Joe Rogan on What Happened to Mickey Rourke

Like the Mickey Rourke movie? I don't know what that movie. You don't know the Year of the Dragon? Back with Mickey Rourke before he went crazy. Alright. It's fucking great. Young Mickey Rourke. Young Mickey Rourke and old... There's two different humans. Young Mickey Rourke and old Mickey Rourke. Young Mickey Rourke was like this super serious amazing actor. Did fantastic films. Like really good. Angelheart. Yeah, Angelheart. Um, what else? So what happened? So didn't he get like in a motorcycle accident and bonk his head? Is that what happened to him? He was pushing over the edge? There's a trailer of it. Yeah, there's a trailer of it. No, he became a boxer. He boxed as an amateur when he was young. And then when he was an actor, I think... If I had a guess, and I'm gonna just paraphrase and I apologize if I got it wrong, but I think he felt like Hollywood and acting, and I know he's been quoted on this, was so fake and so, with lack of a better term, feminine. It was so soft and bullshit that he felt like he had to do something real again. So he started boxing again as a world-famous movie star. I got punchy. He started sparring with James Toney. Oh. And a bunch of other guys, a bunch of legit boxers. And from what I heard, James Toney used to just touch him up every day. And of course you don't want to be that guy, you can't hang. So he's in there taking fucking jabs to the face, and right hands to the face, and left hooks to the face, and uppercuts to the face, and his face got deformed. And then he wound up getting like cheek implants and a bunch of weird shit. Right. He got a bunch of weird facial surgery and stuff. And he started losing his mind. But I think CTE played a factor there. I think just... I think there's a... To me, it's a logical correlation. It's like, here's a guy who's this world-famous, amazing movie star that was nine and a half weeks, and all these other big time movies. He means a fucking blockbuster movie star. And an interesting movie star. Like a really good actor. And then all of a sudden, he becomes this crazy guy. And in between them, he's getting punched in the face a bunch of times. Like it doesn't take a genius to make these connections. Right. I know a lot of guys that were pretty normal when they were young, and then somewhere into their MMA career, they lost it, and they went off the rails. There's a growing list of those guys. A growing list. Yeah. And some gals are on that list as well. Okay. Yeah. So it's... The gals are... There's... As they... As Ronda Rousey's opened up the door for women's MMA to become more popular, there's gonna be more and more women that are taking more punishment, including ones that you're never gonna see inside the UFC. Just... And the other thing is just training. If you just decide, I just... I don't wanna fight, but I wanna train. Well, that counts.