Joe Rogan will return to the broadcast booth for the first time at UFC 271 on Saturday night after he’s been at the center of a number of controversies, including a viral video that showed him repeatedly using racial slurs during past episodes of his podcast.
In response to the video, Rogan issued a lengthy apology while calling his error “the most regretful and shameful thing” he’s had to address during his entire career.
UFC President Dana White was asked about the matter on Thursday. Before he could answer the question, UFC President Dana White was stopped by Israel Adesanya, who came to Rogan’s defense.
“First off, let me take this one, hold up I’m Black, I can take this one,” Adesanya shouted during the UFC 271 pre-fight press conference. There are a lot c*nts and a lot more snakes.
“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.”
The attacks on Rogan started primarily in response to a number of his podcast guests who were accused of spreading “dangerous misinformation” regarding the COVID-19 pandemic. Spotify — the streaming service that signed Rogan to a deal worth more than $100 million in 2020 — later announced plans to put a warning at the start of any episode that featured discussions about COVID-19.
After the change was made Rogan stated that he accepted it and that he would have a fair and balanced guestlist to promote discussion and offer counterpoints to some opinions that were being debated on his show.
Musicians such as Neil Young and Joni Mitchell then pulled their catalogues off Spotify in protest after company refused to remove Rogan’s podcast altogether.
Days later, India Arie revealed that she also planned to delete all her Spotify music. Her reasoning came down to Rogan’s racist slurs in the video. Following Rogan’s apology, Arie said he did a “fine job” admitting fault for using that language on his show while also slamming Spotify’s overall business practices in relation to artists.
Rogan was defended by a variety of celebrities and politicians, including ex-President Donald Trump who stated that the comedian should not have apologized.
Rogan, for his part, said that although he was not sorry about issuing an apology, he called the viral video “political bias.”
It appears Adesanya agrees with him on that much.
” You know what they are trying to accomplish,” stated the UFC Middleweight Champion, who defends his title against Robert Whittaker on Saturday. “You can’t control the man, and he’s got the biggest platform in the world right now. This is my n —- Joe Rogan.
“[My advice is] f*ck the noise. Do what I said, f*ck the noise. Keep doing you, Joe. Have some mushrooms, keep doing you.”
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