Joe Rogan Experience Review podcast - A Review of Episode MMA 50 Yves Edwards

Episode Date: December 18, 2018

Yves is a legendary MMA fighter and now a great analyst for the sport. His conversation with Joe was fantastic and a pleasure to listen to. They get in to all areas of the sport and even the most recent major boxing fights. Enjoy my review folks! Please email me with any suggestions and questions for future Reviews:   [e-mail]

Hello and welcome to another episode of the JRE review. This week I am reviewing the Joe Rogan conversation with Eve Edwards for his MMA series for Podcast 50. I really like the MMA series of podcasts that Joe's doing just because it's an interesting sideline to the main series of podcasts that he does and that he gets to focus on MMA almost exclusively though the conversations go in all different directions which is fantastic too because I think that even if you're not a huge MMA fan or even an MMA fan at all, you get a great conversation out of these guys that brings a new perspective to what these fighters are, who they are, how they think. And in a lot of ways, just like the way that Joe Rogan talks to hunters, you get to see

just the humanity of it. So some people have their impressions already built up with what an MMA fighter is. Maybe you're not into it and you think they're thugs or in the same way that you think that the hunters, that Joe think that the hunters, the Jo knows, are just, you know, guys who want to kid animals. But they're not, they're people that really love what they do, but also have a deep passion for many other things to find out what makes them love their specialty and really what allows them to be the champions or great fighters or great hunters that they are. So in this one, Eve Edwards is a legend in the sport. He's retired now, he's now an analyst and from what Joe was saying. He's a fantastic analyst. I've seen him a few times

He is very good and when you listen to their conversation you know that he's well spoken He's a smart guy. He knows the sport and it's really fantastic for the sport of MMA to see these fighters for the sport of MMA to see these fighters Either moving into retirement and then commenting and instill fighting, you know like Kormi is still fighting but commentates It's great to have smart specialists in these corners Being able to give you their their breakdown that the beginning of their conversation they get into the Tyson Fury Fight with wilder that happened recently. Whether you were a boxing fan or not, it was a really fantastic fight and an incredible heavyweight

matchup. I mean we haven't seen really exciting heavyweight matchups like this in the boxing world since probably the 90s. I mean there's been a few since then obviously but that was really the heyday of heavyweight fighting for boxing and the Tyson fight was absolutely unbelievable. While the post did something recently that showed the ref counting over 10 seconds for Tyson's knockdown. Tyson's knockdown, I mean, well, technically, Wilder's knockdown of Tyson was unbelievable. It was an absolute smash. He hit him and as Tyson's falling down,

he hit him again. Tyson hits the ground and how the fuck he would manage to get back up, it still is a stounder. And then got up within the time and managed to win that round. And the wilder was able to post something showing that it was actually longer than 10 seconds, but it's not about that timing and boxing. It's what the ref calls. So the ref may have called the 10 seconds a little bit off, but Tyson got up and Came back to win that round. So they talked a little bit about that and also about wilders ungodly power. I mean the guy is weighing in at like 205 and heavyweight boxing

I think he got to like 250 or 60 similar to like heavyweights in UFC So the fact that he's able to create so much power and only weigh in it like 210-215 is beyond. It really is and it's absolutely incredible. It really was one of the best heavyweight fights for a long time, maybe ever. And the rematch will be huge. You know, they both need to take time off, especially Tyson for that hit. He needs to like recuperate, they're kind of talking about getting back into that fight

for maybe March, April of next year. And they also talked about, I've mentioned it before, how Tyson gave away his whole purse. I think he made $8 million and gave it all to charity. He's been on Rogan recently talking about his mental illness, struggle and other things. To then go ahead and make a gesture like that really speaks a lot about him. And people had, you know, I talked to many friends of mine that were boxing fans. And I'm not a huge boxing fan. I'm getting more into it. I do enjoy it, but I'm more of a UFC guy, I guess, when it comes to it. But, you know, people had their preconceived notions about both these fighters. And I think that from what I could tell a lot of the people that I know were not huge fans of either of them.

They felt while there was you know just kind of brash and would say some pretty outrageous things and was a bit thug-ish and Tyson you know with just a lot of the things he said in the past they I don't know. I think in some ways at least the people that I knew that, that were not massive fans of either, but since this fight, things have changed, people have a lot more respect for both of them from what I could tell, and I'm not surprised, while they showed great professionalism and so did Tyson, and their rematch is gonna be unbelievable. And at the end of their fight too, just the way that they gave each other

kind of praise for how good they are was really spectacular. You know, Eves gets into his fighting career and how much he was fighting it, whether he misses it or not. And he's just fought everyone in the game as well. So to get to sit there and listen to him talk to Joe about how he really is performed and how he keeps it together. I mean, this guy, in so many ways, if he stays retired, number

one has to be an analyst and continue because he's just a gift to the sports for his knowledge. But he would be an amazing coach of anybody. I mean, really fascinating to hear. They get into the weight cutting as well because weight cutting is always an issue and it's something Joe doesn't like, something Eve doesn't like as well because he knows the damage that it causes to fight his weight cutting can really weigh you out and it's a health problem. I mean, many, many MMA fighters have had real issues with that in the past and how long will it take before who knows. Worst case, case as a fatality because somebody's

pushing too hard to cut weight that would be awful I I really do not want it to get that far before someone causes some damage and then towards the end of their conversation they get into the Tito or T's in Chuck fight. What can I say? It brutaled a watch it. Why were they even doing it? I don't know. I know money's important, but it was just, it did nothing for Chuck's legacy. It added a bit to Tito's, but it's like, come on man, you know, who's over the hill and who's not. And it was just terrible. I hate to say it was terrible. It was terrible to watch. It just gives me the creeps to even think about it.

And then they talked about the paper view numbers. The paper view numbers were around 25,000, which is really nothing. You know, I'm sure those guys made their money because that was already negotiated. But the fact that it was so low just showed that people don't want to see that. They don't want to see these legends coming out of retirement

just to put on a spectacle when they shouldn't be in there. They shouldn't be in there fighting anymore. And it was really sad to see it. And I hope we don't have to see it again. It's another reason why these guys should just get into commentating. They should get into just putting their knowledge into coaching or just analyzing the fights as they happen and putting that specialty forward. Their time fighting is done and, you know, God, I wish them the best. They're both legends. But it really was a great conversation.

Anytime EVEB was his on he's just such a wealth of knowledge and the way that he communicates with Joe and how Joe wants him to do more analyst work is he's really inspiring. I love how when fighters are retiring Joe is encouraging them to do it. You know, he doesn't sit there and say, hey, I'm the analyst, I'm a commentator, you guys shouldn't do this. I think he loves having them in there. I think he understands that they really, in so many ways, no more than him, whether they can describe it or not.

And, you know, and we're seeing these great fighters getting into it, but it's a fantastic conversation. It's a great MMA one. MMA 50 would either either, Edwards. Check it out. Thanks a lot for listening and they'll be more this week. Cheers guys!