Joe Rogan | Conor is Always Gonna Have a Problem with Khabib

There are so many good fighters that are coming out of Dagestan right now. And all technicians. Yeah. It's incredible. It's incredible. Whatever is in the water there. And in different styles too, like Zabid. Like Zabid style. Very, very different than a wrestling heavy style. Look at this guy, man. Jesus Christ. Oh my God. What a scramble. So this is Abdu Rashid. Rashid? Abdu Rashid? Call instead of live. No, don't tell me how to say it. I'll figure it out. I don't know. Abdu Rashid. Abdu Rashid. Abdu Rashid. So to live. So to live. And you know what the beauty, there's a poetic. Damn. There's a poetic nature to these guys. I mean, they're just like Khabib really. I mean, they're simple, good people. Right? They're pretty religious and they just kind of, they don't even believe in fame. They just believe in excellence. Well, you know, that was sort of evident and the mindset behind them was sort of evident at the end of that fight with Connor where they went crazy and he jumped into the crowd. It's like, he's not playing games. Like he's not, he's not doing this for Instagram likes or for, you know, this is really, he takes trash talking and all that stuff very seriously. This is all about honor for him. I think that was kind of upsetting because true, but. Don't do that. Yeah. Don't do that. And also respect, I hate to say, but I think there's a certain ethic and honor to the way Connor McGregor cares himself too. All that trash talk, if you look at the end of the fights. He's very kind. He's very kind and respectful in defeat and when they guess it's a different culture. You compare the Dagestani versus Irish culture, it's just a different culture and you have to respect that. I think Khabib, to be honest, disrespected Connor's culture as much as Connor disrespected Khabib. I get what you're saying. But I mean, when he was done with the fight, he didn't keep attacking Connor. It was people in the audience that were talking shit that were training partners. Emotion fires high. Yeah. And he had heard that for weeks and he was done for months. He was done. He was like, fuck you. I beat his ass and I'm going to beat your ass. And he just said, I'm not playing games. And he jumped into the fucking crowd. I think security could have been handled far better and will be in the future to prevent things like that from happening where people just jumped into the cage. And you know, I, but I, I hate seeing that shit. I got it. But I appreciate where he's coming from. I mean, that's who the fuck that guy is, man. That's one of the reasons why he's so good is that he does have that mindset. It's one of the reasons, man. One of the reasons why he's so relentless. Like he's not playing games. Yeah. He is who he is. What you see is what you get and what you get as a killer. And he's, he's there to smash. I would have loved to see Conor McGregor versus could be, it could be before the Mayweather fight. Like before Conor gotten, I think the money makes you less hungry. Oh, for sure. And dude, I ain't hungry at all. I mean, he's got a hundred million dollars, but I think he still loves to compete, but there's no hunger anymore. Like there ain't no hunger. I mean, he might be hungry for success, but he's, there's no desperation. I don't know if that's, I know what you're saying. Like he has a lot to lose now too. It's a different thing. He enters into a fight with a hundred million dollars in the bank. It's a very different experience and entering into the fight with one million and hoping that you could make three more tonight. And you know, like many, I'm sure fights that he's had in the past, it's a different world. He wants to do whatever he wants forever. I mean, once a fighter though, always a fighter. I mean, there is an element there that he still wants glory. I believe still only 30. Yeah. Right. He still do it. Yeah. I mean, he's, I think how old's Connor at the most he's like 32 or some shit. 30. Yeah. He's young man to be set for the rest of your life at 30 is kind of fucking bananas. And I don't think he's at his peak as a fighter. So if he just decides who gives a fuck about the money, I'm just, I'm here to leave a legacy and I'm gonna, I'm gonna just train like a fucking demon. And he kicks aside all of the bad influences and all the distractions in his life and just focuses on training. I mean, he's a motherfucker, man. I mean, he saw what he did to Aldo, saw what he did to Chad Mendez, saw what he did to Dustin Poirier. I mean, he is a bad motherfucker. Period. I know you're going to shut this down as most fans do, but if he drops everything and goes to like Siberia to train, I would love to see him and Khabib too. Well, there's nothing, that's my friend Hans Mullenkamp and Connor Sparren just fucking around powerful on it logo in the background. It's like a goddamn on it. Yeah. I mean, he's always going to have a problem with Khabib. Khabib's wrestling is so high level. It's so different. He smothers you in a way that you think you have good takedown defense till you run into that motherfucker and he just gets a hold of everyone. He does it to everyone. Whether you're Michael Johnson or Edson Barboza, no matter how good your takedown defense looked in the past and the Barboza fight, he was just basically just weighted towards him, weighted through the fucking, the fury of leg kicks and punches and just clamp, drag, smash. And that's what he does to everybody, man. The real thing about a guy like him would be seeing a guy like him against a guy like Jordan Burroughs. Could he do that to a guy who is a spectacular wrestler as well? Then it becomes his striking, which has gotten very high level. He's very dangerous striking. So he dropped Connor. He can fuck people up. He stopped a few people's strikes. He's dangerous enough on the feet that you would have to, I don't know how many really high level grapplers also have striking that can stand with them. Because if he decided to keep it up, he'd have an advantage there until they got good at it. Him versus Ben Askren would be very interesting. Well he would have an advantage in striking over Askren. In wrestling, I don't know. No. Askren's a big fella too. Are they the same weight? No. Oh. He's 55, Askren's 70. Okay. But Askren could probably make 55 if he tortured him. He's got a dad bod though and he's pretty big. How rude. No, he's proud dad bod. He's proud of his body. I think he was that way in college too. He was never... He was never like Brock Lesnar. No. And he was just... Super technical.