Joe Rogan Wouldn't Let Shane Gillis Bail on White House UFC Fight

Let me just state right upfront that I’m in no way trying to glaze Shane Gillis here. He’s rightly getting dragged for his jokes at the Kevin Hart roast, and there’s a reason why the guy is a hit in the lazy, bigoted podcast manosphere. That said, when something like Gillis has second thoughts about attending the White House UFC fight, clearly the tides are turning.

According to the latest episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, Gillis was getting ready to bounce on the event until Rogan himself badgered him into going. Via Mediaite:

“I talked a bunch of people into going that didn’t want to. Like Shane Gillis was thinking about not going. I’m like, ‘Bro, you got to go. It’s going to be epic. It’s going to be a once-ever thing. Not a once in a lifetime. Once in anybody’s lifetime. It’s never happened before. It’s probably never going to happen again,’” he said.

Rogan blasted critics who “are trying to make it a partisan thing,” arguing attending the event doesn’t mean who endorse Trump’s policies with Iran and other issues.

“Like, they’re mad at people for being there. Like, ‘Oh, you support Trump.’ Like, it’s a f*cking fight at the White House. Doesn’t mean you endorse foreign policy. Like, shut the f*ck up. Just please. Just please stop,” he said.

Smart thinking, Joe Rogan. It’s not like anyone who attended was going to find themselves having a microphone shoved in their face while being forced to react to god awful statements. Except, oh wait, what’s this?

Via TMZ:

TMZ DC caught up with Shane after Sunday night’s UFC Freedom 250 fights at the White House, and Shane didn’t hold back when Charlie asked him about Hokit’s ugly remark about the former First Lady.

Check out the clip … Shane makes it abundantly clear that he “didn’t love” the comment.

In Rogan’s defense, the event was totally going to be epic. I mean, only a limp-wrist beta would think a UFC fight on the White House lawn would be a bad idea, or God forbid, even dangerous. There were literally weak losers out here worried about the weather. Who does that?

Via The Daily Beast:

Rogan countered that his big beef with the White House fight, to be staged outside under the giant new structure, dubbed “The Claw,” is that it’s at the mercy of the elements.

“I don’t like it because I think they should be fighting indoors, always. I think world championship fights should be fought in a controlled environment,” he said.

Rogan, who is expected to be at the White House match on Sunday, said he would never have given the go-ahead if he were running the UFC.

According to Rogan, the weather was going to be “muggy” and there would be “bugs.” Lightning was also a concern. I don’t know, man, our ancestors fought on top of volcanos (The Northman was real, right?, so maybe toughen the hell up. If someone gets mogged by a mosquito or 1.21 gigawatts, they don’t deserve to be in the ring. I spend 90% of my soft liberal day indoors while wearing a cardigan, and even I know that.