Joe Rogan on Michael Bisping vs GSP, Conor vs. Floyd, WME & UFC match ups

Train by day, Joe Rogan podcasts by night, all day. So what's your prediction if Biz Bing and GSP fight? Very interesting fight. Because Biz Bing's been a battler, a warrior for a long time. He's been very active and he's very, he's a very well-honed machine right now. Whereas GSP's been out of the loop for a solid three years. No competition at all. However, he's been training the entire time. So GSP's not a guy who sits around and gets fat and gets nothing done. No, he's constantly training. But then again, he stopped because he was having memory issues and head injury. GSP? Yeah. I mean, he got hit in the head 800 plus times over the course of his UFC career. In that Hendrix fight, he got hit in the head about 10,000 times it seemed like. He was a mess after that fight. Yeah. He's been a mess after a few fights. Carlos Condit head kicked him and knocked him down. I mean, he's had some wars. Matt Serra knocked him out. It's weird. It feels like GSP, he's been the champion, but it doesn't feel like he's, doesn't have that champion respect for whatever reason. Well, it's because his last fight with Hendrix was super close. Yeah. We watched that here. And controversial. I did the fight companion. No, not that fight. I was there for that fight. Oh, you heard? Yeah, not Hendrix's last fight. I'm talking about GSP's last fight. Oh, I was talking about Biz being Hendrix. Oh, no. Biz being in Henderson. Yeah. You did the fight companion for that one. Yeah, I'm sorry. Henderson. That's when Eddie Bravo went full Tower 7. Eddie got super drunk, was worried the Illuminati was going to come and get us. And I said knockouts were better than submissions, I think. Well, a lot of people like it. But GSP's last fight with Johnny Hendrix was super close. Yeah. Super close fight. And GSP retired with the belt. Yeah. I thought he lost that fight. I mean, Hendrix. A lot of people did. Yeah. A lot of people did. Yeah. Either way, it wasn't like this big victory. Yeah. It's not like the way he beat down BJ Penn and stopped him. If he said then I'm going to retire, I've had a great time. Thank you very much. Everybody would be like, yeah, we love you, George. Right. But instead, it was a close fight. So people are like, hmm. Yeah. I don't know, man. I don't know if he got the belt. Maybe he should have went out with a loss there. Who knows? But don't you think Biz Bing doesn't have that championship type respect? He does not right now. Yeah. And the reason he does not is because he defended against Henderson, who wasn't really ranked that high. Right. And he really shouldn't have got a title shot, but it was a rematch of one of the most epic knockouts ever. Yeah. Because Henderson flatlined him and then punched him in the head while he was down and flew through the air. And that's Henderson's logo now. Yeah. Henderson's logo is literally a silhouette of his body flying through the air, ready to drop a punch down on Biz Bing's unconscious body. Yeah. And then who else has he defended? Then he defended it after he did that. Who the fuck did he just fight? No. He's fighting GSP. That's the next fight. So he defended it against Henderson. And then the next title defense is going to be against GSP. He didn't have one before Henderson? No. No, no, no. He won the title by beating Luke Rockwell. Oh, Luke. Yeah. He defended it against Dan Henderson and now he's going to fight GSP. Right. The thought is, how is this guy getting two fights that aren't Luke? Right. You mean, you look at- Number one contenders. Luke Rockhold, Yoel Romero, who's the number one contender, who's fucking terrifying. Which he should get the shot, you think. Yes. Yoel should get the shot. Yeah. Yes. Yeah. If you look at it in terms of who's the most viable contender, who's the guy that you would think would be the most threatening guy, who's the guy that might be the uncrown champion. Yeah. You've got to go with Yoel Romero. It feels like UFC is, I think they're trying to find their way, their footing a little bit with no Ronda, no Connor. So they're just going after that big, what can we sell a bunch of pay-per-views for? And GSP's a big name. No, go, please go. No, I was just asked, what's happening with Connor and that whole fight with- Floyd Mayweather? Yeah. Is that happening? They don't know. It has not been worked out yet, so it's not definitive. But there's so much money involved that they think they're going to make it happen. And that's the UFC's got to come to an agreement. He get in trouble with the UFC though, Connor? Didn't Connor, for, I don't know, not saying something and coming out and saying something a while ago or get fined or something? He got fined for throwing the water bottle, monster energy thing. Yeah, they fined him 150 grand, then they dropped it down. I think they dropped it to like 35,000. He said he'd never fight in Vegas again after that. And they're like, hey, relax. Nobody's going to be calm. Nobody's going to be calm. Because they can't go to New York. Because they're going to go to New York. It's debacle. The big factor is another factor is also that the UFC was purchased by WMA. That's an entertainment company. Entertainment company is going to try to put on the biggest show they could put on. And that's not necessarily like the number one ranked contender fighting for the title. I think that it's an entertainment. I understand it's a business. I understand. But it is also, it's extremely important that you honor the hierarchy of champion and top challenger. I think that's critical. Well, you work your way up. I mean, you pay your dues, you work your way up. You're ranked on ability. Yeah. So they're trying to manufacture big fights instead of letting big fights build themselves. Evolve. Yeah. Big fights evolve when you let a guy like Yolo Romero fight and he wins. He beats Chris Wyman by knockout. And then if he fights Michael Bisping and Michael Bisping, Michael Bisping beats Yolo Romero. Michael Bisping becomes a superstar. And it's a tough fight. It's a real tough fight. If Yolo Romero beats Michael Bisping, first of all, he looks like a goddamn superhero. So that's easy to sell. You look at his highlight reel of smashing people to the fucking moon. He's a freak. He's one of the greatest wrestlers that's ever competed. He meddled in every single international competition he entered. He beat Kale Sanderson, one of the greatest wrestlers of all time. He beat him twice. He was just a freak of freaks. Do you know who Yolo Romero is? Jamie, pull up a picture of Yolo Romero because he doesn't even look real. No, he doesn't. He's like one of those guys who are like, what is that? That's a person? Is that a real person or a CGI person? Just so jacked. Who did he? Oh, he beat, uh... He beat everybody. No, no, no. But in that last one, the flying knee. Chris Wyman. Right. Oh my God. He flatlined him. Wait, he wasn't really doing much, really? Get the fuck out of here. That's a real person. But he did this... That did not look fun. He's so jacked. The fight against Chris Wyman was sort of like hanging in the balance and then he did some flying knee. Hit him in the side of the head. I was just like, where did that come from? Pull up that video that Yolo Romero KOs, Chris Wyman. There's an animated gif of that. Oh, here we go. Go to the video. It's fucking insane. Like look how even how he fucking flies when he lands. Look how he turns around already and lands punches. Here it goes. Watch this. Boom. How recent was this fight? A couple months ago. I was in Australia. I don't think I saw it down there. He's just a freak man. That's crazy. And it cut the biggest gash on the side of his head. Yeah. See if you get a clearer video of it. Superman fly. Yeah, look at that. From like another angle. But he's just... A freak of nature and science. But he's capable of that at any second. Boom. But like the amount of force behind that, he's just flying through the air. And that's like so irregular too. It's kind of like the way like Chuck Liddell used to hit. Like real irregular. Like a flying knee to your face. Out of nowhere, doesn't he? Well he's just so explosive. So his ability to close the distance is stunning sometimes and people aren't prepared for it. Because he's such an athlete. But in that fight, it didn't feel like he had been doing much. You know what I mean? It felt like he was just kind of like, God, when is he going to get off? It was a close fight for sure. And then all of a sudden just some out of nowhere. Yeah. So whether or not Michael Bispin can beat him, like who knows? But you got to give him a chance. Oh I know. He doesn't... You got to give you all a chance. Yeah. So it seems... I don't know. It doesn't seem life isn't fair. But it doesn't seem fair that it's GSP. Well the thing is, is it a sport or is it entertainment? I mean are you just trying to put on a spectacle or is it a sport? And if it's a sport, if you're going to have the World Series, people play this guy to play that guy and then it gets to the World Series. And here's the World Series folks and this is... We've had all this whole season. We've been building to this moment and this is the hierarchy. And it's still huge. Well if it's just a show, put three of them in there. But you're all in there too with GSP and Michael Bisping. I was saying... All three. I was saying that they should have... Because you're dealing with a guy in GSP who's been out for a long time. Yeah. Have him fight Nick Diaz. He's been out for a long time too. Neither one of them is ranked. They fought before, right? Have both those guys. Yeah. Have a rematch. Yeah. That's the fight. That would get a ton of pay-per-views. Fuck yeah. People love Diaz. They love him. I don't think people even know how much people love him. I don't even know if the UFC knows how big of a star Nick and Nate are. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.