Dana White is aware of a GOAT when he sees one.
The UFC CEO has been spending a number of time currently declaring Jon Jones the best fighter of all time in combined martial arts, and he says it’s important to be “f—ing silly” to assume in any other case. Now he’s widening his lens to different areas of the fight sports activities panorama like commentary, and he has a transparent GOAT there too: Joe Rogan.
In a brand new interview with Brian Kilmeade on FOX’s One Nation, White considers Rogan to be the most effective hires he ever made as head of the UFC. Positive, Rogan had already labored at a number of UFC occasions earlier than White and the Fertitta brothers purchased the promotion in 2001. However White claims he didn’t even know that when he watched a VHS tape of Rogan defending MMA on a sports activities present.
“I ended up reaching out to Rogan, we hit it off and that’s it,” White instructed Kilmeade.
“He stated, ‘Wait a minute. So that you’re telling me I can come to the the game that I really like probably the most on the earth, have the perfect seat in the home, and speak about it on TV? I’m in!’ He did the primary 13 without cost, and the remainder is historical past. Now he has the largest podcast on the earth, and he’s the best fight sports activities commentator of all time.”
For years, Rogan labored alongside Mike Goldberg on almost each UFC occasion. Goldberg dealt with the play-by-play and Rogan was on colour commentary responsibility, utilizing his deep information of combating to fill in information gaps for brand spanking new followers (and Goldberg as nicely, oftentimes). It was a stable association, and significantly better than most of what we’d seen as much as that time. Few followers had complaints in that period.
Nowadays the sales space has modified and Rogan solely works U.S. pay-per-views, often alongside Jon Anik and Daniel Cormier. Worldwide occasions and UFC Battle Nights are dealt with by a rotating roster that features Paul Felder, Michael Bisping, and Dominick Cruz. All together with Rogan have their followers and haters. Some on each side notice that sure sales space mixtures end in lower than stellar evaluation — and that’s been a frequent critique of the Rogan / Cormier pairing.
However similar to Jon Jones, Joe Rogan has been at this for a really very long time and it’s gonna be robust for anybody to make their mark on this sport like he has. He’s positively the most well-liked and finest identified to ever do it in MMA. Does that make him the GOAT? Throughout all fight sports activities??? We’ll allow you to debate that within the feedback beneath.
