Joe Remembers Anthony "Rumble" Johnson

That was Gustafson in his best. That and the John Jones fight. I remember the John Jones fight, the first one, when John didn't train. You know, that's how you see the difference, because look at the second fight. They have a second fight, and well... They need to take him down. But you have to also say, the second fight, was that before or after Gustafson fought Rumble? Oh, that's a good question. Rest in peace, Rumble. Rumble passed away this week. Apparently, he had some form of, I think it was like, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma or something along those lines. Yeah. I don't know if that's public. We should find out if that's public knowledge. I think it was. I think I read that. I couldn't pronounce the words, and that sounds like it was. Yeah, I shouldn't say it if it wasn't public knowledge. If it's not public knowledge, we should edit it out. Well, you know... I'm almost positive I just read that in an article the other day, but yeah, that was great. I was on the... Three years old, man. Yeah, I did the UFC quintet with him, it was me, Clay Guida, him, Gilbert Burns, Anthony Smith, but yeah, that was my only really interaction with him. Dude. Fucking good, dude. Yeah, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a rare immune disorder called H-L-H. Yeah. Horrible. 38. Such a nice guy. And the biggest welterweight that's ever walked her face this time. Welterweight, yeah. When he was a welterweight. I know, that's fucked. Dude, I saw him in between fights once, and I go, Anthony, how big are you? And he goes, 230 pounds. 230? What the fuck? He walked in looking like a Greek god. He was so gigantic. I just ripped. I'm like, it wasn't fat at all. Like, how do you get that little? How do you make 170? He was gigantic. He always had issues making 170 though, right? Oh yeah, well he missed it a bunch of times, and then he fought Vitor at 85. Rumble was like this guy that you never knew what you were gonna get. If he was like ready to go and in shape and prepared. Jesus. He could be one of the most dangerous guys of all time. Yeah. But he was kind of, at least early on in his career, inconsistent until he moved up in weight. Then when he moved up in weight, look what he did in the light heavyweight division. I maintain that most of what was holding him back was just the dread of making that weight. It's just dread. The guy goes up two weight classes and is knocking out everybody with one punch at light heavyweight. Yeah, 170 should have never pissed. Imagine that. Inside of his career, he's fighting 35 pounds up and destroying people, knocking out Glover with one punch, knocks out Gustafson. Bro, he fucked everybody up except DC. Yeah. DC just used his wrestling. He fought DC twice, right? Yeah. Right. Yeah. God, I bet DC was like, God damn, I don't wanna fight this motherfucker again, dude. He's so dangerous. Rumble's so dangerous. That's a scary, yeah. He was so dangerous. He had power that was, I remember when he hit Glover, I was like, oh. Did his tooth go flying? Was that Glover's tooth? He made somebody's tooth go flying. I don't know if it was Glover's. It was that uppercut. God damn, he was a powerhouse. Yeah, possessing that fucking power to him. Because he doesn't need to be like, Oh, it is, it is Glover's tooth. Because he doesn't need to really be accurate either. He can hit you like anywhere in the head and that's night night. Bro, he could hit your shoulders and you'd be dizzy. It might get knocked out. It's crazy, he just had that preposterous power. Yeah, that, oof. Watch this uppercut. Dink. Oh, that was like. Crazy. Just like a thud. That's Rumble, man. That's why everybody was scared of Rumble. His tooth. Yeah. Yeah, oh, oh. At least he gets a takedown. He woke up. Two points. He woke up, didn't know what the fuck happened. No one counted my takedown on Peter with two points. I think that was two. But it'll take them to the end of the first. I think it was a takedown. Does knees go to the ground? Oh, yeah. DC gets mad when they don't give up takedowns.