Let’s put this out immediately and bluntly: Is Joe Rogan traveling?
The veteran commentator beside the cage was at UFC Apex on Saturday night for UFC 258 to call his first event 2021, and his return gave us a very strange moment with Polyana Viana.
Viana had just scored an impressive victory in the first round via submission over Mallory Martin during the preliminary strawweight fight on ESPN. With Rogan in the post-fight interview duty, this is how his conversation started:
Rogan: “Before we even talk about the fight, I want to know: what was it like to be famous for beating that assailant in Brazil?”
Viana, through translator Alex Davis: “Yes, that was two years ago. Everyone still remembers. I am very happy, because it inspired many women to start taking self-defense classes. “
Yes it’s right. Viana had just looked very good winning his second fight in a row, but for some strange reason, Rogan was interested in first talking about something that happened in January 2019.
It was a viral story at the time released by then reporter Fernanda Prates, then MMA Junkie. But did Rogan just read about it this week?
As strange as it was, however, Rogam joined other commentators Jon Anik and Daniel Cormier, and he was not quite ready to stop talking about the mugger’s story. Here’s what was said on the air before going to the commercial:
Rogan: “We talked during the break, but that fight, that thing she did in Brazil, we don’t talk much on the air, do we? Here is a viral image of a man with a beaten face and it is because of that woman. He tried to assault her, and she beat him up. He became part of several memes. “
Cormier: “He’s famous for catching …”
Rogan: “For a beautiful woman too! What a terrible life! “
Oh, the shrinkage.
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