Joe Rogan - Masvidal Should Fight for the Title

Is Nick taking fights? He announced on his Instagram that he has big news about a fight. On his Instagram story, I guess some... Did you see his interview with Ariel? Yep. What'd you think? Uh, what'd you think? I didn't think you looked happy. No. I thought, you know, it was real troubled and a lot of rambling. I mean, a lot of thoughts, trying to get out of his head. A lot of rants. You know, I mean, I think, I don't... it's like... Have you ever watched an interview and been like, oh, damn, that was... With him? Yeah, like, that was super clear. I mean, I don't think that's his jam. You know, his jam is fucking people up. They talk about that. Him and Nate, they're just like, ah, it's a little... I know. It's tough, because, again, we kicked this podcast off with CT and stuff like that. So it's like, is that a combination of him fighting? Is that what's going on there? Those are the years of the wars? Or is that just... Is that just him? We don't know. But I don't know him well enough. Me neither. Because, you know, that are in that same era. They're having real problems now. Big time. I mean, you gotta remember when he was fighting in Strike Force. God, you remember his fight with Paul Daley? Oh my God, dude. Jesus Christ, dude. How about his cyborg fight? How good was he, man? He was so good. How about his Frank Shamrock fight? Holy fuck, man. It's a shame what happened with him and his brother in the UFC. We didn't get enough of it. Well, the big thing... Well, Nate didn't get appreciated enough. And after the... And he got fucked? Yeah. And I had always said that after the Connor fight, one of the reasons why those fights were so big was Nate. And for whatever reason, no one was putting that together. I'm like, this guy's a superstar. People go crazy when they see him. Like this is not a regular fight. He's real as fuck and he smokes weed. He's a stoner champion. And then he says fuck you to the man. Everyone can relate to that. Yeah, I get that. And even the vegans love him because sometimes he follows a vegan... He checks all the boxes for a lot of reasons. See, he's like... He's got so many good things and he's tough as shit. And he'll fight anybody. And he's been a veteran. He's been fucking fighting forever. What did you think of his fight against Mazvidal? We haven't talked in a long time, dude. I know Mazvidal's so good, man. He's so good. I thought Mazvidal got out of the three rounds. I thought it was best case for Nate too, that that doctor stopped the fight. Because I thought Mazvidal was setting up to finish him. And Nate's never been finished, so... He has been finished. Josh Thompson finished him. That's right. But I'm saying it was going that way. Yeah, it was best case scenario where he could be like, dude, what the fuck? He doesn't lose any of that swag that he went into. Yeah, well, the Josh Thompson fight was more competitive up until the moment Josh landed that high kick. Correct, that high kick. It was a good fight. I keep forgetting that. Josh was still winning that fight. I have to go back and watch it again. It was more competitive though. It was more competitive. Because this Mazvidal fight, I didn't find it that competitive. When they got on the mic and went, oh, rematch went, no, there's no way. And when Dana was like, no, that's not happening. I was like, oh, he gets it. Look, it was certainly competitive in that Mazvidal was in a fight. It wasn't like he ran him over. No one's going to hide him over. But that first round was devastating. Mazvidal is fucking good, man. He's fucking smart. He sees things and he can act on things that other guys just, they just either don't have the ability to, or they don't throw themselves in the fire correctly like he does. And then he gets out good. His defense is on point. He's getting at everything. He stands straight up too. He's got a totally different style. Like when you see Mazvidal stand, like he's hardly ever crouching. He's not scratched down, no. Dude, he stands straight up. He's got so much confidence in his wrestling takedown defense and his striking and his Octagon IQ that when he puts it all together, he's able to fight with his best stand up stance. You know, he's fighting like, and he makes you aware very clear, very quickly that you're in danger with his hands. He's throwing bombs at your fucking head. Think about his experience, man. Think about the guys he's beaten. So now he's here. So you know, when you talk to him, he's like the belt, fuck the belt. I get the BMF title. He's like, Colby and Kamara are just that they're third or fourth options for me, man. I'm looking at Nick Diaz. I'm looking at Connor, you know, they're just, he's like, I don't care about the belt, man. I see why he would say that, but I think it would be a real shame if right now in his prime of primes, he didn't fight for the title. I just feel like he's so close and that would be, he's huge right now. Huge. Huge. Nick or Connor? No. Interesting. No. Well, I want to see first, no matter what Colby and Usman. And you're getting that. Yes. That's guaranteed. Super excited about that. Phenomenal fight. Once that's done, I want Masvidal to fight for the title. Whoever's got the belt, I think if Masvidal and Nick Diaz don't fight on the undercar, I don't know if it's going to fight. If they actually made that. I have no idea. I have no idea. I know they want it. And his management said the USC has reached out to Nick and they're trying to figure that out. If they do make that fight happen, I mean, of course I'm going to be excited to see it, of course. But my thoughts are that right now we're experiencing Masvidal in this very strange zone where you see fighters enter into it, whether it's through this rededication or refocusing of his intent and his discipline. You know, you know a story how we went and did that reality show? He came back and was like. He didn't have any food, man. He saw this fucking South American reality show. He had to go to this village and ask for food. He also said he got like he had time to like get out from and like sit back and think about everything going on. I was like, all right, this is what I want to do. And then came back, was like, let's do it, man. Then just he became this superstar. And I just, you know, when when when I meet those guys and the officer, I know the store and you get around them, you just have this sense of just like, I'm so happy for them. That's why I talk about a Nick Diaz fight for Jorge and I talk about a Conor McGregor fight because you're not the title. Like Kamaro and Kobe, they're not making real money, man. Do you don't think that the Kobe that Kobe is going to bring in a lot of people? No. Well, a record would say he does it. And I love Kobe's fantastic fighter. But as far as ticket sales and pay pervious? No. Let me tell you something does from the UFC, from the UFC. This Kobe was one big win right now. Like, see, he hasn't fought in a while, right? He fights Robbie Lauer before that. It was a whole year. Yes. There hasn't been a lot of activity. Him and Dana hate each other. But his crazy shit talking with his $3 suit and his fucking maggot hat and his book. And the strippers. If he gets through it right. Yeah. And the strippers. If he gets through and he beats Kamaro Usman and he and it gets on the Internet and it becomes like a thing, he could be the next huge superstar. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.