Rogan " Someone Messed With The Scale "

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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.

“He’s a very, very nice guy, and he got screwed in his last fight,” Rogan said on a recent episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience” podcast on Spotify. “There was some shenanigans with the scale. Some people had messed with the scale. Here’s a problem with these digital scales: Foreign fighters, they use kilograms and in America, obviously we use pounds.

“These 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, ‘Oh, I’m good to go.’ And then in the morning, he goes and shows up for the weight cut, and it’s a pound plus off, and that is directly related to this calibration thing.”
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.

“Now the UFC has a new policy because of this, where they have a guard who watches over the scale 24 hours a day,” Rogan added. “Like, they have shifts where no one can f*ck with the scale. If you’re gonna get on that scale to try yourself, they’re gonna watch you like a hawk, and you don’t press any buttons. You just get on, what’s your weight, get off. That’s it. These guys were monkeying around with the scale.”

He continued, “It’s Phoenix. That’s what it is, and it’s not a knock on Phoenix. I love Phoenix. It’s just that the people that are there don’t do high-level world championship MMA fights on a regular basis. They do a few. We’ve had a good time there. They’ve had some good events there, but they just made a mistake. They’ll let these guys do it. There should have been someone watching the scale, and the scale was off, and that’s a fact. Look, it’s 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 that’s it.”

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.

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Charlie olives is a weight cheat, bully

Thats Deep

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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.

He’s not the champ and he lost a large % of his purse so yes it does make a difference…

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makes a difference tomorrow

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Here’s why I think it’s 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 you’re 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 doesn’t even fuck up switching to stones

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Butt hurt Gaethje fan boy detected…

Depending on the quality, home scales can be +/- accuracy anywhere from <1lb to <10lbs. That’s when measuring ~110lbs. As weight goes up, accuracy goes down.

Further, the UFC scale is calibrated but for lbs. When it’s switched over to KGs, that resets the calibration. That’s 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. It’s 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 it’s still going to read 200.00. I don’t believe any of this for a second. Just like switching expensive measuring devices from inches to mm back and forth. It doesn’t throw either off.

With that said Charles is the champ and he’s a beast.

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The thing people keep leaving out…nobody messed with the “official” scale. That scale was on, and nobody touched it. There was a scale out back that was supposed to match the official one and that’s the one people are saying was touched.

As far as the fighters who are saying the scale was off and complaining…that shit happens often. We hear complaining from someone who assumed they were good and then they weren’t, but it rarely is paid attention to because everyone makes weight anyway, or at the very least it’s a prelim fighter that misses weight.

I think charles talking about making weight Thursday then waking up heavy is something he made up…and I don’t think he woke up 1.5 heavy and couldn’t make it. He wasn’t surprised when he was heavy, that’s why he was last to hit the scale.

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The takeaway is that international fighters should stop using bullshit kilograms and instead use pounds for measurement like decent folks.

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Fighters and Dana all said something was wrong with the scale.

Dickwad.

Great. None of that is still evidence of anyone “messing with the scale.” It’s nonsense spread through the internet based on claims of two Brazilians, one that didn’t make weight and has a history of not making weight, regardless of the weightclass.