Veteran UFC color-commentator, Joe Rogan has revealed he pleaded with Endeavor CEO, Ari Emanuel to abolish the follow of weigh slicing when he penned a deal to buy the promotion again in 2016, claiming the act of shedding weight earlier than competitors ought to be “eradicated.
Rogan, a long-time color-commentator throughout his prolonged tenure with the UFC, referred to as the motion earlier this month throughout UFC 311 — with a pair of championship fights closing the invoice in California.
Joe Rogan lays out plea to cease UFC fighters slicing weight
And taking prime instance from the burden reduce of undisputed light-weight champion, Islam Makhachev en path to his dominant submission win over Renato Moicano by way of D’Arce choke, Rogan claimed the follow ought to be “eliminated” — and pure weight of combatants ought to be considered.
“I think weight-cutting should be eliminated,” Joe Rogan stated throughout an interview with Jiri Prochazka on his podcast this week. “I stated this to Ari Emanuel after they first purchased the UFC. I stated, ‘Listen man, you know what you should do? Get rid of weight-cutting, just stop it. Look, If you can randomly test people for drugs, you can randomly test their weight. Show up with a scale, say. ‘Hey, buddy. Step on the scale, you’re 190 kilos, how the f*ck are you making 145?’ Do one thing like that.
“And come up with more weight classes,” Joe Rogan defined. There ought to be a weight class each 10 kilos. This concept of those large gaps like 185 to 205, that’s a 20-pound hole, that’s enormous, that doesn’t exist in boxing. They need to have each 10 kilos, 85, 95, 205, 225 after which limitless… Discover out what does Islam Makhachev weigh. Islam Makhachev is a UFC champion, the perfect pound-for-pound fighter on Earth. Discover out what he weighs. What do you weigh should you have been wholesome? If weight slicing didn’t exist? Wouldn’t it be 185, 190? No matter that’s. That’s the way you battle now and we’re not going to weigh you within the day earlier than and allow you to rehydrate. That’s loopy discuss. Battle folks your measurement,”
