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  • Joe Rogan on Ric Flair’s Figure Four Leg Lock: “It Doesn’t Work”

    Joe Rogan on Ric Flair’s Figure Four Leg Lock: “It Doesn’t Work”

    Ric Flair wrestled his final match at the “Ric Flair’s Last Match” event during SummerSlam weekend. The match took place at the Nashville Municipal Auditorium and was presented by Jim Crocket Promotions and Conrad Thompson.

    He teamed up with his son-in-law, AEW star Andrade El Idolo, to beat wrestling legend Jeff Jarrett and AEW star Jay Lethal in a tag team match.

    Flair has won countless matches throughout his career with the Figure Four submission hold, a move created by Buddy Rogers and has been used by many wrestlers throughout the years. Flair recently recounted his last match on his “To Be The Man” podcast.

    Joe Rogan on Ric Flair’s Figure Four

    Popular podcaster and standup comedian Joe Rogan recently discussed Ric Flair on a recent episode of his podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience. Rogan is also a commentator for MMA and broke down the Figure Four lock and referred to the legendary move as “dumb”. Rogan noted that the technique of the move doesn’t make sense when applied to real-life fighting.

    A bunch of [pro] wrestlers got mad at me… I was trying to explain how dumb a figure-four leg lock was because I was like he was literally giving up an inside heel hook.

    Inside heel hook is one of the most devastating submission techniques because once someone gets it the time you have to tap is so small before your knee gets ripped apart and so, a Figure-four leg lock you’ll never see in a jiu-jitsu competition.

    It doesn’t work. It’s funny in that regard, you know, you are doing this thing but this thing in the real world is the worst thing you do.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CquuH5Waln8

    H/T: LowKickMMA

  • Joe Rogan: CM Punk ‘Doesn’t Have Any Physical Talent’

    Joe Rogan: CM Punk ‘Doesn’t Have Any Physical Talent’

    In a recent episode of his podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience, mixed martial arts (MMA) expert and UFC commentator Joe Rogan discussed former WWE Champion CM Punk’s UFC 225 performance this past weekend.

    Punk took on former Houston, TX Golden Gloves winner Mike Jackson in a three round welterweight contest. He lost the fight via unanimous decision, getting virtually dominated throughout the entirety of the fight. Rogan wasn’t too big a fan of Punk fighting in the UFC, and said that Punk doesn’t have any physical talent like other athletes who make the transition into MMA:

    “The whole thing was very weird,” said Rogan. Like, right away, when you see CM Punk holding his hands up and moving stiff and throwing kicks, [I’m like], ‘oh Jesus.’ Like, I don’t like that being on pay-per-view. I understand that they are selling pay-per-view cards, but pay-per-view in the UFC should be the elite fighters. It’s like you took a dude [with] no wrestling background, no nothing, and you go, ‘alright, this is what I want you to do. This is a jab.

    “This is a right hand. When you throw a kick, I want you to pivot your hips. Go in there and spar. I mean, he just doesn’t have the ability to move his body right. There’s a lot of guys that you could take out there—track and field guys, or football players, and you could get them to fight better than him in a couple of weeks. Easily. Because they’re athletes. They’re athletes. They would understand how to shift their weight, [and] throw a punch… he doesn’t have any talent.

    “That’s all it is. He just doesn’t have any physical talent. For whatever reason. Whether it’s his approach, his intensity. It’s not his coaching. He’s with Duke f–kin Roufus. If Duke just grabbed some dude from a gas station that has been drinking beer and smoking cigarettes his whole life, and had him in a fight in six months, how much can you possibly expect?”

    H/T Wrestling Inc. for the transcriptions

  • Joe Rogan and Tony Hinchcliffe Break Down WWE Finishing Moves

    Joe Rogan and Tony Hinchcliffe Break Down WWE Finishing Moves

    UFC broadcaster, Joe Rogan, has been critical of wrestling in the past but admits he was a fan growing up. His frequent opening-act, comedian Tony Hinchcliffe, is a big fan, however. You can catch Hinchcliffe and some of his fellow comedians from Los Angeles’ “Comedy Store” on their wrestling podcast “The Store Horsemen”.

    Hinchcliffe recently appeared on Joe Rogan’s podcast and the two analyzed finishing moves often found in wrestling.

    Joe Rogan and Tony Hinchcliffe Break Down Finishing Moves

    Rogan admitted to liking Jimmy “Superfly” Snuka growing up but felt it was silly how he always ended up on the top rope to give to someone his flying splash. On the other hand, Rogan was a big fan of Bob Backland, whose style was more based in reality.

    Figure Four Leglock: The general consensus here is this move would hurt but there is nothing stopping the other person from just getting up and getting out of the hold. The person could also reverse this by putting a heel hook on the wrestler putting the move on.  They were using an HBK figure four leglock as an example, however.

    John Cena’s STF: Real move and would totally mess a person up.

    They discussed others but those were the only clear conclusions they reached.