Name: Joe Rogan Experience - Fight Companion - June 28, 2014 (Part 1)
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Joe Rogan Experience - Fight Companion - June 28, 2014 (Part 1)

Hey everybody, if you're tuning into this and you're expecting a regular
podcast, this
is definitely not a regular podcast.
This is a podcast where we sit down and watch the UFC fights and just sort of
talk shit
while the fights are going on.
Don't even expect commentary.
Don't expect that either.
Don't expect anything.
And hopefully you won't have your expectations shattered.
But with me here is Uncle Creepy, Ian McCall, one of the top flyweights on the
planet Earth.
And my brother Jimmy Smith, one of the best analysts slash MMA commentators
slash Brazilian
Jiu-Jitsu black belt slash commentator for Bellator, until they change the name
Bellator.
And it should be like...
For now, for now still Bellator MMA.
Fight TV MMA.
And what we're going to do is we're just going to talk while the fights are
going on.
There's a UFC fight night that's happening right now, live from San Antonio.
And we'll let you know...
It's hard to sync up because there's a little bit of a delay between the
internet and what's
on television.
I think it's like a 15 second delay.
So what we'll do is we'll just give you like...
Fight starts now with us.
And so you'll know when to sync up with the very first fight.
So until then, it'll be kind of a clusterfuck.
But the card is pretty fucking dope.
I'm very excited about Cub Swanson and Jeremy Stevens.
That's a good fucking fight.
I'm not.
You're not excited about that?
He's been dogging this since we got in here.
I'm friends with both of them and someone's getting their ass kicked tonight.
And I'm like, fuck.
I'm friends with both of them too.
I like both guys tremendously.
I like them as fighters.
I like them as people.
But damn, I want to see them fight.
It's going to be exciting.
It'll be good.
No doubt about it.
Impossible to not be, right?
There's no way.
And also, Calvin Gaslam, who missed weight again.
He's fighting Nico Muscoke.
Muscoke?
How do you say it?
Muscoke.
Whatever you say it.
The dude's badass.
I've seen him fight.
He's excellent.
Very, very good fighter.
He fights out of Sweden.
He's one of those dudes that trains with Gustafsson, I believe.
And he's very talented.
He's very talented and very complete all-around game.
So that's the co-main event.
And a lot of good fights on the undercard as well.
It's live right now from San Antonio, Texas.
Who else is on the card here?
Let me see.
Diaz versus Lamas.
Yes, that's right.
Ricardo Lamas is on this card, right?
Yeah.
He's fighting Hakran Diaz.
He fought in M1.
I covered a few of his fights.
Did you?
Yeah, he's novin' on great jiu-jitsu.
He's got nine submissions in his career.
But he's exactly the kind of guy you want if you're Ricardo Lamas' camp.
Because he's dangerous.
He's not that well-rounded.
There's not a lot of X-factor to his game.
You want Lamas, you know, mentally ready to get back in there.
I thought he had a good fight for the title.
Very good fight.
But you want your guy back on the horse pretty quick.
And Diaz is the right guy for that.
Yeah, what did you think of that fight with Lamas and Aldo?
I think Aldo's just on another level.
Yeah, Aldo's just, for the first two rounds,
he's the baddest motherfucker on earth.
For the first two rounds.
Do you think he's lazy or do you think he just can't keep that weight cut?
That weight cut's brutal.
The dude walks around in 1-7 damage.
Like I saw him in Brazil and Andy Plessy just looks like a predator walking.
It's so frightening.
I was like, that guy is fucking scary.
What's strange about the Lamas fight, if you look at it,
is that that was a fight where he paced himself pretty well.
Like, you know, he didn't look like he was expending a ton of energy in the
first two rounds.
Like he usually does.
Right.
And yet he still didn't have gas in the fifth round.
So I think it is the weight cut where it's just, he only has so many minutes.
The clock starts no matter what he does.
Because he didn't do a lot of wild stuff in the beginning.
And he still ran out of gas in the fifth round.
Do you remember when he fought in Toronto and they had that enormous car and
they had
all the fighters up on the deck and everybody sat, he was the one who fought
Homnic.
He was going to pass out or something.
He was so sick.
He was so tired.
He was so sick that he couldn't, he couldn't just sit there.
He couldn't sit there.
They had to take him off the DS and they had to bring him downstairs.
And this was before he weighed in.
You know, I mean, it was, it's ridiculous to ask a fighter before they weigh in
and put
a fucking suit on and strap your belt on and pretend that you're, everything's
fine.
Meanwhile, you're on death's door.
You know, how much do you cut when you cut weight?
I was 140 after practice this morning.
And Ian fights at 125 pounds, one of the top 125 pounders on the planet.
So he's, he knows what the fuck he's talking about.
So 140 for you.
And when you get down like the week of the fight, what do you try to weigh?
I try to walk around under 140.
139 is okay with you?
I'd rather be 135, but that's probably not going to happen.
I mean, the lighter I get, the better I fight, it seems.
Do you drink a shitload of water the week of to get your body used to just
pumping it
out of your system?
Is that the idea behind it?
Yeah, I have hydrohydrate with distilled.
I mean, it took us a few days to find distilled water in Brazil, but we did it.
Yeah, you have to find distilled water, right?
Yeah.
Why is that?
No minerals in it?
The minerals retain water?
It strips your body of all the salts and stuff and minerals.
And then, but most people don't do this.
You have to replenish your body with those minerals.
Right.
Like, if you get a company called Trace Minerals, that makes Trace Minerals.
Mm-hmm.
You can, you know, I put them in my water before I go to bed every night.
Every night while you train?
Yeah.
That's a huge thing just for your health.
People don't understand.
And my girlfriend, she just learned out the hard way.
She learned out the hard way?
Or she learned the hard way.
She works out so hard, does yoga, hot yoga, like, every day, twice a day.
She's kind of crazy.
I know she's listening.
I love you.
Crazy in a good way.
She's a very nice lady.
Yeah, she's cool crazy.
But she, I bought her the drops because I know what she's doing.
I mean, I give her all kinds of supplements.
She does take her vitamins, but she just is, you know, hard-headed and doesn't
listen to me.
But now she figured out she needs to take that stuff.
Well, what made her figure it out?
She got sick.
Oh.
Just wasn't feeling good, you know, during a practice.
And you think it's because of minerals?
Yeah.
Well, she sweats out that much and doesn't ever drink.
Doesn't ever try and retain them.
Well, that's the thing that they were saying.
Like, they had a thing.
Okay, first fight is going to go on right now.
It's Joe Ellenberger versus James Muntasri.
Shit, we probably should have listened to how it said.
Muntasri?
Let's go with Muntasri, right?
I've never seen this gentleman fight in the UFC before.
It must be one of his first fights.
He hasn't.
He's been fighting really since 2011.
I think he's had his first in, like, 2008 or something.
But really since 2011, he's been fighting.
So he hasn't been on the scene that long.
Fairly newbie, and Ellenberger is the brother of Jake Ellenberger, who is a top
UFC welterweight.
And Joe Ellenberger's had some serious health issues.
So for him, just to get into the UFC, it was like a lot of people were saying
that he was going to die.
He was going to have a very short lifespan.
He would never be able to fight competitively again.
So to see him get in good enough shape to fight in the UFC is a huge victory
for him.
They said he wouldn't live past, like, 30 or 35 or something.
Something crazy like that, yeah.
I remember seeing a walkout shirt, if I'm not mistaken.
I thought he was, like, on death's door at the time or something.
I forget what it was.
Yeah, it wasn't good.
At one point in time, it was not good.
So whatever his disease is, he's up.
The medication costs $440,000 a year.
Jesus.
And insurance isn't going to cover him.
And he's on that right now?
I don't know.
I know that that was the first problem.
Oh, my God.
Fucking pharmaceutical companies.
Yeah, they're saying, well, you're going to die soon, but the medication that
will save you is $440,000.
Yeah, let's jack up some sound here, Jamie, so we can see what's going on here.
It's just nice to see him realize his dream, you know.
It's got to be a brutal thing to see your health slip away.
Oh, we just got tagged.
Yeah, I mean, to be a young athlete that's, you know, just about to get on the
big stage.
He just got signed, what, five years ago?
Yeah, it was quite a while ago.
And this is his first fight.
What do you guys think about that position that keeps coming up over and over
again now?
I call it the Travis Brown, when dudes are going for that single, and they're
clinging on to that leg,
and they leave that exposed head, and they just get blasted with elbows.
That short-turn elbow, man.
Woo, Travis Brown throws some heat in those elbows.
He's a big, scary person.
Woo!
And he knows exactly where to put it.
Exactly where to put it.
And he fucking hammers them repeated.
They're coming down fast and hard.
Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
By the time the referee gets there, I mean, the referee, especially if it's a
fat referee,
he's got to take three or four steps.
Travis Brown's getting in at least two elbows on an unconscious opponent.
He put Josh out just out cold.
No one's ever done that to Josh.
Instantly, no.
I mean, Pedro Hizzo knocked him out before, but it was with one perfectly, oh,
beautiful
flying knee attempt there.
Ellenberger's got a guillotine.
Weird, an Ellenberger that's tough.
Yeah.
That knows how to wrestle.
Oh, look at this.
Working on that darse, trying to get their hand through.
Not keeping his body weight on it, though.
Nope.
Yeah.
He's out.
The struggle.
Now, if you're fighting a guy who's a late replacement like Muntasri, this is
how you
want to fight.
Wear him out.
Mm-hmm.
Because if you're fighting a guy who's a late replacement, you have two options
if
you're Muntasri.
Either come in and throw everything you got in the first round, or try and
conserve
your energy, and Joe's not letting him do either one of those.
What was the original opponent?
Do you know?
I don't remember.
I don't remember either.
But Muntasri, what did he take this on?
Two weeks' notice or something?
Something short.
What do you guys think about that, touching the hand on the ground to prevent
the knees?
That's, that man, that seems super silly to me.
You can't do it when a strike is headed for you.
Right.
So guys do it really early.
Mm-hmm.
It's just, you know, it's always going to be a tactic.
You can't really get around it.
Well, unless they change the...
Oh, got him!
Oh, he got hit hard.
He got hit hard.
His eyes aren't open.
He's really hurt.
Yeah, he's hurt hard.
His eyes hurt.
His nose is busted.
I think it's his nose because he can't open his eyes.
Muntasri's getting after him.
Damn.
Watch the back of the head.
Ooh.
He winced his eye.
Whatever, whatever it was that happened, it was pretty fucking serious.
It looked like it popped his nose, I think.
Well, we'll probably get a shot in between rounds, but Muntasri is punching and
he's just
covering up here, holding on.
Lost a single.
And he goes to his back.
He looks like he's all right.
You see blood?
I thought I saw some blood.
I think it's from the nose, yeah.
Yep.
Yep.
Let's see Ellenberger's guard.
Oh, exposed nose, too.
Yeah, it is his nose.
His nose is bad.
Your vision completely goes when that happens.
Completely.
Staying aggressive, but.
This is where it's super important to have a guard.
Yeah.
There's so many guys that just don't ever think they're going to be on their
back.
No.
Come on, guys.
So few do.
Like when you see somebody off their back and you're like, wow.
Like, you don't know what you're doing.
They have no idea