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Joe Rogan Reacts To Conor McGregor’s Recent Episodes

Since making some serious bank this past August after his mega-fight with Floyd Mayweather Jr., UFC lightweight champion Conor McGregor has been in the headlines for all the wrong reasons. Back in October McGregor was heard making homophobic slurs at a UFC event, followed by an incident at a Bellator MMA event in which he […]

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Since making some serious bank this past August after his mega-fight with Floyd Mayweather Jr., UFC lightweight champion Conor McGregor has been in the headlines for all the wrong reasons.

Back in October McGregor was heard making homophobic slurs at a UFC event, followed by an incident at a Bellator MMA event in which he got into an altercation with referee Marc Goddard before slapping a security official. There are also rumors circulating that McGregor’s life could be in danger after getting into an altercation with an Irish gang member.

Recently, longtime UFC commentator Joe Rogan took to his podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience, to comment on “The Notorious One’s” recent behavior. Rogan stated that the Irishman certainly ‘makes things fun’ (quotes via MMA Fighting):

“I wonder what it would take him, now that he’s had that big crazy fight at the fight where he jumped over the fence and pushed referee Marc Goddard, I wonder what it would take to get him back in the cage now,” said Rogan. “I wonder if there’s gonna be fines and suspensions. I wonder what the f**k is gonna happen. It’s quite fascinating.

“I’ll tell you one thing, he makes things fun. He does. He makes things fun with Oscar De La Hoya hitting the heavy bag on him. He should say he’ll fight Oscar De La Hoya but only if Oscar agrees to wear a skirt. ‘You’ve got to wear a skirt and you’ve got to wear fishnet stockings and I’ll f**king fight you.’”

As for McGregor’s fighting career, Rogan claimed that he’d like to see the 155-pound champ take on Tony Ferguson inside the Octagon next before returning for a fight in the world of boxing:

“That’s the move. It used to be not the move but I think Tony Ferguson is the right move as far as for the fans. The real smart move would be fight an MMA fight and then fight a boxing match in a year. . . The Nate Diaz fight, although it could be huge, Nate’s not really fighting anybody right now. What I would like is Nate comes back and fights somebody and wins, Conor fights someone and wins, Conor fights a boxing match, they have a HUGE MMA fight after that! F**KING HUGE, GOD DAMN IT! Three million pay-per-view buys huge.”

“He’s so loved by Ireland that he can almost do anything.”

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Joe Rogan Wonders What It’ll Take to Get McGregor Back in MMA

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Quote: Michael Bisping ‘Shouldn’t Have Been Allowed To Fight’ At UFC Shanghai

Fight fans are still talking about former UFC middleweight champion Michael Bisping’s decision to take a short notice fight this past Saturday at UFC Shanghai against Kelvin Gastelum. This comes after a few weeks after he suffered a devastating loss to Georges St-Pierre at UFC 217 for the middleweight title. As seen in the fight, […]

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As seen in the fight, it didn’t go very well for Bisping as he was brutally knocked out by Gastelum in the very first round.

This marked Bisping’s second brutal stoppage loss this month. Thus, after seeing this, it has brought attention and questions about the safety of allowing a fighter to compete so soon after suffering a serious loss.

One of those people who is talking about this topic is longtime UFC commentator Joe Rogan, who said on his JRE MMA Show podcast (transcript courtesy of MMA Fighting), that Bisping should not have been allowed to take the Gastelum fight.

“I don’t think you should be allowed to fight three weeks after you have a brutal fight like Michael Bisping did with GSP. He got rocked, he got choked unconscious, and then three weeks later, he’s fighting a really dangerous young and up-and-coming Kelvin Gastelum. Kelvin is a beast.

“Would he have been able to do that if he fought the Bisping who was training for Georges St-Pierre? If Bisping did not have the Georges St-Pierre fight and just went right into the Kelvin Gastelum fight, would the same result have happened?”

It should be noted that the three week turnaround was the shortest of Bisping’s career and the first time in that he has lost back-to-back fights.

The promotion wanted to save this card after former UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva was pulled from the main event for a USADA violation. While some can accept the reasoning behind the booking of the bout, some fight fans can’t believe it was made official.

Rogan understands that this is a perfect example of short-sighted and dangerous thinking because Bisping is never going to say “no,” even if he should.

“You really have to protect the fighter from themselves. You really can’t be letting a guy fight three weeks after an absolutely brutal fight like that. It just does not make sense. It does not make sense. I don’t think it’s smart.

“I understand the UFC needed someone to fill in on short notice because Anderson Silva tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs and they did not want to lose the Shanghai main event, so it turns into an even bigger fight when you’ve got the former middleweight champion right off his loss, three weeks later fighting again, but it’s just not smart. I know Bisping wanted to do it, and I know Bisping would probably do it again if you asked him to do it. If you asked Bisping to fight in a few weeks, he would probably do it again.”

“Someone was talking about him fighting in England, I believe in March. Boy, that’s less crazy, but still, crazy because we’re basically into December. So you’ve got December, January, February, three months off, really, and then March. But during that time he’s going to be sparring and you know Bisping, he’s a f**king animal. He’s not gonna take much time off. Fighters need time off after fights.”

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Joe Rogan: Conor McGregor Versus a Legit Threat Sells

Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) color commentator Joe Rogan is all for seeing Conor McGregor vs. Tony Ferguson. McGregor is the reigning UFC lightweight title holder, but he’s got company. Earlier this month at UFC 216, Ferguson captured the interim lightweight title. “El Cucuy” submitted Kevin Lee in the third round. He then sent a message […]

Joe Rogan Speculates On Who Could Be Conor McGregor’s Next Opponent

The next opponent for UFC lightweight champion Conor McGregor is still up in the air. It appears that we are down two a few fighters that will likely get the next chance at McGregor, who won the title last year at UFC 205 from Eddie Alvarez. McGregor took an extended hiatus to celebrate the birth […]

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McGregor took an extended hiatus to celebrate the birth of his first child and then got his super fight with boxing legend Floyd Mayweather granted. On the flip side, Tony Ferguson did the same thing he’d been doing all along, which is winning fights and calling out the champion.

Now that he’s the interim lightweight champion, it appears that Ferguson’s trash talk might just be getting him somewhere.

However, you can’t count out a trilogy fight with Nate Diaz. The feeling was that McGregor’s return to MMA will be against Diaz due to the fact that it’s the most lucrative fight possible to make right now.

During the most recent Fight Companion edition of The Joe Rogan Experience podcast, the longtime UFC commentator speculated on who McGregor would fight next. Rogan believes that Ferguson is the “logical” fight and that he seemed to be next for McGregor.

“Conor made that post to Tony,” Rogan said (transcript courtesy of MMA Fighting). “He made an Instagram post. Grand Theft Auto with him holding a gun, driving a boat. Conor’s smart. He realizes that Tony’s an unusual, eccentric character. Conor’s an unusual, eccentric character, Tony’s an unusual, eccentric character too and Tony has the longest win streak in the UFC’s 155-pound division. He’s the interim champion and he’s the logical fight. He’s a bad motherf**ker, no doubt, and a legitimate champion.

“Conor sells like f**king crazy and Conor versus Tony sells because Tony’s a legit threat. Conor versus a legit threat sells. Conor fighting someone sells but Conor versus a legit threat is where it gets interesting.”

Make no mistake about it, McGregor is the biggest star in history of MMA due to the fact that his last four MMA fights have all topped 1 million buys and his boxing match against Mayweather which sold over 4 million buys. A fight against Diaz would bring in the most cash.

UFC 196, which saw Diaz defeat McGregor on short notice via submission, drew an estimated 1,317,000 buys, 17,000 more than McGregor’s history-making fight against Alvarez at UFC 205 which only sold 1,300,000 buys. Ferguson’s fight with Lee is estimated to have drawn an estimated 120,000 buys.

“The whole world doesn’t know Tony but the MMA world knows Tony, for sure. But the regular people are the people you really need to get ahold of to buy pay-per-views. [Nate] is the money [fight]. . . [But] Nate made four million bucks over two fights and he don’t give a f**k.

He’s like, ‘Pay Me.’ He beat Conor and in the second fight he arguably had a draw with Conor. He lost a decision based on a couple people’s opinion. Public opinion means a lot and if you went online and asked people who you think won that fight, I bet you would get very close to 50/50 Nate versus Conor. . .

“Those guys are rivals man and Nate choked him the f**k out in the first fight. That’s always gonna be there. . . The big money would be the Nate Diaz fight even if Nate beat him in the second fight.

“You think you can go to the gas station right now and go, ‘Hey man, who’s Tony Ferguson?’ If you go to the average person and ask them who Nate Diaz is, way more people are gonna know who he is than Tony.”

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