There is a debate right now between Jon Jones and Khabib Nurmagomedov over who is the MMA GOAT and Joe Rogan has made his choice.
Rogan has chosen Jones as the MMA GOAT, citing Jones run since his first UFC light heavyweight title win as the reason why.
“That is the argument right, like who is the GOAT?” Rogan said on The Joe Rogan Experience MMA Show (via Middle Easy). “I think if you look at Jon Jones’s early career, Jon Jones wins the title early in his career, in 2011 and from then on has fought more fights as championship fights than any other fights. So he’s the most accomplished for sure. Wins the title, youngest guy to ever win the title in the UFC, beats Mauricio ‘Shogun’ Rua who’s a legend, then the way he dominates all these other fighters…
“Up until he gets to Alexander Gustafsson you can make the argument that he had a similar career (as Khabib). If you look at what he did. Jon didn’t lose any rounds, Jon was smashing people. Look at what he did to Rashad Evans, look what he did to Rampage Jackson, look at what he did to Lyoto Machida. Everybody he fought, up until the Gustafsson fight. But then with the Gustafsson, how much slack do you give him for admittedly not training?
“Look at the way he beat Daniel Cormier in the first fight. Took him down, like who the f–k takes Daniel Cormier down, right? Then you look at the second fight, even though it was ruled a no contest we all know what the f–k happened. He head kicked (Cormier) and stopped him. It was spectacular.”
Nurmagomedov is the current top ranked pound for pound fighter in the UFC, which is a spot Jones held until Nurmagomedov’s win at UFC 254.
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