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Popular commentator Joe Rogan still seems unsure about if he’ll be working the desk at UFC 249.

UFC President Dana White previously reassured fight fans that Rogan would be in attendance at the event, speaking to TMZ Sports he said. “You cannot 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.”

Speaking for the first time since White’s comments, Rogan still sounded uncertain about if he should work the event or not.

“We don’t know where it is,” he said on the “Joe Rogan Experience” podcast. “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 right now, as of right now, I don’t know sh*t. I have no information.”

UFC 249, is reportedly set to take place on tribal land at Tachi Palace Casino Resort near Lemoore, California. It will be headlined by an interim lightweight title fight between Tony Ferguson and Justin Gaethje. This bout was made after 155lb king Khabib Nurmagomedov was forced off the card due to travel issues.

Rogan spoke openly in regard to his concerns about the event. He believes the close contact between fighters and the near certainty that someone will bleed makes UFC 249 dangerous.

“There’s no social distancing in a f*cking cage fight. They’re on top of each other, sweating in each other’s mouths. If Tony Ferguson’s fighting, there’s going to be blood, for sure. Everybody that fights Tony Ferguson looks like they fell off a train, so there’s going to be blood.

“What if one of those guys test positive? What if Justin Gaethje tests positive? Guy’s supposed to be fighting Ferguson. 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, I should say remove them from the card. I would imagine it has to be the right thing to do, and then you would also have to quarantine the people that worked with him in training camp and you have to test everybody.”

“There’s a lot of people that are upset with it,” Rogan said. “It’s very controversial, the whole thing is very controversial…because they don’t want anybody to do anything out of the norm of social distancing and of quarantining. We’re on lockdown right now.” (Transcribed by MMAJunkie)

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Joe
Rogan has said he won’t be commentating at UFC 249 due to the ongoing
coronavirus pandemic.

The card which is scheduled for April 18 is still without a venue. It was originally due to take place at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, however, COVID-19 triggered a state ban on mass gatherings which means the promotion needs a new host location.

Veteran voice of the octagon Rogan is usually the man tasked with calling the biggest fights UFC has to offer. However, given the current climate, he will be taking a backseat for this one. Speaking on a recent episode of the Joe Rogan Experience, he said.

“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.

“They could definitely [hold the event]. The UFC has the capability of doing
that. The thing is, how are they going to make sure nobody has it?” Rogan
asked. “You’re going to have to test everybody. And if someone has it, do you
let them fight? What if they have it and they’re like Idris Elba and they have
no symptoms but they’ve got the corona? What if Khabib has the corona? Or what
if Tony has the corona, does Khabib even fight him?”

“This fight is so cursed!” Rogan concluded. “This is how Dana feels. This is why Dana’s trying so hard to make it happen even if there’s only 10 people in the room.” (Transcribed by MMAFighting)

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