{"id":291354,"date":"2018-11-14T05:58:21","date_gmt":"2018-11-14T13:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=291354"},"modified":"2018-11-14T10:50:48","modified_gmt":"2018-11-14T18:50:48","slug":"joe-rogan-on-cain-velasquez-he-stands-out-as-the-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/joe-rogan-on-cain-velasquez-he-stands-out-as-the-best\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Rogan on Cain Velasquez: He ‘stands out as the best’"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you ask UFC color commentator Joe Rogan, former UFC heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez is probably the best heavyweight in MMA history. Rogan got talking about Velasquez, and what makes him so special, after a discussion about the ideal weight for a heavyweight mixed martial artist on The Joe Rogan Experience Podcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a thought with the 265-pound weight class and the consensus thought seems to be that somewhere around 240 pounds is the magic number,\u201d Joe Rogan said of Cain Velasquez (transcript via MMA Fighting<\/a>). \u201cThat\u2019s what they think. They think that 240 pounds is the amount of weight that you have where you\u2019re strong enough that you can knock out any man but you have more endurance than a man that maybe weighs 265 or heavier and cuts down to 265. Now this has not been substantiated. The problem is, there hasn\u2019t been a super powerful world championship athlete that weighed 265 pounds…<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s hard to say because there\u2019s never been a 265-pound version of Cain Velasquez. Cain Velasquez, in my humble opinion, when I look at all of the different heavyweights that I\u2019ve personally seen fight, Cain stands out as the best. The reason why Cain stands out as the best is because he has superhuman endurance and his ability to put a pace on guys. You would see these guys just wilt under the pressure.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Rogan was quick to praise Cain Velasquez, he also touched on the string of injuries that have derailed the former champion’s career. He believes these injuries could be a product of Velasquez’s mental toughness \u2014 the same mental toughness that made him so dangerous in the cage.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think with Cain – and this is where it gets really interesting – what did him in is also brought him to the top: his mental toughness,\u201d said Rogan. \u201cHis body started breaking down. He started having all these back injuries. He needed back surgery, multiple back surgeries, shoulder surgery, knee surgery, everything was getting f*cked up and I think it was getting f*cked up because he was working through pain and he has the ability to tolerate pain that most people don\u2019t have. He\u2019s just a f*cking animal but that\u2019s also probably what led to him having this insane endurance. It\u2019s the same kind of mental toughness.\u201d<\/p>\n

Do you think Cain Velasquez is the best heavyweight ever?<\/p>\n

This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i>BJPENN.COM<\/i><\/span><\/a>\u00a0on 11\/13\/2018.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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