Name: JRE MMA Show #42 with Teddy Atlas
Uploaded: 2018-09-24T22:40:26.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'JRE MMA Show #42 with Teddy Atlas' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2018-09-24. Transcript available. Joe is joined by boxing trainer and fight commentator Teddy Atlas.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'JRE MMA Show #42 with Teddy Atlas' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2018-09-24. Transcript available. Joe is joined by boxing trainer and fight commentator Teddy Atlas.

JRE MMA Show #42 with Teddy Atlas

four three two one and we're live teddy atlas thanks for being here man i
really appreciate
it i'm a minute late i'm my dad you keep saying that stop make you guys uh
listen get anyone out
there mad at you so no one's mad at anything there's no real set time you know
uh i gotta
tell you since i announced you're gonna be on the podcast i had about 100
people tell me to get you
mad they want you to rant and get screaming ever since that we're firemen
speech you gave to tim
bradley everybody wants you to start screaming and get mad you get you get
people hyped up well
hopefully if there's only an occasion for it and i don't think there'll be an
occasion but um i
i'm looking at this stuff here you got a nice place here by the way thank you
and it's making
me think about the denzel washington movie uh the equalizer the first one where
he was in with those
russian guys that were like messed up guys and he was trying to protect that
girl and he started
pointing there were skulls and stuff at the guy's desk you know and uh he was
pointing this stuff he
was trying to explain to the guy listen let this girl go you know i'll give you
nine thousand dollars
whatever it was let her go she was like 15 years old and um he he didn't want
to listen to him and so
he started they had stuff like this with this skull i don't know if the people
could see it
right but um and he started pointing it towards him and i the guy didn't like
take the hint you know
the guy then about a couple minutes later he killed everybody in the room but
it's just it looks exactly
like the thing from that movie the denzel washington where he uh he also had
guns and stuff there it is
right there there's the scene this is jamie pulled the scene up oh really yeah
i never saw that movie
yeah so you see like there's a scene where he starts pointing they they might
have taken this from here
i mean they could have gotten it from you that's from mexico the props um so
they they pointed he
pointed it all towards the guy to kind of warn the guy what was coming next but
tenzo that movie is
probably the only good movie that ever came out of a terrible tv series you
remember the tv series the
equalizer i remember the name but i don't know that i ever really watched it it
was a fat sloppy
white guy driving a jaguar that supposedly kicked everybody's ass and you'd
watch it and you go get
the fuck out of here with this movie no i didn't watch it i heard a tv show it
was just a dumb tv show
that didn't make any sense and when they turned it into a movie and had denzel
washington in it i'm
like what how is this possible i'm gonna turn this guy i think is he freaking
you out not really but
like i was just thinking about that and it didn't end well so so listen man you
were you just came back
from the canelo triple g fight which was a phenomenal fight that was a
phenomenal fight i really enjoyed
that fight i think people exaggerate how good fights are nowadays like if they're
around everything's
great yeah i think everything is if a pitcher has one good year in baseball he's
great he's he's like
the next sanny colfax like people don't wait to see and and truly graded uh
against things that were
out of their era because you know we're human like hey i was there i reported
on it it's the greatest
fight ever and you really think so no no but that's what people do that's what
they do right right right
i think it was a really good fight yeah but everything's relative you know and
it depends on
everything is influenced the judgment of people is influenced at least i see it
in my view for whatever
that's worth by what's around and how hungry they are like everybody bought the
pacquiao mayweather first
fight because the fans were hungry their imagination was like there's no good
fights right this is going
to be a good fight so they're they're anticipating it so you got them at the
right time if it was the 80s
and you had lennon duran pinel whitaker hagler hagler uh you know you you had
um hearns i mean you had
all these great fight aaron prior you had all these guys fighting each other
you probably couldn't have
pulled off the the mayweather uh pacquiao thing that you pulled off and it
turned out to be a you know
a bit of a i don't want to say scam but uh it definitely wasn't what it lived
up to be wasn't
that because pacquiao came into the fight injured i don't believe it i never
saw any listen i'm not
saying he didn't have an injury but you you're in a tough business you you were
in taekwondo and all
that kind of fighting stuff and mma and whatever part of it i'm probably not
giving it the proper
um understanding of what it was and and exactly what part of the fighting not
just mma i'm being
too broad but i know you did taekwondo you did kickboxing i know that you're
you were national
champion when you were young somebody showed me something about it so um you
you do things when
you're injured i mean like when are you not injured if you're if you're a
football player if you're a
fighter if you're in the contact business tell me when you're not injured like
when there's not
something wrong so i never saw proof during that bout i was there covering it
for espn
i never saw proof where he winced or or he didn't throw that hand or or he
threw it in a in a poor
way or in in a less than high level way i i never saw that so listen i'm not in
his body uh you know
and and um i'm not a mind reader but i i didn't see it but what i did see i saw
him and his trainer
in the runway was more telling to me taking selfies because they had got paid a
few extra dollars
to promote some kind of product where the selfies were attached to it so i saw
that to me that was
more debilitating to see a guy before the biggest fight of his life where
people were going crazy and
and and going to break the pay-per-view record and paying a hundred dollars for
the freaking thing
to see him taking a selfie when the mentality should be in a different place
and normally is
in a different place before you're about to walk that hundred yards to the ring
where you might not
come out of there right it's always possible you have to have that mentality i
thought that was more
debilitating than anything i saw physically with what was supposed to be an arm
injury so to me
look to me maybe i don't know if it's fair to say it was a money grab but
obviously
it was a bit of a money grab uh they were beyond themselves uh you know one guy
was retired he came
back for it they were beyond the peak of their abilities in their career and i
just i just didn't
see uh i i didn't see that fight uh the purpose to it well it happened about
five six years late yeah
yeah i i just i mean what what i i i you everyone who gets in a ring they
deserve to make as much money
as they can i never i never say that a fighter got overpaid never i don't care
i never say that because
i understand what it took to get to that point and but you know you can you can
play with things and
you know you can you can kind of lead people to things and again where we
started with this
conversation you know it's the time you're around the the environment what's
not around not just
what's around but what's not around right you know there's not that many great
fights to be made right
now is what you're saying so the triple g canelo fight is important because
there's not a lot of
guys waiting in the wings it's not like the old days of the 1980s or the glory
days of the welterweight
and middleweight division no it's not and and the people you know they they
have a thirst if you will
to see something that the pr department can bring it can use the right material
because they they it has to
be fighters that obviously are marquee fighters with a name that they can build
it and get the
imagination of the people to say this is going to be a great one so when they
see it and they pay
a hundred dollars on 85 or 95 whatever the heck they're playing um for the
fight and then it's a
good fight well it becomes a great fight because of all those elements because
uh you know it's doing your
time you saw it you committed to it you sacrifice to pay that money you
sacrifice to fly there and yeah
a really good fight becomes uh a great time yeah and and i don't think we
separate that in our minds i
don't think hey who says we have to because right it's about enjoyment so if
that if that makes people
happy hey that's part of that's part of what goes into the mix of entertainment
but i didn't see it
when i try to separate that being in the business i didn't see it as you know
the thrill in manila i right
i saw it as a really good solid fight and they once again unfortunately took
away from it
with controversy with the decision did you think that just i i thought the
first decision was terrible
i thought triple g clearly won the fight i thought the second decision was arguable
i thought like
this is this looks like a draw to me it was an amazing fight i mean i gotta be
honest because
i mean that's where you're supposed to be and who do you think won i added 117
112 and a lot of people
gonna say four you had it too far i had it for galafkin and all week long i
picked canelo to win
on espn on sports and i was working so i 117 112 is big yeah it's five rounds
so yeah i i yeah so i'm you
know you you you start to you're human you start to hear people like you you
know that know something
about fighting that is had it closer so you maybe you don't want to yell that
you had 117 112 but yeah
you still got to yell it yeah because that's what you believe that's what you
saw and i still say it
i still yell it that it was they didn't give them credit for jabs like jabs don't
count no more like
i'm not gonna pick out anybody because that's not really fair to do when you
have a podium and they
don't have a podium but sometimes it is because they deserve it but not not
generally and the judges
nowadays i i think that they just give it i see too often that they almost go
down the easy route
like you know they just give it to who's aggressive a guy's walking forward a
guy's throwing punches
it's like they're favoring that guy and it's more to it than that and i
understand that the sport
doesn't help itself they don't make a clear criterion for but it's supposed to
be clean harder effective
punches because the separation of professional boxing and amateur boxing is you
have to sell it you have to
make money right and you got to put fannies in the seats so you want to see
guys get hurt you want to
see guys impact guys so it's the cleaner who hurts the guy more it's the
cleaner more impactful punches but
it's not just drone it's not just aggression because the aggression has to lead
to something effective
effective aggression so i i saw for me to get it to that 117 112 i saw
golovkin on the outside controlling range controlling distance you want to use
that silly word ring
generalship because i i have the time i don't know what they're talking about
they say ring general like
right well what are you talking about i just saw the way you judged it what
where did where did you fit in
ring generalship into that into your thinking because i'd like to know but if
it is ring generalship he
was controlling the range he was controlling outside he was keeping the shorter
man on the outside
catching him with the jab making him earn his way in making him pay a price to
get in now was the other
guy canelo being the other guy landing the hard clean body shots that sometimes
you don't get credit for
yeah he was oh yeah like i say on esp he was putting water in the basement yeah
he definitely was but
the jab didn't count suddenly we're suddenly in a universe where the jab of a
guy doesn't mean
anything when we don't want it to mean anything when we want to give it to the
aggressive guy to the
to the guy trying you know trying to get in there the question is like what's
more important is a jab more
important or a hook to the body what is more important in your eye to the body
clean is more 