UFC Coloration-commentator, Joe Rogan has revealed his choice to host a Struggle Companion podcast for UFC 308 again in October shelved a possible podcast interview with former Democratic presidential candidate, Kamala Harris — following his look with Republican candidate and newly-elected chief, Donald Trump.
Rogan, a veteran color-commentator beneath the umbrella of the UFC, revealed this week that Harris’ workers had tried to prepare an interview on his Joe Rogan Expertise podcast the identical day as his deliberate UFC 308 Struggle Companion episode — forcing the cancellation of the looks.
Joe Rogan addresses failed podcast with Kamala Harris final yr
Providing the Democratic candidate an interview slot starting at 8:30 am that very same morning, Rogan defined how he couldn’t miss out on the Struggle Companion episode rather than an interview with Harris, given the very fact Ilia Topuria was combating Max Holloway that very same afternoon in Abu Dhabi in the primary occasion of UFC 308.
“They wanted to do it that Saturday, the day after Trump,” Joe Rogan mentioned throughout a latest interview. I mentioned, ‘I’ll do it, but it surely needs to be at 8:30am’,” Rogan revealed. “The rationale why was I had a podcast already scheduled that was a stay UFC podcast. We do that factor referred to as Struggle Companion.
“I flew in three of my buddies from California and we were all going to do this podcast together. We had committed to doing this. Like, they were already in town. I can’t just say, ‘No guys I can’t do this awesome thing because I have to interview Kamala Harris’. …“It was Ilia Topuria vs. Max Holloway. Just so you know for people listening that aren’t UFC fans, that was a gigantic fight.”
“Max Holloway had simply beat Justin Gaethje in like actually the [best] knockout of all time. Ilia Topuria is among the completely greatest fighters on the planet. If not primary pound-for-pound definitely quantity two or quantity three – he’s within the high 5 of the best possible athletes in any weight class.
“So, this was a clash of the titans. The greatest featherweight champion of all time versus the current featherweight Champion. I’m not going to miss that. You’ve got to understand. I’ll work around [it]. I’ll come back at night. I’ll do it at midnight. I don’t give a f*ck, I’ll do it. It wasn’t me f*cking someone over.”
