Joe Rogan on Anderson Silva vs. Israel "Style Bender" Adesanya

Yeah, that whole 185 pound division is kind of crazy because they're promising if stylebender fights anderson they're saying to anderson if you win you get a title shot and Everybody else in division is like what? What? like You think that that's like some trickery to get anderson to fight stylebender? I that's exactly what I think it is. That's exactly what I think it is I um does it they offer stylebender a title shot if he beats anderson? Dan hooker is I don't believe so and that Dan hooker Dan hooker posted that on it on his on his Instagram And I I just like I like hooker and I just had to say something I was just like look we know that style and my thought was we know when stylebender wins this fight because I really believe style when there's how Ben is gonna win that fight when he wins this fight he's not gonna get that title shot and I For me as a former fighter and knowing who anderson is and what he's done for the sport and for the UFC I'm just like I feel like that's that's that's that's so Disrespectful she asked me That's my opinion. It's an opinion. It's mine and I stand by it that that you know we want to make this young guy a star and We're gonna we're gonna sacrifice you to the wolf to get that done But Anderson still feels like he can compete at the highest level man We all gonna feel like we compete if you put enough money in front of me. I will I will fuck a beeb up Right Right you put something in front of me that I really want right I'm like that's the thing they give you a goal and give you a time period to train and prepare for it Yeah, Anderson's what 43 now? Yeah So so that's that's the thing the realm of possibilities the same age as you well Or close to it Yeah, it's you know at least 40 your olds at least yeah, he's a little towards my be 41. I mean it's not The problem with and I mean and then Anderson we started failing drug tests like okay, so he's probably struggling He's trying to get that edge You know trying to trying to recover in training so he's taking a bunch of weird supplements some of them were tainted and I Bet you if you go back to Just go back to what you used to do Go back to what it was you did when you became the Anderson silver that everybody loves you know Before before he got to the point where like before the Forest Griffin fight mm-hmm because I believe that's when it started to decline For him yeah, he still looked good, and he still still performed well, but he got away from from the fundamentals You know and that Forest Griffin fight he was able to take Forest out without the fundamentals moving his head doing doing these weird things He was popping back Fundamentals are what's the strongest thing in the game for sure that fundamental though the Forest Griffin fights an interesting example Too though because Forest had been KOed twice in training for that fight like he had no business Being in there they really and he just couldn't take a shot