Name: JRE MMA Show #44 with John Kavanagh & George Lockhart
Uploaded: 2018-10-08T21:56:56.000Z
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'JRE MMA Show #44 with John Kavanagh & George Lockhart' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2018-10-08. Transcript available.

JRE MMA Show #44 with John Kavanagh & George Lockhart

here we go four three two boom george lockhart john cavanaugh how are you folks
hello sir
doing great good to see you good to be here um so saturday night what are your
thoughts
now that we're sitting here it's monday morning the the khabib mcgregor fight
went down saturday
night um obviously hugely disappointed yeah we didn't get the result on the
night um i still
enjoyed it i thought it was a great fight i'm looking forward to watching it
back many times
all of connor's fights i always pull a load of lessons away that i can pass on
to the the next
generation of guys but yeah overall i really enjoyed the fight and i'm
devastated that we
didn't get there yeah how much time did you have to prepare for this fight um i
mean he's always in
the gym he's oh he's always knocking about but i guess it was official about 10
weeks 10 weeks out
but even since the eddie fight i kind of knew or at least i thought his next mma
fight would be habib
it just just kind of made sense if it wasn't going to be the diaz but then as
time went on that that
seemed less and less likely and habib obviously was doing great get you know
kept on winning so
there was a path that was going to collide was there anything that was
surprising in the fight
um the the right hand in the second round was yeah was a cracker it was
beautiful overhand right i mean
it's a it's a staple of wrestlers overhand right and close but he doesn't uh
generally do that he's
more jab and then close but that was a great shot um the style of takedowns
everything was
kind of what we expected and we we'd spent a lot of time in preparing for that
um
yeah just i i you know kind of expected round one for sure going to get a takedown
so
the the goal of round one was to get out of it still having energy we didn't
want to put a huge
amount of effort into trying to get back up in round one it seemed to happen
many times and his other
opponents and they kind of go back to the stool you know really tired so round
one make them pay you
know do our best on the way in fight as hard as we can but if we do end up down
which it was against
defense figured it would be there try to stay seated up if we end up on our
back just try to play guard
until until the until the bell except it'll be a 10-9 round um for round two
again i same same plan
uh do as much damage as we can but if we end up on our back uh don't put a huge
amount of effort in
trying to get up he's an absolute master at regrounding people um that turned
out to be a 10-8
round you know he got some good shots there and obviously he landed the great
uh right hand so that
was a bit more than we uh hoped for round three things started kind of turning
a little bit in our
favor and we did a lot better at keeping it in the middle defending the takedowns
so the plan was to
slow him down a little and watch him slow down a little bit in the third fourth
and fifth yeah
exactly yeah so i think at the beginning that the the consensus was conor
knocks him out in the first
or habib you know takes over from two on like for us to win the third round was
probably a bit of a
surprise to people but um you know you know the eloquent the fight if you look
at that from round three
on he wasn't able to hit any takedowns um so hoped that's what we have a go
around three we could
defend the takedowns a lot easier and start landing air shots and that did
happen for for round three
not as well as i as we planned not as well as we hoped and then uh round four
you know we hit
another great takedown made a mistake giving up the overhook exposed our back
and that was all she
wrote yeah he has such a unique ability to tie both legs up with his legs yeah
in round one i thought
conor did well we had practiced for that for uh to keep our legs bent you know
you see guys straighten
their legs and then and conor did do that a couple of times but he was able to
continuously get a
leg free so not until the last 30 seconds or so of round one he didn't really
tie them up and get
him flatten his back for the majority of that he was against uh defense you
know used his hands to keep
upright tried to land little shots um yeah and george you uh you dealt with connor's
weight cut you deal
with his overall nutrition as well yes sir pull that microphone close to you
like we're talking about
here we go right right here yeah you can move it up if you want to stay where
you were technology there
you go it's a it's a work in progress you uh you work with him on his weight
cut like what what was his
weight before he started camp um you know it's almost exactly the same way uh
it was when we we
actually started the cut um you know we want to make sure that his weight was a
little higher than uh
you know obviously with the boxing with with floyd you know speed is everything
and we wanted to
kind of slowly drop that weight down but with this we want to keep him as big
as possible and then you know cut all that weight so he can what was his weight
he was about 171 when he got back into that cage so so what was his weight when
you guys started camp
uh about that same thing same thing exact same thing yeah it was all about so
it's not an extreme
weight cut no 15-ish pounds yeah in terms of cutting it was an easy day what's
the most you've ever had
someone cut um so you know on record with drew dover he showed up at 185 on tuesday
and had to make 155 by
friday so he was 19 of his body weight right so we had it yeah yeah that's the
biggest one
biggest one on record he's a big fella i've always looked at drew dober and go
how the
is that guy make 155 right no every time i see him i'm like you know yeah you
you make me work my
you know we're from my money you know yeah well it seems like it's probably not
the healthiest thing
in the world for him to do either no i mean i'll never i'll never be like you
know weight cutting is
the the healthiest thing in the world but i will say that like because the
amount of muscle mass people
look at somebody like him and they're like wow i mean he doesn't have a lot to
lose and he doesn't
have a lot to lose but he's got a lot to cut uh muscle is about 70 you know
muscle tissue is about 79
water so the more muscle you have the more water you can cut you know so if you
do it properly
uh the more muscle you have the easier it is for that cut and that's why he's
able to do that
how did you learn how to do this honestly man i'm like um i could be like oh i
got this degree and
i got this degree but there's no degree in actual weight cutting you know i
started on the marine corps
and uh um i was a heavyweight when i started fighting and then i ended up as a
welterweight
and um wow yeah yeah didn't do so well as a welterweight kind of the opposite
of anthony rumble
johnson right right you know it's definitely not uh it wasn't it didn't work
out well for me i was
better at cutting the weight than i was actually at fighting but um uh learning
through this process
okay this this this works like this and this works like this and there's i mean
there's so many studies
uh that are out there you know like you look at the nsea you look at you know
uh pubmed and all these
other things you you see a study over here and you see a study over here and
you're like okay we're
gonna put these two together and and actually see in terms of of actual weight
cutting it's it's rough
because nobody's ever actually gonna do a study with the level of dehydration
that these guys are
doing you know what i mean like oh yeah this this is how you rehydrate these
people it's never it's
never going to happen so you know luckily we've uh you know the amount of cuts
that we do we work with
over 200 ufc fighters and just just i mean just in the ufc i mean obviously
work with a lot more like
uh bellator and stuff like that but uh being able to see that okay this works
this doesn't work we
need to kind of when when you say you work with them if you work with 200
fighters how hands-on
are you with 200 different fighters um it changes you know based on um you know
how how much they need
us you know a lot of the guys we literally don't show up until the week of the
fight
you know something like connor you know i'm out there six to eight weeks i'm
out there and
monitoring everything and um you know the people that we are out there for for
for eight weeks
it makes life a lot easier you know now do you have anything to do with his
meal planning
as well like during the camp connor yeah 100 yeah everything that goes into his
mouth i'm i'm i'm
monitoring like so from the moment you guys start in camp 100 what about
outside of camp is he taking
instruction from you and yeah yeah connor you know he hit me up like hey i'm
doing this you know like
uh in terms of like workout that's a big one for him like okay pre-workout post-workout
what what
should i be taking um i tell him exactly what he should be taking and then um
you know he basically stays
on a regiment and at the end of the day man like diet the word diet means fuji
the habitual way
and uh i i like guys to actually live life a little bit you know what i'm
saying when you're
you're so regiment like okay i gotta i gotta count this carb and i gotta count
this okay it's it's
ridiculous you know what i'm saying so you know the fact that he actually is
like okay i just i just
need to monitor what i'm taking pre post-workout makes life easy for me did you
go to school for nutrition
or oh in the marine corps i was a combat conditioning specialist i was actually
an instructor trainer so
like um when you go there's there's a place called the martial arts center of
excellence right and they
actually handpicked marines um kind of been you know like in you know certain
situations in the military
uh brian stan was uh was actually you know a part of that and then uh they
actually started something
called the the combat conditioning um uh program and i was actually the the guy
that they actually
had to teach all that so they they sent me everywhere like uh i got to to work
with the uh
the people from the um uh olympic training center you know i got to work with
uh pi in florida you know
like uh um just learn from a lot of different people but in terms of like i
always say this from weight
cutting there's actually not a like there's not a course like you know if you're
a dietitian or whatever
that's that's great but that doesn't help you in terms of weight right you go
to somebody's like hey
man i'm going to lose 30 pounds in three days what do i do you know it's a very
specific kind of
discipline and so it's something that you kind of have to learn along the way
and no one's going
to teach you in a school 100 but you do have a back some sort of background in
nutrition 100 yes yes
yeah absolutely and does do you vary your diets based on the way guys train or
is it like pretty
standard or does it vary depending on how much weight they have to lose no no
every diet is different
like i mean people like themselves never get the same diet twice uh the same
person um so like if you
wake up at six o'clock in the morning versus eight o'clock in the morning you
have to have a totally
different diet you know like we we feed people from the moment they wake up to
the moment they go to
bed what would be the do say if someone likes to get up at six o'clock in the
morning versus someone
likes to get it up at eight right would it be in what time they have to train
that would that be the
variable that's one variable you don't we base everything off type uh type
timing portion size or
homeowner responses of foods you know what i'm saying like uh uh most diets
nowadays they actually
you know they they kind of stick to one aspect like um atkins diet you know it
sticks to types of foods
you know like uh zone diet is uh portion size we we actually stick to all of
them you know like type
timing portion size hormone response food because you know if you look at all
diets they they all work
all diets will work you know like if you're if you're consis