a conversation with actor Luke Grimes<\/a> on his popular Joe Rogan Experience podcast, the longtime UFC commentator got to talking about some of his favorite settings to call live fights. He talked at length about the energy of the crowd at MMA events in Japan, and also named Madison Square Garden as a great place to watch fights. However, he said his favorite is the UFC Apex.<\/p>\nHis choice is bound to drum up controversy among fans.<\/p>\n
The UFC Apex came into existence during the pandemic, and because it was too small to host a real crowd, became the perfect place to host live events during the health crisis. However, many fans have grown tired of watching fights there, as it deprives fighters of the opportunity to compete in front of big crowds.<\/p>\n
Rogan commentated several major fights at UFC Apex, including Francis Ngannou\u2019s heavyweight title win over Stipe Miocic. While he hasn\u2019t called a fight there in years, he recalls the way you could hear things you couldn\u2019t hear in a packed stadium or arena. For that reason, he says it\u2019s his favorite place to watch a fight.<\/p>\n
Joe Rogan says UFC Apex is favorite place to watch fights<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019re right there,\u201d Rogan said of watching fights at the UFC Apex. \u201cYou hear them breathing. You hear the grunts when they get hit. You hear the coaches yelling out\u2026 They\u2019re yelling out instructions and there\u2019s no one else there. It\u2019s silent. It\u2019s amazing. That\u2019s my favorite.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s something about an amazing crowd when you\u2019re watching a big world title fight in Vegas,\u201d he continued. \u201cMadison Square Garden\u2019s an incredible place just cause of the history. You feel it when you\u2019re in Madison Square Garden \u2014 but my favorite is the Apex.\u201d<\/p>\n
Joe Rogan will next be at the commentary desk for UFC 327, which goes down on April 11 in Miami.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joe Rogan has commentated live UFC fights all over the world, from Madison Square Garden in New York…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":536381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82],"class_list":["post-536380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536380","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=536380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/536381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}