Joe Rogan Recaps Stylebender vs. Yoel Romero w/Alexander Volkanovski

What did you think about Adesanya versus Yol Ramero? Yeah, it's a tricky one, you know what I mean? So obviously a lot of people are knocking on. Obviously it wasn't the most, you know, it wasn't so many exchanges and stuff like that. But I guess you've got to look at why that happened. And I think Yol, you know, obviously was just standing there waiting for Izzie to come in. Every time, you know, Izzie did commit to something, he just come out. He literally was going to wait till you come in and I'm just going to throw bombs. Obviously Izzie knows that. So he's trying to touch him, trying to get him to react and, you know, waiting for him to explode and things that just didn't happen. So it was just a tricky one, man. That's why a lot of people are going to say whatever, but you're never in there. You don't really know what it feels like till you're actually in there. And someone like Ramero, he can take it off like that, you know what I mean? So. Yeah, I didn't like the criticism of it. There's not much else, Adesanya could have done. And Yoel, like, I mean, I guess he's selling that Izzie didn't do anything, that he wouldn't fight him man to man. But that's not true because he didn't come forward. Like he's selling as if he was chasing Izzie and Izzie wasn't doing anything. But that's not what happened. Like Izzie was trying to get him to engage and he didn't want to engage. He was literally standing there at the beginning of the fight, standing still, which is kind of crazy. It was like a solid minute or something or more. Standing still and then he would switch stances a little bit. Choo choo. Yep. Stand still. Choo choo. Couple of little. He, but he's lulling you to sleep and you saw that when he did land a couple good left hands. Yeah. When Izzie did try to connect, when he did try to get close, bought into it a little bit and Yoel threw that fucking left hand. Yeah. It's crazy how fast that guy is. Yeah, man. So again, like, you know, when you're just, you can sense that as soon as I do commit to anything, he's just going to come guns blazing. So obviously, you know, fair enough. Obviously, there's going to be a lot more opportunities if he started trying to do stuff as well. But the fact that he'd done nothing to it was just ready to explode. It makes things how it is. Do you know what I mean? If you want to fight smart, if you're trying to fight smart as well, you know. And he should fight smart. And I think he did fight smart. I think he did. I mean, this is what fighting is all about. Some fights like Zhongwei Li and Yoni and Jaichek is super, super exciting. But that styles, those styles matched up. Yep. I mean, not every fight is super exciting. Robert Whitaker fought Yoel in a very exciting way. But I mean, that's a bad way to fight with that guy. Yeah. Yoel's a fucking beast, man. Even just hitting him, even like a, I reckon, easy front leg kicks. Now, obviously, that would have been hurt in a Romero. But it's probably hurting yourself, kicking him, you know what I mean? Just solid rock. He's a solid dude. You could imagine front stuff and hitting just a brick. Well, that's what Rockhold said. He said every time he hit him, it hurt him. Well, there you go. I mean, it's just... He's a freak, man. And the fact that he's 42, he's like, what in the fuck, man? Crazy. Yeah. Absolutely crazy. I really felt like that was how Izzy had to fight him. I really didn't think that he could fight him any other way. I mean, I've expected that. Use his length, use his reach, use his attributes, stay on the outside, use the... He's a higher level kickboxer. Use that, you know? And try to lure him into attacking and counter those attacks. But it's one of those things where it's like... If you see like when Tyron Woodley fought Wonderboy, kind of the same thing. A lot of people were saying, oh, those are boring fights. Well, that's how you have to fight that guy. Yeah, exactly. That's how you fight him. You wait on him. And you got to remember, you know what I mean? Like, obviously, let's just go out there and let's just be really exciting. But you lose, everyone forgets about you as well. Everyone forgets about you. So you got to have that sort of... Especially if you're a champion, you got to fight the fight that's going to get you to win. And you only have so many holes that can get punched in your card, right? Those punch holes are valuable. And you let yourself get cracked when you didn't have to. There's no need for that. You should always fight smart. It's dangerous enough to fight smart. Hit and not get hit, you know? That's how I believe as well. You know, that's why. It's just styles. It's just styles, the way styles match up.