Joe Rogan on Jose Aldo's Shocking Weight Loss

When you want to come to EOC again, do you want to go to that one in April? Yeah. Come to Brooklyn. Absolutely. So Max Holloway in Volkanowski is very interesting. Very very very interesting because Volkanowski is a tank of a man. He has a phenomenal gas tank. He puts people away. He puts tremendous pressure on guys. But Max Holloway is the goat. He's the goat. He's the greatest featherweight of all time. When Volkanowski, they have a common opponent in Jose Aldo, Volkanowski just, he beat Aldo, smothered him, beat him by decision. Max Holloway has destroyed him. Max Holloway has destroyed Aldo twice. And Aldo is another goat. I mean Aldo is one of the greatest featherweights of all time man. And now Aldo is fighting Marlon Marais. This is his first fight at Bantamweight. People are very concerned. That's up? No, down. He went to 135. He went to 35 son. Dude he looks terrible. Yeah, that's no bueno man. You never see what he looks like? See Aldo looks gaunt preparing for 135. There's photos of him wandering around, you know, with his shirt off and stuff. You get a chance. I shouldn't say wandering around. Let me see. You know, hanging around. And you see what he looks like. Yeah, there's the photos from his Instagram. Dude, he's super super skinny. Look how skinny he looks. Look at that right there. It's crazy. He did it slowly though. Look how skinny he is man. The thing about it though is that he did it slowly. So he lost the weight on purpose slowly over a long period of time. Instead of just dehydrating the fuck out of himself and dropping down, you know, from 165 to 135. What he did was drop his body weight pretty significantly. He looks quite a bit thinner than he used before. So he prepared for it over the long haul and got accustomed to being a lighter person. If you're gonna do that, that's the way to do that. The difference between dehydrating the shit out of yourself and just losing weight. But even at 135 there, I mean, I wonder. You take a hard punch to the head. It's just easier to go out. Maybe but maybe not because he's doing it correctly. So he's not gonna be dehydrated. Like TJ Dilla Shaw was the big example of where someone goes too far. You know, when he went down to 125 pounds, he looked like death. He looked terrible. Brendan actually called it, Shaw called it. He was saying, I bet he took, because TJ got busted for EPO. He goes, I bet he took it because he couldn't train. I bet he was too exhausted to train. And that's pretty much what he said. He just didn't have any energy. It was much harder than they thought physically on him. You're basically starving to death, right? If you're dropping down, TJ probably walks around the 160s or something, and then he's getting down to 45. That's rough. 35 is rough. I used to do it in high school wrestling. The thing I remember the most is having trouble not swallowing the toothpaste and then water in my mouth while brushing my teeth before those things. You literally, when it hits your tongue, your body naturally wants to, yeah. It wants anything. It starts the process itself. See, TJ look thick like a Snickers there. Yeah. Thicker than a Snickers. He's probably, in that picture, he's probably in the high 50s. Yeah, look at him. He looks like Christian Bell's Dick Cheney in that picture. I don't know. You can still see his six packs. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. That's so ridiculous. But he's with Arch Aleta, Rampage, Raymond Daniels, who's a world champion kickboxer. Is that Louis Anderson in the middle there? You son of a bitch. Son of a bitch.