“I Trained for It for Like 6 Months” – Joe Rogan Reveals UFC’s ‘Crazy’ Plan to Pit Him Against Legendary Marvel Star During His Early Days

Published 08/15/2022, 12:30 PM EDT

Joe Rogan is a trained fighter himself. While he has been commentating for the UFC for a long time, he almost had a fight scheduled once with actor, Wesley Snipes. He discussed the incident on ‘The Joe Rogan Experience‘, episode #1856 with guest, Nate Bargatze.

Bargatze mentioned the actor during the conversation and Rogan said, “I was supposed to fight him.”

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“Yeah, I suppose, Wesley Snipes is about to go to jail for taxes and they were trying to figure out a way to make money and they came to this guy, Camel McLaren, who was one of the original producers of the UFC. And they wanted Wesley Snipes to fight Jean-Claude Van Damme.”

“This was their idea to have, like, a fight, an actual fight.”

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Further, speaking about Snipes, Rogan said, “… he needed money. And we’re supposed to have a UFC fight. I trained for it for like six months. It was crazy. … They didn’t want Jean-Claude Van Damme…”

Rogan said that Snipes knew karate but hadn’t competed. The UFC commentator, however, is not just a trained fighter but has also competed in kick-boxing and taekwondo fights. Rogan additionally highlighted that he was a jiu-jitsu brown belt at that time, whereas Snipes didn’t know that form of fighting.

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Even the UFC was on board for the fight and lawyers, too, were involved.

The Spotify podcaster was sure he would have emerged victorious if the fight actually happened.

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The Wesley Snipes fight story is something Rogan has narrated previously, too. As reported by ‘The Mac Life‘ back in 2016, Rogan was quite confident in his jiu-jitsu abilities. He felt he could choke Snipes as he didn’t know jiu-jitsu.

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Even in the conversation with Bargatze, Rogan was sure that if he grabbed his opponent, it would have been a deadly situation for him. He said, “If a brown belt jiu-jitsu, who’s really strong, gets a hold of you, you’re the same size as him. He’s [Snipes] actually a little smaller than me. So if I got a hold of him, he would have been f**ked.”

He compared it to CM Punk‘s performance in the UFC.

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Rohini Kottu is a UFC Writer at EssentiallySports. She is also a Psychologist and has a Master's degree in Clinical Psychology. Rohini, in her role as a UFC writer, combines her admiration for the mental resilience that MMA fighters have and her love for analysis.

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“I Trained for It for Like 6 Months” – Joe Rogan Reveals UFC’s ‘Crazy’ Plan to Pit Him Against Legendary Marvel Star During His Early Days

Joe Rogan: How did he plan to defeat Wesley Snipes?

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