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“Kevin Lee needs a camp,” Joe Rogan said on a recent episode of the JRE MMA Show (transcript via LowkickMMA). “I think Kevin Lee should go to Firas Zahabi.
"The reason why Firas Zahabi: Kevin Lee’s skill set is very similar to Georges St-Pierre’s. Good striking, very athletic, great timing of takedowns. No one knows how to coach that better than Firas Zahabi.”
“It’s no disrespect to any small camps,” he said. ‘An athlete has a small f**king window, man. Kevin is 26, right? So he’s got 10 years. Not good.
"Before that, he was beating guys in pretty spectacular fashion. Robert Follis’ death had a tremendous impact on him as a fighter, as a person, and then he fought some really great fighters on top of that.
“Al Iaquinta, man,” Rogan continued. “From the jump of that fight, the get-go, when he hit him with that spinning back fist, he let him know, ‘You’re in a dog fight, man.’”
“There’s a defining moment in a fighter’s career where they realize they need to make changes. They’re not doing things the way they should be doing them, and they need to make changes,” he concluded.
“He 100 percent can be champion. He’s just gotta make some changes – he needs a maestro. He needs a f*cking conductor. He needs a Greg Jackson or a Matt Hume, Firas Zahabi, Duke Roufus.”
"The reason why Firas Zahabi: Kevin Lee’s skill set is very similar to Georges St-Pierre’s. Good striking, very athletic, great timing of takedowns. No one knows how to coach that better than Firas Zahabi.”
“It’s no disrespect to any small camps,” he said. ‘An athlete has a small f**king window, man. Kevin is 26, right? So he’s got 10 years. Not good.
"Before that, he was beating guys in pretty spectacular fashion. Robert Follis’ death had a tremendous impact on him as a fighter, as a person, and then he fought some really great fighters on top of that.
“Al Iaquinta, man,” Rogan continued. “From the jump of that fight, the get-go, when he hit him with that spinning back fist, he let him know, ‘You’re in a dog fight, man.’”
“There’s a defining moment in a fighter’s career where they realize they need to make changes. They’re not doing things the way they should be doing them, and they need to make changes,” he concluded.
“He 100 percent can be champion. He’s just gotta make some changes – he needs a maestro. He needs a f*cking conductor. He needs a Greg Jackson or a Matt Hume, Firas Zahabi, Duke Roufus.”
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