Joe Rogan - Tony Ferguson Should Get Title Shot Against Khabib

Below the surface like that people don't know it's behind the curtain Yeah, no one knows about it And they've got like these devastating injuries that they're fighting off and then competing against world-class fighters with injuries with these torn ligaments And what's that we talked about with Tony Ferguson? Like he doesn't look comfortable in that leg no, I mean it's like yeah, it wasn't you know what he went six months from Catastrophic knee injury where the bone literally separated from the ligament the ligament tore off the You ever see the picture of his surgery Oh Jamie pull that up pull that shit up Jamie It's a crazy surgery because it's I'm not exaggerating. It might be a 12 inch scar. It's enormous It's like that big and it's all jagged and shit and it's just he ripped it apart They had to open him up like I got 12 months not even six months six months. I mean yeah insane I don't understand how that that guy doesn't clearly get the title shot. He does he does we should talk about that look at that Wow That's crazy and the thing is that was just from a trip. He just tripped Wow fucking bananas Yeah, what's the second image Jimmy oh The other side yeah, okay worse angle. Yeah, yeah the The extent of that injury the fact that he came back in six months and what's really interesting is he came back in six months He didn't spar apparently really to talk to him about this, and I'm gonna have him on with Eddie He didn't spar he just prepared to train with that. Yeah, he's one of Eddie's black belts Wow really yeah, he's a black belt He should be I think he is I'm pretty sure he gave him his black belt after he submitted Kevin Lee he did yeah Yeah, he's he's a 10th planet guy wow that's pretty cool. It's pretty badass. He's got a nasty D'Arce choke probably He should clearly get the title shot There's it doesn't make sense to me even that when he came back. He shouldn't even gotten stripped in hindsight I agree 100% and then it's like you have Khabib who's the title holder fair and square I guess but like you never beat the champion well He's more of a legit title holder in my opinion than Khabib was before Connor Khabib Did Al I a quinta who wasn't even supposed to be fighting for the title whereas Kevin Lee is a way More like who did Ferguson get it from well Ferguson fought Kevin Lee right for the interim time because Connor left it But Kevin Lee prepared for Tony Ferguson They met they fought for the interim title and Kevin Lee is like a top contender right He's a fucking tough guy obviously went five rounds with Khabib Connor couldn't go five rounds with Khabib and he you know He put up resistance. It was it was a good fight. He should he would never bring him a title shot No, maybe he was never in that discussion. Well. He's fighting Kevin Lee if he beats Kevin Lee. He that's the next fight Look Al I a quinta is fucking legit. He's very legit. He's underrated like really underrated in my opinion Yeah, I think he's the way he got up from Khabib taking him down nobody's been able to do that He got up like pretty consistently took very little damage on the ground wasn't wasn't Khabib was never able to pound him out The way he pounded out Connor if you go back and watch Al I a quinta versus Khabib and Connor versus Khabib you realize how fucking Good Al I a quinta is not just tough does nothing on the ground Well he didn't in that fight. He's really that's that's when Mendez took him down on two weeks notice Mm-hmm, and it was like if he didn't gas Mendez would have beat him. It's true. It's like he can't fight on the ground well He did very well on the ground against Max Holloway Which was early in Max's career Max was only like 21 at the time. Yeah, but I Agree with you. That's definitely his weakest part of his game and the strongest part of Khabib's game My point was just that Al I a Quinta did not get beat up on the ground like that did not close to being stopped Went full five rounds and Khabib clearly won the fight But Al I a Quinta provided resistance and provided more of a struggle than Connor did I honestly think some of the reason that's holding Al I a Quinta back from the fans bink from them thinking of him as like a top is his name It's just not he has a name of someone who'd be like in the early round of Mike Tyson's punch out you say that But if you started starching world champions, nobody would give a fuck