“I don’t like that kinda stress…” Joe Rogan reacts to ‘maniac’ Dana White trolling UFC 300 haters

Joe Rogan details how someone with the vigor of CEO and taskmaster Dana White is exactly the maniacal genius the company needs to thrive.

“I don’t like that kinda stress…” Joe Rogan reacts to ‘maniac’ Dana White trolling UFC 300 haters

Joe Rogan weighs in on Dana White defending UFC 300 (Source: IMAGO/Instagram)

UFC 300’s monumental PPV card had Dana White ecstatic. On paper, UFC 300 was the most stacked fight card in the promotion’s history. It featured two title fights, a BMF title fight, and 12 current or former UFC champs. There were no cancellations, and all successfully made weight. Now, Joe Rogan spoke about Dana White bashing critics of the historic card.

Dana White often scuffles with top journo Ariel Helwani. Many MMA enthusiasts and fight fans doubted UFC 300’s firepower to deliver. White disproportionately mistook Helwani’s critique and disregarded his praise for UFC 300. Subsequently, he dropped a video reel celebrating the cards’ success and mocking Helwani, ex-UFC fighter Brendan Schaub, and other YouTubers. Joe Rogan was all up for it, but conditionally.

Now, UFC - it's a massive mainstream thing, and I don't want to give all the credit to one person…but seems like he [Dana] is the one…A lot of it goes to him. If it wasn't for him, it just wouldn't be the same things…you have to be a maniac [like him] running this organization…He's a maniac...but a 'genius' maniac...my cameraman was telling me Dana put out like a 3-minute video after UFC 300.. of a bunch of people criticizing...I don't have that...I keep moving. I don't like that kinda stress in my life...
Joe Rogan via The JRE MMA Show #2139
YouTube video

Learning from his PR team and cameraman that White had released such a reel didn’t surprise the veteran podcaster. He mentioned that it was exactly the kind of zeal needed to turn things around. Contrarily, there are other counter-arguments to make. Rogan‘s friend, Brendan Schaub, mentioned that outspoken critics like him or Ariel Helwani, outside the ESPN MMA and UFC grind, need to keep in check.

FS Video

The event lived up to its hype of the tagline “Unrivaled Greatness.” With 20,867 in attendance, the total revenue grossed at $16,508,823. Making it the 3rd highest-grossing event in UFC history. There were two “Performances of The Night” and a “Fight of the Night” bonus. Other than Aljamain Sterling clinching it out with Calvin Kattar, all other fighters explosively came to blows, and Rogan credits White for all such masterful spectacle.

Joe Rogan mentions he wanted to be in the Olympics

UFC’s color commentator, Joe Rogan, is known for his play-by-play descriptive commentary. He is also mildly famous as a TV personality, courtesy of the TV reality show – Fear Factor. Another profound tidbit is his love for combat sports, which comes from being a practitioner himself.

Joe Rogan details his career change from combat sports practitioner to commentating on it
Joe Rogan details his career change from combat sports practitioner to commentating on it (Source: IMAGO)

He started training at the early age of 15. At 19, he won the US Open Taekwondo Championship as a lightweight. At the same time, Rogan also had a practicing stint as a Taekwondo instructor. In a recent episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, the podcaster talked about his fighting career and desire to compete in the Olympics. 

I wanted to be in the Olympics, yeah but there's no money in Taekwondo. There's no money in kickboxing either…had an offer for a kickboxing fight it was like 500 bucks…but if I fought professional I could never fight amateur again…so it was like 500 bucks to train for like 2 months and get pummeled…maybe get brain damage...my nose shattered...I was doing both at the same time as well... I knew I wasn't as committed to fighting, but it really began with that 19-year-old when I knocked that dude...
Joe Rogan via The JRE MMA Show #2139

Consequently, complications come in bundles in combat sports culture. As a 2-1 amateur kickboxer and Taekwondo expert, Rogan had once badly injured an opponent when he was 19. Reeling from that and his injuries, Rogan understood his heart wasn’t into competing as much as it was in learning the sport. This was basically the offshoot of his standup career and commentating on combat sports instead of practicing it professionally. It’s a discourse every MMA fan is usually thankful for.

In case you missed it: