Conor McGregor vs. Khaib Nurmagomedov is probably not going down any time soon, Joe Rogan thinks.
UFC commentating veteran Joe Rogan recently admitted within a segment of his podcast Joe Rogan Experience, that he believes Nurmagodemov can’t cut weight anymore. He thinks the poroblem is going to keep “The Eagle” from ever going toe-to-toe with the lightweight champion.
“The Eagle” faced major health issues after being pulled out of UFC 209 for weight management problems. It was even reported that the fighter faced sharp pains in his liver during weight cutting for the event.
On his podcast, Rogan said you can’t have Nurmagomedov fight McGregor anymore.
As transcribed by Daily Star, Rogan said
“You can’t, you can’t. And by the way, one of the things we talked about on the fight companion podcast we did the other day, we pulled up the Luke Rockhold quote, Luke Rockhold is his training partner,” he said.
“And he was saying that he couldn’t get blood to his liver, that was something was going on. He was in deep pain because he wasn’t getting blood to his liver.” For Rogan, to try and put your body through that again will simply be too much for the 155-pound kingpin.
“I was like, ‘Are you (expletive) kidding me?’ And this guy is going to do that again? He’s going to lose that weight again, after that? And apparently he said that he had the same problem in the Michael Johnson fight,” added Joe.
“The Michael Johnson fight, he wound up getting down to 155 but he was having the same issue, where he wasn’t getting blood to his liver. Like, what the (expletive) man?”
