Joe Rogan vouches for more UFC weight classes: “We’d have less extreme weight cutting”

Joe Rogan thinks he knows a way to reduce bad weight cutting for UFC fighters.

Fans suffered quite the scare when bantamweight Cameron Smotherman collapsed after successfully making weight for a planned bout with Ricky Turcios. Smotherman was able to avoid disaster, but his fight with Turcios was cancelled. While Smotherman insisted that he didn’t cut a lot of weight, the scary moment left many debating about weight-cutting in MMA.

During an edition of “The Joe Rogan Experience,” the longtime UFC color commentator suggested more divisions as a way to avoid these issues (via MMAJunkie).

“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, give people more options,” Rogan said. “This idea of only having eight champions in MMA is very, very limiting. … In MMA, if you win two belts, that’s crazy. That’s the only thing anybody’s ever done. The only people that have ever done it have done it in two weight classes.

“No one’s done it in three. (Alex) Pereira might try to do it at heavyweight because he’s walking around at like 240 which is crazy because he used to fight at 185. If they had more options, and they had more weight classes, I think we’d have more competitive fights, we’d have less extreme weight cutting, we’d have healthier fighters. Just more champions is better. There’s a lot of guys that could be champions, it’s just there’s not a weight class for them.”

In the past, Dana White hasn’t exactly been gung-ho over the idea of adding more weight classes. As the sport of MMA continues to evolve, perhaps the door could one day be open for more divisions in UFC.

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