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While UFC CEO Dana White and UFC color commentator Joe Rogan are two of the most important people in mixed martial arts (MMA) history, they often get mistaken for one another from time to time. It may have something to do with White and Rogan both being completely bald and huge advocates for UFC, but casual fight fans sometimes have trouble telling them apart.
This happened last month when White sat down with former ESPN anchor, Sage Steele, as a guest on her podcast. Steele, who spoke about UFC multiple times when she was the co-host for ESPN’s SportsCenter, mistook White for Rogan more than once. White missed the first remark, but called Steele out the second time it happened. It was podcast cringe at its finest.
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Earlier this week, Rogan finally reacted to the podcast snafu and brushed it off like no big deal. The long-time UFC color commentator revealed that he gets mistaken for White all the time. He also felt like Steele handled the error in a professional manner and made it a humorous situation.
“People call me Dana – I’ve been called Dana before,” said Rogan during his most recent episode of “The JRE MMA Show” podcast. “People go, ‘Oh, it’s Dana!’ I go, ‘No, I’m the other dude.’ It happens all the time. I think she just made a mental flub. When you’re doing a podcast and you’re interviewing someone, especially if you haven’t done a lot of them and it’s a high-profile thing and you’re doing Dana White, you’re always thinking of what to say.
“Even the question is like, ‘What’s your dream?’ It’s not even it a crazy question. It’s like I don’t know what to ask you so I’m like, ‘What’s your dream?’ So she’s probably floundering there a little and doesn’t know what to say. It’s f—king weird having a conversation live with someone in real time.”
What do you think, fight fans? Was this a big deal or time to move on?
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So, this is in no way a dig at Chris Weidman, I am actually a huge fan of him and I believe I have probably watched almost all of his fights. But man does he have odd moments in the UFC.
First fight with Silva: he knocks out Silva with a left hook while Silva had his hands down and taughting him. Additionally, Weidman only had one TKO up until this moment in his UFC career. Who would have thought it would end like that? A wrestler KOing the best striker of all time.
Second fight: Once again knocks down Silva, then checks his leg and breaks it. This is literally the second time it has ever happened in the UFC.
Fast forward to his fight with Rockhold: back and forth striking battle until he throws a wheel kick? Who saw that coming. Then he gets taken down and mounted until a TKO. Odd no doubt.
Fast forward to his fight with Mousasi: gets hit with legal knees, ref thinks they’re illegal, replay showed theyre actually legal, fight ends right there in a TKO. Odd.
Fast forward to his fight with Uriah Hall: breaks his leg this time in just 17 seconds. Third time this has ever happened in the UFC. Crazy coincidence. ODD.
Now after last weekend: winning a fight against Silva easily, however eye pokes him twice. Until the third round where he lands a 1-2 eyepoke combo and finished him via TKO. These things happen on occasion, (Santiago Ponzinibbio vs Gunnar Nelson) for example. But seems so Chris Weidman’y for something like this to happen during a fight.
Are there fighters with this many odd moments in the sport?
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At this point, Alexa Grasso and Valentina Shevchenko may as well be best friends.
The two top flyweights continue to make the media rounds ahead of their starring roles as coaches on The Ultimate Fighter 32. On Friday, that promotional tour took them to Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse in Cleveland to sit courtside for the NCAA Women’s Final Four tournament, where they’ll watch basketball superstar Caitlin Clark try to lead her Iowa Hawkeyes to a win against the Connecticut Huskies. Ahead of the game, Grasso and Shevchenko shared a friendly faceoff, which can be watched below.
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Grasso (16-3-1) remains the UFC women’s flyweight champion after capturing the belt with a stunning fourth-round submission of Shevchenko in March 2023. Grasso retained her belt in the rematch this past September, gutting out a controversial split draw at Noche UFC.
Shevchenko (23-4-1) was the division’s long-reigning queen prior to her stumble against Grasso. “Bullet” racked up a division-record seven consecutive title defense during her time on the throne, defeating the likes of Joanna Jedrzejczyk, Jessica Andrade, Liz Carmouche, Taila Santos, and more.
Grasso and Shevchenko are expected to compete in a trilogy bout sometime later this year following the airing of TUF 32, which is set to kick off in June.
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Airing on Amazon Prime @ Friday 04.05.2024 at 08:00 PM ET
Main Card:
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| 170 lbs ONE Welterweight Championship | Regian Eersel vs. Alexis Nicolas |
| 185 lbs ONE Middleweight Championship | Tye Ruotolo vs. Izaak Michell |
| 145 lbs | S.Tor.Pran 49 vs. V. Kuzmin |
| 265 lbs | Ben Tynan vs. Duke Didier |
| 135 lbs | Jacob Smith vs. Denis Purić |
| 180 lbs | Kade Ruotolo vs. Francisco Lo |
| 185 lbs | H. Tetsuka vs. V. da Silva |
| 135 lbs | D. Tded99 vs. Taiki Naito |
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Brendan Allen is on an impressive six-fight win streak in the UFC middleweight division, and on Saturday, he’ll have the opportunity to exact some revenge on the last person to defeat him in Chris Curtis in the main event of UFC Vegas 90. If he gets it done, where does Allen go in the fascinating 185-pound championship picture?
MMA Fighting’s Mike Heck, José Youngs, and Alexander K. Lee preview the main event rematch between Allen and Curtis, discuss how the new bout compares to the original booking against Vettori, and what’s at stake for both fighters. Additionally, they discuss four fighters — Alexander Hernandez, Cynthia Calvillo, Melissa Mullins, and Nora Cornolle — missing weight, the return of former champion Germaine de Randamie, and answer viewer questions.
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The UFC Vegas 90 Official Weigh-In took place on Friday at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas. After all the fighters weighed in, they faced off with their opponents ahead of Saturday’s event in the same venue.
The event is headlined by a middleweight bout between sixth-ranked Brendan Allen and 14th-ranked Chris Curtis. Allen (23-5) will enter the bout riding a six-fight winning streak. Five of those wins came by way of submission. Curtis (31-10, 1 NC) won his last bout against Marc-André Barriault via split decision.
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