Rogan responds to Conor commentary criticism
“It’s f@$%ing hard. It’s hard for me. I have a really hard time calling friend’s fights. It’s f@$%ing hard.”
During a St. Patrick’s Day celebration in Chicago, former UFC champ champ Conor McGregor was asked about appearing on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast, and replied with criticism of Rogan’s commentary.
I’d like him to call a fight how he sees it correctly and not be reading off a script, said McGregor, as transcribed by Damon Martin for MMA Weekly. The Diaz rematch it was like he was reading from the first fight and that last one, he was talking about my face was being smashed in. I left that Octagon with a black eye, the same way [Nurmagomedov’s] two rat cousins left. His brother and his cousin left the Octagon with a black eye, so what is he talking about?
Rogan recently responded.
That is not really true because no one ever gives me a script. That’s a fact. I don’t know what exactly he said, maybe he didn’t like my commentary. I bet he likes it when he wins, said Rogan with a laugh.
That’s his perception, I understand what he’s saying. Sometimes people think that but it’s very difficult when someone is calling your fight. If he’s talking about me calling someone’s fight that’s not his friend, that makes much more sense. It’s f***ing hard. It’s hard for me. I have a really hard time calling friend’s fights. It’s f***ing hard.
I get his position. That Diaz fight was a good f***ing fight. It was a hard fight. I wasn’t calling it like the last fight but I had to call it with the knowledge of the last fight. I had to know what happened in the last fight. In the last fight, Diaz survived the storm, tagged him, had him rocked and then finished him on the ground. It doesn’t mean that he didn’t win the second fight. It was a close f***ing fight, the second fight was a very close fight but you have to acknowledge that, that other fight took place.
I don’t know him that well but I like him a lot. I respect the f*** out of him.