The Joe Rogan Experience - #845 - TJ Dillashaw, Duane Ludwig & Bas Rutten

TJ Dillashaw is a mixed martial arts fighter and former Bantamweight champion currently fighting in the UFC. Duane Ludwig is a former mixed martial arts fighter and is now a coach. Bas Rutten is a retired MMA fighter and former UFC Heavyweight Champion. He currently is the co-host of Inside MMA, and hosts a podcast with Mauro Ranallo called "Rutten & Ranallo." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Duration: 2h 31m
Broadcast on: 11 Sep 2016
Audio Format: other

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- Yes, slow down, twain. - Slow down. You have an orange watch. You are a fucking, what is the orange thing? - I've always been attracted to orange. I grew up in Colorado, so the Broncos, orange has always been around me. So, my favorite ninja turtle at the time was Michelangelo with the orange, and then really no other fighters or gyms were using orange, so I wanted to make sure I did my own thing. - That is your own thing, yes sir. - Orange is, I mean, it's like-- - I absolutely love orange, but I see some orange at a store, a crowd of people, I see with orange shirt, and I just go, ooh, right there. - So, if there's a fruit bowl and there's an orange right next to a banana. - Yeah, an orange. (laughing) - Ground the orange. - DJ, what is it like being around this guy? - Oh, it's intense, man. I love it. You know, life's full of energy. You know, you can't be calm around him 'cause he's got enough energy for both of us, you know? - Yeah, no, he's a mad man. We worked out today, and he's in the middle of training. He just gets excited, it's gonna hit us fast together. (laughing) - I love it. - I don't ever have to do road work because of this guy. You know, I mean, we hit mitts for so long and so hard that I'm in too good a shape already, you know? - That's interesting. Like, while the footwork drill's and everything, I never really thought of that. Like, you probably don't have to do road work. - It'd be too much. I'd do too much training as it is. If I'd started doing road work, I'd think I'd over train myself. - That's fascinating, right? You have to kind of regulate that, huh? Like, there's a standard model that like a lot of fighters fall, and road work is a big part of that. But you think with all the stuff that you do if you did that as well, it might be too much? - It'd be too many hours put into the day. I'm just too tired by the time I get home, or I'd have to, I mean, I could do it on the out of camp,

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