“Let’s take a blast to the moon, baby — I sit around wishing you well. How I’m craving DDP vs. Alex (yeah).”
Joe Rogan doesn’t travel abroad to commentate UFC pay-per-view (PPV) events.
I’m sure that’s common knowledge with all the “Joe Rogan replaced” articles we run in front of International fight cards but it turns out Rogan may be willing to make an exception if UFC middleweight champion Dricus Du Plessis jumps to light heavyweight to battle UFC’s 205-pound kingpin Alex Pereira.
“If Dricus goes up to 205 and fights Alex, oh my goodness, I’ll fly to the moon to commentate that fight,” Rogan said during his UFC 305 Fight Companion podcast (transcribed by MMA Fighting). “I want to see that fight. That’s crazy.”
Pereira also teased dropping back down to 185 pounds.
Du Plessis is fresh off his submission victory over former middleweight champion Israel Adesanya at UFC 305, a stunning performance that marked the tenth straight win for the South African slugger. “Stillknocks” is expected to make his next 185-pound title defense opposite former champion Sean Strickland, a rematch from their UFC 297 nail biter in Toronto.
“He finished Izzy with a rear-naked choke,” Rogan said. “Nobody’s finished Izzy like that in a fight ever in the UFC. No one’s submitted him like that. That’s a crazy victory. [Du Plessis] could definitely go to 205. Wouldn’t you love to see him try? He can take a shot, for sure. But can you take a shot from [Pereira] and can you take a shot from that guy at 205? Because that guy at 205 puts everybody night-night. Everybody goes night-night.”
Whether or not Khalil Rountree Jr. goes “night-night” at UFC 307 remains to be seen.