Joe Rogan on Floyd Mayweather, "He's the Best Ever"

Usek. Alexander Usek. You know I'm boring and I'm always watching thought fights, even if it's in Russian and reading the subtitles. And there's one about Alexander Usek. You say he's boring? No, I'm boring. I just sit there watching fights all the time. That's just what I do. But there's a video of Usek and he was saying about now people aren't moving the feet. He said, you watch the American styles and the British, they're all like doing this and the Philly shell and stuff like that. They're not moving the feet anymore, which I found was really interesting. Because if you look that the footwork is there, footwork is so superior to a lot of people. Yeah, him and Loma. Him and Loma, when he fought Tony Bell, you put up a great performance against him, but he just put him in a position and the end of it, he was fucked. Yeah, not many people realised what he'd actually done either as well. He'd put him there and he were waiting and waiting and waiting. And when he got him there, he knew he couldn't get out and he'd bang. It would have been amazing if we got a chance to see Floyd versus Loma when Floyd was in his prime. That would have been fucking incredible to see. Which style superior? Yeah, because Floyd would move towards you like this. He would just get right up on you and they'll be trying to like move on the back of him. So I would have been amazing. Like I think you think it was one that when you said he was talking to someone where he was Mayweather, pretty boy Floyd and money Mayweather. It's like two different fighters really money Mayweather. Yes, the pretty boy Floyd was better and he was more on his feet, sharper on his feet, more aggressive. Yeah, more aggressive. We were a fighter. He was with them right hands when he fought Philip and doing it. He would like six right hands like what he did to Gotti and stuff like that. He was right up to the body. That was a horrific. I remember watching that. I remember thinking fucking hell. He was executing him. No desire. I mean no business being in the ring with him. Yeah, I'll just show you how good Floyd really is. Yeah, he's awesome. You know, I mean people just because the fact that he's won decisions by you know playing it safe people that don't get excited about him and recognize him with the all-time greats. He's the best ever. Yeah, I believe so. I believe so. Absolutely schooled him. You know what, shut him down. He just absolutely changed Canelo style. You look at the way Canelo fight Daniel Jacobs. Fucking so much head movement and so elusive now. Yeah, he learned. Yeah, you know, what do you think about Canelo going up and fighting Kovalev? Kind of crazy. You know what? So big. You know, I don't think I'm rubbish at predicting fights. I am. I watch all this. You're rubbish at predicting fights. How bad are we? For Americans, that means he's not good. Sorry, I'm terrible. I'm terrible at that. He's rubbish. No, I'm really bad at predicting fights. We have a boxing group and what's out the boxing thing it's called and I always get it wrong. You guys use WhatsApp. That is such a fucking British thing. You know the one in America uses WhatsApp. We have groups. No one knows what the fuck that is. I think the key for Kovalev is his jab. I think the thing is everyone thinks that he's easy to hit to the body. But Andre Ward was amazing and slipping underneath that jab. He was so good at that. He's just a king amongst normal people. He was tested in his last fight. What's that dude's name? Anthony Yard. In round eight, he was gone in round eight. He did well to recover from that. Fucking tag in round eight. I mean, it looked bad. It looked like he was a couple punches away from being stopped. Saved by belly. 20 more seconds he might have gone. I think you're getting him at the right time. I think Kovalev is still in it with his jab. He's better now with Buddy McGurk because he beat Alvarez after that. I thought he got lost to Alvarez and he fought Alvarez again. He looked great. But against Yard, a young eight round eight. Yard is massive as well compared to Canelo. But he still stops. He didn't have enough experience. That's really what it is. You know, in 18 fights, 18 knockouts. Wipe floor of everyone. Never been in that deep war. Never been at world level. And he put in a good account of himself, but like he did dangerous as fuck after that fight. He's going to live from that experience and understand like, wow, his conditioning is probably a little off. Maybe he needs to lose a little bit of muscle mass. Yeah, he needs to put in more running. But goddamn, he's good. He's a scary, powerful kid. He's a scary, powerful kid. He's a scary, powerful kid. He's a scary, powerful kid. He's a scary, powerful kid. He's a scary, powerful kid. He's a scary, powerful kid. He's a scary, powerful kid. 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