What are Joe Rogan's MMA expert credentials?

I've had over 20 am fights as a young adult in boxing and still very new in respect to a spectator to MMA, but i find him very helpful in his commentating as a newbie to the sport.

 

Boxing is the smallest aspect of MMA so who cares if he isnt exactly an expert of that. Whats wrong with being obsessed with BJJ thats usually how you become really good at something. Do you think great boxers became great because they didnt give a **** about boxing ? Obviously Joe isnt an elite BJJ guy but he is a Brown Belt which is top stuff before long he will earn his Black Belt and he breaks things down on the ground. Everytime a fight hits the ground he gives a great analysis of going on and what the guy in bad postions needs to do or what the guy whos working for something is trying to do. Why do you come on this forum ? You have no clue what your talking about 99 percent of the time and all you do is complain.

 

When it comes down to it, why would you wrestle when you can punch?

Wrestling should always be secondary unless of course, you're ascared to get hit.

 

He used to compete in Tae Kown Do at a high level.

From…

http://realitytv.about.com/od/realitytvjudges/a/JoeRogan.htm

There was a thread over on his forum a while back where he motioned that he used to teach TKD for a living.

From….

http://forums.joerogan.net/showthread.php?t=88825&highlight=martial+arts&page=3

From some of his comments in the past I think he actually had some pro-kickboxing bouts as well.

As far BJJ goes I believe he’s a purple belt under the Machdos and a brown under Eddie Bravo.

He’s supposed to have legit skills. Both standing and on the ground he’s supposed to be a difficult guy to handle.

Eddie Bravo went as far as to say…

http://www.fighthype.com/pages/content3562.html

 

On that video rogan killed dibella in a screaming match....

He made better points but dibella was much more composed and professional

 

Being composed doesnt win you any debates. Making valid points does and Rogan totally destroyed Dibella.

 

I'm pretty sure he was something significant in TKD as a middleweight way back in the day.

 

Rogan is one annoying motjher****er i dont know of anyone that actually likes that guy even if he does know everything (sarcasm)

 

He knows enough about boxing to do his job and knows more about kickboxing which is more relevant for mma. Who exactly would you like to do mma commentating? Lampley and Merchant? In the future I think it'll be Florian or Mir, but while they're still fighting Rogan is the only one so far worth listening to. Goldie sucks and so does pretty much everyone from strikeforce or especially elitexc. Bas was cool, but he doesn't do it anymore. Apart from just being an play by play guy (which someone like Florian or Mir would have better credentials for) he's someone who's interested in all the behind the scenes stuff and is honest enough not to be such a lame company man homer like Goldie.

By the way, I've bumped the "MT vs boxing" thread twice now trying to get you to respond to the question of which boxer would actually "count" for you to believe that a boxer vs kickboxer fight means anything.
http://www.eastsideboxing.com/forum/showthread.php?t=153274&page=3

 

His credentials are he is a damn good announcer. He has technical proficiency in Jiu Jitsu and explaining it, which is more important than having great knowledge of striking because the results of that are more obvious to the watcher, guy gets hit and gets hurt. Not that its any simpler to perform, just that its more visually obvious.

He is good at breaking down strange kicks because of his jr national championship TKD background.

So basically you have a guy who is a natural on the mike as a stand up comedian, highly skilled at grappling, and willing to defer to fighters when they are commentating with him.

I personally will miss Frank Mir from the WEC shows, although that apparently puts me in the minority; glad Pulver has a job, great guy, great excitement, but I liked Franks technical breakdown.

 

I actually think he does a decent job, he get's a little over exited everytime somebody does a leg kick but no big deal. He works well with Goldberg considering Goldberg has been doing this many years and still seems very clueless he tries to educate people as he announces.

 

About seven years ago Rogan posted this on his forum in response to a thread where someone asked about their son training martial arts.



It contains some more information on his background...

http://forums.joerogan.net/showthread.php?t=2237&highlight=cage+fighting

 

cdnboxing just got Dibella'd

 

"Goofy kung fu class?"

lol

Did Beebs write that? He could have at least given a shout out to wing chun if nothing else.