Name: Joe Rogan Experience #730 - Demetrious Johnson
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #730 - Demetrious Johnson' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2015-12-03. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #730 - Demetrious Johnson

how are you sir i'm good thanks for doing this man i really appreciate it no no
thank you for
having me thank you for thinking of me how about that please you are the guy
whenever anybody asks
me who's the best fighter in the world you're the guy i appreciate it man i
think if young guys are
coming up and they want to learn how to fight where they take as little damage
as possible and
inflict as much as possible you're my perfect example so thank you for being
you no hey you
know what i'm doing my best to pay these bills i got i got bills to pay i
understand but it's more
than that man you can't just be paying bills because you you you don't just do
enough work
you do more like it's pretty obvious when you fight that you're putting in
crazy hours because you keep
getting better and better and better it's not as simple as like you just paying
the bills you obviously
have a pretty deep passion for this yeah absolutely i mean i will honestly say
it's credited to uh matt
hume um and brad kurtzen uh ever since i started training mixed martial arts
you know it i didn't
jump into mixed martial arts because the ufc i mean i did see the ultimate
fighter and all that stuff but
i saw it the workouts how in shape they were and then when i started fighting
matt was like okay you
can do a mixed martial arts fight so i had my first amateur fight then next
matt was like good job okay
then i'll go back to training and then matt was like hey you can do a how do
you feel about doing
a kickboxing fight i was like sure why not did a kickboxing fight won that he
goes good job then he's
like hey there's a jujitsu tournament you need to go there and beat everybody i
would go there take
first place he goes good job and in the back of his mind i think he's like you
know make it molding he's
molding me to be very well rounded and then one time he's like hey there's a
boxing fight you want to
take i'm like sure let's take it won that and so forth then i did a mu-tai
fight then i didn't know
jujitsu tournament so i never just did pure mixed martial arts upbringing he
would make me do different
aspects of martial arts mixed martial arts to get me ready so if i got in a
fight and i'm fighting a
pure boxer i can get in there but okay i'm fighting a boxer so boxer i can i
can i can put my head super low
and not have to get worried about knees knees and stuff but so i've dabbled in
every single i've
competed in every single sport in mixed martial arts you know i never did taekwondo
as a kid all that
stuff as i got older i did mix um i joined amc he made me do those things and i've
done like four
or five jujitsu tournaments not gi just grappling because basically you have to
neck it when you're
fighting so that's right that way yeah how many uh years were you training
before you had your first
fight amateur fight any kind of fight oh man uh i trained maybe six months six
months six months and
how old were you at the time um 18 19 so you've been with him for 10 years so
yeah so i was with um
that had a satellite school which was uh south so here's tacoma where i used to
live and here's
piolip and then here's auburn and that's where his satellite school was and
then here's renton uh
then you got newcastle for anybody who's listening to this he's moving his
hands higher and higher and
higher sorry up washington state yes so way up north so my the amc matt's
location is 45 to an hour
away from me where i live now prior to that was like hour and 30 minutes away
from me so i found his um
satellite gym and even before i went to that gym i had no idea who matt hume
was even when i fought
for matt hume he would sit in a chair like shao khan and just watch us fight
and then he wouldn't
talk to me or anything like who shao khan that's who's that that's the uh last
guy on auto combat 2
he sits it he's he sits in a chair and he goes finish him and then you know so
but that's how it was
he would just he would just say that like everybody would know what you're
talking about that's hilarious
they need on that video game hype so um he would just sit there and watch he
would just sit there and
watch and he wouldn't even talk i mean he would talk to me but he would not
talk to me like right it
was just different and then eventually um once i had the second fight the first
fight with ian mccall
he goes all right dean mcjoyce you gotta start taking this seriously i was like
what do you mean like
we're in the usc i just fought for world title you know against domino cruise
he goes dude you only
train with me twice a week like saturdays and at that point it was only saturdays
i was uh Wednesdays and
saturdays so you're only training me two days a week like you need to take this
seriously when
people are professional athlete they come they leave their families and move
away and train with
the the trainer and so that's why you saw a huge change in my game from the
second ian mccall fight
because i started training underneath him if i went to go take a shit matt was
like hey hey what color is
that a poop i need to know he started overseeing everything i did when i was
swimming conditioning
everything beginning of my mma career when i was fighting you know michael torres
ke yamamoto
demacio page nick pace i was doing my own thing like doing my condition on my
own money tuesday
and thursday friday i was doing my own thing and then wednesday matt would come
down down the south
beat me up and saturday i'll train i'll drive up to kirkland and train with him
and then we would
spar so after that fight the first team call fight he was like you need to take
this shit seriously and
that's when i was like all right i'll do 100 with you then and then this is
what you have now what a
lucky break for you to find that guy too like as a trainer oh yeah i mean he's
if he's not the best
there's just there's a handful of guys like that i consider like the best like
farasa hobbies in there
matt's in there there's a few guys that are just at that upper level where they
can coach you and
everything oh yeah you know and that's um it's so fortunate for a young fighter
like you to find him at
just the beginning stage yeah oh and and even though he's uh i think he's 49 he'll
be 50 this year
um it's always funny because when we're getting ready for a fight we're all we're
in it 100 when
we're training we're learning and i'm still learning and then when we're not
getting ready for a fight
you know he lets me do my thing stay in shape i do a good job doing that and
then sometimes we'll come
back and we'll spar and he was just in china and he was in singapore and i'm
always like okay i'm gonna get
the best of him this time and get the best of him and so he's like all right i
think i'm gonna spar today
he'll go upstairs get his gear on and then like my buddy carol so he goes oh
dad that's when we
spar tonight and i was like i'm about to get him watch and we're sparring and i
remember we're sparring
and he was hitting me and i was hitting him and then i remember i did a superman
punch and i connected
and i was like yeah and as i connected i was like boom high kick hit me and
back ahead and i was like
good for you matt good for you you still got it don't you i mean it's just i
mean he's just an
amazing athlete even though uh he's 49 years old um he was a great fighter oh
yeah he was a great
fighter i remember watching him way back in the day when he fought pat miletic
and he broke pat
miletic's nose which and they stopped the fight which i was like i remember
even at the time i was like
what the you're gonna stop a fight over a broken nose yeah like that's crazy it
happens all the time in
boxing it happens all the time in every sport but for whatever reason they just
decided to stop the
fight didn't make any sense yeah i think it was a good thing they did i think
the uh the fight was
going uh it was going way south for pat miletic it was definitely going south
for pat well matt was so
well-rounded you know he had so many skills in so many different areas i
remember he competed in that
all submission tournament too remember they had that professional all
submission thing that they did on
pay-per-view once a long time ago this is um new knowledge god damn it i'm
trying to remember the name of it
did he uh i remember he tore uh kenny monday's leg that was it okay yeah that
was it kenny monday
who was an olympic gold medalist in wrestling yep yep yeah matt is like one of
my all-time favorite
guys as far as like coaches like what those those are the two guys that i i'll
tell people if they
go hey man i'm thinking about really taking this seriously move to washington
state or move to
montreal there's your two places yep i totally agree with you um yeah man
anytime you're in seattle and you
want to come out and hang out and and probably even grapple with matt he would
love to do it i mean
he still grapples and he still that's amazing that he doesn't doesn't have any
nagging injuries he's
not all up you know you know what the one of the things that matt tries to push
onto me is that
he's like i always ask him if there's one thing you could have done different
when you're training as a professional fighter what would it be he said
train smarter don't beat my body up so bad and that's where he tries to
implement on me
but no no uh nagging injuries you know every once in a while he'll pull
something and he will take the
time to rest but when i'm getting ready for a fight he goes i'm not gonna jump
in today i'm gonna i'm
gonna get this rested i'm gonna watch coach you and then once he's rested i'm
gonna jump in i'm like
okay sounds good just make sure you jump in here because i need you yeah it's
so smart to do that
and so few guys do everybody wants to be a tough guy everybody wants to like
rough it out and i'm above
that push through it it's so smart to do it's so smart to just let let the
engine heal let the
machine heal absolutely there's so many guys that think you have to be a hard
ass you have to wrap up
your arm like a mummy and get in there i mean you could always do something you
know you could always
like i know a lot of guys who have they've torn muscles so they do all the
workouts in the pool or
something along those lines well jafael dos anjos before he beat anthony pettis
for the title he had an
mcl tear he couldn't do anything so all he did was sprints on the aerodyne i
mean he was just doing
hour-long sprints you know like just like interval sprints yeah on the aerodyne
and that's all he did
for like the last couple weeks of his camp yeah well it's unfortunate because
this is how us fighters
make our money um i remember when i was going to fight uh john dodson for the
second time i tore something
in my uh cav and matt's like you know i told him i was like dude my cap my calf
hurts and he's like all right
lay down let me massage and let me see what's going on and it's a papyrus i
think it was and he goes
yeah you pretty much tore it so we need to get that here and i was like well
matt what the i was like
what do you want me to do you you you know we ran you know 15 miles this week
and we also did sparring
pads all all the you know the the workload was very heavy and you're hanging on
my neck and you know
you're not 125 pounds you're 175 pounds so i mean i'm doing my job and push my
body and i'm sorry
that it's broken he goes i know we just need to heal before the fight and so we
spent most of our
cardio workouts in the pool just doing long sprints and you know unfortunately
it's injuries are part of
the sport and we never want to pull out from a fight but it's it happens to
everybody yeah it does
happen it's kind of crazy if you look at the ufc schedule i think out of they
said out of 40 title
fights that they had said oh 40 main events 35 of them or 34 of them pulled out
something crazy like that
yeah yeah you're right the majority the majority changed which is insane that
the the you want the
smaller percentage to be yeah well it's different than any othe