Joe Rogan Experience #10158 — Tank Abbott Transcript

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0:00 The Joe Rogan Experience. or somewhere around there when I was sitting like in an auditorium and you came in and We had a good session rapping. Was it you? prosecution even though he deserved to get beat up and I obliged him but I was going I ended up cutting it off and it was just a clear plastic thick tube that you can hold Yeah, absolutely. no hand wraps. Just the gloves? Yeah. Did you wrap your wrists or anything? No.

4:34 There wasn't, until I came along. have these meetings with all the fighters and I say, can I wear these? Absolutely, and I didn't hurt my hands although I'm saying oh, how you doing? I'm just passing through so the show at that time says hey show up you got a small art you have a box or And I'm like, okay, you know, talking me into it, realizing he's just trying to sell his

8:43 Good if you're gonna box and stand up in a ring but you're not throw punches and he's not really at that time very skilled on his feet. whoa, whoa. And I just fell off the turnip God's nose what and I go crazy I was it I've had people say, if you really watch it, It was like why did you do that you didn't have to pull shamrocks guy out? Professional wrestling.

13:02 It was supposed to be in Buffalo, but it got banned from New York. So I went to Dotham, like that. He drove up the curb. And did you have any competitive fights other than wrestling matches? and a dumb drunk friend of mine drove into a light pole So the whole time as a young man, I wanted to box. on every corner. And maybe, you know, anyways, that got the ball started rolling basically.

18:11 Well, if you don't know how to box. that what we're in here for? Isn't that what you do? And they're like, oh, no, you got This is no point in it yes I and played around and sparred with people, Yeah, you can cuss. And power is something you either have or you don't have. And you've always had crazy power. Like I said, I have it on video tape. I pretty much handed it to him.

21:56 Right down the middle. You always have. He was bitch slapping me. jacked up pit bulls, like ready to go. But it was fun, man. You always brought a party. You were And for you to just be going out there and knocking people out, is... You're a pussy, frankly. Maybe I could arm bar him or put him in a triangle. in the street anyways, and everybody that I beat up

26:48 You can't be tough by learning those things. in the chaos. They look like this guy's gonna be a world champion. Keep an eye on them talented, you can get to a point where they'll break Usman perfect example he's getting just he's getting taken down and manhandled You get goosebumps every time. Damn it, that's ruining it. there's another element and that's what you're talking about if you

30:47 I was seeing black, but I pulled myself out. if Big John McCartney wouldn't have stuck his his melon in between us and break us up. You know I'm all you all they had to do is give him a track for fighters fortitude or anything he does no I think he does well I mean I a thug. Like, oh yeah, no, this guy really, he's got a record. And he did background checks on me before I got into the UFC.

34:33 and people would see that and the DA would go, doesn't have anything in his. But so at Puerto Rico, I used to go around to dojos and go in there after I'd cruise around drinking a 12-pack in my van and we'd And I go let's go check out this Jiu-Jitsu thing, We're totally green to having really respect for jiu-jitsu Demonstration! And then Paul, who's an All-American from Nebraska wrestler, bigger guy, 190ish, he

38:33 Totally ignorant of what was going on. Although they were starting on their knees choking me. And I look at him like kind of rolled my eyes like really? Like I went like that like No, no, no, no, no, no. Oh, that's right. Yeah. And like, really? and I'm telling Paul, hey, fuck that. Get the hell out of here or I'll kill you. And they, Bob's like, we got to fix this.

44:40 with the feroz Oh fight with my knee messed up and Bob being the Like no, back then it was chaos. I understand completely what you're saying. Mark Hall that guy went out and did the job for fry. It looks like he did He well no he did yeah, it looks like it when you watch the fire There's a lot of things that can happen. I didn't get hurt at all. I'm not accusing them doing that. What's that what same same thing with that Anthony Macias guy that fought Oleg before me

47:53 And I fought the two biggest guys ever fought in the UFC, a 400-pound guy in the 6'5", deal. They would disparage it every since funny fucking there's a funny video of He's just silly because boxing's awesome. win. But it's a different thing. You guys are in, it's a game, it's a fighting game, fight and he's like no you don't just fight you got to learn how to box I'm

51:08 for Carlos Palamino. Old school Mexican six foot two guy, but knew his boxing skills like they're hanging from chains. It was like an old warehouse that had been there If it was a big, white heavyweight had a fighting show with real fighting, not this boxing stuff. And he would just look living with two other guys, know, drinking beers, watching the tube. And he came out with that grass skirt type thing.

54:56 So how did you contact them? I went to work and came back. Because he would always, I had quite the reputation And I was, hey, thanks, Kimo. deal from the streets man everybody knows who he is and and he's like yeah Academy I guess they call it and idea. I said, I don't know, I'm a wrestler. So he goes, okay, well, what are we getting I'm down for fighting any time you want to do it.

59:00 You did something? Calculations the first five shows, before Bob took over. And I'm like, oh man, and you know, you're a young man, And they used to sponsor volleyball players. Sponsor, whatever. And so he sends me a ticket and I'm like, wow, this is, you know, I'm a kid. And so we get there and I had a big club bag whomever Jiu Jitsu Jeff over there and I'm just like in there walking around

1:03:29 just like, are you kidding me? This is like insane. These people are like just playing Dave the guy that that that set it up Whatever this means, having a bad day or something. everybody's like oh what are you here for? I go you know that UFC thing they're having at the is rocking and rolling and God, I'm probably swinging off the couch Art Davy was the big guy,

1:07:24 got tickets in there in this little cubicle block of seats just up on the first rail He would walk around the hotel like he was King Kong, like I'm the man type thing. So I went two and two together. They were just groupie. Okay I was gonna do like a cameo walk by, you know? and one of the girls, there was like a group I think, I think Gracie or Oleg or somebody fought and they were doing submission and it was boring and

1:11:30 Maybe I was drinking some vodka then. Anyways, so I go, let's go. And they're going, well, we're not. How are we going to get in? That they were a bunch of pussies and that they didn't know how to fight His hat off? And we went back to my room and restarted the party up again. No f in way that guy. He's crazy This phone call you're out boom boom, and we go to this bar.

1:17:19 And no problem, and we were supposed to be in a wrestling room training and fighting but underneath him from behind, Standing there and Mm, I see. See, I really like to address this. You were obviously, you know, even though you were a big guy, The only reason why I lost is because of big John McCartney and his and Kevin Randleman. That was the first fight they had with judges. John McCartney got in

1:21:29 It was the first fight anybody ever won off their back, Yeah. And Boss is nothing more than a chrismatic, what, pancraze? Pancraze is fake. Listen to Ken Shamrock. He said it's fake. You know, well, I'm not gonna get No, that was UFC. So he's one maybe had more did you have more than two fights near saying I can't think of a third. I I love fight that guy again and and

1:24:37 He's like, I'm having trouble. of his big mouth. Yeah. I have guessed. The two times a week that is the smallest percentage of the population that's alive and all these kinds of things, older than me, and I kind of maybe, you know, he's very athletic. I come from like a football, And I just— Yeah, and I just smile and it's like, do you want some? Yeah, exactly. So they're looking at you back. Yeah, no, I just smile.

1:29:22 I wasn't like I was when I was fighting. I don't, okay, we can go there if you want to. That like, you want me to put my hands on you? And it was, I still remember to this day, and I'm 59 now and it just kind of resonated in ringing But like, you're going to tell me what to do or talk down to me. Yeah, you see it all the time online turns around and looks at him and apparently the guy had been obnoxious

1:33:47 Yeah, there's a hundred of people that I've come across karma. You're like Karma's warrior You know these these kids and whatever. Um enjoy the entertainment value as much because people get tired. You can't So I will say like when I'm doing commentary this part break this up because I'm getting bored They've done that in Japan. the next round. not a good grappler and some guy can take you down and hold you down for the whole fight,

1:37:17 Yeah, absolutely and and like uh mark colman ground and pound touching the cage where you're not stuck somewhere, you gotta fucking move. You can't stay there. You should be like this or you should figure out a way to get out of there or he's gonna win or he got the best That's not like an accurate assessment of what would happen in a real fight they were worried that people break bright bricks and ice on ESPN okay so

1:40:19 They told you you were gonna drink yourself to death and they were right. I I just kept on doing it. Months later they did the kidney. How old we when this was going on? your body doesn't reject the organs yes they think, hanging around for a long time. with you anyways I couldn't take it anymore so I ended up doing 30 more days Is it like a tropical worm?

1:43:45 Yeah, slowly. Wow. And he's, oh, oh. And when I was in the hospital, Yeah, well almost killed me that So the liver one was the bad one? And that's Cedars-Sinai, Beverly Hills, yay. And David Isaac said, have you ever seen awakening? my house and got a specialty doctor, digestive, whatever, GI doctor. So he put me in touch with Cedars-Sinai. not a problem and so I'm like after a year I'm like oh man

1:51:14 but not until you lose weight. And you know she basically died with me during this whole time. on? You're dying. with all these machines, it looks like the movies. But I guess I was in that room for six days you messed up because we gave that other liver to somebody else. And so she's all, no, they gave that liver to the other person that was the better fit.

1:56:41 And because I'm going to go away for the weekend. This is obviously Hey, how you doing? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Now I'm a totally different person completely. I'm glad for you. 100% it's so bad for you, too to people that I've known for years, I leave Dana choice messages. I used to joke around. Well when I was wrestling I mean it was the rock-and roll lifestyle. Like you fly on a jet, boom, boom, boom, go for an eight day loop,

2:02:15 I'm going to go to Vegas. But when Dana called me to come back for the, to do my comeback thing. and so I go to wake up and this is like I'm coming back kind of thing and I was supposed to be and goes, oh, here you are. it was a I make him look like a kindergartner. Yes. It's in my bag over beating people up at bars and all that, I didn't have a ghostwriter or anything.

2:07:21 Why didn't you just learn how to type? eyes... Before There Were Rules. Yes, that's the third book. The second book is Cage Fighter and the first book is Bar Brawler. And it goes It's fiction, folks. and he's a little guy with a big ego. Oh, okay, somebody else read it. much for being here man. You're an American original. You really are. And it's Cool.

2:10:20 Oh, yeah. So all you narcissists. No? You just always playing games? Yes. All right. Well, thanks could have just corrected it. I've been spelt things all the time. No? Thank you for having me on.