Dana White—the longtime president of the Ultimate Fighting Championship—spent a portion of Saturday’s post-fight press conference doubling down on his belief in unfounded treatments for COVID-19.
“I don’t want to get too political and start getting into all this s***, but ivermectin and monoclonal antibodies have been around for a long time,” White said at the UFC Vegas 46 post-fight press conference. “Now all of a sudden you can’t dig them up to save your life. The doctors won’t give them to you.”
The UFC President’s comments were in response to a question about UFC color commentator and comedian Joe Rogan, who faced mounting pressure after hundreds of doctors and medical professionals signed an open letter condemning Rogan for “spreading vaccine hesitancy” and calling on Spotify—the platform that inked a $100 million deal for exclusive rights to the “Joe Rogan Experience” podcast—to take action against “mass misinformation” on his show.