Name: "Boxing Gyms" with Dana White (from Joe Rogan Experience #327)
Uploaded: 2014-08-01T18:34:34.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video '"Boxing Gyms" with Dana White (from Joe Rogan Experience #327)' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2014-08-01. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video '"Boxing Gyms" with Dana White (from Joe Rogan Experience #327)' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2014-08-01. Transcript available.

Hello freak bitches. Do you have amateur fights? Yeah, I fought in the amateurs
And dude, there was a time when I thought you know, and I think that's why I
can
You know deal with the fighters and I understand, you know, like dealing with
the ultimate fighter
There was a fucking time in a day when there was the only fucking thing I cared
about was boxing
That's why I literally walked out of that place because I loved it so much that
that's all I fucking wanted to do
the problem is you go out there and you start fucking you know, that's what I
wanted to do for a living and then
The reality starts to set in and I'll never forget. I mean, I've told the story
before but I was in the gym one day
and
There was this dude who was a local fighter
I don't say his name. You would probably fucking know him if I said his name
I guarantee you you know him because he was famous in the boston area, you know,
like a local guy
And he came in one day and he was like he was in his
early 30s. He was like 31 or 32
And uh, he was fucked up, you know, he was punchy
He fucking moping around kind of throwing
Fucked and I remember the day that I looked at him. I said, fuck
What if that happens to me?
And then the minute you fucking start thinking like that
You're you're you're you're not the real deal. You're not no matter how much
you think you want it or you think you do
It was the day. I realized that I wasn't
And I was fucking like wow
So then you start going how the fuck am I going to make a living doing this?
and
Me and this dude peter welsh from boston
started uh, you know teaching people how to box basically
you know businessman and stuff because
the the business model wasn't
If for instance like martial arts if you want to take a martial arts class
It's fucking 50 martial arts studios anywhere in any city anywhere in the world
And there has been since I was a kid, right?
Any
Lack of martial arts schools around your place when you were growing up. No
So if you want a box, but if you want a box, you got to go and fight
You gotta go get your fucking head punched in. Yeah, you know what I mean?
Especially, you know the places in boston. Oh, yeah, the somerville boxing club
You had the fucking place down at the mcdonough down in south boston. Yeah,
yeah
And some play the petronelli's down in uh brockton. Yeah, and in places like
that
And you went in and they would fucking you'd get your dick knocked loose
Right, and if you came back, maybe they'd fucking work with you
Even guys that liked you would do that like I got I got trained by joe lake and
that's that's what he did with me
He just stuck me in with guys who knew how to box
They all do that's what they all do. Yeah, yeah, that's they do it quickly too
Like we're right right from the beginning find out how much you enjoyed doing
this
Do you really want to do this wasting my time here?
Exactly right. I'm gonna teach you how to throw some punches, and then we're
gonna put your headgear on
Let me put your fucking vaseline in your face
Get in there kid show me what you got the first time I ever went into box that
they had me do fucking ring circles
You know what those are right where you go laterally around the ring
Fucking coming in every day they have two ring circles ring circles ring
circles ring circles
And I was like what the fuck I paid my dues. I paid my fucking eight bucks. You
know what I mean?
Oh, I fucking got mad one day. I said I came here to learn how to fucking box,
man
I've been running around in circles for fucking weeks
And he's like oh, you want to learn a box, right?
Fucking get like fucking gear you up man. Love you up
They throw you in there
And they beat the fuck out of you. Yeah, fucking drop me 50 times with body
shots
Punching my fucking head in the worst of the body shots when you first start
you start taking some body shots from a guy who knows how to throw
And you know your fucking lips are bleeding your nose is bleeding you're fucked
up you get out
You're completely
Morally destroyed you know what I mean because boxing is never or sparring is
never what guys thinks it's gonna be
You know you watch too many fucking movies you go in and you think you're gonna
spar and you get kicked out of you
But then you know, I went home that night and I remember laying in bed
Thinking the whole night
I got my ass whooped that slug this that and I went back to the gym the next
day
And that was it very few people
Very few people actually want to fight. They just want to kick someone's ass.
It's true
They don't understand that that guy can kick your ass, too
Like you this is not going to be an even exchange
And if you're not willing to go to war if you're not willing to take like big
shots and be in pain and push through
You're never gonna do this. This is you you you have to figure out somewhere
along the line whether or not you're willing to take punishment
Whether or not you can take punishment
Some guys can so that was what our what our business was based on you know
teaching people peter. I
Yeah, you could come you could come into the real gym
Where real fighters trained and you learn how to box just like like white
collar box
Yeah, so it was like you learn how to box, but you didn't get your ass kicked
every day, but some guys, you know
Start trained for so long and get to the level where they want to start sparring
But you rarely ever have white collar guys that start sparring and want to do
it a fucking game
Because you know, like you said you get that first ass whooping and uh
And a lot of times what happens is it breaks and breaks out into fights, you
know, and uh
We we had we used to
We used to bring the inner city kids in too, you know
We had this idea where we're gonna bring in inner city kids and you know in
southie back then it was still very segregated
So we were gonna bring in blacks and hispanics and all these other kids and
bring them together
And you know, we're gonna do all the fuck
We used to bring these kids in man and we start training them and stuff and
then as soon as guys would start sparring
You know how many fucking situations we had where guys would come back in with
bats
Like there'd be a bad sparring deal
Come back with bats or they come back with their brothers or some kind of just
every fucking day
That was so that whole, you know
Let's bring in the inner city kids and fucking try to work. It didn't go over
well. Yeah, that's playing that experiment didn't didn't work too
Well, that's a lot of work. It's interesting to see the uh, the attitude, you
know
That used to exist back then in the boxing gyms and now
that people are
We're seeing this evolution in mixed martial arts where the beginning
We saw a lot of like gym wars like that would be like a really normal
Occurrence in gyms where guys would just beat the fuck out of each other
You hear about fighters getting knocked out in the gym left and right and left
and right
But now I think people are starting to realize like whoa, whoa, whoa
There's no fucking benefit in this like what's going on here, but we're gonna
we're looking at a gigantic
Multi multi multi multi million dollar business and this is how we're treating
our commodities and our prospects
We're we're throwing them at each other and let them blast each other and dudes
are getting punchy way before their time
We we both know gyms where guys they get chinny way too quick and you go
Well, how's this guy like this guy had an iron chin just three years ago. Well,
he's taking fucking gym wars
He's going through gym wars on a regular basis. Yep
That was shoot the box
That was the deal at shoot the box and shogun himself said like
We realized you know after doing that for a while. We can't do that anymore
Well, I I that's how it was in boxing too though when I when I was involved in
boxing some of the best fights I ever saw were in the gym
Oh, yeah, you know. Oh hell. Yeah one that one day I saw uh
Livingstone bramble
and roger mayweather
Fucking go at it at a fucking gym in vegas. Yeah another time
One of the gyms because because we all work together. I worked with mayweather.
I worked with nick one kick
um
Floyd when floyd was first coming. I mean, we all work together in these gyms,
you know, and uh
One time there was this dude. He was a heavyweight. His name was tracy
And him and roger mayweather fucking got into it. He was tracy was a young
heavyweight
24 year old kid heavyweight
And roger was fucking 147. Yeah in his 40s
Jesus roger said like what'd you say motherfucker?
Fucking get into it. Well back and forth ago. Oh, here we go
And they got in the fucking ring and started fighting man. Yeah
Yeah, they started fucking fighting and
At the end of the round when the bell went off
Tracy tried to stop and roger fucking lit him up and he goes no rounds
motherfucker
No round. Wow. So they just kept fighting straight fucking through
Until fucking tracy quit. Oh my god roger fucking whooped his ass and he
fucking quit
In his 40s. Yeah, and then and then when he quit roger hit him another eight
nine times
After he fucking quit and he was basically like don't have a fucking mouth off
to me in this gym
A 147 pound 40 year old. Yeah, but
Roger may black mamba. Yep, you know a lot of people don't know roger
You know a lot of people everybody knows floyd, but roger his uncle in his time
He was a bad motherfucker. He had a pissed in right hand. Yeah
He had a nasty jab and he would fucking slam that right hand in he was a bad
dude for many a year
I've seen some crazy shit happen in fucking gym boxing gyms, man. Crazy shit
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