dissed Rogan\u2019s MMA expertise<\/a>, saying, \u201cHe\u2019s not an expert, he\u2019s a fan with an audience.\u201d<\/p>\nShevchenko wrote on social media that Rogan was \u201ca huge expert of martial arts\u201d and \u201ca noble man,\u201d and she elaborated on those comments Wednesday in New York.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m for justice and I like Ronda, I like her lifestyle, being close to nature and animals and farm and anything like that, she\u2019s a great champion, but I feel in this particular case it was not right to say these things that she said,\u201d Shevchenko said. \u201cJoe Rogan, he is a true example for the youth. He is a true martial artist. He has a lot of knowledge in martial arts and he\u2019s a successful man. He\u2019s very talented and it\u2019s just not right to say those things. I felt when there is no justice, no, it\u2019s something wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rogan regularly serves as color commentator for UFC pay-per-views and also hosts The Joe Rogan Experience, a popular podcast he began in 2009. Though Rogan has made less appearances at the commentary desk in recent years, he remains a well-known figure in the MMA community. Rogan was a standout Taekwondo practitioner in his youth and also dabbled in kickboxing before pursuing a career in acting and comedy.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s unclear exactly why Rousey chose to criticize Rogan, though it wasn\u2019t the first time as she also accused him of turning on her following the two losses that marked the end of her MMA career.<\/p>\n
Despite the disappointing way Rousey hung up the gloves, she is widely regarded as a pioneer of women\u2019s MMA and one of the best to ever compete inside the octagon.<\/p>\n
But who does Shevchenko consider to be the female GOAT?<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know, I think Ronda she\u2019s a great fighter and definitely she\u2019s the first one who fought in the UFC,\u201d Shevchenko said. \u201cDefinitely, she deserves to be the greatest fighter, but I started to practice martial arts when no one started. I was five years old, 32 years I do what I do, and my first title that I won in MMA it was back in 2003. No one would fight. There were no women. After seven years, there was the first female fight in UFC, but in 2003 I already won the title of world champion in MMA in South Korea. So in 2005, I won it again, and it\u2019s kind of like I can say that from the experience because I\u2019ve been in this business for a long, long time. Modern fighters they\u2019re not even born at that year, you can see many of them is like, 2005, 2006, but I\u2019ve been here for a long time and I have all rights to speak about how it evolved and how it was back then and now.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo for me, it\u2019s a very hard question who is the greatest and I never will [say] myself because I\u2019m not that kind of person who puts the name in front of everyone. I feel everyone did enough things to secure the spot to be in this position, the greatest fighter ever.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Valentina Shevchenko has Joe Rogan\u2019s back. Ahead of her title defense against Zhang Weili at UFC 322 this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,701,638,82,640,702],"class_list":{"0":"post-279169","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-latest-news","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-ufc","15":"tag-ufc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}