Joe Rogan on Knockouts, Brain Trauma

Have the probably the most minor of brain damages probably the most minor because I stopped when I was 21 Yeah, what's your number? How many times I get hit? No, I mean like how many times do you think like you like? Oh that did damage Oh 100% There's a there's a bunch of them There's a bunch of them that I could think back about getting rocked and feeling my knees go Like getting punched and then keep sparring keep sparring spar two more rounds that guy spar three rounds with another guy He's hitting you in the face to like you didn't stop. It was really dumb You'd get hit and you get rocked and you didn't nobody like sat you down and go. Okay, let's take the day off Now you get right back in there, man Your fucking legs would go bang what your legs would do and you cover up and you'd you know People be throwing bombs on you and you'd next day sparring again Can you is there a way to detect it like get your brain scan? So you better ways now? There's better ways now, but I had a limited amount of it I mean I had the real getting wrapped in the head for me came when I tried to transition from tike one doe to kickboxing Doing tyke one dog. I definitely got hit in the head for sure But I didn't get hit in the head as much Because it's hard to kick people in the head you definitely get hit I mean, I don't know how many times I definitely got hit But I never got knocked out from a head kick, but I got knocked out from punches before at least TKO I got TKO'd but when when a punch hits your face It's like your your legs go everything like shuts off Like if you get rocked and you see like a person go down It's not that they go down like oh so much pain. I have to go down No, you get hit and everything shuts off It just goes but oh and then you feel your legs like rubber you're trying to stand back up Did you just watch the last UFC where Edson Barbosa head kick Kevin Lee? Yes You see that spinning wheel kicked him and you see Kevin Lee's legs just go blank They just gave out for a second and then he came back and Those Those ones I got way more when I was boxing I got way more of those like I was I was not good at boxing when I first got into boxing I was learned I was good at Taekwondo, but then I got into boxing. I was not good at it I didn't know what I was doing. I didn't understand the distance Taekwondo. You didn't punch in the face You only punched the body so you had a real distorted perception of how good you were with your hands And then once I started boxing I was like oh, this is terrible That's what I was taking like probably the most damage of my life Of a period of like two years of like a lot of sparring. I did a lot of sparring Everybody sparred everybody sparred with everybody people knock people out all the time This is stupid so stupid I See guys get knocked out. I mean out cold right hand to the chin boom eyes roll behind their head legs give out They bounce off the canvas. They put a cold towel on them. They put some ice on his head. He gets up He's like I'm good. I'm good. I'm good. You want to keep going. Yeah, let's keep going Let's keep going now. You were just unconscious You were just unconscious five minutes ago, and you want to keep sparring This is crazy, and they'd let him they'd let him keep sparring you did it from when you were like really young, right? Talk window from when I was why took karate classes when I was 14, but when I got super serious I was 15. I was like right at my before my sophomore year of high school, so like I got into it from the time I was in the 9th grade as I was 14 like that summer like right after my birthday Around is when I started getting in touch. I was probably either 14 or just turning 15 Like was there a point you could tell where people actually could be able to knock people out and give That damage because there may be but 14 year olds can knock you out The thing about kicks is almost anybody can knock you out It's really crazy like when you think of the amount of power that you have to have like in Your legs like say if you decide to put a heavy backpack on like one of those Outdoorsman's Atlas trainers and put 90 pounds on you could walk up flights of stairs, dude Just think how much power that is in your legs You could throw your body up flights of stairs for exercise Just to push push push your body is whatever you weigh 150 200 Whatever you weigh your body is just launching that through the air over and over and over again Even if you're a girl that weighs 135 pounds, you're still launching 135 pounds through the air and if that girl fucking shins you but playing Right on your temple like goes across the jaw temple area got black Your legs are gonna give out your brains gonna shut off if somebody hits you perfect There's a video of us. I think the guy was she I think it was I think it was mighty mo mighty mo who's this huge kickbox or I Believe he was Samoan and I mean just just like typical Samoan dude big giant fucking Powerhouse of a dude and he fought this little Thai guy this Thai guy was a hundred and seventy five pounds So much smaller than him I mean it was crazy to watch and Thai guys just move it away and move it away and move it away and then the Thai guy roundhouse kicks him in the head this guy like look at the difference in size Yeah, and watch this this dude just comes over the top I mean the difference between the two of them Mighty mo is a beast to seriously dangerous knockout puncher. He put a lot of guys to sleep So not as this guy in there with someone way bigger than him, but he's in there with a killer But boom look at that one head kick and mighty mo's down and out I mean back that up again because that is a crazy thing to watch you're talking about a guy who might have been a hundred pounds lighter than him and mighty mo's just a Vicious puncher bang you just clanged him right in the head. That's what I'm talking about a girl does that to you night night, son Yeah, I was thinking more like to ten year olds like no knock each other out That's a good point because the thought process is that if you teach kids Technique don't teach them to just go in there's wild fucking haymaker exchanges, but teach them how to do it correctly It's good to do it when they're young because they don't hurt each other because they have a little tiny on the back They don't hurt each other because they have little tiny arms They just kind of touch each other and they can't really generate knockout power They just sort of and if they learn how to do that from the beginning and then develop knockout power on the pads and on The bag then you develop much more technically proficient fighters rather than brawlers So the problem with fighting is like most people don't fight to the physical ability of their body like they they just they decide Like they're gonna knock this guy out I'm gonna try to hit him with this and they think in this real limited sort of linear Aggressive like almost obvious manner and then you got guys who see past that who take things to a new place you got guys who figure out that you can be like really elusive and confusing and Then you see those guys fight like limited Blocky like obvious fighters and like Anderson Sylvan is prime is a perfect example that Anderson was an artist I mean he would just he would you didn't know what he was gonna do. It's study you he'd be moving around He'd be standing in front of you. He'd be dancing He'd just be following you around and then all sudden he just say I got this motherfucker figured out But you just move in on your bank and you didn't know what was coming flying me You didn't know what was coming roundhouse kick front kick to the face. You didn't know what the fuck was coming, man It was a totally different kind of fighter so the difference between that and a guy was just like a powerhouse of a person and can knock guys out but never Never achieves this sort of mastery of space and distance they win fights through brawling and power and just kinetic brute force rather than Artistry and avoidance and countering like Conor McGregor when he knocked out Jose Aldo perfect example Aldo's like fuck you charge that I'm Connor slides back BOP drops a fucking left hand on the button pop pop and he's the champ champ I mean come on our champ then became the champ champ. But That that you know that thing is it's hard to figure out Sometimes guys just decide to rather bite down their mouthpiece and let the fucking chips fly It's not Yes, like the last 30 seconds. Yeah seconds and they just throw it out He could crazy because they know there's no more time left. Yeah, they just try to win try to try to stop it Yeah, some of those fights are awesome Look as a person watching those things are awesome There's two different parts the way I look at fights Like I love a good Diego Sanchez Gilbert Melendez fight where they just fucking go crazy for three rounds I love that those one of my favorite fights ever But I also love real technical fights where I see I see like two Artists trying to solve each other's riddle trying to figure each other out, you know like Luke Rockhold versus yo-oh Romero was that like yo-oh just trying to figure him out trying to figure him out Maybe I move like this then and then boom drops that left hand on him Same thing with him versus Chris Weidman He's just moving around hard to figure out what he's gonna do hard to figure out what's coming And then whoa flying knee to the chin or to the head He's uh, he's a great example of a guy who just figures out how to break your rhythm and figure it through Rather than just running at you because class class class You know Frank near was just talking about that fade or fight and he was saying that his ego got the best of them Did you see the fight? Mm-hmm. It's really a fight really crazy until fade or cade odom Can fade or cut him with the left hand and drop him and put him away but before fade or cade odom Frank mirrored hit fade or and It got interesting in the very beginning seconds of the fight But then fade or hit him with a perfectly timed hip throw just fucking boom I mean sent him flying through the air and slammed him to the ground and apparently Frank said from that moment on his ego got The best of me trying to get him back and he wound up just getting in this crazy brawl and getting knocked out. It's really Fighting to me. So it's so interesting, you know It's just so interesting when you see all the different things that people can do and how they're gonna match up together and how What one person is gonna be able to figure out how to get their their ideas through my ideas? I want to kick this motherfucker in the head. How can I do this? I got to figure out how to get and his ideas I want to take this guy down and punches fucking face in how do I figure out how to do this? And then the two of them are just like trying each other's strat and you don't really know you don't fucking know you don't know Until they get in there for the most part It's greatest shit ever