What Bothers Corey Anderson About Jon Jones | Joe Rogan

It's good for the UFC, it's good for everybody. In my mind, people say, oh did you ever think about going to Bellator one? In my mind, there's great fighters everywhere. But right now, I still think the number one in all of it is in the UFC. The number one martial artist in the UFC. And right now, that's my goal. The money is all great, but I'm here to be the best. I can go to one and make a killing. I can go to Bellator and get my sponsors back. But I'm in no rush to leave here because I want to be the best. After I prove that, if it's nothing else, then it's like, okay now I'm ready for the money, then that's maybe an option. There's no contest. In terms of prestige, there's no contest. If you get the UFC title, you're the best. That's it. There's no question. Like, oh, what about the Bellator? This isn't because the Bellator champ, well especially John Jones already. Especially in your division. In your division, you have one of the best guys of all time. If not the best guy of all time as a champion. So when you see a guy like John at the top of the heap, is that motivating to you to just ramp up it even harder because you realize that the guy who's a champion in your division is not just the best light heavyweight of all time. Maybe the best martial artist of all time. It ramps up so much. Like when I'm riding a bike in my basement, I got the aerodine bike and stationary bike and I got the projector. When I'm down there, the only thing I want is Fight Pass. When I'm watching Fight Pass, I'm usually watching John Jones. You know, to see him dominate other guys, and you just hear that bite, you can hear the pedals start peeling so I can go brawl or something crazy. And I don't even be looking down at the clock, but I can just hear the fan picking up. And I don't even realize it until it goes to break. And I slow it down. And I'm heart-wrenching. And I'm just watching him just like that. Like, if I want to get there, I got to beat him to be the best. So I need to work hard. What's your take on him? You can't take away what he does in the sport. What is his outside? His personal life? That's all he say, she say. I had my words after the California stuff. We went to 226 or whatever the fight was. And Vegas got moved here because of his lifestyle, all the drug tests, all that extra stuff. However you want to code it up, it's passed. You know, I'm done with it. But I had my words there. The fact that he kept using God and Jesus and this and this and I'm a God-fearing guy who read my Bible every morning. And I don't like the fact that he would do that. I'm not going to say, I'm not going to now. But at the time, my words was the fact that he did that and then at the same time I want to interview him and say, I want to thank God. And it's that kind of rubbed me wrong. And then we flew on the plane together. And like I said, I saw the way he was acting. When he came on the plane, like we're not doing this because of him. Like all at a time bothered me. And that was a pent-up engine. That was something else going into that fight. That was something on my shoulders because I had posted something because when UFC called me, right before I got on the flight, it was like, oh, don't come. I'm on my way to Vegas now. I got my wife, she's eight months pregnant. Like she's 30 weeks, whatever. She can't travel after this. She's struggling. We're going to call them bags. And y'all call me now and say, don't come. This and this, go back home. We're going to fly you out again. Like I'm not doing this again. And then when they get there, they're like, well, we can get you here, but we can't take you to Cali, but we can't take your wife. Like, what? Like, well, you, we pay your ticket and the coach's ticket. Like, no, fuck that. All because John Jones, that's what got me mad. So they were trying to save money by not flying people. Because we was literally walking down the runway to the plane when they called me. Jesus Christ. When they turn around. But then we got like, okay, you come here, but we can get you to Cali, but we can't get your wife to Cali. Like, my wife is 30 weeks pregnant. She's here with me. She's coming. Like, well, we don't know what to do because you bought her ticket. Isn't it like, what do you mean you don't know what to do? Get her another ticket. Like, I pay for my family. What about the people that's on the way right now? Like, oh, they got to find their own way. And that made me wrong. Fight week. Fight week. The week of the fight. The thing of the things that you have to think about. You know? Fucking with that. That's the last thing I need to worry about. God damn it. And then I get there and they tell me, when you get, make sure you got your workout. You don't have your workout schedule to PI set already. As soon as you get there, go do it. Why? They're mine like a month and a half ahead of time. I'm all, like I said, I'm punctual. Like, I like having stuff done. Yeah. I'm getting ready to go to the PI. I'm packing my bags and I get a call. Oh, you can't come to the PI. Why? John just came in and said he want to work out. So we closing the gym down and you're not allowed. Y'all called me two months ago and told me to set my schedule to come ahead of time. I'm literally getting ready to walk to my Uber that's outside. And you say I can't come now? I'm like, I'm sorry. None we can do is John. Why can't you work out the same place where John's working out? You're not fighting. The same thing with Conner. And I'm there in the summer and Conner show up. They come in to everybody. You got to leave. What? Really? You walk out and Conner has a car parked up on the sidewalk. Come on. Yeah. They have security guards block the stairs off and everything. Get the fuck out of here. You're not allowed to go up there. Ew. Yes. Ew. Exactly. You walk out and like you heard somebody say. That's a big place. Yeah. But you can go to the cardio room and the weights, but you can't use the upstairs or the cage and the bag and stuff. You can't use the, if he's in the cage, you can't use the back. They have security block the stairs. So you can't go up there. What the fuck is that about? That's just your people. I don't know. It's not my people. I'm an independent contractor, sir. But yeah, like that stuff, they kind of rubbed me wrong. And that's when it was kind of like, if I was a champ, I wouldn't want that. No. Yeah. I mean, I want people to be able to see what I'm doing. Maybe it's your security. They can watch me and see. I don't know. I mean, you know, you got to think about how much death threats that guy must get. How much shit he must take, you know, he's just popular as he is, as famous as he is. Maybe he just has overzealous security and they just want to tighten it down so they don't want anybody up there. They kept out. So that was the first time I've ever cursed at a UFC employee. Like my wife, I was curt like going off, like y'all mow me change my whole workout schedule fight week. I'm cutting weight too. You know, like it's not just John. Yeah. Like we understand the video. I'm going to fuck with my I don't care what he's doing. I need to go up and get a workout. My coaches meet me there from the airport, but we can't do nothing about it. We can't do nothing about it. Cory is the guy kept hanging up because I was going on that is when they were calling me back. And I was like, and then people hit me up. Like, I'm glad you're actually voicing yourself. I'm hearing around you. The PR right now. Everybody talking about how you're mad. Somebody takes like, I'm glad you actually speak out because everybody else kind of like, okay. Like, no, like, if it wasn't for my wife being there, I probably went to the same. I see the way she's struggling to carry this belly around. She's hurt. Of course, eight months. Yes. She could give birth at any moment. Anytime. So the stresses, I'm sure is like all that my baby's. Sure. Really? Yeah. It was ramping me up. My wife came like Cory, just stop calm down and it'd be okay. This is like it ain't the fact of being okay. The fact that they let one person dictate it all. Yeah. Like we're all equal. Right now they treating us like a number. He's John Jones, but we're number 4722. Right. I mean, I don't like that. No. He's John. I'm Cory. Like I was telling the wheel on the way here. Reason I love Rose Nama units because I've never seen that from her. She's a champ, but you would see her and she act just like Rose before, when she was an evicted. She doesn't change. I don't want no special treatment from her or from anybody. If I was a champ, try the same. Yeah. You know what I mean? Some people are different. I guess I don't know if it's John or his camp that was doing that or UFC is doing or security or what, but it rubbed me wrong that we aren't equal anymore. No, that's understandable, but that's also got to give you some motivation. Exactly. I told him in the area, the one I was sitting on the plane and I was literally directly behind John Jones and I see a head bobbing. I was just looking, I looked at my wife and she's like struggling, like falling asleep, but struggling to fall asleep. I looked at the top of his head, the back of his head. I was just like, it's time for a change of torch. Like my brother always said, like, you're good and you know you can be there. But I feel like when it comes to those top guys, like John Jones and Gus, you doubt yourself just a little bit. You ain't sure that you can get them yet. You know you're good, but you feel like this is before, like before the lyric fight, you get there and you, you feel like you don't think you're ready for that. But I'm telling you, I watched you bro. I know what you made up. You can do it. And I sat there and saw him bobbing and all the frustration going through my mind. Six o'clock in the morning, we had to get up and catch a plane because this guy, this is a show up on time. He still was late to that. And it was just like, I, if I'm the champ, I don't want this. You know what I mean? I don't want no special treatment. If you tell me, sign up ahead of time and keep your schedule. I expect that. If we get down to scale first come first serve, first come first serve. If I show up late, put me in the order I am. Don't put me up front because I'm the champ because I was the first or second person there. I'm on my way to scale and John was walking down the stairs fully dressed. We went back to the commission room and I remember people in the blue shirt came and said, hold up, hold up. And all of a sudden John come in. He could do all the paperwork. He went on the scale and he was out. He was the last person down. I was like, he's first. Like it wasn't that big of a deal. But the fact that I don't like that. Well, it's because he's headline on the card, right? Yeah. So they're giving him a special treat. Everything. That's what it kept saying is John Jones. I got the phone with his John Jones. They hang up like, I don't like that. It's still, he's still a person. Well it's great for you to be Corey Anderson. It's Corey and it's changed the time. It's Corey Anderson, but you know, don't give me a special treatment. Beautiful that you have that attitude. When you look at John, you look at John skills. Like what do you think you need to do if anything different in your life or in your training or where do you need to get to where you think you could beat him? Just keep getting better. Like the Lee and Latifah fight must have been a big boost for 100%. Every fight last year, every fight, even the ones I lost has all been a boost. Could you go back and see, tell me a fight that I've been getting beat up Joe. Right. I've never been a fight where somebody, they're all Corey, you're too smart. You're not good. There's never been one fight in my career where somebody straight man handled me and pushed me around. You know what I mean? They talk about this, this, this, this. He's the greatest, he's greatest at that. I was watching a UFC main event last night in hotel. They had the global Rashad fight and that's how I'm gonna, this and this and this and that and global is this global that global is global is that nothing. I beat that guy. You know, you don't hear talking about hope. Don't give a little chief or giant Walker, a little TV. Super good. This is this. But at the same time I was thinking and you said it, but what about Corey? And I was like, there we go. Finally somebody like all these guys are talking. They talk about how good these guys not in beat them all. Like I'm that guy coming at the radar and they don't expect me to do nothing because I lost the Gianbalante my third or fourth fighting UFC two years of my career. You know what I mean? Jimmy man with Jimmy man. I told Will and away here to Jimmy man was the only fight I would say a guy beat me. He didn't man handle me, but in my head from his highlights and it's all like you said on Instagram reading comments and I let what people were saying and reading and seeing get in my head to think if this guy touches me, he's going to put me out. And when you're going to a fight thinking that I literally got touched in my mind was already set. Like if I get hit, I'm going out. And like I think subconsciously like I had myself so doubted that when he hit me, my mind just like in panic kind of shut down because I remember when I hit the mat, like I wasn't out to brown. Remember I was out, but I remember seeing his feet walk away. And I remember when I came to clearly and I thought to myself like it happened. Is that where I put in my mind? If I got hit, it happened. That's right. That was it. It was like, I can take, I can take to anybody and I think OSP was more dangerous than Jimmy because he can kick. He was explosive and this isn't the end punch. I did everything right and just slip into the punch the wrong way. But I was manhandling them for three rounds. I mean, it's simple mistakes because I didn't have the discipline yet. In three years of my career, I hadn't learned a discipline and focus that it's a 15 minute fight. I can win 12 minutes of it all, but one mistake and it's all gone. Well, the experience of making those mistakes and realizing what they are. And then when those moments come up again and you deviate from the game plan and you do go to your right and you do move the wrong direction, you know, you'll catch yourself. You'll realize it's the experience of competition for a fighter is there's nothing that substitutes it. You can have great talent. You can have a great mindset, but the experience of competition is like nothing else.