It's become a habit for fans to criticise MMA commentators for what they say into the microphone. But UFC color commentator Joe Rogan cuts his MMA colleagues some slack.

Rogan, who has been in the commentary business off and on since 1997, believes that it is a lack of experience that makes some MMA commentators hard to listen to.

"I think [Mike Goldberg and I] have an unfair advantage," he told fans at the UFC 114 Q&A. "We get to do so much more of them... When you watch these other organizations, these guys are trying it for the very first time. I watched the Moosin fights when Tim Sylvia fought Pudzianowski, and my ears were bleeding listening to those dummies talk. Except Bas Rutten; I love Bas Rutten. But those other two guys were brutal.

"And you know why? It's because they don't get to hear themselves do it, they don't get to evaluate. Mike and I have called over 1,000 fights, that's a long time together... It's a long time to be around and to correct your mistakes... It takes a long time to realize when to shut the fuck up, when to talk, what to say."

Rogan explained that training in the sport also has a lot to do with how you commentate. The more you know, he said, the more you're able to inform the audience and give analysis of what is happening. For instance, many commentators may know what an Americana is when it is being applied, but because they do not have the experience of grappling, they do not know the movements in between that allow a fighter to set it up.

"There's a tremendous amount that's happening in the ground game, that, if you don't train, you're not going to understand," he said. "You're not going to be able to see things coming."

MMA commentary came under a huge amount of criticism recently for several reasons during an April Strikeforce event in Nashville, TN. First, the commentators were uncertain of how to call the ground fight between Gegard Mousasi and Muhammed Lawal. Who was winning, who was more effective and dominant? First-time fans wouldn't have known. Second, between the three commentators, they were not consistent in name pronunciation. And third, during the brawl that ensued after the middleweight title bout, the commentators called out to the fighters that the melee was being shown on live TV, and also stated that this is the type of things that happen in MMA.