Would Corey Anderson Fight Luke Rockhold? | Joe Rogan

You're looking man. I think it's a weapon now. I got a glove coming right here if I throw a hook with my right hand. Right now I suck. Right, it's all calcified right? Yeah. So where are you at right now in terms of like when does the UFC usually come to you with an idea of who you're going to fight next? Obviously you beat Latifah, he was top 5. I beat 3 and 5. What do they got you ranked now? 8th or 9th. How's that work? I don't know if you're going to ask him how does Corey Anderson not in the top 5 when I beat the number 3 and the 5? When I beat 3 they put me at 6. I don't understand. I beat 5 they put me at 6. Like I beat Glover and I went to 6. By the time I fought I was 10. That night in Cali I was ranked 10th again. How the hell does that happen? Then I beat Alirah who was 6 and I went or 5th or 4th one. He was out there. I went to 6 and then a week later I was at 7. Then next week he came out I was at 8. This makes no sense. Listen if there's no fights, if the fights haven't happened. I don't even care. Well you're clearly top 10. Whatever number that is, you got to murder as a row of people in that division. When do you think they'll come to you with an offer from the fight? They wanted me to fight Gus at the time. Like I said after I found the microphone I don't want to fight anything else until my baby's here. When the baby's here and everything's checked I don't have to be in camp and stress this and this. Once that's all done we can talk. They called me a couple weeks later about Gus. He tweeted me and had them ask me about Ariel and I said the same thing like I'm waiting until my baby's done. That was March 15th. The due date of my baby was March 12th. It's too close. Not risking that. Then it's like alright what about June 1st? I was just saying let me. Can I finish with my baby and stuff? I'm not really even training. I'm at home with my wife. I'm doing a little bit here and there but I'm worried about her now. She's been with me ride diet this whole time. Now's my time to focus on her. What she need. She didn't want me away so I'm here. They kept calling. They kept calling. I just kept saying no. No. No and they kept asking me. I was like alright. I was like I mean what if we get more money. If they give me more money. If we can get more. We'll take it. If they give you more I'll let you go. Whatever. We can start camp or whatever. I said alright. If they give me more we'll do it. They said oh no we're not doing it. I was like alright we didn't wait. Let me finish this. Literally my baby came out and I felt that. I asked the doctor. Everything's fine. I did the test. Everything came back good. There's no problems. There's nothing. It's like you're fine. You got a healthy baby boy. Congratulations. Literally pick my phone up. Tweet a guss. Guss. You still want to go. June 1st. You want to do it. I'm your huckleberry. Let's go. London. I'll come. Yes Cory. You know I wanted to fight. Let's do it. Ali called me. It's on. His manager just called me. We wanted to fight. Let's do it. June 1st. Same pay. No raise. No nothing. Whatever I was getting. Let's go. Text Dana. I'll call you after. We'll figure it out. I say yes. Listen. 25 hours later they say nah we gave it to Anthony Smith. Nah. What the fuck y'all called me for yesterday? Harassing me all this camp. Nah I say yes. And you taking it away? Like why y'all? What's going on? And that made me mad. Then they called me for Luke Rockhold. Like I'm not taking a step back. Like I want to be here for the title. If I beat Luke what they gonna say? Because I guess if they told Ali if I beat Glover since he was gonna fight a leader that put me in contention for title fight. They gave me the new contract and everything with all that in it. Signed it. I said I got he need one more fight. And there's a guy make him an Ali or fight. And Ali said no because he managed both of us. Don't you think that Luke Rockhold's a good fight for you? He's a former champion. He's a great fighter. But it would definitely elevate you in the public side. You don't think it would help you? I'm sure it would help you in your rankings? No. Rankings what? No. You would think a leader of the chief would help me in the rankings. Can't go over. I don't buy that because I think that like rankings like even if it's not one through one. And any one of those guys could fight for the title if they get like Tiago. Like Tiago Santos. Right. I mean he lost David Branch what a year ago? Right at a middle way. Same that I beat Pat Cummins. Yeah. April 13th or 18th whatever. And now he's fighting for the title. I mean it was a quick ascension from you know devastating knockouts and fighting like a wild maniac like he does. He's a wild fighter to watch. Very very entertaining guy. That's all it took. Yeah but who was in that he didn't have to be the big name guy. That's the thing he beat Yann Black with you. I killed on my fourth fight in UFC. He beat Jimmy. Beat Jimmy Manoa. Stopped him. Eric Anders and the other guy were both 85ers. True. So he had two fights. It's because he had knockouts. That's the thing like I said I told him Ali was like bro it's a good fight. He's the same thing you said. It's a good fight. Like Ali let's look at who I fought. I beat Glover who was third. They still didn't put me in a top fight. I beat a little TV but they said it's next to beat the champ whatever. When I beat him they still don't give me the credibility. It's like oh he's washed up now. I put a tweet out. I apologize to anybody that I beat because once you lose to me it's kind of like you're a nobody. I'm like I'm sorry for that. Tom Lallick posted the thing the other day saying oh these guys all failed. They get six months. I failed for the same thing. I get two years. I said I'm sorry Tom. It's because you lost to me. I think dead sense if you lose to me. You get the majority of the stick. I'm sorry. It's just though the same thing is having that asshole coach when you're in college is it is in the same way like it's just giving you more motivation. That's why I answer back to tweets and shit because in my head. Things like that that I've been through. Even though I should have learned but now it doesn't matter. But in my mind I voiced my Pinset coach and when I proved it wrong I ran into his assistant coach later on in life and he said he doesn't really like you anymore because the guy actually I fought in the Ultimate Fighter was his best friend Kelly and us one of his all Americans. He used to call him back when I was in college trying to discipline me if I like did some shit to piss him off. He would have Kelly come in and try to beat me up. Never happened. Like he couldn't beat me up like that and he used to get pissed at that. So the fact that he thought he had like a hold on me with this transcript and I got out and then I end up fighting Kelly on the show and he said that too in a pregnant time he'd kill you in MMA. He'd kill you in MMA. Well the opportunity came and I beat him and somebody told him like he wasn't happy about that. He didn't like the fact that you beat Kelly like I'm sorry. I don't do things for him. But that this this thing where you don't feel like you get in the respect that you deserve it does motivate you though. It does give you like a little bit of extra juice in the gym. I mean I'm a motivated guy anyway. Probably motivated. The moment I wake up and open my eyes it's time to get to work. So your son's born Anthony Smith coming. He had you know Anthony Smith survived against John Jones and you know especially early on he looked good. You know showed good technique. He showed that he's really a world class fighter and I think that they just think that that would be. He probably said yes when you said no and they gave it to him. You know while you were waiting and your son was being born. So now you're just waiting for another call. But the thing is like go back to that real fast. And you say yes and he said no. I watched his interview with Eriah Hawani and they said the day after he fought John Jones they called him about Anthony Smith or about Gus. So that was about the same time it was called to me. So it's kind of like they were just throwing it out there and Ali said I guess they offered it to Johnny Walker. Johnny Walker's manager made a post. I seen that. Like we offered us Gus. Like they were just throwing it out there for whoever's gonna be the first person to say yes. Well they probably have a bunch of people say yes and then they sit down. And they go over it. Like what looks best for us. Like what do we have.