Joe Rogan & Ben Askren on Conor, Khabib, and Tony Ferguson

Kind of like Edson Barbossa, but then you know what was interesting about Edson Barbossa, you saw once he realized he was going to survive, like when it was like two minutes left in the third round maybe-ish, it's like the first round he's like, I'm getting fucked up. I'm just going to survive, right? But then when there was a couple minutes left, he's like, and then he was like, okay, I'm going to fight again. Like, I'm going to make it through this shit. I might as well, if I want to make it through this, I might as well just fight back. Yeah. Right? And so he started fighting back really hard like the last two minutes of that fight. He tried. But there was a period in the middle where he like had resigned to just taking an ass whooping. Well, I think he was just, body was just not responding. He was getting so fucked up and you could see the pace that Habib put on him in the first round. Like halfway into the round Barbossa's like, Jesus Christ, he's looking in his eyes, he's got that thousand yard stairs like, whoa. What I set up for? Yeah. This guy's on another level. I mean, he really is on another level. I'm fascinated by him fighting Tony Ferguson and apparently they're going to do that now. It's going to happen in April. Yeah. They don't know if it's going to be for the interim title or the actual title, whether they're going to strip Connor. They're in a weird position. I think he beats up Tony. That's just my, and I've underestimated Tony before, so I could be wrong again. I just think, I think it's again, Trump card. I think Tony's kind of one of those guys where he's pretty good everywhere. He's pretty damn solid wrestling, high level jujitsu. But I see Habib's wrestling being better than Tony's wrestling. So it's going to end up on the ground. And I think Tony's going to think he can submit him because it's jujitsu at a very high level. But I think it'll be one of those things where Habib's just good enough not to get submitted and then he's going to land damage and land damage and land damage and land damage. And Tony's going to get close to a submission and close to a submission and close to a submission, but not quite get it. And then all this damage is going to just accumulate and accumulate and accumulate. That's kind of how I see it going. It's fascinating. And I also think it's fascinating now that Habib has changed his training and has a real nutritionist and no problem making weight. So all the factors that played into him getting removed from the last time they were supposed to fight pulled out of the car. I thought that was kind of overblown. He only missed weight one time. He only missed weight one time, but his body shut down when he's making weight for the Michael Johnson fight in a similar way. But he still did the Michael Johnson fight. Yeah. But it was the same thing happened during the weigh in. It was a rough weigh in. But there's been other guys who have missed weight many times. I mean, if we go to- Johnny Hendricks. Michael Hendricks, Melvin Golar, Calvin Gaston. And they missed it by a long- I thought the Habib thing kind of got overplayed. He missed weight one time. He had some injuries which sucked for him. But it was that it was happening for a world title fight. They were fighting for the interim title and he misses weight. Yeah. I mean, and so it was one of those where he probably just like, it was like okay for him to make it be difficult and he just got just a little bit too big. Actually, was it for an interim title when he was supposed to fight? I don't think it was. Tony was Kevin Lee, right? That was for the world title. Or interim title. Interim title. Yeah, that whole division is kind of fucked up with Connor not even knowing whether or not he's fighting anymore. They're going to strip him, right? Yeah, mostly. I think so. Unless Connor says, fuck it, I'm in. Fuck it, come back. I think it's the best- Fuck it. Fuck it. Fuck it, I want to keep me belt. I don't know. The best course of action is strip Connor. Let Habib and Tony fight it out. And then if Connor wants to come back, give him a title shot and that's going to happen whatever. Well, I think what would be the most lucrative thing is Connor versus GSP. Shut up, Joe. I want to fight GSP. Oh, you do? Yes, I want to be number one. I don't want to fight Tyran because we've been your friends for 20 years. I want to fight GSP. That's who I want to fight. Do you think that they would set that up? They would try to set up GSP versus Tyran, right? That would be the big super fight. GSP doesn't want to fight anyone who can hit hard because he's worried about the brain damage. You think so? Yeah, I don't hit that hard.