UFC Fight for the Troops 2 Results: Joe Rogan and Mike Goldberg Show the Holes in Their Game

While I agree that HBO’s boxing team is better, I don’t think it is entirely fair to lump together combat sports when comparing commentating. Boxing has a long and rich history with announce teams that have much more to draw on and educated fans that don’t need lessons on what is happening throughout the fight/evening. MMA is still growing and I think it will take a while before the craft of commentating for the sport has reached a level comparable to other sporting events.

You’re going to be accused of hating Rogan as much as Rogan loves leg kicks.

Mauro is a shell of his former self. He’s lost all of his PRIDE.

still my favorite color man in combat sports.

The CompuStrike numbers kinda back you up Jonathan. Those numbers don’t show the fight to be such a one sided affair.

LOL, SF team better?

Well since anyone who reads this site knows how anti Zuffa you are and you you do articles blasting them and the Best Announce Team in MMA following around the SF team so its not a surprise to hear you say that, the problem is its just not true and everyone knows it, do a poll, do it, poll this site, sherdog, mmajunkie and you’ll see, UFC team is the best in the business and it wont even be close.

So this is what I love, of course on this site you will pieces like this, hit pieces against Zuffa, but when mmafighting did a hit piece on the SF announce team, Pat M for his awful work on the last card, you see people saying why are they attacking Pat M and SF, why arent they calling out the flaws for the UFC team, so when you attack SF people say well thats unfair cause your not calling out the UFC for their flaws, but the fact is that piece was simply pointing out the flaws in that one broadcast, so with this your pointing out something in this broadcast but notice you dont see anyone saying well what about SF and Pat M.

Thats the hypocrisy, you bash SF and they call you a Zuffa zombie on UFC payroll and say well UFC does this, and UFC does that and what about UFC, but if you bash the UFC you dont see well what about SF, well you thought Rogan did this so what about Pat M, you only see that when someone attacks SF. You get pieces on this site calling the writer a Zuffa employee.

What a joke.

Frankly yes Rogan wasnt great during that Barry fight, but watch that third round he was calling action early for Beltran, other then that I think he was fine, and even with their flaws, they are still 100 x better then any other broadcast team.

LOL at this guy thinking Mauro and Pat M are the best team? Oh god. I mean I’ve read this site for a long time even without an account and everyone knows Snowdens reputation for being anti Zuffa and when its fair its fine, but its laughable calling SF team the best and dont even get me started with teh HBO boxing team, this guy thinks Lampley and Merchant are good?

Bam, bam, bam, another one from Manny, bam BAM BAM, I mean manny needs to jump outisde the ring and nut in Lampleys mouth, he would love it, thats how much he rides Manny’s dick. and Merchant, if you can honestly sit their and say you understand the shit he says, he goes off on this pointless ramblings, and Max, oh god.

HBO Boxing=old farts
Showtime Boxing = WTF cares and coming from SF employee of the year of course SF commentating is the best in the business. I got to give it to Snowden he sure knows to bring in comments with some TMZ style headlines

(by if nothing else i mean to say WHAT he actually says is also annoying).

what’d I say?

To listen to Rogan it sounded like a very one-sided fight, but to watch it with the sound off (which I have done a few times) it was truly a very even fight overall that could have realistically been judged for either guy with little room for complaint.

I think that while Goldberg and his supervisors need to seriously reevaluate his role in the booth, Goldberg should in no way be used to excuse Rogan’s own shortcomings. Frankly, for as often as Rogan calls for improvement in the world of MMA, he ought to become a part of the solution.

Rogan has, as mentioned before, demonstrated an almost inexcusable bias in calling and analyzing certain fights. Barry and Machida, as mentioned before, but also in the DHK/Parisyan fight—Parisyan kicked Kim in the face while they were on the ground, and Rogan tried to downplay the severity of the foul, claiming that what was an obvious infraction of the rules shouldn’t be taken too seriously since it was “more of a shove than a kick,” or something like that. That kind of behavior not only warps the viewers’ impression of the fight, it’s also incredibly disrespectful to the fighter getting short shrift in the cage.

You could sure see it as Beltran plowed forward and outboxed Barry. Time after time. Met with silence.

Randy was great in the booth.

Too expensive for the booth by now, I fear.

But man, he’s awful.

I think if Rogan was able to hang back and do his color commentary with another analyst he would seem much stronger. But when he has to deal with stuff like “after the first strike isn’t everything a counter?” and try not to call Goldie an idiot – his performance suffers.

And a true test of my nerdyness to actually remember someone as obscure as Evensen.

It is his job to get names right.

everyone should remember that fight. one of the most brutal leg kick tkos i’ve ever seen.

Because he’ll have to get used to calling losses over and over and over again.

They got with it later in the fight but it’s clear that they weren’t able to quickly make the shift to “this is what is really happening” and continually call the action

I noticed it too, but I think you went a little far in the story:

In the broadcast booth, Beltran’s offense was met with complete silence. Joe Rogan and Mike Goldberg literally said nothing.

There was a fair amount said by Rogan about Beltran’s offense…it just wasn’t nearly enough to be fair and balanced.

I think there were some moments he ignored Beltran’s offense, especially early, but overall he called the fight accurately. Those kicks were crippling and I noticed the impact they had early as well. You make it out like he called it a clean sweep and ignored Joey, that just isn’t the case. IMO.

but maybe I’d be wrong. Barry’s thighs are serious business/fucking gangster. Athletically though Lesnar, Schaub, Mitrione, JDS, Cain, Carwin and Nelson would all rank higher.

The goatee is draining him of brain cells.

But “30 seconds remain”.

Must have been told by an English teacher.

Yeah, Dunham was done at that point, it was just a matter of the means. It obviously wasn’t intentional.

True, it def was illegal but he was already out after the first two, and the ref was about to stop it when Melvin landed the last illegal knee, didnt matter though the fight was already a wrap.

I missed that and me and my brother looked at eachother like wtf did he say

I didn’t say anything about point deductions here. The fight was over pure and simple but the way Rogan basically said “Well he was basically out anyway why not throw that illegal strike?” was a little odd.

WAS actually Barry’s kickboxing so why is that biased commentary. Barry destroyed Beltran with Leg kicks and landed numerous head kicks and his hands looked good. So Joe Rogan stating what actually was going on is a bad thing?? Everyone watching the fight was thinking the same thing, Barry was going to win because his Kickboxing was far superior. this kind of stuff really annoys me why do fans have to nit pick about everything. Enjoy the fights thats what its all about its about two guys in a cage competing, not about how some people may believe Joe Roagn and Mike Goldberg are bad commentators. if they were so bad the UFC would have replaced them by now. they are there for a reason, they are the best.