Tony Ferguson is returning to fight for the second time this year at UFC 296. He will take on Paddy Pimblett, who last registered a controversial win over Jared Gordon at UFC 282. Meanwhile, for the upcoming fight, ‘El Cucuy’ decided to take help from David Goggins and train with him. This has Joe Rogan expressing his interest in seeing how Ferguson fares against Pimblett at UFC 296.

David Goggins is known for being an accomplished endurance athlete. He is a military veteran who is most widely known for his work as a public speaker. This time, he got himself involved in training Tony Ferguson, which has come to the attention of Joe Rogan. The JRE host spoke about it on the most recent episode of his podcast.

Joe Rogan is interested to see how Tony Ferguson performs at UFC 296 after training with David Goggins

The 56-year-old had Cameron Hanes as the guest on the most recent ‘Joe Rogan Experience’ episode. They discussed the upcoming UFC 296 pay-per-view and how the card is stacked with some great fights. Thereafter, Joe Rogan mentioned that Paddy Pimblett would make his return against Tony Ferguson, who’s been training with David Goggins. He said, “Tony and Paddy Pimblett [at UFC 296]. Tony’s training with David Goggins, which is crazy.”

Joe Rogan believes that it will be an interesting sight to see if David Goggins can live up to the hype since he’s training ‘El Cucuy’. He mentioned how many people have given mixed reviews regarding Tony Ferguson’s choice of training with the military veteran.

“I am very interested to see Tony after he’s been training with David Goggins. There’s a lot of, like, mixed reviews about whether or not that would be a good thing or a bad thing for him… It’s interesting,” said Rogan. However, Paddy Pimblett is not impressed with Ferguson’s new method, and he spoke about it in an interview with ESPN.

Paddy Pimblett claims Goggins’ training method will not work in the modern era

Almost a couple of weeks ago, ‘The Baddy’ appeared in an interview with ESPN’s Marc Raimondi, where he opined on David Goggins’ training routine for his opponent, Tony Ferguson. Paddy Pimblett claimed that ‘El Cucuy’s training for the fight is a page out of the book of a fighter from the 90s. He said, “I think it’s just crazy. It’s wild… That’s like what people used to do in 1998 when we was on like UFC 41.”

Paddy Pimblett also mentioned that Ferguson’s training method is irrelevant in today’s times. Furthermore, he believes that the training regime is doing the 39-year-old more harm than it’s doing good. “That’s just completely irrelevant nowadays… You can tell by look on Tony’s face. It’s hurting him,” he added.

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Tony Ferguson’s UFC career has been on a downward spiral ever since he lost the interim lightweight title to Justin Gaethje back at UFC 249. He has since racked up six losses in a row. Meanwhile, Paddy Pimblett has been undefeated in the UFC with a 4-fight winning streak under his belt. We will have to wait and see how things pan out on December 15, when they finally go head-to-head.

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