'He's gotta retire after that': Joe Rogan Faces Immense Flak After Embarrassing Paddy Pimblett Impression at UFC 314

Joe Rogan attempted a Paddy Pimblett impression during the UFC 314 post-fight show, but it fell flat. As a consequence, he is at the end of some harsh criticism on social media. The backlash has led some to call for him to step down from his commentary role.

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Joe Rogan Receives Flak On Social Media

After Paddy Pimblett's dominant win over Michael Chandler, Joe Rogan praised Pimblett's entertaining personality and trash talking style during commentary alongside Daniel Cormier and Jon Anik. Joe Rogan's Paddy Pimblett impression bombed, prompting fans to take to social media, harshly criticizing him and calling for him to step down from UFC commentary.

Social media clipping page Happy Punch shared the video with the caption “Joe Rogan gotta retire after that Paddy Pimblett impression on the UFC broadcast.”

Fans agreed with the sentiment, writing in the comments section that he should have been gone long before even that moment. “He should’ve retired over half a decade ago,” one fan wrote. “He’s a low IQ casual.”
Another added that it was “one of the worst impressions of anybody I’ve ever seen”. Others blamed Cormier and Anik for laughing along, saying: “And both of his ‘friends’ busted out laughing, so plastic, sometimes you need a [Michael] Bisping to say stuff like ‘wtf was that Joe?'”

During the post-fight show, Daniel Cormier looked perplexed by Paddy Pimblett's unique trash talk, which includes calling opponents "helmets" and "sausages" – terms that often carry different, more derogatory connotations.

As a seasoned comedian, Joe Rogan was able to decipher Paddy Pimblett's colloquialisms for the audience, but had to carefully censor his explanation due to the broadcast on ESPN and TNT Sports.

“It means the head of your, you know,” Rogan gestured, while Anik also noted Pimblett’s similarly phallic imagery in calling his rivals ‘sausages’. “They call it a bell end, it’s a helmet, you get it?” he continued, which left Cormier in hysteria.