Dethroned UFC lightweight champ Charles Oliveira got screwed. That’s if you ask commentator and podcast host Joe Rogan, who weighed in on the UFC 274 scale controversy on a recent episode of The Joe Rogan Experience.
“He got screwed in his last fight. 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.
Joe Rogan Says Charles Oliveira was “Screwed” by UFC 274 Scale
These scales are calibrated and then the foreign fighters would reset the scale so they could switch it back to kilograms. So it f**** up the whole calibration. So he weighed in the night before the weigh-ins, and he was like, ‘Oh, I’m good to go.’ 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.”
Oliveira missed the 155 pound limit for the UFC lightweight division ahead of a title defense against Justin Gaethje. In doing so, he rendered himself ineligible to recapture the title. When Oliveira finished Gaethje in the first round, that simply meant that the lightweight title remains vacant. Oliveira and his camp maintain that the scale was faulty because he managed to make weight the night before, with scale tampering considered as a potential cause for the issue.
““Now the UFC has a new policy because of this, where they have a guard who watches over the scale 24 hours a day.
They have shifts where no one can f*** 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.
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.”
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