Commentary

​I am of the belief that if you are on commentary for an event, it is your job to actually know what’s happening and be honest about the stakes. If every event is the most important, the biggest, the best, then none of them are. Hyperbole is best used sparingly WNO and The Crown don’t really matter to the athletes or to the audience. The same can be said for FPI. The people who will watch these events will watch them regardless of who’s on the card. My next point, if you’re getting paid to tell people what’s happening you should know what’s happening. Example: Chase Hooper vs. Jim Miller it was incredibly clear that Hooper was attempting to calf slice/hobble Miller. Both Rogan and Cormier were insistent that he was looking for a crotch ripper/banana split. I can forgive not knowing the hobbler, because it’s a niche submission, but at the very least Rogan should have been able to call the calf slicer. All I’m asking is that at “high level” events we put appropriate gravity on the situation and know what we’re talking about…rant over.