JRE MMA Show #172 with Gable Steveson

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🗓️ 1 January 2026

⏱️ 136 minutes

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Joe sits down with Gable Steveson, a mixed martial artist, wrestler, boxer, and Olympic gold medalist. www.gablesteveson.com Perplexity: Download the app or ask Perplexity anything at https://pplx.ai/rogan. Get a free welcome kit with your first subscription of AG1 at https://drinkag1.com/joerogan Athletic Brewing Co. Non-alcoholic Beer. Fit For All Times. Athletic Brewing Company LLC. Milford, CT and San Diego, CA. Near Beer <0.5% alc/vol. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Joe Rogan podcast, check it out.
0:04.0	The Joe Rogan Experience.
0:06.1	Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day.
0:12.2	All right.
0:13.2	What's happening?
0:13.9	Pleasure to meet you, man.
0:14.8	How are you?
0:15.8	Great.
0:16.3	I'm great.
0:17.1	When you got a name like Gable and you're named after dan gable and you go on to win an
0:21.7	Olympic gold medal in wrestling that is kind of it's crazy it's kind of prophetic um my mom when I was
0:27.4	young she was trying to find names for me and she liked kale sanderson because care was a guy at the time
0:31.8	but she was at a tournament iowa with my older brother and she kept hearing gable gable gable and
0:37.1	it was Dan gable at the time and you know
0:39.3	dan gable was a huge figure in the Midwest for wrestling and so she was like why don't i name you gable dan
0:43.6	and the rest was history which is really crazy because it his whole timeline is my timeline which is
0:49.3	fantastic except the mma part that too yeah which i wish you would have done i think he would have been. I think he would have been amazing. I think he would have been amazing. But it wasn't around. I mean, when he was wrestling. Baranucko, maybe. I don't know, do it on a street or something. He could have found a way. It's kind of fucked that there's no real professional outlet for actual wrestling. It is fucked. and wrestling needs a real way to go out there
1:14.9	and be something big. And I think they have a really good one now with R-A-F. If you haven't heard
1:19.7	about it. Yes, I have. It's American freestyle. They're trying and I think they're trying really
1:23.5	well. And I think it's going to come to a point where how do you make matchups continue because you know wrestling gets to the point where in fighting and in a lot of the sports you can get to the point where you know maybe you draft a guy and fighting there's a next big thing there's the next guy out there that you can kind of create and with wrestling they're trying to create an atmosphere of how can you create that person and And I like it. And I think it might work.
1:48.3	And hopefully it keeps going the way it needs to go. It would be interesting if it, the problem is MMA is so huge now. And people kind of associate wrestling with either MMA or pro wrestling now.
1:55.5	Like those are the two things that they think of. And it's one, I think it's one of those things
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