Issues With FOX
In the early days of the UFC’s TV deal with FOX, Rogan had issues with the way FOX did things and eventually quit his role as color-commentator for those shows.
“The very first events for FOX, they were like telling me what to do. They were telling me to take it down a notch. ‘Don’t be so amped up about that guy,’ I was like, ‘What? What are you doing here?’ I go, ‘Listen, I do commentary. This is what I do. I’ve been doing it forever. This is how I do it. If you think you can change me, then we’re not going to work together.'”
Rogan also revealed the extreme lengths FOX officials went to in order to avoid potentially upsetting viewers.
“You know what they do during the Fox fights? They spray paint over the blood.
“Dude, it’s gross. We’re sitting there doing the commentary and talking about some stuff and they’re spraying like full board, paint-booth, like doing a Chevelle, ten feet from us. I’m not exaggerating!
“…And the camera guys are all covering their faces with shirts and walking away. It’s probably illegal.
“Like you have to have masks on and stuff for that shit. You can’t just blow it into the crowd. There’s 15,000 people sitting in the audience and they’re like ‘well what’s really important is that we deny what we’re involved with so we’ll put a little spray paint on this blood.”
