Quote of the Day: Joe Rogan Comments on Strikeforce: Miami
by Nick Thomas on Feb 1, 2010 9:46 PM EST
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"I was just thinking about how f**king fun it is to watch shows when you don't have to commentate. I love working for the UFC, and the job is a complete and total honor, and one of the coolest jobs on the planet, but it's so much f**king fun to watch fights when you don't have to talk all the time. After all these years of being an MMA fan, it's still just as exciting."
"Nick Diaz is a f**king MONSTER. That dude just gets better with every performance, and he was in some rare air last night. Brutal body shots, and relentless striking. I thought it was f**king awesome."
"The Lawler fight was insane. That was one of the greatest, come from behind KO's ever, and the fact that he only landed 3 punches makes the story perfect. That shit was MMA history. People will be talking about that KO for decades."
-- Joe Rogan says he loves watching other fight shows.
HT: The UG, photo via combatlifestyle.com
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One of my favorite things about Rogan--
He’s a fan first and an employee second.
Blackout612- "Wuts teh UFC?"
Ubernoober- "It like two guy who just stand and swing for fence and try to knock each other shit out it awesome"
by Blackout612 on Feb 1, 2010 9:36 PM EST reply actions 18 recs
nailed it
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Cause people from a distance can't tell who is who -- Jay-Z
unlike goldberg
honestly the ufc should have schiviello rogan and bas rutten to make the ultimate mma commentator combo ever
That would be insanity.
Beautifully awesome insanity.
Walking the line between intelligence and ignorance since 1985
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I blog about stuff too.
I never understood the Rogan hate
I watch alot of sports and I’d put Rogan in the top 5% of announcers easily. He has more knowledge than most sports announcers (so many of them announce 5+ different sports in a given year and don’t really know any of them well) and he has genuine enthusiasm that comes through in a telecast.
Yeah, he gets a little overexcited at times and says things that with more time for reflection seem over the top or wrong…but I wouldn’t want him to rein it in one iota.
by Django Z on Feb 1, 2010 9:43 PM EST reply actions 7 recs
I think the hate comes from his conspiracy theories/psychadelic trip talk. I find it entertaining as well as his commentary/standup.
by kanodogg on Feb 1, 2010 11:11 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
You're gettng confused
There’s the play by play announcer, which is Goldberg, who like other some announcers in other sports, often doesn’t have a clue. Rogan is the color commentator, who is supposed to be the knowledgeable one. Color commentators are usually former coaches or players, so they almost always know the sport, so to say that Rogan is more knowledgeable than other guys in his spot is inaccurate.
You're getting presumptuous
True, color guys are often former players or coaches, but they’re not always able to bring that knowledge out on a live telecast, nor are they necessarily current on their knowledge. Sometimes they coast on what happened back in their day.
Knowledge + ability to articulate on camera = quality announcing. And I think Rogan has that.
You know, the bar is sooooo low in sports announcing. Half the time I’m just delighted that Rogan says some of the things me and my friends are discussing. There are so many times in an NFL or NBA game where what seems like the obvious thing to discuss goes right by the announcing team – both the play-by-play and color guy.
is that supposed to be a compliment?
if joe regularly said things like “fighter a has been dominating this fight,” and then literally thirty second later said “fighter a hasn’t been able to do a single thing in this fight.” then i’d agree with you. walton is a terrible announcer with a memory as long as a gnats. i appreciate he’s a fan of the game, but his schizo commentary is painful to listen to.
Bill Walton is so over-the-top
I find it hard not to appreciate him. I never thought I’d say it, but I very much miss his commentary.
Haha, no
Bill Walton single handedly pushed me away from Basketball. I muted him most often. But there was a sort of perverse pleasure in hating him, and a strange part of me miss him like woomikee says. But no Walton was not good. He’s one of the all-time worst. But he was soooo colourful and not afraid to sound stupid, there was something oddly entertaining about him. But goodness I don’t want him back.
another point joe doesn’t get credit for is that he does an amazing job of balancing fair commentary and being a company man. if he’s going on about a fighter, it’s because joe thinks highly of that fighter, not because he’s been ordered to play that fighter up. listening to elitexc was the worst in that aspect, they treated every match like it was the main event of a wrestlemania, and had nowhere to go when the action didn’t match their enthusiasm.
Yes, but some color commentators know nothing about the game they're watching.
Tim McCarver and Joe Morgan spring immediately to mind.
I like using semi-colons; they make me feel smart.
Yo Joe!
If I wanted boring announcers, I’d watch golf.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better. -Samuel Beckett
by Scott C. Broussard on Feb 1, 2010 9:47 PM EST reply actions
Wouldn't call it killer
It was saved from mediocrity by those two (maybe you didn’t catch that terrible Hieron/Riggs fight, which was made worse by the awful quality of the stream).
Blackout612- "Wuts teh UFC?"
Ubernoober- "It like two guy who just stand and swing for fence and try to knock each other shit out it awesome"
by Blackout612 on Feb 1, 2010 9:52 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Oh
And Cyborg/Coenen was on the money, too. Gotta give those ladies props..
Blackout612- "Wuts teh UFC?"
Ubernoober- "It like two guy who just stand and swing for fence and try to knock each other shit out it awesome"
Strikeforce put off a nice show, call me paranoid but after that dude in pride got his face blown off i don’t think the fighters should be walking down close to pyro. This isnt a hater comment or anything on strikeforce because they have great production value and know how to run the show. Just dont like the pyro stuff. Also get rid of shamrock and mauro please.
Gotta Love Joe!
Dude is a fan 1st and even though he works for the UFC he still gives props to other promotions and fighters outside of the UFC.
And Shamrock sucks so much..
I hate it so much when he belittles the fighters. Is he jealous? I don’t see any logic behind that. That’s one of the reason why UFC commentary is far superior.
unfortunately, i think that for the same reasons that Joe Rogan is awesome, Frank Shamrock sucks. I think it’s just who he is coming thru on camera. It’s just Frank being Frank, and unfortunately for Frank, a little bit of Frank goes a long way. By the time the introductions of the show are over, I’m blinded by his braces, and wishing i could selectively mute people but still hear the action. Joe is awesome because the person that comes across on camera is the person that i think he is, a cool, funny, superfan who not only loves the sport, but has trained for years with many of its stars. Frank just comes across as a douche, because i think that’s who Frank is and there’s just no hiding it
by BradCr on Feb 1, 2010 11:00 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Frank Mir >> Frank Shamrock
Tatum: I think he's a good man. I like him. I got nothing against him, but I'm definitely gonna make orphans of his children.
which is funny, but true. both come off as cocky douchebags, but at least mir wants us all to think he’s smart. shamrock wants to come off tough so he says stupid things about how le’s kicks don’t hurt, diaz’s punches don’t hurt etc. is it really smart business for your color man to go on about how your other fighters aren’t that good?
ey?
shamrock always says how much diaz’s punch hurts, listen to the broadcasts of diaz’s last two fights.
just listened and he said “his punches don’t hurt, they scramble your brains, but they don’t hurt.”
Mauro asked “how do they scramble your brains if they don’t hurt.”
Frank: “they come at weird angles, but they don’t hurt.”
ah yeah
he said they scramble in both the smith and zaromskis fight not hurt. my apologies.
scramble = hurt to me, i dunno wtf shamrock is going on about.
with 4:25 left in the first round
exact quote:
Mauro: Frank, you were in the cage with Nick Diaz not to long ago. What impressed you the most about the Stockton bad boy?
Frank: He just has weird angles of punching. He’s consistently repeptitive in combinations with his hands. They don’t hurt, but they scramble your brain and they confuse you.
Mauro: So if they don’t hurt how do they scramble your brain?
Frank: I don’t know. (yelling) They don’t hurt, they just keep confusing me.
he really was yelling in that last bit too, like he’d realized he’d been called out on spouting bullshit.
by K Krush on Feb 2, 2010 10:26 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Frank Mir
I really like his commentating on the WEC. Enthusiastic and knowledgeable. Way better than Shamrock.
certified warlord
Mir does tend to get fixated on the more technical fighter in a bout.
And there is not surer way to lose a bout then to have Mir either predict your victory pre-fight or become fixated on your technical superiority during the fight.
Ditto
He comes off like a real tool leading up to his own fights, but I think he does a real good job of providing insight into what’s happening in the cage. I have to say I’ve learned a lot about BJJ from watching Mir (talk, not fight).
Tatum: I think he's a good man. I like him. I got nothing against him, but I'm definitely gonna make orphans of his children.
My dream duo would be the Colonel and Randy Couture. I know that is impossible but
why can’t we at least get Bob Sheridan and Pat Miletich calling all of StrikeForce’s major events?
I miss having Randy give commentary. He’s a bit stiff, but that’s probably because he doesn’t get a lot of practice. But he’s SO knowledgable, and can give such awesome annecdotes to illustrate his points (sort of like Bas, but more cogent), and I remember a couple of fights where he literally called exactly what was about to happen about 20 seconds in advance.
"I'm AJB and I endorse this nut-puncher."
by AJB on Feb 2, 2010 6:04 AM EST up reply actions
they match his jokes. thank god joe rarely tries to be funny in broadcasts. it’s not just the bad jokes, it’s the fact that you can tell he had that joke locked and loaded and was just waiting for a chance to unleash it. pubic hair at a jonas brothers concert, oh yeah, he’d been crafting that comedic peach for weeks before it was ready to be dropped.
well rogan/schiavello ain’t happening, how about bas/schiavello?
by kanodogg on Feb 1, 2010 11:14 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
Totally would have rather heard Rogan with the call than the triumvirate of Frank, Mauro, and Death.
Keep firing Assholes!
Mind numbing, tedious and ultimately self defeating.
by Ubernoober on Feb 1, 2010 10:38 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
Oh, good, it wasn’t just me. Roomies were like “Holy shit, who swapped out his AIDS drugs for flintstones vitamins?”
by inadvertentgroinstrike on Feb 2, 2010 12:02 AM EST up reply actions
Al Bernstein wasn't bad on the Challengers series
But Mauro has to go. His schtick worked in Pride for some reason, but it just work here. It doesn’t come off as professional for a sport trying to be taken seriously mainstream.
Mauro didn’t do nearly as many awful puns and jokes during PRIDE. I can’t get into details…but from what I’ve been told by a few different people…he’s being told to keep doing it this way.
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by Brent Brookhouse on Feb 2, 2010 9:53 AM EST up reply actions
Schiavello, Florian and Rogan would be the best for me
Schiavello with the schtick, Florian with the technical analysis and Rogan to play off both and work the middle. I think that’d be perfect.
Blackout612- "Wuts teh UFC?"
Ubernoober- "It like two guy who just stand and swing for fence and try to knock each other shit out it awesome"
Schiavello is too over the top and annoying. I think Kenny would find it hard to speak up through all of the yelling
He’s a love him or hate him kind of guy.
Blackout612- "Wuts teh UFC?"
Ubernoober- "It like two guy who just stand and swing for fence and try to knock each other shit out it awesome"
3-man booths are evil.
They never work.
The Voice and Rogan or Bas, please.
I specializes in grammar fail.
by a tommy point on Feb 1, 2010 11:23 PM EST up reply actions
Maybe the three man booths in the past
Kenny seems like a good complimentary guy. I feel like that group would have good chemistry. Rogan would call the action and ask Kenny particular questions to involve him, Schiavello would yes “GOODNIGHT IRENE” instead of having to hear Goldberg’s bullshit. I’d dig it.
Blackout612- "Wuts teh UFC?"
Ubernoober- "It like two guy who just stand and swing for fence and try to knock each other shit out it awesome"
I disagree.
The UFC announcing teams was at it’s peak on those rare occassions where Randy sat in with Goldy & Rogan. The three man booth works fine as long as the three personalities gel. You needs to have a mix of personalities that can coexist. Goldy, Rogan & Randy did that very well.
I think adding a laid back technical analyst, whether it be Randy, Mir, Florian, or someone else, helps the UFC broadcast.
i always wondered if the Mauro/Bas chemistry was real, or they were narrating over already taped events and were working from a script. I’ve never seen a pride event live, so i don’t know if they were who actually announced the events live, or if it was just something done for when the events were broadcast on American TV, kinda like Iron Chef
No, they did them live. There was a coule of times when someone else would actually replace Bas in the booth because he was cornering a fighter.
"I'm AJB and I endorse this nut-puncher."
by AJB on Feb 2, 2010 7:25 AM EST up reply actions
and the fact that he only landed 3 punches makes the story perfect.
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A wise man told me don't argue with fools
Cause people from a distance can't tell who is who -- Jay-Z
I think part of the problem with the SF commentary is that they don’t work as a team. Say what you will about Rogan and Goldie, but the fact that they’ve worked together so many times helps them out a lot, and they at least get along well and do their job a little bit better over time, but these guys it’s just weird.
Ranallo is overselling everything, shamrock is overselling himself (which no body cares about) and i have no idea what Quadros is doing. Then they go on CBS and want Gus Johnson to do the play by play, but still have Ranallo there with no real job description, and shamrock being shamrock.
Ways to improve, pick a team, and let them do all the shows. Don’t bring in Gus just for CBS shows, don’t switch to militetch for challengers, pick a 2 or 3 man booth, let them work together all the time, and hope they get better.
Step 2, put one of those electric dog collars on ranallo and electrocute him whenever he starts going off the rails.
Step 3, they just have to get rid of shamrock. He only cares about himself. It was bad in the past when they asked him to score the rounds and he just said he doesn’t score the rounds (then for some reason they asked him again later in the card), then he “no-sold” it when they asked him how hard cung le kicks, and he did it again this weekend when they asked him how hard diaz punches.It wasn’t even like the fights with Cung and Diaz were controversial, he got beaten so badly that there’s no reasonable person would want to see them again. If he can’t admit that he lost and then promote those fighters (or even objectively analyze their fights) he shouldn’t be in the booth when they fight. He’s not analyzing, he’s not promoting the brand, he’s promoting himself, it’s dumb for SF or Showtime or whoever the fuck is paying the bills to pay him to do that.
I agree with a lot of your rambling points. I think Gus could be a great play by play announcer if he got the hours in. He has a better understanding of cadience and pacing than anyone else in the mma world. Unfortunately his depth of knowledge is very shallow, and being a CBS sports guy he’ll never work enough cards to get versed in the subject. I believe StrikeForce’s best option would be to make sure Bob Sheridan is their man behind the mike. His 25+ years calling fights has made him much more comfortable calling the action than any other mma commentator. In addition he brings a level of respectability. I could see some ShoBox fans checking out a StrikeForc show only because he’s calling it.
As for Shamrock, indeed he’s got to go. Just give Pat the fulltime duties as colorman. Or at least let the two fight for it in May.
by John Nash on Feb 2, 2010 12:04 AM EST via mobile up reply actions
Yeah, I remember after the whole “Fedor exposed” thing I thought Rogan was kind of being a dick, but that’s not really true in the end. And give him credit too- after Hendo moved to Strikeforce, I think the first thing he talked about was how excited he was to see him fight Jake Shields. Pretty cool stuff.
Zaromskis’s face in that photo looks like what I used to do to Mario at the beginning of Super Mario 64
We're just a million little gods causin' rain storms, turning every good thing to rust.
by Anthony Pace on Feb 2, 2010 3:42 AM EST reply actions 4 recs
Haha
Rec’d for making me reminisce. I messed with that fucker’s face and hat for a good two hours before I ever started playing when I got my 64.
Blackout612- "Wuts teh UFC?"
Ubernoober- "It like two guy who just stand and swing for fence and try to knock each other shit out it awesome"
Why was the interviewer holding everyone's arm
I think it was Quadros, but every post fight interview he was holding on the fighters arm. What did they think they were gonna run away on him? He is kinda scary looking.
Yeah
That was creeping me out. Especially during the Cyborg interview where he jsut held her there for a minute and stared after she finished talking and she had to move his mike over to her translator cause he was just staring at her.
a. i’ve seen others do that. the fighters are all jacked up, they need someone to sort of keep them in place. joe’s done it.
he was expecting cyborg to actually give more than one word answers. when you ask a question that takes about 10 seconds to ask and the answer is a single word, you instinctively expect more is coming, and it didn’t. i thought it was funny she had so little to say, not how much it was throwing off quadros.
Metzger (sp) isn't bad on HDnet when covering Dream, etc..
I wouldn’t mind seeing him get more time rocking the mic stateside.
Rogan watched Strikeforce the way it should be watched. Enjoy it for what it is.
by KING FEDOR on Feb 2, 2010 8:37 AM EST via mobile reply actions 1 recs
well, enjoy two fights for what they were
by K Krush on Feb 2, 2010 9:39 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
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