Joe Rogan - Yoel Romero Explains "Stoolgate"

In your UFC career, you had one very controversial fight with Tim Kennedy. That time where you sat on the stool for a long time, like an extra 30 seconds in between the rounds. What's your take on that? I think it's a good thing to be able to say something like, Tim Kennedy is a bingo. What do you think? I don't know. I'm a college student. I'm a college student. I'm a college student and I'm a college student. He has two colleagues in his life. Colleagues from the street and colleagues from the sport. Okay. The Volkienen kids enter the South. Both of them have to go hand in hand. Okay. What do you think? I don't think he has any of those. What does that mean? I don't think he has any of those. He was holding on to his fingers. He grabbed your glove. He grabbed inside your glove when he was punching you. No, no. Before that. Before that. When they were against the fence. He was holding his glove. So he was cheating. Yeah. But it's my fault. It's his fault because he didn't have to let him grab his fucking gloves. Right. He let him grab it. And then he grabbed his. Then he pulled the glove. He's holding on to my glove. He's holding on to my glove. So when you grabbed his glove, he told the referee. Yes. Yes. He's got him up against the wall. The fence. Let me remember. They know they're against the fence. Okay. He grabs his hand first. He breaks the grip. And he grabs his. And he told the referee. He leaves it. He lets it go right away. They kept fighting. And when they had the chance to get the suit, they were like 10 seconds. Like a... 15 seconds left to fight. And he grabbed his glove again. And he hit you. Yeah. There's a video of that. He's going to ask you a question. If he sticks his finger in your fucking eye, what is that? It's a foul. Foul. How many minutes do you need it for the youth recovery? It's a good question. Depending on how bad your eyes are hurt, it might be over. What do you say? Depend. Depend on what you do. But what do you do normally? Normal. How long would it be? It took a few minutes. One of the minutes. Alright. If he kicks you in the balls. It took a few minutes. Take a few minutes. Okay. Is it legal or illegal? Grabbing gloves. Is it legal or not legal? It's illegal. It's illegal. If he punches you with your gloves, with me holding onto your gloves. If I'm punching you and I'm holding onto your glove, is that legal or illegal? Illegal. Okay. How much time should I have taken off? So, what you're saying is, you sat down for extra time in between the rounds because he committed a foul right before that. No. No. No. No. No. He's asking you a question. If they would have stopped it but... If the judge would have seen that, that he would have seen him ripping off his gloves and he would have seen him punching him like that. How much time would he have taken? Well, he should take points away. This is what I think. I think anytime someone does a foul, he should take points away. Kicking the dick, kicking the balls, point away. Poke in the eye, point away. Because even if you don't mean to do it, even if you don't mean to do it, it still does damage and it's a foul. So, I think you should get a point taken away. But I think you get that point. He didn't say it from a point. The fight ended because the time ended. If not, he would have lost the fight. Right. Right. Because you were hurt. Yeah. He punched him eight times. Right. If he wouldn't have, if the time wouldn't have ended, he would have lost the fight. Right. So, the round was over. Yeah. You sat down in between rounds. What happened? When the time ended, stay right there and clean him. Mm-hmm. So, your coach bought you extra time. If you watch it, his trainer couldn't clean him, couldn't wipe him. Oh, the guy that was supposed to wipe him down was the cut man. But the cut man couldn't do it. So, then the other guy had a cut man. The cut man had left already. Just the only two that were in the ring were the two trainers. So, did they cover you with water to give you extra time? No. No. He's always done the water exclusively in his training. Mm-hmm. He likes the water for recovery. Right. But he tells people to wipe him down. Right. It's not for more time. It's for him to recover. Right. You have to throw the water on him. And with the towels on him and to wipe it down at the same time. Right, to cool him off. To cool him off. Right. So, at the end of the round, the round ends, you're sitting on the corner. The round's supposed to begin. Tim Kennedy's standing up, and he's like, what is going on here? He thinks maybe the fight's over, and you're still sitting down. He wanted. He wanted the fight to be over. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. For sure. Tim Kennedy didn't want to fight him. They made the three, you have seen many. First he said he had an injury he didn't want to fight. So, it took the UFC three months for him to fight you up. Right, but he could have had an injury. He could have had an injury, but that pulled out. It is possible. That's a tradition, you know? No, he's not saying it was. Because they gave him the fight three times, he didn't want. And he always, something always was a... Until he finally took the fight. No. I tell you. Fifteen years dealing with people. He knows how they're going to manifest. In the beginning, he was very nice. Very... The Wayans. He's standing in mind his business. He said that he was going to be a McGregor. The main car was a Pourier and McGregor. It was hot. Yeah. He said, hey yo. He said, hey yo. He said, please, please, don't do this. Can you see? Can you see it on the show? Who said that to you? Tim. Tim did. So, let's be professional. Yeah, yeah. Right. Hey, I did, hey. What's up? He said, please, don't do this. He said, what? No, this. I said, I don't do it. Because he didn't know what to do. He said, I don't want to do this. I don't respect him. Why would he come up to him and say that if the whole time he's been very respectful to Tim Kennedy? Right, I don't know. Because he want to talk. You know, like a friend. Right, right. Those are games that he used in sports. To try to be your friend. Yeah. When we were in the fight. If you watched the fight closely. The first round he wanted easy. He's in the second round, he's fight. He's willing to fight to the last ten sides. If that wouldn't happen with the grab glove, he would have won the second round also. Right, so him grabbing your glove is how he was able to hit you. Yeah. He didn't touch him in the whole fight. Just in those last ten seconds. But he hit him real fucking hard. Yeah. So when you were sitting there, what was going through your mind when you were sitting there and Tim Kennedy was telling you, you just stand up and you knew that the round was over. Or that the rest period was over. Relax, I'm going to get up as soon as they fucking wipe me down. Because I know that you're going to be like him. He's going to be like him. But you're going to be like him. That's what you're going to be like him. He, in reality, didn't think that Tim... Tim was going to be like that? That he wanted to stay sitting down. That he was thinking that he was going to be like him. And now he wants to come out to finish knocking me out. You know? Now I got him. I got him. I got him. I got him. Let me dry me off. And then we'll fucking fight. But you only get one minute rest. You were hurt at the end of the round. There's only one minute rest, but you took a minute and thirty seconds. That extra thirty seconds had to help. What do you say? I don't know. But I took a minute to get to the end of the round. I took a minute to get to the end of the round. Why not? You said, I don't know. Yeah, fuck yeah. But I'm not feeling good, bro. But it's not his fault. It's not your fault. If he would have been cleaned up. If McCarthy would have said go out and fight, go out and fight. Put the video on. Right. When he goes go, he sees that he's got a flight even in Vaseline. And he stopped the police. He told him to slow down. So you're saying that that was not a ploy in order to get you more rest? No, no, no, no, no, for sure.