Joe Rogan under fire for Olympics vs UFC fighter pay stance YouTube\/PowerfulJREJoe Rogan is being criticized for his contrasting stances on pay for athletes participating in the Olympics, and fighters for the UFC, with some calling the podcaster \u2018hypocritical.\u2019 The Joe Rogan Experience is without a doubt one of the biggest podcasts on the internet, with the show\u2019s YouTube channel at over 10 million subscribers. With Rogan also being a UFC commentator, he\u2019s always quick to share his take on the latest news in the sporting scene. As the Olympics fast approach, he spoke about his stance on athletes and the IOC in episode 1681 of his podcast, touching on the controversial ban of sprinter Sha\u2019Carri Richardson. \u201cAll the winners of the gold medals, all those people that are generating insane amounts of wealth for the Olympics, they should get a giant piece of that,\u201d he said. Speaking about the huge amount of money that the event generates, he added: \u201cThe networks are making it, and the IOC is making it and all these other people are making it and the athletes, the whole reason people are tuning in, they get nothing. It\u2019s insane. It\u2019s a disgusting, corrupt system.\u201d However, in a video uploaded to Reddit by Comrade-Bubba, clips of Rogan\u2019s comments have been spliced with comments he\u2019s made in the past on the UFC fighters in their ongoing battle for better payouts \u2013 a topic even Jake Paul has jumped on as well. \u201cThe UFC has to be profitable,\u201d he said. \u201cIn order to be sold to someone like WME, it has to be valuable. In order for it to be valuable, it has to be profitable. In order for it to be something that they can promote and get behind and make it as big as they\u2019ve made it, there has to be some sort of pot of gold at the end of the rainbow for these people.\u201d He went on to add: \u201cLike I said, I\u2019m always for fighters getting paid more money but I just, I don\u2019t know if that would ever work.\u201d Joe Rogan criticized for conflicting stance Viewers praised the well-edited video and quickly shared their thoughts on Rogan\u2019s comments. \u201cAre you telling me that Joe is inconsistent and his opinion shifts when it\u2019s convenient for him?\u201d one Reddit user wrote. Others pointed out his \u2018hypocrisy\u2019 when it comes to the contrasting stances. \u201cI haven\u2019t listened to Rogan in a while,\u201d they said. \u201cNever really liked him as a personality. This is definitely one of his most hypocritical points. \u2018The Olympics are disgusting\u2019, yeah Joe, and the UFC is squeaky clean.\u201d Some also slammed him for not taking responsibility over his actions and his platform. With the Olympics fast approaching, it\u2019s likely that Rogan will have more to say on the topic as it progresses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Joe Rogan under fire for Olympics vs UFC fighter pay stance YouTube\/PowerfulJREJoe Rogan is being criticized for his contrasting stances on pay for athletes participating in the Olympics, and fighters for the UFC, with some calling the podcaster \u2018hypocritical.\u2019 The Joe Rogan Experience is without a doubt one of the biggest podcasts on the internet, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}