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Joe Rogan is hesitant about serving as a commentator for UFC 249, and from the sounds of it, for any other UFC cards that occur during the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n

Rogan previously stated<\/a> that he wouldn’t be on commentary duty for UFC 249.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe UFC is talking about putting on a fight on April 18th,\u201d Rogan said during a recent episode of his Joe Rogan Experience podcast. \u201cI don\u2019t know how they\u2019re gonna do that.<\/p>\n

\u201cI guess someone\u2019s gonna commentate it [but] it\u2019s not gonna be me,” he added.<\/p>\n

UFC President Dana White later denied Rogan ever made this comment, and assured that the former Fear Factor<\/em> host will be sitting at the commentary desk for the card.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe did not say that,\u201d Dana White said<\/a> in a subsequent interview with TMZ<\/a>. \u201cAgain, you can not listen to anything the media says. Nobody talked to him, they heard him talking on a podcast. So they start writing stories off a podcast that are full of sh*t. Rogan will be there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite White’s insistence, Rogan still isn’t sold on working this card. While the event is rumored to be taking place at the Tachi Palace Casino in California, he says he still has no idea where it’s happening.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t know where it is,\u201d Rogan said on a more recent episode of the Joe Rogan Experience. \u201cI\u2019m trying to figure out what I\u2019m doing, if I\u2019m going to it or not. I don\u2019t know where it is. I don\u2019t even know if it\u2019s in America. I literally, as of right now, I don\u2019t know sh*t. I have no information.”<\/p>\n

While it’s conceivable Rogan will be convinced to call this event, he seems to have some concerns about the health risks associated with promoting a fight card during a pandemic. Specifically when two violent individuals like Tony Ferguson and Justin Gaethje are involved.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s no social distancing in a f*cking cage fight,\u201d Rogan said. \u201cThey\u2019re on top of each other sweating in each other\u2019s mouths. If\u00a0Tony Ferguson\u2019s fighting, there\u2019s gonna be blood, for sure. Everybody that fights Tony Ferguson looks like they fell off a train, so there\u2019s gonna be blood. . .<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat if one of those guys test positive? What if\u00a0Justin Gaethje\u00a0tests positive? He\u2019s supposed to be fighting Ferguson. . . I have a feeling that if someone did test positive, they would kick them off the card. I shouldn\u2019t say kick them off the card, remove them from the card. I would imagine it has to be the right thing to do. Then you would also have to quarantine the people that worked with him in training camp and test everybody.\u201d<\/p>\n

Suffice it to say that Dana White may have jumped the gun when he guaranteed we’ll hear Joe Rogan on the UFC 249 broadcast.<\/p>\n

This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i>BJPENN.com<\/i><\/span><\/a>\u00a0on 4\/9\/2020. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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