Name: JRE MMA Show #24 with Kevin Lee
Uploaded: 2018-04-23T21:55:08.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'JRE MMA Show #24 with Kevin Lee' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2018-04-23. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'JRE MMA Show #24 with Kevin Lee' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2018-04-23. Transcript available.

JRE MMA Show #24 with Kevin Lee

boom and we're live kevin lee yes sir about as fresh off of a fight as you can
get man
yeah just about touching down yeah barely slept yeah it must have been a crazy
first of all like
after a fight it's probably you're probably so wired and like can't believe it's
over
right what is it like it takes you a minute for it to hit you really uh i didn't
sleep at all
after the fight i just i laid there for a little bit mind kind of racing didn't
really settle down
uh i just ended up just getting up getting some breakfast and then uh right on
the plane over here
didn't sleep all on the plane came over here 3 a.m i've been up all morning but
you what are you like
25 yeah yeah i keep going yeah i keep going rock star lifestyle baby i gotta
live it 25 you can do
that for like two days in a row before it really starts to settle in yeah no i'll
be good for a
i mean besides getting kicked in the head i'm all good other than that dude
that was first of all
it was a very very very impressive performance i mean edson barboza is no
fucking joke and
notoriously difficult to take down even khabib struggled getting him down the
early parts of
the first round but you got him down quick yeah i think a lot of people
underestimate that uh
especially how technical my wrestling can get um i i just feel like edson was
really strong uh he was
probably the strongest guy that i've ever faced physically uh it just his body
is just it moved a
little bit different but technically i just had the the aspect there and when
when you add those two
things up i'm equally as strong you know that yeah i'm just gonna blow him out
the water well he's just
a bundle of fast twitch muscle fiber man and that dude i mean people you know
they'll see the khabib
fight and they'll see this fight with you they might not understand how good
that guy really is he's
very very good he's a beast and uh he's gonna come back he's gonna knock some
people out oh for sure
he's only gonna get better from here i think yeah uh it's just he it's the
styles make the fights
too and me i feel like i can fight any style you know that that was my number
one goal when i got
into this sport just to be the most well-rounded complete uh fighter that there
is and and i feel
like i can take advantage uh of like some of his things that he's not getting
good at but he's gonna
get better at him he's gonna he's gonna be back he's a beast well that focus in
that mindset of being
well-rounded was very obvious in that fight i was very impressed by the fact
you you fight just as
good southpaw as you do orthodox you switch up easily i've been uh i've only
been going southpaw
for maybe the past year year and a half or so uh and just kind of getting the
filler uh for it down
but i feel like that could be one of the when you listen to a lot of the great
fighters in the past
they talk about a right-handed southpaw there's so many advantages that can be
there uh and it's just
it's just always great to be able to switch up and change time especially when
you got a guy that's
that's trying to time you like edson uh because they say that i'm sorry but
they say that if you work
on the opposite side it actually makes the other side better yeah yeah it makes
it a little bit easier when you
switch back yeah and and i've noticed that i mean there's still some some kinks
and twists that i
want to kind of get out of there you know you see i i study a lot of people i
study a lot of switch
fighters especially in mma uh recently i want to say about the last two years
guys have been doing it
more often but some guys do it better than others i try and get the perfect mix
you know well some guys
do it but there's a twist right like wonder boy does it but when wonder boy
does it you know that
the front leg is coming yeah and then he's you know he's he can fight any style
i mean he could
fight left or right but when he switches when he goes right you know that front
leg side kick's coming
that front leg roundhouse kick is coming and then when he stands orthodox he's
much more likely to
throw a punch or you know maybe even spin he mixes it up but he he's limited
maybe in the way he attacks
the blending of it i think uh wonder boy is one of those guys that his switches
are like really uh you
can see them coming you know the he makes them really pronounced you know they're
big switches and you
know the the attacks that are coming there's certain guys like tj dillashaw who's
great at mixing it up
completely right uh where i feel like he doesn't sit down on his punches too
much or you know he gets
in spots where he can get clipped in between those with your feet off the
ground uh so i try
and find the happy medium between those two switching up too much and uh being
able to make
those hard switches too well tj's really been doing that style for just like
three or four years now
since he's been with bang maybe it was about i want to say three years four
years yeah probably
something like it takes some time to get used to it get used to the timing and
everything and and
that's one of the things with me like i try and be the most consistent uh guy
that there is out there
so the more consistently i'm getting in there the more i'm seeing things coming
i'm i'm i'm reading
the angles and you know getting a lot of different looks a lot of different
bodies being thrown at me
uh so all that adds up to experience and you know it's only gonna get better
from there yeah it's also
one of those things when you're 25 years old you you still are like
realistically five years away from
your athletic prime yeah i i keep that i keep that in the back of my mind
sometimes because you know
you obviously don't want to overwork the body too much you don't want to burn
out uh but yeah i think
it's just staying consistent and staying healthy as long as i'm healthy through
it you know i got
through that fight no no serious damages at all uh and that's the most
important thing is just staying
healthy when i'm young uh and then uh you know tailing back when i'm starting
to get more damages or more
injuries but i i do a great job of keeping my body healthy i think more than
anything what do you like
when you're in i know robert folos was your coach for quite a long time and uh
we both miss him i'm
sure you you were very close with him he was such a great guy yeah yeah was he
the guy that like did
he sort of uh map out your training program when you were in camp or you know i
had uh we we kind of
structured it or at least i try and structure it like a full team uh aspect you
know rob was kind of
like i think of it like a race car you know i'm i'm the race car itself uh but
rob was like the head
driver you know rob was telling me where to go what to do uh dewey was kind of
like my horsepower
you know he's yeah dewey cooper uh i mean phenomenal striking coach if you ever
you know fantastic
fighter with him he he was uh a smaller heavyweight but he would fight giant
guys like peter arts and to
do that you you gotta you know you look at him he's only about 220 you know six
foot one maybe he's
fighting six foot seven 300 pound guys so he has to be extra technical in there
uh not rely on his speed and
power that's why i think he he makes such a great coach and and he pushes me uh
through it but i had
another guy i've been working with cory goodwin for the last four or five years
since i've been on
vegas he's kind of like the mechanic you know he keeps me he keeps my body
fresh and going is he is
he your strength conditioning yes but we call it that but what we do is a lot
different than than
strength and conditioning you know it's it's not a lot of i don't lift any
weights i don't and people when
people see yeah i haven't touched a weight since college you know wow the only
time i did was uh
when i went over and i started working with the ufc pi guys a little bit they
wanted me to touch weights
but uh i i it's just not a good fit for me are you doing uh what are you doing
plyometrics are you
doing he'd have to explain it to you more you know that that's his that that's
what he does he he worked
through s exos for a long time so he took a lot of their their physiology and
or their exos what's
exos the uh i think they just signed a deal with the ufc too a lot of guys been
going over and uh
they're a big strength and conditioning uh program oh they got a big facility
down in arizona but they
used to be based out of vegas uh so he worked for them where he gets a lot of
his training philosophies
and stuff from uh but it's not it's not any any weight lifting calisthenics a
lot of calisthenics
a lot of movement uh a lot of we work a lot of the joints especially you know
where he overextends
my joints he pushes them past past the limit and then we work out from there so
it's not very heavy
lifting it's maybe 15 pounds what do you mean by pushing them past the limit
like like uh hyperextend it
yeah i mean like he pulls it like almost like you get an arm bar so uh one of
the things we do is he
takes a band and he and he stretches it out so it really pulls my shoulder and
i was telling you i
i very rarely have shoulder problems and i think a large reason he he pulls it
all the way out kind
of out the socket and then we work out from there you know to build strength
from those those little
muscles uh which i feel like is is that's the part where i get my true strength
from you know i do that
a lot of yoga a lot of you know a lot of things that just all the strength
comes from within me
not lifting weights or anything how often are you doing yoga when you're in
camp uh two two three
times i've only been doing it for like four or five months since since the tony
fight uh it's been
helping me out a lot when i when i started doing it guys were like oh what are
you lifting or something
i'm like no just that's hard i'm like just doing yoga like isn't it crazy how
hard it is yeah it sounds
like you're just off like yeah i'm doing yoga oh you lazy what are you doing
stretching touching
your toes and maybe for like the first two months like i'd be like ashamed to
tell people they're
like where you gonna like you know i'm going to this one class uh you know we're
gonna be lifting
a lot of weights and we're gonna be grunting this shit like shit no i'm in
there with like the
fucking housewives and they killing me it's crazy right they killing me they
killing me i've gotten good
now though but uh do you do hot yoga yeah yeah yeah hot yoga uh i do a couple
different even the
vinyasa a little bit uh i try and dibble dabble but i've only been doing it for
a couple months now
now when you do how do you structure your camp like um in terms of like how
much strength and
conditioning you're doing how much skill work how much so it kind of depended
on it depends on the
opponent too uh but you know generally i'm doing three times a week of some
type of grappling uh
whether that's wrestling or uh nogi uh then i only spar once a week at the end
of the weeks uh we pick
our sparring partners that we pick that we choose you know we fly guys in or or
guys that are in
town because i'm in vegas all guys are always in and out um but then uh you
know i only i only do
strength and condition maybe two times a week not too much now when you say um
you spar once a week
and you bring guys in um are you sparring hard or do you spar more technical
when i'm in camp uh maybe
four or five good but i go pretty hard and it ruins me sometimes because i run
out of sparring partners
and guys don't want to show up and all this but uh yeah i ended up having to
start paying guys just
come on man give me some work here right yeah yeah we're trying to make some
money do you think that
that's the way to go like um for longevity there's a there's the big debate
right whether or not you
should spar skill wise and then save it up for the fight or whether you should
just go to war i think
i think you need that that reaction time you know with a guy that's seriously
throwing at you and i
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