The Joe Rogan Experience - JRE MMA Show #186 with Sean Sharaf

Joe sits down with Sean Sharaf, a professional mixed martial artist competing in the UFC’s heavyweight division. Perplexity: Download the app or ask Perplexity anything at https://pplx.ai/rogan. This episode is brought to you by Uber Eats. Get almost almost anything. Order now. This video is sponsored by BetterHelp. Visit https://BetterHelp.com/JRE Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Duration: 2h 24m
Broadcast on: 01 Oct 2026
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Joe sits down with Sean Sharaf, a professional mixed martial artist competing in the UFC’s heavyweight division.

Perplexity: Download the app or ask Perplexity anything at https://pplx.ai/rogan.

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[MUSIC] >> What's going on, man? >> It's the Joe Rogan. >> How are you feeling? >> I feel incredible. >> It's been one hell of a week, it's been crazy. >> It has to be with the craziest week of your life, right? I mean, this is pretty up there, it's been some crazy weeks. >> So, talk me through this, when did you get the offer for the fight? How long now? >> So, they had mentioned possibly me fighting him on the White House. They asked me, that was the alley he had reached out to me. He's like, hey, they're talking about possibly getting you on the White House. They know you're a Marine and whatnot. They want Gable Stevenson, and I was like, fucking, I don't care. I've been watching Gable since he was coming up on the regional scenes. You were talking about him and everyone was all hyped about him. And so, I kind of already knew we were going to cross paths, but it wasn't until I was requesting to get on the LA card. I heard they were coming to LA and I kept saying, hey, I want to LA, I want to LA. And I just like, all right, you got to LA, you're fighting Gable. >> So, there was a conversation about the White House card. So, this is June, that's when it first came up. And so, how did it wind up taking place in September? >> Well, I just never heard back. They talked about it, they were like, would you take it? And I was like, sure, and I think maybe they were trying to get Jones on there too, possibly, I think that might have been what it was. >> I think Dana was hesitant to get John on there. >> Yeah, and so I think it was like, if I'm not going, and maybe Gable's like, I don't know what it was, but that was the first time I was approached like, hey, would you be open to fighting him on the White House? And I was like, of course. >> And so, how long out did they tell you about the LA card? >> About six weeks, but I had already been in camp because I was supposed to fight Tai Tui Vasa, and I had to pull out because my nose got broken in that camp. So I was basing in the camp for the Tai fight, and then I went straight into that, into the next camp as soon as I got cleared to start sparring and stuff. But I was still training the whole time. I was running, I went full fucking, I retained my seed. I was fucking- >> Did you really? >> Yeah, bro, I went full eight weeks, no jerk out, no sex, no nothing. I went full like Marine Mode. That's why you guys saw that mat on the ground in the studio, was because I was like, really fucking going to it. I ended up getting air mattress after I texted Strickland, cuz he's like, yeah. >> You were sleeping on a mat to tell people about that. >> Well, basically, because I have obviously all my finances are out there already. I didn't have anything in my name, so I've been bouncing around from fighter houses. This is Fighter House LV, they started out, and it's like 40 bucks a room you get.

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