Joe Recaps Alexander Volkanovski vs. Brian Ortega

Like, did you see the UFC this weekend? I didn't and I won't. Oh my god. Brian Ortega and Alexander Volkonovski had one of the craziest title fights I've ever seen in my life. It was wild and I kind of wish I was there. I was out of town for that one. That was my hunting trip. So I had to cancel it, but god damn it was so good. It was so crazy. That was a fight you couldn't call because Ortega almost won twice with two insane submissions. Once with a... he got him on the bottom with a guillotine or mounted him rather with a guillotine and then he got him on the bottom with a triangle. It was insane and Ortega is known for his submissions. His submissions are some of the best in MMA. He's got like a torrent jujitsu guy, right? He's from the original Gracie Academy in Torrance. That's where I trained. Keep going. Orion ran the school and his sons... You know... Henner. Yeah, Henner and Huron and Brian Ortega came from there. It's like lineage. It's lineage like some of the purest jujitsu that you're gonna get. And when you say fundamentals, like Brian Ortega has perfect fundamentals. You know, Crone Gracie. Perfect fundamentals. They do everything to like this razor-sharp. When he dove on that guillotine choke, I was like, that is... I wish people could see how beautiful that is the way I see it. Yeah. Because I know how hard that is to do. The way he slipped it in and got mount on a world champion. Yeah. Full guillotine mount on a world champion and the guy got out! I mean, he's gurgling. It's as deep as it gets. And when you realize how good Brian Ortega is and what he's in right now, he's in a mount. But he's also got his legs crossed underneath, which is like the most ruthless mount. Because a regular mount, you're on top of a guy and the guy can kind of buck. Borataga's got his legs crossed. So that kind of guillotine with a guy like that is death! It's death! And that crazy motherfucker from Australia got out. Where 99.99% of the people who have ever lived would have tapped out. Yeah. That fucking savage is like, not today, bitch. I'd rather die. I did a deep-dip dig on Brian Ortega. So good dude. He's on Shab's Calabasas companion. Yes. And probably one of the most interesting human beings I've ever heard talk. He's an actor and he just doesn't come at it as an actor, which is how I come at it as. Like just a regular person who's got a- He's an actor? He was acting before he did fighting? Please correct me. No, you don't have to pull it up. No, no, no, no. Please. Let me know. Hold on. Brian Ortega was in a movie with Shia LaBeouf. They were both in the movie, but that was like the first or maybe he's done very few things. Was that when he was already fighting? When was that movie? Very recently with- Oh, yeah. And they were like, Shab was an extra, but Brian's in it. But they probably brought Brian in because- You know, he's already fought for the title before. He fought Max Holloway. Yeah. He knocked out Frankie Edgar. I mean, Brian Ortega has been a bad motherfucker for years. I heard you talk- Well, I got into deep dive about him. And I do a thing called Open Tabs where I keep all the tabs open in my Safari browser. And then I do a podcast about learning- telling you all the shit I learned over the weekend. And I had a big Brian Ortega one, but I took it out because sometimes with cage fighters, they don't- I- I- maybe what I say isn't what they hear, and I don't want to piss anything off. I know what you're saying. Like some dudes are super sensitive. Well, I'm sensitive. I'm sensitive as fuck. And Brian Ortega was in this movie with Shia LaBeouf, and he said- He said- He told this crazy story about Shia trying to fight him. And I was like- Oh my God, that's hilarious. And I was like- Is that real? Is that real? Yeah, yeah. I heard the story, so I mean it- That is hilarious. And so- and but Brian Ortega, the way he was telling the story was like- It was good, like- It was legit good storytelling. Like I'm- like- He can do jujitsu. I can tell a motherfucker's story. And the way he was telling the story- Was like the way you would do jujitsu? No, not at all. Actually, if I knew jujitsu, yes. He was telling it good. He was telling it good.