Joe Rogan Watches Slap Fighting and Chess Boxing

ever going to catch him, that's not going to happen. It's just a total different world. And a lot of that is his deep knowledge and understanding something. And you being a smart guy, I think you'd get into it, especially because you love pro wrestling. So it's like, there's like, you have a, at least you have a mindset for watching guys do things to each other and manipulate each other, which is half of what's exciting about pro wrestling, right? Some guy pulling off some crazy move, even if it's orchestrated, it's still a crazy thing that these guys are pulling off on each other. Yeah. I mean, I like that more because then I'm like, Oh, they're friends and they worked us out together. My problem is that I know they're getting hurt and then not even really fighting. Right? I mean, they're, it's, they're hitting each other for sure. They're doing things to each other and slamming each other. It's all real, but those guys get banged up and they do it way more. So if you're watching a guy who's fighting in the UFC, they have practices that they can control. So if they know that they have a hurt, you know, back or hurt foot, you know, they'll put shitting instab pads on, they won't, they won't kick, they'll do things where they work around whatever injury they have with their, when they're in the camp, you can't do that when dudes are throwing you some, you've got a bad back and some guys fucking picking you up. Bang. Well, they will, you know, they will adjust what moves they will do. But I do really like your point about, um, these, they can take some time off. Yeah, they can definitely adjust. I'm sure. Yeah. They can definitely make an agreement with each other. Hey, don't slam in my back as fucked. But those guys get beat the fuck up talking to a Dallas page and Jake, the snake two guys that have had on the podcast, which were amazing. And especially Jake story is fucking crazy, man. Yeah. When he tells you his story and what a nice guy, big, giant, nice man, like just genuinely friendly and, and happy that everything's going well for him now. Crazy. But that's a rough business is my point. Like I'm way rather like real grappling. Like I feel like real grappling for like, if I was going to tell a person like what would be safer for your body, I think pro wrestling is harder. I think it's harder on you. I could see that. Dude, they get slammed. You watch some of that stuff. Let knowing what you know now about brain damage and knowing what you know now about a, that it's not even concussions necessarily as much as it's sub concussive trauma that doesn't knock you unconscious, but just rattles your fucking head and the repeated impacts of those. Those guys are getting that all the time. Yeah. All the time. Yeah. No, I go back and sometimes I watch some older wrestling and it really makes me cringe because we got a lot of guys taking all these chair shots straight to the face. Straight to the face. Yeah. So Ken Shamrock take this one to the head that sounded like a gunshot. It was crazy. Yeah. Dude, what is it about people getting smacked in the head? Um, Tom Segura has been sending me these Russian slap championships. Have you seen this shit? Oh my God. These guys stand in front of each other and smack each other in the face, full clip. But some of them are doing a terrible job. They're hitting with their fingers. Yeah, they're getting my finger. They're getting fingers. And then there's other guys that are basically doing like a ridge hand strike to your neck. They're clipping guys on the chin like this and they follow through and it looks like a slap, but this is not a slap. This, this is like a karate chop. They're, they're like going like that to the head. And then it turned, I mean, it's way harder. And then some guys are, are doing like a boss root and palm strike. They're hitting like this. They're doing like a right hook to the head like that. It's brutal. Guys are getting knocked unconscious. I like to see it, but just with like older black moms. They used to be the dumbest thing ever. It was called like X arm and they would tape these guys arms together and let them have an MMA fight. What? It was an MMA fight slash arm wrestling competition and they were taped together. It sounds so stupid. You can't imagine that not only was it real, but that the guy who created it was one of the original creators of the UFC. Like it's such a crazy idea. They just went for it, man. Look, they taped these people together. Their arms are taped together. They can't even move away. And then when they say go, they start fighting. Come on. And they get an arm bars. This guy fucks this guy's arm up. Dude, he broke his arm on the table. A hundred percent. If that guy keeps pulling on that thing, he gets his arm snapped. Yeah. No. I don't know if he actually broke it right there, but if the way the leverage of that table, look at that guy's getting kicked in the fucking head while he's tied to that guy's arm. It's crazy. Pin his arm. Pin his arm or KO him to win. What? What? What? Didn't work. I mean, it didn't last. No, I can see why. This is how crazy people can get. I love it. Dude. But that's real. And this is the other one. Chest boxing. This is a legit one too. I think they box first and then they play chess, right? I think it goes back and forth. Oh, they keep going back and forth. That's a good move. But seriously, if you get KO'd, what if you get KO'd? Do you win? Yeah. If you win a chance, either one. Yeah. Like if you win a chance, but you get flatlined in 30 seconds. That's also be really fun. If there's people who are horrible at fighting, but really good at chess. Yeah. And they would just lay down. Yeah. Like you win. You win this part. I'm just here for the chess. I know you guys suck at chess. Why do they have headphones on? Focus. You think so? Yeah. Really? While they're playing chess? I would like to drown out the crowd. Yeah. Oh, cause people probably say, night to room two. It looks like the fight.