Joe Rogan on Possible Pacquiao vs. McGregor Fight

The J.Rogan experience. But that's also because he's from the Philippines. In the Philippines. Look how good he gets. Look, perfect position on the seven. Watch this. Seven to the eight, eight to the ten. And he's out. Ten ball. Watch this. Pop. If you watch how he strokes the ball, like everything's super precise. I mean, look at his position. That's great. He's a professional. Like a legit professional. So if Manny decides to retire from fighting and goes into professional pool, he might win some world championships. Like no bullshit. I mean, he's still fighting actively. They're actually talking about him fighting Conor McGregor right now, which is kind of bonkers. Look at that. Gets out. Beautiful position. Why do you say it's kind of bonkers? Because you think Manny would dominate Conor? Right? Is that a question? You're talking about one of the greatest boxers of all time. I agree. I was one professional boxing match. I agree. And I'm a huge Manny Pacquiao fan. But? You're a butt cover? Here is a butt cover. I can't believe it. The other week I rewatched McGregor Mayweather since it's been like done. I just was on my Showtime app and I wanted to watch some boxing. It popped up and I clicked on it. And I did not remember. I remembered Conor shocking me with how good he did. I did not remember it being as close as it truly was. Let me explain something. The reason why it was close is because Mayweather let him blow his wad. Right. He just let him. Look, he clipped Mayweather with a legit left uppercut early in the fight. And I was kind of stunned. I was like, wow, that's really legit. Watch this. Here we go. See what Conor, look at that. If you see it, watch this left uppercut. If you see it. I don't think they replay it. It's really quick. So let's rewind a little bit so just so I could see it because it's really, really good. I mean, I know. Look at that left uppercut. Here's the thing. Mayweather had to figure out Conor's timing because what Conor is, Conor is not a professional boxer. Okay. So because he's not a professional boxer, he's not as efficient and he's going to get tired easier. Mayweather is one of the greatest, if not the greatest boxer of all time. I say there's a real good argument. He's the greatest of all time because he's undefeated. 50 and 0 and really only been hurt by Sugar Shane Mosley and Maidana, two guys in a spectacular career, 50 and 0 and just gets hit less than anybody. And he's super smart about how he sets up fights. He sets up one of these, he does his talks a mess of shit and gets everybody wanting to root for him to lose. He'll show you all his Rolls Royce's, he'll show you all his money, he'll show you all his watches and everybody's like, he's going to go broke. He's going to go broke, but he never does. He keeps making money. He keeps making money. So because if you look at his style, he's got a brilliant style. His style is take the minimal amount of damage, find your openings and then establish your game and then dominate. And that's what he's done to everybody. That's what he did to Manny Pacquiao and their fight. And Manny Pacquiao apparently had a fucked up shoulder, but that's what he did to Ricky Hatton, dominated Ricky Hatton at the time was one of the best in the world. And a guy that a lot of people were interested in seeing how he would do against Mayweather. And then the second fight with Maidana, you get to see the brilliance of Mayweather because he knew he got clipped in the first fight. So he digested all of Maidana's movements and what he did wrong in the first fight. And he came out in the second fight and just put on a clinic. He's the best of all time. But Connor is a freak. He's an explosive guy. He's so fast. And there's no remedy for that other than getting a guy tired. So what Mayweather was doing was boxing with him, but preserving. Being safe, got clipped a couple times, realized that Connor could punch. But just drag him into deep water. Drag him into deep water. And that's what a guy like Mayweather would do. He's the most intelligent in terms of his overall strategy to preserve his health yet to always win. I mean, he's the most intelligent. He's so good. All the greats have suffered losses and setbacks and accept him. Yeah. Accept him. We don't even know what it's like. I mean, we don't even know how he would recover. We know he's had tough fights. He's had a couple of tough fights. But dude, he's so goddamn good. He's so protected. He knows where to be and where not to be. He's so composed. Like, look at that. Look at that movement. Look how he moves away from everything. So you're punching at air and you're still threatening, but you're not really hitting him. And he's making you throw punches. And occasionally you clip him with a shot as he's moving away and he rolls with a lot of shit. So it's really you got to be a guy like like Sugar Shane Mosley clipped him, really clipped him, like really hurt him. And he just grabbed a hold of him, held on to him and eventually started kicking Sugar Shane's ass. It just took time. He's if you're a young boxer and you want to know what it's like to be a 41 year old and still be at the top of your game, you got to be like him or like Bernard Hopkins. And Bernard Hopkins was at the top of his game. He was older. He was like in his 40s. Like he was I think he was 36 when he beat Felix Trinidad and a lot of people like Bernard Dunn, it's over. Felix Trinidad, Tito Trinidad is the future and he let Felix Trinidad on fire. And then the same thing with Kelly Pavlik. He lit Kelly Pavlik on fire. I was not expecting that. We were expecting that to be Kelly Pavlik's big like return. He got smashed. Bernard Hopkins is a national treasure. He's because what he looked at that kind of pops him with that jab and that was uncomfortable. But it's like he's like, look how calm he is. Stop back that up. Back that up a second. Look how goddamn calm he is. Watch his jab come to Floyd's face. He doesn't even blink. It touches him in the nose, but he knows it's not going to hurt him. Look at this. Watch this. Look at this. Look at this. He doesn't even move. He's a master of distance. He really is a master of distance. Bernard was a master of distance too. And Bernard was a different kind of style, different kind of defensive style. Bernard would frustrate guys a lot. He would clench with them, tie you up, make it very physical. And guys get real frustrated and they didn't know what to do and they just wanted to fucking start winging punches. And then you'd get right in your face again and clench ahold of you, but then break with you and catch you with a left hook. Break, catch you with a right hand. Always defensive, always protected, always disciplined. Fucking your opponent in boxing is one of the interesting things, right? Like Holyfield Tyson. It's crazy. Everybody remembers the ear bite, but not a lot of people talk about the massive amount of clenching and head butts that Holyfield was landing on him in that fight. Oh yeah. It's very clear when you watch it again. Episodes of the Joe Rogan Experience are now free on Spotify. That's right. They're free from September 1st to December 1st. They're going to be available everywhere. After December 1st, they will only be available on Spotify, but they will be free. That includes the video. The video will also be there. It'll also be free. That's all we're asking. Just go download Spotify. Much love. Bye bye. Mmm. Mmm. Mmm. Mmm. Mmm. Mmm. Mmm. Mmm. Mmm. Mmm. Mmm. Mmm. Mmm. Mmm. Mmm. Mmm.