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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'JRE MMA Show #2 (Audio Only)' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2017-11-25. Transcript available.

JRE MMA Show #2 (Audio Only)

Ladies and gentlemen, coming at you live from paradise.
I'm in Hawaii right now, and I was going to watch the Bisping fight, the Bisping
Kelvin
Guestland fight live and do sort of a breakdown of it while it was happening,
but the shit
was going on at like 2 o'clock in the morning out here, and it wasn't happening.
I have been eating like a pig and drinking.
I've been doing vacation-type shit.
I'm a strong believer in that you need to do vacation time.
Like, vacation time is important.
You can't just be working all the time.
Occasionally, you have to just fuck off, and so that's what I've been doing.
I've just been fucking off.
So I was tired, and I decided I am not going to stay up late, and so I watched
it in the
morning.
I watched it this morning, and I've got a couple thoughts on it.
First of all, Brendan Chobb said this on his Instagram, and I could not agree
more.
I don't think you should be allowed to fight three weeks after you have a
brutal fight like
Michael Bisping did with GSP.
He got rocked.
He got choked unconscious.
And then three weeks later, he's fighting a really dangerous young and up-and-coming
Kelvin
Gastelum.
Kelvin is a beast.
He's got nasty boxing, and that is what he showed in that fight.
He hit him with a beautiful straight right jab and a right hand behind it, and
oh my goodness,
it was just...
That kid is just on fire.
He's just on another level right now.
I'm super, super impressed with Kelvin.
Kelvin has got lightning-fast hands, and he's an interesting guy because he's
what I would
like a tweener, and what that means is that I don't...
I mean, I think Kelvin in the best of times, like if Kelvin has the best camp
and the best
performance, it's entirely possible that he could beat anybody at 185 pounds.
But should he be at 185 pounds?
Boy, I don't know because Chris Weidman is at 185 pounds, and when Chris Weidman
got Kelvin
to the ground, it really did look like you're talking about two completely
different weight
classes, and Chris Weidman was able to choke Kelvin out, and obviously Weidman
is a former
champion, and there is absolutely no shame in losing to Chris Weidman, but it's
just the
way it looked when you were watching the fight.
To me, it looked like two different weight classes, and there's a lot of people
that think
that really Kelvin should be fighting at 170 pounds if he got the proper diet,
and he was
doing that for a while.
At one point in time, he was...
I know Dolce was working with him for a while, and he had his diet in line, and
he looked
fantastic.
And then, you know, just things happened, and he didn't want to pay the Dolce
money, and
I don't know who he's working with right now as a nutritionist, but I just...
I think he's a phenomenal fighter.
I just don't know if 185 pounds is the right weight class for him.
It could be.
I mean, it could be that maybe what he really needs to do is just lose some
body fat, put
on some muscle, and maybe 185 pounds will be his weight class.
It's just that constant debate of whether or not you should weaken your body
and drop
down to the minimum weight you can, or whether or not you should fight at a
natural weight
and have a healthy body.
It's a real good argument, and I'm pausing right now because I'm pulling
something up.
There's a girl that just died in Australia.
She died very recently.
She was preparing for a Muay Thai fight, and it's just part of what this sport
is about.
Unfortunately, it really bothers the fucking shit out of me.
I think it's the scariest thing.
I think...
Yeah, here it is.
Teenager dies training...
Here it is.
The girl's name...
She was 18 years old, and her name was Jessica Lindsay, and she died while she
was cutting
weight.
She was an amateur kickboxer in Australia.
I cut weight a bunch of times when I was doing Taekwondo tournaments, and it is
brutal.
It's terrible.
I was bad at it, too.
I didn't do it correctly.
I just worked out real hard the night before and wore rubber suits and the
whole deal and
dehydrated myself, and I didn't rehydrate myself well either, so I felt like
shit the next
day when I was fighting.
And a lot of wrestlers back in the day used to do the same thing.
My weight cut, though, was nowhere near as extreme as some of the MMA fighters
do.
Some MMA fighters, I mean, they're getting on death's door, and I just think it's
one of
the most disturbing and most unfortunate aspects of MMA.
Kevin Lee said before his last fight with Tony Ferguson that he felt like he
was dying when
he was cutting weight, and he made the weight.
Habib Nurmagomedov, who's the, if not the best, one of the very best lightweights
in the
world, undefeated, had his body shut down last time he tried to make the weight
and couldn't
make the Tony Ferguson fight.
They pulled him out and took him to the hospital.
I mean, I'm beating on a dead horse here because it's something that everybody
knows.
Everybody's aware that it's a terrible, terrible aspect of our sport, and in my
mind, it's
contrary to what martial arts is supposed to be about.
So in that sense, I encourage Kelvin to stay at 185 pounds because obviously
the guys knocked
out Vitor Belford at 185, he just knocked out former champion Michael Bisping
at 185 pounds.
I mean, he could knock out anybody at 185, but a guy like Chris Weidman, who's
very smart
about cutting weight, he cuts a lot of weight, but he does it the right way, rehydrates
the
right way, and he's just a fucking beast.
He's just so much bigger.
And when he got Kelvin to the ground and submitted him with a head and arm
choke, boy, it just
really seemed like that's the wrong weight class for Kelvin.
And then you see Kelvin, next fight, fights Bisping and just fucking lights him
up in the
first round.
Now, would he have been able to do that if he fought the Bisping that was
training for
George St. Pierre?
I mean, if Bisping did not have the George St. Pierre fight and just went right
into the
Kelvin Gaslam fight, would the same result have happened?
It could very well have.
The way Kelvin hits, he's fast as fuck.
His hands are beautiful.
He throws really crisp, straight punches.
And in this sport, there's not a whole lot of guys who have crisper, sharper
hands at 185
pounds than Kelvin.
I mean, he just has beautiful head movement in boxing.
And when he moves in for the kill with those hands, whoa, you saw in the Vitor
Belfort fight.
I mean, he just fucked Vitor up with those straight punches and he throws them
efficiently and they
have snap to them and just, and on top of that, he's a very good wrestler.
I mean, a lot of people forget how good his wrestling skills are on top of all
that.
He's just a real threat at 185 pounds.
Fascinating thing.
Because it's just such a wide open division.
He just called out Robert Whittaker, who's the interim champion, of course, and
called out
Whittaker and wants Whittaker to fight him next.
But of course, Robert Whittaker is waiting for the big payday.
I would too, if I was him, to fight George St. Pierre.
So it's a wide open division now that St. Pierre choked out Michael Bisping and
then Kelvin
just lights up Bisping.
And of course, you've got to think that Weidman is still in the mix.
I mean, even though Weidman lost to Yoel Romero and then lost to Gegard Mousasi,
he's still
in the mix.
He was winning that Yoel Romero fight, in my opinion, until he got caught with
that wicked
flying knee.
But that's the danger of fighting Yoel Romero.
Yoel Romero could do that to anybody in the world.
He's just such a fucking freak athlete.
So really, really wide open division.
I'm bummed as fuck that Gegard went over and decided to fight for Bellator.
But I get it.
You know, I mean, these guys got to go where the money is.
And at Bellator, he easily could be a champion.
I think he could be a champion in the UFC as well.
And maybe we will see him in the UFC again.
I mean, he could easily fight a year or two over in the UFC and then come back
over.
Gegard is still relatively young.
But it's nice to have competition.
I think competition is good for everybody.
And I think it really elevates the sport.
It elevates the level of the sport.
And you can see by the results that a lot of these UFC fighters are having,
especially Lorenz Larkin, who is very good.
He's a very, very good striker.
He loses to Lima in a bid for the title and then loses by knockout to the
always dangerous Paul Daly.
So I think Bellator and now, especially in that 170-pound division, you've got
Rory McDonald.
Bellator is really showing they have absolute world championship caliber talent
over there.
So to get back to that fight, I agree entirely with, to get back to the Bisping
and Kelvin Gastelum fight, I agree 100% with what Brendan Schaub said, that you
really have to protect a fighter from themselves.
You really can't be letting a guy fight three weeks after an absolutely brutal
fight like that.
It just does not make sense.
It just does not make sense.
I don't think it's smart.
I mean, I understand the UFC needed someone to fill in and short notice because
Anderson Silva tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs.
And they did not want to lose the Shanghai main event.
So it turns into an even bigger fight when you've got the former middleweight
champion right off of his loss three weeks later fighting again.
But it's just not smart.
I know Bisping wanted to do it.
I know Bisping would probably do it again if you asked him to do it.
If you asked Bisping to fight in a couple of weeks, he would probably do it
again.
And someone was talking about him fighting in England, I believe, in March,
which, boy, I mean, that's less crazy.
It's less crazy, but still crazy, right?
Because we're basically into December.
So you've got December, January, February, three months off, really, and then
March.
But, of course, during that time, he's going to be sparring.
And, you know, you know Bisping.
He's a fucking animal.
He's not going to train easy.
He's not going to take much time off.
And there's a lot of debate as to how much time a fighter should be forced to
take off after they get knocked out.
And here's the thing about that.
You're seeing guys when they're fighting, and you're seeing them getting
knocked out, and you're seeing them fighting, you know, X amount of months
later.
So you saw Bisping.
He didn't get knocked out by Georges St-Pierre, but he certainly got rocked
with that left hook, and then he got choked out when he was on the ground.
Now, for people who don't know a lot about MMA, getting choked out is not
nearly as bad as getting knocked out.
There's almost nothing to it.
The way to look at it is, if you look at a garden hose, and you know how you
can bend a garden hose and cramp it down, and it stops the water from coming
out?
That's exactly what happens to your fucking brain when you get choked out.
When you get choked out, it's basically cutting off the blood of your brain.
You wake up, and you're fine.
You don't have memory issues.
You don't have balance issues, for the most part, especially if you've only
been out for a couple of seconds.
It happens all of the time in training.
I've seen many, many guys get choked unconscious.
I've choked people unconscious.
They come back, and they're fine.
It's not that big of a deal.
But you've got to realize, before he got choked unconscious, he got hit with a
big fucking left hand and hurt.
And it was a great fight before that.
Both guys were giving and taking.
Fighters need time off after fights.
So you're seeing that, right?
You're seeing the actual competition between Georges St-Pierre and Michael Bisping.
What we're not seeing is how many times he got hit during training.
Did he get rocked ever?
Did he get clipped and dropped?
Did he get dropped and hurt and take a couple days off and then get back to
training again?
Only he knows.
Only his camp knows.
And most of the times, they're not talking.
But you hear about it all the time.
As a matter of fact, I was talking to Forrest Griffin once.
And Forrest was te