Joe Rogan Reacts To Dana White’s Insistence On Holding UFC Events: ‘There’s No Social Distancing In A F*cking Cage Fight’

Joe Rogan Reacts To Dana Whites Insistence On Holding UFC Events

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Late last month, longtime UFC broadcaster Joe Rogan expressed wonder at how Dana White was planning on pulling off holding UFC 249 on April 18th.

“You know, I don’t know how they’re gonna do that,” Rogan said at the time. “I don’t know if they’re gonna be able to do that in the United States. They’re talking about doing it in a place with less than ten people and then, you know, just an open arena. I guess someone’s gonna commentate it. It’s not gonna be me.”

Rogan also believed Dana White was desperately trying to make UFC 249 happen because if it were to be postponed it would be the fifth time that the long-awaited Khabib versus Ferguson fight would have been canceled.

We now know how that worked out for him.

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Fast forward a couple of weeks and the UFC 249 landscape has certainly changed.

UFC Lightweight Champion Khabib Nurmagomedov is out, and so now the main event will see Justin Gaethje versus Tony Ferguson for the Interim Lightweight Championship (which is really quite pointless). Rose Namajunas has bailed out of the UFC 249 co-main event against Jessica Andrade – we’re currently waiting on news of a possible replacement. And the event will either take place on tribal land in northern California, or on a private island that White says he is in the process of securing to hold UFC events.

But yeah, just canceling would have been the wrong move, for sure.

White also insists that Rogan will, in fact, be calling the fights on April 18th – something that Rogan himself knows nothing about.

“We don’t know where it is,” Rogan said on his podcast this week. “I’m trying to figure out what I’m doing, if I’m going to it or not. I don’t know where it is. I don’t even know if it’s in America. I literally, as of right now, I don’t know shit. I have no information.”

“Fight Island. They’re gonna buy an island. Yes, Enter the Dragon,” he said semi-jokingly before wondering out loud if he should do commentary while wearing a kung fu outfit. “Would that be culturally appropriating?”

Later, when Rogan’s guest Lex Fridman mentioned that UFC 249 could happen if social distancing measures were properly used, Rogan replied, “There’s no social distancing in a fucking cage fight. They’re on top of each other sweating in each other’s mouths. If Tony Ferguson’s fighting, there’s gonna be blood, for sure. Everybody that fights Tony Ferguson looks like they fell off a train, so there’s gonna be blood.

“What if everybody gets tested? Do you think that’s accessible? How accessible are tests right now?” he added. “What if one of those guys test positive? What if Justin Gaethje tests positive? Guy’s supposed to be fighting Ferguson.”

Rogan continued, “I don’t think they would allow it. I have a feeling that if someone did test positive, they would kick them off the card. I shouldn’t say kick them off the card, remove them from the card. I would imagine it has to be the right thing to do. Then you would also have to quarantine the people that worked with him in training camp and test everybody.

“It’s very controversial, the whole thing’s controversial.”

That it is, Joe. That it is.

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