{"id":233416,"date":"2017-04-13T08:47:44","date_gmt":"2017-04-13T15:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=233416"},"modified":"2017-04-13T12:40:07","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T19:40:07","slug":"joe-rogan-weighs-mousasi-weidman-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/chris-weidman\/joe-rogan-weighs-mousasi-weidman-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Rogan weighs in on Mousasi-Weidman controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This past weekend at UFC 210, former UFC middleweight champion <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/chris-weidman\/ufc-210-results-chris-weidman-vs-gegard-mousasi\/\">Chris Weidman stepped into the Octagon with Gegard Mousasi<\/a> in hopes of snapping a 2-fight skid that had seen him lose the UFC middleweight title to Luke Rockhold in 2015 before then being viciously knocked out by Yoel Romero in November.<\/p>\n<p>In the fight with Mousasi, <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/chris-weidman\/ufc-210-results-chris-weidman-vs-gegard-mousasi\/\">Weidman was declared TKO after a pair of controversial knees from Mousasi<\/a> which ultimately ended up being legal despite Weidman believing that they were in fact illegal knees.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"730\" height=\"380\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Chris-Weidman-1.png\" alt=\"Chris Weidman\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-232830\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Chris-Weidman-1.png 730w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Chris-Weidman-1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Chris-Weidman-1-585x305.png 585w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Chris-Weidman-1-390x203.png 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>UFC commentator Joe Rogan spoke to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2017\/4\/13\/15283204\/morning-report-joe-rogan-says-mousasi-weidman-controversy-not-referee-dan-miragliottas-fault-ufc210\" target=\"_blank\">MMAFighting<\/a> to weigh-in on the situation with his expert Joe Rogan opinion:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cThe fault is that the athletic commission, under situations like this, doesn\u2019t use an instant replay and they should because it\u2019s the fair thing to do to make sure that the fight is fair.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think Weidman could have gone on. Had there been a question about whether or not it was illegal, they could look at the instant replay and then they make the call. \u2018The strikes are legal, we\u2019re gonna continue.\u2019 And you either continue them from the exact same position or you have a protocol in place, like you have to separate them, go back to their corners, and re-engage, which is bad for Mousasi because Mousasi had him in a good position and was landing strikes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt wasn\u2019t Dan\u2019s decision to stop the fight. It was the commission\u2019s decision, I\u2019m pretty sure and I think it\u2019s because they didn\u2019t know what else to do. They didn\u2019t have a thing to do in place. It\u2019s hard. It takes a while to figure out how to correctly referee and judge and officiate in a state athletic commission that hasn\u2019t had mixed martial arts before and all of a sudden they have it. . . And then the commission, unfortunately, though the referees that were in place were really high level, there\u2019s a commission that\u2019s really not used to doing this. It\u2019s not their fault, they just don\u2019t have the experience.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Gegard-Mousasi-2.png\" alt=\"Gegard Mousasi\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-233315\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This article first appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\">BJPenn.com<\/a> on 4\/13\/2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past weekend at UFC 210, former UFC middleweight champion Chris Weidman stepped into the Octagon with Gegard Mousasi in hopes of snapping a 2-fight skid that had seen him lose the UFC middleweight title to Luke Rockhold in 2015 before then being viciously knocked out by Yoel Romero in November. 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