{"id":544498,"date":"2026-03-18T12:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T12:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/544498\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T12:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T12:46:08","slug":"rogan-defends-jones-in-ufc-pay-standoff-he-doesnt-want-to-be-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/544498\/","title":{"rendered":"Rogan defends Jones in UFC pay standoff: \u2018He doesn\u2019t want to be done\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joe Rogan may not be coming out and talking smack against the UFC like Ronda Rousey is,<\/a> but it\u2019s clear where he stands on how the promotion is treating Jon Jones.<\/p>\n

Jones is currently demanding his release from the UFC after matchmakers \u2019lowballed\u2019<\/a> him during White House<\/a> negotiations. UFC CEO Dana White then followed that up by declaring Jones would never fight again on account of his horrifically arthritic hips. Jones laughed off<\/a> that medical prognosis and Rogan commented on it in his latest episode with Dustin Poirier.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe doesn\u2019t want to be done,\u201d Rogan said of Jones. \u201cI know he got stem cells in his hip. I know because I helped him get it. He\u2019s talked about it, I wouldn\u2019t have talked about it but he talked about it. He got it at Ways2Well.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s feeling a lot better, he does have arthritis in his hip, it bothers him, but it doesn\u2019t bother him enough that he can\u2019t fight. And he\u2019s the greatest of all time. Period.\u201d<\/p>\n

The UFC has been getting a lot of bad press lately for being cheapskates,<\/a> and Rogan supported the idea of everyone competing in the promotion making more.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve always been of the opinion that fighters should be making more money, period,\u201d he said. \u201cThe way I run my comedy clubs, the comedians make 80% of the money. I feel like that\u2019s who we\u2019re paying to see. You\u2019re paying to see them. We make plenty of money with drinks and 20% of the ticket sales. It\u2019s enough. If we had a comedy club and there were no comedians, nobody\u2019s coming, right? Nobody\u2019s coming there just to sit and buy drinks.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe whole idea is they\u2019re paying to see someone\u2019s work,\u201d he concluded. \u201cIf you fight, that\u2019s what people are paying to see. They are paying to see fighters.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rogan isn\u2019t really in a position to tear the UFC a new one over their pay structure, given he takes a paycheck from the company and is friends with top brass. But he did enjoy seeing Ronda Rousey shake things up.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cShe had this big long speech about the UFC Paramount deal for $7 billion, and these fighters aren\u2019t making enough money,\u201d he said. \u201cLook, she made some good points. The most important thing is she gets the conversation out there, and it puts pressure on the UFC to pay people more.\u201d<\/p>\n

Will it really, though? At this point there\u2019s little evidence that the UFC is going to change their ways. We\u2019ll see over the coming months whether they manage to get Conor McGregor back in the cage or if they\u2019re able to match any of their top stars up with the true top contenders in the division. Thus far in 2026, they haven\u2019t done it yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joe Rogan may not be coming out and talking smack against the UFC like Ronda Rousey is, but…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":544499,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82,702],"class_list":["post-544498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}