I'll just say this, because MMA and martial arts is my livelihood.
Regardless of what you think about Rogan or SAS, SAS should have used some different language. It's frankly just a terrible take to say that a guy with more performance bonuses than anyone in UFC history and more wins than anyone in the UFC simply gave up and folded. That's just not true. Love or hate Cowboy or Conor...the fact is that Cowboy got fukked up and hurt badly in the first few seconds. He didn't give up and fold.
In our world we just tend to not like when guys and girls talk about fighters in a disrespectful tone unless they've had the guts to go compete and put it on the line in at least some sort of combat sport.
I'm not even speaking for casual fans. I don't know what they think about this. But most of the people I train with found SAS's comments to be a little disrespectful to Cowboy.
But at the same time saying controversial shyt to get people worked up is sort of SAS's business model.
man shut the fukk up, this is how media pundits talk about athletes
Skip Bayless called Chris Bosh, Bosh Spice
Brian Kenny said all types of disrespectful shyt about Floyd Mayweather when all he did was win
Max Kellerman straight up disrespected Tim Bradley in a recent analysis of Wilder vs Fury fight, and this after Terrance Crawford checked his ass on site, that goes beyond boxing performance in a ring
all Stephen A Smith did was shyt on Cowboy for a shytty performance, that his jobs, this fighters ain't no different than football players when they have bad performance they get clowned and roasted on
Manny Pacqauio damn near died against Marquez, they literally had to bring him back to life in the ring, Roach thought he was dead, and people make memes about him, Stephen A was clowing him talking about "Manny are you OK"
This comes with being mainstream, if they are so butt hurt about it, go back to the fringe of sports where nobody cares
Rogan is mad because Stephen A a black man is the top dog in sports broadcasting, that is it, ESPN runs the show with the UFC now, and his little boys club is in danger, so he feeling some type of way
this is what this is about period