Joe Rogan - Yoel Romero's 1st MMA Fight

And don't tell him that he wants to play at the wrestling, but he wants to play in the MMA. Even though he wrestled, he wanted the MMA. He was telling me last night that he would watch those videos. People would smuggle UFC fights into Cuba and it wasn't known. It wasn't going to happen for him in Cuba. It was never going to happen for him. So he wanted to get into MMA. and MMA, so when he went to Germany, he stayed. And there was an MMA fight, and they wouldn't let him fight amateur because he was in the Olympics. So they threw him right into the wolves. Like his first fight, he didn't even train. It's very funny because you can see my, the first fight when I have it, is man, do you see what I do? Like, is, when I fight the guy, that's what happened. Is it online, can we find the video? Yeah, yeah, yeah, you can. See if you can find the video. And it's in Germany? In Germany. Yeah. How long did you live in Germany for? Six years. Six years, wow. Yeah, yeah. I make it, like this. Look at this. But like this. Like down, you start it from the bottom. He didn't know what he was doing. Here it is. Is this it? No, no this. That is like a tournament. There's no idea. That seems like jujitsu. That's just one tournament. But yeah, that's just one tournament. Is that MMA or jujitsu? No, MMA. That's MMA? Oh, it's MMA like on a big basketball court. That's what I think all MMA should be on. All right, find that. So when you had your first fight, you had no training? Just your wrestling? Wrestling. But you knew how to box a little from being a kid. Yeah, you know. Right. I'm trying in Cuba because in Cuba it's normal as you have a global, the people say, okay, boxing. Right, right, right. Big, big, big, big industry, you know. Right, just fucking around. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Wow. So when you were in Cuba, were you thinking about the future, that there was only so many more years you can compete in wrestling, and then what else to do? Well, you're in Cuba to try to press sand on your foot. You had this huge wrestling career. You had the main goal of travel. You had the medals and all these international competitions. I had the whole world of the world. See, yes. You had sand on MMA. See, I think I'm in MMA. No MMA, UFC. Yeah, here it is. Is this it right here? Yeah, look at it. Wow, this is crazy. Look at throwing kicks, man. And this is no training. No, no, no, no, no. Look at this, look at that. Wild. You see? Oh man, those are wild uppercuts. But still, throwing shots to the body. Oh, they give a standing eight count? What are they doing here? Is that what that is? This guy's got head gear on. Interesting. And what year was this, Daniel Fuento? 2000. Is that it? That's it, you beat him? They called him seven, nine. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He said I don't want it to happen. No, we're good. Oh, they gonna let him back in there? He's very funny because the coaches, he don't know nothing about the boxing, nothing. The coach is some comigos, some of those. Oh, that's comedians? Comedians? The coaches, coaches with the medians. Oh, Jesus. Happy MMA fight. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's terrible. See, that was it. You punched him in the head a few times, and then he goes, that's good, we're good. He's very funny for me. Does it keep going? Yeah, it does. Oh, it goes again? Yeah. Okay, so he's trying here. Boom. See, you, you understand Spanish, the Cuban language. She can hear the people, you are already. Because there's Cubans there. Is there a Cuban population in Germany? Whoa! For the people who are not here, they're going to be there for the next few months. The big girl. Hey, darling. For the technical. The technical. Right, okay, so is there a big, are you not familiar with that? Why don't you get on the month? See, see, see. Yeah, there's a big, you know where else there's a lot of Cubans, that Joe? Italy. Yeah. They all went to, I met this Cuban there. He goes, I'm never coming back to the States. Italy's a lot better than this shit. He had good food. I was in New York. I was living in Italy, and he was, obviously he works at a restaurant, but he was a waiter. They kind of understood the language. He goes, it's a lot better than living here. I go, really? Really? He went back, and he couldn't get a job here.