Episode Transcript: JRE MMA Show #34 with Josh Barnett
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Boom ladies and gentlemen, Josh Barnett, youngest ever UFC heavyweight champion.
Now retired? Sorta? No, not retired. Just I'm free in the wind. I'm like a bald eagle.
I'm just out there riding on that freedom. Just I decided to leave the fold of the UFC
and chase my own futures by my own hands. Are you actively competing or going to be actively competing?
There'll be some grappling stuff this year, but I'm figuring by the start of next year I'll get back into the MMA circuits,
mainly because it's just going to take some time to set up camps, managers, the structure of everything.
Right. I have proper sparring partners and all that.
In the meantime, you're doing commentary for New Japan Pro Wrestling with Jim Ross, and you do it on Access TV, right?
That's right. Every Friday night at 8. You can see me sit down and run my mouth about wrestling.
We just did the live show up at the Cow Palace in San Francisco, which they've been having sporadic wrestling events there,
but it was a big draw in that building in the 60s and 70s, I guess. So it's a bit of a historical aspect.
It feels like wrestling, pro-wrestling is making a renaissance. It's making a return.
Yeah. I think that there's a certain audience of a certain age group that has come into flourishing into the internet
and other ways to go ahead and bring wrestling back up there and show that wrestling, whether it's the biggest company,
like the WWE, all the way to say number two would be New Japan, and then there's all these independent companies all over the place
so that some of them have quite a decent following as well.
You know Billy Corgan from the Smashing Pumpkins?
Huge wrestling fan.
He owns, what is the company that he owns?
The NWA, the National Wrestling Alliance.