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The Joe Rogan Experience

#826 - Justin Wren

The Joe Rogan Experience

Joe Rogan

Comedy

4.6228.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2016

⏱️ 146 minutes

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Justin Wren is an American MMA fighter. Justin is currently fighting in Bellator to help raise more awareness for helping the Pygmy people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Two one and we're live

0:03.7

and we're live Justin Wren how are you sir? I'm great. What's going on brother? Man. I'm excited to be back here. You out there kicking ass digging wells? All the above? Trying. Yeah. How many fights have you had now back in Bellator?

0:15.0

Only two, but I haven't been back since the first or second one, so this is...

0:21.0

What are you? Yeah yeah you were here before your first one right which was like you had a long break

0:28.7

Yeah, it's five years in two months And I hadn't even really trained any.

0:35.1

At that point, like I was,

0:37.3

I was just doing the wells and going to Congo

0:39.9

and then got back into fighting

0:41.6

and only had a little bit of time to train but it was okay.

0:45.1

How much time did you have before you first fight? I think actually whenever I was here

0:49.9

with you I I fibbed a little where I said it was a little longer because I didn't know if my opponent was going to watch or whatever, but my fight camp got cut in half.

1:01.0

I was traveling, traveling, traveling, the book was getting ready to come out and other stuff and

1:05.2

trying to write the book and prepare and trying to figure all that out where we were just talking before we got on

1:10.4

about just life stuff and scheduling it and everything and I had the book and then

1:14.3

Congo and then telling people about it and then also training for a fight and I didn't know how to

1:19.3

balance those real well but I planned 12 weeks all of a sudden Congo corruption took me to Congo for for three weeks at the beginning

1:26.0

So it cut it down to nine weeks and then whenever I got back or while I was there I found out they were moving the fight up on me three weeks

1:31.7

And so it cut my camp down to about six

1:34.2

seven weeks. So six seven weeks after being off for more than five years.

1:38.8

Yeah and I had trained a few times before that. I mean like within the few months before but I think it was probably

1:48.8

tops two months, nine weeks. Well Puss weren't you just like just getting over malaria?

1:55.0

Yeah, and I was, uh, that's, that's the tough stuff.

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