First of all,
They think that the audience they’re targeting doesn’t know much about MMA, so they will seriously say ANYTHING when advertising. Brett Rogers is the most exciting heavyweight in the world? Really? Fedor is considered to be the only fighter without a loss? WHAT? It almost seems like they have a big meeting the week of, put a bunch of random facts in a hat, and then draw and pick which fighter to put them with..

Second,
I won’t even talk about how annoying the commentators can be with their comments, but did anyone catch the pre-Werdum/Big Foot comments?
It went somewhere along the lines of:
“Now, Frank, do you think Silva could catch Werdum, here?”
“Ohhhh, I don’t know, I don’t think he’ll be able to..”

What? How can you say that? Sure, there are favorites in fights, but the commentator can’t just pick the one who’s going to win and stick with it throughout his broadcast..

And sure enough, Big Foot came out rocked Werdum early on..

Strikeforce was very slick with that.

The article mentions this, but I also REALLY like the helmet cams. Very slick.

The UFC needs to adopt this type of thing.

I would also prefer to have an overdub of the interviews. It was painful listening to the translator.

1. Frank Shamrock. I couldn’t stand when he left I believe it was Gus Johnson hanging at least three times on who is winning the fight. It’s his job to give commentary, I’d like to hear what the fighter in the booth has to say about who he thinks is winning and losing. It kills me because a few times he threw out some great information and I was interested in what he was saying.

2. Camera work. It killed me how slow they were to move from a bad angle. More than once we were looking at the back of a ref for too long. Also during the interview with Fedor, when they cut to Rogers and what he was saying was needing to be bleeped out, they sat that for a good 20 seconds with no sound.

MMApride19: hmm i wouldnt put it down to Rogan and Goldberg though. They are likely under strict rules, and could get severly punished if they say the wrong things lol. Its most likely Dana White telling them what they can and cant say lol. Plus.. Rogan is an avid MMA fan, he loves watching ALL promotions, so im sure he would love to comment on other promotions fighters, but he is just not aloud to!!!

Good point Pride espacially about Rogan, if you check out his Twitter page he talks about all MMA, and surprising to me he really likes Michael Schievelo the commentator for HD net fights.

MMApride19: hmm i wouldnt put it down to Rogan and Goldberg though. They are likely under strict rules, and could get severly punished if they say the wrong things lol. Its most likely Dana White telling them what they can and cant say lol. Plus.. Rogan is an avid MMA fan, he loves watching ALL promotions, so im sure he would love to comment on other promotions fighters, but he is just not aloud to!!!

i agree, and don’t mean to imply that the blame is placed on them. I understand that this viewpoint is probably passed down by owners/ shareholders/ CEOs, etc. Rogan loves the sport in general. I live in Vegas, and he is frequently at the amateur fights that we have out here.

something else I find humerousis that, should you go over to the UFC site and check out their forums, you’ll find nothing but degrading comments about strikeforce and fedor. granted, there are two different viewpoints here. 1- I understand that, from a business perspective, the UFC is about making money, and as such, wants to be the only one of its kind. 2- from the fans’ perspective, I love the UFC, but I love the sport of mma first and foremost. as a fan, I want what is best for the sport first, and what is best for the UFC second.

fanoftna33:
Great point Bald Bull, it is refreshing to hear SF give other orginizations a little credit, whereas the ufc will not let anybody talk of any other org. I noticed on the Franklin vs Belfort fight, Goldberg said of Belforts ko’s the Wanderlei Silva ko was the most impressivs and Rogan had to mention the Lindland fight omitting the org completly.

hmm i wouldnt put it down to Rogan and Goldberg though. They are likely under strict rules, and could get severly punished if they say the wrong things lol. Its most likely Dana White telling them what they can and cant say lol. Plus.. Rogan is an avid MMA fan, he loves watching ALL promotions, so im sure he would love to comment on other promotions fighters, but he is just not aloud to!!!

bjjnewb: “i’ll take Johnson, Shamrock, Ranallo over Goldberg and Rogan every day.”How can you even out these guys in the same sentence as Rogan??? You may not like him for some reason, but none of these guys can hold his jockstrap when it comes to commentating. For example Talking about Wedun moving into “Half Mount”????What the hell is that, or after he corrects himselfand says he wants to move into half guard …. which he was already in. Two of they guys had little to no knowledge of MMA what so ever and Frank said almost nothing….they sucked! plain and simple, at least Joe knows what the hell he is talking about…Overall greast fights…..Fedor is a machine….

Haha i know man. Rogan may piss some people off.. but the fact remains… he is a GREAT commentator. He is extremely knowledgeable of the sport aswell, and analyses each fight excellently. He uses all the technical terms.. and explans them. Explains what each fight is trying to do. He is indeed very good. For anyone to say they would rather have those 3 rather than Rogan is just absurd. Lol the bit that made me laugh was when Shield got Miller in that BODY TRIANGLE, and one of the commenators said, ‘oh look, Shields is now getting Miller in that figure of four body lock..’ HAHA. Then the other guy corrected him and said ‘yeh.. you mean the body triangle’.. It was cringe worthy to say the least. But was funny.

The fact remains though… there commentating sucked balls lol, and no one has beaten Rogan at that game as of yet. But it didnt ruin it to much, i was more interested in the fights to be honest lol.

BiG BaD BuLL: something trivial I appreciated: ever notice how employees/ commentators for the UFC never mention the name of other organizations? the only thing you might hear is ” this fighter spent some time in japan” as opposed to actually naming the leagues. It s like “if it isn’t the UFC, it doesn’t matter”, whereas strikeforce (during sokodjou( sp?) fight)) mentioned the UFC several times, and not with an underlying current of disdain. I got the sense that there was a mentality of ” hey, we can both coexist.”

Great point Bald Bull, it is refreshing to hear SF give other orginizations a little credit, whereas the ufc will not let anybody talk of any other org. I noticed on the Franklin vs Belfort fight, Goldberg said of Belforts ko’s the Wanderlei Silva ko was the most impressivs and Rogan had to mention the Lindland fight omitting the org completly.

How can you even out these guys in the same sentence as Rogan??? You may not like him for some reason, but none of these guys can hold his jockstrap when it comes to commentating. For example Talking about Wedun moving into “Half Mount”????What the hell is that, or after he corrects himself and says he wants to move into half guard …. which he was already in. Two of they guys had little to no knowledge of MMA what so ever and Frank said almost nothing….they sucked! plain and simple, at least Joe knows what the hell he is talking about…

Overall greast fights…..Fedor is a machine….