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UFC analyst Joe Rogan believes Gable Steveson’s decision to train with Jon Jones negatively impacted his performance at UFC 331.
Olympic gold medalist Gable Steveson suffered a shocking knockout loss to Sean Sharaf at UFC 331 last month. Steveson, considered by many as one of the top prospects in MMA, suffered the first loss of his fighting career after a successful UFC debut.
In the lead-up to UFC 331, Steveson partnered up with UFC legend Jon Jones to learn from one of the greatest to ever compete in the Octagon. Before his UFC debut, Jones crowned Steveson an eventual UFC heavyweight champion, a goal now in jeopardy following UFC 331.
While Joe Rogan believes Jones is the greatest UFC fighter of all time, he thinks the former two-division champion put an unwarranted spotlight on his protege.
Joe Rogan becomes the latest to question Gable Steveson-Jon Jones partnership
During a recent episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, Rogan shared an interesting take on Steveson’s collaboration with Jones.
“You can’t pretend to be the guy you’re hanging out with,” Rogan said of Steveson and Jones.
“That’s the problem: You’re hanging out with a guy who’s the GOAT, and you start thinking you’re the next guy. You might be. You could be – if you do the right things. But if you believe it before it happens … you have to be cautious, but also confident. There’s this dance of the mind. There’s so much going on to be an elite fighter.
“You have to be aware,” Rogan continued on Steveson and Jones. “Look at Kamaru Usman. Beating Leon Edwards for four rounds, all of a sudden one head kick – boom, lost the title. Never the same guy – because you’re human. As tough as Kamaru is, he’s a f—— human being. It’s a wild dance of possibilities, but it’s also one of the reasons why people love the sport so much. What you did elevated the whole sport.” (h/t MMA Junkie)
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