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Joe Rogan, a well-known face of the MMA scene, is a man with great visions and ideas, but the question is how open are the leaders of the UFC to such visions. Namely, during 2016, the UFC commentator asked Ari Emanuel, the executive director of the UFC, that the act of losing weight before the competition should be eliminated.
The experienced face of the UFC scene again shared the same views, aware that this would cause enormous problems. His podcast served as an opportunity for UFC light heavyweight challenger Jiri Prochazka to hear his opinion.
Rogan realized that the current rules don't make sense at all, and many fans have already talked about this before.
"I think weight loss should be eliminated," Rogan said.
"I told Ari Emanuel that when they first bought the UFC. I said, 'Look, you know what you should do? Cut the weight off, just stop it. Look, if you can randomly drug test people, you can randomly come over with a scale, say, 'Hey, buddy, you're 86 kilos, how the hell do you do something like that?'
Weight categories
Joe Rogan also advocates the introduction of more weight categories, believing that it would improve the quality of matches, but also everything else.
"And introduce more weight classes," explained Joe Rogan. "There should be a division every 10 pounds (4.5 kilograms). This idea of big differences, like 185 and 205, that's a 20-pound difference, which is huge, that doesn't exist in boxing. There should be categories every 10 pounds.
Find out how much Islam Makhachev weighs. Islam Makhachev is a UFC champion, the best fighter in the world in terms of weight to ability. Find out how much he weighs. How much would he weigh if he were healthy? Yes, losing weight doesn't exist? Would that be 185, 190 pounds? Whatever it is. That's your fight weight now and we're not going to weigh you the day before and let you rehydrate. That's crazy. Fight people your own size," Rogan concluded .
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