{"id":300993,"date":"2019-02-08T06:39:54","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T14:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=300993"},"modified":"2019-02-08T06:39:56","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T14:39:56","slug":"video-ufc-pays-tribute-to-joe-rogan-on-commentators-22-year-anniversary-with-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/video-ufc-pays-tribute-to-joe-rogan-on-commentators-22-year-anniversary-with-company\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO | UFC pays tribute to Joe Rogan on commentator&#8217;s 22-year anniversary with company"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Joe Rogan has been working for the UFC for a long, long time. In fact, yesterday was the 22-year anniversary of his first night of work with the promotion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To celebrate this occasion, the promotion made a quick tribute to Joe Rogan on Twitter, highlighting some of his best moments \u2014 from his hilarious reactions to fight results, to his famous UFC 229 interview with Derrick Lewis and his hot balls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See it below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/ufc\/status\/1093645294661595136\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/ufc\/status\/1093645704998703104\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/ufc\/status\/1093646020146212866\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking on his podcast recently, Joe Rogan explained<a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/joe-rogan-gives-in-depth-account-of-how-he-got-his-job-as-a-ufc-commentator\/\"> how he began his career as a UFC commentator<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read his account below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWell, I started in 1997,\u201d Joe Rogan told his guest Sebastian Maniscalco (transcript via&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmanews.com\/joe-rogan-reveals-how-became-voice-ufc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">MMA News<\/a>). \u201cI was the post-fight interviewer. It just was a position that was available. The UFC was very small back then, very few people knew what it was. It was off of cable. You couldn\u2019t get it on cable, you could only get it on satellite. And, they needed someone to do post-fight&nbsp;interviews.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI was in the martial arts world, I used to teach martial arts for a living. Before I became a comedian I used to fight. I fought in a lot of Tae Kwan Doe tournaments, had some kickboxing fights, I\u2019d always been a martial artist. Since I was a kid. I was just interested in watching the UFC. And then I started training jiu-jitsu, and when I was training in jiu-jitsu, I was just a white belt, I was just starting out, that\u2019s when I got hired by the UFC to be a post-fight interviewer. But I only did that for two years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Joe Rogan added that, for a brief period, he actually called it quits with the UFC. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eventually, of course, he found his way back to his Octagon-side vantage point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI quit, it was just too much,\u201d he said. \u201cIt was actually, just \u2013 I was actually losing money. I would make more money doing a weekend at a comedy club than I would doing&nbsp;the UFC. And it just got to a point where it was just too much of a pain in the ass. So I still remained a fan, but I backed away. And then the UFC was purchased by this company named Zuffa in 2001.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhen that happened, they started putting on shows in Vegas, and I would go there with my friends. They got me free tickets, they reached out. They would try and get celebrities to go sit there so that \u2013 cause they were very small at the time,&nbsp; they were hemorrhaging&nbsp;money, they were trying to build it up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAnd in talking to Dana White, one day I was talking to him about fights going on in Japan. \u2018Do you know this guy?\u2019 \u2013 and I was bringing up all these names \u2013 [He said] \u2018Do you want&nbsp;to do commentary?\u2019 [I said] I don\u2019t want to do commentary, man. I\u2019m here to get drunk and watch people kick the shit out of each other. I\u2019m not here to work.\u2019 And he talked me into it for one show. UFC 37.5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt was a show that was on one of those&nbsp;FOX Sports networks (<em>The Best Damn Sports Show Period<\/em>), one of the smaller networks. I did that, and the rest was history. I did like 12 of them for free. The UFC didn\u2019t have any money. They were&nbsp;hemorrhaging money. There were rich people that owned it, but it was not a profitable venture. And I said, \u2018Look, just get me there, get me and my friends tickets, and I\u2019ll do it.\u2019 And that\u2019s how I operated for over a year, and then I just became \u2018The Commentator.\u2019 It\u2019s just weird.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What do you think of the commentary of Joe Rogan? Can you believe it&#8217;s really been 22 years?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>This article first appeared on&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><em>BJPENN.COM<\/em><\/a><em>&nbsp;on 2\/8\/2019.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Rogan has been working for the UFC for a long, long time. In fact, yesterday was the 22-year anniversary of his first night of work with the promotion. 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