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The Joe Rogan Experience can we talk for a second about Francis and Ghana doing Jiu Jitsu in the wild hole first I was scared of him before because if he hits you you're going to die bro his leg was destroyed going into that fight he had a totally torn MCL his ACL are you serious surgery because he had uh knee sleeves somebody was asking me about surgery does the does the opponent have to agree to let him wear those no no um we were in California and in California it's legal to have knee sleeves on there are some jurisdictions where they'll let you tape your ankles some commissions I'm gonna cough again laughs some commissions will let you tape your ankles well it's like they're all there's all sorts of different rules when it comes to MMA unfortunately it's like the unified rules of MMA is the is the changed unified rules that like they've changed some of the parameters like what constitutes a downed opponent and then some places will let you tape your ankles someplace as well it's like there's a lot going on he did the smart move though both knees yeah so you don't yeah you don't you don't put tape on like just two fingers you're like I'm fine no what do you remember soccer rabba's knees were so [ __ ] that he would tape all the way up halfway up his thigh where his knees were like mummified here's how much flexion and extension do we have very little very little yeah when you would see Sakura but when he fought like especially later in his career his knees were the craziest thing see if you find a video of Sakura but it's like oh my look how taped up his knees are I mean it's like halfway up his thigh and halfway down to his ankle dude when Francis picked up that guy mid kick and they both left the ground oh yeah he came down oh yeah all I could think of in my head while watching that was imagining like in a cartoon the ghost of my body just floating up I mean what does he weigh well he weighed in at 2 57 which but how tall is he he's six five oh my God I believe that's deadly tall yeah yeah Dudley tall um that's the slamming down to the ground then that's again where my ghost what not look at the faces in the
background look at that dude with his mouth open that girl too the girl yeah well that was his best uh option to win that fight giving the fact that he was injured I had no idea that he was injured obviously he's significant he wasn't talking about that before though was he um well we knew about it okay we had heard about it there was a rumor going around we had heard about it um I had not talked to his coaches so I didn't know exactly the extent of the injury and I found out afterwards and I actually connected uh some one of his coaches with uh ways to well which is a company that I use here in Austin for stem cells but he had uh significant tears in his knee like to the point where they were they were really considering not fighting oh damn yeah but I still fought and he still won it was beautiful a man that size so he waited in 257 what do you think he stepped in the ring Ed well DC thinks he's about 270. because he was so he looked so much bigger than Cyril gone because Cyril gone was 247 which means Cyril gone didn't have to lose any weight he just he waited in his walk around right but Francis oftentimes is over the 265 pound limit so when he goes to weigh in like he'll just not eat very much like the day before dip under it dip under it and then weigh himself in and then afterwards he'll rehydrate and carb up so the day of the fight he looked massive I mean he was he was huge he looked huge but he moved beautifully well especially for a guy with a [ __ ] me yeah I had no idea I mean you got you also have to take into consideration what what kind of an impact did that have on his training in terms of his cardio like his cardio output like what was he able to do and you know how is that going to affect the way he fought and the pace that he was able to fight at all I'll say is France Francis and ganu was one of the best Arguments for carrying a gun on the face of the planet because if you run into that dude in an Alleyway you're going to die yeah you're not you're not gonna hurt him no yeah I mean Stipe landed some big shots on him and didn't even ding him that's why
tools exist sometimes you need to you need to have tools yeah what's interesting is that guy evolving his game and then incorporating wrestling and incorporating Jiu Jitsu and uh I'm I'm really curious to see what he decides to do in the future if he decides to box or if he decides to stay with the UFC because part of me wants to see him I want to see him box I mean I don't want to see him box because I don't love seeing him fighting MMA I love seeing him fighting MMA but I want to see him box because I want to see him get a giant chunk of money like like uh Conor McGregor style Floyd Mayweather chunk of money because when Connor fought Floyd Mayweather made a hundred million dollars that's I don't believe that's bad for an evening's work I think that's nice I would love to see that like if if you know if he fought Tyson Fury how much money would they be able to get I know nothing about that rule do you think they'd be able to demand that much I don't know is it off the pay-per-view or what they could sell it yeah yeah it's off the pay-per-view it's off what they could I mean obviously you'd have to it would have to be very marketable and Tyson Fury is very marketable and Francis ingano is very marketable especially him as a UFC heavyweight champion going up to fight in boxing and it would be weird to see Tyson fury like a legit five inches taller than Francisco oh yeah Tyson Fury is six nine I think uh Francis is six four six five I'm not sure so what how tall is Francis z6465 but uh the big fight in MMA is Jon Jones so if uh they did he fight at that same weight Jon Jones is fighting heavyweight now is there a weight class above the 265. there is but the UFC has never implemented it it's just super heavyweight there's just not boys out there big enough to I mean I guess there's probably a few but there's not enough where they felt the need to have a over 265 pound weight class it is kind of weird though that there's a weight limit on heavyweight because you've been like heavyweight would just like be the biggest person you had that's what I figured I figured at that level it was like kind of Come
As You Are I mean it could be one day there you know one day there could be a guy who is so compelling like maybe there's some like gigantic Greco Roman wrestler like corellen like corellin in his prime I think was like 290 Pounds something bigger than that yeah if you did have a guy that big that was marketable I could see the UFC implementing a super heavyweight division but it's available I mean it's something that the commissions have sanctioned