Conor McGregor blasts Joe Rogan over PED comments
Conor McGregor has blasted longtime UFC announcer and analyst Joe Rogan over comments Rogan recently made about the former two-division champion.
"Joe looks like his p--- melts his knickers," McGregor wrote in a since-deleted tweet that showed a picture of a 25-year-old Rogan next to a 52-year-old version of the commentator, as shared by Jenna Lemoncelli of the New York Post. "In the company that long and never took a fight hahaha @ufc oh tae kwon do competition, call the cops hahahahaah."
Rogan recently raised eyebrows when he said during an edition of his "The Joe Rogan Experience" podcast that McGregor "looks like his p--- would melt that (United States Anti-Doping Agency) cup" regarding the outspoken Irishman's current physique.
"Like it would just like burn a hole right through the bottom of that USADA cup… The weird thing is that there is a loophole in USADA that allows you to get out of the testing pool," Rogan continued. "You can get out of the testing pool and just juice up."
As Anton Tabuena noted for Bloody Elbow, Rogan has previously spoken openly about using human growth hormone and testosterone. That's not an issue as it pertains to his UFC tenure because he isn't an active competitor.
McGregor later embraced a softer tone on Twitter:
For a piece published on Nov. 27, ESPN's Marc Raimondi pointed out that McGregor is out of the UFC drug-testing pool as he continues to recover from the fractures of his tibia and fibula he suffered during his last official fight in July 2021.
"McGregor is not enrolled in our testing pool and would have to be for six months unless an exception is granted, which we do not think would be applicable," USADA director of communications Averi Walker told Raimondi at that time.
Back on Nov. 23, McGregor suggested he would receive an exception mentioned by Raimondi that would allow him to pass two drug tests and then return to the octagon for a sanctioned bout without having to wait six months:
McGregor remained busy away from fighting throughout 2022, as he accepted a role in a remake of the 1980s movie "Road House." More recently, it was learned that the 34-year-old was being sued by retired fighter Artem Lobov over Lobov's supposed role in creating the Proper No. Twelve whiskey brand. Raimondi wrote in August that McGregor and his camp sold the majority of that brand to Jose Cuervo in April 2021 via "a deal worth upward of $600 million."
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