Joe Rogan Apologizes For Post-Fight Interview

UFC color commentator Joe Rogan has been involved in some of the greatest post-fight interviews in the history of the UFC.

However, things took a turn for the worst after the main event of UFC 214, where Jon Jones regained the UFC Light Heavyweight Title after a brutal knockout over Daniel Cormier.

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When Rogan went to interview Cormier after his brutal knockout loss, the former champion was unable to properly gather his thoughts and was reeling from the effects of a brutal beating from the new champion.

Rogan would take to Instagram first and then Twitter to issue a series of tweets apologizing for his role in the post-fight interview:

 

My apologies to D.C. And to everyone else upset at me for interviewing him after the fight. In all honestly I was kind of in shock and I don't think I realized what I was doing until I had a mic in my hand and I was talking to him. I've said that I don't want to interview fighters after they've been KO'ed and then I did it to someone that I care a great deal about. It was 100% my fuck up and no one pressured me to do it. I posted a series of tweets about it on twitter but I know some of you folks only use instagram or Facebook so I thought the right thing to do is post it here as well. I was beating myself up about it all night, and whenever something like that happens it's always my sincere intention to apologize and express my honest feelings. It'll never happen again.

A post shared by Joe Rogan (@joerogan) on Jul 30, 2017 at 9:34am PDT

 

My apologies to D.C. And to everyone else upset at me for interviewing him after the fight. In… https://t.co/CpROGtVRuC

— Joe Rogan (@joerogan) July 30, 2017

 

Again, no one asked me to do it. It was 100% my fuck up. Like I said, I was kind of in shock.

— Joe Rogan (@joerogan) July 30, 2017

 

I was beating myself up about it all last night. It'll never happen again. My apologies to D.C. And to all of you.

— Joe Rogan (@joerogan) July 30, 2017

 

And then I wound up doing it to someone I care a great deal about. D.C. Is a great man and the whole thing was surreal.

— Joe Rogan (@joerogan) July 30, 2017

 

I don't think I realized what I was doing until I actually had a mic in front of him. I've said I don't want to interview KO'ed fighters

— Joe Rogan (@joerogan) July 30, 2017

This isn’t the first time Rogan has been involved in a post-fight interview that shouldn’t have been conducted, as he interviewed a cleary out of it Alistair Overeem after his loss at UFC 203. Following that fight Rogan publicly stated he didn't wish to conduct interviews with knocked out fighters.