“They Suck Themselves Down”: After Working With UFC for Over Two Decades, Joe Rogan Spills the Beans on Extreme Weight Cuts by the Likes of Charles Oliveira

The UFC commentator Joe Rogan has often talked about the weight-cutting process done by fighters before their bouts. Rogan is someone who strongly believes that fighters should fight at their natural weight. According to Rogan, fighting at their natural weight is a great practice for a number of reasons. The 55-year-old feels that fighters dehydrating themselves before weigh-in is a risky practice as it puts their lives in serious danger. This method is also a great disadvantage to the opponent, who is fighting at their natural weight.

Rogan pointed out how some fighters look extremely weak at the weigh-in. However, at the time of the fight, the fighters would have returned to their bulked-up physiques and looked huge.

The UFC color commentator shared examples of Frankie Edgar and BJ Penn, as they always chose to fight at their natural weights. On the other hand, he called out fighters like Charles Oliveira, Justin Gaethje, Dustin Poirier, and Michael Chandler for looking huge and yet choosing to fight in the lightweight division.

Joe Rogan was annoyed at fighters for cutting too much weight

In a conversation with retired Navy SEAL and podcaster Andy Stumpf on the #1996 episode of his JRE podcast, Rogan mentioned the process of weight-cutting. He said, “That’s why I always give probs to Frankie Edgar because Frankie Edgar, BJ Penn and Frankie weighed a 155 pounds, it’s what he weighed. You could tell that when you looked at him. He looked like a 155 pound guy.“

“Whereas some of these guys, some of these guys at 155 like Charles Oliveira, he is f*cking huge like how are you 155? Justin Gaethje, Dustin Poirier, those guys are big. Those guys are like 190 plus. Michael Chandler, he is like pushing 200 pounds. … They suck themselves down.”

He added, “These dehydrated drites, sponge, bones and organs and then they get on the scale and they form a backup. And they look pretty good. The ceremonial weigh-in and in the next 24 hours they rehydrate.“

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Here, Rogan mentioned how fighters manage to cut weight for the weigh-ins. However, once the process is over, they rehydrate themselves and get back to their actual size.

The UFC commentator feels it illogical

Rogan once sat with legendary UFC fighter BJ Penn in JRE. During their discussion about the MMA world, Rogan mentioned the “bad tradition” of the UFC. According to him, fighters cutting weight for their weigh-ins drive him crazy.

He feels that the entire method is illogical and unnecessary. Rogan finds absolutely no sensible reason behind fighters cutting weight. He further mentioned how the method is nothing less than cheating. BJ Penn agreed with Rogan’s take on the practice.

What do you think about the weight cutting? Do you think that fighters should choose to fight at their natural weights?

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