Joe Rogan - UFC vs. Bellator "UFC Is Taken More Seriously"

I'm a fan of the best fighters in the world getting together and whatever we have to do to facilitate that that's what I want to see happen. You know I mean I you know I just think that there's got to be a way to make this happen there's got to be a way. What are you talking about here? You motherfucker! I'm going day by day you know I'm enjoying the process I mean we're in talks right now things are going things are going smoothly things are going things are moving forward we'll see we'll see what happens I mean I know you have to say all this I know you have to say all this. No I mean that's but that is true I mean I have you want to fight the best guys in the world I know you do. Oh there's not a day that goes by that I don't get I mean shoot you posted that thing this morning and there was 287 likes and 30 or comments and you know five minutes and it was all like finally hey when are you gonna come when you know it's like I and I get that every single day so there's not a day that goes by that that I don't it doesn't get talked about or thought about but well especially after Eddie went over there and became the champion yeah right and everybody knows about I mean that's one of the things that I talked about when Eddie first came over to the UFC was go I was telling people go watch the wars that he had with Michael Chandler and then I've said that also too when I've seen you coaching people or being in someone's corner like that right there is one of the best lightweights in the planet yeah and I just really would love to see you I mean I don't want to undercut Bellator I don't want to know no I mean it's at the end of the day I mean there's there's it's a competition between the two you know the two organizations there's guys in both organizations that are great like you said Lima and and and all these guys and Kourachkoff I mean there's you know in the pitbull brothers or whatever I mean there's there's some great talent in both and you saw it back in the day with strike force and now all of a sudden a lot of these strike force guys are you know UFC champions as well you know well it's just weird the way fighting is today as opposed to the way boxing is like a perfect example is like like the Gennady Golovkin fight this weekend you know you we went to see him and you know you go to you're basically going to see one of the best boxers on the planet you're not going to see him because he's you know the fucking WBC guy or the IBF guy or the WBO guy yeah people don't really give a shit about that he's a world champion but the the word the one but it's versus Bellator versus the UFC it's a big difference in the way people look at it like the average public the people don't give a shit if you're the WBA champion in boxing or the WBC champion they don't give a shit they just want to know who's a bad motherfucker like is it you know is it Deontay Wilder is it Anthony Joshua who these are heavyweight champions let's see him fight they don't look at it that way when it comes to Bellator in the UFC I don't know why I have my my speculations first of all because UFC has been around forever and it's like the NFL it has that name value like two tips they've done a good they done a good job of building the name value yeah you know it's also a really good name yeah UFC is a great name Bellator is a shitty name it just is it's just you know you go to the the average person like you like oh I'm gonna watch Bellator tonight like the fuck is it they don't know what a Bellator is but ultimate fighting championship makes sense makes sense why don't they just call it Paramount MMA I think yeah I mean I think they're I mean there was all kinds of new branding going on with the whole new Paramount stuff and all that kind of stuff I mean there if there was ever a time it would have been now but I mean I think they're they're stuck to it they like it I mean it's kind of one of them things they should get their money back from Spike Lee and when they had to pay Spike Lee did they yeah they paid him off yeah he was no he sued him he said that you stole the name from me and they were like what the fuck it's basically just one of those frivolous lawsuits do you have to settle like fine take like once I'm take this take this money I wonder how much they gave him how much do you think they gave him let's let's say guess how much you think they gave Spike Lee 3.2 million really that much no I don't know I made that up a million you think they gave him a million I bet they gave him a I bet you're right I bet it I'm gonna go with 1.2 I'm gonna I'm gonna be in the middle I'm gonna be the middle guy let's see how much they got Lee do you think they disclosed it you think yeah did he like actually trademark Spike TV like someday he might actually have his own TV channel I think his his thought was what about Spike Jones he like where's my fucking money yeah I think he just was felt like his name was not like the name Spike was synonymous with him