Joe Rogan recalls how a vicious left hook knocked him out: 'My legs gave out'
AUSTIN, TEXAS: The UFC competitors have displayed some of the best knockouts in all of the combat sports. A knockout finish to a fight is always thrilling to witness. However, most spectators are unable to understand what it feels like to be eliminated.
The UFC color commentator Joe Rogan's million-dollar podcast 'The Joe Rogan Experience,' which he hosts, recently included a portion in which he recalls how he was knocked out.
'Jesus Christ, what the f**k was that?'
Despite never having competed as a professional MMA fighter, the 55-year-old has had his fair share of knockout fights. Rogan once took a left hook to the chin during a fight. The impact knocked him down and his legs quit working.
“The most shocking [thing] to me was when I’ll get hit on the chin because one time I got dropped, I got hit on the chin with a left hook, and my legs, they just shut off,” Rogan said.
Although his legs stopped moving and he wasn't sure what was happening, Rogan claims he didn't feel hurt.
“It wasn’t like I got hurt… they just went, ‘Shut off. Your legs are shut off,’ and I was like, ‘Jesus Christ, what the f*** was that?” he added.
The JRE host said that he felt as though his entire body had broken down after the left hook. “They just stopped working. It was like my whole system got short-circuited,” he added.
‘It’s the worst feeling in the world’
While getting kicked in the torso is terrible, getting kicked in the chin, according to Joe Rogan, is not. When a video of one of his Taekwondo kicks went viral on social media, he claimed it was the worst sensation in the world.
“You get kicked in the body like that, it’s the worst feeling in the world,” Rogan said.
The 55-year-old also mentioned the consequences of sustaining a body kick. One feels as though lightning is running through their body, and they become immobile.
Being struck, much less being rendered unconscious, is unpleasant. Some people might think twice before picking a fight after hearing Joe Rogan's description of what happens following such hits.
