Joe Rogan Experience Review podcast - The JRE review of 1260 with Lennox Lewis & Russell Peters

Episode Date: March 10, 2019

Joe's guest on today’s episode I’m reviewing was Lennox Lewis the former heavy weight champion of the world. He’s also joined by Lennox and Joe’s good friend and hilarious comedian Russell Peters. Their conversation gives a good insight into Lennox’s life after boxing and what it was like fighting all those incredible people. 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 folks and welcome to the last podcast of the week for the Joe Rogan Experience review. I'm reviewing episode 1260 with Lennox Lewis and Russell Peters just finished that one really good podcast, great conversation, a lot of fun. But firstly, I want to say what another great week of podcasts, right? Joe's really putting together such a diverse lineup throughout the week from boxes to tech billionaires to environmentalists. And I'm not sure if it's always intentional or if it's just kind of like a scheduling fluke, but it makes it really freaking interesting. And then as always, you know, comics just show up and they do a route and it's just great the diversity and how it flows through.

I've just been noticing that recently that it's been that much more fun even to review these. But anyway, back to the Lanx Lewis podcast and let's get reviewing. Welcome to the Joe Rogan Experience Review! Where each week I review every single episode of the Joe Rogan Experience. What more do you want? So first off for those of you that are not super familiar with Lennox Lewis. I remember him from the 90s and I guess he was boxing into the early 2000s though I'm not 100% sure

Phenomenal boxer incredible heavyweight unbelievable power such an incredible dude and Course a major damage has legendary fights. I mean you you you tube him Google him I mean it's unbelievable what this guy was capable of back in the day and And to hear how chilled and cool he is on this podcast and his conversation with Joe It's it's really impressive and quite a you know, it's just very fun Nice to know that he doesn't seem to have a lot of brain damage either for a heavy weight think of those shots that he was taking how heavy They were hard. They were

Maybe a big part of that was that he was a very smart box. He moved a lot. He'd spin hit plenty of times and hard, but maybe the way that he used his body and used his head move money, he didn't take quite as much damage. He's also a big chess player. Big in the chess plays multiple times a day even says a chess handle on this episode of Joe Rogan so if you are into chess and you planning online chess write that down. I think it was something like Like interpole 2000 or something very similar to that. I didn't write it down

So you have to you have to listen to the podcast and and get it from there, but Yeah, you might be at a place in chess against the guy. He's supposed to be very good It gives you a bit of faith though just to know that not every box is coming out with with massive Brain damage Arguably he could be one of the greatest heavyweights of all time Joe talks about it a lot in that way and Joe certainly knows a hell of a lot about boxing far more than I do. So to put him in that kind of echelon is pretty impressive and probably true. I mean he may be top five.

You know, wrestled as a young man and of course made a shit ton of money boxing. I mean, he was there when people, you know, it's the Tyson era of making money. I mean, it was big, big money. Something I didn't know at all and you're probably wondering why Russell Peters is even on the podcast being that he's just a world famous comedian. They, Russell and Lennox have known each other for years. Yes, since Russell was like 15, which is pretty unbelievable. And that's kind of cool, I think, in a lot of ways.

So they have a lot of fun together on this podcast, they're kind of always making fun of each other and giving each other a hard time. Lennox goes back to his career, he talks a lot about that and one big loss that he had where he was waiting for Thai somebody he wanted and he wanted to fight someone in Africa. So he went down to Cape Town and while he was there he had a big fight plan. He wanted to kind of be like Muhammad Ali, kind of level of like spectacular event fighting. So where do you go, you

know, obviously Africa. And but when he got out there because it was Cape Town it's a super high altitude he had no idea that the breathing was going to be like that he realized he should have got there a lot sooner he was way out of breath and ended up taking a pretty vicious defeat uh which he later came back from and beat the shitter of the guy which was needed but he didn't do it in africa he did it at sea level and in a way that he needed to. But when I heard that, I thought, oh, that a minute. Yeah, maybe this was a time before Google, but it probably should have checked that out. You know, probably should know what altitude you're fighting at. I don't know. It seems like something that a boxing camp or or his

manager or someone should have gone through but but hard to say. Lennox and Joe obviously talk a lot about fighting in this one and Joe talks a little bit about how difficult it is to watch his friends fight you know in the in the UFC and it's difficult for him because he's also commentating on it so he sees two good friends, one's beating the shit out of each other. He tried to give some advice, you know, but it and it definitely like tell someone if they need to know. Look, you need to do this. You need to move your head more. You need to be less kind of risk taking and maybe even tell them if it's time for them to pack it in like you did in that pretty famous podcast he had with Brendan Schaub

where he was really just telling Brendan, you should probably retire because you're not going to beat the very best. That was a tough podcast for him and for Brendan and if you haven't seen that one, it's very impressive. I mean, impressive in the way that it shows their friendship and have a difficult conversation would have been very tough. I think probably for one of my classic lookbacks, I'm going to do a classic Rogan on that podcast just because it's pretty impactful. And an important one, because Brendan has done so much since then. They talk also about where Tyson and Anthony Joshua are. So these are all the big heavyweights at the moment. Tyson is not fighting

wilder for the rematch, even though they just had a draw, which is really strange. That just came out recently. Tyson, I guess, was signed by ESPN and Anthony Joshua is fighting some unknown guy called something boy. I don't know. I guess he's not completely unknown but I've not heard of him and it's really kind of mixing up the heavyweight division. So, you know, who's doing what? I don't even know what's really going on and that's a bit of an issue. We'll see where that goes. It's a shame. I really hope that they do get a Tyson while the fight. Talking about legendary fighting though and two legendary heavyweights meeting up. Lennox tells a really great story that you're gonna like on this conversation with Joe and it just struck me as something special because it was when

Lamex met Tyson when he was like 18 and they went up to some some place up and around New York. I think that they said it was or maybe it was in Canada. I don't exactly remember but but it was when they were very young and it was the first time that they were they had got to meet. They knew they were going to fight eventually. I guess there was a lot of rumors already about Tyson's ability and Lannex and Tyson got to kind of spar together. But before they did, Tyson brought Lannex into his room and they talked about all-time fighting,

fighting styles and Tyson had all these old videos or these old boxing videos. Now remember, this is way before YouTube or whatever. There wasn't collections of old boxing fights anywhere. So for Tyson to have a whole of this, I mean Tyson really studied these things. And if you listen to the Rogan podcast with Tyson, you'll know that he talked about studying these old videos. So to have that time, I mean, imagine just kind of like being a fly on the wall in that room with those two legends right before they've really even had their career and their chance to do what they do for boxing. And just see these like two young kids just in a way,

just looking, watching these videos, watching this thing that they love and just kind of enjoying that moment. That would have been really pretty fascinating. And then on that same notion, then being kids, Joe asks Lennox, you know, would you let your son box? And Lennox is like, I'll let him do what he wants. If he wants the box, he can. I mean, his dad did it. Maybe it's in his jeans. That's reasonable. I think that's really cool that he's doing that, you know, because Tyson was like, fuck no, I don't want my kid fighting, you know. So people have different opinions on it and Joe kind of said the same thing. Joe said he would never tell his kids what to do,

you know, they need to find their own journey, never stop them doing anything for sure. And I mean, look at Rogan, he's had some weird jobs so it would be, it's kind of hypocritical in that sense to stop your kids doing weird jobs if you've had one or really just ever doing it because you never know, like jobs are changing, times are changing. You know, if growing up we knew that you could make tons of money playing video games, like not even making them, just just playing them I mean forget going to college we were to just sat around all day playing video games I think those guys are geniuses and then there was some fun right towards the end of the podcast where they were just

talking about the fake martial artists because Lennox knows boxing but he doesn't know a ton of the other martial arts and well. And he was kind of like, the Kung Fu guys good. I mean, who else is good? And Joe obviously is saying, no, no, no, no, no. It's Jiu Jitsu or nothing. And I guess Russell Peters and Joe Rogan are going to train the next day after this podcast. They're going to train some Jiu Jitsu.

So they're big fans of that, obviously. And they talk about McDodo life podcast I mean Instagram which is one of the funniest Instagrams you can ever have and it just shows like all the fake martial artists getting their ass kicked it's brilliant if you don't have it you need to you need to add that to your Instagram because it's one of the best things on that and yeah it's still funny to me to this day that some people that just aren't clued in, even legendary fighters like Lanx. They just don't know that certain martial arts are a complete

waste of time. It's like the karate movies of the 80s still stand strong, making us believe that all these bizarish martial arts are still about us. But reality speaks for itself, folks. Anyway, great week of podcasts. Thanks a lot for listening. I really enjoyed reviewing all these. Have a great weekend. Peace. you