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Veteran commentator Joe Rogan will be working at UFC 249 according to Dana White

The UFC boss told Megan Olivi Rogan will be in attendance at the VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena in Jacksonville, Florida on May 9. Aaron Bronsteter of TSN confirmed the news on his social media, he wrote. “Dana White tells @MeganOlivi that Joe Rogan will be doing commentary for UFC 249.

Dana White tells @MeganOlivi that Joe Rogan will be doing commentary for UFC 249.

— Aaron Bronsteter (@aaronbronsteter) April 24, 2020

Rogan previously said on his podcast he would not be attending the event originally scheduled for April 18.

“The UFC is talking about putting on a fight on April 18^th. I don’t know how they’re gonna do that. 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 10 people, just an open arena – I guess someone’s gonna commentate it [but] it’s not gonna be me – and they’re gonna be duking it out in an empty place. And they’re gonna try to do that on the 18th.”

“They did it for the last card in Brazil because it was ordered by the government. The government ordered all large gatherings to break up when they started seeing the corona rising in Brazil so they had to do the Brazil card indoors, no people, weird. But they’re gonna plan Khabib and Tony this way. They’re gonna plan it, so it doesn’t even have to be a big place. They could do it in, like, a film studio. Legitimately, they could set this up in a film studio somewhere.

White later accused the media of twisting Rogan’s words and confirmed his long-time friend would be calling the fights, he said.

“He did not say that,” Dana White said to TMZ. “Again, you can not listen to anything the media says. Nobody talked to him, they heard him talking on a podcast. So, they start writing stories off a podcast that are full of sh*t. Rogan will be there.” (Transcribed by BJPenn.com)

Do you think Joe Rogan will commentate at UFC 249 on May 9?

Popular commentator Joe Rogan has offered his thoughts on the cancellation of UFC 249.

The long-time voice of the octagon had been considering if he would work the event scheduled for April 18. Speaking on his podcast Rogan seemed relieved that he no longer had to think about working at the event amid the coronavirus pandemic, he said.

“Wow! That’s interesting. Well, that saves me a lot of f*cking thinking,” Rogan said when the news broke. “Damn. I was 75 percent ready to go. The only thing that worried me was if I contracted something and then came in contact with other people. So what I was gonna do is do it if I definitely could get tested and then I would have to know the results before I come back, but f*cking – even then you don’t know.”

“I think they made probably a risk assessment and then they made a calculation of what the negative aspects of going against government regulations, in terms of state government, would be and they probably were like, ‘We can’t do this,’” Rogan said

“Imagine being the president of the UFC. Imagine having all these fights that you have to make and having all this pressure on you, and you’re also a famous guy like Dana is. Imagine being that guy. F*ck that job. President of the UFC is second only to President of the United States. [Laughs]. Bro, he’s under ridiculous amounts of pressure. . .

“The most important thing is he’s a psychotic driving force for the most exciting organization in the world and I don’t think the organization gets where it is without Dana White. I think you have to have a crazy person at the wheel. You have a guy who doesn’t give a f*ck. He’s a real man. He doesn’t give a f*ck, he’ll talk sh*t, he’ll insult people, he’ll go back with you.”

“As long as the right precautions are in place, I agree,” Rogan said. “But the thing is, you’ve got to measure, if this was any other disease where we understood it better, I would be way more confident. . . I don’t want people who are less robust than Michael Yo [a friend of Rogan’s who contracted coronavirus and recovered following a stay in the hospital] to die, so we’ve got to figure out what the f*ck this virus is, how does it get treated, what’s the most effective way, and then it makes sense that we’re a little bit more loose with our regulations.”

 “Listen man, I was hesitant,” Rogan concluded. “I was like, ‘I really want to go’, I was leaning towards going, but I’m like, ‘God, I don’t want to hear it from people who don’t think it’s a good idea.’ I’m not interested in putting myself at risk but my real concern was how do I know if I contract it and then bring it back, how am I gonna know? And then I had to be honest with myself and I really wouldn’t know. So the only way I’d be able to do it is to do it and then be in quarantine until I get tested, and I was like, ‘Oh Jesus Christ.’” (Transcribed by MMA Fighting)

What do you make of the comments from Joe Rogan on UFC 249?