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The Joe Rogan Experience

JRE MMA Show #34 with Josh Barnett

The Joe Rogan Experience

Joe Rogan

Comedy

4.6228.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2018

⏱️ 159 minutes

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Joe sits down with heavyweight fighter Josh Barnett. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Boom, ladies and gentlemen, Josh Barnett, youngest ever UFC heavyweight champion.

0:11.0

Now, retired?

0:12.8

No, not retired.

0:15.0

I'm free in the wind.

0:17.0

I'm like a bald eagle.

0:18.0

I'm just out there.

0:19.0

He's riding on that freedom.

0:21.0

Just does America.

0:22.0

Just, uh Just I decided to leave the fold of the UFC and chase my

0:29.8

own futures by my own hands. Are you actively competing or going to be actively

0:36.2

competing? There'll be some grappling stuff this year but I'm figuring by

0:41.8

the start of next year I'll get back into the MMA circuits

0:44.9

Mainly because it's just gonna take some time to set up camps managers the structure of everything right I have

0:51.5

Proper sparring partners and all that and the meantime we were talking

0:54.8

about you're doing commentary for New Japan Pro Wrestling with Jim Ross and you do it on access TV right that's

1:00.0

right every Friday night at eight you can can see me sit down and run my mouth about Rasslin.

1:06.4

But we just did the live show up at the Cow Palace in San Francisco, which they've been having sporadic

1:14.4

wrestling events there, but it was a big draw in that building in like the

1:19.3

60s and 70s, I guess. So it's a bit of a historical historical it feels like wrestling pro wrestling is making a renaissance it's like making a return yeah I think that

1:29.6

there's a certain audience of a certain age gap that our age group that has come into flourishing in the

1:38.6

internet and other ways to which to go ahead and bring wrestling back up there and show that wrestling whether it's the biggest

1:47.4

company like the WWE all the way to say, you know, number two would be New Japan, and then

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