Stand-up comedian Tony Hinchcliffe was the guest on The Joe Rogan Experience this past week, and revealed that WWE offered him a year-long contract to be a part of the creative team. According to him, the offer was “insanely serious money”. While he was happy to just receive the offer, as he’s a life-long fan of wrestling, he didn’t take the job because it would mean giving up his current dream job of being on the road as a comic.
Rogen also spent the majority of the podcast blasting the pro wrestling industry. When Hinchcliffe stated that the majority of UFC fans are, or were at one point wrestling fans, Rogan responded by stating “it’s not the ***damn same.”
“One of them is real. One of them is people battling for their lives in the most difficult content in all of sports. The other is some weird, ****** jerk-off thing where strange guys sit in front of the TV and pretend they don’t know its fake. You don’t want to know. You shut that part of your brain off.”
Joe also gave his opinion of Brock Lesnar as a UFC fighter, saying that he could have been an all-time great if he had trained properly and done MMA the “right way”.
“If Brock Lesnar did it the right way – if Lesnar left the WWE and dedicated himself to becoming the best fighter in the world, and I mean like best striking coaches, best overall coaches, like a real MMA coach – find out what they can fix and work on him for years, and then built him up slowly and eventually work his way up to a larger organization, and then eventually fight in the UFC when you have 15, 20 fights. Instead his second pro fight was against a former world champion. His second fight was against Frank Mir. He could have been an all-time great. He’s a freak athlete.”
