{"id":962821,"date":"2026-11-13T09:16:15","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T09:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/962821\/"},"modified":"2026-11-13T09:16:15","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T09:16:15","slug":"joe-rogan-still-calls-khabibs-ufc-229-weigh-in-goat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/962821\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Rogan Still Calls Khabib&#8217;s UFC 229 Weigh-In GOAT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-path-to-node=\"1\">Years after Khabib Nurmagomedov hung up his gloves, his rivalry with <a href=\"https:\/\/mmasucka.com\/..\/..\/fighters\/conor-mcgregor\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Conor McGregor<\/a> still sets the gold standard for fight week drama. During a recent episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, longtime <a href=\"https:\/\/mmasucka.com\/..\/..\/ufc\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC<\/a> commentator Joe Rogan and lightweight contender <a href=\"https:\/\/mmasucka.com\/..\/..\/fighters\/paddy-pimblett\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paddy Pimblett<\/a> revisited the ceremonial weigh-ins for UFC 229 in October 2018.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mmasucka.com\/..\/..\/news\/joe-rogan-wants-sean-omalley-vs-payton-talbott-but-sees-one-major-roadblock\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">For Rogan, nothing<\/a> in promotional history tops the moment Nurmagomedov stepped onto the scale wearing his signature white papakha amid a hostile, pro-McGregor crowd in Las Vegas. Instead of getting rattled by the deafening boos, the Dagestani champion grabbed the microphone and delivered a calm promise.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"3\">&#8220;The greatest f&#8212;ing weigh-in ever,&#8221; Rogan recalled. &#8220;Khabib when he fought Conor, all the Irish were there, and Khabib has the crazy hat on, he goes, &#8216;I\u2019m gonna smash your boy.&#8217; Khabib has this big smile on his face, &#8216;Tomorrow night I\u2019m gonna smash your boy.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FREAKMMA1\/status\/2120730509496229943\" rel=\"nofollow\"><br \/>\nDelivering on his Promise<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"5\">Standing right there on stage just feet away from the chaos gave Rogan a front-row seat to the psychological warfare, which only adds to his admiration for the moment. Plenty of fighters talk a big game under the bright lights, yet <a href=\"https:\/\/mmasucka.com\/..\/..\/news\/khabib-nurmagomedov-pays-tribute-to-cristiano-ronaldo-he-belongs-among-the-best-of-the-best\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nurmagomedov backed up<\/a> every single syllable inside the Octagon the very next night.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"6\">At UFC 229, Nurmagomedov outlanded McGregor 70-51 in significant strikes, scored three takedowns and forced the Irish superstar to tap out to a fourth-round neck crank. It was a clinical, dominant performance on the biggest pay-per-view stage in mixed martial arts history, drawing a record 2.4 million buys.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"7\">Pimblett couldn&#8217;t help but laugh at the memory, giving credit where it was due while complaining <a href=\"https:\/\/mmasucka.com\/..\/..\/news\/khabib-nurmagomedov-warns-fighters-hanging-on-past-35-will-cost-you-your-health\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">that Nurmagomedov walked<\/a> away from the sport in his absolute prime. &#8220;He wasn\u2019t lying, lad,&#8221; Pimblett said. &#8220;I wish he wouldn\u2019t have retired so soon, though.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"8\">Nurmagomedov ultimately stepped away in October 2020 with a spotless 29-0 record after submitting <a href=\"https:\/\/mmasucka.com\/..\/..\/fighters\/justin-gaethje\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Justin Gaethje<\/a> at UFC 254. Even without a longer title reign, that promise on the UFC 229 stage remains an unforgettable piece of MMA history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Years after Khabib Nurmagomedov hung up his gloves, his rivalry with Conor McGregor still sets the gold standard&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":962822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,2765,15058,785,17498,85,787,530584],"class_list":["post-962821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-joe-rogan","tag-khabib-nurmagomedov","tag-mma","tag-paddy-pimblett","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-229-khabib-vs-mcgregor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962821","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=962821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/962822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=962821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=962821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=962821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}