Khalil Rountree
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The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
And it's crazy because I'm sitting right behind you guys and I'm watching you guys' natural reactions. It's such a natural reaction. And I know you guys take a lot of shit and they make memes about you guys, but watching you do it in those moments is the best thing ever.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
Max would be giving us some moments, right?
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
Well, he's got plenty of time to kind of time it out.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
I know. You see the video of him hitting in mitts? I saw his, even his brother hit like that. Really? I watched his brother hit mitts and I was like, God damn.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
But here's the thing with Max is Max's movement.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
Like, Max ain't going to be there for that. Nope.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
And it shouldn't. They take advantage of MMA guys because they know we crazy.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
In hindsight, it was a bad idea, but in his mind, he's thinking, this is an opportunity for me to become a legend.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
So had that been different for Aspinall, we'd have been like, yo, he shouldn't have took that fight.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
And it's so spontaneous, too. Even when I'm watching fights now, when it happens, I always have this response of be ready to look away because if a leg snaps, I don't want to see that.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
That's what I'm saying. He's not a bad fighter.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
No, I'd put him in there with the winner of Moicano and Saint-Denis. That's a good fight.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
Moikano's got really good jiu-jitsu. I saw him ball up Chase Hooper. In a grappling tournament. Yeah.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
Well, I mean, it's proof that you don't need it. You don't need to cross that line.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
Well, I mean, at the end of the day, like, people are attracted to violence. Yeah. And at the end, like, even Robbie Lawler, like, people love Robbie, and he never said, he hated doing it.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
This is easily the best fight of all time.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
He said if it was that cheap that people would stop pirating.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
Yeah. I didn't know they were going to start with Canelo, although they were starting with Betterbeef, but that's a fight.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
They were talking about doing that for like 15 bucks.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
The first episode dropped today. So I knew you was going to ask me this, so I had to Oscar award this shit. Oh, right. You can catch me at the Modern Rose in Hollywood, Florida, or you can catch me on MMA Today on SiriusXM's Fight Nation, Theoretically Speaking on ESPN West Palm, Fight Court on YouTube, Laura Sanko's One-on-One, and I'm also partnering with Valerie Energy Drinks.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
My film brotherhood is making its way around the film festival circuit, and if you got beef with me, see me in the street.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
Yeah, the theme song's already done for us.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
But think about his come up, man. He was able to come up this year without talking shit.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
All these fighters think they gotta talk shit to come up. He did it by just stepping up to the plate and fighting and knocking motherfuckers out. He doesn't even smile.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
Yeah, but Jamal, I talked to Jamal about that. Like, Jamal called all of us on the broadcast. He was like, yo. And he was like, he stepped on and got the angle, and I couldn't move because Herb Dean was there.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
I got to tell you. You know what it was? I've been listening to you motherfuckers telling me to get an iPhone, and I don't know how to work it. You know what I'm saying?
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
But he also put his hand on the outside of Jamal's hand to clear the angle for him to throw the left hook over top of it.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
Yeah, I know. Khalil knocked out my boy Anthony Smith, had him in slow motion.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
I mean, we're going to find out. But do you think the UFC would want Khalil to be champ? You know what I'm saying? Why not? Well, he just don't really have, like, that championship thing about him. Where, like, you go, oh, that's my champ right there. Like, he don't really have that.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
He's sensitive. He's a sensitive guy. You don't cry? You know what I'm saying?
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
I'm not saying there's something wrong with it. I'm just saying, is that the guy that we want holding the belt?
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
So this is real Planet of the Apes type shit.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
Just don't wear nothing. That way you could cheat, too.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
But yeah, he was the man in Peaky Blinders.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
But Matt, I know exactly the thing you're talking about.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
You even have a DVD player? I do. How the fuck do you have a DVD player?
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
I just don't know anybody with a DVD player. That's like VHS. I don't have that.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
I know. I never had Max. I just got Max just so I could watch that shit. Season two. Dude, it's good. Yeah, it is good. I ain't gonna lie. It is good. It's a real good show.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
So I got to ask you, because you know Murab better than anybody here, I'm sure. Yes. From that, when I see him now, he's just a different animal. A complete different character. Has he always been this type of character?
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
I've never even heard of it until you just said it right now.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
Phenomenal movie. But does American Gangster count?
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
Everybody's like, what the fuck's wrong with him?
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
Yeah, like if he did Bare Knuckle when he was younger, he would have been perfect for it.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
But think about that. But that goes for all of us, right? Because we all kind of came from the same shit from back in the day, right? And then me and Matt, we still in the game. But then look at guys like him and Phil Barone.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
I was working with him last week when I was with Brady and him. And we were doing elbows. And my wrist still ain't the same right now.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
Pfeiffer is going to be up there with the best of them.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
And I got to give props to John Marquez out in Philly. John Marquez would be putting it together. He'd be putting in work with them guys.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
Well, that's why I put on some weight. That's why I'm trying to get over 200, just so I can posture on them back.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
Had Leon making excuses about the time change. Put it that way.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
He's still like that too, man. He's still hungry. He's still down to earth. He ain't get all high class.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
I'm like, what's wrong with you, man? You're supposed to cuss. He's crazy.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
And he doesn't have time to go on another run.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
He's got to be 37 now. How old is Kamaru?
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
And you got them badass knees, too, man.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
See, I got to do that because holding pads for people, oh, it tears your shoulders up.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
That's Kamaru Usman, Jorge Masvidal. Yeah.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
Oh, 100%. Which is more natural to them. Right. Speaking of crack, Mark Delegretti says that you have the hardest kick that he's ever held for. Ooh. And that's something... Yeah, that's very nice to help for a lot of people. I kick pretty hard. Yeah. Not a lot of people might give you that credit for that.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
So the smelling salts will get me looking like that?
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
I think you liked me. I think I have to take a shit. That'll cure snoring, for sure.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
So what do people do to smelling salts for? They do it before they lift.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
I was just about to say I'm about to cry. I'm about to pull a Khalil Rountree on y'all.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
No, he's never shot a takedown in the UFC. Bruv, Khalil hits anybody.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
But, hey, like you said, Khalil, if he lands.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
Who was the boy that knocked him out in Australia? Yeah.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
Yeah, for sure. He Roy Jonesed Roy Jones.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
Yeah. Oh, my God. You know... Kevin Holland's coach used to work with him. Really? Yeah, they're like really good friends. That guy was a savage.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
I don't think nobody had more one-punch power than Julian Jackson. No.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
Oh, my God. I'm going to get my haircut like his.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
My goodness. He can't even look up. He's not even giving him a chance to get off.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
Well, you remember when Shudo used to do standing eight counts? Mm-hmm. Yeah, back in the day.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
What would you bring them back for, stalling? Stalling. Yeah. That's probably about the only thing you should bring them back for, stalling. Like hanging out too long. Like, hey, man, get to work.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
Right. Like, at this point, like, if you make the fight happen, just let them show up.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
Well, I mean, you're right. So, like, Sean Brady and Gilbert Burns over the weekend.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
No, no, that's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. Just let them fight at 190, right? These guys are 190 pounds. They walk into the cage at 190.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
You can't get any heavier than 194, whatever.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
But how about what they did to Mikey Musumichi?
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
he got fucked on his situation well I mean he was going up in weight to fight Cade Rotolo so he went up to 170 and then like a couple days like a week before they're like no you gotta go back down to 135 Cade Rotolo's out and he's the champion and they treated him like this and they're like you gotta go back down and cut 30 pounds he gets sick cutting 30 pounds well he almost died they took his belt and then they took his belt
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
They took his belt for missing weight. For missing weight. Wait a minute. Really? Yes, that's what I'm saying. One totally fucked him. I didn't hear that. Yes, they took his belt.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
See, another reason why weight cutting should be,
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
Because we've seen deteriorations of performance because guys have had to clean up.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
Yeah, right? Baby. Traps up to his ears. I know, he had them turtle shells, boy.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
And he wasn't a bad grappler. He had a good guillotine.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
I am not going to Juliana Pena this one.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
The problem is the UFC has the ability to do this. No other organization would have the ability to do this.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
That's the problem. The UFC obviously could do it at the PI. Every year, this is what we do. But no other regional level organizations would be able to do it, so it would be a little tougher.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
North Carolina does that too. They have a limit.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
Bro, he looked great. He looked great. Yeah, man. He's a hardworking kid. He's young. I know he was on this show before.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
Well, it's like Matt always says, play to your strengths.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
It's easy to dismiss him, but I was there when he knocked out Tyron, and I was like, man, I'm done with this kid. I never wanted to corner another fight in my life, man. I was like, yo, he just knocked my boy flat out on his face, man. I was heartbroken.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
And that's why, like, everybody's talking about this Mike Tyson thing. I was like, man, they should not be letting this thing happen.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
Like, what other sport would we let a 58-year-old man compete other than golf?
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
Yeah, best case scenario for the world is that he knocks Jake Paul out.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
Well, I mean, so when Hamzat fucked Gilbert, Hamzat was on top for a second. Right. And as soon as Gilbert started playing jiu-jitsu, Hamzat was like, get me the fuck out of here. He stood up quick.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
No matter where it is. They want him to have a British accent.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
But if you see a movie about it, it was English with an English accent. Right.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
It was pretty stale, but Brady can hang with anybody on the ground. He's so strong, he can hang with anybody.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
Yeah, you didn't think it was going to kill you. I grew up on that shit.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
And if I had no milk, I had Kool-Aid in there to add to my sugar.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
Well, that's what Paul Felder does after a long bike ride. He would talk about drinking a soda.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
Think about how good defensively you have to be. That we can count how many times you've been cracked.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
Was that when he hit him with the elbow?
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
And that fight, I think, would inspire Chris Padilla to use the elbow against Ron Zu over the weekend. Really? Yeah, and busted his eye wide open. They stopped the fight because of that. That's interesting.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
When is that? That's in Madison Square Garden.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
He's got like his own people with like Brian Barberina and those guys.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
I mean, I just don't understand how they thought this was going to solve the problem. They were like, new gloves! And our guys are still getting poked in the eye.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
I think you should just use Trevor Whitman's glove.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
No, no, no, no, no, no. He left the job so he could work on them gloves. So you might as well give him the love for that.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
They're like, not only that, D. Thomas has your fucking other job now.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
Dean, you do a good job with that. Yeah, you do.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
How do you plan that out, Scott? I got to, man, because I'm working with y'all. That's Joe Rogan, D.C. I got to have my own thing.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
Who did Manuel Torres fight his last fight? He beat the hell out of somebody last time. He did.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
I think so, too. I think he's going to beat old boy in a couple weeks, too.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
He's going to beat Mofsar in a couple weeks.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
Zell Huber is an assassin, too. I was getting ready to say that's going to be another banger.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
I think it's going to live up to it. I mean, they got a lot of hype on the sphere. And, like, the names may not be there, but all these guys are bangers.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
I think they should. I was at the Apex all week last week, and it's so secretive.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
So the guys would want to take him down, and then he'd throw up that triangle.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
Yeah, so it's like it's just been like crazy.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
Poor Leach, though. Leach can't... I mean, they just feed him to everybody.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
Who did he just fight, Leach? Carlos Prates.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
Well, they're getting so much help from the UFC prior. Right. You know, like, especially, like, if you have, like, the PI behind you, like, a Mexicoder, like, sponsoring these guys.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
You know what's weird? In karate combat, you can't throw it to the thigh. It has to be a calf kick. That's ridiculous. Yeah. It's weird to me. I'm like, what?
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
What do you mean you can't throw it to the thigh? You can't. It's illegal to kick above the knee in karate combat.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
Not sure why that's a rule, but that's a rule.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
Yeah, you can ground and pound until you stop.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
Right, but you can't kick to the thigh.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
It's horrible to watch, but you've got to defend it. It's not like you can't defend it. You've got to defend it.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
I mean, not only that, but they was doing like spinning wheel kicks to the head with just hitting you with the heel.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
You wear shin pads for a reason to protect, but then you're doing a spinning kick where there's no protection.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
Jesus Christ. But when he was in his prime, it was like BJ and then everybody else. Yes, for sure.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
Who was the guy that left them wires there? Hopefully they fired that guy because he ruined history. There's always going to be wires.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
Yeah, man, full disclosure, like at the end of my career when I was fighting at 45, I was like, I'll fight anybody but Aldo.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
And that's the thing. A fighter's window is only open for so long.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
Do what you can when your window is open.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
I think it's shorter than nine. I think it's about five years where you're just like, in it. Like, you in it. Let's get it right now. Yeah.
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
And then afterwards, it's like, man, it's not...
The Joe Rogan Experience
JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
Talk about being tough enough to take a beating.