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The Joe Rogan Experience

JRE MMA Show #89 with Rafael Lovato Jr.

The Joe Rogan Experience

Joe Rogan

Comedy

4.6228.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2020

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Joe sits down with Bellator Middleweight World Champion Rafael Lovato Jr. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Three, two.

0:04.0

All right, what's up? How are you, brother?

0:05.8

I'm doing great.

0:06.6

It's great to be back.

0:07.3

Great to see you, man.

0:08.1

Congratulations on win the title.

0:09.7

Appreciate that.

0:10.3

Fantastic achievement, I mean, beating Gegor Musasi, who's, you know

0:13.6

you know top flight one of the best in the in the sport for sure you

0:17.0

and to beat him and win the bellator middleway title that's got to make feel

0:21.3

happy it was surreal It was something else. And when you hear the story about everything, man, it takes it to another level.

0:30.0

Yeah, well this is why you're here. We're here to talk about that and I guess you should probably just explain what's going on.

0:39.0

Well, I guess I'll just kind of take you through the the order of events here. You know that was my 10th fight fighting for the bell of tour title and in all my other nine fights previously it was never

0:57.5

required for me to get a brain scan done just due to the to the different states that I was fighting in at the time, the

1:05.6

commissions there didn't require it. In the US, it's California, in New York, and

1:10.4

then Europe, you know, requires a brain scan. We were originally scheduled to

1:15.9

fight in January at the forum in California, the same event that just happened this past Saturday night.

1:24.0

And so we were going to fight 2019 at the forum in January.

1:29.0

And that fight got postponed.

1:31.0

Musasi was injured, and we eventually got rescheduled to fight in June in London.

1:39.0

So I already had a brain scan scheduled for December to get approved for that fight in January,

1:48.7

but I got the news about the fight getting cancelled, like the week of that scan a couple days before so I canceled it and I said

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