Standup comedian and former UFC heavyweight Brendan Schaub’s UFC 279 “conspiracy theory” drew the ire of UFC president Dana White. More recently, Schaub’s mentor Joe Roan called the idea “dumb”, pointing out that Schaub “needs a handler” to keep him in line on a recent episode of The Joe Rogan Experience.
“It’s so dumb. I didn’t talk to him about that, but first of all, he’s wrong. He’s wrong about the theory. He needs a handler. He needs someone like me around him all the time. ‘What are you gonna do? No, no, no; here’s why.’ And he’ll go, ‘Yeah, you’re right.’ If you’re spending any time, if you’re a busy man, a family man, you’ve got kids, wife, sh*t to do — if you’re spending any time arguing on Twitter, that’s a waste of your life.”
Rogan: Brendan Schaub “Needs a Handler” Following “Dumb” UFC 279 Conspiracy Theory
Schaub has yet to respond to Joe Rogan’s comments, but based on his reaction to Dana White, he won’t take kindly to them.
Brendan Schaub’s idea, for which he gave Pat Miletich credit, was that the UFC deliberately allowed Khamzat Chimaev to miss weight, forcing them to reshuffle the UFC 279 card in order to get more eyes on the event and earn more attention. Dana White, like Joe Rogan, dismissed the idea out of hand.
“I heard this thing today, and I don’t know how true it is, Pat Miletich was saying we told Khamzat not to make weight because we weren’t selling tickets.
The f*****g show was sold out going into that day of the weigh-ins. I don’t know if Pat really said that, but if he did, he has to be the dumbest motherfucker on the planet. I mean, you know how f*****g stupid you have to be to even think something like that, let alone say it publicly and act like you’re f*****g serious.
We’re regulated by the athletic commission. If you think we told Khamzat Chimaev to not make weight, then Khamzat shows up and the fans are all pissed off at him and stuff, and he’s going to just […]
If you know anything about the sport, this is a guy that was actually in the sport, training and fighting and everything else. If Pat really said that, holy shit, we might have to send him to the out f*****g clinic, the brain clinic, to get him checked out.”
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