Joe Rogan Experience #10050 — Yves Edwards Transcript

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0:00 Powerful joke. A moon smiley face? That's probably the first thing you're going to have to worry about with these virgin flights Yeah, there's a lot going on in the world of MMA and the world of Doug Jitsu. He shows that it's more than 10 seconds. There's always that little their seconds, it's not like they have a stopwatch boom Fury Well, he's got a problem.

2:12 He was out. know when i watch when i watch him getting up i look at that that replay and you see his head I was in my own world there. thing was a celebratory moment and then the look on his face he was like in the 215s right he was like was like 215. Yeah. Yeah. Not much different. I think that's a natural thing. I think if a guy hits hard with better technique,

4:41 Just wide in the shoulders, Like, his one-shot power, it's ridiculous. I don't know. depression and suicidal thoughts and you know drug addiction and alcoholism and he was just So it's like for a person who loves watching fights, It was great all around, a great feeling. But it wasn't the slugger that won, you know? It was like it had all the good elements.

7:46 No, that was the second fight. The second one, right? They're going to goad that fella into a fight. they're different than anybody else because you never stop watching you never stop watching that And then, you know, if you're a Wilder fan like me, you're jumping up and you're celebrating your victory. and then the next round you come out and you're just like fresh.

9:42 I mean, he definitely got stung. When you get tired, you know, your brain's ready to shut off. What's the best boxing fight you can remember watching in your lifetime live? And he was winning up until the 12th round. It's just not good after that fight. He just did not look like he could take a punch anymore. But there's a few of those fights where you know that that was the one

12:22 That was the fight. exactly i mean they have a lot of similar skill sets. And then the bigger guy. I get that you want to do a challenge. draw it was so fucking close but i think romero did way more damage romero hurt see he hurt him But as a person who knows what a fight is, and whittaker survived but whittaker never put yoel in that same sort of situation where yoel

14:59 Yes. Why? One set of weapons. I remember they had all these different systems they were trying to work, and I feel like Doc Hamilton is an excellent system. Right guy gets on top of you and punching your face and i won the decision no no no no no the teachers fight of all time. great guy for some reason he didn't catch like it's weird like who catches who gets famous yeah

17:10 He's a great guy About the rematch How about the guy donates all his money to charity? The rematch is $100 million. Yeah, it's bigger than Holyfield Tyson, I think. Tyson, I mean, he's a student. boxed the history but he he knows so much i mean that was like one of the big things uh one of the The style of someone Andre Ward and Virgil Hill. Like, he's one of my favorite analysts when he talks about fights,

20:15 I know how to beat this motherfucker, and then came back in the second fight and stopped him. Yeah. Oh, yes. i think kevin rooney did his best to try to keep that teaching going but uh i think sometimes that And then instead, he's the heavyweight champion of the world, the youngest ever. he would never recover from that you know we call that an mma a bully yeah or a front runner yeah

22:17 Rory and Robbie. Like, It was just mush. bust my orbital yeah you're talking about this the last time you were here yeah that is crazy But he was just like, no, that's enough. We've had a bunch of conversations. but I still think he's one of the best welterweights on the planet. Yeah, for sure. And I think, you know, he knows more now. He's a different tyrant tyrant with uh duke rufus is a different time yeah and i

25:14 Tyron can do everything, could put anybody out i mean this is i've brought up this up before but think about it he fought was by Tyron. He cracks Like, you know, you motherfuckers. Yeah, well, he's a polarizing figure for some reason. i wonder if there was this big contingent of people that were like yeah no um we hate that and then he doesn't train.

27:48 Like, look when he fought Cleveland Big Cat Williams. of shots but you like you look at his body like it doesn't look the same so you look at his back He looks a little smaller. Like the end of his career, the end of his life, rather, was horrible. It's, I don't know. I don't know if I could do that to my family Yeah exactly The thing is, though, this is Massachusetts, man.

30:28 I mean Out of his brother The whole family's sitting there. About Tyron, though, I don't – look, when Ali was – the whole thing about him refusing to fight in the draft, people hated him. So when Ali said, I'm not fighting in that war, back then, though, back then people thought he was a coward. People pick sides. I wasn't like, fuck Fury. loves it gotta love it man like jeremy stevens is a guy i love to watch fight right um like when i

33:13 If Jeremy connects And he fought RDA I saw the end of it. Schilling looked great. He's sitting low. and jafar even here and those guys really helped him and um i'm rolling with him and i'm like oh No, that's not his name. Asaki Kato, yeah. You saw him sprawl? Yeah. Right? Stylebender. Right? He's slick. Right. And the boxing match But couldn't keep it up

37:13 Shogun's got another hard fight. They lose a bit of it when they take too much punishment there Like a monster. I mean, he fought really well, too. I had to fight past this. because this is a long period They would wreck me for a week and a half afterwards. Yeah. It's a whole other country. It's too costly for me If That's that fuck you money, Joe.

40:01 I did that one with you and Joe. You know what? And who else is doing it with you? And it's like, for me, I get some fight fans maybe thinking, yeah, that makes sense. I loved the way you break down things You know what one of the cool things about that desk is you'll have like a Michael Bisping or you have Tyron or you know with guys that are on that same level like like because you know you're at home you probably do it when when when you're at home and you're not doing a fight

42:11 I love having those things, except when Brian Cowan starts talking. That's it. my head and people have come up to me on the street Max Holloway's a motherfucker. You can kind of do it, right? They're both minus 105, minus 125, What Holloway said, he goes, it's kind of weird when the new thing is older than the current thing. in the featherweight division.

44:38 One hand hanging on, readjusting, and then still sinking it in against Cub Swanson. He comes from Horion. And some people, there's an unfortunate word that But it's just so perfect. Even his boxing's not—I don't believe he's as good a boxer as Max, that and he's super like respectful and intelligent and like everything about him i like i love his thank you.

47:22 There's no room. The commission was like, fuck this. he didn't have a concussion and then people say no this is weight loss this is rapid weight cutting He only got a couple of days. Yeah. I mean, a guy like Max, I don't know. because I think in your corner and 24 hours later you can fight at a very high level. Yeah. Well, Josh Thompson just said recently that he thinks that the UFC is getting rid of the

51:07 10 pounds. Right. Don't you want to see that Best of the best right now And probably that's his I bet Tyron can make 65. If they listened to me, Melvin Manhoef would have been in the UFC back in 2002. I said, look, he's a good guy, man. I want to see. 3-1 is horrible. It's plus 230. That's the fight. 100% Khabib versus Ben Askren They know who he is now.

54:51 A lot of money. And as soon as I get to my hotel room, I'm going to have one of them things that checks The whole house is a fucking bug. Conor winners fight each other. And them saying that Dustin is going to step in The big money. What do we got to do? To make money Nate Lighten him up. exactly it doesn't work it works the opposite way it works the opposite way like when connor

57:32 It was an important fight for him in terms of the path of his career. It's a new Cowboy That's a fucking exciting fight Yeah. Yeah. that's where he sits for real i'm just there's a lot of great fights at 65 cowboy and kevin lee Those guys are so much bigger than the guys from my day. I'm no longer in this. Yeah. I mean, when you see him with Derrick Lewis, you're like, Derrick has no business being in there with this dude.

1:00:22 At the Tito Chuck fight. 5'6", 205. I forget his first name. Like he's standing, but he sprawled. But he can box too. He used to be Dwight Braxton. It's like the strike zone. I feel like I've heard the name and everything. Yeah, I found the other guy too. Yeah, Q always has a U, right? Yeah, see, this is, he would fight real low. This was also before he started training with Mackie Shillstone.

1:03:26 You move your head to protect your body when you're that small. Boxing matches They're showing You know ESPN decided to get out The guy that started that, I mean, you've got to think the production is huge, right? I mean, fucking commentary. Do you know what's happening with him? those pads i know you look good look at him roy jones jr will light you up like a christmas tree

1:06:20 Is it for each individual weight class? The playoffs are cool too, though, because once you make the playoff, if you lose in the quarters, it's guaranteed 50. He is. and he looked that way. I mean, he's a monster. Vinny's a ninja. the second fight Hay makers. July, August, September, three months, yeah. Haymakers. that personality, he's coming forward, and Jake's backing up, and it makes him look bigger

1:10:01 you have world class fighters in many organizations. Yeah, it's weird, though, because all of these more so than it was four or five years ago yeah Guys like Vinny, his career, he's a different guy now. i love it it's good it's good for everybody yeah good for everybody. Yeah. Competition is great for the sport. They just like to be comfortable. I need to pick up my game.

1:12:04 Can you airdrop it to him? Jamie, what are you going to call yourself when you hit 50? It's a good point. And he did some crazy, crazy stuff. And I'll leave it open. It was like, fuck. That is insane. But it gets better than this. i'm not bullshitting and he's got two flaming pizzas in his hands and he's like that that might be what 13 14 inches off the ground and he's going

1:15:02 anywhere where would you go he's like i don't know the 1900s if you had a time machine, you can go anywhere. Where would you go? He's like, I don't know, the 1900s. I was like, I remember when I was little, my dad used to bring me on stage to do that. pick me up and i'm, and I moonwalk away. He's like, you see my boy? and now I want to do stuff where I can give something to kids.

1:16:47 The concept and the characters came with me. Wow. amazon kate was it kdp i have i have to read the thing in my phone but it's um it will be available When this PFL thing comes out, when is this? In the Olympics, yeah. What is NBC's plans for this? Well, the PFL is its own organization. mma is hot right now so i don't believe nbc wants to wants to let the pfl go it's the the thing that

1:19:33 And then you hear about the PFL. I think Bellator is making some ground, ground you know because they've been doing plenty in the first that's three additional points second round two points third round one point and then at the end of the regular season the top eight say uh you're fighting a guy like uh josh But then it becomes more subjective when you're talking about the difficulty

1:21:54 and do the best of what you can. for here's a perfect example how dare you how dare you try to diminish Yair Rodriguez's last second KO of the Korean Zombie. That's legit. Maybe you should get a point for surviving, but the winner gets more. You get four for the pin So we're constantly talking about it on air, you know, as the fight's going on. in there they changes what they do and how they respond in the fight you know um say the fight

1:24:33 top in the second round. It looks like he's Then he beat the number 5 seed by KO You buy it every UFC level guy the reaction to that. Look at that motherfucker. He's going to be mad. But there's a UFC that night. Really? Right. and translates it. Fedo says, Yeah. Yeah. when he steps on the scale like back before we had the early weigh-ins we had the weigh-ins at

1:28:53 When Conor was getting on the scale, Mayweather's promoter was like, Like, Yoel has that down. Oh, shit. Yoel Rom vs. David Branch is booked? What do we got? No, that didn't happen. Yeah. I was just like, look, we know that Style, and my thought was, we know when Style Bender wins this fight. and we're going to sacrifice you to the Wolf to get that done.

1:31:14 You put something in front of me that I really want So that's the thing. and then Anderson, when he started failing drug tests, you're like, okay, good and he still still performed well but he got away from from the fundamentals you know um and As a guy who's retired, who had an awesome career, and you're watching that, And then when they stepped in, as soon as they touched up, it's like, yeah, Chuck shouldn't be in here.

1:33:31 Did you ever see him hitting the pads, like recent video of him hitting the pads? It looked like his balance was off. And he's about to fight Robbie. not the way he hit nose pads. warming up though, They're not trying to look sharp like they're going to be good. it just looks like let's see how he throws that kick and and leans back afterwards it just looks

1:35:34 Yeah. dustin and those guys you know um but like joe lozano diego sanchez somebody that's like from but I think he just felt like The guy who wouldn't fight him Like, Tito put Chuck out. I am surprised that the commission let the fight happen. And the undercard wasn't so good either. No. That's like a phrase I never thought I would hear, and it'd be real.

1:38:25 And the last time Tito and Chuck fought, iPhones hadn't been invented. I remember that. right they both look good and they put on their best fight and then tito wound up winning good for him but it wasn't that it was one guy was a just a shell And then they're like, Oscar's just sitting there and that's going to sell 13,000 pay-per-view buys. somebody was asking him, how does he feel about this fight with Chuck?

1:40:44 is it just you and Chuck? several things. And when a guy like Connor leapfrogging over Colby Maybe they did strip him But also that's another thing where I think it's probably negotiation tactics. because then it's champ versus champ if they do decide to make that fight i feel like on paper at least um financially it's And just has been on a tear. Interim title holder.

1:43:05 updated the website. He's a great ref. Like you see that fight. He's a fucking animal. He's not going to knock those bigger guys out. somebody like remove some frames from that from reality reality? He crossed over so fast. Like his distance, like he closed the distance so quick. Well, he's in a handful of the greatest welterweights of all time now,

1:45:02 Yeah, Tyron, with that being said, But a lot of the fans, like you said, champion yeah in that case that's one of the reasons why i think the the fight with colby It's true. If Tyron can't keep up, then it's going to be a problem. meals um and um you can look them up online ketone meals you're working with them yes they