Colby Covington's Trash Talk is Brilliant! | Joe Rogan and Dan Hardy

Sometimes I watch these replays 10-15 times from different angles and all of a sudden I'll see something and it's like a light bulb moment. I love those moments. Yeah Anderson had many of those moments in his career where you recognize that he had seen a pattern and then he just struck on that pattern and hit pay dirt and you're like Jesus Christ. Yeah it's like Max Holloway does it now. That first round he's like his download round. Yeah. He gathers information, he studies their patterns and that's why if you look at Max Holloway's stats he's first round, his percentage of success is low and his output is low but then as his success rate increases so does his output. It's ridiculous. I don't know any other fighter that does that. No he's brilliant in that and his output is preposterous. His output is just so outrageous but not as outrageous as Colby Covington's. Colby Covington might have the most outrageous output in the sport. It's outrageous. What about him and Usman though? They're both outrageous. It's all who's the better wrestler. Yes. Who's the better wrestler and who has more power and who can keep that up for the longest because Colby can keep that shit up for five rounds. He's done an amazing job of getting people to dismiss him because they think he's a piece of shit with his with his MAGA hat and all the trash talk that he does. It's fucking brilliant man because what he's done is just insult everybody and anybody get a lot of people talking about him and then fuck people up. So it's like whoa this is a crazy combination because it fucks with their head they don't want to lose to this guy. They don't want to hear him talk shit after he beats your ass he's gonna still talk shit. Fuck. There's a slight I don't know it's depending upon the person but it at least slight burden and experiencing that from a person. It might be a big burden. Maybe you're one of those people that has a hard time getting fucked with and you can't it keeps you up at night and then it's like maybe maybe it diminishes your performance 20% maybe 30% and Colby doesn't get tired. He keeps coming. It's terrifying. Robbie Lawler just kept bobbing and weaving and hoping for these openings that were never there. Colby just on you he was punching some ridiculous amount like one every 2.4 seconds or some crazy shit. He broke the work rate right? Yeah yeah something like that. Against Robbie Lawler. I know but Robbie just you know it like that first round in particular when he's up against the fence and he wasn't even hand fighting the chokes like that it looked like he was kind of coasting for a couple of rounds with the intention of getting started later. But then I just I just think the intensity of Colby just burned him out faster than he expected. I think when you're an explosive guy like Robbie is where he fires fucking hurricane speed bombs at you just and when he does that he's going 100% 100% Colby never goes 100%. If you're watching he's punching like 70% 60% 70% 60% and he just stays on you stays on you very Nick Diaz like and Diaz's early days like when Diaz fought Frank Shamrock perfect example like he just puts that pace on you keeps talking shit and puts that pace on you and he's hitting you a lot so you're always tight like you're always tightening up tightening up and it's just draining your battery. Yeah. And you don't want to lose to this guy because he's talked so much shit and you're like well he's talked so much shit when I get a hold of him and guess what when you get a hold of him he's great that's the problem the problem is all those things that fuck with you plus he's a great fighter so the meanness the shit talking all the the MAGA stuff the strippers the cringe you're like oh my god right and then on top of it the fucking output inside the octagon you're like shit he's doing all that and he's fucking me up he might have fucked me up even if he didn't do all that but he does all that and I don't want to lose to him and he's fucking me up it's like god damn do you think there's a point where Colby thinks you know at any point during his training camp like shit I've stacked the odds against myself here I had that moment before Marcus Davis where I thought to myself if I lose here I'm gonna like a I'm gonna look really fucking stupid I think that Colby is doing a brilliant job of playing a bad guy like pro wrestling style and I think he didn't used to do that early in his career he was a hard-working guy who just went out there and fought his ass off but people didn't give a shit and they weren't giving him the credit that he deserves and so he turned heel and from that he's become the interim welterweight champion he's one of the most talked about guys in the sport he took on a character that's what I think and I think that character is super successful at fucking with people you know I mean and he can fucking fight man yeah you can't underestimate that that kind of cardio the kind of cardio is crazy to be able to do that for five rounds that's bananas that that pace is insane yeah and Robbie Lawless strong as well he's a ball such a difficult person to hold down I wonder whether I wonder whether Robbie Lawless left some of his training camp you know whether he left some of his effort in the gym I would imagine Robbie Lawless the kind of guy that still trains like he's in his 20s like he's like on it every day well maybe or maybe they train together and when they train together Colby was getting the best of it I mean I think they did train together at American top team you know maybe Colby knew that he could out wrestle him he knew if he just stayed on him he would break him and out wrestle him I mean when someone has an a wrestling advantage it goes back to this one more time someone has a wrestling advantage that is a big deal when you start getting tired and this guy has better technique than you and he's not as tired as you are because he's fighting more efficiently and then he gets a hold of you and then fuck him on my back and then you're like goddamn it and then you try to get back up but you can't and the bells over and you get back up and you are got to keep this guy from taking me down then boom he takes you down to Dan again he keeps punching you on the feet he keeps hitting you and making you move backwards and you're just looking to land this big bomb but there's never an opening for it you think he's gonna slow down but he never does so Colby against could be but a catchweight what do you reckon who outpaces the other one dude they could get Ted Nugent to sing the national anthem America fuck yeah I think that's a an amazing fight if could be ever did want to fight at 170 I think him versus Usman would also be an amazing fight I want to see Colby and Usman I mean that's the fight right I mean and I also think if you're going to have an interim champion you should treat that fighter like it's a champion like you can't just take their fight you can't take their belt away if they don't want to fight right now because they're injured or because they need surgery okay I think we have to respect the championship title otherwise people are going to look at interim championships like it doesn't mean anything it should mean as much as a championship like we're saying you have to fight for the title next so to say that they don't have to fight for the title next and we're just gonna take that thing away from you he's taken away like but you're still fighting the person still fighting so there's still the champion they didn't lose you just take it away because what is there a mandatory contender that the WBA or the WBC the IBF no it's just the UFC the FC decides like who fights and who fights when I'm happy that they have interim championships because I think there's times and places for that but you got to treat it like it's a championship and Colby never lost the championship yeah he won that interim title against RDA an incredible performance and then they just take it away from them