Joe Rogan on Eddie Alvarez vs. Justin Gaethje

You're full? But I'm fucking beyond pumped for it is Eddie Alvarez and Justin Gagee. Justin Gagee is a fucking savage. And so is Eddie Alvarez. Eddie Alvarez is a beast. And I think a lot of people are looking past Alvarez. Alvarez had just come off of that brutal knockout loss, kind of a humiliating knockout loss to Conor McGregor. And then after that, he is involved in the no contest versus Dustin Poirier. I believe that was an eye poke. I'm trying to remember how that fight went down, but I do not. I feel like someone got poked in the eye. Either way, it's a no contest. So that obviously doesn't move him up the ladder any. And he's got to regroup. Yeah, no contest. Here it is. Yeah. Yeah. This was a... Okay, now I remember what it was. It wasn't an eye poke. It was a knee to a downed opponent. And it was a fucking phenomenal fight while it played out against Dustin Poirier. They were going back and forth. Now I remember the fight. And Poirier had Alvarez in some deep trouble and Alvarez rebounded and Alvarez, I believe, hit Dustin Poirier with a knee while he was down. Yeah. That's exactly what happened. And interesting. Yeah, see, this is what happened. Alvarez, Herb Dean was defending it saying that Alvarez didn't intentionally knee Poirier. And if I remember the fight, it was a crazy war. Alvarez had been rocked. Poirier had been rocked. Poirier was bloodied. And Alvarez hit him with an unintentional knee that could have resulted in a disqualification win for Poirier. And Poirier was saying that he looked at it as a win, which is interesting. So anyway, Poirier rebounded from that fight, obviously, and stopped Anthony Pettis in his last fight so that the division is just crazy and unbelievably hot right now. And everybody waiting to see what the fuck happens with Conor McGregor rebounding. But Eddie Alvarez, with the no contest and before that, the KO lost to Conor McGregor desperately needs a win. And he's coming in there against one of the most fucking savage guys in the division. Justin Gage showed in that Michael Johnson fight what he's made of. And a lot of people were very excited to see him inside the Octagon. He had been fighting in the World Series of fighting and looking like an absolute monster. But against what a lot of people thought was just not the same caliber of competition as the UFC offered. And so they wanted to see what would happen if he fought a real world class fighter. And what we saw in the Michael Johnson fight is a Justin Gage who fights, I don't want to say reckless, but he puts himself in danger. And it's one of the things that makes him so exciting. He forces his will on people. He's a ferocious striker and an excellent wrestler as well and just fucking puts it on fighters. He tests their will. He puts tremendous pressure on fighters. And the fight with Michael Johnson was just a pleasure to watch. Just so much fun and so fucking crazy. There was so much chaos in that fight. And a lot of people were introduced to Justin Gage from that fight. The hardcore fans had known him already from the World Series of fighting and had heard about him through the internet. But the UFC fans and the people that were watching that night, they really got a chance to be treated to just the kind of chaotic fight that is really going to bring the casual fan when they see a guy like Justin Gage fight, it's really going to make you a fan of this kid. His style, there's very few guys. Other than Matt Brown, who I talked about before, but even Matt Brown is capable of winning so many different ways. Whereas Gage, he's going to probably try to knock you out or get – I mean he's even said himself that he might get knocked out. You're probably going to see me get knocked out, he said over the next few years. He's got that mindset, this kill or be killed mindset. It's just absolutely fascinating to see this kid compete inside the Octagon because he's so fucking crazy, because he's such a fucking animal inside the Octagon. He just got this undeniable killer instinct and indomitable spirit. There's levels to this game. There's levels physically, and he's at a very high level physically, but there's also levels mentally. That's what excites me about Justin Gage, is the mental level. He just has zero quit in him and he's 100% ferocious. Him fighting a fucking animal like Eddie Alvarez, that's just a recipe for a good time. We're going to get to see that. We're going to get to see that next Saturday night live on pay-per-view.