Joe Rogan | Firas Zahabi is a Genius

The reason why I recommended Feras the hobby is first of all he's one of the smartest guys I've ever talked to. Feras is a fucking genius. Legitimate genius knows everything about MMA. I mean there's not a stone unturned and he coached GSP and I feel like your style and GSP style are very similar in that you both are very good wrestlers and you're both very good at mixing up the wrestling and the striking where you don't see anything, you don't know what's coming and you both don't have any weaknesses. You have an awesome submission game, GSP has an awesome submission game, you have great wrestling, great striking. It's very similar and I think that his experience and coaching one of the greatest of all time in George St. Pierre would just slide right into coaching someone like you. I really believe that. Yeah I think as I'm getting closer to it I'll know more when I get there. That's the last stop? Yeah that's the last stop on it. Good, that's the best stop. And kind of the longest of it too. Yeah. I kind of had already thought that. If I was a young man and I was thinking about fighting I think I'd move to Montreal. Yeah. I think he's got a special mind. I do. You know and it's not to take away from any of the brilliant coaches. I mean I think you could be a world champion with Duke Rufus who's also a brilliant guy and an amazing coach. I mean there's no bad stop for you but there's just something about you and Feras the hobby that I just feel like. Yeah when I met him and I sat next to him we had dinner together. As soon as I sat down next to him he told me everything I did wrong in a Tony fight. Like right out the gate. Bingo. Right on the money right? Yeah yeah. I mean he's but he's sharp. He's a genius man. He's sharp. He's smart. Yeah. So yeah I mean but then again Whitman I work with Whitman too and Whitman is a really experienced dude. You know he's coached so many people. He's seen so many different styles and done it himself a lot too. So you know what I love about Whitman when Justin Gage flat lines people Whitman acts like nothing even happened. Yeah. He's like he knew it was gonna happen. It's crazy like everybody's jumping and cheering and Whitman like yep. I think it's because he's seen so many. He may have been on the other side of that too where you know it's your guy getting knocked out too. So you know it's like you said it's two people going in there somebody's got to lose. So he's been around the game long enough to where he understands the other side of it too. Yes. You know he ain't gonna go crazy and you know. Yeah. Because that guy's got a family. That guy's got people that he's trying to take care of. He's got every other motivation that you got too you know. Yeah yeah really yeah. I think there's also the culture shock of moving to Montreal would be good for it too. Yeah I mean maybe. I spent some time. It's cold as fuck son. That's why I left Detroit. That's January's. Oh my god I've been to Montreal in January. It's like yikes. You go outside you got that thick fog coming out of your mouth. That's why I'm going to June. Yeah going June but it's good for you man. I think it's good for you. I feel like that that cold might it might be something to that you know the best wrestlers and everything are always from the Midwest and from that cold and you know why because they develop character. Yeah I think it is something to that. 100 percent. There's a lot of soft ass people out here in California bro. Yeah it's so easy. It's so easy to get by all my friends from Boston that come out of California people are fucking soft out here. Yeah they don't have to shovel snow. They don't have to worry about freezing to death. You know if your car breaks down in Boston you 10 miles from your house you might freeze to death. Yeah that's real. It's real you better keep a blanket in that bitch. Yeah yeah you better be tough. You better have a fucking sleeping bag and a candle. And I think it gives you like different different morals and different lives. Different character to you. You value things a little bit differently. I think so. In that cold. Detroit is the same way. It's like seven months out the year you spending that time indoors. Yeah. And it feels like your family and everything because yes you know being inside with some fucking smoke from down the street and you don't want to you know. Right. You have to count on each other too when it gets fucking cold.