Joe Rogan has given up on Conor McGregor ever stepping foot within the octagon once more.
In a latest episode of The Joe Rogan Expertise with former featherweight champion Ilia Topuria, the 2 males debated what was in McGregor’s future. Topuria believed McGregor would lose to Paddy Pimblett. Rogan was of the opinion that we’d seen the final of “The Infamous” within the UFC, and it needed to do with cash, partying … and medicines.
“If I needed to wager, no. No, I don’t suppose he comes again,” Rogan mentioned. “As a result of he hasn’t come again but, and he might have. If he actually needed to, he would have been again within the gymnasium, had a battle scheduled, drug examined, clear, coaching, gone by way of a camp, and had a battle.”
“He had a damaged toe earlier than his battle in opposition to Chandler. I perceive that. OK, why must you battle with a damaged toe? Particularly a man who strikes loads like Conor, he depends on motion a lot. Yeah, I get it. So heal that toe up. What’s that, two months? And so you then’re again in camp, and you then reschedule a battle, and you then battle once more. However he didn’t.”
“Additionally partying, fixed partying,” Rogan identified. “All these authorized issues that he has, scooting round on yachts, and driving round in a Lamborghini. He’s rich. What’s actually unhappy is that if he comes again when he’s like 39 or 40 and his physique simply doesn’t have it anymore.”
McGregor is already 36, which is true round the place fighters in decrease weight lessons statistically begin to fall off a cliff. And it doesn’t assist that the Mac is infamous for exhausting partying. Throughout his latest civil rape trial, McGregor confirmed what many already suspected in that he was utilizing cocaine.
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“While you hear guys are doing coke, that one’s the worst, that’s the one which deteriorates you greater than something,” Rogan mentioned. “That’s a scary one for fighters too as a result of the fun of cocaine is thrilling for individuals who like thrilling issues. Fighters are adrenaline junkies that wish to be pumped up.”
“Conor appears to take pleasure in it which is among the issues that makes me wager he most likely received’t come again.”
In the course of the podcast, Rogan prompt McGregor wasn’t even at the moment within the DFSI drug pool, which is backed up by the Irish sports activities star’s lack of testing in 2025 in comparison with 2024 when he was some of the examined athletes on the UFC roster.
All of it paints an image of a person tired of severe competitors, which is backed up by his willingness to field KSI … if the cash is true. McGregor mentioned greatness doesn’t rush, but it surely most likely ought to in fight sports activities.
“If he does come again, it’s gotta be now,” Rogan declared. “At 36 years outdated. Now.”