Alexander Volkanovski’s Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Coach Craig Jones Describes “Nervous” Meeting With Joe Rogan

Millions across the world love the podcast king, Joe Rogan, for the candid conversations he has with his guests on JRE. Apart from this, he receives massive respect from the MMA world, as he is the most famous color commentator of the UFC. Rogan‘s technical knowledge about every single move in combat sports is another factor that makes Rogan stand out.

Many athletes have mentioned the experience of meeting the 55-year-old for the first time as something unreal. One of them who recently detailed the “nervous” meeting with the podcaster is Alexander Volkanovski‘s Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu coach, Craig Jones. Even after being a successful athlete, Jones was nervous while meeting Rogan for the first time. The Australian wrestler has also shared the experience of talking to the UFC commentator in ‘The Joe Rogan Experience’.

Craig Jones details his first meeting with Joe Rogan

The BJJ legend and Daniel Bradshaw, the owner of StreetX, were talking in the Club Good Podcast. During the interview, ‘The Great’s coach was asked about his experience meeting with Joe Rogan. Jones detailed, “I was nervous the first time I met him. During Covid, FloGrappling got discounted rates for a really nice hotel in the city to host events. So Rogan and Alex would go and watch the co-main man grappling events and stuff, and then one day, we just went out to dinner afterwards.”

The 31-year-old added, “Yeah, it was obviously pretty surreal meeting him and stuff.” It was indeed a surprise that Jones, a BJJ legend, holds so much respect for the UFC commentator.

The BJJ legend’s experience in JRE

The Aussie had a lot of great things to say about the JRE host. After the first meeting, the Australian grappler got to meet the UFC commentator a couple of times. In the interview, Jones detailed those meetings, too. He said, “I think I hung out with him another time. I was in town with Volk and Volk was going to go on the podcast, so I just came along and he asked me last second.”

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He continued, “So I really wasn’t too nervous because I wasn’t thinking about ‘oh f*ck don’t say anything stupid’ but also I think, Rogan’s obviously still massive, but I think sort of his peak was when it was free on YouTube because now I don’t know it feels different now. I don’t know if he still gets crazy viewers, he gets obviously but I feel like when it was free and so easily accessible I felt like I would have been more nervous to say“.

While talking about his experience in JRE, the 31-year-old mentioned the difference he felt after Rogan signed the contract with the podcast giant, Spotify. However, there is no doubt that Rogan is still one of the most popular podcasters in the world.

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