#900 - Joseph Valtellini

And we're live. What's up Joe? Good to see you man. Not too much man. I'm pumped to be here. I'm like a little kid here right now. Me too man. Smiling around and loving it. Well I'm excited. There's a big glory event this Friday in Los Angeles. I'll be there. And it's you got two world titles right? Yeah two. Is it two world titles? There's two world titles. You have Israel. Jason Willness and Israel Edison. That's a wicked fight. Wicked fight. Yeah and then you're looking at Matt Embry another Canadian kid against

Dutch beast Robin Van Roosmalen. Oh yeah, that's right. That's right. That's gonna be a UFC Fight Pass. Yes. Yeah. I'm so psyched that the UFC and UFC Fight Pass is embracing glory. It's super exciting for me. I think so. And it was that huge collision card in Germany. You had Rico versus Botter and UFC ran that pay-per-view for us. Oh really? No kidding. That was the first time the UFC has run anything other than UFC. Wow. That's huge man. That's for us is a big accomplishment for kickboxing.

Well, you know we've talked about in this podcast. We were just talking about it a couple minutes ago. I think kickboxing especially high-level kickboxing like glory is one of the most exciting sports in the world and it perplexes me and many other people why it's not more exciting. It's crazy. Because it's not hard to understand what's going on. Like one of the things about MMA that is very important to me is like when the fights go to the ground I have to explain step by step what's going on. Because otherwise people that don't know ground fighting they all of a sudden like why?

Why is he tapping? What's going on? Like you don't see exactly what's going on. But when someone explains it to you, you see it. Well with kickboxing, it's pretty obvious. It's pretty obvious. Yeah.

Kicks and punches and knees. Yeah. Don't grab. People getting smashed. Yeah. I don't know. I don't get it. I seriously don't understand. Dana White has a really good theory.

He thinks that PKA karate from like you remember the the 1980s when they used to have those PKA karate matches on ESPN. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Remember when they wore the karate pants and the big booties on their feet? Yeah. Bouncing around. Yeah. Yeah.

It was really just sloppy boxing with like some shitty kicks. Yeah. But that's what even American kickboxing. It's like they have a kick rule. Right. So what would happen if they would throw eight kicks in the beginning of the round and then all of a sudden they'd box for the rest of the round. Exactly. Yeah. Exactly. And for whatever reason and above the waist as well. Yeah. Yeah.

Which I think one of the things about kickboxing as opposed to the traditional martial arts or like taekwondo or karate is like as soon as you start adding leg kicks like it changes the whole game. It's a totally different game. It changes everything. And we were talking before this fight about your fight or before this podcast rather about your fight with Raymond Daniels which is one of my favorite fights ever. Thank you. Because he is this traditional karate guy. He was a point fighting champion and he has wicked kicks. He's just one of the most spectacular and dynamic guys in kickboxing. But your leg kicks.