Joe Rogan on Khalil Rountree's Transformation

But I do wish I can't wait till I get to a point where I can have the resources to go film a lot more content because I love doing this. Yeah. Like I would love to go to when you had Khalil Rountree on and I had commented on a comment on YouTube like I would love to do an anatomy of Khalil in Thailand. I'll hook it up. I would love to just go there. You want to go to Thailand? Do you know Khalil? Nah, I never met him. He's amazing. Just go. I ain't sitting on our edge in those damn buildings like he was doing. He crazy for that. He's crazy. But the transformation that guy's made as a fighter from when he went to Thailand, he's back there now. He's in Bangkok. He's a beast, man. That Eric Anders fighter, I was like, holy shit. Eric is a tough dude. He's as tough as it. He does one thing Khalil said. He never even winced. I mean, he is eating leg kick after leg kick from a guy who kicks as hard as anybody I've ever seen. That's crazy. Khalil is so fast. When I was watching him throw those kicks, I was like, where? Who was this guy? He was brutal. How did you turn into this guy? Like you see his earlier fights and you see this? So he beat Gogon. Gogon's, what was his name? Gogon's aki. Not Gogon's aki. And then he lost, right? Yeah, he lost to Johnny Walker. Johnny won the K. And then he went and reinvented himself again. Johnny caught him with an elbow in the clinch, man. He caught him with one of these. One of these elbows in the clinch and he KO'd him. And, you know, he would just said, OK, I have to really learn Muay Thai. So fucking I'm going to Thailand. I know. He went to Thailand and I followed his Instagram journey, you know, watching all his training footage and he just fell in love with Thailand. And then he came back and I'm like, this motherfuckers fight like a Thai. Looking like Sagit from Street Fighter. But like a jacked muscular, 205 pound Thai. He used to be a fat boy, too. Crazy. That's crazy. And the nicest guy. Yeah, he couldn't get a nicer guy. It's nuts to see that transformation, like to see him go from like this guy. It was chubby and then this world class fighter. Well, just that too. But the just the difference between him and well, that's hard to say, right? Because the Gokan Sakhi fight was real quick. He just cracked him in the left hand and Khalil's very fast. And then see him getting KO'd by Johnny Walker. But then to see I saw his other fights, I've seen many fights of his, but see that the transformation. I'm like, what the fuck? The kicks, man. It was the kicks that he put it all together and he was fighting Thai style. It's like he was one of the most representative of Muay Thai I'd ever seen in MMA.