Name: Kevin James on Being an Early UFC Fan, and His Favorite Fighters
Uploaded: 2026-02-16T18:36:19.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Kevin James on Being an Early UFC Fan, and His Favorite Fighters' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2026-02-16. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Kevin James on Being an Early UFC Fan, and His Favorite Fighters' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2026-02-16. Transcript available.

And I've known Joe for, got to be 35, maybe more than 35 years.
Oh, wow.
What's 1990?
No, maybe 34 years.
What is it?
1990 is 36 years, right?
26.
That's so wild.
Yeah.
Yeah.
He's the one who got me, I mean, really with my manager.
And he's just, he's always been the guy that's just like, go follow your own
path.
And, you know, he was the one who got me out of.
Yeah.
He got me out of.
Did he always seem so confident?
He just goes and he seeks truth.
And he's a guy that is just like, when he seeks it, he knows it's true.
He's unrelenting.
Like, he just doesn't stop.
Yeah.
And it's like, that's who, he'll go social.
He's crazy.
Like, I knew it was martial arts.
It was jiu-jitsu.
We started jiu-jitsu together, by the way.
I'm a blue belt.
I'm a blue belt 30-something years.
He's crazy black belt.
He's beyond, you know.
He's dark black belt.
Dude, he's so, he's, he's a.
He's cafe de negron.
He is badass.
He is the real deal.
He really is.
Dude, yeah.
I was at the UFC the other day.
And he brings these big bags of beef snacks.
And it's just beef and salt that's dried out beef.
And he brings.
Because he wants to get down from 2% to 1% body fat?
Yeah, I think he's doing something.
Wow.
He's always over there fucking, you know, drinking fucking bat saliva or
something.
Doing something, trying to get an upper.
Yeah.
But anyway, yeah, there it is.
Carnivore snacks.
So he has three bags.
And he gave one to Daniel Cormier.
And then Daniel traded one of his.
And.
Traded for what?
I had a tub of popcorn.
And he couldn't keep away from it.
Oh, I love it.
He's like, my hand just keeps ending up in there.
DC.
Yeah.
But anyway, that was pretty great, too.
But I got to eat a whole bag of those beef snacks by myself.
How are they?
You know what?
They're really good.
They're not too salty.
So you don't get like, like chip fatigue, you know?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You don't get chip fatigue?
Well, some of it's like you're chewing on the top of a shoe.
And it's just tiring.
It's exhausting for the teeth.
Oh, and it's not like jerky.
Jerky to me, sometimes at a certain point, seems like, what are we doing here?
Yes.
It's a give up.
You give up.
Yeah.
But this is nothing like that.
That's cool.
Yeah.
And it feels kind of carnivorous, I guess, in a sense.
Yeah, I enjoyed it.
Right.
But it's fun just seeing them over there with their snacks.
But sometimes you'll see Daniel Cormier over there.
He'll have a thing of summer sausage.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And it's freaking February.
He dips.
Yeah.
And he's over there just slicing it off, you know?
I love it.
I love it.
He's a good man.
He's like me in that he loves his food.
We golf together.
I golf with, yeah.
Are you golf with him?
I did golf with him and Chris Wybin.
Chris Wybin loves you, too, by the way.
Chris Wybin's a cool guy.
Yeah, he loves you.
I know Chris for Long Island guy.
So he's the great.
Oh, yeah?
Yeah.
Did you ever, so whenever you were training, was he training, too, then?
Always training with him in their group.
Longo and over there.
Dude, that's cool.
Yeah, they're fun.
They're a fun group.
Long Island is tough guys, man.
A lot of good guys came out of Long Island.
Yeah.
So, no, but it's fun.
Him and DC, we all went out and golfed and had a blast.
And, oh, does that me next to Wybin?
Yeah, Wybin's.
That you?
Wybin is hilarious, dude.
He's got the best energy, bro.
Yeah, he's a great guy.
He's incredible.
And, yeah, he...
They have a great show now that they do, too.
Yes.
He was just telling me that.
They're doing more and more with him.
And I said, man, I was so happy that he stopped fighting.
I want them all to stop fighting because I don't want anybody to get hurt.
Like, you get to know all these guys.
You're like, please don't fight anymore.
I can't.
That's why I stopped watching.
I don't go anymore.
I used to go all the time.
Oh, you did?
Dude, there was no...
Yeah, I would go to these fights before anybody was even there.
Oh, wow.
I would hear, you know, the stomping on the canvas.
There'd be nobody there.
Dude, that's when I go.
Yes, I love that.
I go in the beginning.
It's quiet, and you hear a crack of a fist into a jaw or something.
And I loved every moment of it.
But I just couldn't do it anymore because I would get to know these fighters.
And I was like, I couldn't.
Randy Couture and, you know, Chuck Liddell, those fights.
I thought he passed away.
And I was like, holy shit.
Yeah.
No, I couldn't.
Oh, look at you.
You are there early.
Oh, dude, I go early a lot.
Dude, I love that.
Last time I got there, too early.
I love that, man.
So you're not showing up at the main event, going in there, sitting there.
No, dude.
I just...
I think this is amazing.
These are like these people that are doing the thing that they love the most.
Right.
And some of them in the earliest, they're coming out for the first time into
this UFC.
Like, and they come out and nobody's there.
It's like, what are you...
But, dude, yeah, sometimes you see...
Sometimes you see some of the best fights early.
Yep.
Yeah, I love it, dude.
Good for you, man.
Yeah, that was it.
And then I would start to know these fighters and I couldn't watch them anymore.
I was there with Rich Franklin when he got knocked out by Anderson Silva.
And it just...
I was there with his wife, you know, watching this.
And it's just like, you're just stunned.
And I'm like, I can't do this anymore.
So I stopped going.
I couldn't do it.
I didn't want to see these guys.
And I was telling him that we...
I wanted to say that I wanted to get Chris out of fighting because I was like,
he's had
so many surgeries, broken leg, you know, all these things.
And it's like, just...
He's a good looking guy, man.
Dude, you know, get on TV and he's funny and he's, you know, personable.
So I'm glad to see he's doing TV stuff.
Yeah, there's a lot of great guys over there.
Angry Girls, it's been fun.
Yeah, being associated with that whole thing has been just so exciting.
Just to get to go watch it, you know.
Do you train?
No, I trained for a little while and then I just kept getting hurt.
Yeah, it's tough.
Like my ribs and I'd be having like some fucking huge guy, we'd be rolling over
on me or something.
And it was just like, it was a lot.
So I think I'll do it again whenever I don't have so much responsibility.
I got to do it when they work out the smell.
You know what I'm saying?
The smell of the room?
Oh, yeah.
I just, I can't do it.
Not at 60.
Like when I was younger, I was like, hey, you got to be able to, it doesn't
matter what it is, you know.
At 60, you go, I don't need to smell this anymore.
You hit 60?
Yeah, I hit 60.
Can you believe that?
No, not at all.
Yes.
You're a baby.
I'm telling you, I've been around a long time.
So what I'm saying is I don't need the smell of a jujitsu room anymore.
I'll do it privately.
I'll do it like that way for a while.
And once, you know, because a wet gi, I don't think there's much worse than
that, going up against a guy with a wet, right?
And you're like, and you're in there, and he's got your face, and he's cranking
it, and all you got is like wet gi and chest hair.
That's past gay.
It's past like a gay feeling.
I think a gay feeling, it's beyond romance.
Yeah, it's not, yeah, it's a control thing, and it's just, and I'm out of
control.
Yeah, it's just not good.
And he got wet and then got cold and wet.
Yes.
That's the thing.
If somebody's warm and wet, at least you're like.
It's actually a bath.
Yeah, that feels like a little bit more like a bath would feel.
Cold and wet is just, it's bad.
And the smell.
Yeah, that's tough stuff, dude.
Not my favorite.
Nope.
Yeah, that's tough stuff.
Yeah, that's tough stuff.
Yeah, that's tough stuff.
Yeah, that's tough stuff.
Yeah, that's tough stuff, dude.
Yeah, that's tough stuff, dude.
Yeah, that's tough stuff.
Yeah, that's tough stuff, dude.
Yeah, that's tough stuff, dude.
Yeah, that's tough stuff, dude.
Yeah, that's tough stuff, dude.
Yeah, that's tough stuff.