Joe's Crazy Weekend, Seeing Canelo vs. GGG with Dave Chappelle, Gordon Ryan's ADCC Win, UFC Vegas 60

We had a fun few weeks. Yeah, like the craziest. Been pretty crazy. Yeah. This past weekend was bananas though. So we do this show in Columbus, Ohio. Dave Chappelle comes, surprises the audience, goes on stage, and it's probably the greatest round of applause I've ever seen anyone get in my life. Not probably, definitely. 100%. Ohio's own Dave Chappelle in the main arena of the main city of Ohio. In the shots. Oh, we can play it on the big screen. Play it. This is nuts. The whole thing is so spontaneous. Now listen how long this goes. This is a standing ovation. The standing ovation literally goes on for a minute. How wild is that? That was amazing. That was amazing. It's so cool. And it's like, it almost in a weird way makes me happy that the lockdowns and all that happen because it made something like that that much crazier. It's like, I feel like people really appreciate live, spontaneous insanity now more than ever. Yes, for sure. They did, well, it was just an awesome moment. You know, it was just a great moment. He just decides to roll in, come up, and then we all went to Vegas. So then we all went to see the Canelo Alvarez fight. You and I also saw Abu Dhabi. So we saw Gordon Ryan dominate at Abu Dhabi. And then we went to see two of the craziest fucking UFC fights I've ever seen. Gregory Rodriguez and Chidi Njekwani, which was a crazy fight that went back and forth until Rodriguez caught him. And Rodriguez had the worst cut I've ever seen in my life. And then Song Yedong, the guy who fights after him against Corey Sandhagen, also has a horrific cut. And there was a massive cut in the fight just before that with Feely. And he had blood all over him just from having choking out the other guy that was on top of him bleeding. There was blood the whole time. Yeah, it was a wild three fights. That's right. We saw that fight too. We saw the last round of that fight live. That cut that Rodriguez had was absolutely insane. The thing about that experience, though, I think we did it in the wrong order. I think it should like Abu Dhabi was amazing. Abu Dhabi, you can kind of put anywhere, but you kind of have to put boxing before MMA or ruins boxing for you. Totally. It just doesn't feel the same. Right. It's just it's it's great. Don't get me wrong. I'm a boxing fan. I was super happy to be there. It was a wild fight, but it's just not not the same. Yeah, it's like getting a hand job after a gang bang. I didn't really need that. Sort of had that earlier, but better. USC is just so advanced. The other thing that boxing does is they play the national anthems. They played three national anthems. It's like, good lord. So they play the Kazakhstan national anthem. And then the dude says, you know, go triple G. And everybody's like, fuck you. This is the Mexican Independence weekend. And then then they play the Mexican national anthem. Everybody goes crazy and they sing along, which is pretty dope because like when you're a place that's that big and it's all like, I mean, it had to be at least half Mexicans. Oh, that's yeah. At least 70 percent. Yeah, whatever the number was. So when the songs were playing like when Canelo has his walkout song, which is also in Spanish, or when they're singing the Mexican Independence Day song, they're singing this song, the Mexican national anthem, rather, they're singing this song in Spanish altogether. So there's thousands of people singing along. Yeah. Before the fight started, I saw in this stand, there was like 30 or 40 seats that were blocked off that were just completely empty in this sea of humans. And I'm like, the performer in me is like, well, why would they lose that many seats? Why would they possibly wear those people? What bus didn't make it here? I thought the exact same thing. You saw it? I thought they maybe could get burned by the fireworks. Right. That was my first thought. Yeah. And then it's Canelo's entrance and the lights go off, pop back on, there's a whole mariachi band. A full band playing for Canelo as he comes out. I legitimately thought that that was probably where the fireworks were and people could get fucked up by those fireworks. Yeah. Because, you know, people have been fucked up by fireworks in fight entrances before. Pretty bad. To the point where they got burns all over their body and they couldn't fight. I know that happened in Pride. In Pride, the dude got really cooked. He was a Brazilian guy. I don't remember his name, but he was an early, early pioneer of MMA and he was fighting in Pride and he got torched by the fireworks. You got it here? It was just from a fight you just saw. Oh yeah, this is the one from the fight we just saw. This is the, that's the mariachi band. See I thought those seats behind them were like people could get hit with those fireworks. Maybe. Because you see how they blew them off? They blew off a lot of, all that shit. I was like, you can't sit under that. Yeah, it would have been an obstructed view from that screen. It's not like that wasn't a sold out fight. That was a sold out fight. So Chappelle and I were in the third row, which was amazing. We were like right there. Then this guy comes over and says, you guys have to move. These tickets are not yours. Dave goes, I'm Dave Chappelle. I'm not moving anywhere. Literally says it like that. He's wearing sunglasses. He's the coolest guy that's ever lived. And so the guy comes back and said, these seats are actually for Travis Scott, but we want to put you on the ringside. And Dave and I look at each other and we're like, okay. And so they take us from the third row to the no row. Like it's not even a row. You're fucking right there, dude. We're sitting like where the officials sit. It was incredible. They were right there. It was really good. We saw the last like I think six rounds like that, something like that. But it was a good fight. It was a really good fight. I mean, Canelo Alvarez is a bad motherfucker. You know, and Triple G tried to turn it on at the end. He just didn't have enough to take the decision. But it was still a good fight. And you've got to realize that Triple G is 40 years old too. That's so old for a world class boxer. There's only a few guys who'd be able to pull that off. Bernard Hopkins and Archie Moore back in the day was an older guy who was really good. Dwight Muhammad Cauley, he fought well into his 40s. It's just like some of these guys, they just one day the wheels fall off. You know, it might be your 36, maybe your 37, 38, just one day the wheels fall off. Like ADCC, everyone was so young, like a baby shark. Well, how about Ruatolo? 19 years old and wins ADCC. Youngest guy ever. That kid is wild. He and his brother are so good. Those guys are so good and they're 19. It's incredible. There were some times where it looked like he was in trouble. I mean, and to... Yeah, these guys just, they make it look so easy. It looks like they're just rolling around like it's an accident. That's Gordon. Gordon makes it look easy. Those guys are moving like ninjas. They have a totally different kind of style. Gordon is just like, he just puts poison on people. He just grabs and puts poison on them. They're fucked. They're mentally compromised, it seems like. Like they are all buying into the hype of him. No. No, no. They just realize he's that good. So they're scared. But every... When I say scared, I don't mean terrified. What I mean is like they feel the moment, right? Every one of those world class fighters that goes up against another world class fighter at that moment when the match is about to start and everything's on the line, they have no idea who's going to win. They all have like a wild feeling of anticipation. But with Gordon, they have it worse because no one's beating him. He's just running through everybody and he's talking shit. And he's like a giant good looking guy. He's a giant good looking guy who talks shit. Look at him. I mean, look at that guy. I mean, if that wasn't a real person, if you said to me, is that CGI or is that a real person? I'd say that's CGI, man. Nobody looks that good. Unless he's a bodybuilder. Why would he look that good? And he's cool and funny. He's the best. He said that he called his mom before the tournament and told her that he won. But the thing is, it's like there's no one like him. He's 27 years old and he's widely accepted as the greatest of all time already. He hasn't been beaten in his last 50 something matches and he gets so bored with it that he literally writes down on a piece of paper how he's going to strangle them. I'm going to get a person like this. I'm going to get this kind of triangle. I'm going to get this guy in a mounted triangle. I'm going to just I'm going to do whatever I want. Yeah. He told me before that fight, he's like, I'm going to give him a single leg and let him take me down. Yeah. That was the Nicky Rodriguez fight. Yeah. And he did. Yeah. Well, they were really good training partners. Nicky Rod is a beast too. That whole thing was wild, man, to watch how good the level of jujitsu is now. It's so exciting. It's so exciting because these guys are the top of the food chain guys and then they're strangling each other. So it's not just that like a top of the food chain jujitsu guy can go against a regular person and use it. They're using it on each other. The best of the best guys are using it on each other and they're tapping each other. You know, and Gordon Bryan got Galvao's back and tapped him. It's like, oh, that's a crazy moment, man. That is a fucking passing of the torch if you're ever going to see one. I mean, even when he did it, he didn't even have a fully locked in rear naked choke. He just had the forearm across and he was I'm sure he had tremendous leverage, but it's not as strong as he could have gotten. If he got the full, you know, grab ahold of the biceps and strangle. If you watch it again, watch how he taps him with it. Like this, that's I'm sure strong. Look, see how he's got his arm on his forearm. That's for sure ridiculous and sucks. A thousand dicks. But it's not as hard as he could do it. If Gordon went all the way over and he, but what he's doing here is also he's trapping the right arm so he can't really defend himself. And he's got the other arm trapped in his legs. It's really brilliant. If you look at it, it looks like his right hand is like loose, too. It doesn't even look like he's pulling and look at that sliding down. Yeah. Well, you see what he's doing? What he did was he traps his left arm with his left leg and then he traps his right arm with his left arm. So he's one arm strangling him with the guillotine and gov out literally can't defend. So what I'm saying is I'm not saying it's like it's not an awesome way to tap somebody. It certainly is. But that's not the hardest he could do it. The fact that he can tap world champions with a technique that is utilizing a small percentage of the power that he would get if he fully locked and clamped down on the head or if he got a gable grip. I mean, it's wild. It's a one arm rear naked strangle is what it is. It's crazy to do that at a world champion. To do that at a world champion. Who can take a lot of pain. Yeah, dude, he's he's such a bad motherfucker. Gordon is a fucking man. It's crazy to see anybody that good at anything. At anything. At anything. It's like watching a ball roll downhill. It's like he's eventually going to get him. Yeah. Well, that's that's what they always said about Hickson in his prime, too. It was a really similar kind of feeling that everybody had. Like you just couldn't keep up the rhythm. Eventually he's going to get you. Like everybody who rolled with Hickson had the same statement. They would all say the same thing. They would be like, he's the best. He's the best. And that's what that's what they say about Gordon. It's like there's these guys in sports for whatever reason, man, they have this fucking extra gear and they could put in more focus and more dedication and more energy and more intelligence and they could formulate better strategies and they're more effective with their time management and they don't fuck themselves up in their personal lives so that their lives filled with chaos and they have all these distractions. If they can, it's really rare that you find someone that can do what that guy's doing.