The UFC middleweight champion took to the mic after defending his title this weekend to support Joe Rogan. Rogan, embroiled in controversy surrounding statements he made on his podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience, was conspicuously absent from the UFC 271 broadcast. When the press asked about Rogan’s absence at the pre-fight press conference, Israel Adesanya stepped up to defend the controversial commentator and comedian.
“First off, let me take this one. Hold up. I’m black, I can take this one. There’s a lot of c*nts in this game, there’s a lot of snakes in this game.
Adesanya Defends Joe Rogan: “That’s My N*****”
I’ve been in this fight game since 2008 and Joe Rogan is one of the nicest, coolest, humble motherf*ckers I’ve had the pleasure of working with. Understand that. F*ck the noise.”
Joe Rogan came under fire recently, accused of spreading COVID-19 misinformation via his podcast. Canada’s favorite septuagenarian folk-rock troubadour, Neil Young, removed his own music from Spotify in protest of Rogan’s continued presence on the platform. Other artists, including Joni Mitchell, soon followed suit.
More recently, a recent compilation video of all the times Joe Rogan used the “N-Word”, a racial slur for black people, was published, further fuelling the anti-Rogan fire. Israel Adesanya, who hails from Nigeria, was having none of it.
“You know what they’re trying to do. You can’t control the man, and he’s got the biggest platform in the world right now. That’s my n—- Joe Rogan. “F*ck the noise. Do what I said, f*ck the noise. Keep doing you, Joe. Have some mushrooms, keep doing you.”
Despite Joe Rogan’s absence, initially claimed to be a “scheduling conflict”, UFC president Dana White asserted that Rogan could have worked UFC 271 if he wanted to. Dana White has long been outspoken about freedom of speech, and has expressed repeated vehement support for Rogan, particularly surrounding his views on the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
White specifically said that the idea of a scheduling conflict was “bullsh*t”, but it’s unlikely that the UFC president would have banned Rogan from his event thanks to the Spotify controversy.
“There’s no conflict of schedule. Joe Rogan didn’t work tonight. Joe Rogan could’ve worked tonight. Yeah, I don’t know what Joe Rogan had to do, you guys will have to ask Joe Rogan, but there was no ‘Joe couldn’t work’ or anything like that.
I know that came out. It’s total bullsh*t. Whenever he’s gonna work again, he’ll be working.” What do you think of the UFC getting behind Joe Rogan? Let us know in the comments.
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