Joe Rogan has admitted that he has called hundreds of fights in the UFC and witnessed his closest friends suffering heartbreaking defeat.
Part of his job as a colour commentator involves showing as much bias as possible when dealing with action in the cage, but the 58-year-old comedian and podcaster shed tears as he spoke of some of the toughest moments he saw from the cageside. In particular, Logan struggled to see future UFC Hall of Fame Daniel Cormier suffering from some of the worst losses of his career.
“It’s really tough to see friends being beaten,” Logan said on the podcast. “It was really intense. When Jones (John) Jones beat him, it was really tough.
“Because you know them. You know them as humans. You know them. You know what it does to them. It’s devastating. It’s like a loss. It’s like you’ve lost your family or a dog. It’s tough. I’m starting to cry.”
Rogan and Cormier, alongside Jon Anik, call most of the UFC’s biggest events on pay-per-view each year, as part of a team of three. Just as Logan is close to Cormier, he revealed that the toughest situation he’s ever seen was the final few fights of Brendan Schaub’s career in the UFC.
former The ultimate fighter A finalist and heavyweight candidate, Shaub competed for five years in the UFC while facing some of the toughest competitions the promotion could throw at him. After Schaub received a brutal knockout by Travis Browne in 2014, Rogan is famous for confronting him during his podcast appearance on a friend, when he told his friend, “Where are you now, I won’t see the elite guys be.”
At the time, Shaub was angry at Logan’s criticism, but he was grateful that his brutal integrity and loss to Brown ultimately served as the final battle of his career.
“The hardest part for me was (Brendan) Shaub,” Logan said. “Shaub didn’t want to quit, I was a man, a man. It’s about Brendan, who most people don’t know how many concussions he had outside the fight. You saw the fight, but he was sparring with Shane Kerwin. the avengershe looked like a Hulk. He doesn’t look like a real human. Like everyone else, and there’s Shane Kerwin. He was a freak.
“Brendan Schaub and he were always choking up the spurs. He’s always knocked out. He’s always got a concussion. He got a concussion before fighting Ben Rothwell.
The damage done during the training session was caught up in Schaub’s performance at UFC and Rogan.
Schaub went 2-4 in the final six fights, and those three losses reached via knockout, and he eventually left with Rogan’s advice. Now he’s building his own career outside the cage. This includes podcast success and including stand-up comedy.
“I knew all that shit too, and I was seeing its effect, and I felt like you had to go outside now!” Logan said of Shaub. “If you don’t go out now, there’s no happy ending. There’s no happy ending for a lot of guys who get knocked out. That’s awful.”