Over the years, we’ve witnessed a plethora of UFC fighters taking fights on short notice. It may be the wisest of decisions to step up in a promotion filled with the cream of the crop in MMA. But that hasn’t stopped fighters from stepping up. But how does Dana White get them to take fights on short notice? Well, Joe Rogan seems to have revealed the process.

Joe Rogan doesn’t like fighters stepping up in just a few days or weeks. And if you’re wondering why, it is because the 57-year-old believes, as he’s stated in the past, fighters don’t get enough time to prepare well, as such, he suggests running a different direction when Dana White calls them in such situations. “If the UFC calls you 10 days before an event, just change your number. Change your f***ing number, man,” Rogan told Belal Muhammad during the latest edition of the ‘JRE MMA Show’.

Joe Rogan would follow that statement up with the way Dana White approaches situations where he’d try to get fighters comfortable so that they accept the short-notice fight. “Don’t let him talk into it. ‘You can beat him. I know you workout all the time,’ and you start thinking, ‘Yes, I do work out all the time’, and they’re like, ‘We’re gonna offer you x amount of money’. [And then you’re] like, ‘Oh sh*t! That’s a lot of money and you start spending that money,” Rogan added.

It’s not just Joe Rogan, a commentator, who believes it is risky to take short notice fights. Even former UFC fighter Matt Brown thinks it’s an awful idea as he revealed the truth behind such fights and also, at the same time, shared a piece of advice for UFC fighters.

Before Joe Rogan, Matt Brown expressed disliking short-notice fights

Joe Rogan is not a fighter. So, who better to tell us what it feels like to take a short-notice fight than veteran Matt Brown? The former welterweight star, who didn’t get the kind of retirement he wished for, doesn’t suggest fighters taking short notice fights just because there’s an opportunity. He was a victim of taking fights on a few days’ notice as well, and even if it did help build a better reputation among the UFC Brass, he doesn’t think it’s worth it.

“I think I made that mistake a lot when I was younger. I took a lot of short-notice fights. Now the advantage of it, it does earn you favor with the UFC… [But] what I would suggest to guys is zoom out. Look at your career as a marathon and not as a sprint,” Matt Brown told ‘MMA Fighting’. This could be something that young up-and-comers and even current veterans still fighting under the UFC banner can reflect on.

Regardless, what do you think about Joe Rogan’s revelation about Dana White’s tactics? Drop your comments below.