Joe Rogan on How Special Jon Jones and Anderson Silva Are

Because now people get to see like, hey look, John Jones was out for all that time for other problems and then for the drug problems. Yeah. Like this is a lot of money that guy lost. John probably lost tens of millions of dollars. Yeah. You know? But he's still young. Yeah. He's still young and he's still, you know, hasn't hit his prime yet. I don't think. No. I think also all that knowing that it can all be taken away from you probably met like tempered him. Yeah. Like put him in a better place where realize like I still have this gift of incredible talent. I mean he's just a natural born fighter. For sure. He just knows how to fight. Some guys they have all the technique, all the talent, but they don't know how to put it together. John knows how to put it together. Yeah. He's just, he just, that's his, that's his jam. He just goes out there and he can, he just does things on the fly that nobody would ever think of that works. Yeah. He tries things out. Watch him train cause he's just super lasered in and focused and there's nothing, you know, there could be, the building could be getting bombed and it wouldn't matter. He'd just be on the bag working on his technique. Yeah. I believe it. It's really cool to watch. Yeah. Well, he's, he's the outlier, right? I mean, there's a, there's special fighters. There are outliers in, in the sport. And for our era, it was like Anderson Silva, Mighty Mouse, John Jones. Yeah. And there were also outliers where you just watch him. You just go, Jesus Christ. Like Anderson, when he was in his prime, you would watch him and you would watch him set guys up. And it's, he just, it's almost like he had cheat codes. Like you could just see what they were doing. Yeah. He was just like, Oh, I do this and you do that. I do this and you do that. Okay. Well, I'm going to do this and I know you're going to do that and pop. There it goes. Yeah. And he would just figure guys out. It was wonderful to watch though. I feel like he opened up, opened up like a door for all of the rest of us fight. I feel like with any good fighter, when you watch them fight, it opens up a door in your own mind. Like, Oh, like that's possible. I can do that. And so I feel like what Anderson Silva did, did that a lot with his movement, with his head movement, with his variety of, of punches and kicks and the angles at which they came in from, you know, and I don't know. I feel like Anderson Silva did that. I feel like Rhonda did that with her judo. I feel like Machida did that with his karate. And then, you know, I can go down the list of everybody, but I feel like it kind of like goes in cycles, you know? And I mean, it's great for me because I can watch them and I can implement new things. I feel like that's why I've been able to be in the game for so long and still continue to grow and evolve because I get to watch other people and the things that they do and like add that to my, to my tool list, you know? Yeah. It changes the expectation of what's possible, right? I think with Mighty Mouse, that was one of the best examples of that because when I would watch Mighty Mouse fight, I would be like, show me someone who's better. Show me, show me someone who's ever been better than this guy. Like I've never seen anybody move better than this guy. Like he doesn't get hit or if he gets hit, it's rare. Like every three or four fights, someone catches him. Like John Moraga caught him with a good straight punch. Like that, that's like, that was the last I remembered. I'd like to see him run it back with Suhudo for sure. I would too. That was such a close fight. Very close fight. And he kind of blew my mind how like nonchalant he was about it all. Like at the end he's like, whatever. But that's him. DJ is just a special guy and he's another one who's like, couldn't be a nicer guy. Like if you didn't know that he was one of the best fighters that's ever walked the face of the planet, you'd go, oh, this friendly guy. He seems, he's so nice and normal. He talks like he's articulate. He doesn't talk like a mean person. It's just, it's a great, it's a great example of like something that's contrary to the stereotypes that people think of when they think of cage fighters. Yeah. You know, someone who's fighting it, which is a weird word, right? Like Kate, like it's, do you think cage fighting? You do that? Yeah. Like you're a cage fighter. You do UFC. Yeah. You do UFC. Yeah. Yeah.