Name: JRE MMA Show #37 with Mark DellaGrotte
Uploaded: 2018-08-03T21:02:41.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'JRE MMA Show #37 with Mark DellaGrotte' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2018-08-03. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'JRE MMA Show #37 with Mark DellaGrotte' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2018-08-03. Transcript available.

JRE MMA Show #37 with Mark DellaGrotte

do do do do do do do do five four three two one boom and we're live mark delagrate
what up most
of the time if you and i are talking on the microphone it's when you're in the
truck and i'm
talking to you and you know and like right before a big fight people don't
realize like you're you're
the guy i talk to yeah man a lot of shit talking going on do a lot of shit
talking a lot of things
we probably shouldn't say luckily it doesn't make the broadcast well when that
one got leaked when
uh aldo was about to fight connor and i said he does not look good i i said he
looks nervous as fuck
i remember his body looks flat soft and flat yeah and then he got flatlined
yeah well yeah you were
right i was right in that regard that did make program didn't it well people
what happened was
somebody recorded it because uh i was talking to you i think and i was talking
to bruce and um it just
uh somebody just decided to be a little twat dude i'm paranoid in that truck
sometimes you have to
be now wrong fucking button and i'm gonna be talking shit to you or marin or
something well that was one
where um was uh it was interesting i was like oh okay well somebody's a fucking
asshole like you're
you're privy to this sort of inside banter to like to release that like and
make it public i would never
say that publicly so i was very upset that they did that yeah but it was honest
no you're right it was
honest he did look like shit but damn he looked good last weekend he looked
unbelievable crazy man
i love jeremy stevens great guy i mean you know we're cool with everybody yeah
we work for the
company you gotta get to know everybody you gotta be cool with everybody but it
was good to see jose
aldo back on top man he needed that bad dude well when someone ever i'm always
happy when someone
live wins with a liver shot oh because it's such a it's one of those weird
punches like you'll see
someone you'll see two guys and they exchange good shots to the body and they
seem like they have no
effect you know obviously they hurt but they'll deal with it and keep fighting
and then every now and
then you see whap and then you see that liver shot where the legs go out the
body gives in it's like
man that is crazy that we have this one area that sometimes works yep because
sometimes it doesn't
work right that's right a liver shot's weird man and it's delayed that's the
funniest part about it
there's like a split second delay where you're like i got this just fold over
if you saw that too
like there was a body shot that that he threw he threw like a rear a right hand
to the body and
then the left level shot so i think it's kind of like you know you you take the
first punch you're
like and then you brace and you got it and then you relax for a second and that's
when
your diaphragm and your liver starts vibrating i wish it made sense well here
it is right here
you can see it again weird video yeah watch he throws the right hand to the
body first
what has he got there it is and there it is double body shot yeah and jeremy's
a banger too man that's
a tough dude man to get dropped from a body shot and to make that face too you
can't hide it so bad
yeah man well kevin ross is the only guy that i've ever seen hide it kevin ross
got he was fighting
in bellator not his last fight but maybe the previous fight and uh he got hit
in the first round with a
spinning back kick right in the liver and he just went like just yeah you can
see he just kept moving
and he said he was in ultimate agony absolutely but he didn't show shit and his
opponent didn't know
i mean he really pulled it off he really pulled it off he figured out how to
just
he's so mentally strong though that guy crazy he just figured out how to suck
it up and just deal
with the pain it's tough to do in kickboxing and boxing too because it's not
like you can jump guard
or stall or grapple like yeah you can't hide that you know you get you get hit
like that and you got
to keep fighting especially kickboxing as opposed to muay thai you can't even
really clinch right
exactly especially with these new rules do you like that do you like no i don't
either i don't like
it it's not the art you know i think everything that's going on you know with
you know these new
rules k even when k1 first came out and all that it's kind of like what i
consider like a takeoff
of muay thai it's not muay thai but they call it muay thai yeah i mean it's not
muay thai you know
it's not the real art k1 was like the japanese said not enough brain damage
yeah not enough
you need more brain damage and i think they just sucked at the clinch which
because the thais are
so good at it and they wanted to give themselves a chance to actually compete
with like some of the
best in the world so they said all right let's limit their weapons let's isn't
that interesting
because wouldn't you think that they would just learn the clinch man i i wish
they would you know
that's one of the most intricate parts of muay thai it's one of that's where
all the gambling
goes that's where all the points come from you can punch the shit out of
somebody and you get nowhere
and then you start clinching and the knees start coming and the little turnovers
and trips
the thais love that shit man that's that that's the real art there's so much
grappling involved in
thai boxing that's overlooked you know and to to have rules that take away
grappling take away clinch
work makes no sense to me it's half the art at that point it's also a really uh
underappreciated
thing in terms of like how they score it like we don't we don't score the same
way like if you're
watching a thai fight and if you were an american you'd be like ah it's a bunch
of hugging yeah you
got off a couple of knees but the other guy hit him with some good right hands
and a good jab
so funny you say that not really i just had this lesson with my students the
other night
you know doing uh let's talk about the rules how to how to win the judges so to
say you know and
yeah the dutch rules are different than the thai rules and america is kind of
fucked up and lost in
between all of it you know like the the dutch consider like a hand block like
if you block with
your hands like this it's a block in holland the thais that's not a block that's
a point like you get
the point you know really yeah man it's different you have to block with your
legs in thai box in
order to show that you've blocked and nullified the attack you know really in
the points like the
the punches score big in holland low kick score big and they mean shit to the
thais you could punch the
shit out of somebody for a full round and then just get two clean body kicks
off and all the thais like
oh hey hey you got that the gambling starts going so a lot of these foreigners
go to thailand and
they think they're doing well and then they lose decisions and they wonder why
it's because they
don't understand the judging they don't understand the rules and vice versa the
thais go to holland
and you know they they they think they're doing well and the guy's punching the
shit out of them
and they're kind of blocking partially and then they lose decisions as well so
it's very different
between the the judging and the scoring between dutch kickboxing and in real muay
thai very different
different yeah i remember when ramon decker was fighting over in thailand and
one of the things that he
shocked a lot of those guys was with his uh his hand techniques yep and he was
able to close the
distance and just unleash a barrage of explosive knockout punches and and take
guys out where i think
they'd become more accustomed to that not happening very true you know it also
become accustomed to not
being assaulted in the first round very much so i remember one of the fights i
had early in my career
in thailand i was so excited to be fighting at a big fair big festival fighting
this big name thai and i
threw an elbow in the first round you know and i kind of had the opportunity to
throw the elbow i threw
the elbow and you know i landed and the guy wiped his you know put his glove up
to his head to see if he was
bleeding and he gave me that mean look and nodded and it was game on from there
and i went back to the
corner my thai trainers were yelling at me like the are you doing you throw
elbows like elbows illegal
right yeah but not first round now he angry you i was like what the now he
angry you now he angry you
thai glish half thai having that bad dude it was apparently i was just excited
to be fighting in
thailand using elbows because a lot of times in the states you know we can't
use them and the rules
are limited and i was in thailand and there was a festival at night and the
fucking lights are on and the ties are betting and i was like game on let's go
trainers were mad at me for throwing the elbow and then there was other fights
where i had where
they're like oh be careful for elbow this festival fight no doctor here
hospital far away
it's like you guys are in my head all up no doctor here no doctor i remember my
trainer saying
that he's like be careful for elbow i was like thanks tips like i i know watch
out for elbows he's
like yeah but no doctor here not stadium this festival hospital long pier ban
oh really far
dude you got such a good thai dude my thai glish is on point bro don't even go
there don't even go
there it's so don't make me do a lady boy with a heavy boston accent dude you
ever hear yeah be a
stitch duran speak thai stitch did some r and r and uh in the service like in
uh in thailand and man like
you know you say like that's like the property he's like man so what the cup he
like speaks like
a thai essay dude it's hilarious dude oh it's the funniest thing man how do you
say thank you again
cup cup cup cup yeah if you roll the r's it's like real like almost like aristocrat
like you
you stick out like a sore thumb if you're a white dude but women don't say that
they say
cup cup yeah car is like the feminine polite particle like so say so cup like
crop it looks
like k-r-u-p but it's actually the cup that's the the male play park oh and
then and everybody ah
they all stretch everything out everything is like oh i go with you now yeah
where you go mister
like it's all it's just like i don't know it's the twang i guess yeah it's that
thai twang they're
the nicest people on earth they're sweet they're sweet they're so nice man not
all of them it's the
land of smiles but you'll find some frowns here and there i'll tell you that
much of course well
especially in the fight game yeah so there's no getting around the fight game
no you're gonna have
some mean motherfuckers very true but the the the fighters are cool though man
i remember my first
one of my first fights in thailand well at least my rajadamnirn fight in 2003 i
had breakfast with my
opponent and it was like really yeah super chill like we weighed in butt naked
next to each other which was
awkward as but like we really have to be naked and the thai's like yeah you got
to get down bro and
i was like i don't want to get naked i'm on weight don't worry i'll leave my
underwear like no underwear
off that's how we do it at ratchet down in stadium and i was like it's a butt
naked way to my opponent
went next door and had breakfast with him shooting the it's kind of cool nick
but it is it is a cool
place man i remember the first time i went to thailand i came home and i was
homesick i was up dude it
felt weird i was like i felt like lonely and lost and i had family here like
you know i was i was
with my currently like my wife now i was with her at the time we weren't
married at the time but
you know i was i had family had friends i was very much connected you know old
school sicilian family
boston base you know deep roots and i just felt awkward and weird i was like
away from home i was
like homesick you missed thailand i missed thailand my very first trip i
remember leaving the airport and i was
driving and i had nothing but smiles for like a month and a half 