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Joe Rogan’s unvarnished commentary on UFC 116
By Zach Arnold | July 7, 2010
JOE ROGAN: “And you saw that Shane’s punches were coming slower and slower and Shane, unfortunately, just blew his wad. He, you know, he had an adrenaline dump, I’m sure the excitement of the fact that he had the champ hurt and on his back and that he was on top and he’s like, ‘this is over, this f****** thing’s over.’ And he’s pounding him and pounding him and pounding him and then all of a sudden he’s like, ‘f***, there’s two minutes left to go in this round,’ you know and then he’s got to keep going and by the end of those two minutes, there was nothing left. He got back to his corner and literally could barely get up. His legs were barely walking and he was f*****. He said his legs seized up and he said he just went out there and he tried to do whatever he could but his body just was not responding. He just completely adrenaline dumped and completely blew out all of his energy, BUT GOD DAMN DOES HE HIT HIM HARD before that. HOLY **** that fucking Shane Carwin can punch. He hits so hard, he’s so big, but I think he’s too big. I think maybe like because he had to lose 17 pounds to make 265, so he’s you know walking in like at like somewhere around 280ish you know on the day of the fight. So, I think that might be too big for his frame. You know, I think he might be better might off if he was like 250, you know just a little lighter but with more endurance. His punches are still going to be ridiculously powerful. Nobody can stand up to the way that guy hits. His punches will still be ridiculously power, but he’ll have a little bit more cardio, you know. Brock is just physically a bigger guy. Brock really has a 270-pound man’s body, I mean he’s SO WIDE. He’s just a big, giant freak. Carwin’s not as wide, you know, he’s still BIG AS F***, that big giant hands and shit, but you know I think Brock maybe can carry a little bit more weight naturally than Shane can. These guys when they train really hard with weights and power lifting and s*** like that, yeah, it makes you stronger, it gives you a lot more muscle and that muscle’s got to get fed, it’s got to fed by blood but GOD DAMN it was exciting as f*** before it was over.”
SIDEKICK: “Do you still have his mouthpiece?”
JOE ROGAN: “Yeah, I got Brock Lesnar’s mouthpiece.”
SIDEKICK: “Tasted the taste of a warrior?”
JOE ROGAN: “It’s right over there. Um, he stuck it in my pocket after it was over and I said, ‘I’m going to sell that s***on EBay.’ But I’m just going to hang onto it. F*** it. I’m a fan. It’s a trivia moment. Plus, it was, what a comeback when he came out for that second round, his hands were up high and like you know you just knew that this motherf***** is not going away. He got hit with some bombs and he was still there and still in really good shape and that was really the big difference. He took Shane down, got in Shane’s half-guard, passed, got on top on him, got him in an arm-triangle and put him to sleep, it was f****** sweet. Or put him to tap, he would have gone to sleep. He really cranked it tight and Brock is so gigantic. You see they also called it a side choke, there’s two different versions of it. There’s one like this and you do it like this and that’s why it’s called an arm triangle. But the way Brock did it, I think he did with a Gable grip where you do it like this where it’s really more of a side choke, but Brock is so big and so f****** strong that when he just crushes down like that, like you really don’t have any options, man. You’re going to go to sleep. He’s just got much too much power and he’s just going to crush that whole area between your arm and your neck and everything’s going to get smushed and there’s not going to be any air.”
SIDEKICK: “That was one of the best UFCs I think in a long time.”
JOE ROGAN: “F*** yeah it was. I was standing up during the Lesnar fight. It was so exciting I couldn’t f****** sit down. I stood up.”
SIDEKICK: “That’s awesome.”
JOE ROGAN: “When Carwin hit him and you know he went to the ground, it was like the whole thing like there was so much energy in the arena, it was so unbelievable and then when Brock took him down at the end, it was like the whole thing was just so nuts and then when he tapped like it was just F****** CRAZINESS, man, there was so much energy. I stood up like three or four times. I don’t do that, man. That’s the only fight I’ve ever had to stand up in the middle of it because it was so crazy. Like as far as like sheer entertainment value, what a f****** fight. There was a bunch of sheer entertainment value fights that were just off the charts…”
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My house was the same way. Guys rooting for Lesnar, and guys rooting for Shane just going nuts. I jumped off the couch twice in the 1st round and stayed off my ass when Brock locked the choke then passed to side control.
It really was fucking insane.
From the Pellegrino-Sotiropolous fight to Kryzstof-Stephan to Leben-Akiyama all the way through the main event it was just a great night of fights. One of the best this year if not the best.
Yeah, our house was the same way. No Brock fans believe it or not, everyone was going for Carwin. They were going crazy that first round.
One of the reasons that fight meant a lot is because the UFC Heavyweight Title means a lot. Strikeforce seems bound and determined to make sure that no one will ever possibly think of the Strikeforce Heavyweight Title as meaning anything.
If, after a fight that was presented as a #1 contender’s match for your promotion’s heavyweight title, your great big idea is that the loser of that fight should get a shot at the title instead of the winner of that fight, it might be a sign that you don’t know a damn thing about making titles seem important. In fact, it lets the fans know that you don’t consider your own titles to mean anything, so why should the fans feel any differently? It’s not rocket science. That kind of thing should be common sense.
True, it would be common sense to focus on the prize if the prize was worth anything in the first place. By Strikeforce simply doing the opposite of the UFC they are able to survive, even if it is on a card to card basis.
There are some match ups which should be made — not for a belt, but for the pure sport of it all.
Its not like there is an organized division or clear path to the belt in the UFC anyway — so how can the prize be worth anything if the path is not clear for the participant’s in the contest?
There might not be a clear path to the UFC belts, but there are some pretty clear rules, such as guys on losing streaks need not apply. Unless of course you are Randy Couture, then the rules do not apply.
That said, I think it is pretty clear that Strikeforce belts are meaningless. They completely ignored their HW belt for two years before finally re-signing their champion and booking him against a guy coming off a loss, they just released their MW champion, and are presently trying to book their WW champion in a MW tournament. They also had a champion voluntarily give up his belt (Cung Le) so that he could avoid getting embarrassed by Jake Shields and fight a journeyman brawler (Scott Smith) instead.
To be honest, they should just dissolve their belts and give up all pretense of having champions. Quit trying to pretend they are something that they are not. Just admit that you are a ‘superfight’ organization and be done with it.