Joe Rogan Experience Review podcast - A Review of Episode MMA 50 Michael Bisbing

Episode Date: December 22, 2018

Bisbing is a former UFC world champion and has the most fights in UFC history. He’s a true champion, super tough fighter and all around great guy. He’s now one of the analysts on Fox for the UFC. This was a great podcast to review. I’ve wanted to know more about Bisbing’s story for some time. Enjoy my review folks! Please email me with any suggestions and questions for future Reviews:                                                                        [e-mail]

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Los enbases del verano Siempre van a la amarillo Hello and welcome to another episode of the JRE review where each week, me and possibly some guests, if I have a guest, we'll review a Joe Rogan Experience podcast. We're talking about the parts that we like, parts that inspire us, parts that confuse us, and parts that made us laugh. So, this week, we have a great one, MMA, one of the MMA podcasts, and the MMA series is really starting to grow on me. I like the way that Joe has kind of separated those out,

and it gives us a really unique insight to a lot of the MMA fighters out there. I mean sometimes, whether you're a fan or not, it's really cool to get someone sat down talking for a long period of time and you get to learn a lot about them, you think. Sometimes you think that MMA fighters, boxes that just brawlers and meet heads, but quite often they're really interesting people. And Michael Bisbeing is the guest. With Joe, Michael Bisbeing is a former Middleweight World Champion for the UFC. He's a English guy. He's fought for many years. I think he's had possibly the most fights in the UFC, which is really impressive. And today I'm joined by GoodbodyMineEddy, say hi Ed. Hey guys, how you doing? Thanks for being here.

So yeah, I mean, their conversation was a lot of fun. Michael Bisbeing is also an analyst for lot of fun. Michael Bizzving is also an analyst for Fox. So he now will like, you know, do the comment, not the commentary, but like after or before the fights, they're like discuss, you know, the fights that are coming up and he'll talk about it. So he's, he's getting a lot better at like, the speaking portion, like you're an actor, so you know you go to probably you've been to like voice classes or whatever and he talks a little bit about how they've trained him because his accent is not like slightly northern so it's not exactly the same as mine though mine's not really very English anymore anyway but he his accent is quite strong, so they had to teach him to be

clearer for the TV here. More broadcast, isn't it? Yeah, so people can understand him. There's certain words he's got to be careful not to use, because if it's any kind of English slang, people aren't going to pick up on it, and because he's talking quick while he's analyzing things, Americans need to understand all of that term, and that's funny, right? Because it's the same language. Yeah, apparently with Brad Pitt and Snatch.

When he's the Northern Pike or something? Yeah, the Pikey. Yeah. Why? It's like, oddly Irish, and yeah, that's way stronger. I mean, Michael Bisming doesn't quite sound that strong but exactly there's so many different accents in England and to be honest a lot of them are even quite difficult for me to understand, you know, whereas in the US I

could travel almost anywhere and understand people just fine. The range of accent variation is not anywhere the same in the US as it is in English. But anyway, he's very well spoken and excellent on this podcast just because of all the practice that he's had. So, he keeps the flow going really nicely. He talks about one of his favorite wins and best fights ever, which was against Anderson Silva. Anderson Silva is like a UFC legend.

He's got the most spectacular wins of all time, unbelievable was the champion forever. And Michael Biss being got to beat him. And that put him in contention to almost be in line to fight for the championship. So it was a big win for him. And, you know, it was a great win though. He did take a cheap knee to the face at the end of a round, then it was brutal.

Like the bell went. And Anderson just jumped up and kneeed him right in the face almost knocked him out. I was gonna say that to him like, oh, but he's a tough guy. Bizzvings were really tough. Another thing about Bizzvings through all the fights that he's had, he's detached his retina. Have you ever heard of this? No, I have not.

Well, detached retina, you can get from just getting punched. A lot. Suck, yeah. Yeah, so it's like they can reattach it, but because he's a fighter, there's a few ways of doing it. One is they put gas in there in your eye. So somehow you can still see,

I don't know how that works but you can never fly and because he's a fighter he needs to fly and he's got England like what do you how would you if you were English and you live in America and you couldn't fly what keep what you take a boat it would take a while yeah you gotta watch out for icebergs that's for sure so in the end he got oil put in his eye. And oil was like another way of like I guess keeping it together. But it allowed him to fly and then also allowed him to fight.

But the crazy thing is he's been fighting and being blind to one eye for years. That's insane. Yeah, and still became the champion. And defended his belt. Unbelievable. Yeah. So. So how old is he now? Mid 30 belt, unbelievable. Yeah, so- So how old is he now?

Mid 30s, like? Yeah, I think so. I think he's about mid 30s. He's retired now though. After he lost his belt, he lost his belt to GSP, the Canadian who's a legend. And did one more fight, but got knocked out pretty bad and then just said, you know what fuck it, I'm gonna be done but he got the belt, you know, he was the champ, he stuck

around to get it and now he has a sweet gig on Fox so why not save your brain. Exactly, he's got a long career ahead of him. Yeah, for sure and it's different. He talks a little bit about steroids in the sport back in the day Before they had what they call the usada testing Which is the the body that tested UFC fighters now they come in independent like testing group all those guys used to be jacked like Rio jacked up on steroids and he never was and never did him But he talks about having to fight them and how freakishly strong they are.

Is steroids and testing, like, testing is not very strict in boxing, right? Do you know much about that? Yeah, no, they do. They do test. They do? Yeah. Okay. So those guys can't get too jacked. No. I feel like they should just be able to do a little bit of steroids. A little bit. Plus, as well, too too, plus doesn't it, you know, recondition with the body and then it kind of tines. Yeah, I think it helps injuries and it helps healing, but I guess they just say that it's just such an unfair advantage and people would just be slamming steroids into themselves all the time and God knows what I would do.

We'd just be giant freaks with no neck smashing each other. It was, it was in a recently where a couple years ago that the Canadian team, no, a Russian team, I think for curling was doing stillings. The Russian curling team? Yeah, well some team that, yeah, I'm pretty sure all the Russians are on steroids of some kind because they can get away with it and their government encourages it. So they're like, why not? If you're a curler, you're like, yeah, fuck it, I'll fake some. It doesn't seem necessary for any curling position though, that I can think of.

The brushing guy. He brushes like through the eyes. You gotta go quick on that. Yeah, you gotta go real quick, real quick, that. Joe talks a little bit to Michael about CTA, damage to the brain. You get that, you're seeing that line boxing, you're seeing it from football players. MMA guys have to be careful about it, really anytime you're hitting your head. And Joe is saying that his kids, if they have wanted to play football, he'd say no. What do you think about that sort of thing?

Well, you know what? I played high school football. Actually, you know, when the grammar school and then in high school, and I guess it's fortunate that I was too small to really, I was always on the bench, but I mean, a lot of the kids that I know were starters, everyone had injuries, severe injuries by senior year. You know, and those are permanent. They say it doesn't take long to get pretty significant injuries, uh, well, to your brain, you know, in like one year of like high school football,

you can take a knife, knocks, which really is in a way kind of surprising, you know, because I'm like, I, you would think when you're younger, your brain, you know, you're getting knocked around. I mean, we were designed to be cave people. You would have thought that in there, we got better, regenerative properties, but they're saying that's causing massive damage that almost isn't fixable, which is kind of terrible. One hit can't really allow you out completely, you know?

For sure, for sure. one hit can lay you out completely, you know. For sure, for sure. Michael talks a little bit about when he was younger, when he started out. He, before he got into fighting, he worked in a slaughterhouse. So it was just like, you know, these guys come on and they recap a lot of their lives,

sometimes this is their opportunity to talk to Joe and they get into it. But he talks about working in a slaughterhouse and then he was a butcher and he used to have to kill like 500 cows a day and he describes how he would do it so the cows would like go into a pen, they take a bolt and then he just smush it on the back of their head and then they stick some tube down the in the head that goes down the spine and like kills with a nerve so it doesn't keep moving around and then they can go ahead and set it up. That to me sounds so fucking gross. I can't imagine having my coffee and then going, hey guys, guess where

I'm going, yeah, that's pretty. That seems super brutal. Yeah, that would be seriously intense. I don't know. Yeah, that would be seriously intense. I don't know. I think it would make me a vegetarian. I was actually going to say that. I don't know if I mean I worked on a chicken farm one day when I was a kid and know what they served me for lunch. Chicken, I just want to be a butter and jelly to be honest with you.

Did you ever see, you remember the polling in Dynamite? Yeah. Like he's working in the chicken thing, and then for lunch all they gave him was bread and that huge city of eggs. Then they paid him in a bunch of coins. That's how I felt. I think I was like 11, it was brutal.

What did you have to do there? Did you kill the chickens? No, no, I just had to get the eggs. But it was like hundreds of them. And you know, oh my good time Yeah, I froze my butt off. Was this in Chicago? This was yeah, oh, okay. That's cold forget that Yeah, no, it wasn't that and I was off Can you not even like look at eggs now? You're like fuck eggs

No, it was brutal. I'd need a egg for 1520 I need to egg for 15-20 years. That's the price. It sounds terrible. I wouldn't want to do that. But anyway, yeah, he obviously didn't like that. He didn't do it for long. And that's when he just got into fighting. And he did all kinds of fighting.

He was a kickboxing champion for a while in England, and then eventually got on to the, I think the second season of the ultimate fighter, which is the reality show that you have seen. I remember that, yeah is the reality show that you have seen. I remember that, yeah. And he won that. And it was a great season and then with the $100,000 contract that you got, obviously you got a shot in the UFC.

And he's just been a beast for many years. He really is one of the toughest guys and he talks so much shit. He's really good at it and it's very, very funny. He fought a guy called Luke Rockhol that's very good and Luke beat him. And then Luke had the title and he went back to fight Luke on short notice. It was real last minute like, Dana White texted him or he heard from someone else and he was like, holy shit, I need to get him shaped fast, go. The amazing thing is, first round knockout.

He knocked Luke out, nobody suspect that like, thought that he would, total underdog. It really is like the perfect story for winning a belt, and my hat goes off to him. I was really pumped because he's just been a legend in the sport for so long. Right. He talks about that moment just being like the greatest moment ever because of all the adversity that has been through like we talked about as an eye, he has what they call 2200 vision and I don't I don't have bad vision so I don't know I know what 2020 is yeah I don't know what 2200 means except it's really fucking bad it does it sound good but he had to pass the physical to be able to fight and because

he's blowing in one eye every time he went to fight, he was more worried about the physical than the fight. Because he was worried that they were just going to stop him eventually from being able to fight. And this was his whole life. Wow. Sounds stressful, right? Yes.

Yeah, it sounds really stressful. And that's pretty brutal. That's pretty brutal. He a big message that Michael Really passed a job and and really the best thing I thought about the podcast is talking about his family and how Supported they are because they were in England and he had to fly a lot and he was always training and the training is brutal You know, I mean you used to own a gym used to to box. You know what it takes to just stay in good shape for these things. Did you ever used to get pro boxes in your gym

or pro athletes? No, we had more celebrities. Okay. There, yes. Even some of those guys work out hard for movies or whatever. They really get intense. Yeah, I mean, I don't know that I mentioned before,

but my other buddy in there was training to keep yourself in for that for 24. Oh, no. And then we had Nicholas Cage in there for years. Who are you? What the man, I was training. But to get in shape, I mean, all the different kind of, I mean, between the boxing skills, the cross training, all that kind of stuff, I mean, that's just not acting.

You know, you've got to get in shape for all this. Exactly, and then, you know, imagine being a UFC fighter, I mean, you're, you have to be in the best shape of your life really physically. Takes a lot out of you, and this is where family support comes in, and you see it with a lot of MMA fighters. They really talk a lot about how much they love their families, and they, you know, really, they're giving that thanks because they wouldn't be able to be in that position without the support that they've given them. You know what I mean? A lot of time is missed and in a relationship and I think this speaks for all relationships when if you struggle in your relationship and things don't seem right, you've got to ask yourself,

how supportive is the other person? And you know also how supportive you being. But if you're really going for a very difficult thing like being the best or whatever you want to do, really going for it. We're not just talking about showing up to work and like doing your job, whatever. But like really trying to be the very best at something that you're doing. I don't think there's any way getting there without a lot of big support from your family. I agree it's got, it's just such a strict life too. Yeah. I mean, you gotta have your diet, your sleep, your training, just mentally be prepared constantly. Yeah, and you can't be fighting all the time

with your wife or your kids and it's just too draining. You need to put your energy forward. But that was a great takeaway. I want to thank you Eddie for joining me today. Thank you. And thank you guys for joining me today. Thank you and Thank you guys for downloading. There'll be more soon. Appreciate it. Listen to the podcast. Check that one out. Michael Bizzmann's a legend. Peace