Joe Rogan

That probably could have happened, but I think maybe more significantly was the eye damage.

Both of his eyes were swollen shut.

His nose was fucked up.

He had taken so many punches to the face, and it looked like perhaps orbital damage, like maybe he had a fractured orbital because his whole thing had just swollen up on both sides.

He was unrecognizable.

And, you know, the guy hung in there as long as he could.

But when you can't see, you can't see.

And when you're that battered, sometimes it's smart to stop.

And he's a very smart guy.

And I think he realized, like, I can't defend myself right now.

I can't see.

This guy's smashing me.

Let's call it a day.

This is what it is.

Let's preserve my body and my brain and rebuild and come back another day.

But for Justin, it was like one of the most epic things I've ever seen in my life.

For him to win like that when everybody had counted him out, he was saying it was going to be his last fight.

It was like a retirement fight.

37 years old, been in the game forever, fought who's who of all-time greats in the sport, and this was going to be his last fight.

And he's like, if I can win the title at the White House, what an ending to a career.