Joe Rogan sees the controversy in the weight miss that Charles Oliveira his UFC title.
Oliveira (33-8 MMA, 21-8 UFC) was stripped off his lightweight belt when he missed the 155-pound championship mark for his UFC 274 title fight against Justin Gaethje by 0.5 pounds in Phoenix earlier this month.
Despite the Arizona commission rules giving him an 60 minutes beyond the initial two-hour window, Oliveira still weighed in at 155.5 pounds on his second attempt, and as a result the strap became vacate. It came as a surprise to many, because Oliveira tweeted the night prior to weigh-ins that he was already at his required limit.
Information has since come to light that pre-check scale had been tampered with during fight week, and therefor it did not align with the official scale. UFC commentator Rogan expressed his disappointment in the situation.
âHeâs a very, very nice guy, and he got screwed in his last fight,â Rogan said on a recent episode of âThe Joe Rogan Experienceâ podcast on Spotify. âThere was some shenanigans with the scale. Some people had messed with the scale. Hereâs a problem with these digital scales: Foreign fighters, they use kilograms and in America, obviously we use pounds.
âThese scales are calibrated and then the foreign fighters would reset the scale so they could switch it back to kilograms. So it f*cks up the whole calibration. He weighed in the night before the weigh-ins, and he was like, âOh, Iâm good to go.â And then in the morning, he goes and shows up for the weight cut, and itâs a pound plus off, and that is directly related to this calibration thing.â
As a result of the scale controversy, UFC president Dana White announced that moving forward, the promotion plans on having security to monitor the scale.
âNow the UFC has a new policy because of this, where they have a guard who watches over the scale 24 hours a day,â Rogan added. âLike, they have shifts where no one can f*ck with the scale. If youâre gonna get on that scale to try yourself, theyâre gonna watch you like a hawk, and you donât press any buttons. You just get on, whatâs your weight, get off. Thatâs it. These guys were monkeying around with the scale.â
He continued, âItâs Phoenix. Thatâs what it is, and itâs not a knock on Phoenix. I love Phoenix. Itâs just that the people that are there donât do high-level world championship MMA fights on a regular basis. They do a few. Weâve had a good time there. Theyâve had some good events there, but they just made a mistake. Theyâll let these guys do it. There should have been someone watching the scale, and the scale was off, and thatâs a fact. Look, itâs not the best excuse because Justin Gaethje made weight. Everybody else made weight except one of the women that fought earlier in the night, but thatâs it.â
Oliveira ended up submitting Gaethje in the first round and with the lightweight title currently vacant, he will challenge for it in his next fight.
Charlie olives is a weight cheat, bully
Thats Deep
Rogan is yet another dickwad regurgitating that nonsense with zero physical evidence. Regardless, it makes no difference now, Charles decisively whooped that ass, so it makes no difference.
Heâs not the champ and he lost a large % of his purse so yes it does make a differenceâŚ
makes a difference tomorrow
Hereâs why I think itâs bullshit
He says he was on weight Thursday night and then went to weigh in and was shocked he was .5 over on official scale.
Ok then why did he weigh in last? If youâre on weight the night before you would be first on the scale.
How shitty of a scale are they using if simply changing from kilograms to pounds fucks it up? I have a 10 dollar scale from Walmart they can use. It doesnât even fuck up switching to stones
Charlie olives is a weight cheat, bully
Butt hurt Gaethje fan boy detectedâŚ
How shitty of a scale are they using if simply changing from kilograms to pounds fucks it up? I have a 10 dollar scale from Walmart they can use. It doesnât even fuck up switching to stones
Depending on the quality, home scales can be +/- accuracy anywhere from <1lb to <10lbs. Thatâs when measuring ~110lbs. As weight goes up, accuracy goes down.
Further, the UFC scale is calibrated but for lbs. When itâs switched over to KGs, that resets the calibration. Thatâs supposedly what happened.
Another thing. The super expensive scales we used in wrestling did not get fucking reset when you click kg. You could stand on then and click between kg/lbs back and forth and it reads the same. Itâs simple math being done in the background. If the scale is calibrated to 200.00 lbs and you click to kg and back to pounds itâs still going to read 200.00. I donât believe any of this for a second. Just like switching expensive measuring devices from inches to mm back and forth. It doesnât throw either off.
With that said Charles is the champ and heâs a beast.
The thing people keep leaving outâŚnobody messed with the âofficialâ scale. That scale was on, and nobody touched it. There was a scale out back that was supposed to match the official one and thatâs the one people are saying was touched.
As far as the fighters who are saying the scale was off and complainingâŚthat shit happens often. We hear complaining from someone who assumed they were good and then they werenât, but it rarely is paid attention to because everyone makes weight anyway, or at the very least itâs a prelim fighter that misses weight.
I think charles talking about making weight Thursday then waking up heavy is something he made upâŚand I donât think he woke up 1.5 heavy and couldnât make it. He wasnât surprised when he was heavy, thatâs why he was last to hit the scale.
The takeaway is that international fighters should stop using bullshit kilograms and instead use pounds for measurement like decent folks.
Rogan is yet another dickwad regurgitating that nonsense with zero physical evidence
Fighters and Dana all said something was wrong with the scale.
Dickwad.
Heâs not the champ and he lost a large % of his purse so yes it does make a differenceâŚ
Great. None of that is still evidence of anyone âmessing with the scale.â Itâs nonsense spread through the internet based on claims of two Brazilians, one that didnât make weight and has a history of not making weight, regardless of the weightclass.