Joe Rogan says the UFC is trying to come up with strategies to discourage fighters’ big weight cuts

This wasn’t the first time that a spotlight has been put on the process that many fighter’s put their bodies through in order to compete in a certain weight class.

The most notable example came in January, when Cameron Smotherman collapsed ahead of UFC 324 immediately after he stepped on the scales.

Rogan has now said that the leading MMA promotion is looking to take steps to try and prevent the kind of drastic cuts that come with serious health concerns for the fighters on their roster.

Joe Rogan reveals conversations with UFC’s Hunter Campbell about drastic weight cuts

Joe Rogan has been pitching ways that he would change the UFC for some time as the promotion’s long-time commentator.

He may have some issues with the current ruleset, but there’s a much bigger issue impacting the health of the fighters that he addressed during a recent podcast episode.

When his JRE MMA Show (#174) episode with Terence Crawford got onto the subject of weight cutting, Rogan revealed that the UFC are looking to find ways to stop drastic cuts from being so common.

“That’s the most problematic part of MMA for sure,” he said. “I was actually just having a conversation with Hunter Campbell [UFC’s chief business officer] about that. They’re trying to devise strategies to discourage these big weight cuts and trying to figure out what to do.”

Anyone who has been listening to Rogan talk about this issue for some time will know that he believes there’s a solution to this problem.

He has long been an advocate of adding more weight classes to MMA in order to make the weight differences between divisions smaller.

“I think for MMA, they really need to recognize this that one of the things that’s going to stop weight cuts is give people more weight classes,” Rogan added. “Give people more options. This idea of only having eight champions I think, in MMA, is very, very limiting.”

You are Dana White for the day, what’s the one change you’d make to the UFC?

Joe Rogan says people at the UFC don’t listen to him

After speaking about several issues with weight classes in MMA, Terence Crawford had a suggestion for Joe Rogan.

He said that the long-time UFC commentator should speak to Dana White about it or petition for it if that doesn’t work.

Rogan’s response made reference to the various other ideas that he’s spoken about wanting to implement in the sport as to why his opinion tends to fall on deaf ears when it comes to making a change.

“Nobody listens to me, bro,” he said. “They don’t, they don’t listen to me. They think I’m crazy… Oh, I have a bunch of wacky rules that I want to institute so I understand why they don’t want to listen to me. I would throw the whole sport up in the air.”