Joe Rogan On What It's Like Watching a Friend Fight

What I want to see more even than the DC thing, I want to see Francis and Ganu's Deep A2. Because Francis and Ganu just destroyed Kane and Junior Dos Santos, who if you guys remember, just a few years ago. Those were the guys. Those were the guys. That was Kane and Godzilla right there. That's the heavyweight division and he just destroyed both of them. He looks like he got his confidence back. He looks like, you know, like I want to see that rematch. Yeah, I'm terrified for everybody who gets in the off-guard against that guy. Every time he fights somebody, I'm like, Are you Ganu? Yeah, because I remember I still have like shell shock from watching Alistair Overeem get hit with that left hook. I remember- Oh, that was the hardest knockout I've ever seen. I remember thinking like, no one's going to survive that. It looked like the back of Alistair Overeem's head touched his ankles. Yeah. Like he just snapped back. Oh, dude. I was like, no one, everyone's going out from that. Everyone's going out cold. That's the thing with the heavyweight, you just have to like have so much respect because it's like, holy shit, dude. Like, you're getting in there and it's just like, at any moment, you're just gone. You know, I mean, I'd rather fight a heavyweight than like 135 pounder though, just to be hit a thousand times in the head. That's the punch. That's the punch. Bro. That should be a t-shirt. Like just the silhouette of that. It's interesting you say that with DC, where you're like, I just know in like, in as little as we know, Mickey Gall, as much as like we've been friends with him for a short amount of time, even, like when he fights, there's some different like stakes on it as a buddy, you're like- And you must see that a lie and you're calling it. Like you can't really put much- It's hard for me when cowboy fights. I root against this thing actually. It was really hard when Brendan was fighting. That was really hard. Cause I'm real tight with him. We're really good friends. And when he wasn't really doing it anymore, he was still in it, but he wasn't really like 100% in. He was thinking about other things. He was thinking about when he gets out. He wasn't, he didn't have the same focus and intensity and training as he used to. That's hard. That's not the sport to do that in. No, it's hard. Whenever you're thinking about getting out, get out. Get out because there's people that aren't thinking about getting out. And you got to think about what we were talking about earlier. Mike Tyson in his prime, angry at everything. Like if you're thinking about getting out and you run in front of a guy like that, or a girl like that, there's just female kick boxes that are like that too. They're just fucking vicious, man. And they're waiting. You think you're half in, half out, thinking about cheerleading, wham. Shin to the face. You gotta be all in. You're saying at the end, you think you could have been beaten by a woman? Yes. Am I following you correctly? You think at the fucking highest levels of any combat sport, you have to be all in. I don't think that's something you could dabble in. It's a hard thing though, because I think in MMA, luckily Brendan is a podcaster comedian. I think a lot of other guys, they don't have the same. But they could do other stuff like Tyron Woodley's rapping. Tyron Woodley has businesses. I know he's doing something with CBD. I know he's got, he did a record with Wiz Khalifa. I know he does a lot of TMZ stuff. He's a funny dude. I think you have to become the, look, Tyron's champion. Tyron's smart. Champion though, it's like he has a huge name. He was, but he's still, he's working. See, he lost his title to Usman, but yet he's still doing all these other things. Of course, but I think it's easier when you have that name, you're a former UFC champion. I think that alone will probably sort of set you up, as long as you're not a complete idiot for the rest of your life. But they're guys who never get to that very, very top. And if they don't sort of set themselves up for afterwards, they're gonna, you know, when you think about getting out, you're like, shit dude, the reason they take those fights, what was that one documentary I saw where the guy was like, he'd gotten like crazy brain injuries and his family was just like, dude, don't take another fight. And he still had to take it. He's had to pay the bills. And it was just like, there was just another option. He was like barely making money at a gym. So that's the thing where it's like, is a sport where you're all in. And then once it kind of shit hits the fan, I thought it reminds me of comedy. Cause like it takes a minimum five to 10 years to figure out if you're gonna even be good enough to do it professionally, right? And then at that point it's your whole life. So this is why you never see people quitting. Nobody quits comedy. You see a lot of people that maybe they start at like 20 and like by 30, they're 10 years in. And if it's not working out for you, you took the 10 years when you were supposed to be figuring out where the trajectory of, like everyone you knew from high school figured out a job, got a house, got married. Yeah, how do you. Yeah, how do you. Yeah.