JRE MMA Show #172 with Gable Steveson

Joe Rogan podcast. Check it out. The Joe Rogan experience. Showing my day. Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day. Alright. What's happening? Pleasure to meet you, man. How are you? Great. I'm great. When you got a name like Gable and you're named after Dan Gable and you go on to win an Olympic gold medal in wrestling, that is kind of That's crazy. Right? Prophetic. My mom, when I was young, she was trying to find names for me, and she liked Kale Sanderson because Kale was a guy at the time. But she was at a tournament in Iowa with my older brother, and she kept hearing Gable, Gable, Gable. And and it was Dan Gable at the time. And, you know, Dan Gable is a huge figure in the Midwest for wrestling. And so she was like, why don't I name you Gable Dan? And the rest was history, which is really crazy. Because it it his whole timeline is my timeline, which is fantastic. Except the MMA part. That too. Yeah. Which I wish he would have done. I think he would have been amazing. I don't know. Would have been amazing. But it wasn't around, I mean, when he was wrestling. Bare knuckle, maybe. I don't know. Do it on the street or something. He could have found 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 and and be something big. And I think they have a really good one now with, RAF, if you haven't heard about it. Yes. I am. It's American Freestyle. They're trying, and I think they're trying really well. And I think it's gonna come to a point where how do you make matchups continue? Because, you know, wrestling gets to the point where and and fighting in in in a lot of the sports, you can get to the point where, you know, maybe you draft a guy. In fighting, there's a next big thing. Mhmm. There's a next guy out there that you can kinda create. And with wrestling, they're trying to create a an atmosphere of how can you create that person. And I like it, and I think it might work. And hopefully, it keeps going the way it needs to go. It would be interesting if it well, the problem is MMA is so huge now, and people kind of associate wrestling with either MMA or pro wrestling now. Mhmm. Like those are the two things that they think of. And it's one I think it's one of those things like soccer, where soccer should be huge in America. It's huge all over the world. Right? It's a very exciting sport, but nope. You know what's crazy? How how popular soccer players are. And I feel like in America, we have so many sports that, like, we can't hit that …