{"id":324500,"date":"2019-09-06T12:24:43","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T19:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=324500"},"modified":"2019-09-06T12:24:43","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T19:24:43","slug":"joe-rogan-ufc-has-ruined-prospects-by-rushing-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/joe-rogan-ufc-has-ruined-prospects-by-rushing-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Rogan: UFC has &#8216;ruined&#8217; prospects by rushing them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC commentator Joe Rogan feels that the UFC sometimes brings its prospects along too quickly. He worries that by doing so, the promotion sets those prospects up for confidence-shattering losses.<\/p>\n<p>Boxing promoters, meanwhile, have the right idea.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/youtu.be\/hi7dtuTk16s<\/p>\n<p id=\"Kw1UH1\">\u201c(In boxing) managers dictate who the fighters fight, and they do build their fighters up correctly,&#8221; Rogan told retired boxer Andre Ward on his podcast (via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodyelbow.com\/2019\/9\/6\/20852521\/joe-rogan-it-bothers-me-how-ufcs-control-ruined-prospects-cant-build-up-fighters-like-in-boxing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bloody Elbow<\/a>). &#8220;One of the things that bother me about MMA, is I think there\u2019s some really good young fighters that get ruined. They get thrown to the wolves too quickly, they wind up getting their confidence shattered, they get knocked out when they shouldn\u2019t be, they\u2019re fighting a caliber of fighter they\u2019re not prepared for.<\/p>\n<p id=\"guDdFt\">\u201cThere\u2019s always the argument for a guy like Jon Jones, youngest ever UFC champion,\u201d Rogan said. \u201cFor every Jon Jones, there\u2019s a guy who is coming up that maybe could have been a world champion, but didn\u2019t get managed correctly. The UFC doesn\u2019t give you options. They say \u2018hey, you want to fight Kamaru Usman? Okay, here\u2019s your fight. This is it.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rogan continued, explaining how prospects can benefit from being brought along slowly:<\/p>\n<p id=\"yhOMir\">\u201cThe fans get the big fights, but I don\u2019t think we necessarily see the highest caliber of fighter fight the highest caliber of fighter, with the best case scenario at all times,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Do you know what I\u2019m saying? I don\u2019t think we get to see the most out of some of these guys.<\/p>\n<p id=\"iGRn8e\">\u201cIf there was a ton of different promoters around, and you weren\u2019t locked into any specific organization like the UFC has, I think you can see more managers saying \u2018Hey man you\u2019re not ready for Robbie Lawler, you\u2019re not ready for this guy. We\u2019re going to take this fight on a regional level. We\u2019re going to build you up and get you to 15, 16-0, then we\u2019re going to start to challenge some top 10 contenders.\u2019<\/p>\n<p id=\"AQDv4C\">\u201cThis way, you will have seen all the looks. You\u2019ll have seen a great wrestler, a great striker. You\u2019ve fought a Muay Thai champion, you\u2019ve fought a jiujitsu guy, you know how to handle all these different scenarios.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Do you agree with Joe Rogan on this one?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>BJPENN.COM<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0on 9\/6\/2019. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC commentator Joe Rogan feels that the UFC sometimes brings its prospects along too quickly. He worries that by doing so, the promotion sets those prospects up for confidence-shattering losses. Boxing promoters, meanwhile, have the right idea. https:\/\/youtu.be\/hi7dtuTk16s \u201c(In boxing) managers dictate who the fighters fight, and they do build their fighters up correctly,&#8221; Rogan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54430,"featured_media":314951,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10444,10151,39610],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Joe Rogan: UFC has &#039;ruined&#039; prospects by rushing them | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"UFC color commentator Joe Rogan feels that the UFC has previously &#039;ruined&#039; good prospects by rushing them into big fights too quickly.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/joe-rogan-ufc-has-ruined-prospects-by-rushing-them\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Joe Rogan: UFC has &#039;ruined&#039; 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