Joe Rogan on the Conor/Khabib Aftermath

I have such a train cut so you can continue training. Wow, he and Nick have a few screws loose but they're committed. You know, yeah, how committed you are to achieving this goal, this dream, his dream, he grew up. In New Jersey, he says: I want to be a fighter. Wow, so I'm going to do this incredibly spiritual thing, so he and 12 other guys came to our Airbnb and we watched the fights and it was Connor vs. Khabib and we loved watching everything that night and every time that happened, so I'm torn because I love those guys as fighters and I absolutely love them as fighters and then every time that happened is something that for me I don't know.

I did feel embarrassed or disappointed, but we introduced some guys, Steve Weatherford, who played for the New York Giants, he came in like he'd played for the Giants for 10 or 12 years, he lives in San Diego, he's a great guy, but it is not. I'm a big MMA fan so I was explaining everything to him and when that happened it was pretty disappointing, yeah, then I spoke at the anti-bullying coalition in Tulsa and I went there and there was a girl there who looked very sweet, very calm , an introvert and working with mental health and her name was Ali, she suddenly found out that I was an MMA fighter and she was like, oh my gosh, you know my husband is a huge MMA fan, I'm not at all, not even I sat down to watch it. with him but then she decided to take me to the t-mobile arena for her first fight was with Connor Khabib and she was there and said she loved it before Michelle Waterson was an incredible inspiration for her and said she wants to be the first mother in being a UFC champion, she said the night was going really well and then every time that happened she said it literally scared her because the fight started coming to the right and to the left behind her, it didn't spill out. the arena and that was his first introduction to MMA sounds a little hard to watch but at the same time I get it like those emotions were burning and you were also talking about that and your perspective on martial artists and yeah I mean the same.

What you were feeling, you know, that little bit of sadness and disappointment, you know, the biggest thing, then the most views and the most people watching, and that's the last thing they see, that's what they're going to go on. the bed thinking. and feel and and I just know, I don't think even ki, not even Connor, that might not be who they are as martial artists, you know for sure all the moves were flying and they, you know they have a history and it's hard. Let it go, but I just don't, I don't feel like that's who they really are, you see, and all their other fights respect their opponents, you know, she, I'm going to disagree with you, I mean, look, Connors, that's what it does.

Yeah, he talks to people and he talks to his head, I mean, it's a giant part of his game and I know that was part of the strategy of him throwing that dolly at the bus that shits out of line. I mean throw a dolly on the bus. That's not what a martial artist does when you stop and think about what we value about martial arts in terms of teaching children honor and respect and discipline and the things when we think about classic martial artists like Lyoto Machida or someone else. like this bowing down to his opponent that's not it this is theater this is hype but to be fair the UFC used that to sell that fight I mean that was a big part of their promotional campaign was seeing Conor throw the dolly at the bus and the yelling and screaming that you know you're doing, you're giving an example of the contest itself, there's all this extracurricular violence, right there a dahlia is thrown at the bus, it breaks through the window, all these guys run and scream, they get off off the bus and then They're promoting this, they're showing this and then everyone is shocked and then it escalates after the fight itself.

You know, one of the most interesting moments of the fight was Khabib on the honor thing, beating them. Come on. Speak now, have you seen that video? Yes, that's scary. That's what they say. Come on, let's talk. Bam and he's just hitting. Alright. I'm told he'll do that before the fight. Yes, yes, let's talk. We'll talk when I. I'm on top of you and you're tired and I'm hitting you, we're going to talk and that's what you knew, all this is not what Khabib does well, this is outside of his standard if you look at the standard of him.

His demeanor is very respectful, I mean, he's never had an incident like this in a fight, in all his fights before that, or him shaking his opponent's hand doing the standard thing, looking down, talking about his skills and what what he is going to do, and there is no lack of respect. no insults there's none of this that's what I mean by

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yes but no Connor you mean this is a but here's the other thing on the other side makes it funny I'm so torn because everything he talked about with Josie Aldo look at That was a major factor in Josie Aldo charging at him, losing his composure and getting hit with that left hand.

That's a big factor, is the emotional anguish that he had gone through for months and months on the road with this guy in the middle, yeah, yeah. I mean mental warfare is a real thing, it just didn't work with Kebede, it had the opposite effect and with Kabhi it's like I can't wait to get my hands on you, it wasn't. I can't believe what this guy says. these things for me with Kabhi's offer, but he escalated the violence to the point where he let you know, hey, this is real to me, like you want to act like a bully and you'd just keep going, which is oxy.

I will do that. he keeps taking it like he doesn't want to stop after Connor had tapped like he was holding on to him and was letting him know hey like this is real this isn't just talk Connor was telling him this is just a business it's just a business and he says, let's talk now, let's talk now, like he said this is none of his business, so for him to fight, I mean, this is what he said at the press conference, it should be a sport of respect and this Sport should be about two men expressing themselves.

Maybe his physical ability inside the cage just doing the best they can against the best fighters in the world and that should speak for itself and they should have respect and honor outside of it. I wish you had the chance to say you know. The sad part was that he let the emotions take over what he felt and instead of just buckling down, kill them with kindness at the end and say that and have the opportunity to put that in everyone's minds and in the years that did. in the post-fight interview, but I mean how many are the post-fight press conferences, but how many people had the opportunity to see that list.

I mean only a few thousand, I'm sure, and compared to the 2.4 million that were downloaded. PPV and many, many, many more who watched YouTube exclusive and Instagram are clear, yeah I mean everyone watched it, it's unfortunate but it's also a financial windfall, it's like the whole thing is weird because part of what makes Connor so What's interesting is that he's so good at talking to him, he's funny and he knows how to back it up, but when we saw him fight Khabib he just came up short, it's really that simple when skill versus skill he came up short and then the talking shit took him.

Kabhi took it up close and personal at the end and targeted Dylan Dannis and jumped off the top of the cage. It was all so crazy, but the idea that people should be shocked after Connor throws him in, yeah, Holly. the bus and still he ends up able to fight, I mean what did he do, he paid some money and did something. I mean, yeah, we have to do some service. What is your community service? I don't even know what to do. either, that's where it's not, yeah, it's a little crazy, throwing a dolly is way worse than hitting a guy who punches people for a living, who is Dylan Danis, a professional wrestler, he's a professional wrestler , he jumps, so he swings and I. standing there shouting about how he and Dylan are like you and he's like you and there's a bunch of people who get involved and then a bunch of other people get into the whole thing was crazy, but the idea that we should be surprised afterwards about him throwing a dolly at a bus because

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x' on the bus those russians don't play like that man yeah these are the later videos when dagestani was there filming so i fought there when i was 18 i fought there and It was crazy that they took us everywhere. in G trucks and the ones in front were like they were armed, I don't know, machine guns on top, the one in the back has machine guns on top and then what was that?

We were walking down one of the streets and there are these big chains that are between the road and the sidewalk and we are walking down the street. sidewalk and suddenly there is like a laser coming and our boys say: we have to go, we have to go, suddenly The car reached the sidewalk and started driving as if they were going to play us, now we had to jump onto the road, no They ran us over and I don't know why that happened, but after that they didn't even let us into the hotel we were in.

We had like balconies from where we could see well, they had to move our rooms to where we are inside to where we couldn't have a balcony and everything else to where only because of that threat from the laser that came because of the truck that went up onto the sidewalk and tried after running over us there was a crazy rumor that someone was arrested outside the t-mobile rina look if that's true if someone was arrested with a gun outside the t-mobile arena after the fight or during the fight because there was some kind of crazy talk about threats, the problem is that you don't know how true it is, you know, I probably should have looked into that before speaking, but you already saw something, did they do it? they post that you know I heard the same thing as you - yes, yes, I think I heard it on Instagram, but yes, they don't play with your honor, it's a different world, especially Dagestan, which is a difficult part of the country, not Dublin.

It's not difficult but they are not known for their humor and yes well I went into a sewer I entered a store like a flea market and I was whistling and Dagestani and I didn't know that was something disrespectful but someone came right behind me and gave me a slap on the back of the head. I probably understood that dad Khabib came up and knew that he was a bad guy, so he was going to do whatever he didn't know the translator had to come. and you say you don't whistle in public, you know, oh, you're having a good day, yeah, I can't even whistle that well, but I was whistling to myself, I didn't even know I was doing it, they think about air guitar, yeah, probably that's bad.

I don't show the bottom of your feet, like that's safe, you can Google it, but if you're sitting there and you want to cross your legs and show the bottom of your foot. It's culturally very disrespectful to show the bottom of your shoes or the bottom of your feet so they don't play there and then, so if you have your foot on top of your thigh like, don't do that. don't do that, someone will come and slap you on the leg and you know, show your feet, we're both on the ground so a lot of them are always climbing those mountains, I mean they're just jagged mountains.

I remember it being one of the most beautiful places I have ever been. I'm just awesome, but life is just tough. Do you see that Nike or I'm sorry Nike, but the Reebok video that Khabib did, yeah, it was amazing, yeah, but have you seen that's real life? There's a photo of him that he posted on Instagram of him with his dad, him and his dad standing next to him right after the fight. He did it and he likes to explain it that way. What this is about for him is honor, it's not about money, it's about honor and respect. and it's a photo of him standing with his father with this incredible mountain range behind him.

Wow, yeah, it's a different part of the world, so that strategy with Connor backfired. Do you think there's a point where they know it's amazing? what a photo mmm they should say hey, let's tone down the conversation a little, how can you that's what brought Connor to the dance? I mean, it's one of the reasons it's escalated since all day, yeah, then Mayweather brought on his father and then assaults and stuff like that and then Khabib goes after his family's religion, right, yeah, yeah, like that that has been achieved, it is almost as if it had to be done.

I think you were saying yeah, he has one more or so I know and it's for To me, I felt like you know it wasn't a surprise, it was like the UFC Karma promoting the bus and, you know, and letting it be more and deeper, you know, they say it's the story and it's the story, but at a certain point, if it's something that was illegal to hurt someone, maybe don't use it. Honestly, I was surprised they were using it in promotion. I thought, well, I shouldn't be surprised. I thought when I saw the promo and saw the dolly flying on the bus and then the video from the inside with the glass breaking.

I thought, "Okay, I guess I shouldn't be surprised because it happened, you know it's part of history, but I mean, this is encouraging, what is it? I mean, they're using it to sell the biggest fight in the history of the world." sport. It turned out to be true, it's the biggest fight in the history of sport. That well, that doesn't seem good, it doesn't seem like it from my perspective, but you know it's entertainment versus sport, when it comes to sport, it never does. would you use forpublicize the Olympics, right, they would never have an assault. announce the Olympic Games, but this is something different, it is commerce, there is a lot of money involved, it is a great cultural spectacle, it is Conor McGregor, who transcends sport, he is a superstar in show business, so it is different but different, but