Podcaster, comedian and UFC analyst Joe Rogan said he would not travel to perform his broadcast duties at UFC 315 in Canada, saying he would “morely go to Russia.”
On May 10th, the UFC will host a pay-per-view event in Montreal, featuring champion Beral Muhammad's first welterweight title defense. Rogan's decision not to attend may not be a surprise as he will not call a fight in foreign soil as he was the last time he was in Canada for UFC 297, but this time Rogan gave an exclamation point to his decision not to travel to his north neighbor.
“I'm not there,” Logan said. I said His Saturday Night UFC London Fight Companion Podcast. “I won't go to Canada anymore. I won't. I would rather go to Russia.”
Logan isn't the only one connecting to the UFC to take shots in Canada.
In January 2024, then-UFC middleweight champion Sean Strickland angeredly accused a Canadian reporter of trying to take him with him in a tweet that he didn't want to raise his gay son.
“You're a weak f*ckiing man, man. You're part of the f*cking problem. When he seized his bank account, you elected Justin Trudeau. You're just pathetic,” Strickland said.
Strickland referenced the use of emergency law during the Freedom Convoy protests closing downtown Ottawa. Approximately $7.8 million in assets from around 200 accounts Flag included The Canadian government was frozen due to its relations with the protests.
“The fact that you don't have an f*cking backbone when he closes your f*cking country and seizes your bank account, and you ask me such a stupid sh*t?
