The Joe Roggan Experience

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Powerful James Thompson, welcome aboard sir.

Thank you very much for coming on man.

I was very excited to talk to you. I know it's going to be fun because you're a character that I've enjoyed for many many years in the world of mixed martial arts. I remember the first fight that you had with Alexander a million

acre and pride when you came. I don't remember it. That's a problem. Then that's well

went long. You went bananas man. You took it to 100 miles an hour from the moment the bell

rang and you just redlined that bitch and you know it didn't I mean it was a

crazy fight but you'd only when that fight

happened you'd only been doing martial arts training for a short amount of time

right doing it for a year and a I know I I worked out I was I didn't do not anything before apart from before

before my first fight I hadn't done anything apart from I don't know six months

wrestling good wrestling and then I saw him and

I made put myself in for a contest six weeks later and I thought to myself

We're doing I wasn't it wasn't like a camp it was a class three times a week and I did other things so different cardio different this different that so that's what I did I made it put it all together did my

class over mama and then uh after like three four weeks I thought I'm ready for a fight

not because I'm I'm ready for a fight. Not because I'm arrogant or...

You wanted to test yourself?

Well, I just thought I didn't realize how much there was to it.

I didn't get how deep it it was. So looking at it from the outside. Well I'm doing a little bit. Yeah. Well you're a

huge guy. So your whole life you've been a huge guy I'm sure so you probably not used to being around you

were small when you're smaller that makes sense but you know like so your your

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