joe rogan:
I used to like him a lot – compared to Goldie! Well, I know Goldie does his job and Joe has much more liberties in the way he can comment… But he bores me. Both of the guys should be kicked off.
I cannot take any more of Goldie’s standart phrases that never ever change: e.g. announcing the ref: “Big John McCarthy our Referee!” – in roughly all of the last 50 UFC events I only once noted (completely stunned!) a variance. It reminds me of Catholic Priest doing their masses in alway and ever the same words and pronounciation until you cant take it anymore.
And Joe: he doesn’t seem to be that solid in BJJ AND commentating: persistently he calls an occurance of the rubberguard “butterfly guard”, repeating that whilst praising Eddie Bravo (the only big BJJ name he ever mentions), telling crazy stuff about how to do a rubberguard, a triangle or other stuff correctly whithout any consitency, but always by messing up left and right….
And I’m really thankful that you made the point: Joe’s biased! I always had the impression he was not really shure about what was going on, who was hitting whom, and what seemed to hurt. So my picture of Joe was that of a guy who was a great fan, was getting payed for (quite funny and entertaining) talking somewhat between trash and well-informed stuff, but in general was nothing more like that as a commentator – a fan, but not an expert. Glad to find out he is only “biased”!

Someone suggestet bringing back Randy to the commentators booth. At least for a while that would be great (and – for heaven’s sake – keep awful Bas Rutten out there!).

The funny thing to me is this is exactly the reason I like him. Its like watching the fight with a buddy that kinda knows what he’s talking about.

I liked during the recent free Spike event when he said how the guy through the opposite knee while defending the single leg. a move he saw first by Uriah Faber. For some dumb reason, I thought to myself,”Self, this guy does watch all the fights.”

The guy has gone on record, a number of times, to say that he isn’t really interested in non-combat sports. He knows nothing about baseball, football, ice-hockey, whatever. However he does watch, and has for a long time, every boxing, mma, kick-boxing, whatever combat sport he can find. Because of that, I think he’s seen a lot of fighter improve as time goes on.

Yes, he probably is biased and wants one to win more than other, whether it’s because he has money on the fight, or he’s a friend, or whatever. I don’t think anyone can watch a fight and be truly impartitial. I like both Forrest and Rampage from what I’ve seen on tv, they both seem like nice guys, and yet I was rooting for Rampage. Did I want to see Forrest get hurt? No. Did I think Rampage was gonna win? yes. But from a commentators point of view, if you’re seeing a fighter who normally throws a sloppy left hook, and suddenly a crisp quick left hook comes out, you are going to say “WOW, what a left hook” because you didn’t expect such a good shot from that fighter.

If you’re watching a World Champ Muay Thai fighter, and he throws a powerful leg kick, well, it’s not going to be that impressive, because he throws that every day, so yes the response would be less.

People give him a hard time, but the truth is Joe Rogan is a huge MMA fan. he remembers details of fights that most of us have probably never even heard of. He gets excited because he really has one of the best seats in the house.

He’s like a rabid fan while commentating. If you go back and watch the GSP fight with Karo, Rogan was going on about how Karo is so dangerous and that GSP should watch out and all the while Karo was getting pounded to a pulp. Same with Chuck-Jardine fight. He made it look as if the fight was one sided. Sure Jardine won but it was a close match. Again Rogan was calling only the Jardine shots. Hopefully the judges aren’t listening to his commentary!

He is great. He is always informitive about bjj and what’s going to happen next. He does however, get inside of Dana WHite’s Hype machine, making you believe a fights going to be better then it is.

I love Goldberg. He is a cartoon charecter. We get a crackup on Goldbergs face when he says “with me as always JOE Rogan” and turns to rogan like an inch away from his grill and holds a look like he had his forehead surgicaly crinkled ala robert deniro. Watch it it’s funny as hell…

Joe Rogan missed a telecast last year (I forgot which one). Bottomline: He might be annoying, but you miss him when he’s gone. He’s not going anywhere.

I don’t see it as a huge issue since the commentary shouldn’t be affecting the ref or judges, and it doesn’t seem *that* biased to me.

According to UFC President Dana White, Patrick Cote has earned himself a title shot. The plan is to have Anderson Silva fight with Yushin Okami, then slide Cote into the title fight against the winner.

can some one conferm?

As for Mike Goldberg, I am mildly amused by some of the stupid remarks that come out of his mouth. But this retired teacher’s pet peeve is with his grammatical inaccuracy, especially when he inserts an unnecessary preposition in a relative clause (e.g., the opponent in which he will face) or repeats the preposition at the end of the clause (e.g., a look at the cage in which they will fight in). The man is doing nothing to improve the illiteracy problem that is too prevalent across America.

Nonetheless, I do like both men and enjoy listening to their commentatiing.
They both have a voice that beckons to the ear and deliver an energy and vitality that keep the broadcast interesting.

Stop crying Mike, don’t visit on gameday, don’t read the PBP if you don’t want the answer to the question don’t ask it.

I remember one time I wanted to check and see what day the NFL draft was, So I went to NFL.com , it was superbowl sunday and wouldn’t you know those douche bags didn’t realize I had to Tivo the game and they put the f’n winner right there on the front page, with a picture, and score and everything. ………………….Those A holes at ESPN did the same f’n thing the next year……………I wish they would stop, Mike thinks spoilers in our timezones are a bad thing, and if Mike wants it , that is how it should be

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