Name: Joe Rogan Experience #714 - John Wayne Parr
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #714 - John Wayne Parr' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2015-10-29. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #714 - John Wayne Parr

Yes. That's my ode to Brody Stevens. What's up, brother? How are you? Great to
see you.
Mate, I can't believe I'm here again. This is awesome.
Can't believe you're here again, too. I can't believe five days ago you were in
a world title fight.
Look at you. You look great.
Yeah, I was straight after the fight. I had to go to the hospital.
I spent about four hours in the hospital. I thought I'd break my foot, but
luckily all the x-rays came back clear.
Swelling's gone down a lot now, so at one stage, yeah, I didn't think I was
going to be able to fight December the 5th,
but it looks like I'm on now with Sourish.
Oh, wow. Okay, so did you kick an elbow or something?
Ah, I kicked his knees. I think I kicked his knees about half a dozen times.
It didn't hurt because my face was so jacked up from all the cuts,
and then it wasn't until I was getting stitched up that I noticed my foot was
starting to go elephantitis.
Expand.
And then once the stitch was done, I had a cyborg come into the change room to
get a photo with me,
and as I stood up to get a photo with her, then I realized the pain was rushing
to my foot.
I was like, okay, I think my foot's broken.
Luckily, there was an ambulance there. We got straight into the emergency,
and then, yeah, it was good on to the painkillers, which took me into a
different dimension.
What did they give you? What stuff?
I don't know. It's different names here in America to Australia.
Oh, okay. Like oxycodones or something like that?
It was straight in with an injection.
Oh, probably morphine. That's the good stuff.
This pink elephant came into the room and started chatting to me and said,
Hey, I don't think your foot's not broken, but you are in a different galaxy
now, so welcome.
No, it was pretty cool.
Was it really a pink elephant, or are you just fucking around?
I could be possibly fucking around.
So you've had 300 and how many stitches in your face?
15 now. 315.
315 now.
I broke 300 about four weeks before I got to America with an accident in the
gym sparring,
and I thought, okay, 300, you beauty.
And then Cosmo was polite enough to give me another two cuts with another 15
stitches.
So now I thought my plateau was 300, so now my next goal, I guess, is 400,
because I've already passed the 315.
Oh, my goodness.
Who's got the most stitches in their face ever in Muay Thai?
Oh, mate, that's a good question.
I reckon I'd have to be close.
You've got to be up there.
I'd have to be.
But I'm starting to...
Now my doctor, he said...
Because I bring my own doctor with me when I come to fight everywhere around
the world,
and he said it's just scars, breaking on scars now.
I've got the Nick Diaz sort of eyebrows.
So this one's had at least maybe 80 in it alone, this eye.
One left eye, 80 stitches.
Well, that's the main...
Because that's the right elbow, too, coming down.
Yeah.
Well, that's the knock on Muay Thai as opposed to Glory,
which, unfortunately, they just lost their deal with Spike TV
or canceled their agreement with Spike TV.
I don't know what happens, but they pulled Glory off Spike,
which is really very disappointing for me as a fan of kickboxing,
and I was just hoping that that would translate into just to people getting a
more understanding
in this country of high-level kickboxing.
Yeah.
You know?
I was lucky.
Glory was the one, and then you had the lion fight.
So I reached out to Scott Kent with the lion fight,
and I said, oh, mate, is there any chance you can put me on?
I'd seen how much exposure they're having with Axis TV
and with their deal with...
Everyone in the world is paying attention to the lion fight right now.
And because it's pure Muay Thai as well,
I thought this is definitely the show to try and be on to raise the profile.
So I jumped on board, and then I'm so devastated that I lost.
It was such a tough fight.
But at the same time, even though I'm lost and I'm sad,
I knew that I gave 100%.
And hopefully the crowd was entertained enough to hopefully invite me back,
and hopefully Scott was happy with my performance.
It was a great, fun fight.
But what I was going to say is that Glory doesn't have elbows.
And the thing that people worry about with lion fight and pure Muay Thai
is that there's a lot of cuts.
And a lot of people get cut, and primarily get cut by elbows.
But the way I look at it is that it's an excellent weapon.
And if you should be able to kick, or if you're able to kick,
and you're able to knee to the face,
and you're able to do all the things you can in MMA,
why can't you elbow in Muay Thai?
And why can't you clinch?
Exactly the same as MMA.
How can you take away the rules and water it down into one sort of category
and then call, yeah, I think it's hard.
The same deal when Nathan Corbett came over here.
Yes.
He's the elbow master.
And then when he came over here to fight for Glory,
he got beaten by Spong, he got beaten by Saki.
And everyone's saying, well, but if he had his elbows,
that would have changed the same.
Maybe.
Who knows?
You'll never know.
But you certainly, it makes you think.
And, you know, when you're thinking, that's bad.
In the cage or in the ring or wherever you're competing,
the idea is to train so hard and train exactly how you're going to fight
so that it all comes out automatically.
Yes.
And when your automatic instinct for Nathan, I mean, how many fights has he had?
I think close to 70.
Yeah.
I mean, think about all those fights that he had throwing elbows.
Think about all those training sessions throwing elbows.
And then all of a sudden, he's in positions where he's like, okay, don't throw
an elbow.
Because that's normal.
You're getting in the clinch, and it's just normal for you.
Yes.
And then all of a sudden, they tell you, you can't do it.
I mean, it's problematic.
I mean, it's nice for these guys to be able to have another outlet.
I know Tyrone Spong is doing some boxing now, just some straight boxing,
which I think probably at least he has shoes on.
So he'll be just thinking that he's, you know, like it'll help him not throw
kicks
and not thinking he can throw elbows and things.
But the guys who are the best and the guys who are the best at that particular
style of Muay Thai,
it'd be great to see them use all their weapons.
It'd be great to see them utilize all the techniques of Muay Thai.
And you see how technical Muay Thai is, you know?
I don't think people from the outside that are watching it appreciate it for
what it really is.
It's incredibly intense and technical martial art.
Yeah.
Well, Thailand's how many hundred years old?
So it's already perfected to the rule set.
And then everyone's trying to water it down to make it their own specific sort
of rule set.
And then it's not the authentic.
When you keep it as it is, it's already the product's already there.
You don't have to change it.
It's already fine and perfect enough and fast.
And so it's a shame that different organizations are trying to...
But I suppose people don't like the clinch as much.
Sometimes they think it's getting a little bit boring.
And plus when you get two guys that aren't at a certain level, it does seem a
little bit sort of dull.
It's not entertaining.
But in the early levels.
But so does grappling at a very low level.
So does a lot of things at a low level.
Yes.
But I don't think you should ever sort of make rules that are dictated just to
make people that are at a low level fight in a more fan-friendly, enjoyable way.
I think you should just allow the people that are watching it to see the
difference between a novice and someone who's an expert and see someone who
uses the clinch to their advantage and see all the different techniques that
can be landed from the clinch.
The use of the knees, the elbows from the break.
You know, there's a lot of beautiful techniques that can be used from the clinch
that you don't see because what Glory has done is sort of adopt the rules of K-1.
Which the Japanese had kind of decided, hey, there's got to be a way to make
these guys fight in a more exciting and fast-paced way.
Let's make the rounds, you know, just let's make the fight shorter instead of
having like many rounds, like 10 rounds or 12 rounds or something like that,
like a boxing match.
Let's just do like three rounds and have them go fucking crazy for three rounds,
you know.
Yeah.
When I fought in Europe, that was, I fought in an organization called Super
League back in 2003, 2004.
And that was the same deal again.
We're not going to spend airfare money flying you all the way from Australia
and get cut in the first round and have the fight stop 60 seconds in.
Otherwise, it's a waste of money for us.
So we'll keep the knees, we'll keep everything else, but we'll just eliminate
elbows just in case that does happen.
Does Lion Fight do drug testing?
There was no urinary test after mine.
Nothing.
No.
Wow.
So, and then I think they were in Vegas and now they've moved to Temecula.
Temecula and then I think they're on the other side as well.
I forget the other place they're at, but no, there was no one waiting for a jar
for me.
Now, is Temecula, it's a casino, right?
Yes.
You guys were at a casino?
Yes.
Pechanga, is that what it is?
Yes.
And is that a Native American reservation where they can do whatever they want?
They have their own regulations?
Yes.
You know, they kept martial arts alive, mixed martial arts alive in California.
Okay, yeah.
Native American reservations did because they put on King of the Cage in Native
American reservations when you couldn't have MMA in California.
It was illegal.
Okay.
And so we used to drive out to the middle of nowhere to these very small Native
American casinos and that's where the King of the Cage would be.
Yep.
And that was like the primary way that that's how like Uriah Faber got started,
a lot of guys, Quentin Jackson got started, a lot of guys got started in King
of the Cage and in California because of this loophole that allows Native
American reservations to put on the fights.
But, boy, I would like it if they drug tested guys.
Yeah.
You know?
Yeah.
Yeah.
I definitely feel a lot safer if I knew I wasn't fighting pure animals.
Just dudes juice to the tits.
Well, Cosmo Alexander's a big fella and he's quite a bit larger than you.
Yeah.
The guy that you fought was.
He's about 6'3".
When they announced him, they said 6'1", but there's no way he's 6'1".
When I was looking up at him, when the referee brought us together, it was like
looking at Michael Jordan or something.
I was like, holy shit.
And then once the fight starts too, just trying to bridge that gap, they get
into his range.
It was either as you explode into trying to land your combinations, those knees
are flying past your head left and right.
Yeah.
It just makes it so much harder when they're so big.
And the funny thing is he can make, I think, 70s, 155.
He can cut all the way down.
What?
Yeah.
His last fight before he fought me was 71 kilos.
And I know before that he's fought at 70.
And Ben, he's not a skinny 70 either.
Once he feels right out after a weigh-in, he's still got the muscles and he
still looks like a V.
Yeah.
And to his credit, I beat him back in 2008.
And he's just improved.
Lips and browns.
The way that he fought me on Friday night, he fought really well.
He used his range.
He used good power.
His power was so crazy.
Everything he hit me with was loaded.
So, yeah, full credit to him.
I tried my best, but, yeah, he was just on his game.
Yeah, he looked very, very sharp.
There were some great moments in that fight.
It's really interesting, man.
You have a way of moving, a very, very specific way of moving inside the octagon
or inside the ring, rather.
If I watched you, like, just silhouette, if someone showed me a silhouette of
you moving, I go, oh, that's John Wayne Parr.
Like, I could totally tell.
It's so interesting.
You have your own very specific style of moving.
And I would imagine that that style is like, I mean, you do a lot of things
that other Muay Thai guys do.
Like, you're ver