Tyson Fury is far from happy with Joe Rogan. Fury recently unleashed the verbal fire on Rogan at a Q&A session in Thailand, blasting the podcaster and UFC commentator for bringing up the notion that he might fight Jon Jones under MMA rules.
“To be honest with you, all this talk of a me and Jon Jones fighting in a cage is absolutely ridiculous. Like, I’m the lineal world heavyweight champion. The man who beat the man going back to John L. Sullivan.
Tyson Fury BLASTS “Little Sh*t Bag” Joe Rogan
Why would I even dream of going in a cage and wrestling and all that? It’s not my thing. It was actually Joe Rogan, little s***bag, who [started this]. Just out of the blue, there was no talk of me or Jon even fighting.
Jon’s a great guy, probably the GOAT of MMA. [Rogan] said, ‘Oh, if Tyson Fury goes in a room with Jon Jones he’s going to get absolutely smashed to bits.’
Like, if someone goes in the room with me and it’s no holds barred, you’re going to have to kill me to stop me.” Fury took issue with the notion that Rogan did not specify a ruleset. Fury insists that he would be happy to fight Jon Jones under boxing rules, but there was “no way” he’d ever try MMA.
“He didn’t say an MMA fight or a boxing fight, he said go in a room together and Tyson Fury’s not walking out. So I don’t know where it all started and Jon said something and I said something and we’ve being going back and forward.
There was never talk of me saying I was going to go in a cage with Jon Jones and go in there and get my arm snapped off. No way.
The thing was, I offered Jon, ‘You want to walk in a boxing ring and make some real money, then come and fight me.’ But zero chance of me going in an MMA game and rolling around and all that. Zero.”
Fury doubled down, and has no interest in entering the world of MMA. “Obviously my forte is not taking people down and all that sort of stuff, it’s different for me. It’s like, ‘Yeah, I’m going to fly a jet plane.’
I don’t know how to fly a jet plane, I have no idea. In a stand-up sport, in punching combat, whether it’s in a cage, in a phone box, whatever it’s going to be, if they want to do that, then no problem.
But definitely not, I’m not going into any MMA fights.”
