Joe Rogan is without doubt one of the most influential folks in boxing in 2024, in line with Sports activities Illustrated.
The as soon as mighty publication shared an inventory of promoters and fighters for it’s finish of 12 months ‘Boxing Energy Record.’ On the high, unsurprisingly, is “H.E. Turki Alalshikh” (such restraint not truly calling him ‘His Excellency’), who continues to carry the boxing world in Saudi Arabia’s more and more highly effective orbit with Riyadh Season.
The following few names: Tyson Fury, Oleksandr Usyk, Dr. Rakan Hussain (the much less flashy Saudi dealmaker), Eddie Hearn, Mike Tyson, Frank Warren, Oscar De La Hoya, Artur Beterbiev, DAZN’s Len Blavatnik, Bob Arum, and Canelo Alvarez.
The Most Highly effective in Boxing‼️
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It continues with Boxxer’s Ben Shalom, Jake Paul, Katie Taylor, WBC’s Mauricio Sulaiman, Naoya Inoue, TalkSport’s Simon Jordan, Joe Rogan, Daniel Dubois, Amanda Serrano, Fury supervisor Spencer Brown, and Mike Goodall — credited with popularizing Candy Caroline at sporting occasions. Thanks, Mike.
Lacking from the checklist, off the highest of our heads: MVP’s Nakisa Bidarian, Misfits Boxings’ Mams Taylor, Francis Ngannou, BKFC’s David Feldman, Ryan Garcia, PBC’s Al Haymon, Stephen Espinoza, and Floyd Mayweather. You could possibly even make the argument that Dana White, whose plans to come back into boxing ‘weapons blazing,’ deserves to be on the checklist as he might critically disrupt the whole recreation in 2025.
However Joe Rogan?
Rogan is a fan of boxing and has a transparent love for the game, however placing him in a ‘Most Influential’ checklist appears a bit a lot? Or possibly we’re so used to ol’ Joe that we neglect the ability the No. 1 podcaster on earth holds together with his Joe Rogan Expertise.
In spite of everything, Dana White tapped Joe as a giant a part of Donald Trump’s 2024 U.S. presidential election win. And it was Rogan’s episode with Trump that Sports activities Illustrated factors to as “some of the listened-to podcasts of the 12 months [which] supplied important perception into the boxing world, particularly on Saudi Arabia’s growing involvement within the sport, which is reshaping the panorama.”
For such an influential man in boxing, he didn’t have any precise boxers on the present in 2024. Whereas he’s had a smattering of well-known boxers on over time, 2024 featured only one episode with a professional boxer as visitor, and it was crossover boxer Francis Ngannou.
Possibly Joe will convey all that energy he wields within the boxing neighborhood to bear in 2025.
