Joe Rogan believes Rico
Verhoeven will financially benefit more from boxing than from
joining the
Ultimate Fighting Championship.
Verhoeven recently asked for Rogan’s suggestion about competing
inside the Octagon during an appearance on the UFC commentator’s
podcast.
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Joe Rogan says boxing makes the ‘most sense’ as next career
move for Rico Verhoeven
The former Glory Kickboxing champion noted that Conor
McGregor had reportedly earned a massive payday for his return
fight last month, which lasted 69 seconds. However, Rogan advised
the 37-year-old against signing with the UFC at this point in his
career.
Rogan believes Verhoeven can earn more money in boxing. He also
claimed that Verhoeven’s friend and training partner Tom
Aspinall could have a career in boxing in the future and that
the Brit will benefit from working with Eddie Hearn.
“For you, boxing makes the most sense, especially at this point in
your life, financially,” Rogan told Verhoeven. “For Tom, he has a
potential career in boxing as well. And now that Eddie Hearn is
managing him, which is very exciting because Matchroom being behind
him is gonna have a gigantic hype machine, gigantic promotion. They
are at odds with the UFC. For me, I care about the fighters making
the most money possible, and that’s how [Tom] is gonna make the
most money possible.”
Verhoeven vacated his Glory heavyweight title last year after
defending it against Artem
Vakhitov, the last man to beat Alex
Pereira in kickboxing. The Dutchman then challenged former
champ Oleksandr Usyk this past May. While Verhoeven was a massive
underdog, he led the dance for the most part before slowing down in
the later rounds.
Seemingly en route to a potentially monumental upset win, he was
knocked down late in the 11th round. While Verhoeven returned to
his feet, Usyk followed up and the referee bizarrely stopped the
fight with a second left in the stanza.