Joe Rogan | KO's Don't End Lethwei Fights! w/David Leduc

Yeah, but the biggest name was the Burmese guys. You know, there are like 55 million people. For people at home, there's 55 million people in Myanmar, and their national sport is Litway. And it's like a religion there. That is crazy. It's crazy. It's crazy that it's so popular there, and most people, unless you're a hardcore martial arts fan, you don't even know about it. Yeah. There's a lot of UFC fans probably listening to this podcast just hearing about Litway for the first time. Yeah. It's okay because I had, again, Jim Zaid hosted a seminar with me, and he said he's a martial artist for 40 years and never heard about Litway. Wow. So it's okay. We're in that transition now. Yeah. But then in 20, 30 years, they're going to ask, hey, do you know about Litway? Yeah, I heard the podcast. Well, it's also YouTube, I think. A lot of the videos of your fights and some other fights on YouTube, people go, whoa, they see the head butts and the body slams and the suplexes and shit. Yeah. It just shows, like, wow, this is wild. This is a wild sport. It's pretty exciting. How long are the rounds? I don't know. Is it normal length? Three minutes? Five rounds of three minutes, yeah. Okay. Yeah, exactly. So it's very similar to Muay Thai. Yes. But then the crazy part, which my fights I fought in traditional Litway rules, is that you have an injury timeout. An injury timeout? So meaning that, let's say you knock me out, Joe, and then they pull me out in my corner, they slap my face, they bite my ear, they pull my head. Bite your ear? Whatever. They want to make me up. Bite your ear? But that helps you wake you up. Really? I don't know. It hurts now. But you've seen people do that? They pull their hair, yeah. You've seen them bite each other's ears? Yeah, they go, they just, like, they mumble. They chew on the ear a little bit? Really? It hurts, no? Well, I'm sure it hurts, but I mean, what about ice? It seems like that would be a better way to wake you up. They do everything. Because, let's say you have two minutes to get revived. Okay, so you get KO'd. Yeah. And the fight's not over? Two minutes to get revived. Why isn't the fight over? I don't know. That's in traditional, back 2,000 years ago, they want to give another chance. What? But the WLC, thankfully. Oh my God. That is so crazy. Yeah. WLC's eliminating that? The one with that, and I'm good with that. If you want guys to have a career out of La Trois, right? Yeah. It's better for the brain. Oh, yeah, a lot better. Yeah. Because I've seen, I think only seen one time, actually, it was Thun Thunman with, I think, Cyrus Wood, actually, you get, the only guy, you know, you get knocked out, he went back to his corner, got revived, and won the fight. What? Yeah, he won the- Did he win by decision? No, there's no decisions. The style- Cyrus Washington's corner through in the town. Wow. That is so ridiculous. That's really rare. So most of the time, when you use your timeout, your outlet, you're going to just get knocked out twice. Yeah, I would imagine. I mean, you just had a serious head. Oh, is that it right there? Yeah. Show it to me in the beginning. Show it to me in the beginning. Nice elbow. You got like boom, elbow here. Oh my God. He's out fucking cold. Yeah, I looked, he dragged him out, and he actually finished and won the fight. That is insane. So they drag him. That is fucking insane. That is fucking insane. They're saying that they- oh my God. They're going to bite ears soon. No, they're not going to bite his ears. Don't tell me they're going to bite his fucking ears. They drag him. He's out cold. And this is one of the strongest, like he was- This is Tuzu Min? Yeah. So they sit him down. He's literally unconscious. And he wakes up now, boom. And he's starting to wake up when they got water on his head. That's hard though. That's freaking hard. Like, can you think about- What, Jamie? They just bit his ear. They just bit his ear? It was. Rewind. Who's biting his ear? They're pouring water on him. He's going to do it right there, huh? Anyway, anyway, just like, yeah, that's the- Oh, he tried to bite his ear. He really did. That's the- Oh, Jesus Christ. That's the room's- So they just pour water on him and they give him a chance to wake up. Hey, wake up, bro. And he's eating. That is so crazy. What kind of bite? They're right there. Oh my God, they're biting his ears. He's kissing him too. He's making out with him. He's like, bro, I'm going to fuck you if you don't wake up. The crowd goes crazy because they want him to keep going. Yeah, it's really about grit and about heart and he goes back. Look after, like, 30 seconds, he ends up winning. Are they gambling here as well? I'm not aware of it, I think, a little bit. Really? It's not, but it's not like Thailand. I know there's no alcohol service. No alcohol. It's about Latoya. But it's not like Thailand. Yeah. Okay, so here's Cyrus Washington. They put his mouthpiece in and he's aware of the rules, right? So he knows he knocked him out. Yeah, but then it's a long time after that, so- How much time? It's a long time. Like how long? At the end of the fifth round. But how much time did they give him? A break. Oh, it's a minute or two a break in between rounds. No, but I mean, while he got knocked out, it was two and five of them. It was a two and a break. Just two minutes? Yeah. Oh, look at this. He's already back to it, you know? It was like a cold. That's crazy. So- Boy, this is so bad for your brain. I fought both of them. I fought Cyrus and I fought Tun Tun Minh three times. So basically, oh, look, yeah, it's the end. So Cyrus just quit? Yeah, towel's there like it's over. Wow. It's over. So Tun Tun Minh won the fight. Wow. Yeah. That's crazy.