one of the most recognizable voices<\/a> in mixed martial arts (MMA) over the past 20 years. While Rogan is just as popular in the world of podcasts he has a special connection to UFC and fight fans. He\u2019s been part of the promotion from the early days and White holds Rogan in the highest regard because of it.<\/p>\nThat said, Rogan is not perfect. The outspoken comedian and podcast host has said some fairly controversial things over the years, including discussions about politics and vaccinations. This has caused some backlash over the years and has even resulted in some powerful people reaching out to White in effort to get Rogan fired.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn Rogan\u2019s rise, he\u2019s gone through some stuff personally too. I\u2019ve had people call and say you gotta do this to Rogan,\u201d said White in a recent interview (shown above).<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m like, don\u2019t ever call me. Who the hell are you to call me and tell me who I\u2019m going to fire?<\/p>\n
\u201cJoe Rogan did the first 12 fights for us for free. When we bought this company, the only two who were any good on radio were me and Joe Rogan, but nobody knew who I was. We\u2019d get up at 3:00 in the morning, get dropped into East Coast markets, and do the same interviews over and over. Rogan and I did this for years.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s been a key, instrumental part of this company. And for anybody, I don\u2019t give a damn how much money you have, or sponsor, or whatever. Nothing\u2019s happening to Joe Rogan.<\/p>\n
\u201dLoyalty. It\u2019s the most important thing in the world to me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) CEO, Dana White, is extremely loyal to those who helped grow the promotion from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":762627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,85,1396],"class_list":["post-762626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=762626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/762627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}