Joe Rogan Experience Review podcast - Review of MMA 59 with Kamaru Usman

Episode Date: March 22, 2019

Kamaru is the new UFC Welterweight champion after beating Tyrone Woodley in an epic 5 round battle. Usman displays a lot of character in his conversation with Rogan and is also a big fan of the podcast which is cool. Great conversation between these guys so check it out. Enjoy my review folks! Please email me with any suggestions and questions for future Reviews: [e-mail]

Hello there and welcome to another episode of the JRE review. How the fuck are you guys? Just watch the John Wick 3 trailer that just came out damn that movie looks sweet. If you guys were a fan of any of the John Wick's or of the Matrix, I think they're just combining it all now. He's like the old man version of Neo kicking ass. They even have Lawrence Fishburnt in it, like Morpheus is back. Why the hell not? Fuck it, throw Trinity in.

The puck has today as I digress. MMA show 59. Camaro Usman. Camaro is the new Mid-Aweight champ or No, well-to-weight champ. Yeah, he's what GSPs fight way was. He just beat Tyrone Woodley and that UFC was pretty epic. Some controversies, that was the Ben Astron squashing Robert Lawler's head one, but a great fight by Usman, kicked a lot of ass and now he's on Rogan to talk about, you know, what the fuck is up? He's a cool guy, so let's start the review. Welcome to the Joe Rogan Experience Review! Where each week I review every single episode of the Joe Rogan experience. One more do you want?

First things first we have to talk about the Tyrone Woodley Mum video with Usman. If you're not familiar with this it was a tearjerker people. It really was. It's a little Instagram clip, but I think it was Instagram, that's where I saw it. But, basically Usman is finished fighting, they're bringing him off, you know, out of the arena, ring, whatever, octagon. And Tyrone Woodley's mom is there. Now remember, Tyrone Woodley's mom just watched his son get destroyed for five rounds,

crushed, just battered, and Woodley's been massively dominant as the champion, but now he's getting destroyed by this Usman guy. Well Tyrone's mom basically kind of announces, shouts out to Usman something, and basically they embrace and you've got to watch the video. It's so emotional that Tyrone's mom is such a badass lady and it's a fucking great video. She's just saying it's okay and and Usman's kind of in tears and she's like don't worry and you did great this was your night. This wasn't his night and you're the champ now and beat the champ and just cool shit like really really, to put yourself in that position, she seems like the best.

She's awesome. And you know, no wonder Tyrone is the way he is. No wonder he's been such a great champ. I mean, when you're raised by somebody like that, I mean, it's very impressive. Tyrone, what I liked about him is, first off, he's in a ton of pain. He's been like a world champion level wrestler.

For many, many years, he's trained and fought for a long time, but he's had like five knee surgeries. He's completely smashed pieces, what he's talking about on this podcast. Yet what I really got from it is like, he can just put all that aside and just fight and just fucking go He can just turn it on like a switch and it's it's one of those important things anyone to remember because So much of the time we see these people is invincible like they're just you know

They're fighters that are just they're not built like you are and maybe they're not maybe they are super human in some ways But they they have all the same emotions. have all the same feelings and pain receptors work the same way. Like these guys are in agony and whenever you don't want to go train or lift because something's hurting, yeah, there are times and places for that, but a lot of the time you can just push yourself right through and this bad motherfucker can do it for sure. I mean, he talks about how most of the time he walks down the stairs backwards and his daughter laughs at him because of his knee pain. It's just like he's way more stable doing it that way. Yet when he gets in the ring he just turns it on and you would never know that he struggles to move around. Never. If you saw somebody walking

down the stairs backwards you'd be like, I could kick that dudes ass. Trust me, Usman would fuck in, squash you. It's just crazy. It really is interesting. It's cool when he talks about how he first got into fighting. So he knew John Jones back in the day, he lived with Richard Evans. He's just been around like these world-class fighters and over time, they just kind of persuaded him to work in that direction

He's trained with them like as wrestling coaches. He's a wrestling coach on the ultimate fighter and You know after a while he's like look I don't want to make a zero money Just doing wrestling. I want to make a bit of cash doing some N&A And he gets in there. He's mostly undefeated. He has one loss on his record and that loss was against Jiu Jitsu guy and after that point He just trained Jiu Jitsu all the time when he got a G and you know now has his black belt So I think he was recently given his black belt too. Maybe maybe when he won the belt

But anyway, yeah, he's trained that he added that to his game As soon as he realized that that was gonna be a problem, that was, you know, a big part of what was missing in his game, he just adjusted and started smashing people. And probably as a wrestler, you know, I've trained Jiu Jitsu with guys that have come in and they've been wrestlers, you know, and even when they don't know Jiu Jitsu,

they know a lot about how the body works and how to take you down and how to hold position. And they, yeah, they're pretty nasty, like they're, they were always fucking hard work. I just think that having Rashad Evans as a mentor, like he lived with Rashad when Rashad was really at his height when he was the champ and he was traveling everywhere doing, you know, all the press conferences and hanging out meeting people and that must have been so inspiring. I mean, really fucking cool to have a guy like Rashad just kind of showing you what's possible out there. And that was years ago. I mean, when was Rashar champ like?

Man, Roshar must have been champ like 2010, maybe. Was it that long ago? Eight years? I don't know. It seems like a long time ago now that he was the champ. And it wasn't for all that long. I don't even know if he defended his belt. But anyway, he was one of the top fighters for quite a long time. His battles were rampage

pretty epic. And yeah, he knocked out Chuck Lidell. I mean, Rashad has some incredible fights. So for Usman to kind of have that mental, be able to throw questions off it. What do you think of this? How should I do this? How should I orient my career I mean it's it's it's cool stuff and you know oosman has had a tough time of it tough up bringing a tough life I guess his dad he was saying something on the podcast I don't remember all of it but he was saying something about his dad's in jail in Texas kind of got framed or something pretty awful situation it's like a rough time and it has been and, you know, his dad worked really hard for the family and blah, blah.

So he's had to deal with some real tough things that have made him question like where he is, and what he's doing. These are the messages that I love to pull out of these podcasts. When I'm listening to it, to any good podcast, that's what I'm listening for. It's like, okay

How did you fucking do it when it was tough when you didn't want to get up out of bed or do whatever? How did you get moving? What's the catalyst? You know what's the driver and it's like a lot of times that talk about well You know when I had kids that was a driver. Well great. I don't know kids a lot of people don't so what are we supposed to do? You know what what gets them moving? And it wasn't just about winning with them and paying the bills. It was more about proving to himself that he could do it.

He could set his mind in this direction and accomplish the impossible through all the adversity. Like, what, you know, why go through so many difficult challenging things just to sit back and let them overtake you. It's like, it was almost, it almost sounded like this was his way of getting some control

over the situation and the difficult times. Like, become this champion, become the best of the best of the thing that you are doing, and then you can force your way out of that, you know, tough spot. I don't know, maybe I'm reading into it a lot, but I liked his energy with it. And he was cool, he was chilled, he even had a lot of good stuff to say about woodley. He wasn't talking shit. I mean, you know, I like that. I like the shit talk as too, right? Michael Bizvings and the Conomer Greggers, of course, they're fun. The Chale Sirens, like they're great.

But it's also cooler they sit back and admire their adversaries and recognize that the greatness in them. Because to me, it's almost like instead of dismissing how bad our somebody is, you're saying, okay, I know what Woodley is. I know what kind of person he is, how tough he is. What can I gain from learning about him and take forward? There's some shit talking back and forth between Ben, Astron and Usman, which I like. I think Ben's going to be like the new child summon, just talking shit and starting controversy.

I don't think Ben's a bad guy. I think that's just Harry Rolls and it's just like a little bit of psychology. You get inside people's heads, fuck with them a little bit. That I thought is pretty fun and I like to see how that unfolds. It will be a great fight between these two because they're such both epic warriors. But the real question is after Usman was talking is his body gonna be able to hold up? Like really? That to me was the biggest concern. And in some ways I'm like, why are you the champ now? And immediately you're talking about how you're limping around and you need operations and you're in a lot of pain all the time. It's a very vulnerable

place to be. It really is. Get a feel for it. Listen to the podcast and just kind of like take it in. Like I respect his honesty with it, but I'm almost like, aren't you telling your enemy like your weaknesses? I don't know. I'm not a fighter, but it seemed to me like he wasn't too worried about holding his cards close. He just was him anyway.

And maybe it was a bit star-struck kind of that he was on Rogan. But I'm a fan, guys. like he wasn't too worried about holding his cards close, he just was him and maybe was a bit star struck kind of that he was on Rogan. But I'm a fan, guys, I'm now a fan of Usman, I think he's a badass dude and yeah, I can't wait to see what else he gets up to and hopefully he keeps winning and it'd be great to have him back on. I like the podcast a lot, it was great. Anyway, check it out, thanks a lot for listening. See you later. you