What a Liver Shot Really Feels Like | Joe Rogan

Is that really good strategy to be lifting these guys over the head and throwing them? Well, I was talking about Stipe when Stipe fought Francis Ngano. Oh, that one, yeah. Stipe managed to avoid the big actions of Ngano and then wear him out and then take him down and beat him up and retain the title. The only guy that's been able to survive Ngano. The DC fight is a hard one to watch, man, because he's the best guy in the world. He's so nice. I love that guy to death. So watching him get his body destroyed, because he kept digging those left hooks in the body. I was like, woo. Part of me was like, damn, that's a pretty punch. How loud were those? Fucking loud. But it wasn't like, it was the crispness of it. He was standing in front of him, popping him and then slide in, bap. And he would just stick that fucking left hook into the liver and he kept hitting it. Part of me was like, man, that is a beautiful left hook. Nasty body shots. But part of me was like, damn, DC, you got to get away from that. You got to get out of there. You got to take this guy down. It's hard when you really love a guy and you watch them fight. It's hard. It's very, very difficult to do commentary. You just, what's the pain on that on the liver punches? What could that, what's the damage that can do this? That makes you like, I've seen people crumble on me to hit you with one. No, no. Please hit you with liver punches. But show me on Lewis. You don't want it. It's a horrible feeling where it like, like shocks your body. Let me say, Joe, your body goes like, it's, or show, how about the show Dave where to hit me. It's right here. It's right here. It's like almost getting shocked. It's in the lower. If you, if you on the, if someone is standing in front of you and you, they hit you with a left hook, most likely they'd be hitting you in the liver. And it's like right where these floating ribs are tucked in there. And when you slam someone hard, like right around the load, you know, it was one of the masters of it is Canelo Alvarez. So show Canelo Alvarez body shots. Like maybe there's a video we could look, he's got a beautiful one. We steps in and just fucking rips that left hook to the liver and just your body just goes, it just shuts down. It's the weirdest feeling man. It's like your legs stop working. Everything stops working. Your whole body just see, it looks like it didn't happen to him until that last one. I think he was playing poker face. I think he was playing poker face. So he said, Canelo is a fucking master at this shit. He would just dig this thing. Look at this. That one's only going to the side and that's going to the side, but most of the time he's going to the liver. Most of the time, well, he's going to anything that's open, right? But that's the liver. So he's going for the liver against Golovkin, but Golovkin's got that lower, that low guard with his right arm. He's blocking it from happening. The guy was coming up next. It's so, it's so much fun. Like it's a fun sport to do. Well, when these kinds of guys are fighting, when triple G and Canelo were fighting like fuck, it's like, if you're a fan of the sport, you've seen the highest level, two champions in their prime going after it. It's amazing to watch, but that punch is like, and getting hit, there's a terrible feeling. And DC got hit there multiple times. And he was from like the second round on, he was, you were talking about it when he was there, but he was just putting his hands down and kind of letting Stipe hit him. It's hard to watch. That's a dangerous way to fight Stipe Miocic. Like, I think he just wanted to put pressure on him and make Stipe feel like he didn't deserve to be in there with him. I think maybe in that approach, he was trying to wear him out, which keep the pressure on him and make him discouraged. Or maybe he had genuine disdain for his abilities. Maybe he really didn't think Stipe could hurt him and he was just eventually going to catch him. And then there was a lot of people that thought because of the way he knocks Stipe out, maybe Stipe isn't as durable as he used to be. Right? Because Stipe used to take tremendous shots from everybody, but then he got knocked out in one punch by DC after taking tremendous shots in the Ingano fight. So the question would be like, how much damage is he taking that Ingano fight? But then he came back and he ate everything that DC had to offer him. He just kept eating it. Taking on the chin and eating it. And eventually he started taking over the fight. And when he started ripping the body in the fourth round, it was like, whoa, he, it was perfect. I mean, I've never seen anybody have better body punches in a championship fight. Was that, I think that was like a corner call or you think he just like improvise and saw that was opening. He knows how to fight. Yeah. They saw an opening. Everybody, everybody knows. I mean, that's such a standard technique. That's like a corner call. Someone's throwing a leg kick. It's so standard. It was working. Yeah. It never got blocked once. He didn't have an answer. He didn't have an answer to it. He didn't duck it. He didn't block it. He didn't, he didn't try to take him down. He just kind of got stuck. The problem with those liver shots too, is they sap your energy so bad and you can't make a big move anymore. So you have to kind of pretend like everything's okay. And then BAM, he hits you again. You're like, oh, shit, we're in trouble here. But still, you're looking like nothing's wrong, but your gas tank is fucked. Everything's on empty and you're fucked. You really can't fire back. That's why DC didn't fire back. And he kept getting shot to that body. And every time he gets shot to that body, you see it in his, and then Steve, they got him against the cage, started uncorking punches and DC just didn't have anything to his body was shutting down. Didn't have anything in him to stop that onslaught. I mean, it's amazing that guy's the, this is, deep is the most successful heavyweight in the history of this world.