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Brendan Schaub Destroys Joe Rogan For UFC 225 Commentary

You probably didn’t expect Joe Rogan to get called out by this source:

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In the week-and-a-half since June 9’s stacked UFC 225 pay-per-view, there’ve been many storylines to emerge from the Chicago-based card, and not many of them have been good.

There was the initial report that the card tanked at the box office by securing less than 150,000 pay-per-view buys, and while that story was eventually refuted and (supposedly) proven wrong, the card ultimately didn’t sell all that well. Then there was the bad blood-filled rivalry between welterweight champion Tyron Woodley and newly-crowned interim champ Colby Covington, which has already become personal in a strange way.

However, one storyline that hasn’t been discussed much until recently is Joe Rogan’s commentary of the awful Mike Jackson vs. CM Punk bout that opened the main card, a fight that drew the collective criticism of the entire mixed martial arts world and earned Punk his release from the promotion.

And that criticism is coming from the most unlikely of sources.

Rogan’s good friend and consistent podcast partner Brendan Schaub recently blasted the longtime color commentator’s choice of words on his “Below the Belt” podcast (via BJPenn.com), decimating Rogan and to a lesser extent, his broadcast partner Jimmy Smith for claiming Jackson had ‘high-level striking’:

“[My other problem] The commentators… Joe Rogan, one of my best friends, my brother. And even Jimmy Smith, those guys. When they would go, ‘Mike Jackson has high-level striking.’

“I think we have to be very careful, very careful not to throw around the term ‘high-level striking’. Trust me, a high-level striker would have beat CM Punk in under 30 seconds. It would not have been a competitive fight if any one of those two had some sort of high-level striking.

“That was the only cringe-worthy night…the only thing that made me go, ‘oh god!’. We got to be careful with that because if you’re a fan and you’re watching that and you go, ‘god, that’s high-level striking?’ No, it’s not.”

While Jackson did outclass the clearly overmatched Punk in the striking department, it appeared he could have finished the fight on the feet on more than one occasion and instead chose to clown around inside of Punk’s guard on the mat.

However, Rogan was not all that praising of Jackson’s skills, at one point even saying he didn’t look like he had the body of a true UFC welterweight and even going as far as to (somewhat jokingly) suggest that Jackson was even paid off to let the fight go on as long as it did.

Perhaps Rogan’s insistence that Schaub should retire from fighting during a shocking scene years ago has “Big Brown” looking to land a counter-jab on his so-called ‘brother’ in the media.

What do you think? Was Rogan’s commentary about Jackson off-base?

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Joe Rogan Destroys CM Punk’s UFC 225 Performance

Joe Rogan didn’t hold back in assessing CM Punk’s UFC 225 performance:

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Last Saturday (June 9, 2018), former World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) star Phil “CM Punk” Brooks made his second Octagon appearance, taking on Mike Jackson on the main card of UFC 225 from the United Center in Chicago, Illinois.

And while the fight lasted longer than his professional debut, which ended in just minutes when he was submitted by Mickey Gall at UFC 203 in September 2016, the fight was still quite lackluster to say the least, as Punk suffered a one-sided decision loss.

Following the fight, UFC President Dana White said that the 39-year-old should retire and it’s likely that we’ve seen the last of him in the UFC. As far as his abilities go, Punk is clearly leaps and bounds behind his opposition at this stage of his training and UFC color commentator Joe Rogan even went as far as to say that he ‘does not have athletic talent’:

“He’s a very nice guy and he’s a hard worker, but he does not have athletic talent,” Rogan said on a recent edition of his podcast. “He’s missing….he’s a showman, and when he was in the WWE, he was allowed to say, ‘I am the fucking man!’ And throw his hand up in the air and say he is the man, and they had it scripted so that he was the man. But when you’re in there with a guy like Mike Jackson, who had zero fear of him and was just so casual, popping him in the face anytime he wanted to, he literally could’ve stopped him anytime, if he got angry and wanted to stop him, he could’ve at any point in the fight.”

Rogan also said, however, that Punk’s lack of success in the sport thus far is certainly not because of his coach, the well-respected Duke Roufus, but once again due to his lack of athleticism:

“He doesn’t have the ability to move his body right. There’s a lot of guys you can take out there, track and field guys, football players and you can get them to fight better than him in a couple of weeks easily because they are athletes,” Rogan said.

“They’d understand how to shift their weight and throw a punch. He doesn’t have any talent, is all it is, he doesn’t have physical talent for whatever reason. Whether it’s his approach, his intensity. It’s not his coaching, it’s Duke-fucking-Roufus.”

What do you make of Rogan’s comments?

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Colby Covington Cancels Joe Rogan Slap-A-Thon

Rogan can sleep easy tonight:

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Joe Rogan can sleep easy tonight knowing “Chaos” Colby Covington isn’t seeking to slap him anymore.

Earlier this year Rogan warned Covington on his podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience, that he shouldn’t talk trash about fighters like Jon Jones because he may come face-to-face with them one day:

Covington didn’t like that comment and then threatened to slap Rogan for what he said:

“I think Joe Rogan should worry about what he’s saying about me because we might just meet face to face soon in the near future. He might be commentating that Chicago card, so that’s kind of hypocritical of him to say something like that because when he’s talking about me, we might be face to face. I might just have to slap him.”

When it was announced that Rogan would be in Chicago for this weekend’s UFC 225 pay-per-view (PPV) card, Covington promised to confront The Voice Of The UFC. Many fans have been wondering whether or not Covington would actually slap Rogan, and it appears we now have our answer.

Recently appearing on an episode of UFC Tonight, speaking to Michael Bisping and Kenny Florian, Covington announced that he has dropped the matter and will give Rogan a pass (quotes via MMA Mania):

“I’ve decided to let things go with Joe. I decided to give him a pass. I’m feeling good, I’m in the spirit,” Covington said. “It’s title fight week, I’m about to make a lot of money with more zeroes to my paycheck, so I am feeling good. I’m going to give Joe a pass.”

Covington has bigger fish to fry. He challenges former UFC lightweight champion Rafael dos Anjos for the interim welterweight championship in the co-main event of UFC 225 this Saturday (June 9, 2018) in Chicago.

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Colby Covington Warns Joe Rogan to Stop Running His Mouth

Colby Covington has some words for Joe Rogan. Covington will take on former Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) lightweight title holder Rafael dos Anjos this Saturday (June 9). The bout will be contested for the interim welterweight championship. The…

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GSP Details Why It’s Still ‘Easy’ To Use PEDs In UFC

Georges St-Pierre isn’t buying that the UFC has cleaned up since USADA:

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MMA legend Georges St-Pierre returned from a nearly four-year absence to submit Michael Bisping and win the middleweight title in the main event of last November’s UFC 217 from New York City.

He’s since vacated that title and is entertaining other options, presumably at lower weights, but GSP has still kept his eye on the issue of performance-enhancing drugs in the UFC – one of the main reasons he vacated his title after a controversial split decision over Johny Hendricks in 2013. The UFC implemented their anti-doping partnership with the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) in 2015, yet St-Pierre isn’t buying that it’s actually cleaned up the sport of MMA.

Speaking in detail about the topic on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast (via MMA Fighting), St-Pierre mapped out how a fighter could skirt the USADA whereabouts requirement using advanced technology of rapidly-evolving PEDs:

“Even now, it’s still easy to [cheat]. Even now. Let’s say I want to have an injection of a product that will last in my body for two days or one day. So I know that particular day I cannot be tested, because if I am, I’m screwed.

“So I put on my [USADA] whereabouts [app] that I’m traveling to freakin’ Antarctica or anywhere, somewhere that is believable, and then I come back two days after. That substance will stay in my body for a certain period of time, but the effect of it will last maybe a month. And now we’re talking about performance enhancing drugs — people, they misunderstand this.”

St-Pierre dove into just why the new steroids and other PEDs go beyond what the perceived boosts to muscle size and strength, endurance, and stamina. Today, he says, they give you boosts to your nervous system, react time, and mental acuity as well, making users a sort of superhuman due to increased reaction times:

“They go, ‘Well yeah, but it still doesn’t make a difference.’ Yes, it does make the difference in an athlete. And the reason, in the eighties and before, [PEDs gave] you more power, more stamina, more endurance.

“Now, man, with the technology, they have stuff that will change your reaction time, your confidence, your reset time. And this is a huge, huge application, man. If you play baseball or you’re fighting, you see the things coming, you have your reaction time, you’re sharper in the brain. What makes a guy athletic, it’s not his muscle. The reason why Usain Bolt ran faster — there’s many reasons why, but one of the main reasons is because his brain, his nervous system is faster.

“And if you make your nervous system better and more competent, you’re a better athlete. You’re a better fighter, you’re a better baseball player. You’re a better person, in a way. Of course that effect is limited, but there’s still the muscle memory thing that will last and it could last forever.”

As he recovers from injuries connected to his increased food intake he ate to move up a division, St-Pierre has been rumored for a bout with Nate Diaz at August 4’s UFC 227, a fight he’s shot down in the media.

GSP’s official return may be unknown, but his commitment to fighting against steroid use in MMA is stalwart. And even though there’s a highly-advanced testing regimen in place, he believes it’s still easy to cheat the system in the current day:

“It’s very hard to catch people. So like I said, it’s easy to take something,” St-Pierre said. “There is a always a chance that you get caught, but if I would do it, that’s how I would do it. I would pretend I’m going to Antarctica, get an injection, then I come back and I’m good.”

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Georges St-Pierre On USADA Program In UFC: “Even Now, It’s Still Easy To Cheat”

When Georges St-Pierre exited the sport for what became a four-year hiatus from 2013-2017, he spoke publicly of his issues with the drug-testing process in the sport at the time. While away from the sport, the UFC ended up adopting a new drug-screening…

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