Joe Rogan: Dominik Reyes is a Real Threat to Jon Jones

You know, but he's got a different fight in front of him this weekend with John Jones. John Jones has such a history of success against the best fighters on the planet. John finds a way to win. He does, man. He finds a way. And it's like, that was the good thing about that Gustafson fight. The first one, it was such a, if I remember right, Jones really turned it on in rounds four and five. Like, I thought Gustafson was ahead, maybe two to one, and then rounds four and five Jones won. Yeah. And again, I don't know if that's a correct recollection, but I remember being like, fuck, that's why he's a champion. He won the final round. Final round. For sure. And he wasn't even in shape. He didn't train for that fight. They said he just fucked off and was partying and having a good time. He just thought he was unbeatable. And he said something really interesting to me when he came in here. He said he always gave himself an excuse so that like, if he did lose, he could always say, well, you know what, at least I didn't train. Right. Like, if I trained, then I would have beat that guy. But he was still beating people, even though he wasn't training hard. And then he started ramping it up and actually training hard. And when he almost lost everything, you know, when he got arrested and all that shit that happened to him and he almost lost his career, then when it came back, he had much more of a sense of urgency because he realized like what a gift it really was. Yeah, I'm happy he's back too. And I honestly, after that, I was out there with Matt and after they told us, like, no, man, the fight's not happening. I felt like he's never going to watch him fight again. He'll never fight again. I thought so too. When he crashed in that lady's car and took off, I was like, oh, my God, he might go to jail. And, you know, I just felt bad that he was doing that in the first place. Just all of it. Everything was wrong. Yeah, there's too much partying. But sometimes someone needs some sort of a giant scare, a horrible series of events where you realize like, oh, I can't I can't do this anymore. I've got to live my life in a better way. Yeah, you have to almost have everything taken away from you. But I believe that Dominic Reyes is the most dangerous fighter John Jones has faced since Daniel Cormier. I think Dominic Reyes presents a very unique series of challenges. First of all, the length, the undefeated record. He's 12 and oh, there's confidence that comes with undefeated fighters. And Dominic is extremely confident. He's he's a believer in himself. And that belief in himself has led him to stop guys like Chris Weidman to knock out OSP with one second to go. He's got belief in his power. He's got legit one punch knockout power. He's got great footwork and movement. He just had the opportunity to see John struggle with Thiago Santos. He has a style he can mimic that kind of success that the chopping at the legs. I think this is a dangerous fight for John. But I also think John knows it's a dangerous fight for John. And John is a champion, a real champion, the greatest champion the light heavyweight division has ever known unquestionably. And I think he's going to rise to the occasion. I think we're going to see the best John Jones. I think John Jones needs a real threat to scare him and work him up. And I don't know if Thiago Santos was that for him. Maybe Thiago Santos was a title defense chance for him to fight. But I don't think I don't think that's what he gets scared of. I think John needs someone like a Dominic Reyes, a real threat so that you see who he was in the second fight with Daniel Cormier when he head kicked DC and knocked him out the second fight with Gustaf and Gustafson when he smashed. Yeah, that's the real John Jones. John Jones when he when he's pressed. And I think that Dominic Reyes presents that kind of a problem. And I think you're going to see a fucking killer John Jones next weekend. I think he's going to be on fire. I can't wait. That's a week from this Saturday. Yeah, I can't wait. So pumped the moment I stop feeling like this, I'll stop calling fights. But right now, man, I fucking love it. There's always fights I want to see. Always always fights I want to see. There's always something I'm looking forward to. There's never not two or three fights on the horizon that I want to see.