UFC champion Israel Adesanya defends Joe Rogan amid racial slur controversy Twitter\/Israel AdesanyaUFC Middleweight champion Israel Adesanya defended Joe Rogan after old footage of him using racial slurs surfaced, claiming he\u2019s one of the nicest and humblest people he\u2019s ever worked with. In February 2022, Joe Rogan came under fire after footage of him using racial slurs in the past surfaced. He accepted responsibility for his comments, describing them as \u201cidiotic\u201d, but insisted they were taken out of context. Spotify CEO Daniel Ek condemned the comments in an open letter to his employees. However, he hit back at calls to cancel the podcast, claiming that silencing and de-platforming the comedian isn\u2019t the answer. In the first episode since the controversy started, Rogan described the outrage against him as a \u201cpolitical hit job.\u201d Adesanya echoed the sentiment after the topic came up during the UFC 271 Pre-Fight Press Conference. \u201cDana, I have a question for you about Joe Rogan,\u201d asked the reporter. \u201cThere\u2019s been a lot of controversy about him\u2026\u201d However, before he could finish the question, the Houston crowd started booing hysterically. Adesanya was having none of it. Instead of letting Dana White respond, he defended Rogan himself. \u201cLet me take this one,\u201d he said. \u201cThere are a lot of c*nts in this game. There are a lot of snakes in this game.\u201d The UFC Middleweight Champion told the crowd that the podcast host isn\u2019t one of them. \u201cJoe Rogan is one of the nicest, coolest, most humble motherf**kers I\u2019ve had the pleasure of working with. Understand that.\u201d He also implied the media is trying to silence Rogan but believes he\u2019s too big for that. \u201cYou know what they\u2019re trying to do. You can\u2019t control the man. He\u2019s got the biggest platform in the world right now. F**k the noise.\u201d Rogan poked fun at the drama during a new stand-up comedy routine. He grimaced while watching the old footage of him using racial slurs in front of the crowd and urged people to not take medical advice from him. \u201cIf you\u2019re taking advice from me, is that really my fault?\u201d he said. \u201cYou know that dude who made people eat animal d*cks on TV? How does he feel about medicine? If you want my advice, don\u2019t take my advice!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
UFC champion Israel Adesanya defends Joe Rogan amid racial slur controversy Twitter\/Israel AdesanyaUFC Middleweight champion Israel Adesanya defended Joe Rogan after old footage of him using racial slurs surfaced, claiming he\u2019s one of the nicest and humblest people he\u2019s ever worked with. In February 2022, Joe Rogan came under fire after footage of him using […]<\/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-63091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63091","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=63091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}