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“I’m for justice and I like Ronda, I like her lifestyle, being close to nature and animals and farm and anything like that, she’s a great champion, but I feel in this particular case it was not right to say these things that she said,” Shevchenko said. “Joe Rogan, he is a true example for the youth. He is a true martial artist. He has a lot of knowledge in martial arts and he’s a successful man. He’s very talented and it’s just not right to say those things. I felt when there is no justice, no, it’s something wrong.” Rogan regularly serves as color commentator for UFC pay-per-views and also hosts The Joe Rogan Experience, a popular podcast he began in 2009. Though Rogan has made less appearances at the commentary desk in recent years, he remains a well-known figure in the MMA community. Rogan was a standout Taekwondo practitioner in his youth and also dabbled in kickboxing before pursuing a career in acting and comedy. “I don’t know, I think Ronda she’s a great fighter and definitely she’s the first one who fought in the UFC,” Shevchenko said. “Definitely, she deserves to be the greatest fighter, but I started to practice martial arts when no one started. I was five years old, 32 years I do what I do, and my first title that I won in MMA it was back in 2003. No one would fight. There were no women. After seven years, there was the first female fight in UFC, but in 2003 I already won the title of world champion in MMA in South Korea. So in 2005, I won it again, and it’s kind of like I can say that from the experience because I’ve been in this business for a long, long time. Modern fighters they’re not even born at that year, you can see many of them is like, 2005, 2006, but I’ve been here for a long time and I have all rights to speak about how it evolved and how it was back then and now. “So for me, it’s a very hard question who is the greatest and I never will [say] myself because I’m not that kind of person who puts the name in front of everyone. I feel everyone did enough things to secure the spot to be in this position, the greatest fighter ever.”
