Jorge Masvidal has undergone a serious transformation in the last year, going from a highly technical but overly cautious striker to a straight-up ‘bad motherf-cker’.
Following back-to-back defeats to Demian Maia and Stephen Thompson in 2017, Masvidal has rebounded by accumulating three straight stoppage wins over Darren Till, Ben Askren and Nate Diaz, beating the latter in the UFC 244 main event to capture the ‘BMF’ title.
While UFC commentator Joe Rogan and newly-minted UFC middleweight champ Israel Adesanya aren’t sold on the ‘BMF’ belt, both agree ‘Gamebred’ is championship material.
“I feel like Masvidal is world championship caliber,” podcast host Rogan told Adesanya on a recent episode of JRE (h/t BJPenn.