The Joe Rogan Experience - JRE MMA Show #150 with Daniel Cormier

Joe sits down with Daniel Cormier, a two-division UFC world champion, Hall Of Fame fighter, and combat sports commentator. https://www.youtube.com/@DC_MMA Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Duration: 2h 37m
Broadcast on: 06 Dec 2023
Audio Format: other

Joe sits down with Daniel Cormier, a two-division UFC world champion, Hall Of Fame fighter, and combat sports commentator. https://www.youtube.com/@DC_MMA

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

[MUSIC] I got a friend named Zack Esposito, and he used to do that. We would get that with practice, and every technique had to be perfect. Even getting undressed and then backdressed was, this dude would sometimes get undressed three times. >> What? >> He would get dressed, maybe he puts up more than the wrong order. I don't know what he would do, but then he would take it off, he would do it again, he would take it off. And then he, if he was drilling, every move, it's like, I don't know what that disease is called. >> Obsessive compulsive disorder. >> That, right, it was with everything though, and it became an NCAA champion. >> Doesn't that make sense, though, that like those kind of things, if you could channel them into something positive? Like if you're a maniac, and you could, like say if you're like a compulsive gamble, you can't stop gambling. >> He's got to get out there and play his bets, he's got to play his guys like that. If they could channel that same energy into something else, like you should imagine. >> Could you imagine like an athlete that's like that? >> Yeah. >> Michael Jordan, for as compulsive of a gambler as he is, that was his approach to basketball. So nobody could be greater. >> Yeah. >> Same thing. >> Same thing, exact same thing, just one of them is dangerous. >> One of them will fuck up your life, and one of them will make you the goat. >> Will make you the goat, but the other side of it is, it don't turn off, and that's the fucked up part. >> That's the fucked up part, it doesn't turn off. >> Having that as a thing, and then the competitiveness, never turns off, it drives you crazy. >> Well, that's why Tyson didn't work out for years. >> Yep. >> You know, Mike did my podcast twice, and the first time he did it, Mike was like heavier, he'd smoke a weed all the time, he's so chill. It's like, wow, it's like, Mike Tyson's like such a sweet guy, and then Mike Tyson signed up for the Roy Jones fight, and next time he came in, he was 225. >> Yeah, yeah, yeah. >> Four arms were jacked, and he was intense, and I'd made a decision to make the table wider on my podcast to you, because I was so nervous being that close to you. >> Really? >> Yeah. >> I was like, I gotta have a little, just to separate, from really intense people so I could collect my thoughts. >> Yeah, he tapped back into that thing, right, he had suppressed it. >> When you saw him, he was friendly, and he was nice, he was smoking. >> But he was still friendly, he was still cool as fuck, but this was the real Mike Tyson. >> But that was the guy, because he tapped back into that monster. >> He found it. >> Because you know, you gotta have the monster. >> I have to. >> In order to be a world champion in any type of combat sport, you have to have that monster. >> Yeah. >> A legit monster inside of you that doesn't really live in the real world, because in the real world he doesn't work. >> Right. >> In the real world, if you can't put that monster away at times, you don't work in life. >> You're in trouble all the time. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> But that same monster, if you can control that mother fucker, then you're Mike Tyson.

Transcription truncated.