#1591 - Jordan Burroughs

The Joe Rogan Experience

Joe Rogan

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4.6 • 228.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2021

⏱️ 183 minutes

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Wrestler Jordan Burroughs is an Olympic Gold medalist, four-time World Champion, six-time World Cup champion, three-time Pan American Games Gold medalist and four-time Pan American champion. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Joe Rogan
0:05.0	Rogan Experience
0:06.0	Train by day Joe Rogan
0:08.0	all day.
0:10.0	Jordan Poggas Jordan, pleasure to meet you man.
0:15.0	Yeah, good to meet you, bro, really,
0:17.0	really, really pleasure to meet you.
0:18.0	I'm a big fan.
0:19.0	I think what you're doing, first of all, I think it's amazing that no one's talked to you
0:22.0	into doing MMA is incredible I've been close how close mostly the lady outside my wife Lauren
0:27.7	is the one that's talking me out of it really yeah bro like when I graduated
0:32.3	from college in 2011, University of Nebraska,
0:35.2	wrestling was still on the brink of, if it was in its infancy of marketing and branding
0:41.2	and really making it a professional career.
0:43.1	So MMA was the new kid on the block and it was growing and expanding and we had a lot of
0:49.2	our guys transitioning in. Henry Sahudo, Ben Asgren, Daniel Cormier.
0:53.7	And so I really thought about it.
0:55.4	I was like, okay, I'm gonna wrestle in the Olympics in London 2012,
0:58.6	win the gold, and then I'm gonna make the transition in MMA.
1:01.2	I'll be 25 years old, have plenty of time and then I met
1:04.5	Lauren and she's like listen you're doing well in the sports stay here you're
1:08.3	comfortable it's just a different it's a different sport MMA in comparison to wrestling, but it's a good thing.
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