UFC color commentator Joe Rogan, on his popular podcast, gave his take on last Sunday’s fiasco in Miami, Florida, where the Floyd Mayweather vs. John Gotti III boxing exhibition took place.
The fight was called off in the sixth round by referee Kenny Bayless, because Mayweather and Gotti refused to stop trashing talking to each other.
Bayless had warned both of them before the start of the sixth round to stop mouthing off obscenities at each other.
The actual bout was a mismatch, with Mayweather doing whatever he pleased and landing at will.
Once the fight was waved off by Bayless, Gotti charged after Mayweather and aggressively attacked the former five division world champion. The two of them exchanged punches before their respective teams hit the ring and several brawls broke out inside and outside the ring.
The Florida Athletic Commission suspended Gotti for six months.
Rogan was more impressed with the fighting which took place in the aftermath.
“Floyd is just piecing him up. Even at 46, he’s the greatest of all time and this kid is really an MMA fighter,” Rogan said on his podcast.
“He’s a tough guy. He caught Floyd a couple of times with some little shots, but mostly he’s just getting boxed up by literally the greatest boxer of all time, but he was holding on quite a bit and wouldn’t let go and was trying to hold and clinch and hit which is something you can do in MMA so he’s protecting himself from Floyd, but he’s not letting go.”
Gotti, the grandson of organized crime icon John Gotti, took to social media to respond to Rogan.
“Joe Rogan it was mutually called for both of us cursing at one another,” Gotti wrote on Instagram. “Those are the only two moments I clinched the [whole] fight. You still the man [though] Joe. Logan Paul clinched five million times though but that was okay. Floyd gassed himself out and I started having brief moments and they called it. Hard when everyone on his payroll.”
And then Gotti called for a rematch with Mayweather.
“The majority spoke you f—— pineapple,” Gotti said. “Let’s do it again, this time your whole team getting left in the street. Me and this girl Floyd Mayweather run it back in New York. Who’s in? This time I’m bringing heavy hitters. Next time I fight him like a dog.”