In a recent episode of the Joe Rogan Experience Podcast, the UFC commentator hosts Aljamain Sterling, the UFC’s Bantamweight Champion. As anyone would expect, the main topic of the 3-hour conversation is exactly MMA and the UFC.
Aljamian Sterling goes over his experience in the MMA and gives details about his latest fight against Petr Yan. While he is at it, they start discussing some in-fight situations where one of the fighters is in dominating position, but he/she cannot get to do some damage to the opponent. Sterling explains that he’s been in such situations and how he gets out of them, how he manages to switch the situation in his favor.
Is Joe Rogan Aware Of The Scoring Rules – He Exposes Himself As Ignorant In Latest Episode Of JRE
Joe Rogan at this point starts to rumble about how the UFC can improve the scoring. He suggests introducing these significant damage points that should count more than having control over somebody. Little does he know that these changes and improvements are active since 2016, outdating his remarkable idea by 6 years.
“Maybe there’s a way to score it like you would give points for moments in fights where someone either did damage or someone had control. But control is not worth as much as damage. Because you can survive control unscathed. Just because someone has you down maybe in half-guard, and you’re just clinching and controlling, you can survive that for a couple of minutes sometimes, and nothing happens.’ – the podcaster says.
“Even though the person’s in control of you, it’s not that big of a deal. But then damage: How much more is the damage worth? Like if you see the person gets wobbled or you see a big, impactful kick, you’re like, ‘Wow, that was a significant moment in the fight. So that would be worth more.’ Instead of being attached to this system. It’s just not comprehensive enough, I don’t think.” – he ends his explanation of the ‘innovative’ method for scoring.
And this sheds a great deal of light on Joe Rogan’s knowledge of the sport he is a part of for his whole career. It is not the first time that Joe Rogan has had this kind of gaffe. He gets himself in such unusual situations many times.
Throughout his career, he has been dancing on camera, when he shouldn’t have, he pushes away a guy who enters the screen, again on camera, and lastly, he mispronounces many fighter’s names.
To conclude, the commentary work does include much more than just screaming when a knockdown happens. It includes knowledge of the rules, knowledge of the fighters, their background, rank, etc.
However, what is most important is that the public seems not to care about all this at all. They just love his commentary skills. When commenting, he really gives the term ‘color commentator’ a new meaning. Every UFC fan is just waiting for the moment when Joe screams ‘Oooohh, what did just happen?!’ so they can feel the boost of adrenaline as they see the action.
