Joe Rogan believes Khamzat Chimaev could possibly be successful within the UFC’s light heavyweight division.
The UFC middleweight champion spent much of his early profession competing at welterweight.
In recent months, he’s targeting a fight with the most effective 205lb fighter on the planet, Alex Pereira.
Khamzat Chimaev called out the sunshine heavyweight titleholder after his UFC 320 win over Magomed Ankalaev, and since then, the superstar duo have been going backwards and forwards a few fight on social media.
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Joe Rogan backs Khamzat Chimaev at light heavyweight
Joe Rogan understands that the 20lb jump from middleweight to light heavyweight is quite a bit.
The UFC commentator says Khamzat Chimaev must treat the burden climb with the respect it deserves if he wants to achieve success in a 3rd division.
”I feel he can do it,” Rogan said on a recent episode of his podcast.
“I feel he can do it if he takes time and puts weight on.
“Because he’s tall, and likewise the thing is these gaps in wrestling, these gaps in grappling, when the guy’s a extremely good grappler, and then you definately are taking up Dricus [du Plessis], who is de facto a striker.
“He’s a great grappler, a great jiu-jitsu guy, but there are levels.
“The type of guy like Khamzat, like man, you gotta be a f—ing Olympic level wrestler to scrap with that guy.”
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Joe Rogan laughed off Donald Trump’s ‘nuts’ plan to have ‘8 or 9’ title fights on the UFC White House card.
The favored podcaster says all the event can be a ‘travesty’ if one MMA legend isn’t involved.
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“In the event that they don’t do Jon Jones on the White House, I feel it could be a travesty,” Rogan said.
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“They need to do this. Come on!
“Dana’s like, ‘You may’t count on him.’ You may f—- count on him. Come on, stop.
“On the White House? Come on,” he added.
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