Joe Rogan was so impressed with Paulo Costa\u2019s last trip to the Octagon that\u2019s he\u2019s already lobbying for the Brazilian veteran to be UFC\u2019s next light heavyweight champion.<\/p>\n
This comes after Costa\u2019s incredible knockout performance against previously undefeated light heavyweight contender, Azamat Murzakanov, at UFC 327 earlier this month. It was a matchup that Costa entered as a betting underdog, but one he eventually won via third-round head kick knockout. It was Costa\u2019s first appearance at 205 pounds since 2021 and the biggest win of his career other than a Fight of the Night win over Yoel Romero in 2019 that earned him a UFC middleweight title shot.<\/p>\n
Rogan, who was there to call Costa\u2019s victory firsthand, had more praise to offer during a recent episode of his Joe Rogan Experience podcast<\/a>. According to the long-time UFC color commentator, Costa has what it takes to claim gold at 205 pounds. And following the recent injury<\/a> to current UFC light heavyweight champion Carlos Ulberg he believes Costa\u2019s next fight should be for the interim strap.<\/p>\n \u201cHe looked f\u2014king phenomenal,\u201d said Rogan. \u201cIf I were in his corner, I would say \u2018Dude, never go back to middleweight. You are a f\u2014king light heavyweight champion!\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWhile Carlos Ulberg is going to be out for at least a year, for ACL reconstruction, Paulo Costa could be the interim light heavyweight champion,\u201d Rogan added. \u201cNo doubt! I really feel like he could pull that off. At light heavyweight, he\u2019s f\u2014king terrifying. He looks like the Paulo Costa of old!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joe Rogan was so impressed with Paulo Costa\u2019s last trip to the Octagon that\u2019s he\u2019s already lobbying for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,85,1396],"class_list":["post-628976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}