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the jurgen experience my balls was hot one was the famous one i don't remember that so how's things man things been crazy i can only imagine yeah after that knock out of curtis blades like uh i mean that that got a lot of attention oh yeah yeah and it felt real great good to knock him out because he was talking a lot of trash before the fight isn't that like par for the course though everybody talks [ __ ] before the fight um even whenever i'm doing good though he's been talking at least three years now he's been talking mess to me really yeah do you take that [ __ ] personally um i do because i'm not in there trying to sell tickets don't just come to me try to sell tickets to talk trash you know i'll take everything personal yeah some guys do just try to sell tickets and then they they'll say it's not personal it's just like when khabib nurmagomedov was [ __ ] up conor when he's on top of him pounding on him going let's talk now let's talk now remember that yeah yeah and he goes it's just business you know it's like this is not business no no i go into every fight like life or death and i go i enter a deep dark place every time i step inside the octagon so it's not business for me what was interesting is after the fight i mean it was just such a spectacular knockout but after the fight you were so nonchalant you were just so relaxed and you're like i couldn't get started in there and everybody's like what the [ __ ] are you talking about you couldn't get started you just it was one of the most spectacular knockouts in the history of the heavyweight division and you're like i couldn't get started yeah um so i went back home and got my blood and everything tested and my t levels was like in the 300s so i had very low t so it's like i mean testosterone yes you have low testosterone yes that's ridiculous
yeah i would never if you had if i was going to make a bet it's so like i try to spend all my energy on my wife so it's kind of hard because if i don't have the energy for her then she'll think i'm out there messing around and stuff like that so do they know why your testosterone was low um maybe over trained or something no i don't we we don't know yet so i want to go to another doctor that the lady was just telling me about oh wow that's crazy so that's why you felt lethargic yes yes it was like that all week so i at first i was i thought it was the jet lag or something like that but it ended up just me my t levels that was like one of the most perfectly timed uppercuts i've ever seen it was perfect yeah we practiced that for the last few months so that was the game plan when he shoots to catch him coming in yes either the knee or the uppercut um we knew he was going to be there we knew he was going to try to play the game try to stand up for a little bit and the way he shoots he don't really shoot like um a real wrestler he shoots like from the hip down and coming like that he doesn't bend the knee and try to come in hmm that's interesting so he goes he hinges he goes forward yes why do you think he does that um i don't know i don't know you know because usually the wrestler they drop a knee then shoots yeah but he just bend down and i'm guessing he's just trying to grab my leg to pick it up or something like that i don't know so how did you get involved in fighting what was your first experiences first experience was like because everyone knew i loved fighting in the streets like every weekend at parties and stuff like that and so one of my friends that told me um about mma and i was like i didn't really know anything about mma at the time and watch videos this is like 10 years ago did you have any martial arts training at all no i don't
i i still don't have any martial arts of course you do your professional martial arts i'm watching youtube videos now so i'm learning some stuff now really yeah you're not you're not [ __ ] around like really you learn from youtube videos i learn i learn from my coach as well but i watch youtube videos and stuff like that too so 10 years ago you had no martial arts training at all no martial art training and where did you first start training i just started training at a gym called silverback mma and so this was 10 years ago you just decided to learn were you thinking about being a professional were you just doing it for fun um they say that back then i thought like 500 500 was pretty good money you know so they're saying that you can get paid on 500 um just three rounds or three minutes i said just three minutes i didn't think three minutes was a long time until i got in there it's like damn okay and so we just started training from there though and i fell in love with it so it's to me it's almost like street fighting so it's like yeah i could do that but one of the things that's changed about you over the years is your endurance your endurance is it it came up in a big way like you can see in the gabriel gonzaga fight you can see in a lot of your fights like you can you can put pressure on people now and and you have a lot of high volume with which in the beginning of your career i think you had a harder time with oh yeah and so that's really what we focus on now at um main street boxing gym is my conditioning and my endurance and stuff like that because we feel like that's the only weakness in my game right now yeah but it's like you're so big i don't even know if it's a weakness i think it's just part of being a giant person you know yeah but the travis brown
fights another example like that was a crazy fast-paced fight but you you know you overwhelmed him yeah yeah um i love that fight too before the this this past fight with occurred it was one of my favorite and that that week going into travis brown fight i took some laxatives um just try to help me cut some weight but you know i took it that wednesday and you're still lingering around so it's like man he kicked me in my body but he also broke my ribs but i also did have to take a [ __ ] so i wasn't lying about that so yeah that was a ridiculous interview though yeah that fight was uh that was that was a heavy duty fight there's a lot of bad blood in that fight too right yes and ever since then like whenever i do my um you know how they come in a few days before the commentators try to talk to you and ever since then i stopped telling the guys what's my game plan and stuff like that because i didn't know him and brian staying at the time was friends and so our game plan was to come in and try to um to kick his legs because he used to stand real wide but whenever me and him fought he didn't stand like that at all like not one time so you think brian stan went to him and told him i believe so i believe so yeah yeah yeah that's kind of dirty yeah yeah yeah so and he didn't tell you his strategy no he didn't damn brian's damn so i'm just believe that's that was the case catch new episodes of the joe rogan experience for free only on spotify watch back catalog jre videos on spotify including clips easily seamlessly switch between video and audio experience on spotify you can listen to the jre in the background while using other apps and can download episodes to save on data cost all for free spotify is absolutely free you don't have to have a premium account to watch new jre episodes
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