Name: JRE MMA Show #176 with Dustin Poirier
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'JRE MMA Show #176 with Dustin Poirier' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2026-03-17. Transcript available.

JRE MMA Show #176 with Dustin Poirier

the joe rogan experience train by day joe rogan podcast by night all day
my friend good to be back bro dustin poirier the light heavyweight
it's thick boy summer you looking healthy son yeah like 190 man you look good
man i feel good
dude it feels good to eat and not count carbohydrates and calories yeah we were
talking
about that were you like still like a little part of you is like looks at meals
and goes oh well i
mean for the last 20 years i've been macro and you know i knew i had a fight
coming up even if i
didn't have a fight i had to be in striking range from 155 right so i was
always looking at the back
of every label being real cautious what i eat it's like ingrained in my
daughter now when we go to
whole foods she'll grab something off the counter and say dad it only has three
ingredients like she
knows what's up well it's good to think that way anyway for sure especially
with the ingredients
yeah that's the first thing she goes to like if she wants some chips it only
has five ingredients
that's like a thing for her when we're shopping yeah well that's smart man that's
cool you're
raising them right i'm trying to bro i'm trying to put the stuff i learned in
fighting you know
all the years yeah it's a good use it's uh it is kind of crazy i think it's the
worst thing about
fighting is the weight cutting do you imagine if everybody just first of all i
tell me if you agree
but i think the ufc needs way more weight i do too way more i do too because
the gaps are so big i mean
just if you look at boxing compared to mixed martial arts the the the jumps and
weight are so big from
each weight class but also all the shows they're putting on they'd have more
titles more belts more
big fights but also man with that there's going to be a lot of people trying to
cut a little bit
extra trying to be double champ in every weight class i think it does cause
more confusion
yeah but that's better than the extreme weight cuts the extreme weight cuts are
terrible you saw
that dude a few um like i guess it was about three events ago who face planted
and got removed off
the card yeah that is crazy you're getting someone to the brink of death 24
hours before they have
an mma fight which is the most if not the most dangerous sport one of the most
dangerous sports in
the world for sure and you're doing something to your body to extremely weaken
it 24 hours before
you fight it's bananas dude i did it so many times you preach it to the choir i
know there's been so
many times i felt like that like stand up too quick after a weight cut and i'm
like you know i might go
down oh dude i i mean i can only imagine when you see someone like perera that's
cutting like 25 pounds
and more when he was 185 i mean that guy was fighting inside the octagon at 225
and weighing in at 185 24
hours before right that's crazy and even when he's big he's lean you know it's
not like he's fluffy
well they say that when you're muscular it's easier to cut weight more water
water yeah yeah which is
counterintuitive you see a fat guy you're like oh that guy can cut weight but
you really can't because
you can't deplenish deplenish your fat right not in a training camp's time
eight weeks ten weeks you
can't lose like 30 pounds of fat but i don't think i said deplenish like it was
a real word you can
dehydrate yourself i don't think it is a word deplenish well if you can replenish
right but no one says
deplenish can you plenish no you say deplete but i just threw it out there like
it was real i don't think
deplenish is a word is that a word yeah it is yeah i don't think i've ever used
it that way oh okay
nice man nice i got lucky that was just luck um but i talked to hunter about it
hunter campbell and
we're we're trying to figure out a way um without it has to be more weight
classes i mean california
instituted a bunch of different weight classes i think um i think they were
doing it every 10 pounds
i think california also did like a percentage of your your body weight like i
don't what was it 15 20
you couldn't dehydrate more than that that guy andy foster is on the ball and i
think that's good you
know yeah 20 or whatever some kind of rule where guys aren't cutting 50 pounds
40 is still crazy
yeah it's still crazy i mean if you're too yeah you're right 200 pounds 40
pounds i mean it's a lot
of weight well that's another thing that freaks boxers out when i tell them
that there's a weight limit
at heavyweight 265 that doesn't make any sense i go i agree why is there a
weight limit for heavyweight
that's crazy dude that that gap too like 205 anything over that you can be 210
to 265 that's
crazy crazy you know but well heavyweight in boxing like look mike tyson when
he was in his prime was only
like 220 215 220 you know that's where he when he was dominating that's where
he kind of fell in that
weight limit i wouldn't i think it would be a good idea anything past like 230
235 super heavyweight
yeah you know well the difference been boxing though is the grappling the
grappling in mma the gap
if a guy gets on top of you is immense yeah if you got a like in ghana when he
was in his prime was
weighing over like 300 pounds and then cutting down to 265 he was a 300 pound
natural he's a guy who's
like a knockdown power for sure but grappling like if you get a big guy who's
265 and knows how to
grapple very well wrestled his whole life they get inside control or oh half
guard you're not getting
up that's the end of the round yeah yeah also if they did do a super heavy the
fights might be
either awesome or it's completely suck well i think it should be heavyweight
should be unlimited
and then you'll find out yeah because like kane velasquez no one's holding that
dude down in his
prime yeah even when he was 240 when he was 240 and he fought lesnar lesnar was
gigantic but it didn't
matter because the cardio that kane had and the speed and his technique sort of
it he was ahead of his
time yeah he was ahead of his time he was like a hybrid can do everything great
cardio good athlete
before mma got to where it's at now yeah the one fight that i always say that
we missed is kane and
fedor in their primes yeah because they were both in their prime at the same
time and they never made
that happen when ufc absorbed the the pride roster and stuff i was crazy it's
crazy that fedor never
fought in the ufc at all man well they tried the ufc tried but fedor's
management were a bunch of
very dangerous dudes yeah you don't mess around with this yeah man there was
like tense negotiations
and they wanted a percentage of the promotion they wanted a lot more than just
a big purse yeah ufc's
not playing that game no they were like look we'll give you you know a very
healthy purse we'll bring
fedor over here but the problem was when they purchased pride they thought they
were getting
everyone's contracts but the contracts were all well some guys came over on
crazy crazy money contracts
you know i think dan henderson might have been one i was a young fighter one
time and i was making
this might have been 2013 or something 2014 i don't know and um they came to
give me my check this is
back in the day before they wired they used to give us checks on fight night
and they have going through
the checks and i saw dan's and i saw the number and i couldn't believe it this
is before like people
posting online fighter pay and all that and i saw the numbers he was making i
was like no way
guys rich does it make you angry nah no because the future myself looking back
or looking forward when
guys are going to be fighting for belts and stuff the money they're going to
make in five years i'm
gonna be i'm gonna be that guy like damn you know i got out too early or you
know how it is the next
generation always gets more right mike brown tells me that all the time do you
i was fighting for the
belt and wc defending it making this you guys on the prelims are making more
than i was making you know
yeah there's a weird that sort of discussion about fighter pay you know i've
always been of the
opinion that fighters should be making more money period because like the same
way i feel about like
the way i run my comedy club the comedians make 80 of the money because i feel
like that's who's
you're paying to see you're paying to see them we make plenty of money like
with drinks and 20 of the
ticket sales it's like it's enough like it should be the what if we had a
comedy club and there's no
comedians no one's coming right no one's gonna pay just to sit there and buy
drinks like the whole
idea is they're paying to see someone's work if you fight that's what people
are paying to see they're
paying to see fighters without the fighters there's no show without the comedians
there's no show i
understand but i think the big thing with the discussion of fighter pay is the
percentages when you look at
other major major organizations like nfl nba the percentages are so so
different yeah it's not good
but dude at the end of the day i'm all for fighter pay too i've been fighting
my whole life
but you sign the contract you agree this is how business is done push for try
to get more of what
you're worth you know you can't sign a contract and complain right that's true
too but also it's like
the reality of mma is if you're not in the ufc people are not paying attention
that's unfortunate
but it's reality yeah you know and i think there's some really good fighters
that fight in the pfl and
really good fighters that fight in one but they don't no one knows who they are
other than the hardcore
dudes right that's yeah i got a buddy johnny ebelin who is the bellator
champion awesome i've been
training with him since he started mma when he got out of college wrestling and
stuff like
right now he can go to the ufc and give the top five guys a run for their money
absolutely no doubt
in my mind he's only getting better yeah just because you fight in the ufc that's
a great
organization to fight for the biggest the most known worldwide but dude there's
great fighters
everywhere you know like on the mats at american top team there's a dozen guys
you've never heard of
that can make a run in the ufc right now that's what i heard is a nightmare
about training at american
top team because it's a revolving door man there's like a hundred professional
fighters on the mats at
all times yeah different camps they have dorms so guys from russia guys from
all over the world are
just in you never know who's going to be there and it's it's tough rounds you
know every practice is
tough well not only that but i've heard there's like guys coming in from russia
and they'll throw
oblique kicks at your knees and you're like hey man like what are we doing here
we're getting ready for
fights we're not in a fight right yeah yeah like some of these guys are trying
to make their name
off of a named guy and so you have to be very selective in who you spar with
for sure and that's
any not just american top team especially guys who are established like if i go
to any gym here in
austin and it's open mat or something i have a target on my back of course you
know that's everywhere
of course but those guys man like at a big gym like american top team with the
knowledge and the
good coaches those guys get weeded out that's you know you won't stay there
long if you're doing that
stuff the problem is if you're one of the guys that has to weed them out like
you find out early on this
dude's you know throwing wheel kicks yeah yeah full blast and it happens all
the time oh yeah yeah
well just you know makes sense i mean you're from dagestan or chechnya or
whatever you come to america
it's like this is your big chance and i do like to train hard to prepare for a
fight you got to fight
but you know you got to take care of each other we're professionals we're
feeding our family with this
yeah an injury can ruin everything well there's so many fighters that get concussions
in training and then you know they get chinny when they get into the fig