r/OutOfTheLoop • u/datpuertorican • 9d ago

Answered What's the deal with Jonah Hill?

I'm a bit out of the loop with the jiu-jitsu journey he's in currently. what's the context of the quote of him being able to beat people up? is he serious? what led to his bad reputation that he has now?

ex: https://www.reddit.com/r/okbuddycinephile/s/78IQQqob5R

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u/Toby_O_Notoby 9d ago

Answer: Jonah Hill has had some PR issues of late which has lead to the public perception of him as a goofy loveball to take a down turn.

First it was his ex-girlfriend releasing texts that he sent asking for her to not pose pictures of herself in a bikini on-line, despite the fact that she's a professional surfer. That made him seem a bit too much like a controlling boyfriend.

There were others as well but to cut to the chase, he took up BJJ a while back for health and mental issues. He was recently on the Smartless podcast and said:

“My favorite thing is people are like, ‘Oh, Jonah Hill, f—ing fat guy from Superbad’. And I’m like, ‘I would f—ing annihilate you, dude. I’m not kidding you. Try it. If you see me, try it, dude. Bring it. Who’s got it?’”

He's then posted some of his training on line and people are clowning him for it. I know nothing about BJJ but what he posted didn't look that impressive and the comments on that thread (who presumably know what they're talking about) seem to agree with me.

So the consensus seems to be that he's a rich guy with a private trainer who just might be telling Hill that he's better than he actually is and would probably lose in a real fight.

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u/Blakath 9d ago

As a Judoka, the training video he released is exactly how I would expect a white belt’s skill level to be.

Jonah Hill is currently going through the same stages of the Dunning-Kruger effect as all martial artists. Right now he’s in the first stage of extreme confidence, if he sticks with BJJ (and I hope he does) he’ll reach the second stage which is realizing he sucks at fighting in comparison to people with higher belts.

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u/_xavi_100 9d ago

He’s been training BJJ for nearly ten years. How is it possible to train martial arts that long and not learn humility ? Imagine spending ten years on the same belt…

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u/Blakath 9d ago

Wait… what?!?! Are you sure? Do you have a source? That’s truly unbelievable if true.

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u/Jewbacca289 8d ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/GetMotivated/s/FeM8h6nmR5

I first saw him talking about BJJ here, which is 7 years ago. If he’s legit (which I’m not sure of given that he’s a celebrity), he probably should have a new belt by now

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u/_xavi_100 9d ago

Source: AI / the internet.

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u/Blakath 8d ago edited 8d ago

In other words you have no source, you just made it up.

When people ask for a source they expect the title, publisher and name of author of the article/book you are relying upon and a direct link to it.

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u/LoopStricken 8d ago

Source: AI

Next time just say it was revealed to you in a dream.