The MMA pundit and podcaster says he’ll depart the promotion when president Dana White does
Joe Rogan has mentioned he’ll stop the UFC’s commentary staff if and when the elite MMA promotion’s president Dana White steps down.
Rogan has been calling fights for over 25 years, making his punditry debut at UFC 12 in Dothan, Alabama, in February 1997.
Talking to movie producer Jon Peters on his vastly widespread podcast The Joe Rogan Expertise, Rogan known as himself a “skilled fan” of the promotion.
Although Rogan’s job has by no means been underneath menace, even when he was caught up in an n-word scandal earlier this yr and calls have been made for streaming platform Spotify to cancel him, he revealed a singular clause in his contract that would spell his prompt departure sooner or later.
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“If Dana leaves, I’m gone,” Rogan defined. “That’s in my contract.”
With Rogan, 55, round since earlier than White turned president, in flip making him one of many UFC’s longest-employed members of employees, he has seen his tasks enhance from being a backstage reporter to a commentator for each main occasion and the conductor of some iconic post-fight interviews within the octagon.
The publicity that accompanied his UFC rise has helped immediate side-careers in stand-up comedy and podcasting.
Rogan’s exploits on Spotify have led to him occupying the primary spot on its official charts, whereas he signed a take care of the corporate in 2020 which was later reported as being value $ 200 million.
