Joe Rogan on Henry Cejudo vs Sergio Pettis

Oh you fall another fight in the car that's very interesting is Henry so hudo and Sergio Pettis Sergio Pettis is the younger brother of Showtime Pettis Anthony Pettis who was the former lightweight champion and Henry so hudo of course is a former Olympic gold medalist the number-two ranked flyweight in the world and Henry is coming off of an absolutely spectacular KO of Wilson Hayes. I was blown away by him in that fight. In that fight he looked like some sort of a karate master. I mean that was a it was a very very interesting fight. Before that he lost to Benavidez and Benavidez is of course one of the most experienced one of the best guys in the division and he lost a very very close fight. A fight where I've talked to his coaches afterwards and they were really pissed off by the decision. They thought Suhudo could have gotten a nod but he rebounded and he rebounded versus Wilson Hayes and looked like a completely different fighter. The thing that excites me about this fight is two things. One the potential of Sergio Pettis. Sergio Pettis is a young kid. He's one of the youngest guys in the division. He's the extremely talented younger brother of another extremely talented fighter. So he's had martial arts in his life you know most of the time growing up. He's 24 years old now. He trains under the great Duke Rufus who in my opinion is one of the very best guys in the division in terms of his ability to coach fighters. He's fucking fantastic. Duke not the division I mean I should say in the sport. Duke Rufus is just an amazing striking coach. He's a former world Muay Thai champion himself. Outstanding kick boxer and extremely knowledgeable about both kick boxing and MMA and one of the best guys in the world at training kick boxers for MMA. I mean he's just fantastic and what we've seen from young Sergio we saw him get submitted by Alex Caceres early on in his career and Alex is just slicker and caught him on the ground and then we saw him lose again to Ryan Benoit. I think that these losses especially for a young fighter are absolutely critical. I think you find out what you're really made of you and you see what you need to improve upon and in fighting tough guys early on like Alex Caceres like Ryan Benoit. I mean and we're talking about two years ago he fought Benoit. He was 21 years old then so or 22 years old he's 24 now so he's a really young kid still learning still growing on the job and has looked fantastic in his last few fights looked really good against John Moraga and looked even better against Brandon Moreno in his last fight which was a five-round unanimous decision victory. So this in my opinion is gonna be the toughest fight of his career because Henry Sahudo just has that Olympic gold medal winner mindset. The mindset of a guy like Sahudo I mean this guy is focused on being a champion 24 hours a day and if you look at the way he fought against Wilson Hayes I mean if that's indicative of the kind of improvement that this guy can make and Kyrian Fitzgibbons who is another fucking phenomenal Muay Thai coach he told me that this kid is just a sponge and just can learn so fast at a ridiculous weight and I think you're looking at athletic prowess in Henry Sahudo but I think maybe perhaps more important than that you're looking at his mind. His mind is just ultra sharp and focused and determined and he's just got that championship mindset I mean that's why he is an Olympic gold medalist in wrestling so he's got unparalleled wrestling skill in the division and then on top of that if you look at the Wilson-Hays fight you look at radical improvements in his striking and movement. I mean he looked like a combination of a prime, Leodemachita and Conor McGregor with his movement against Wilson-Hays. I think a lot of guys are realizing that karate style if you have all those other bases covered if you have great wrestling if you have submissions good takedown defense and good boxing skills as well as Muay Thai everything else that karate stance that sideways stance that we see employed all the time by Wonder Boy Thompson that we see a bunch of different fighters of course Leodemachita a bunch of different fighters use that stance inside the ark gone Conor McGregor it's a very difficult stance to deal with it's if you're good at it if you're good at that movement that in and out side to side movement Michael Venom Page has a very unusual take on that fighting in Bellator he likes to fight like that too and of course he's a former point fighting champion that style is fucking hard to deal with it's really hard for guys to judge and if you're dealing with a guy like Suhudo who's lightning fast on top of that and starts moving like that with those world-class wrestling skills with excellent striking you know classic striking boxing kickboxing very difficult to deal with I'm very interested to see what style he takes or how he approaches this fight with Sergio Pettis he's quite a bit older than Sergio being 30 that's a really interesting fight I'm very curious I just do not know how that one's gonna play out