Joe Rogan: Conor McGregor Needs To Be Obsessed With Jiu-Jitsu To Beat Nate Diaz
Longtime UFC commentator Joe Rogan is known to have some experience with grappling and jiu jitsu.
This is why Rogan chimed in on the reported rematch between UFC featherweight king Conor McGregor and always outlandish Nate Diaz at UFC 200. McGregor lost to Diaz at UFC 196 by second round submission. That loss marked his first in several years, and now McGregor wants to revenge that loss.
Rogan explained that if McGregor does take the fight, he’ll need to sharpen up on his ground skills in order to beat Diaz.
“If it goes to the ground? Oh, that’s the wrong guy,” Rogan said on his podcast. “”Nate Diaz is the wrong guy to go to the ground with. Nate Diaz is a legit black belt, a really high-level black belt. I knew Conor had gotten submitted by Joe Duffy. Anybody can get submitted if you get caught, but he got submitted by that Joe Duffy guy just a few years ago. Joe Duffy is a very talented fighter, no doubt about it, but Nate wouldn’t have gotten submitted by that same guy. I highly, highly, highly doubt it.
“A guy like Conor, if you’ve been tapped before by Joe Duffy just a few years ago with an arm triangle … to get caught like that, you’ve got a lot to learn and I don’t know if you’ve learned it all in time. You’ve got to be obsessed with jiu-jitsu. You’ve got to be in there every day training and I didn’t think he did [for UFC 196]. I thought it was more about movement and striking and all that stuff. I know he was doing some jiu jitsu but it’s not like the primary focus. So I felt like, ‘That’s a big f**king deep end jump.'”
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