Joe Rogan on the Status of Cody Garbrandt vs TJ Dillashaw

Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day! I would love to see the fight, it's a ridiculous fight. So what is, has Mighty Mouse had no to it? Is that what happened? He straight up was like, ain't happening. Wow. The UFC wants it to happen, he's like, no I'm good. It ain't happening. Ray Bork's the next contender. Isn't that interesting that he can make those calls too? I mean, it's one of those weird things. It's like in boxing, you know, you have mandatory challengers, and then, you know, then you try to make super fights. In the UFC, it's like, they're like, hey, we've got a fight for you. And he's like, I'm the champ. Well, but it's rare, right? Like if you only had one title defense, you have to be like, you better get the fuck up and play with us. You know what I'm saying? It is. But it's a cluster fight because right now, like, you have to have order. Like, I'm all about super fights, we have to have order. Otherwise, you know, think about if TJ went down there, then what happened to the Cody Garbamp fight? What happens with DJ? You know what I'm saying? But this Conor McGregor kind of phenomenon, everyone's trying to do it. Yeah. Well, I think TJ just went through a huge camp and he wants a fight. You know, I mean, he's gone through this giant camp getting ready for Cody. I get it. And you know, Cody, they were trying to pressure him to fight. They even sent him down. I don't know why they sent him down to Germany. They sent him to Germany to get the same shit you can get in Santa Monica. How weird is that? Well, Dana doesn't believe that it's the same and I don't understand that. So what is wrong with Cody? He's got a back issue. Yeah, he's got a back issue. What is it? Do we know? He's got something with his disc and he needs time off. He needs spinal decompression and he's got the regeneche and he went and got a full treatment. They say he'll be ready by September, October. Yeah, I mean, got to wait maybe, but you have to absolutely make sure it heals first. I sent him a bunch of information. I sent him the reverse hyper machine, send him some stuff on spinal decompression. And he's also talking to Dr. Davidson who they're starting to do some stuff. He's brilliant. Yeah, he's brilliant. They're starting to do some stuff now in the UFC where the stem cell doctors are now going to inject stem cells into discs and they're going to regenerate disc tissue. That's cool. It's amazing. Does it work? Yes. Oh, yeah. Yeah, they've got studies that they've done enough of them now that they have some real good evidence that it does regenerate the same way it regenerates cartilage and ligaments. But there's a lot of times with the injuries where sometimes that's not going to be enough. You're right. It depends on the injury. A lot of times those stem cells, it's just sometimes you're fucked. Yeah, I also read that there hasn't been that much conclusive evidence, for example, that it grows. When you shoot it into something, I've read it doesn't necessarily regenerate sometimes. Well, it's very difficult to say why it works on some people and why it doesn't work on other people. Case by case. Yeah, case by case. But I think one factor is whether or not you come back too quick. And that's what Cody did. Cody got the stem cells and then started working out like four days later. You can't do that. That's not smart. You can't do that. Look, he's got a fight. He's got a big title fight. And I think it actually took two weeks off or something like that, but you need like months off. You need a lot of time off. You need to have your body heal. It's a very difficult area to heal. And a lot of people don't do it correctly. And then they wind up getting some serious atrophy where the nerves get pinched, the swelling and all the inflammation. And Cody needs to take it slow. Come back in that TJ fight to be there. But you can't rush that fight.