Joe Rogan Re-Signs With UFC
Longtime UFC commentator Joe Rogan stated in December of 2015 that he might leave the UFC once his contract is up in August. However, Rogan, who has been the voice of the UFC such a long time, announced on the most recent episode of the Joe Rogan Experience podcast that he has re-signed with the UFC for at least one more year.
“I was on the fence, man,” Rogan said. “I just do too much sh*t. I’m too f*cking busy. After a while I’m like, I don’t know if I’m doing myself or all the different things I do a disservice. I was real close. It was like, either I’m just gonna completely bail off of this or I’m gonna figure it out. That night was so crazy and so chaotic,” Rogan said. “I walked out of there going, ‘How could I not do this?’ I’m sitting right there cageside for the craziest sh*t in the sporting world ever. It was real recent. It was touch and go. I just didn’t know what I was going to do.”
Rogan started with the promotion back in 1997 as an interviewer at UFC 12: Judgement Day in Dothan, Alabama, before eventually becoming a color commentator for the promotion.
Rogan was later joined by Mike Goldberg on commentary and called all of the UFC events until the UFC started to expand (more events) with their deal with FOX Sports. Before Rogan re-signed with the UFC, he and Goldberg called all of the pay-per-view events as well as the events on FOX.
“If I go to Brazil, that’s five days out of my life that I can’t do this and I can’t do all the other stuff that I do,” Rogan said. “And on top of that, there’s the recovery time. When I come back, I’m f*cking toast. That flying just f*cks my head. I don’t want anybody to think that I don’t appreciate it or I don’t know how lucky I am or I don’t think it’s an amazing job,” he said. “I definitely do. But I’m almost too lucky. I have too many amazing jobs.”
Rogan also confirmed that he will no longer be calling the UFC on FOX events and no international pay-per-view events.
