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Joe Rogan Explains Why he Feels Bisping vs. GSP Isn’t Selling Well

Ticket sales for Michael Bisping vs. Georges St-Pierre isn’t doing as well as some expected. Bisping will defend his Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) middleweight title against St-Pierre inside Madison Square Garden in New York City. The title bout will serve as UFC 217‘s main event. This will be St-Pierre’s first bout since Nov. 2013. Mixed […]

Ticket sales for Michael Bisping vs. Georges St-Pierre isn’t doing as well as some expected. Bisping will defend his Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) middleweight title against St-Pierre inside Madison Square Garden in New York City. The title bout will serve as UFC 217‘s main event. This will be St-Pierre’s first bout since Nov. 2013. Mixed […]

UFC Fighter Insists Joe Rogan & Daniel Cormier Owe Him An Apology

One fighter who competed at UFC 216 earlier this month isn’t too pleased with how commentators Joe Rogan and Daniel Cormier announced his fight. Cody Stamann, who entered UFC 216 with a 15-1 professional record, scored a split-decision victory over Tom Duquesnoy, who was riding quite a hype train of his own heading into the […]

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One fighter who competed at UFC 216 earlier this month isn’t too pleased with how commentators Joe Rogan and Daniel Cormier announced his fight.

Cody Stamann, who entered UFC 216 with a 15-1 professional record, scored a split-decision victory over Tom Duquesnoy, who was riding quite a hype train of his own heading into the fight. After re-watching the bout, Stamann feels as if Rogan and Cormier were ‘biased’ towards Duquesnoy:

“As soon as it came out, I watched it,” Stamann told MMA Fighting. “I had my phone hooked up to my Bluetooth, I was with a few people and I was listening to the commentary, and now by the end of the first round I was frustrated enough to want to throw my phone through a wall after what they were saying. They were talking about Duquesnoy, where he trains, and I’m taking him down, hitting him with combinations and they’re not saying anything about that. I felt like Daniel Cormier and Joe Rogan owe me a little bit of an apology.

“I felt like they were way more biased than they normally would be and I’m really not one to complain about that kind of stuff, but I was like, holy cow. I’ve had probably a hundred different people tell me that exact same thing, they were really loving Tom Duquesnoy for those first two rounds but in the third round they didn’t say his name again. So I guess I’m happy that I won them over, but at the same time that’s not their job to be that biased.”

Despite the fact that he wasn’t pleased with how the fight was commentated, Stamann remains thankful that he took the opportunity to fight Duquesnoy and that he was able to ‘steal that shine’:

“I think when you go in there and beat a guy that everyone is talking about being the next bantamweight champion, I definitely think a lot of people opened their eyes up to me as an athlete on Saturday night,” said Stamann. “His coach Greg Jackson was saying before the fight that Duquesnoy has all the capabilities of being a world champion. All these different media analysts were saying this guy’s the next thing, like, ‘Watch out Cody Garbrandt, this guy he’s coming for everybody.’

“He’s got a humongous following, he’s got the whole country of France following him basically. He had every single thing that the UFC would want in a guy coming into the UFC. All the hype, everybody thought he was the man, so when I had the opportunity to fight him I was all over that. I knew that was my opportunity to steal that shine.”

What do you make of Stamann’s comments?

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UFC Fighter Takes Issue with Commentary by Daniel Cormier, Joe Rogan

Cody Stamman promised to end the hype surrounding Tom Duquesnoy heading into UFC 216. Stamman did just that, improving to 16-1 with a victory. The win, though, came with a bit of hurt feelings for Stamman in the form of Daniel Cormier and Joe Rogan. The two were on the call for the fight, and […]

Cody Stamman promised to end the hype surrounding Tom Duquesnoy heading into UFC 216. Stamman did just that, improving to 16-1 with a victory. The win, though, came with a bit of hurt feelings for Stamman in the form of Daniel Cormier and Joe Rogan. The two were on the call for the fight, and […]

Joe Rogan: Conor McGregor is an Extraordinary Person

Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) color commentator Joe Rogan is in awe of Conor McGregor. Few would argue that McGregor is the most talked about athlete in combat sports. The reigning UFC lightweight champion was able to have a “money fight” with Floyd Mayweather, which had been uncharted territory for mixed martial artists. On a recent […]

Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) color commentator Joe Rogan is in awe of Conor McGregor. Few would argue that McGregor is the most talked about athlete in combat sports. The reigning UFC lightweight champion was able to have a “money fight” with Floyd Mayweather, which had been uncharted territory for mixed martial artists. On a recent […]

Joe Rogan Heaps Praise On ‘Extraordinary’ Conor McGregor

At this Saturday’s UFC 216 PPV (pay-per-view event) at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, there is a huge interim lightweight title fight taking place in the main event that will see Tony Ferguson fight Kevin Lee. The expectation is that it will be one of the best fights of 2017. There is a shadow […]

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At this Saturday’s UFC 216 PPV (pay-per-view event) at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, there is a huge interim lightweight title fight taking place in the main event that will see Tony Ferguson fight Kevin Lee. The expectation is that it will be one of the best fights of 2017.

There is a shadow over this fight in the way of lightweight champion Conor McGregor, who has not been seen in the world famous Octagon since November of 2016 when he beat Eddie Alvarez to become the new champion at UFC 205.

The winner of the main event this weekend should get the opportunity to challenge for the real title. The UFC Champion has suggested in the past that he’s open to the idea but he has also laid out numerous other possibilities for his next fight. His coach wants a trilogy bout with Nate Diaz and he has entertained fighting Paulie Malignaggi in a boxing bout.

Longtime UFC commentator Joe Rogan addressed the singular greatness of McGregor during a recent edition of his podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience (transcript courtesy of MMA Fighting). He talked about how McGregor has gone from a low level fighter to superstardom and why there will never be another like him.

“You’re never gonna see another one like him because he’s a unique person. He’s literally being himself. You’re gonna see a bunch of people try to mimic that and in a sense, he sort of mimicked the people who came before him, like the Chael Sonnen’s and the Muhammad Alis and the people that were really good at talking s**t. The difference is, what Conor’s been able to do is he’s the first guy in the UFC that’s been able to do that, that’s had spectacular results, and also showed his real character in losing and then coming back and winning very quickly afterwards against the same guy – the Nate Diaz fight. That was a very important character exposing fight because he lost a fight, he got humbled, and then he jumped right back on the horse and then wound up winning. Then he comes back and blows Eddie Alvarez out of the water to become the first two-division, concurrent champion in the sport.”

McGregor has proven over and over that he is the biggest star MMA that has ever been seen. His latest bout, which was a boxing bout against Floyd Mayweather Jr. sold over 4 million pay-per-view buys. Although he lost the bout by TKO in the 10th round, Rogan believes that that’s just proof positive of how “extraordinary” the lightweight champion is.

“I think he’s a unique guy in a very – it’s almost like we don’t have a word strong enough [to describe him]. Unique isn’t a strong enough word. . . He’s got brilliant ability. He’s incredibly smart. He’s very innovative in his techniques and his approaches and I think he has phenomenal coaching as well.

“He’s a combination of a lot of things. He has a brilliant team. John Kavanagh, his coach, is a brilliant coach. He’s got amazing jiu-jitsu coaching and striking coaching and his mind, he understands how to apply these things. His ability to perform under pressure is fantastic. You saw that in the Mayweather fight. Even though he lost that fight, he hit Mayweather with some pretty good shots and he won the first three rounds against the greatest boxer of all-time. That’s extraordinary. Conor’s an extraordinary person. He has greatness.”

The short amount of time that it took McGregor to reach the top of the MMA (mixed martial arts) promotion is amazing in itself as he made his UFC debut only four years ago by scoring a KO victory over Marcus Brimage in 67 seconds.

He is at a point in his career where he can clear at least 1 million pay-per-view buys for any fight that he is involved in. Rogan strong believes that the next fight that McGregor is in will be the biggest fight in UFC history due to the fact that the UFC Champion is the most popular fighter in the world now.

“I don’t think it hurts his stock in any way. I think it elevates him. His next fight in the UFC, whoever it will be, will be probably the biggest fight in UFC history, especially if it’s Nate Diaz because Nate Diaz is a huge name. If Nate Diaz and him decide to do it one more time I think that will be the biggest fight ever in the history of the sport because I think Conor has eclipsed the sport, largely.

“He’s the biggest combat sport athlete not just of today, but ever. There’s no one like him.“

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Rogan Argues in Favor of Floyd Mayweather vs. Conor McGregor 2

UFC color commentator Joe Rogan believes that the opportunity to make another boatload of money means a Mayweather vs. McGregor rematch will happen Rogan argued on a recent episode of the Joe Rogan Experience that a second fight between the boxing legend and the UFC lightweight champion seems very likely: “He’s [Floyd Mayweather] probably gonna make […]

UFC color commentator Joe Rogan believes that the opportunity to make another boatload of money means a Mayweather vs. McGregor rematch will happen Rogan argued on a recent episode of the Joe Rogan Experience that a second fight between the boxing legend and the UFC lightweight champion seems very likely: “He’s [Floyd Mayweather] probably gonna make […]