All I knew Dave for was rating pizza before this pod.

WHY DOESNT JOE GET EFREN ON THE SHOW?!

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It's crazy how there's a lot of arguments in different sports as to who's the greatest, then you look at professional pool and there's only one name and everyone agrees.

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Back in his day, there was no such tournament or championship that would have allowed him to mix various styles, he would have broken their tailored rules. Apparently bolo declined to fight him in enter the dragon and the O'Hara dude got hurt filming the fight scene....

3:56 - Robert Baker was a close friend of Bruce Lee and also his drug dealer.

Efren is Mj in basketball

Hey Joe- many American players back in the day ( 40 years ago ) played billiards as practice for top pool

Manny Pacquioa is a good pool player

Oh man i remember my younger days 90's we cut classes these highschool kids were seen at the pool places. Damn! Those were the days. I finished university by the way.

Its insane that anyone would want to have monsters out there.

Bata hustled in all key cities in the Philippines. Lived in cheap penthouses for days until there is no sucker left and it's time to move on. He finally crossed the ocean and became Cesar Morales for a while in America🤣🤣🤣

Bata = kid

I was going to go to Philippines w/ Filipino backer- to play in challenge matches in a rented venue maybe 200 people- 3 day match- he trained me by teaching me techniques, pain and injury included, on how to concentrate when people and situations are distracting in that country. My father didn’t like that idea, said he would hunt me down and shoot me there. So l became a restaurant manager. My father was a sniper, so l chose life. I wasn’t a kid either, 28, l could really play.

There wouldn't have been a contract if it was fake. Just a bunch of jealous grown men

Efren the master of both physics and geometry.

im a filipino and the pearl is an amazing player and comedic hahahaha im a fan of the pearl.

Bull shit.. Philippines 🇵🇭 dont play 3 cushion billiards , theres only 3 tables of 3 cushion billiards and they are at the olympic stadium Philippines 🇵🇭 ..

Just randomly clicked this video, and just now learned that other countries don't use borax when playing? the powder joe's talking about is borax I grew up in a gambling house in the slums with two billiard tables that's always buzzling with tournaments and stuffs. I thought everyone uses borax lol.

Funny story: I went to a pool bar in downtown Davao City once because I run out of money to buy cigarettes. Important to note that I am one of the worst player ever in that bar. There's this thin guy with bleached hair. I beat that guy 3 times. The guy was cool and asked me to hang out with him after. I SAID NO. That guy turned out to be Manny Pacquiao.

Fedor don't understand or didn't want to accept the fact that most of the Filipino pool players doesn't use any kicking system. because pool lesson in Philippines doesn't even exist until this time. 😊 believe it or not

Appreciate your level of knowledge on Efren Joe..He is our beloved Magician not only for his skill but for his humble nature.

Its like football with brazillian

It was known 26yrs ago the Rompola buck was a fake, I don't understand why it's even brought up. I mean no disrespect to u guys, just felt like putting my 2 cents in

Whatever it takes goddamnit!

yeah he mad bro

Bruce Lee's speed was superhuman. It doesn't matter how little he weighed. There is no way in hell that Gene Labell ever kicked Lee's ass.

I remmember before ,Philippine tv had a live telivized during efren matched with earl strickland mica immonen janet te lee and more.before boxing became big bcoz of manny pacquiao billiard is already famous bcoz of efren reyes and lots of filipino players like bustamante, dodong andam and many more.

Funny you mention the Mosconi Cup. My dad was the best pool player I’ve ever personally seen live. He beat Willie in a game of straight pool to 100. I know it’s not bullshit either bc dad wasn’t braggadocio AT ALL. He was a teacher of discipline in EVERYTHING. It’s bc of him that I became the martial artist and basketball player I was. Dad, I know you could have gone pro. But then Vietnam happened, you go balls to the walls like everything else you or I do in life and became a paratrooper and an expert marksman. You ended up stationed at Ft. Bliss in El Paso, fell in love with a woman who had 3 kids and was 18 months removed from a tyrannically abusive “husband,” and two years later I came along. From then on, you stopped jumping out of airplanes, flying airplanes, and hustling local pool halls to be a full time bread winner and ultimate example of discipline - a true dad. Any man can father a child, but it takes a MAN to be a dad. You taught me everything I know about not just billiards, but life. I miss you every day dad. You were murdered by a negligent doctor and I know you’re looking down on us. I hope I’ve made you proud. You told me at age 17 that if anything ever happened to you, to take care of mom. She still lives with my wife and kids to this day and for what she’s been through is doing remarkably well at 73. They don’t make men like you anymore. I pray the eulogy I delivered at age 23 did you justice. I’ll see you in heaven 🙏

In the Philippines, the billiards is just a gumbling

Sugar is 100% drugs bro

Bata means "Kid".

pilipinnos don't have much talent, that's why filipino worship them like gods if someone is famous from there.

NO, THE POWDER IS FOR THE CUE STICK TO BE SMOOTH,, NOT FOR THE BALL😅

they should check that video where efren reyes was playing with some local hot shot then all of the sudden the police barged in and raided the place! 😂 it was funny as hell.... it was during covid time where gatherings like this were not allowed...

USA : for fun Philippines: a way of make a living

Joe thanks for talking about efren, he is the greatest in his game. I played a game against him a year ago but the greatest thing about him is he is so humble. He comes across like someone who plays in the same bar is you .then you go home and realize you just played against the best pool player in the world

"...chickens runnin' 'round the table..." - this got me😂 What about the kids outside? See? Spiders fighting on sticks. 😅

Bow down to the master...... Long live magician!

nice interview

Efren "Bata" Reyes isa a cheat code, he has a league of his own and it is in another level

Plus I wonder if the table is level.

hes 70 this year.. he will still destroy you in billiards like on of those overpowered grandpas in anime lmao

That was the first scene of enter the dragon

founder of barstool sports and never heard of gordon ryan is crazy lmfao

Rinella is a fake psy-op if hes an advocate for predator reintroduction. Fuck him.

Not to argue but he wasn't the first. James cagney does judo and a armbar in his movie Blood On The Sun in 1945. Look it up who ever is interested in this stuff. It's cool.

Bro went on his anime training arc in the Philippines.

Let the magic begin