Joe Rogan on Francis Ngannou KO'ing Junior Dos Santos

Did you see Francis and Gano knock out Junior Del Santos? Yeah, they didn't think it was a real knockout. He just blushed him. Look at him. He hit him and he went down and held his head. Let him fight it out with him. Listen, that fight was over. You gotta listen to me. That fight was over. Did he hit him that hard? Yeah, it doesn't matter. The scary thing is he just clipped him. He clipped him. He clipped him, rocked him, put him down, pounded on his head, and Junior just couldn't even move. He just laid there and take it, and they stopped it quick. It was 100% legitimate. 100% legitimate knowledge. I saw it between you and I that this would go a little longer. I thought that he was a seasoned veteran. I thought that he would go at least take him to the third round and try to nullify his power. By the third round, you can't keep throwing those fucking aim makers. I thought he was going to wrestle him a little bit. It was not what I anticipated. It was not the game plan I thought. I got off stage and it was starting. As I walked into the green room, fucking, they were going. And I was so fucking happy. I'm like, let me watch this. I go, I think Junior has a shot here. As I thought that he was already on the floor holding his fucking floor. Junior had a good start where he was kicking the leg, especially the lower part of the leg. You could really fuck someone up with that. Right, right, right. He knocked him off balance. He knocked him off balance. And that can really fuck you up, man. Really mess up your movement. And if that was the case, if we was able to mess up his movement and get him to miss a little bit, get him so that he was having a hard time moving correctly and keep chewing on that leg, then maybe there would be openings for him to jump in with some punches. The problem is when they're both on the outside, Francis is bigger and the consequences are way more grave. If Francis clips you, it's nighty night. I don't care who you are. He's so confident in it, too. He moves forward and he's going to throw everything full speed. The first round with him is extremely dangerous because he's just trying to take you the fuck out. It takes a guy like Stipe. Stipe Miocic saw what he was doing. And what he did was just ride with it. Just moved away from it, kept his hands up. When Francis was coming after him, he used good defense. And he kept moving and kept picking away at him, picking away at him, picking away at him, taking his shots when they were there, and then started wearing Francis down, taking him down, beating him up, and then just dominated him. Clear cut, unanimous decision for five rounds. It takes a guy like that, a guy like Stipe, that has the mental fortitude to stick to a game plan, not panic in the firefight. Because that's what happens with Ngano. You're like, Jesus Christ, I'm going to see lights. Any second now, I'm going to see a big flash and I'm going to be out cold. Any second now, it's coming. And you see the reaction they have to him. They fight different. They fight different with him than they do with anybody else. Because the consequences are so grave. You watch the way he knocked out Alistair over him. The consequences are so grave. So everyone's scared, no matter, it's normal. Everyone's scared to fight. At least there's going to be some anxiety or fear. Your heart rate's going to get checked. Your adrenaline's going to be pumping. But it's even more so if the consequences are more grave. If you're going to fucking take a skateboard down a small hill, you're not freaking out. But if you take a skateboard down like Four Mile Canyon, what is that Four Mile and Boulder? What is one of those crazy roads that goes Sunshine Canyon? If you're going to take a skateboard down that, going 50 miles an hour, you're going to shit your fucking pants. You're going to try to land this thing right, try to figure out how not to die here. Because the consequences are so much graver. You're going to be more jacked. And that's what happens to these guys when they fight Francis. The consequences are so grave. They make mistakes. And then with Junior, he reached for an overhand right. He just really, really extended himself. And you can't do that with Francis. The scary thing is it's true with Crocass. Everybody has a game plan, then they get punched in the face. That's Mike Tyson. Mike Tyson said that. I think it's on Gayo that once you get that first point to fight. I only saw two fights. The funniest one was the first one against a kid from Dallas. Props to him. He went up against like a lieutenant, the KKK. The guy drew blue on his face at the weigh-in. And they almost got into a little scuffle in the weigh-in. He had no fucking love in his face. He didn't smile one time. He was definitely a member of the KKK. And this little black dude from Dallas came in. And he did a spinning back kick. And that dude, it was all over him. I don't know who you're talking to me. First fight on the card, the main card. Which fight? Defeated from the one before he really makes that big jump. But once he gets it, the guy kept doing spinning back kicks on him. The second one, he was right in his back. This guy just hates black people. Who? The guy on the right? No, that's Paul Craig. Yeah, yeah. That guy there? Paul Craig is great. No, he's probably great. It's a fucking joke, Joe Brody. But did you see him with a real person? He went in with a tough face. You know, like fucking the guy from, he went in there like fucking Braveheart. He's a tough guy. Paul Craig is a good guy too. Wait till you see the fucking fight. I'll see it. No, it was great. He just, the guy waited for the second one. And when the foot landed, he was right behind him. Not being no more time. Click. Guy turned around and he hit him with a fucking drop in right hand. You could see his feet just go like, you know when you come? Yeah. Are your feet just pointing? Same thing. It looked like he came. He just went, Jamie's got it. Oh, Jesus. Yeah, he was, bah, that's the first one. So right away, he timed it. Bah, that's a fact. Fire. Pah, la binga. Pah, pah. That's it. Oh man. Look at us. The last one. Yeah. While the guy was already out. Tremendous. And look at how free he was stepping. Boom. Boom. There he goes. Boom. Boom. There he go. He's probably right now reading fucking Malcolm X's biography. Jesus. You know what I'm saying? That was ferocious. Yeah. That was. That was ferocious. I wonder why people want to spin that much. You know, those like that. I hate all that shit. Spinning punches. Why are you giving your back to a killer? I never understood it. Well, that's not what I'm saying. I'm saying if you're not that good at it, he doesn't have like a really fast. We didn't commit to it. Barboza. Okay. As in Barboza, wheel kicks people and puts them on Pluto. He's spinning back, kicks you to the body. I mean, he's his kicks. His spinning kicks are fucking insane. But these guys are not that good. Like what I'm saying is like Paul Craig, that's not a specialty. He's more of a grappler. I mean, he can strike obviously. He's a good striker, but I wouldn't think that he would want to throw spin kicks. He's not like a Taekwondo guy. I don't. If you don't do Taekwondo for 10 years, why are you spinning kicking in the UFC against an athletic guy? You know, all those things I hate when they even that reverse punch when the guy keeps doing it and doing it. I'm like, you know what? Choke him. Bust him in the fucking head. See, when you're talking about like Ensign Barboza, no, those are tremendous. He landed on Dan Hangman, kept fucking kicking his body. Those spinning back kicks just fucking insane. You got to commit to that spinning back kicks. You're my commitment.