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Joe Rogan Once Planned To Choke Out Wesley Snipes In An MMA Fight

Joe Rogan Once Planned To Choke Out Wesley Snipes In An MMA Fight

 

 

Wesley Snipes is an American actor most of us know from his Blade triology. What many of us aren’t aware of is that Snipes had a lot of issues with paying his taxes that ended up putting him in jail for quite a while. Wesley Snipes had been released from a federal prison where he was serving a three-year sentence after being convicted on tax charges in February 2010.

Prior to the prison sentence the actor tried everything he could to pay off his debts including an MMA fight with commentator, 10th planet black belt Joe Rogan.

This was another revelation from the latest Fight Companion Podcast featuring Yves Edwards and Joe Schilling.

According to Joe’s recollection Snipes was desperate and in a pickle with the IRS which led to his associates coming up with a plan to get a quick payday with an MMA fight.

The fight was originally supposed to feature Jean Claude Van Damme but the match was qestioned with claims that Van Damme “isn’t current”, Snipes quickly agreed to Joe Rogan who was quite enthused with the amount of money they offered him (which he did not disclose).

The fight ended up never happening but Rogan had prepared for months under Rob Kaman. As for his plans to choke Snipes out…

“I just didn’t think that anybody who didn’t know any jiu-jitsu could learn it quick,” Rogan said. “I was already a brown belt by then, and I just knew what happened when a brown belt fights a white belt. I just can’t imagine. I know how to stand up, and even if I wasn’t good at striking anymore like I was when I was a kid, I’m good enough to know what to not do and where to not be. And if I get a hold of someone who doesn’t know jiu-jitsu, I’m pretty sure I’m choking the f—k out of them. He’s never wrestled, he never had a competitive martial arts match, whether it’s a kickboxing fight or karate fight. I was like ‘I’m gonna choke the f—k out of this guy. I’m gonna get a hold of him, and I’m gonna squeeze the s–t out of him, and they’re gonna give me a lot of money, and he’s probably not even gonna get hurt.’ That’s what I thought.”