‘He Had His Wife Hold a Pillow at Home’- Joe Rogan Reveals the Origin of Anderson Silva’s Insane Move

Anderson Silva is an MMA icon whose legend will never fade away. Widely regarded as one of the greatest Mixed Martial Artists of our time, the supreme striker’s fan base includes the likes of UFC President Dana White and UFC commentator Joe Rogan. The latter shared a crazy origin story of ‘The Spider’s upward elbow finishing move.

In his wildly popular podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience, Rogan revealed how Silva was so inspired by an Ong Bak movie that he decided to incorporate a fighting move from the film into his own fights. Moreover, the outrageous part was how he mastered it while keeping it secret from his coach.

Rogan narrated, “Oh, yeah, Anderson in his prime, oh. Well, he did, he did an upward elbow. You wanna hear this crazy story? There was a crazy thing that he saw in like an Ong Bak movie. Where it’s a step forward to the side, upward elbow. And he kept telling people that he was going to knock this dude out with an upward elbow. And his, his trainer, was like ‘hey, man, you got to stop to stop f**king around. Like, don’t try to do stupid sh*t like that. Stick to the game plan.’ You are fighting a tough guy.”

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“So, he had his wife hold a pillow at home, so he wouldn’t even practice it in front of his coach. So, he’ll go home and have his wife hold a pillow and Anderson would step in and Bamm, stepping in with his crazy elbow, and then he decided he was gonna use it in the fight. Check this out! Watch this. I mean, that’s how good Anderson Silva is.”

The Joe Rogan Experience eclipses all mainstream media

Joe Rogan is one of the most regarded voices in the MMA sphere. The MMA fanatic has given more than half of his life to the sport and continues to do so even now. Meanwhile, in the last decade, the 54-year-old has also emerged as an influential voice courtesy of his podcast- The Joe Rogan Experience.

The podcast is so popular that it has become one of the most consumed forms of media worldwide. Recently, it even surpassed all forms of mainstream media, the likes of MSNBC and CNN prime-time, by three-fold.

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