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Training by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day.
They come in, they weigh in, then once we record it, make sure they're cool,
they can rehydrate.
And they have many, many more hours to rehydrate.
So guys were rehydrating six hours earlier.
Most of the guys showed up at 10 a.m.
They made weight, and then they had way more time.
So when you saw people stand on the scale, I was saying official weight when I
was announcing it.
They had weighed in at 10 o'clock in the morning.
So it was already four in the afternoon.
These guys were hydrated and thick.
No one looked sick.
So at least visually, no one looked like Conor McGregor looked when he fought
Chad Mendez.
When they weighed in, he looked like a dead man.
He looked like a dead man.
Cheeks were all sucked in.
It looked horrible.
I mean, look, he did good in the fight.
Yeah.
But he really did.
He cuts a lot to get to 145.
He's a big boy.
Yeah, he's a big boy.
He's way bigger than, like, Jose Aldo.
And Jose Aldo was cutting a lot at one point in his career.
By the way, I've never, and I'm a hardcore fan, I've never enjoyed a fight more
than I enjoyed Nate Diaz, Conor McGregor.
I've never lost my mind so much at the end of the fight.
I mean, I'm, like, a huge Diaz fan.
Yeah.
And that was just incredible.
I mean, on 10 days notice.
Yep.
Well, that whole two-fight event, the two fights, the final fights, the Holly
home Misha Tate was one of the most exciting endings to any fight ever.
When Misha took Holly down in the fifth round, a fight she was losing, took her
back and choked her.
That's insane.
Yeah.
I read an article today where someone was saying that Misha had lost virtually
every second.
It was from a guy I respect, a writer.
No, she won the second round.
I was like, what are you talking about?
The second round, she took her down and pounded her.
Didn't they give her a 10-8?
Yes, and they should.
She dominated.
So I read this article.
This is an ESPN writer who wrote it.
And I was like, wait a minute, man.
Come on.
You can't say that.
Like, why are you saying that?
Like, that's silly hyperbole.
Right.
Like, it doesn't even make any sense.
And Misha was threatening.
In the third and fourth after that, Holly was on her bike.
She was like, fuck this.
Yeah.
Like, she was fighting perfect and super cautious with no chances and barely
winning those rounds.
You know, just winning them but barely winning.
It wasn't, nothing big happened and definitely no threat.
So that victory, when Misha Tate choked out Holly and Holly's punching in the
air, like, how fucking dramatic is that?
Going out cold, punching in the air while she's going out.
And then Nate beating up Conor in that second round after he gets fucked up in
the first round, beating him up in the second round and then choking him.
Insane.
Probably two of the most exciting finishes to any fight ever.
And the Conor thing was just insane because he was on a tear that was, like,
you know, one of the biggest tears in MMA history.
And to watch it go down like that.
Especially, like you said, like, he was winning the fight and then Nate turns
it around.
Yeah.
And it was almost like on a drop of a dime, like, Nate, like, came to life in
that second round and starts talking shit.
Yeah.
And starts really finding a home for the jab.
Yeah.
And then he hit him with that big one-two.
And it was like, oh, uh-oh.
Well, Nate has a snake-like one-two, too.
He, like, whap, whap.
And then he, like, slithers around.
You can't find him with a counter.
He's really good.
And there's no one worse than Nate or Nick Diaz to get hurt by in a fight.
Because once they hurt you, they just, like, they push a pace.
And then when you get hurt, they, like, pick it up and pick it up.
And then all of a sudden, I mean, before you know it, Conor's hit, like, 25
fucking times on the feet.
And he's shooting for a takedown.
Those guys are always doing triathlons.
So, even though Nate is, like, he was taking that fight in 11 days' notice and
he wasn't in shape, he's still in way better shape than most people.
So, like, him going five rounds is not unfeasible.
It's not outside of the realm of imagination.
He's in shape.
He's just not in the kind of shape that he's going to be when they have a rematch.
And that becomes a real fucking problem.
Dude, I think he's going to beat him up again.
Well, what Nate said, he goes, if I had a camp, he wouldn't have fucking
touched me.
He goes, my plan was to go out slow in the first round.
And he came out fast in the first round.
So, I got tagged a couple times.
But that's so cool.
That's cool.
Stick to the plan.
Stick to the plan.
And then the second round, he starts loosening up and opening up.
And Conor was just dead.
Yeah, well, I heard, I mean, people were talking to Nate about, because, you
know, going into that fight, like, Conor's power was what a lot of people were
talking about.
Like, you know, he put one punch on Jose Aldo's chin and he's out.
And, you know, he's talking.
He's like, they can't handle my power.
I don't do force as well.
But, and Nate was saying in one of the post-fight interviews where he was like,
look, I'm sparring with Andre Ward and Joe Schilling and, like, heavyweight
boxing.
I'm doing rounds with heavyweight boxers.
Yeah.
There's nothing you're going to hit him with that he hasn't seen or kind of
dealt with when he's, I mean, you know, like, talking like Andre Ward and Joe
Schilling, like, decent strikers.
You're saying literally.
The best.
The best.
Yeah.
The best in boxing and the best in kickboxing.
Well, Joe Schilling cuts weight to kickbox at 185 pounds and knocks dudes dead.
Yeah.
Dead with one punch.
So that guy is sparring with Nate on a regular basis.
Andre Ward, who is one of the best fucking boxers on the planet Earth, one of
the slickest, said that Nate gives as good as he gets when they spar.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's crazy.
And I think Joe Schilling, I might be getting, but I think Joe Schilling said
he's never hurt either one of them in a sparring session.
I think he said that on, uh, on Fighter and the Kid.
Yeah, I believe it, man.
Tough fucking dudes, man.
Tough fucking dudes.
But what's fascinating to me is that he wanted to jump right back in there and
do it again and that Nate wanted to, or that Connor wanted to just run it back.
And I was like, wow, that's interesting.
It seems weird that he gets to do that.
Not so much that he wants to, but it just seems weird that they were like, uh,
like even when Dana White was talking about it and he was like, look, man, we
tried to convince him to go down to 145.
And he was like, Nate's the old, I was like, wait, he's the matchmaker now?
He just gets to go.
But wouldn't you let him, if you want, if you want to make a ton of money,
right?
Man, I believe in the market, and that guy's what people want to see.
He can do whatever he wants to do.
And Nate's going to get a big payday off it.
But it's not just that.
The Emperor's been stripped down, okay?
So now he's exposed.
So now someone's beaten him.
So here's the thing.
What do you do now?
You want to make money?
Okay, because if you want to make money, you make the biggest fight you can
right now while he's been exposed.
And the biggest fight for sure is, and when I say exposed, I don't mean he's
not talented.
I mean exposed meaning he's a human and he can lose.
And that happens with every fighter.
They lose, and once they lose, people go, oh, you can be beat.
You know, we saw it with Anderson Silva.
You saw it with Mike Tyson.
After Mike Tyson fought Buster Douglas, it was a different world.
Everybody was like, oh, he's human.
So I say exposed, not in a disrespectful way.
But got exposed.
He lost.
He got choked out.
He got beaten up on the ground.
And then he got choked out quick.
So this is not an invulnerable, perfect fighter who's unbelievably durable, who
can take punishment like no man.
There's a lot of those guys in the UFC.
There's champions like that in the UFC.
Like Robbie Lawler.
Unbelievably durable.
You can't put him away.
It's fucking hard to put that guy away.
We're not talking about that.
We're talking about a guy who got dinged up, shot for a shitty wide open takedown,
got taken down, got demolished on the ground, and got choked unconscious.
Quickly afterwards.
So, all right, what do you do?
Could that happen with Dos Anjos?
Fuck yeah, it could.
Dos Anjos could do that too.
It's possible.
I mean, Conor might knock him out.
You never know.
Conor does have that punch.
But you've got to put him in against Nate again because that's the big money
rematch.
And if this guy turns out to be a guy who's going to win some and lose some,
and the beginning of his career, this unbeatable, wild Celtic warrior character,
that's all gone.
But he's a champ.
He's still got a belt at 145.
Yeah, for now.
So it's almost kind of a weird position.
For now.
But, I mean, here's my question.
When I say for now, can he really keep making that weight?
That's what I'm saying.
Well, I've wondered about that too.
Some people have argued with me saying, like, no, he can make the weight
because he was, what was he, 169 against Nate.
So they're saying he basically, that's what he starts at and he can just cut
down from there.
That's a lot.
But look what he looked like at the weigh-in.
So maybe he can.
I mean, he definitely can do it.
It's physically possible.
I was so looking forward to the press conference, though.
Just because I can't, you know, you've got this guy in Connor who's like the
ultimate shit talker.
And then you've got Nate who, I mean, the first, the dynamic at the first press
conference was amazing.
Yeah.
It was amazing.
At that moment when he was just like kind of talking circles around Nate and
Nate just broke and he goes, how about this?
Fuck you.
Fuck your belt.
Fuck this press conference.
Like Nate just went gangster on him.
Yeah.
But now, like how can Connor, I was so interested, like how can he show up and
talk shit like that?
Yeah.
When Nate's got the perfect rebuttal to anything he has to say.
I beat you on 10 days.
Connor's been saying all kinds of crazy stuff.
Like the first eight minutes were easy.
What?
Yeah, but here's the difference between the first eight minutes and the last
three minutes.
The last three were a lot worse.
Yeah, they were awful.
Like you got fucked up, man.
You got to just accept that.
But that's part of his thing is that he has to like look at things in the most
positive light possible.
And man, I don't know.
I think stylistically it's a troublesome fight for him because Nate is a very
clever boxer and his ground game is a world away from where Connor is right now.
And I've seen Nate roll with guys.
He's a fucking legit, very high level Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt under a
very respected camp.
His cardio is outstanding.
His boxing is nasty.
So where is Connor shining?
The only way I think, I mean, I guess there's like, you know, it's really hard
to like fight a Diaz brother and beat them.
You know, usually when people beat them, it's kind of like they really stick to
a strategy.
You got to kind of take them down and avoid submissions or like leg kick and
circle a whole bunch.
Like Dos Anjos beat him up in that way.
But you know what?
There's also different.
He didn't show up.
Well, there's also, you know, different camps.
You know, you're coming in.
Who knows what kind of fucking injuries you're dealing with.
You know, you see a guy like Nate come in and look really kind of lackadaisical
against Rafael Dos Anjos.
Then you see him come back and look shredded against Michael Johnson and look
sensational.
So you go, okay, that's what he's capable of when he's on and focused.
You got to be ready for that guy.
And I think that, yeah, that's the best he's ever looked at that Michael
Johnson fight.
Yeah.
You can't think that the guy who lost Dos Anjos is showing up.
You got to think that the guy that came out and swarmed Cowboy in the first
round is coming.
Like that guy's a clever fucking boxer.
So where does Conor shine?
Knockout power.
That's where he shines.
Like Conor can dead dudes.
Yeah, but he couldn't do it.
Yeah.
They're tough to hit.
They have great head movement and great chins and they roll with punches.
Well, the only guy to ever stop Nate was Josh Thompson.
And Josh did it with a brutal head kick.
And Josh Thompson, to this day, I say, is one of the most underrated guys.
He just, the stars did not align for him, but he could have easily been a UFC
champion.
He was champ in Strikeforce, right?
Strikeforce, yeah.
And with Gilbert and him and Gilbert went back and forth.
You know, Josh Thompson's a world-class fighter.
So when Josh Thompson head kicked him, you know, it's like Josh could do that
to anybody in that division.
If he catches you, you know, you're fucked.
He's older now and he's just, I think he's a guy that, like I said, the stars
didn't perfectly align for him.
But like skill-wise and technique-wise, he's a fucking world-class fighter.
So when he knocked out Nate Diaz, it's not necessarily an indication that Nate
Diaz is done.
Because just, you know, that's how good Josh Thompson is.
Yeah.
And at the time.
And then so Nate rebounds from that.
And I think people, you look at like the losses, like the Dos Anjos fight, and
you look at that, the Josh Thompson fight, and you go, hmm, how good is he?
You know, I could beat that guy.
But then you look at the Michael Johnson fight and you go, ooh, that guy is
fucking dangerous.
Jim Miller, Cerrone.
Exactly.
And a lot of these fights where he was just unbelievable.
And I think it's one of those things where styles make fights and, you know,
kind of really got in people's heads by talking shit.
And I felt like going in, I was like, I don't think you're going to get in Nate's
head by talking shit.
He's not that guy.
Yeah.
How about this?
My crew will fuck up your whole crew.
That's the most gangster thing you could say, by the way.
That's the most gangster thing because he's literally just going, we'll fucking
jump you, dude.
Like we're not playing around here.
And all those guys, even the guys who seem like kind of nice guys in his team,
like Jake Shields, you feel like he'll fucking jump you.
Like those guys are, those don't fuck around.
Yeah, he's a vegetarian and he'll kick your ass.
Yeah.

Joe Rogan On Nate Diaz vs. Conor McGregor 2

Training by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day.
They come in, they weigh in, then once we record it, make sure they're cool,
they can rehydrate.
And they have many, many more hours to rehydrate.
So guys were rehydrating six hours earlier.
Most of the guys showed up at 10 a.m.
They made weight, and then they had way more time.
So when you saw people stand on the scale, I was saying official weight when I
was announcing it.
They had weighed in at 10 o'clock in the morning.
So it was already four in the afternoon.
These guys were hydrated and thick.
No one looked sick.
So at least visually, no one looked like Conor McGregor looked when he fought
Chad Mendez.
When they weighed in, he looked like a dead man.
He looked like a dead man.
Cheeks were all sucked in.
It looked horrible.
I mean, look, he did good in the fight.
Yeah.
But he really did.
He cuts a lot to get to 145.
He's a big boy.
Yeah, he's a big boy.
He's way bigger than, like, Jose Aldo.
And Jose Aldo was cutting a lot at one point in his career.
By the way, I've never, and I'm a hardcore fan, I've never enjoyed a fight more
than I enjoyed Nate Diaz, Conor McGregor.
I've never lost my mind so much at the end of the fight.
I mean, I'm, like, a huge Diaz fan.
Yeah.
And that was just incredible.
I mean, on 10 days notice.
Yep.
Well, that whole two-fight event, the two fights, the final fights, the Holly
home Misha Tate was one of the most exciting endings to any fight ever.
When Misha took Holly down in the fifth round, a fight she was losing, took her
back and choked her.
That's insane.
Yeah.
I read an article today where someone was saying that Misha had lost virtually
every second.
It was from a guy I respect, a writer.
No, she won the second round.
I was like, what are you talking about?
The second round, she took her down and pounded her.
Didn't they give her a 10-8?
Yes, and they should.
She dominated.
So I read this article.
This is an ESPN writer who wrote it.
And I was like, wait a minute, man.
Come on.
You can't say that.
Like, why are you saying that?
Like, that's silly hyperbole.
Right.
Like, it doesn't even make any sense.
And Misha was threatening.
In the third and fourth after that, Holly was on her bike.
She was like, fuck this.
Yeah.
Like, she was fighting perfect and super cautious with no chances and barely
winning those rounds.
You know, just winning them but barely winning.
It wasn't, nothing big happened and definitely no threat.
So that victory, when Misha Tate choked out Holly and Holly's punching in the
air, like, how fucking dramatic is that?
Going out cold, punching in the air while she's going out.
And then Nate beating up Conor in that second round after he gets fucked up in
the first round, beating him up in the second round and then choking him.
Insane.
Probably two of the most exciting finishes to any fight ever.
And the Conor thing was just insane because he was on a tear that was, like,
you know, one of the biggest tears in MMA history.
And to watch it go down like that.
Especially, like you said, like, he was winning the fight and then Nate turns
it around.
Yeah.
And it was almost like on a drop of a dime, like, Nate, like, came to life in
that second round and starts talking shit.
Yeah.
And starts really finding a home for the jab.
Yeah.
And then he hit him with that big one-two.
And it was like, oh, uh-oh.
Well, Nate has a snake-like one-two, too.
He, like, whap, whap.
And then he, like, slithers around.
You can't find him with a counter.
He's really good.
And there's no one worse than Nate or Nick Diaz to get hurt by in a fight.
Because once they hurt you, they just, like, they push a pace.
And then when you get hurt, they, like, pick it up and pick it up.
And then all of a sudden, I mean, before you know it, Conor's hit, like, 25
fucking times on the feet.
And he's shooting for a takedown.
Those guys are always doing triathlons.
So, even though Nate is, like, he was taking that fight in 11 days' notice and
he wasn't in shape, he's still in way better shape than most people.
So, like, him going five rounds is not unfeasible.
It's not outside of the realm of imagination.
He's in shape.
He's just not in the kind of shape that he's going to be when they have a rematch.
And that becomes a real fucking problem.
Dude, I think he's going to beat him up again.
Well, what Nate said, he goes, if I had a camp, he wouldn't have fucking
touched me.
He goes, my plan was to go out slow in the first round.
And he came out fast in the first round.
So, I got tagged a couple times.
But that's so cool.
That's cool.
Stick to the plan.
Stick to the plan.
And then the second round, he starts loosening up and opening up.
And Conor was just dead.
Yeah, well, I heard, I mean, people were talking to Nate about, because, you
know, going into that fight, like, Conor's power was what a lot of people were
talking about.
Like, you know, he put one punch on Jose Aldo's chin and he's out.
And, you know, he's talking.
He's like, they can't handle my power.
I don't do force as well.
But, and Nate was saying in one of the post-fight interviews where he was like,
look, I'm sparring with Andre Ward and Joe Schilling and, like, heavyweight
boxing.
I'm doing rounds with heavyweight boxers.
Yeah.
There's nothing you're going to hit him with that he hasn't seen or kind of
dealt with when he's, I mean, you know, like, talking like Andre Ward and Joe
Schilling, like, decent strikers.
You're saying literally.
The best.
The best.
Yeah.
The best in boxing and the best in kickboxing.
Well, Joe Schilling cuts weight to kickbox at 185 pounds and knocks dudes dead.
Yeah.
Dead with one punch.
So that guy is sparring with Nate on a regular basis.
Andre Ward, who is one of the best fucking boxers on the planet Earth, one of
the slickest, said that Nate gives as good as he gets when they spar.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's crazy.
And I think Joe Schilling, I might be getting, but I think Joe Schilling said
he's never hurt either one of them in a sparring session.
I think he said that on, uh, on Fighter and the Kid.
Yeah, I believe it, man.
Tough fucking dudes, man.
Tough fucking dudes.
But what's fascinating to me is that he wanted to jump right back in there and
do it again and that Nate wanted to, or that Connor wanted to just run it back.
And I was like, wow, that's interesting.
It seems weird that he gets to do that.
Not so much that he wants to, but it just seems weird that they were like, uh,
like even when Dana White was talking about it and he was like, look, man, we
tried to convince him to go down to 145.
And he was like, Nate's the old, I was like, wait, he's the matchmaker now?
He just gets to go.
But wouldn't you let him, if you want, if you want to make a ton of money,
right?
Man, I believe in the market, and that guy's what people want to see.
He can do whatever he wants to do.
And Nate's going to get a big payday off it.
But it's not just that.
The Emperor's been stripped down, okay?
So now he's exposed.
So now someone's beaten him.
So here's the thing.
What do you do now?
You want to make money?
Okay, because if you want to make money, you make the biggest fight you can
right now while he's been exposed.
And the biggest fight for sure is, and when I say exposed, I don't mean he's
not talented.
I mean exposed meaning he's a human and he can lose.
And that happens with every fighter.
They lose, and once they lose, people go, oh, you can be beat.
You know, we saw it with Anderson Silva.
You saw it with Mike Tyson.
After Mike Tyson fought Buster Douglas, it was a different world.
Everybody was like, oh, he's human.
So I say exposed, not in a disrespectful way.
But got exposed.
He lost.
He got choked out.
He got beaten up on the ground.
And then he got choked out quick.
So this is not an invulnerable, perfect fighter who's unbelievably durable, who
can take punishment like no man.
There's a lot of those guys in the UFC.
There's champions like that in the UFC.
Like Robbie Lawler.
Unbelievably durable.
You can't put him away.
It's fucking hard to put that guy away.
We're not talking about that.
We're talking about a guy who got dinged up, shot for a shitty wide open takedown,
got taken down, got demolished on the ground, and got choked unconscious.
Quickly afterwards.
So, all right, what do you do?
Could that happen with Dos Anjos?
Fuck yeah, it could.
Dos Anjos could do that too.
It's possible.
I mean, Conor might knock him out.
You never know.
Conor does have that punch.
But you've got to put him in against Nate again because that's the big money
rematch.
And if this guy turns out to be a guy who's going to win some and lose some,
and the beginning of his career, this unbeatable, wild Celtic warrior character,
that's all gone.
But he's a champ.
He's still got a belt at 145.
Yeah, for now.
So it's almost kind of a weird position.
For now.
But, I mean, here's my question.
When I say for now, can he really keep making that weight?
That's what I'm saying.
Well, I've wondered about that too.
Some people have argued with me saying, like, no, he can make the weight
because he was, what was he, 169 against Nate.
So they're saying he basically, that's what he starts at and he can just cut
down from there.
That's a lot.
But look what he looked like at the weigh-in.
So maybe he can.
I mean, he definitely can do it.
It's physically possible.
I was so looking forward to the press conference, though.
Just because I can't, you know, you've got this guy in Connor who's like the
ultimate shit talker.
And then you've got Nate who, I mean, the first, the dynamic at the first press
conference was amazing.
Yeah.
It was amazing.
At that moment when he was just like kind of talking circles around Nate and
Nate just broke and he goes, how about this?
Fuck you.
Fuck your belt.
Fuck this press conference.
Like Nate just went gangster on him.
Yeah.
But now, like how can Connor, I was so interested, like how can he show up and
talk shit like that?
Yeah.
When Nate's got the perfect rebuttal to anything he has to say.
I beat you on 10 days.
Connor's been saying all kinds of crazy stuff.
Like the first eight minutes were easy.
What?
Yeah, but here's the difference between the first eight minutes and the last
three minutes.
The last three were a lot worse.
Yeah, they were awful.
Like you got fucked up, man.
You got to just accept that.
But that's part of his thing is that he has to like look at things in the most
positive light possible.
And man, I don't know.
I think stylistically it's a troublesome fight for him because Nate is a very
clever boxer and his ground game is a world away from where Connor is right now.
And I've seen Nate roll with guys.
He's a fucking legit, very high level Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt under a
very respected camp.
His cardio is outstanding.
His boxing is nasty.
So where is Connor shining?
The only way I think, I mean, I guess there's like, you know, it's really hard
to like fight a Diaz brother and beat them.
You know, usually when people beat them, it's kind of like they really stick to
a strategy.
You got to kind of take them down and avoid submissions or like leg kick and
circle a whole bunch.
Like Dos Anjos beat him up in that way.
But you know what?
There's also different.
He didn't show up.
Well, there's also, you know, different camps.
You know, you're coming in.
Who knows what kind of fucking injuries you're dealing with.
You know, you see a guy like Nate come in and look really kind of lackadaisical
against Rafael Dos Anjos.
Then you see him come back and look shredded against Michael Johnson and look
sensational.
So you go, okay, that's what he's capable of when he's on and focused.
You got to be ready for that guy.
And I think that, yeah, that's the best he's ever looked at that Michael
Johnson fight.
Yeah.
You can't think that the guy who lost Dos Anjos is showing up.
You got to think that the guy that came out and swarmed Cowboy in the first
round is coming.
Like that guy's a clever fucking boxer.
So where does Co