UFC fighters rally behind Joe Rogan following recent criticism: “Time to stand up people”

A number of current and former UFC fighters have taken to social media to show their respective support for Joe Rogan.

The longtime UFC commentator, and immensely successful podcast host, Rogan, has been under a lot of scrutiny in recent weeks.

The criticism started with Rogan being accused of spreading “dangerous misinformation” about Covid-19 on his popular podcast “The Joe Rogan Experience”. Those accusations were quickly followed by a number of musicians, including Neil Young, offering Spotify an ultimatum – choose between their music or Rogan’s podcast show.

Rogan took to Instagram with a nine minute video addressing those accusations where he admitted he doesn’t “always get it right”, while promising to “do better”.

Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson and Joe Rogan

The UFC commentator’s post garnered a lot of support with the likes of Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson applauding his response.

“Great stuff here brother. Perfectly articulated. Look forward to coming on one day and breaking out the tequila with you.”

However, after a video of Joe Rogan using the N-word on multiple occasions surfaced on the internet, the former ‘Fear Factor‘ host was once again under fire.

Rogan was quick to address the video admitting that he had “clearly have f*cked up”, but that did not stop him from falling out of favor with the likes of Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson and others (see more on that here).

With that being said, many current and former UFC fighters have since taken to social media to throw their support behind Joe Rogan.

If they can cancel Joe they can cancel anyone. Time to stand up people.

— Funky (@Benaskren) February 5, 2022

https://twitter.com/chitoveraUFC/status/1490178177909411841

I’ll take Joe Rogan over all these bozos!

— Frankie Edgar (@FrankieEdgar) February 5, 2022

What a puss https://t.co/jyY6If0YSu

— Tim Sylvia (@timsylviamma) February 5, 2022

https://twitter.com/THEREALPUNK/status/1490135754684571648

More posts of current and former UFC fighters supporting Joe Rogan:

https://twitter.com/TeamRocBiggie/status/1490088220511682560

https://twitter.com/DinThomas/status/1490040781889024008

Not a single person that’s every meet joe Rogan has accused him of being a racist

These new attacks are a joke and joe should Just tell them to fuck off

— Jake Shields (@jakeshieldsajj) February 5, 2022

People on the right disagree with much or what joe Rogan says but they respect his right to say it and have open discussions

People on that left disagree with much of what he says so they want him banned

— Jake Shields (@jakeshieldsajj) February 4, 2022

I’ll do ya one better @Shanemgillis. If they cancel @joerogan every comic Rogan has ever helped should pull their podcast off Spotify. I’m down. https://t.co/mbxZN85hYC

— Brendan Schaub (@BrendanSchaub) February 6, 2022

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