Name: Joe Rogan Experience #900 - Joseph Valtellini
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #900 - Joseph Valtellini' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2017-01-19. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #900 - Joseph Valtellini

And we're live. What's up Joe? Good to see you man. Not too much man. I'm
pumped to be here. I'm like a little kid here right now. Me too man. Smiling
around and loving it. Well I'm excited. There's a big glory event this Friday
in Los Angeles. I'll be there. And it's you got two world titles right? Yeah
two. Is it two world titles? There's two world titles. You have Israel. Jason
Wilnes and Israel Edison. That's a wicked fight. Wicked fight. Yeah and then
you're looking at Matt Embry another Canadian kid against
Dutch beast Robin Van Roosmalen. Oh yeah. That's right. That's right. That's on
the card too. That's on UFC Fight Pass. Yes. Yeah. I'm so psyched that the UFC
and UFC Fight Pass is embracing glory. It's super exciting for me. I think so.
And it was that huge collision card in Germany. You had Rico versus Botter and
UFC ran that pay-per-view for us. Oh really? No kidding. That was the first
time the UFC has run anything other than UFC. Wow. That's huge man. That's for
us is a big accomplishment for kickboxing.
Well you know we've talked about in this podcast. We were just talking about it
a couple minutes ago. I think kickboxing especially high level kickboxing like
glory is one of the most exciting sports in the world and it perplexes me and
many other people why it's not more exciting. It's crazy. Because it's not hard
to understand what's going on. Like one of the things about MMA that is very
important to me is like when the fights go to the ground I have to explain step
by step what's going on because otherwise people that don't know ground
fighting they all of a sudden like what's going on?
All of a sudden like why is he tapping? What's going on? Like you don't see
exactly what's going on. But when someone explains it to you you see it. Well
with kickboxing it's pretty obvious. It's pretty obvious. Yeah. You have kicks
and punches and knees. Don't grab. Yeah. Just people getting smashed. Yeah. I
don't know. I don't get it. I seriously don't understand.
Dana White has a really good theory. He thinks that PKA karate from like you
remember the the 1980s when they used to have those PKA karate matches on ESPN.
Remember when they wore the karate pants and the big booties on their feet? Bouncing
around. Yeah. Yeah. It was really just sloppy boxing with like some shitty
kicks.
But that's what even American kickboxing. It's like they have a kick rule. So
what would happen is they would throw eight kicks in the beginning of the round
and then all of a sudden they'd box for the rest of the round.
Exactly. Yeah. Exactly. And for whatever reason and above the waist as well.
Yeah. Yeah. Which I think one of the things about kickboxing as opposed to the
traditional martial arts or like taekwondo or karate is like as soon as you
start adding leg kicks.
Like it changes the whole game. It's a totally different game. It changes
everything. And we were talking before this fight about your fight or before
this podcast rather about your fight with Raymond Daniels.
Which is one of my favorite fights ever. Thank you. Because he is this
traditional karate guy. He was a point fighting champion and he has wicked
kicks. He's just one of the most spectacular and dynamic guys in kickboxing.
But your leg kicks and your constant pressure and just rock solid Muay Thai
fundamentals. You just chopped him down, chopped him down and then eventually
head kicked him.
Yeah. Those movement fighters are very tricky. And I think what made that fight
super exciting was that old school UFC mentality. You had two different arts
battling to see which one was better.
And Raymond Daniels was undefeated. He was just knocking people out with
spinning hook kicks every time he was fighting.
So you know as a smart, intelligent fighter, you've got to put pressure. And I
remember we had a conversation about guys like Wonderboy Thompson.
Why isn't his opponents calling someone like me to do it? But you had a good
point. It takes a special fighter to really close distance and pressure like
that and to be able to execute a game plan with heavy low kicks like that.
Yeah, you have to really have a high level Muay Thai game to deal with a guy
like Wonderboy the same way. Because Wonderboy is also real unusual in his use
of the front leg.
Like he is that sideways stance and he kind of bends a little at the waist and
throws all those wicked front leg sidekicks and round kicks. And on top of that,
he's a really good puncher.
He's good. He's impressive.
Yeah.
Yeah.
The rematch is happening, isn't it, with Woodley?
Yeah, yeah. It's gonna be in March in Vegas. That's gonna be crazy.
Yeah, that's a good rematch.
It is a good rematch, especially because Woodley was dominating that first
round with his wrestling and really never took him down again.
So I was like, wow, this is crazy. Like I wonder why he didn't take him down.
And I asked him after the fight, he goes, I have no idea why I didn't take him
down again.
Yeah.
So it was just, he was just in the moment.
He's just loving it, man. He's loving the moment, loving the experience. Yeah,
it's exciting.
So you now have taken some time off from fighting because of concussions.
That's right.
And tell me about that.
So, yeah, it was actually, I think you were at my last fight. It was, uh, I
fought Mark Dubont, you know, rest in peace.
I remember we talked about, uh, the passing.
Yeah, what happened to Mark? Did they find out what happened to him?
I don't know. A lot of the stuff is coming out is in Dutch and Dutch newspapers.
And I'm asking all of the Dutch community kind of what's happening and they don't
really know.
You hear different things and rumors, but I don't want to listen to rumors like
that.
I don't want to hear it from like a concrete source and he just went missing.
He went missing and then they found his body.
Then they basically found his body.
Yeah.
So why or who knows, but he was a great fighter, bro. He was amazing.
An excellent, excellent fighter.
You know, and, uh, he was another guy, but boy, you know, you look at him, he
looked like a computer programmer.
Yeah.
Yeah, seriously.
You know what I mean?
Like it's, it's, uh, it's interesting how it looks can be so deceiving.
It's a super, super high level guy.
Yeah, but that, that was my last fight.
And, um, from there it was actually a really tough, I never really opened up
about it to be honest with you.
And it was, uh, a very tough experience.
Um, you know, you got to think I just win the world title.
I'm going home, uh, to Canada, which my concussion was pretty bad where I
shouldn't have even gone on a plane home.
And next thing you know, I'm at home and just the concussions got really bad.
I had to be, you know, hospitalized for a few days and, uh, I was in a dark
room for three weeks, man.
I could not get out of a dark room for three weeks.
I couldn't walk.
Um, I guess something with the concussions started causing some neuron, um,
some nervous, you know, nerve damage.
Danging.
That could be me.
That's one of us.
Yeah, so it started causing some nerve damage in my back.
So I was like in a bed, man.
Couldn't even look out.
I had a little red light on my phone charger.
It was too much.
Really?
Yeah, it was bad, man.
The red light on the phone charger would hurt your head.
I couldn't even look at a thing.
So it was at that point, it was like, man, it's like I just win this world
title and it was a really tough time.
And I, this is actually the first time I've really opened up about it, but it
was a tough experience.
And being in that, you know, down state where you're basically in a dark room
for three weeks, um, doctors were just, you know, handing me over shit ton of,
uh, Percocets and Oxys to kind of deal with the pain.
And it was a, it was a tough time, man.
And it really, I think what was the hardest was what was happening mentally.
I'm sitting there being like, man, I just want a world title.
I want to get back in there.
I want to, you know, do so much in this sport.
And my goal was to be a legend in this sport.
But, you know, and then it got to the point, I saw my family and how much it
was affecting my family.
And that's when I decided that, you know what, let's put this, uh, on rest for
a little bit.
So you win the fight and after the fight is over, was it immediately that you
knew something was wrong?
It honestly, I had some adrenaline rush and I did the post fight, uh, press
conference.
Everything was fine.
Uh, just when I got back to the hotel room and I was throwing up and couldn't
leave my room and I was surprised that even got on an airplane home.
The doctors in Canada were like, how the heck did you get on an airplane home?
Yeah.
So it was scary times, man.
And it took a lot of good mental strength, uh, to get out of it.
And now I'm actually in a, in a position where I'm super happy and I'm loving
it.
I got that whole color commentary role with Glory, which has been incredible.
Well, that's great.
It's great that you found a way out of it, but man, I would imagine that when
you were in that dark room and you couldn't even look at the light on a charger,
that must've been really, really, really uncomfortable to deal with.
It was tough, man.
And another, like, it's just the way, how can I explain it?
It gets emotional sometimes, you know, it was a time where it was like, I
finally achieved what I wanted and no one has really, um, gotten to that level
in the time that I did.
Before I turned pro, I only had 11 amateur fights.
I only had 11 amateur fights and right away into the pro ranks, I only had 14
professional fights.
So you gotta think in 25 fights, I was able to get in there, become a
professional, win, you know, the world title in the biggest kickboxing
organization.
All within 25 fights, amateur, professional combined.
And how old were you when you won the title?
Uh, 28.
So you're still young.
Yeah, I'm 31 right now.
But think about that, you know, like, the amount of fights you had, not that
many in comparison to a lot of these Dutch guys that have 100 plus fights.
A lot of the Thai guys that have more.
It's crazy to think, yeah.
I think it's just bad luck sometimes.
And my style was a style that was really, man, you could watch any one of my
fights and you're gonna be entertained.
And I understood the value of, you know, it's more than just a sport.
You gotta win, you gotta dominate, you gotta be exciting.
Um, I think that's what I really did in my career and that's why I got such a
huge following behind me.
And, you know, it's just, it was sucked because I had more I wanted to show,
put it that way.
Now, when you see a guy like Mayweather who's gone through a career and he's
like 49 and 0 and is probably one of the best, if not the best, defensive
fighters of all time.
And then you see what you went through with your situation.
Do you, do you look at a guy like Mayweather and say, man, maybe, maybe I
should take a different approach or maybe I should have taken a more safety
first approach?
I'm torn between that.
Because at one point, uh, that's Floyd Mayweather, right?
Right.
And you're looking at a guy who makes multi-millions of fight and, um, you know,
he has that, uh, support around him.
Um, and whether it's a boring fight and most people who watch, the casual fans
who watch Floyd Mayweather think he's boring.
Right.
Right?
But really, if you're a skilled fighter and you understand what he's doing, you
understand how incredible of an athlete he is.
Uh, but I was just thrown in there with the Wolves, man.
It was kind of like, hey, you're fighting, uh, Kareem Gaji in your third glory
fight.
Um, it's only, it's hundreds professional fight.
And that's my, that's my eight.
So what do I do?
Do I play the point games with someone who's been in that ring?
Probably had a hundred amateur fights, a hundred professional fights.
What do I do?
So again, I have to go in there.
I gotta, uh, build a name for myself.
You gotta think Canada, there's no professional fighting in Ontario, Canada,
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