Joe Rogan reveals Dana White condition for UFC | Sports News

Joe Rogan is ready to retire from commentary on the UFC ought to a day come when longtime pal and President Dana White quits. Rogan, a jack of completely different trades as a podcaster, commentator, and comic, has been joined on the hip with White because the early years of the UFC.

White satisfied the 57-year-old to affix his MMA enterprise in 1997 when the UFC wasn’t common and was hosted by smaller venues, together with a high college auditorium. The UFC is now valued at $11.3 billion and is one of the world’s most enjoyable sports activities promotions, with White and Rogan as its two main figures outdoors the octagon.

Rogan has admitted that he would not take into consideration retiring however stated he’d be ready to stroll away ought to White give up the UFC, proving his loyalty to his longtime pal. The commentator even has a clause in his UFC contract the place he isn’t obligated to remain ought to White go away the company.

The revelation got here during Rogan’s newest podcast episode alongside UFC famous person Ilia Topuria. “I don’t think about retiring,” Rogan began. No, if Dana White quits, I would give up, however that is it. Yeah, it is truly my contract. Yeah, if he leaves, I go away. Yeah, so in my contract, if he leaves, I haven’t got to remain. I would not be doing it if it wasn’t for him. Yeah, he is my pal. He talked me into doing it.

“I mean, I started working for the UFC before him. I started working for the UFC in 1997 when it was nothing, then nobody was watching. It was we did it at a small like a high school auditorium in Dothan, Alabama. You had to take a propeller plane to get there.”

White has no plans to give up the UFC. The present CEO and president of the combined martial arts juggernaut would not need to retire, that means Rogan and White could possibly be in business collectively for a long time. “Everybody changes when you make a lot of money,” White advised Tucker Carlson on his podcast.

“No matter what walk of life you’re in, once you get to a certain level of success, you have to be a certain type of person to stay hungry and get out and fight every day. When we sold in 2016, 99 percent of the people said that I was going to retire and walk away. I’m not wired like that.

“I’m still out building new brands and doing shit that I don’t need to be doing. But I do it because I love it. You know how many people in a sale like mine in 2016, you never see that guy again? They’re done.”

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“I will never retire. Ever,” White added. “I will keep dogging this out until the day I drop dead. I love it, 100 percent. Hopefully [I’ll be 80 years old ringside].”

White pointed at rival promoter Bob Arum as a prime instance of nonetheless working at an previous age. “I hate him, he’s an ——-, but Bob Arum, the boxing promoter, he’s 94 years old,” White stated of the Top Rank Boxing chief. “I hate him. This guy’s the biggest ——— of all time but I’m at the [Las Vegas] Aces WNBA game — Bob Arum is 94 years old, it’s 9 o’clock at night and he’s sitting over there courtside. I’m like holy —- Bob Arum is here, this is crazy, this guy’s 94 years old.

“He’s sitting over there, it’s 8:30, I —- you not, two days later I’m watching a fight, Bob Arum is in Saudi Arabia ringside at a boxing event. Two days later, he’s in London at a press conference. He’s 94 years old.”