{"id":345590,"date":"2020-03-27T08:28:07","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T15:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=345590"},"modified":"2020-03-27T08:28:17","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T15:28:17","slug":"joe-rogan-on-ufc-249-it-wont-be-me-commentating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/joe-rogan-on-ufc-249-it-wont-be-me-commentating\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Rogan on UFC 249: &#8220;It won&#8217;t be me&#8221; commentating the card"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Rogan won&#8217;t be on commentary duty for the upcoming UFC 249 card.<\/p>\n<p>UFC 249 has been the topic of much discussion lately. Despite the coronavirus pandemic, UFC president Dana White has been adamant that the card will still occur on April 18 \u2014 albeit without an audience. The location of the card, which was originally set to emanate from Brooklyn, New York, is still a mystery.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on his podcast, Joe Rogan weighed in on the UFC&#8217;s plan to go ahead with the card. He seems skeptical of the UFC&#8217;s plan and divulged that he has decided not to commentate the fights.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The UFC is talking about putting on a fight on April 18th,\u201d Rogan said during a recent episode of his Joe Rogan Experience podcast (transcript via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/sport\/ufc\/1261241\/Joe-Rogan-UFC-249-Khabib-Nurmagomedov-Tony-Ferguson-Dana-White-Coronavirus-UFC-News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Express<\/a>). \u201cI don\u2019t know how they\u2019re gonna do that.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don\u2019t know if they\u2019re gonna be able to do that in the United States,&#8221; Rogan added.\u00a0&#8220;They\u2019re talking about doing it in a place with less than 10 people, just an open arena.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I guess someone\u2019s gonna commentate it [but] it\u2019s not gonna be me \u2014 and they\u2019re gonna be duking it out in an empty place. And they\u2019re gonna try to do that on the 18th.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>UFC 249 is expected to be headlined by a lightweight title fight between champ Khabib Nurmagomedov \u2014 who is <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/khabib-nurmagomedov-forced-to-move-ufc-249-training-camp-to-russia\/\">currently in Russia<\/a> \u2014 and challenger Tony Ferguson. It&#8217;s also expected to feature <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/ufc-249-could-be-totally-new-card-with-mix-of-old-and-new-matchups-per-dana-white\/\">a number of matchups from other cards the UFC was forced to cancel.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What do you think of these comments from Joe Rogan?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>BJPENN.com<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0on 3\/27\/2020. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Rogan won&#8217;t be on commentary duty for the upcoming UFC 249 card. UFC 249 has been the topic of much discussion lately. Despite the coronavirus pandemic, UFC president Dana White has been adamant that the card will still occur on April 18 \u2014 albeit without an audience. 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