{"id":208342,"date":"2016-10-25T07:18:19","date_gmt":"2016-10-25T14:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=208342"},"modified":"2016-10-25T07:18:19","modified_gmt":"2016-10-25T14:18:19","slug":"joe-rogan-details-planned-2005-mma-bout-wesley-snipes-im-gonna-choke-fk-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/joe-rogan\/joe-rogan-details-planned-2005-mma-bout-wesley-snipes-im-gonna-choke-fk-guy\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Rogan Details Planned 2005 MMA Bout with Wesley Snipes: \u2018I\u2019m Gonna Choke the F**k Out of This Guy”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in 2005, actor Wesley Snipes apparently found himself in a tight spot with a near-empty bank account and the IRS circling like sharks. Eager to escape this treacherous situation, Snipes and his team allegedly approached\u00a0the UFC about the possibility of his partaking in a fight in the Octagon \u2013 against none other than long-time UFC color commentator Joe Rogan<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Rogan discussed this briefly planned bout on the latest episode of his Fight Companion podcast with MMA veteran Yves Edwards and kickboxer Joe Schilling.<\/p>\n

\"Joe<\/a><\/p>\n

According to Rogan, Snipes was initially hoping for a bout with Jean-Claude Van Damme<\/a>. Apparently, however, Campbell McLaren, who served as the UFC producer at the time, wasn’t interested in this bizarre pairing. Instead, he suggested that Snipes take on Rogan.<\/p>\n

\u201c[McLaren] is like \u2018nobody\u2019s gonna pay to see you and Jean-Claude Van Damme fight,\u201d Rogan said, recounting these early conversations. \u201cYou have to fight someone who was current. So he said \u2018would you fight Joe Rogan?\u2019 And he said \u2018Yup, let\u2019s do it.\u2019 So they came to me, and I went \u2018How much money?\u2019 And then they started talking, then I said \u2018OK, let\u2019s see what happens.\u2019\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This fight, of course, never went down as planned. For the brief stretch that it looked like it could happen, however, Rogan said he was training seriously\u00a0for it, sharpening his striking tools under kickboxing and Muay Thai champion Rob Kaman, and continuing to work on his Brazilian jiu jitsu.<\/p>\n

Given the way he was training at the time, and his long history in the martial arts, Rogan explained that he was pretty confident he’d emerge the victor in this prospective bout.<\/p>\n

\"Joe<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cI just didn\u2019t think that anybody who didn\u2019t know any jiu-jitsu could learn it quick,\u201d he\u00a0said. \u201cI was already a brown belt by then, and I just knew what happened when a brown belt fights a white belt. I just can\u2019t imagine.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cI know how to stand up, and even if I wasn\u2019t good at striking anymore like I was when I was a kid, I\u2019m good enough to know what to not do and where to not be,” he continued. “And if I get a hold of someone who doesn\u2019t know jiu-jitsu, I\u2019m pretty sure I\u2019m choking the f*ck out of them.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201c[Snipes had] never wrestled, he never had a competitive martial arts match, whether it\u2019s a kickboxing fight or karate fight<\/a>. I was like \u2018I\u2019m gonna choke the f*ck out of this guy. I\u2019m gonna get a hold of him, and I\u2019m gonna squeeze the sh*t out of him, and they\u2019re gonna give me a lot of money, and he\u2019s probably not even gonna get hurt.\u2019 That\u2019s what I thought.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Who do you think would have won if this fight had actually occured? Sound off, PENN nation!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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