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May 5, 2012; East Rutherford, NJ, USA; UFC president Dana White (left) interviews Joe Rogan during the middleweight bout between Alan Belcher and Rousimar Palhares during UFC on Fox 3 at the Izod Center. Mandatory Credit: Joe Camporeale-USA TODAY Sports
The UFC’s Freedom 250 event on the White House’s south lawn was an extraordinary spectacle, so much so that podcaster and combat sport enthusiast Joe Rogan, who was a commentator for the event, called it the “wildest experience” in his over 20 years of calling combat sports.
UFC President and CEO Dana White recently peeled back the curtain on his experience with Rogan in those 20 years leading up to the event, and how much Rogan’s loyalty means to him.
“I’ve had people call and say: ‘You gotta do this to Rogan,'” White revealed in a podcast appearance.
“I’m like: ‘Don’t ever call me. Who the hell are you to call me and tell me who I’m going to fire?’”
“Joe Rogan did the first 12 fights for us for free,” White added. “When we bought this company, the only two who were any good on radio were Joe Rogan and me, but nobody knew who I was. We’d get up at 3:00 in the morning, get dropped into East Coast markets, and do the same interviews over and over. Rogan and I did this for years.”
“He’s been a key, instrumental part of this company.”
White made it clear that as long as he’s in charge, Rogan will have a place within the UFC.
“He’s been a key, instrumental part of this company. And for anybody, I don’t give a damn how much money you have, or sponsor, or whatever… Nothing’s happening to Joe Rogan. Loyalty. It’s the most important thing in the world to me.”
However, it sounds like another UFC Freedom 250 event isn’t in the cards for Rogan.
“I can’t afford it,” White said of the event. “There’s no [freaking] way we can do this again. I’ll never do the Sphere again, and we’ll never do this again.”
Still, if the UFC does any new sort of one-off event, you can expect Rogan to be a part of it.
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