UFC 142: Out Of Line Joe Rogan Harasses Mario Yamasaki After Silva vs Prater

OK, I said that Roagan was not out of line. This is a sport. The ref did NOT follow the rules. Where was the stand up? Where was the warning? Where was the questioning to whether Prater could continue? These are parts of a fight’s stoppage that were ignored. It looked like he stopped it, then second-guessed his decision and put out an excuse. Were some of those to the back of the head? Borderline, 1 or 2 at the end. But the fight was being stopped already. Someone in Brazil paid this douche off. If the reds were hired by the UFC, I would say Rogan was out of line, but they aren’t, just like the judges. Rip them a new one when they fuck up.

When watching Ufc often as I do and watch the post fight press conferences interviews ect..then you will usually hear Joe Rogan , Mike Goldberg , and Dana White (and pretty much every fighter) complain about referees officiating on quite a regular basis. Hell you can look up a lot of it on YouTube. So I kinda figure that plays a bit into him saying what he did.

Also if you re watch the fight right after the match was called when everyone thought that Silva had won, Rogan specifically said

Quote: "This is what he did in his first fight “.”He just swarms on guys over and over hammer fist, hammer fist""and you can see Carlo trying to cover up and those are all legal shots Mike, all of them to the side of the head none of them to the back of the head"

Ck so we can assume, (and yeah I know I shouldn’t but hey what’s the internet for really) after saying that

1: He’d be fairly pissed at the ref for aforementioned calls (such as the Hamill fight) , but with that kinda made him snap a bit.

2: After having said that they were all legal shots had he been quiet about it, the internet and media in general would of tore him a new one. One of the reasons people love or hate Rogan is his uncanny ability to call bullshit when he sees it even if speaking about his own product / company he works for.

Now with all that said .. was it unprofessional yes I do believe he took it a bit far, however if this in some way makes refs stop to judge their actions a bit more so that will not happen again , then it was worth a bit of bad press over it.

I can understand why the Op is upset and even though I do agree he took it to far, But…Really……Jim Gray…that’s a bit much imo. Gray was trying to get a scoop and being quite a asshat going about it He just would not let it go and kept falling into to more and more dickishness. Right or wrong Rogan wasn’t doing this to get “paid” or further his career.

In this instance I quite well feel Rogan is honestly angry (and has been for a very long time) at the state of the officiating and how that bad calls are handled by the Nevada State Athletic Commission. Does that excuse him for taking it too far or at least doing it in a not so public manner… No, not in the least… but I can’t go all Jim Grey on him either.

I just kinda wanted to speak to a different side other than just Pro Joe or Anti Joe flame war that these conversations inevitably fall into.

If he chooses to interview a referee regarding his decision to make a questionable call leading to a DQ in order for those watching at home to understand, so be it. I’d encourage him to even take it to interviewing judges about their questionable decisions after fights.

It might have been done poorly but you have to admit, the idea of a post-fight interview with a referee/judge after a questionable call is most certainly a good one.

I think Rogan was awfully abrasive in his questioning, but dont you think that with that aside, Mario Yamasaki had the opportunity to expaplain and defend himself subsequent to a very controversial decision? A ref in the right would welcome that opportunity and handle it easily.