Joe Rogan has not travelled internationally to invoke the UFC fight, which clearly extends to a potential trip to Canada.
On May 10th, UFC 315 will defend the belt for the first time when he faces Jacques Della Madalena on the land of Montreal for a card discovered by welterweight champion Beral Muhammad. In the co-main event, Valentina Shevchenko wins the flyweight title to win the flyweight title, but the broadcast booth does not include Rogan in Color Commentary.
“I’m not there,” Logan said on the UFC London Fight Companion Podcast. “I won’t go to Canada anymore. I won’t. I would rather go to Russia.”
It’s not a surprise at all considering that Logan also didn’t travel to Canada for UFC 297 in Toronto in January 2024, but it’s the first time that comedians and podcast tycoons have expressed his temperament about traveling to their American neighbors in the North.
When he first decided to stop calling battles for international cards, Logan explained that it was more about excessive travel and time away from home.
Going to Canada doesn’t require an incredibly long trip from his Austin home, but Logan doesn’t sound interested in traveling there given the current political landscape of North America.
The United States and Canada have recently been in conflict after President Donald Trump launched a series of costly tariffs on goods coming from other countries, including Canada.
There was also a joke that Trump might annex Canada and create a 51st state in the United States. This is what he acknowledged from his past conversations with the President.
“It’s never going to happen,” Logan said with a laugh about Canada joining the US. “It’s so crazy, I asked them to become the 51st state.
“I had a conversation with Trump about it. He said, ‘I started calling him Governor (Justin) Trudeau.
Trudeau, now a former Canadian prime minister, recently resigned from his seat, and he was taken over by Mark Carney, who is already talking about Trump’s trade war.
“We are facing the most important crisis of our life due to President Trump’s unfair trade actions and his threat to our sovereignty,” Carney said at a news conference.
Tensions between the US and Canada appear to have reached the UFC broadcast booth where the UFC is bowing from UFC 315.
While Logan is absent, both John Annick and Daniel Cormier are expected to call the fight as usual, with the UFC ultimately deciding on an alternative to intervene for him for the May 10th event.