JRE MMA Show #181 with Justin Gaethje & Trevor Wittman

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Joe Rogan

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4.5 • 246K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2026

⏱️ 138 minutes

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Joe is joined by UFC Lightweight Champion Justin Gaethje & boxing and MMA trainer Trevor Wittman. https://www.youtube.com/@justin_gaethje https://onxsports.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 onX Offroad: Try onX Offroad for 50% off- go to https://onXmaps.com/joerogan Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Joe Rogan podcast checking out.
0:03.9	The Joe Rogan Experience.
0:06.1	Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day.
0:12.4	Gentlemen, first of all, thank you for being here.
0:14.7	I couldn't wait to talk to you.
0:16.5	Congratulations on one of the most epic accomplishments in the history of combat sports,
0:20.7	and that's not an understatement. I mean, it might be an understatement of combat sports and that's not an understatement
0:21.9	I mean it might be an understatement I mean it's not an overstatement. It's perfect that was one of the greatest nights I've ever experienced of watching anything in my life
0:30.4	It was amazing and have you cap it off and win the title when you're facing a guy that everybody thought was at least number two pound for pound.
0:40.3	It was like him in Islam or number one and number two.
0:43.3	And some odds had you at six to one, which I thought was very disrespectful.
0:49.3	I thought like, this is crazy. Like, six to one's crazy.
0:54.8	Like, Ilya's really good, but so's Justin.
0:57.1	This is kind of nuts.
0:58.7	Like, to have you win the way you won in front of the fucking White House.
1:03.8	Yeah.
1:04.8	How's it feel?
1:07.1	Oh, you know, it's really not real yet.
1:10.1	I was expecting to have, like like an internal sense of relief that like I don't have something to chase because I was always chasing this belt. And I was expecting to wake up with like some kind of natural release of pressure. but I don't know.
1:27.9	I don't feel that.
1:29.6	As the days go by, every day I feel a little bit more, a little bit more.
1:33.0	Two days ago, my dad was like, you know, what was it like waking up being the champion?
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