How did Rogan get Rios fired??

Why dont you use google?

Rogan claimed he had him fired from Fighter's Only:

[joe rogan says] "Rios no longer writes for Fighters Only magazine. I got him fired. First time I've ever done this to a so called mma journalist, but I've had more than enough of these ****ing zeros clogging up the sport with their incompetent bull****."

You wanted my attention, ******? You got it.

Rios offers Bloody Elbow an exclusive statement

"First things first, as far as I know I'm still freelancing for Fighters Only. My opinions of Joe Rogan's commentary are entirely my own and in no way reflect the opinions of anyone at Fighters Only. I've often taken issue with Rogan's commentary and stand by my comments. His usage of terminology and analysis that is reflective only of his own training background and not that of the fighters actually in the cage is grating. Disagreements on semantics are secondary however to the issue of how he reacted to the controversial decision in the Tyson Griffin/Nik Lentz bout. Before the decision was even announced he was defending the possibility of Lentz winning. Based on the judging criteria in the unified rules of MMA, Griffin should have won the decision and every major MMA media outlet at the event scored the bout for Griffin.


With that out of the way, I'd like to make it clear that none of this matters. My comments were aimed exclusively at Rogan's commentary. He has responded with homophobic language which I consider unfortunate at best. There are many LGBTQ fans of MMA who are forced to deal with this sort of language in their daily lives. If I regret anything about what I said, it's that it made him feel the need to use the language that he did. I know many people who read this will be dismissive of what I'm saying, but the fact remains we live in a world that makes the lives of LGBTQ people difficult at best. I hope Rogan apologizes to the people he offended."


Rogan apologizes for the use of a slur in reference to Rios:

"I apologize for my use of the word "fa*got." I enjoy that word immensely, and although I do not intend for its use to be interpreted as a negative term for homosexuals, but rather as I've always used it to imply that a person is weak and pathetic, which I believe Rios to be. I understand that in this ultra-sensitive, politically correct world we live in one must be careful of the words they choose, for in choosing the wrong one you can give your adversary a new angle of distraction, as I see Rios is concentrating on that now instead of owning up to the fact that he has no f*cking idea what the proper terminology of the kick he criticized me of describing was.

What's really important is not a hot button insult word, or a disagreement on terms used to describe techniques, but rather completely incompetent reporters masquerading as martial arts experts. Rios is a negative a**hole that consistently insults fighters and produces fight breakdowns that resemble what I would expect from an angry failure with no friends who has spent too much time alone with a thesaurus trying to convince people that he's clever.

I have sat back and watched this ****-head spout out his horrible, disrespectful nonsense for a long time, and was truly happy when he was fired by sherdog, and absolutely perplexed when I found out that Fighters Only Magazine is actually giving him actual real money for the bulls*it he's trying to pass off as journalism.
Fighters Only is one of the very best magazines in the sport, and as per my correspondence with them I'm delighted that I'm not the only one that thinks he's an a**hat and a terrible journalist.
When I saw that he had opened his dumb trap about me I welcomed the opportunity to shut him up.

As for my use of the offensive word "f**got" please accept my apologies and replace it with "****-sucker."

Thank you, and good day.

http://www.bloodyelbow.com/2010/11/...omophobic-rant-may-end-in-reporters-dismissal

 

I'll take Rogan's side on pretty much anything these days.

 

Rogan's the ****in man

 

suck my dick you cockbaby!

 

Does anybody watch his podcast? I haven't been watching em has he covered any other good topics?

 

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i rate hime as pretty much as one of the most honest people in mma if not the world. im dead serious too.
Ive watched alot of his podcasts and if hes arguing the point on something you can bet your life hes done his research.. on the show hes always coming out with weird little seldom known facts on all sorts of subjects.

 

Actually he just did another podcast/vidcast a few hours ago. He announced it on twitter so I thought I would check it out. It was great. he actually spent the whole thing saying he was sorry for using the word "******" and stated that he wanted to be nice and not upset people. There were weird tangents through discussions as diverse as Orwellian style thought policing via the restriction of word usage, the use of "magic words" as Rogan calls them, to Antoine Dodson at the UFC to being a real person and a pioneering artist, and even a little bit on time travel. It was the most thought provoking podcast I think I've ever heard. Very little to no discussion of MMA.

 

Honestly you guys who think Rogan is brilliant just amaze me....

 

Im gonna have to go ahead and agree with johnny on this one.

rogan is knowlegable about some things but by no means is some sort of genius. I have heard him say some dumb **** aswell especially in his comentary.

 

It's easy for a lot of people to confuse strongly opinionated with highly intelligent.

With that said, I like Rogan, and I like listening to his rants, even if they are nothing more than the ramblings of a stoner. He has some interesting views.

 

For God sake, it's enough to deal with this ''If you like Zuffa events your an idiot and Im better than you'' bs as it is. Let's not divide into Rogan's great/sucks camps as well. You dont have to agree with everything he says, but that doesn't make him a bad commentator. Each to their own, but this one upmanship that's developing here (Am Im guilty of it as well) is getting silly

 

I dont think rogan is nessesarily a bad commentator.

he certainly is not as bad as goldie and is better than mir or strikeforces commentary team.

Im just responding to people who seem to attend the church of rogan.

 

Haha I maybe was a little touchy writing my 1st post at the thought of working on a Saturday night. Wasnt singling anyone out