the best ever.
Yeah, yeah, and like, I would, I would tell people, there's, there's a bit of,
of admiration
that I had for Demetrius Johnson.
Like, I was, it was, it was like, you know, you're fighting the dude that's,
that's, that
almost seems untouchable, that you, a guy that makes you question yourself,
like, whoa,
this is, this is, this, this guy is that good.
Well, what's crazy is you beat him after he had stopped you, just, how long,
was it two
years?
About, close to about two and a half years ago now, yeah.
About, I was like, I think two years and like four months.
That's, that's an amazing turnaround between getting stopped in the first round
and then
coming back and, and beating him and then beating him in the championship
rounds is really where
you pulled it off.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
No, I, uh, and that absolutely, I, I had studied Demetrius Johnson.
Like, as soon as I lost him the first time, what I pretty much did is I got, I
got rid of
a lot of people, including my, my MMA head coach.
I just, my whole philosophy was if I can't be the best and there's something
wrong, you
know, emotionally, physically, everything else just invested.
And when I lost, I'm just like, man, I, I need a, I'm looking for a better
leader, you
know, and, and that's kind of what I did.
I ended up, you know, letting go a lot of my cornermen, you know, I started
traveling
the world, went out to Singapore, went out to, uh, to Thailand, went out to, uh,
to the
Netherlands, spend months and months at a time out in Brazil.
Like I, uh, I was on a quest.
It was like the, I kind of remind myself a little bit like Ash Ketchum from
Pokemon.
Like I was just on a venture dude.
I have no idea who that is, but Vision Quest, Vision Quest, the Matthew Modine
movie.
Loud and Swain, every wrestler has to watch that movie.
And that's, and, and, and, and, and it'd be, like I said, it became an
exception.
I knew that if anybody could do it, it'd be, it'd be Henry Cejudo.
Like I really did.
And even after the first time, Joe, when he beat me, I still, when they asked
me, it's
like, Henry, you know, like, I would, I was like, guys, I don't know, but I
still
know that I could beat him.
Even being knocked out like two minutes and 36 seconds.
Like I still knew in my heart, and you see when I sat at the press conference,
I says,
I know I'm still the one to beat him.
What was it about him that made you think that you could beat him?
Or what was it about you specifically in relation to him and his skill set?
It was, uh, um, I, I, if you, if you're asking me what the difference was.
Yeah.
Well, what was it that made you think even after he stopped you in the first
round?
Oh, God, uh, I think it was more so just believing in my, in my abilities.
I think me just believing more.
Okay.
Henry, you need time.
Like I was only doing MMA for three years when I fought him the first time.
Yeah.
A lot of people don't know that.
Yeah.
Three years.
You see you fighting for the title, not once, but twice that you probably been
doing MMA
for a long ass time.
But when you fought him for the first time, it's a very, that's a very short
amount of
time to be fighting in MMA.
It's especially against a caliber athlete like Demetrius.
What year did you win, uh, the Olympics?
In 08.
Yeah.
See, that is, I mean, when you're doing that, you're a hundred percent
dedicated to wrestling.
You have to be, right?
So were you doing any striking training at all back then?
Um, I did.
I did.
What happened was once I won the Olympics, I almost kind of, I fell out of love
with the
sport.
I felt, I felt out of love with wrestling.
I remember being at the Olympics and being like, man, I just, I don't know if I
have it
in me no more.
Just because you're burnt out?
I was, yeah.
My whole childhood was gone because of the sport, you know?
Take that crazy mask off, brother.
What are you doing?
Yeah.
Anyway, I've been waiting for you to say that.
How about that?
We'll do it in stages.
So you, you, you fell out of love with it.
I fell out of love with it.
But is it just because your whole life had been dedicated to wrestling and you'd
finally
achieved the greatest of great goals?
Yeah.
Olympic gold medalist is the top of the mountain.
No, but check this out, Joe.
And it was like, in the year of 2007, um, man, I went through the worst year
ever.
Like I was ready to become a world champion and I went out to the world
championships in
2007 and I didn't even score a point.
Like in the first round, like I got put out by, by Iran.
And, uh, for some reason that whole year, man, I was just going through
freaking struggles
like left and right.
You're talking about just adversity.
I couldn't win a tournament to save my life.
What was it?
Um, I don't know.
I don't know.
I, I, I truly, truly don't know.
I think I was, uh, I think I probably began kind of falling out of love with it.
And I remember there was, to me, there was only two tournaments that I ever
wanted to
win.
And that was, that was the Olympic trials and eventually the Olympic games.
And, and somehow like, cause I'm correlating this with the, with the fight with
Demetrius
Johnson and, uh, I remember, you know, just, just almost being in, in tears.
Like, I just don't know if this is for me and the, but I just stuck with it.
I stuck with it.
I ended up putting the Olympic trials.
I ended up going to the, you know, the Olympic games and ended up pretty much
falling behind
in every single match, uh, that I was wrestling in.
So these are kind of the adversities that I was going through, like leading up
to become
an Olympic champion.
You know, it's interesting when you were fighting, um, Demetrius for the second
time,
Daniel Cormier said, said something very interesting.
He said, most guys, he goes, I would never give a chance.
You, you get stopped by DJ and then a couple of years later, you're fighting
him again.
Like he's, he's going to have your number.
He's going to be better in the rematch.
And he goes, but Henry Cejudo is a different kind of athlete.
And he talked about you competing and then coming back a year later and, and
being, he goes,
he was many times better.
He goes, the, the amount of improvement that he got in just one year was just
unbelievable.
Yeah.
And I think, you know, I guess you can owe that to genetics.
And I, I think you can talk a lot about desire to just having the, the genetics
only get
you so far.
Yeah.
Everybody at the Olympics has, has great genetics for sure.
But it's almost, it almost becomes a, a, a, a mentality on becomes a philosophy.
It's like, you almost start doing things almost like to, to not feel the, to
not, to not feel
the, the pain of losing.
Like that's a motivator to not feel the pain of losing.
Right.
And I remember when Demetrius Johnson hit me, hit me in the, hit me in the leg.
And I literally, I don't think you point out how severe it was.
Like I literally sprained like a, a, a, a, a, a severe low ankle sprain those
first 30 seconds.
In the second fight.
Yeah.
So I fought Demetrius Johnson like that, but it was, it was to me, the motivator
was like,
man, I don't want to feel that pain of losing no more.
I hate it, man.
I hate feeling second place.
I hate feeling kind of, kind of somebody's looking over me.
Someone's almost like a manhood challenge.
And I hate that.
Was it a low leg kick that, that, that made your, your ankle go?
Like what was it?
Yeah.
It was a, there's a nerve that you have behind like, like the bone.
It's a per, I think it's the per, per, per, per per, per per, per, per, per
nerve nerve, P-E-R.
Yeah.
And I got hit there.
So I put my foot to sleep.
Just like when Michael Chandler happened to him and Bellator, same thing.
Exactly.
Where you're stepping on it and it's just not working.
And the, and, and, and the reason, the reason why everybody kind of got scared,
I mean, because
I was, I was hurt, but I remember before the fight, I remember, I, I remember I
saw my
corner man, like kind of, before I fought Demetrius, I remember I saw him all,
uh, I saw
him all nervous.
And I remember, I remember grabbing my corner man and putting him right in
front of me.
I remember telling him, I was like, Hey guys, I've been here before.
Like I was ranked 31st in the world.
I be, I know I, I, I became a world champion in wrestling.
Like guys, I, yeah, I want you guys to have a little faith in me, dude, but I'm
going to
ask you guys one thing.
And I'm going to ask you guys, I'm going to ask you guys to be composed.
I said, the key to winning this fight is for me to be composed.
And then pretty much there's six hours later, they, uh, right before, you know,
walk on,
they start playing my song.
I looked back to my corner and I said, uh, and I said, guys, I said, the key to
this
fight, remember, it's going to be composure.
So when Demetrius Johnson kicked me, like I, I, I believed in my own philosophy.
I went back to, all right, my composure.
Cause I was hurt, Joe.
Like he could have stopped me that, that, that first round.
I was forced to switch south, southpaw, which I never fight in southpaw.
You know, so now I'm kind of, I, I, we're, me and Demetrius Johnson are playing
poker.
My whole philosophy and the key to this victory was the composure part.
And, uh, when he hit me, I, uh, I, I really did.
I was like, oh my God, not again, not again.
I'm not going to last two minutes and 36 seconds, not again.
But again, the motivator was not to feel the pain to lose again.
Right.
Like it wasn't desire to win.
I was like, I just don't want to feel that pain anymore.
As a competitor, as somebody that, that, that, that's on a mission, do that
sacrifices life.
Explain to someone who's never experienced that before.
What is that pain like?
Like you train for how many weeks and then you fight mighty mouse with a title.
You get stopped 