Joe Rogan Reacts To Conor McGregor’s Criticism

Joe Rogan reacts to the recent criticism given to him by former UFC lightweight and featherweight champion Conor McGregor.

It all started when McGregor talked about possibly appearing on Joe Rogan’s podcast over the weekend in Chicago. This led to him making some interesting comments towards Rogan regarding his commentary. Specifically, his fights against Nate Diaz and Khabib Nurmagomedov.

Rogan fired back at the former UFC champion on Tuesday during an episode of his podcast.

“That is not really true because no one ever gives me a script, Rogan stated (H/T to MMA Weekly). That’s a fact. I don’t know what exactly he said, maybe he didn’t like my commentary. I bet he likes it when he wins. That’s his perception, I understand what he’s saying. Sometimes people think that but it’s very difficult when someone is calling your fight. If he’s talking about me calling someone’s fight that’s not his friend, that makes much more sense. It’s f—king hard. It’s hard for me. I have a really hard time calling friend’s fights. It’s f—king hard.”

As seen in the main event of UFC 229 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, Nurmagomedov beat McGregor by fourth-round neck crank.

The second fight with Diaz came back at UFC 202 when Diaz suffered a majority decision loss. This came five months after Diaz submitted McGregor in their first bout at UFC 196.

For Rogan, he calls the fight like he sees it and uses past fights to dictate how the next fight of a fighter goes should it be a rematch.

“I get his position,” Rogan said.”That Diaz fight was a good f—king fight. It was a hard fight. I wasn’t calling it like the last fight but I had to call it with the knowledge of the last fight. I had to know what happened in the last fight. In the last fight, Diaz survived the storm, tagged him, had him rocked and then finished him on the ground.

“It doesn’t mean that he didn’t win the second fight. It was a close f—king fight, the second fight was a very close fight but you have to acknowledge that, that other fight took place. I don’t know him that well but I like him a lot,” Rogan said about McGregor. “I respect the f—k out of him.”