Joe Rogan "Max Holloway is the Best 145er of All Time"

What? Sis, you're full. Tyronn Woodley had some choice words about Kobe Covington too. He was talking about Kobe campaigning hard to get the fight and talking all kinds of crazy shit about him. But Tyronn was saying, first of all, everything he's saying about our training sessions is a hundred percent bullshit. And he's like, when I get that dude in the octagon, if he ever does, get that shot. He goes, I am going to fuck him up. Kobe Covington is never going to fight again after he faces me. That's what he said. Yeah, we were talking before the Wayans. We were standing around the octagon before the Wayans, this past UFC in Detroit. And he was shaking his head. He's like, I am going to fuck that dude up. He does not understand. He's not on my level. He's talking all kinds of shit. Right in all these checks that there's no way his fucking talent can cash. And when I get him in there, I'm going to smash him. And he goes, I'm going to take my time on him. I'm going to try to hurt him. This is what he said to me. That's crazy. He goes, I have never tried to hit anyone with all my power in the octagon. And I'm like, wait, what? How is that possible? He sends people flying across the aisle. Watch his fight with J. Hereon. Oh, yeah. You can you can hit somebody harder than that. Are you sure? Because that's that doesn't seem normal. That doesn't seem right. Talking about his light kicks. I was just going to ask you, what'd you think of being there for the the Gaethje Alvarez? Jesus, that was great. Gosh. Amazing. There was two fights that night that made there was there were humbling. That was one of them. That fight was humbling like the fucking guts and glory. Watching those guys go at it. But Yancy Medeiros and cowboy all Avera might have been even crazier. I think that was the craziest fight of the night. And I believe that one performance of the night. Thank the baby Jesus. Because if it didn't, there was some criminal shenanigans foot. It was the craziest fight ever. One would get rocked and the other would get rocked. And you think the fight was over. And then the other one come back and rock the other one. And then finally Yancy won in the third round. I mean, it was just a fucking chaotic war. It was such a good fight. Just such a good fight. Two bonuses. Two fight of the night awards. That's nice. See, that's what I love about the UFC. When people really perform and lay it on the line like that. Did Aldo and Holloway win any sort of a fight of the night? I know Francis didn't, but they said they were going to really take care of it. Yeah, they were going to hook him up with some sort of a bonus. How do you not give that guy K.O. of the night? What are we doing here? What is it? What's that? It doesn't say it just says that those two got fight of the night. It doesn't say anything about anything else. Oh, okay. It says that fight got fight of the night? No, no, no, no. The Gaechy. Gaechy and Cowboy Olivera, Yancy Medeiros got fight of the night. Well, Max Holloway's performance was nothing short of masterful. Nothing short of masterful. The way he handled Aldo, the way he yelled at me after the first round, he gets done with the round and he runs, he's going back to his and he looks at me and he goes, the man is tired. The man is tired. He's a motherfucker. Dude, Max Holloway is a real fucking warrior. I mean, to the core. That guy relishes it. He loves it. When he was like chicken necking at Aldo and he's got his hands down, he's talking shit to him, stalking him, you could see it in Aldo's face like he was drowning. You can see the waves were coming and he knew he wasn't going to be able to dog paddle for too long. He's like, Jesus Christ, how am I going to keep up with this guy? The thing about Max Holloway that's so interesting is he's in a lot of ways, he has that sort of Nick Diaz approach where he's not hitting you with all of his mind. He's not throwing these hand makers unless he's got you hurt till he's got you hurt. Once he's got you hurt, then he's just fucking whipping bombs your way. But until then he's just constantly on you, just constantly peppering you, constantly on your kick, knee punch, move forward, move forward. And you're just dealing with him and trying to breathe. You don't get any breath and he just keeps that pressure on you. And he knew all those fading right now. And I'll tell you, although look good in that first round, I thought he was going to start picking it up like almost the Aldo of old with the light kicks. He should have. He should have gone, his strategy should have been almost entirely leg kick centered. And he was trying to catch him and he caught him with a couple of good punches. But all of his punches are sprints, right? And he doesn't knock you out with those sprints. Like he only has so many of those in the gas tank. You're fighting the guy that can do it for a marathon. And he can. And Max Holloway can. He is so well conditioned and so aware of his ability and not stretching himself. So when they got to the third, he started slugging it out with Aldo at the very beginning of the third. He's like, I know this guy's tired. He goes, I'm going to make him sprint with me. And you could see like as the beginning of the third round played out, Aldo was swinging wild at him. And I was watching this. I was like, I was like, this is not conservative. Like he's not conserving his energy at all. What he's doing is trying to take Max Holloway out with one shot and he's blowing out his entire wah doing this. And then you saw Holloway just coming out, coming on, coming on, just bang, bang, bang, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop. And Aldo was trying to move his head and he's using all his head movement, but he never gets a break. Yeah, it's an incredible pace that Holloway has. Incredible. He doesn't give you any space. You don't get any rest. You don't get it. There's no laying back with Holloway. Max Holloway is on you, on you, on you. I love what he said about fighting Aldo in Rio too. He goes, that's what kings do. He goes, they go to the other person's village and they take their crown. It's like, ooh, that's right. That's what they do. That's what he did. He's the baddest motherfucker. I think he's the best 145 ever. I mean, he might not agree with it yet because of the record, which I see, I see his point, but the way he fights, the, the octagon IQ that he shows his, his fight IQ, his ability to find a weakness and to see it as predatory behavior inside the octagon. I think he's the best. I really do. I just think I, it's so impressive to me that he's not like Aldo in his prime was spectacular and amazingly impressive. Like his flying knee first round knockout of Cops Swanson, the knockout of Chad Mendez. You know, I mean, he's, he's the, the Uriah Faber fight where he brutalized Uriah's leg. I mean, he's unquestionably one of the greats of all time, but in my opinion, skill wise, Max Holloway has now surpassed him.