We used to think Joe Rogan was mostly well-reasoned and fairly objective even though he obviously has good relationships with UFC fighters. Sure, there was the Rhonda Rousey boxing thing was a debacle, but if you have literally thousands of hours of recordings of yourself, eventually you’ll say something stupid.
A few months ago, MMA Guru busted Rogan cold on not being sure about Jon Jones being on steroids during a Joe Rogan Experience episode with Rampage Jackson. This, after he had been given the finest education on the exact situation by none other than performance enhancing savant Derek from More Plates More Dates.
Well after Jon Jones defeated Stipe Miocic, Joe had the silver platter opportunity to address the duck in the room and he only kinda did it. Let’s take a look.
Jon, this is another milestone for you. You’ve now defended the heavyweight title. There’s been all this talk about the future as to whether or not you’ll fight a super fight with Alex Pereira, whether or not you would fight Tom Aspinall, whether you retire after this fight. I know we’d all love to see you keep going. How do you feel right now?
No, the talk is about him ducking Tom Aspinall. Don’t pretend like there’s all this confusion and we don’t know which fight is bigger or which fight needs to happen.
Everyone knows the Pereira fight is weak (Kevin Durant to the Warriors weak). Even Dana White said exactly this in the UFC 309 post fight press conference. Jon would take down Pereira in 2 seconds and maul him on the ground.
Per Dana:
You know what tonight told me? There’s no fucking way I make the [Jon Jones] vs Alex Pereira fight. Jon’s too big. Great wrestler.
There’s an interim champion that’s the real heavyweight champion and the belt needs to be rightfully unified. Joe ducked the ducking question by acting like there was some kind of uncertainty about fighting Tom Aspinall next.