During ABC's broadcast of the 2026 ESPYs, host and Saturday Night Live star Marcello Hernandez slipped an innuendo-laden joke about DJ Khaled past Disney's standards and practices team, drawing amused attention online. The line played on a long-running internet rumour about Khaled's personal habits, and its inclusion in a live network broadcast was notable given Disney's typically strict content controls for the family-oriented network.

While introducing boxers Jake Paul and Mike Tyson alongside DJ Khaled, Hernandez quipped that the trio "simply refuse to go down," a phrase widely understood as a nod to a 2018 online rumour about Khaled. The joke was one of several risqué moments in Hernandez's ESPYs monologue, which also saw him take aim at Jake Paul, Tiger Woods and Bill Belichick.