Joe Rogan: UFC Needs More Judges

What do you think of, I'm looking forward to Adesanya. I kind of wanted to see Paulo Costa get the fight, but the fact that he's doing it with Romero is still a great fight. I'm happy it's Yoel Romero for two reasons. One, because Paulo Costa, they can do in the future. Paulo Costa is only like 29 years old. He's a young guy, just like Adesanya. And two, stylistically, I want to see, I still want to see Paulo Costa. I mean, Paulo Costa is a monster, man. He's a monster. I'm really, I mean, especially after he beat Yoel like that. I'm really interested in seeing him fight Israel, but stylistically, I'm interested in Yoel Romero versus Israel because of the wrestling. Because Yoel's wrestling is crazy. He's one of the most powerful guys that's ever fought in that division. He's enormous for that division, and he's so fucking explosive. And he can take a crazy shot. I mean, if you look at the two of them together, I mean, Izzy is taller and longer, and Yoel is just fucking jacked. He's not even built like a real human. His waist is this tiny thing. His muscles are fucking preposterous. When you see him, you're like, oh, that's a comic book guy. That's not a real person. He's a comic book person. He's 40 years old, 41 years old. I think he's 41. I don't know. I mean, split decisions are so crazy, right? It's like, what if Tiago Santos is the UFC Light Heavyweight Champion now? Because one judge says he should be. Two judges say he isn't. Split decisions are real weird. I think there's not enough judges. There should be at least five judges. It probably should be ten. And I think we should also have an online judging. I think they should have that. And maybe they don't take it into consideration. But for us, what does it say here? Unanimous. Unanimous decision. By one point on each judge's scorecard. And I disagreed with that. But, you know, that's okay. Very interesting. Yeah, I'm looking forward to that. I don't remember when the fight is, but I'm looking forward to it. Yeah. When is that? When is Izzy Yoel? Is that March in Vegas? I think it's, yes it? Yeah. March in Vegas. And Fergus Inc. of Eve is in Brooklyn, right? Yes. You going to that? I don't know. It depends if I'm working that weekend. Take that weekend off, Jimmy. I got a bunch of dates that are now up, so I may be working. I don't remember. I'm super pumped for Dominic Reyes and Jon Jones. Yes. That is a dangerous fight for Jon Jones. Dominic Reyes, he is not getting enough credit. He's 12 and 0. He has a fucking ruthless left hand. He's super athletic and he's really tall. He's really tall and long. And he's a young guy. He's 30 years old, you know, and Jon, you know, Jon has to take that guy really fucking seriously. I did think, if I remember correctly, I remember thinking Uzdimir won the fight. I thought Uzdimir got, I thought he should have gotten the decision over Dominic Reyes. Yeah. Really close. Yeah, very close. Look at that stats again, the tail of tape, Jamie. Look at the difference in the reach. Jon Jones has an 83 and a half, 84 and a half inch reach. And then you look at Dominic Reyes at 77. That's interesting. That's the width of the shoulders. Jon is so long. Yeah. You know, you're measuring tip to tip like this. And one thing that Jon excels at is keeping people at distance, but he's fighting a guy that's his height. That guy's just as long as him. I mean, not as wide. Obviously the reach is different in terms of the width of the shoulders, but Dominic Cruz's footwork and movement is excellent. His kicks are excellent. He's got nasty power in his hands and he's got a lot of confidence, man. He's undefeated coming into 12-0. That guy is a killer. What he did to Chris Weidman, I was like, holy shit. Yeah, that was a rough one to watch. It's hard to watch. Was that, am I crazy to think that Gustafson had that kind of reach too? Yes, he did. He did, right? He was closer to Jones than most guys. Gustafson, although he has fantastic combinations and excellent boxing, does not have one punch power the way Dominic Reyes has. Dominic Reyes sets things up and when he moves in, boom, he drops things on you and dudes fold. Like when he fought OSP. He knocked out OSP with no time in the fight. It was basically like a couple of seconds to go in the fight. He cracked OSP and they didn't give him the knockout, which I don't understand. I mean, it was way worse than Alistair and Rosenstryke. I mean, he had OSP out. He was gone and they didn't stop the fight. And I'm like, I don't understand this. This is like, it was confusing to me because he walked away like it was over and it looked, see if you can find that. Dominic Reyes drops OSP. Who was winning the fight at that point? Dominic Reyes was. But OSP gave him some trouble. He gave him some trouble. I mean, Dominic was definitely winning the fight. But OSP had his moments. Definitely had his moments. And I watched that fight about a month ago or so. And when I was watching, I was trying to find moments where I think John could capitalize that OSP couldn't. But OSP is a very strong guy. He's a lot of guys struggle with him, including John Jones. John Jones struggled with OSP. It's a powerhouse, man. You can't fuck up with OSP. He KO's guys. He can KO people with one punch. Like he KO'd Shogun with one punch. He KO'd Corey Anderson, I think. And I think that was John's first fight back after a while. He'd taken that layoff and that was his first fight back after a suspension or he'd been gone for a while. And no one thought that OSP was going to go the distance. Didn't they go five and get the decision? Yep, they did. So here it is. So here's Dominic Reyes. Watch this. He's moving. Boom. He drops him. Look at that. He's out. Look at that. He's just lying there out. And Dominic Reyes moves off like that's it. And they don't stop the fight. And the referee stands over and lets him get back up to his feet and the bell rang and they didn't call it a knockout. I'm like, okay, that's a knockout, man. You could, you know, you couldn't justify keeping that fight going. But that's what I bet your overing wishes would have happened was that they would have let him just walk away. Oh yeah. 100%. And that if, listen, if Dan Mergliotta and Dan did his job, because Dan's supposed to be the guy that calls the fight, right? I think he should have called the fight, but Dan is supposed to be the guy that calls the fight, not the fighter. So when Dominic, play that again, when Dominic chaos him, all he had to do is follow up with a couple of strikes and then the fucking show's over. Watch this. But it's beautiful footwork. I love how he did it too. So OSP is moving because he's behind. And so he's trying to move forward and press and trying to catch him and Dominic's moving and OSP presses him. And, you know, and he uses good footwork to avoid this too. He catches that left kick, which is OSP's power side. And as OSP is setting it up, you see he goes southpaw again. So he's looking for that left kick again. There it is. Boom, counters, look, step over, bang, left hand. And then referee's waiting for him to follow up. So if he just jumped on him there and followed up instead of walking with his hands up, the buzzer may have gone off somewhere around then. I don't know when the buzzer went off. Yeah, it was like 20 seconds, 21 seconds when he hit him. Yeah, but Dan Mergliotta, see if we can get some volume on that. Oh, no, it's a lot less than that. Yeah, a lot less. So right at the horn. So he dropped him at the horn. I still think they should have stopped it. But I don't know. Whatever. He won the fight. But look, he basically knocked him out with a second to go. Thanks for watching.