Name: JRE MMA Show #25 with Michael Chandler
Uploaded: 2018-05-07T22:30:21.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'JRE MMA Show #25 with Michael Chandler' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2018-05-07. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'JRE MMA Show #25 with Michael Chandler' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2018-05-07. Transcript available.

JRE MMA Show #25 with Michael Chandler

four three two boom and we're live how are you brother i'm great man great to
have you in here
man thank you i've been yeah i mean i've been wanting to have you on for a long
time man i've
been following your career forever and i've been a big fan forever so it's nice
to be able to sit
down with you i know man this is awesome this is uh i've been a big fan of the
of yours obviously
and the podcast for a long time so to be in here get the tour check out your
awesome man warehouse
i think every man's dream this is an elaborate plot to convince me to get you
to join the ufc
that's all this is right away right away we want to go straight to it okay well
i just i mean all of
this could be yours i appreciate rory mcdonald going over there i know he did
what he had to do
but even that one bums me out you know right yeah i just i wanted to i want to
see you fight the best
guys in the world and i think uh right now over in bellator you have very good
competition but i don't
think you have the best guys and i think you're one of the best guys i think uh
i think i wake up
every morning think i'm i'm the best guy in the world too you know that's the
way you want to be
the best guy in the world that's the way i've been thinking for a while not
always in my career i mean
i've had some losses where i've you know had temporary lapses of confidence and
whatnot whether it be my
training or my abilities in myself or my thoughts of my abilities myself but i
mean where i'm at right
now firing on all cylinders i feel like everything's working so do you feel
like those moments where you
haven't been at your best where you've had lapses and then you felt those dark
moments do those
motivate you to never let that happen again yeah i mean i think i actually went
through for those the
people that don't know i went through three losses in a row i mean that's that's
rough i mean the first
loss to eddie alvarez was a tough split decision a lot of people thought i won
um so you kind of get
this you know oh what was me attitude which i i never had really had before and
all of a sudden
it's like why did this happen to me then had a back injury and then fought will
brooks when i
shouldn't have on one week basically one week of training which led to another
loss which led to
another lack of confidence and then another loss so i went through that tough
dark time you know and
i think there were certain aspects of it of it that was it was me taking taking
the sport for granted
it was me taking my abilities for granted and also just not taking extreme
ownership of my mental
state like realizing that i might be the hardest worker in the gym i am the
hardest worker in the gym
every gym i go to i'm the hardest worker i live life right i do the right
things um but if you're not
constantly taking extreme ownership of your mental state of your confidence
your self-image
um i think a healthy self-image is the um the most important component of being
successful in life
and i just i wasn't taking care of that aspect of my life so you were doing all
the right things
physically but you weren't doing what you needed to do mentally yeah i mean i
think i had never
visualized until after that i mean honestly i mean i come from a i come from a
hard-working
uh background my mom and dad both worked two jobs my dad was a union carpenter
woke up at five in the
morning every single morning pulled his pulled himself up by his bootstraps mom
the same way
working two three jobs both of them to make sure that me and my brothers had
every every single
um advantage in life to be whether it be wrestling camps football camps this
that the other thing
um but we weren't exactly taught that hey you can go out in the world and do
great things you can go
out and you can be not just good but great and be a champion and i think i went
into college wrestling
and i might i might have told the coaches i wanted to be a national champion i
might have told the
reporters um all the people that i was supposed to that i wanted to be a
national champion but in my
heart of hearts i didn't truly believe it you know and i think and i was i mean
you you asked tyron
you asked ben um those guys took me under their wing because i was the hardest
worker in the room
you know and they said man this guy could be good but i didn't exactly believe
in myself um and now it's
taken me almost till i'm 30 years old to really truly believe that i was put on
this earth to do some
amazing things and that there is no limits on myself and that there is no
limits to my capabilities and
my abilities so i mean i think we underestimate how important and how mental
life is and not just in
not just in athletics not just in fighting not just in sports but i mean in
anything in business and
and just being a good person just believing in yourself and having a healthy
self-image
yeah i couldn't agree more um i think that's one of the most important things
to life
but it's also really difficult to cultivate oh it is well well i think too i
mean i'm very hard on
myself you know i mean i think anybody who's who's successful is is at least
relatively hard on
themselves and i i think i got to the point where i just started calling myself
lazy you know i wake up
every morning you know and i and i think michael you're being lazy if you don't
do something today
listen to this podcast or watch this youtube video or read this book or spend
10 minutes 5 minutes 30
minutes visualizing yourself in a cage or on a podium or having loads of wealth
or having loads of
influence having loads of impact having having ridiculous amounts of success
because until you
actually see it in your mind's eye you can't actually achieve it or you're
going to get to the
point right on the cusp of about to be achieving it and you're going to have
that cognitive dissonance
where something something pops up where you have the opportunity to break that
barrier but you're
going to find a way to sabotage yourself because you don't truly believe that
you deserve it
and i did that numerous times in college there was times where i was beating um
top-ranked guys in
the country and would somehow find a way to lose because winning to me being
crazy successful to me
wasn't exactly it didn't exactly mesh with how i truly saw myself you know and
i think it's and i
think i can look back on that not with regret but with that kind of edge now i
just educate myself
and i look back and i can put myself at national duels against cp slater us
versus minnesota my team
needed me to win he was ranked top five in the country i wasn't supposed to
beat him i was up by
two takedowns and somehow in the third period i lose the match and i can go
back and and see that
in my mind and realize okay that was a time let's say let's let's uh let's
respect that for what
it is and let's use that as fuel for the future i mean my my loss to eddie alvarez
was was a lot of
technical a lot of technical things i did wrong technically losses to will rooks
were things i did
wrong technically um but mentally i wasn't there as well and then i came back
with a vengeance and
then one and i've now i've won six in my last seven the only loss was a you
know a crazy freak injury
and now we can continue to move forward and just kind of look at it from as an
adult instead of take the
emotion out of it and look at it a plus b equals c you know and so it's really
kind of helped me i
think for a lot of people who don't test themselves in such an extreme manner i
mean i think mma is
probably one of the most extreme things you could do for a job other than being
a soldier or a fireman
or a police officer or something like that but it's that this idea that you
sabotage yourself because
you can't imagine yourself winning chael sunnan talked about that quite a bit
about his fight with
anderson silva how he was you know kind of dominating him not kind of but was
dominating him was very
close to being the ufc middleweight champion found a way to fall into a
triangle and he had done that
with paulo filio when he fought him and there was this thing that he would do
where he would find a
way to it up almost even though you're there doing it the pressure of possibly
pulling it off was too
overwhelming you didn't believe in some some ways you didn't you didn't believe
it and and and it's not
even i mean we're we're all i think we're all victim to our sub our
subconscious sometimes too i mean
like we said i mean we're in there fighting you think okay that's that's a man
in there fighting he
he has control of his body but you you do but you don't i mean like when when
chael was getting caught
i mean i know exactly what you're talking about it for everybody know who
remembers that fight because
we were all sitting there watching thinking holy cow i can't believe chael is
he was a couple minutes
away from being the beating the tar out of him you know and all of a sudden i
think we all saw the
triangle coming too you know anderson it seemed like he put pushed the arm down
real slow and then
all of a sudden he threw the leg over and we're all like what are you doing and
then you know then
30 seconds later he's you know or 10 seconds later the fight's over and i think
it's the the your
views or your beliefs not matching up with the reality and all of a sudden
there's that fine line
between breaking that barrier and unless you have been there before unless like
i said visualizing
yourself extremely successful extremely wealthy someone to be looked at someone
to be admired
someone to be to to follow unless you see that you're going to get to the point
where you tell
everybody you want the success but you're not going to get it unless you 100
truly believe in it and
it took me 30 years to figure it out so anybody who's done that before you know
it's okay it'll come
with time but you really have to like i said take extreme ownership of inside
your brain between your
ears is the most important part of life as we've already said and and and you
can continue to work
hard and and i go back to the talking about being lazy you know i literally
call myself lazy and you
know shame myself you know like michael why didn't you do this today why didn't
you work on your mental
you know your mental health today your self-image today why didn't you
visualize why didn't you do that
because that's just just like flexing a muscle in the gym just like throwing a
thousand repetitions
whether it be on the punching bag or drilling a wrestling move or a or a takedown
it's all the
same stuff and arguably more important on the mental side of things than it is
on the physical side of
things when you keep saying extreme ownership did you read jocko's book i i
have it i have it's one of
those ones where i have it and i haven't read it yet but i i love that that
word extreme ownership yeah
it's an awesome word it's an awesome book too and it's from a guy who's
actually lived it you know there's a lot of
like you know there's a lot of wisdom in his life experiences that you you can
get something out of
um i ask because you you obviously are a guy who seeks out knowledge right you
you you work on your
mind what what was it was it a book or is a series of books like what what got
you thinking differently
well honestly for me what got me thinking differently was honestly just going
through the most trying time
of my life i mean i had just gotten married now it's time to be a man now it's
time to step up now it's time to provide
and all of a sudden i go through this loss streak where after my third loss i
went home
to san diego with my wife we sat on the couch and we sit there and we just
cried who was the third loss
uh third loss was will brooks the second time oh that's right so um so i lost
to him twice eddie
once and then now the the madison square garden one but we went home we sat
there and it was almost like
what do we do now is bellator going to cut me am i did i work this hard to now
you know
be where i'm at now you know i me