Joe Rogan on Anthony "Rumble" Johnson

The Rumble Johnson fight was a tough one for you to swallow too because it was in Stockholm it was this enormous event everybody was there to see you and in that fight we didn't pick it up while the fight was going on but you guys collided heads. Yeah it was a headbutt. I'm not taking anything away from Anthony Johnson that guy is a beast and he's one of the hardest hitter in the fucking sport. No doubt. I mean no one's taken anything away from him he's truly exceptional. But the thing is I was throwing my kick there and he just came in there and his forehead hit my chin. Yeah. And I just blacked out. I went down I went up again I was in the match again. But when he gets a taste of blood he just goes for it and I should just keep my guard up. I'm very like this. Right. You know I'm very lengthy and he just caught me as I'm doing all that. But isn't that one of those situations where until you've been there and you've been that hurt in a big fight like that it's like the experience is it's an alien experience. It is. It is. You don't recognize any of it. It's like you can't nothing controls your mind trying to control your legs your arms like this and that but it was just I was just disorientated man. Yeah. It was four in the morning in one of the big stadium in Sweden four in the morning we filled it up we filled it up and it was huge man and and and like I said four in the morning you know when the people told me like oh we're gonna do this I'm like no it's not gonna it's not gonna happen. How should we manage to fill this place up. Right. But still people went there to see it and it was just amazing feeling stepping out there. Well for people who don't understand why they did it to coordinate it with American pay-per-view. Yeah exactly exactly. So yeah that was it. That was it. Yeah it was rough man. It was a rough loss and now Rumble just decided he doesn't want to fight anymore which is kind of crazy. Yeah. Every now and then he thinks about it. He says he wants to come back as a heavyweight. Yeah. Yeah. I don't think he's even gonna make it to light-heavy anymore. No. It's so crazy to think that that guy fought at 170 at one point in his career. I can't even I can't even yeah I can't even see that now. Yeah I don't understand how he even did it. I mean it's just such a massive guy. His neck is like the size of his head. He has not a big small head. He has like this big round head. Yeah. And the neck is the size of his head. So he's now he's a big guy. A really big guy. I ran into him once while he was fighting 170. He was in the lobby of a hotel. I came downstairs and I go Anthony how much do you weigh? And he starts laughing. He's like 230. I was like 230. You weighed 230. You gotta get down to 170? That makes my weight cut easy man. I'm telling you that makes my weight cut. That makes my weight cut easy. His weight cut was horrific. His whole his cheeks used to suck. He has prominent cheekbones right. So like when his weight cut was fully dehydrated when his body was like really really thin. It was like horrible. It was like a skeleton. Oh shit. It's like man. That guy. That's not good for you at all. He missed weight a bunch of times too. Yeah. No going up to like table ways. It's probably the best thing he's ever done in his career. I agree. Yeah. Yeah. I was kind of stunned when he decided to retire but what he said was interesting. He said I'm not a fighter. He goes I'm an athlete. He goes I'm just really good at fighting. I don't know if that's correct though. I would see more like I like like a fighter. You know he's a great athlete but but I see him more like a like a hardcore fighter. I don't you know. Yeah. Oh we are athletes doing this. But but but he's more like the fighter. No Phil Davis is an athlete. He's an athlete but this guy he's just like it's a fighter man. I'm telling him.