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22-03-2025 Vol 19

‘Would kill him’ – Fear Factor participants forced to intervene and save a guy from Joe Rogan Beatdown

Joe Rogan was caught by one of Fear Factor’s notorious matches in his time as shows host.

The exchange was so heated that Rogan joked that he was thinking of ‘killing’ the participant after they squeezed up to each other.

Rogan works regularly as UFC commentator

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Rogan works regularly as UFC commentatorCredit: Getty
Rogan first joined UFC in 1997 after working for fear factor

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Rogan first joined UFC in 1997 after working for fear factorCREDIT: @MMAhistorytoday – x

Rogan hosted fear factor when it was launched on TV in 2001, and he continued to work on the show for seven years until it was dropped by NBC.

The series witnessed participants participating in a series of waking and stunts while competing for a cash prize.

It has been reported that Rogan, who now works as UFC commentator and podcaster, earned about $ 15 million during the 148 fear factor episodes he registered.

During the tenth episode of the Fear Factor season six, participants were involved in a physical shift with each other after doing a stunt.

The task involved a husband and wife Double Act trying to work together to implement a number of challenges in water.

In the stunt, another participant stepped out of the challenge continuously paired, and spotted and shouted at the guy things like ‘she is dead weight’ and ‘you deserve better’.

Kona had plenty of the abuse she took after the stunt and stopped the participant, named Jonny Fairplay, in his chest to dampen him.

Things started to be heated, so Rogan, who now has a black belt in two different Jiu Jitsu systems, took the cases in his own hands.

“You can’t walk around and hit people,” Rogan said as he remembered the incident. “Just because you hit your husband doesn’t mean you can hit other people.

“(The man) comes right in my face, like right here. He goes: ‘Hi Hey, Hi!’ And I push him and he goes, ‘I dare you to touch me again’. I’ll push him again.

Rogan took the cases in his own hands and confronted the participants

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Rogan took the cases in his own hands and confronted the participantsCredit: Rogan daily on YouTube
And the man just got into the face

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And the man just got into the faceCredit: Rogan daily on YouTube
Rogan then grabbed his throat and would kill the man

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Rogan then grabbed his throat and would kill the manCredit: Rogan daily on YouTube
Before another participant was forced to intervene

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Before another participant was forced to interveneCredit: Rogan daily on YouTube

“So I’m like, ‘What? What, B ****? What? Because I think now we are fighting. “

Both Rogan and the disputed square up to each other before it previously grabbed the man at his throat.

Another participant who turned out to be the WWE superstar, Miz was then forced to hurry over and break down the fight before it escalated further.

“After shouting at his wife all the time, he stays up to her,” Miz said.

“And then suddenly they start walking on it and I like, ‘I have to break this thing up because Joe kills him.”

Miz managed to separate Rogan and the participant before emotions settled.

Rogan is known for talking about matches - but he even has some skills

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Rogan is known for talking about matches – but he even has some skillsCredit: Getty

“It was never really a fight,” Rogan added. “As I never really hit him, and he never really hit me. But I tried to make him strike me.

“I think it’s all still coming on TV. So I try to like to be calm. Right.

“And he’s in my face. I’m like, ‘How should I prevent killing this guy?’ “

MMA fans who know Rogan possess an elite level of mixed martial arts in Hans Arsenal were grateful, which the participant eventually entered.

One responded to a clip of the episode on YouTube and said, “That guy has no idea how close he was to be dummied very quickly.”

While another added, “At this point, no one knew how well -educated Joe Rogan actually was.”

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Rogan has been an MMA enthusiast since his childhood and has been training in karate, taekwondo and kickboxing, with short spell forms in amateur competitions.

Some of the worst challenges of his time at Fear Factor included participants who consume a whole bowl of a dead rat that had been mixed in a smoothie style drink, as well as team members sitting in a bathtub full of leeches.

Another episode in season six had participants who were tasked with drinking pint amounts of both urine and semen from donkeys.

NBC’s parent company Comcast demanded that the episode, which allegedly caused the show to be canceled, not be broadcast on TV and a drive was put in place.

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