Joe Rogan - Khabib Is Next Level!

Well, the problem with Nurbic Madoff obviously was the last fight before this previous spectacular fight with Barboza. He didn't make the way because he had to go to the hospital. So that's a different animal. That's like, oh, you pushed it so far that they wanted to make sure you stayed alive. So they had to bring it to a hospital. So they obviously realized there's some changes that need to be made. They made those changes and fucking hell on Friday or on Saturday night rather fucking hell. Unbelievable. That was... It's weird sometimes when you... In any sport, I don't care what it is, when you see somebody, Jordan in his prime, you just can't cover the guy. It's almost like he's the only one on the court. Yeah. Nurbic Madoff, it was like he was the only one in the cage. It was crazy. It was like everything was inevitable. Everything was inevitable. Yeah. Yeah, it's... All the beatings were inevitable. Even if you hit him, congratulations. Now you're on your ass, you're getting punched in the face over and over again. You can't get up. You're getting mauled. Like immediately... Against an excellent fighter. Excellent. I can forget Barboza is amazing. Amazing. And he made him look like he's... The look on his face when he got up, when Barboza was like, hey, you were better than me. It was almost like a... Yeah. Like a shrug. It wasn't even mad. It was just when you see somebody that much better, it's back to the drawing board. Well, I was super impressed with Barboza being able to make it to the final bell. I mean, that was amazing. Just being able to do that. That shows you what a dominant performance it was by a guy like Habib. But you also realize what a world class fighter Barboza is, that he did, keeps throwing wheel kicks in the third round and even landed one of them. It just didn't have much on it anymore. Didn't have the juice on it anymore. But fuck, man, he was still trying to win after a horrendous mauling for eight plus minutes. You know when I really look at fighters, when I really focus on them, especially the face, in between rounds, I look for that breaking moment of like, you know, Vitor Belfort, Randy Couture and he's sitting on the ground. Just like didn't even sit on the store. Sat on the ground like beat. I'm like, this guy's beat. It's when you look at them in between rounds and you see that like, what am I doing in here? That's when you know, you know, the men from the boys, mentally speaking. And you know, in Belter, a Petruchio Pitbull, I remember when he fought Daniel Strauss, he's getting beat up for like four rounds and every round he looked like Lemmy Adam. There was any one toward the end of the fourth round with a rear naked choke. He just never quits. And I always look for that breaking moment, man. That's when he really separates the guys who are mentally 100% there on those horns. I think Barbosa got beaten, but I don't think he got broken. No, I don't think so. If you think about the amount of time during that fight, he was actually getting his ass kicked. When I said eight, I think I might have said rounds, I meant minutes. I think there was like eight minutes of prolonged top time and beating in that fight. Plus, and then there's all the backward movement trying to get away, throwing those inside leg kicks and doing everything he can, everything he can to create space. But for eight fucking minutes, he never gave up. He was just or whatever it was, 15 minutes, just getting the fuck beaten out of him. He kept trying to win. He wasn't capable of doing it, but he never broke. Teddy Atlas said fighters make an agreement. I'll stop trying to win if you'll stop trying to hurt me. He never did that. He never went, just go away. Just leave me alone and I'll back up and you can beat me. He never did that. He kept throwing the whole time, which is incredible, but just no answer. How many 10-8s were there on the scorecards? Well the thing is, three different cards. One at a 10-8 every round. It was the old scoring too. The Nevada has adopted the new rules. For people who don't know, the new rules make it easier to make distinctions between a 10-9 round, a 10-8 round, a 10-7 round, which I agree. They haven't adopted that. No, Nevada has not. That's an old school 10-8. Yeah. It's an ass whooping 10-8. There were some ridiculous scorecards that seemed to indicate to some of us that even though the new rules are better and the states haven't adopted them, the judges have decided to adopt them in some sort of a weird, non-declared way. Because it definitely seemed there was a much larger disparity in the numbers in the scorecards. But Nurmagomedov just mauled him, mauled him. I mean mauled him in a way that you go, oh God. You're not even there. He's just on such another level that the odds of you beating him drop so substantially after the first minute and a half. After you get, you saw the look on Barbossa's face, it was like two minutes plus into the first round and he's trying to get up and you see the look on his face. He's like, fuck. How am I going to deal with this? This is so next level.