Carlo Prater Blasts ‘Unethical’ Joe Rogan for His Criticism of Mario Yamasaki at UFC

[Jonathan Wylie]

How many times do you think he hit him in the back of the head?

[Jonathan Wylie]

[Charlemange August K.]

The last three shots looked illegal to me. If you watch the video and blow it up his ear is covered by the tricepts. His forearm does hit the back of the head and this totals too 4 shots. But regardless they were not intentional and Silva did overwelhm him. And it's obvious that Silva is a better fighter so he should have won still.

But, textbook wise Mario should have made it at least a no contest not a DQ.

[David Rosado]

beat me to it. Might as well have a rematch and add insult to injury. Watch Erick smash him with no controversy.

[Chris Garry]

Worst physical pain he had ever had in his entire life.

[Compella]

Should be a NC, it's not like Silva was showing a blatant disregard for the rules, he was swarming on Prater and some of the shots strayed slightly, ok, it's a fight, it happens. Ref's job, IMO, should've been to stand them back up, give Prater his 5 min to recover and warn or penalize Silva depending on the severity of the infraction. From what I saw, that deserved nothing more than a warning and the loss of position for Silva. I think what pissed Joe off was the timing of the call, where it seemed that Prater's complaints helped coax that decision from the ref, who knows? They should take back that Matt Serra win where Matt lands a hook behind GSP's ear and wobbles him up, enough to swarm and finish. If that's the official rule and all.

[Andrew Maxwell]

“I think the way Joe Rogan behaved was completely unethical. He went with the crowd. A real professional doesn’t do that. He was acting like a fan when he should be acting as a commentator. Mario is a million times more competent than him. He’s been living off this for 20 years. Joe Rogan is just a swagger, someone who walks amongst fighters but isn’t really a fighter himself. He doesn’t understand. Whatever, human beings make mistakes and I am not going to be holding grudges against him.”

Apparently he's never watched boxing, I've seen boxing commentators question a fighter or ref about a decision, choice, their behavior or even ask a ref what he was seeing from his perspective many times. Saying Joe isn't professional and was acting like a fan, well that's just stupidity. It's one of the commentator's jobs to be the voice of the fans and to ask the questions the fans want to know about and to explain why a certain call was or was not made. Joe was very professional and handled it exactly as he should of.

[David Rosado]

Should be a NC, it's not like Silva was showing a blatant disregard for the rules, he was swarming on Prater and some of the shots strayed slightly, ok, it's a fight, it happens. Ref's job, IMO, should've been to stand them back up, give Prater his 5 min to recover and warn or penalize Silva depending on the severity of the infraction. From what I saw, that deserved nothing more than a warning and the loss of position for Silva. I think what pissed Joe off was the timing of the call, where it seemed that Prater's complaints helped coax that decision from the ref, who knows? They should take back that Matt Serra win where Matt lands a hook behind GSP's ear and wobbles him up, enough to swarm and finish. If that's the official rule and all.

Word Compella, at the very worst, it should be a NC. Jon Jones 12/6 elbow deserves a DQ. Wes Sims trying to stomp Mir years ago deserves a DQ. An incidental shot to the back of the head, when Erick was clearly trying to keep all his shots clean, doesn't deserve a DQ. IMO, Erick displayed enough dominance that he deserved the win. But at worst it should've been a NC.

“I think the way Joe Rogan behaved was completely unethical. He went with the crowd. A real professional doesn’t do that. He was acting like a fan when he should be acting as a commentator. Mario is a million times more competent than him. He’s been living off this for 20 years. Joe Rogan is just a swagger, someone who walks amongst fighters but isn’t really a fighter himself. He doesn’t understand. Whatever, human beings make mistakes and I am not going to be holding grudges against him.”

Apparently he's never watched boxing, I've seen boxing commentators question a fighter or ref about a decision, choice, their behavior or even ask a ref what he was seeing from his perspective many times. Saying Joe isn't professional and was acting like a fan, well that's just stupidity. It's one of the commentator's jobs to be the voice of the fans and to ask the questions the fans want to know about and to explain why a certain call was or was not made. Joe was very professional and handled it exactly as he should of.

I said the same thing on Sherdog. Larry Merchant always grills refs and fighters. Post fight interviewers have never shied away from that. I guess some guys get so involved in actually fighting that they don't keep up with the sport they participate in. Kind of ironic. I think GSP mentioned something like that before.

[Chris Herzog]

The last three shots looked illegal to me. If you watch the video and blow it up his ear is covered by the tricepts. His forearm does hit the back of the head and this totals too 4 shots. But regardless they were not intentional and Silva did overwelhm him. And it's obvious that Silva is a better fighter so he should have won still.

But, textbook wise Mario should have made it at least a no contest not a DQ.

A strike is legal if the glove touches the ear, regardless if the forearm hits the back of the head.

[rickdawson]

In the Post Fight Interview its Joe Rogan's job to ASK THE QUESTIONS WE "THE AUDIENCE" WANT TO HEAR... I honestly didn't find what he had to say disrespectful at all.