Joe Rogan was warned by his castats on Nieuwsradio that it could be associated with the UFC in the early days of his career.
Before he found fame as the world's largest podcaster and the voice of the Octagon, Rogan was a famous stand-up comedian and TV personality. In particular, he played with comic icons Jon Lovitz and Phil Hartman on the Shownieuwsradio, which was broadcast for four years between 1995 and 1999.
During his off-time he would provide backstage interviews at UFC events in the White Age Pre-Dana, to the great annoyance of his castmats. And he has parlayed that in a main function of the lead color commentator in the US Pay-Perview Broadcast Team.
Joe Rogan was warned to avoid UFC for days as a TV star
After fighting during his childhood in Taekwondo and Kickboxing, Joe Rogan exchanged the ring in front of the stage when he went into the twentieth stand-up comedy. He eventually landed a permanent place in the comic store, where he was discovered and a leading role on the Sitcom News radio.
However, his castats started to worry if he would go to UFC events during his spare time and borrowed his name to a sport that is still known as barbaric and forbidden in many states at that time. During a recent performance on the ultimate human podcast of Gary Brecka, he explained the perilous situation.
“It was like a human pick,” he noticed. “Nobody respected it, and when I told my friends when I worked on Nieuwsradio, I started doing these UFC events, they would be like” why do you do that? You should not be associated with that “.
“It was almost as if you were doing- movies or something. Why would you connect with something so shadowy? It is absolutely huge now … 20 years ago it came down and it just never stopped.”
Joe Rogan misses his first American PPV in three years morning at UFC 318
Despite his passion for sport, the role of Rogan has returned considerably in the time since he has been more famous as a podcaster. He has not done an international event or a fighting evening for years and does not even go to shows in Canada.
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However, it is a real rarity that he would miss a UFC show in the United States, in particular a moving as UFC 318. Dustin Poirier will hang his gloves with a trilogy against Max Holloway on Saturday, but Rogan won't be there.
It is unclear exactly why Rogan misses the show, but he has been photographed with his family on vacation in recent days. He could choose to take a rare holiday, although nothing has been confirmed by the promotion.