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UFC Stars Conor McGregor, Colby Covington, and More Attend Trump’s Inauguration Day

UFC Stars Conor McGregor, Colby Covington, and More Attend Trump's Inauguration A whole host of UFC stars were on hand to witness the inaugural of President-elect Donald Trump on Monday….

A whole host of UFC stars were on hand to witness the inaugural of President-elect Donald Trump on Monday.

Trump secured his second term as President of the United States in November with a landslide victory over Kamala Harris. Throughout his campaign, UFC notables like Colby Covington, Jon Jones, Jorge Masvidal, and CEO Dana White all expressed their support for the business mogul turned political icon. So it should come as no surprise that a majority of them were on hand in Washington D.C. to see ’45’ take his rightful place as ’47.’

Spotted standing between former U.S. presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama was Dana White, a longtime friend and supporter of Trump who had spoken at a rally just hours before the inauguration.

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Also there was Joe Rogan, the longtime UFC color commentator who hosted Trump on his popular JRE podcast weeks before election night. Before that, Rogan had long declined to have Trump appear on his program, but since sitting down with the POTUS, the former Fear Factor host appears to be all in on the ‘DJT’ hype train.

And, of course, you can’t have a Trump inauguration without one of his most staunch supporters, three-time UFC title challenger Colby ‘Chaos’ Covington.

UFC Megastar Conor McGregor Rides with Jake and Logan Paul to Trump Inauguration

Also making their way to the festivities were Jake and Logan Paul who found themselves hitching a ride with none other than Irish megastar and former two-division UFC champion, Conor McGregor.

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Check out McGregor’s comments while attending Monday’s inauguration ceremony below:

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— Mcgregor Forever (@mcgregorufc22) January 20, 2025

“Amazing to be here. I’m very excited; very optimistic about the future,” McGregor said during a media scrum. “And it’s a good time here in the United States. I was here the last time Donald Trump became president in 2016. And the energy and the response is night and day, which is a testament to how he’s done as a president, his last run, and how he’s handled himself since.”

McGregor also met up with political commentator Ben Shapiro at the event.

If you missed any of the festivities, you can watch the entire Trump inauguration online via YouTube and through various streaming sources, including Hulu and Disney+.

‘F*ck them!’ – Ji?í Procházka Reacts To UFC 311 Commentary Team Mentioning His Hands-Down Style

Former UFC light heavyweight champion Ji?í Procházka wasn’t pleased to be told of one topic that came up during the broadcast of his recent victory. Procházka was among the biggest winners to emerge from Saturday’s UFC 311 pay-per-view in Inglewood, California, where he got the better of a fellow ex-titleholder in Jamahal Hill to reignite […]

Former UFC light heavyweight champion Ji?í Procházka wasn’t pleased to be told of one topic that came up during the broadcast of his recent victory.

Procházka was among the biggest winners to emerge from Saturday’s UFC 311 pay-per-view in Inglewood, California, where he got the better of a fellow ex-titleholder in Jamahal Hill to reignite his hopes of a second title reign.

The Czech fan favorite had his hand raised in an entertaining affair, following up multiple knockdowns with a fight-ending flurry toward the end of the third and final round.

During and after the bout, “BJP” was widely praised for seemingly displaying an improved defensive game, especially in regards to his head movement.

But during his post-fight press conference, Procházka was still unhappy to hear of the same concerns being raised by the broadcast team when it comes to one element of his approach — keeping his hands down.

“F*ck them. I worked on that so much,” Procházka said. “(People) messaged me every day, ‘You have to keep your hands up.’ So OK, I will do that for this fight. I will keep the hands up, especially for this night.

“(I keep my hand down because) I believe in my senses. I believe in my feeling in a fight – in my head movement. That’s why I can keep the hands down,” Procházka continued. “To be honest, in the last fight with Alex (Pereira), I was a little bit too hands down. So this is something I’ve worked on. I want to see the video from the fight (against Hill), because I believe that I (kept my hands up).”

With such a style being widely branded counter-productive in his two efforts opposite Alex Pereira, perhaps Procházka will plan on putting even more emphasis on staying defensively responsible should his wish to meet “Poatan” for a third time come to fruition down the line.

Joe Rogan Points Finger at Homeless for L.A. Wildfires: ‘They’re Looting People’s Houses’

Joe Rogan is once again under fire. It’s been more than a week since a wildfire in Southern California…

Joe Rogan is once again under fire.

It’s been more than a week since a wildfire in Southern California broke out, destroying 40,000 acres of land from the Pacific Palisades to the greater Los Angeles area. More than 12,000 homes and businesses have been burnt to the ground and dozens of lives have been lost.

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Thus far, no cause has been identified, but the long-time UFC color commentator and popular podcaster sent listeners into a frenzy when he placed the blame squarely on the shoulders of homeless people, suggesting that the “losers” are lighting fighters to “get their anger out” and loot multi-million-dollar homes.

“This is your whining liberal, ‘It’s f*cking climate change, wake up.’ No, it’s arson, you f*cking idiots… The homeless are doing it,” Rogan said on a recent episode of his JRE podcast. “They’re more inclined to use fire to get their anger out… You have 100,000 losers just camping on your street… What do you think is going to happen when there are people with $50M houses, and you’re camping out just a block away?… They’re looting people’s houses… Swarms of organized gangs are showing up.”

Rogan also slammed California Governor Gavin Newsom’s handling of the situation, claiming that the state had spent “zero” on preventing wildfires last year while dumping billions of dollars to help the nearly 200,000 “losers” that reside in the state.

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“We were just talking about the wildfire situation and how they spent $24 billion last year on homeless,” Rogan said. “What did they spend on preventing this wildfire? Zero! Zip!… The whole state is so poorly managed. It’s so frustrating and confusing.”

Joe Rogan echoes false report shared by our next president of the United States

On social media, President-elect Donald Trump amplified a claim that Newsom had slashed the state’s fire budget by $100 million just months before the outbreak of the recent wildfires. While Newsom did approve cuts to several supplemental funding initiatives in the wildfire budget last year, the state’s multibillion-dollar firefighting budget and workforce actually increased.

Of the cuts that were made, the largest was $46 million related to a pilot project to create hydrogen from biomass. Another $35 million was cut from wildfire resilience projects on state-owned land and $28 million from projects undertaken by various state conservancies.

“We have doubled the size of our firefighting army, built the world’s largest aerial firefighting fleet, and increased the forest management ten-fold since taking office,” Newsom wrote on X in response to the false reporting. “Time to serve these folks the facts.”

Since 2019, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection has seen a budget increase from $2 billion to $3.8 billion according to FactCheck.org. The number of CalFIRE personnel has nearly doubled in that same timeframe, going from 5,829 to 10,741.

Joe Rogan Retracts Claim Of Jon Jones’ Pay Demand For Tom Aspinall Fight: ‘Dana Contacted Me…’

Joe Rogan is backpedaling on his recent assertion regarding Jon Jones’ potential title fight against Tom Aspinall. Interim UFC Heavyweight champion Aspinall has been relentlessly campaigning for a title unification showdown with Jones for over a year now. However, “Bones” has repeatedly brushed off the challenge, though he hasn’t entirely shut the door — hinting […]

Joe Rogan is backpedaling on his recent assertion regarding Jon Jones’ potential title fight against Tom Aspinall.

Interim UFC Heavyweight champion Aspinall has been relentlessly campaigning for a title unification showdown with Jones for over a year now. However, “Bones” has repeatedly brushed off the challenge, though he hasn’t entirely shut the door — hinting that he’d consider stepping into the Octagon if the UFC presents him with the most lucrative payday of his career.

Interestingly, Rogan claimed on his podcast that he had heard whispers of the reigning UFC Heavyweight champion demanding a staggering $30 million to face Aspinall. He even expressed optimism that the UFC might meet the hefty price tag to make the highly anticipated clash a reality.

However, during a recent episode of the Joe Rogan Experience, the seasoned UFC commentator shared that he received a call from UFC CEO Dana White, who refuted his earlier statements. Rogan admitted the particular episode was recorded roughly two weeks ago and confessed he couldn’t recall the source who mentioned Jones’ rumored $30 million demand.

“We were talking about Jon Jones and I had heard a rumor that Jon Jones wanted $30 million to fight Tom Aspinall,” Rogan said. “And I did hear that rumor and I did hear that the UFC said yes. But it is not true, Dana contacted me and said that rumor is bullsh*t. So I felt obligated to tell everybody that was a fake rumor. I don’t even remember because we did that podcast two weeks ago, I don’t remember who told me that.”

“Bones” was last seen in action at UFC 309 in November 2024, where he secured a dominant third-round knockout win over former champion Stipe Miocic in his first heavyweight title defense.

Meanwhile, Aspinall has held the interim heavyweight title since knocking out Sergei Pavlovich at UFC 295 in November 2023. He further solidified his reign with another knockout win over Curtis Blaydes at UFC 304 in July 2024.

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‘Joe Rogan Thinks UFC Will Pay It’: Daniel Cormier Weighs in on Jon Jones’ $30 Million Request

If the UFC wants to book a title unification clash between Jon Jones and Tom Aspinall, they’re gonna have…

If the UFC wants to book a title unification clash between Jon Jones and Tom Aspinall, they’re gonna have to pony up some serious dough.

Following his third-round stoppage of Stipe Miocic at UFC 309, ‘Bones’ left the door open for a long-awaited showdown with Aspinall to unify their respective heavyweight titles. But just because Jones is willing to take the fight, doesn’t mean he’s going to do it for cheap.

According to popular podcaster and long-time UFC color commentator Joe Rogan, the undisputed heavyweight champions’s asking price is a whopping $30 million. That might sound like a lot, but let’s not forget that ‘Bones’ is without a doubt the greatest mixed martial artist in the history of the sport, regardless of your opinion on his antics outside the cage.

Add that to the fact that Jones vs. Aspinall would be the biggest heavyweight fight in UFC history, and you’ve got an opportunity for both fighters to cash in big. Especially Jones.

However, not everyone is convinced that Dana White and Co will fork over that kind of cash for anyone not named Conor McGregor.

“Rogan thinks that the UFC is gonna pay it,” Daniel Cormier said on his YouTube channel. Rogan thinks that the UFC will pay the $30 million to get Jon Jones in there with Tom Aspinall. I’m not sure he gets to 30, but if you ask for 30 and you get 20 or you get 15, that’s a win for Jon Jones.”

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DC’ also stressed the importance of not only getting Jon Jones inside the Octagon with Aspinall, but the Brit coming out on top in their potential clash. If not, ‘Bones’ could potentially walk away from the fight game with gold still strapped around his waist, leaving the promotion in a precarious position.

“Jones leaves, and you can do whatever you want,” Cormier said. “We could go Aspinall versus [Alex] Pereira, Aspinall versus this guy, or that guy. It doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter because, even though Francis Ngannou isn’t the name that Jon Jones is, people were saying when Jones became champ, “Well, he didn’t beat Francis,” right? There was a break in the heavyweight championship timeline. If you want to say it like that, we can make massive fights, but it will never overcome the idea that Jon Jones left as the champ. And then that would happen two times back to back. So it’d be a massive mistake.

“They’ve got to get him in there with Aspinall. And you’ve got to hope that Aspinall wins if you want the heavyweight title to continue being what the heavyweight title has been. Because if he doesn’t, and Jones goes, ‘I’m walking away as the greatest of all time, as the reigning heavyweight champion,” it leaves a gap that’s hard to fill.’”

Report: Jon Jones Demands $30 Million for Tom Aspinall Fight, Rumored to Be the Biggest Heavyweight Clash in UFC History

Jon Jones is rumored to demand $30 million to step into the octagon against interim heavyweight champion Tom Aspinall….

Jon Jones is rumored to demand $30 million to step into the octagon against interim heavyweight champion Tom Aspinall. The potential showdown, which UFC President Dana White has confirmed as the next step for the heavyweight division, is being touted as the “biggest heavyweight fight in UFC history.”

Jon Jones Wants $30 Million

‘Bones’ Jon Jones recently returned to action at UFC 309 to defeat Stipe Miocic via TKO to defend his heavyweight crown. The US-born athlete has stated that he does not feel obligated to fight again unless the UFC meets his financial demands.

Speaking on his podcast, UFC commentator Joe Rogan revealed the rumored figure, calling it “f*** you money.” Jones has made it clear that he would only take the fight if he feels the compensation is worth the risk, saying, “If I give [Aspinall] the opportunity to fight me, I want to be well compensated. Otherwise, my life is perfect. I don’t need him, but he needs me.” Apparently, the number Jones is asking for is a whopping $30 million according to Rogan.

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The fight has been highly anticipated since Aspinall claimed the interim heavyweight title in 2023 with a stunning first-round knockout of Sergei Pavlovich. Aspinall further solidified his position as a top contender by defending his title against Curtis Blaydes. Despite his respect for Jones’ legacy, Aspinall believes he sees “openings” in Jones’ game, though he admits, “Whether I can do it or not, I don’t know.”

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Adding to the drama, Jon Jones has publicly expressed his dislike for Aspinall, calling him an “a**hole” in interviews and during the UFC 309 post-fight press conference. The tension between the two fighters only heightens fan interest in the matchup, which is expected to unify the heavyweight titles and draw significant pay-per-view revenue.

Negotiations for the fight may be challenging given ‘Bones’ Jones’ steep asking price. The fight’s massive scale has already sparked speculation about a potential collaboration with Saudi Arabia’s Riyadh Season events, known for hosting high-profile combat sports matches. With Dana White guaranteeing the fight for 2025, fans eagerly await what could be one of the most monumental bouts in UFC history.