UFC: “I might have all of them battle in a basketball court docket”

UFC commentator and podcaster Joe Rogan had a few large names on the latest episode of his podcast.

Hollywood stars Matt Damon and Ben Affleck had been on the present, and the trio mentioned a number of attention-grabbing matters.

One matter that the trio introduced up was MMA and jiu-jitsu. Rogan defined how the tenacity of jiu-jitsu practitioners at all times led to finishes, since they saved on going.

The comic additionally introduced up how he has at all times been a proponent of no-stand ups, and defined the way it was a bonus when the positions had been reset initially of the subsequent spherical:

“So it’s best to by no means get stood up in a battle. I do not care if the man’s doing nothing. If he is holding you down and you’ll’t rise up, that is the way it needs to be.”

Rogan continued by suggesting that fighters ought to proceed in the identical positions firstly of a spherical too:

“I believe they need to put them proper again to the place they had been on the finish of the spherical as a result of it is one battle. It isn’t 5 fights. So for those who begin it standing up and initially of every spherical, that is a brand new battle.”

Damon joked that placing such concepts in place would destroy the UFC’s enterprise mannequin. Rogan shared another plans he had in thoughts, comparable to eradicating the cages:

“I might give the fighters extra money. It could like they might, they might, I might f*** up the entire enterprise mannequin. I might eliminate the cage. I might have all of them battle in a basketball court docket and simply put mats on the bottom within the basketball court docket. I do not assume it’s best to have a cage.”

Rogan then defined how the cage was a hindrance and typically a profit to some fighters:

“It turns into a option to get again up since you press your again up in opposition to the cage, you should utilize it to face again up once more, and also you’re in the midst of the middle of a mat, it is very troublesome to get again up and that is practical. You are utilizing a overseas object that will help you carry out.”

Rogan, nevertheless, understood there needed to be some spectacle within the sport, therefore the utilization of the cage and the way the referees would ask the 2 combatants in the event that they had been prepared earlier than the beginning of rounds.

Try Joe Rogan’s concepts for fight sports activities from 1:46:00:

Jon Anik shares plans to enhance the UFC

Joe Rogan isn’t the one one who has drastic plans in thoughts on the subject of MMA. UFC commentator Jon Anik was just lately on a podcast and was requested about how he might make the promotion higher.

The UFC’s occasions are likely to cross eight hours in size and sometimes has 15 fights on the cardboard. Anik had some radical concepts which included slicing down the roster and making a number of extra adjustments:

“Our largest problem is that our occasions are approach too lengthy and we should always have 10 or 11 fights as an alternative of 15…even for those who wished to make this [broadcast] 5 – 6 hours, I might be OK.”

He even wished to scale back the variety of fighters signed from The Contender Sequence, and trim down the cardboard as properly:

“I might reduce 150 fighters off the roster. I might do 10 fights a card and simply make it a extra ingestible, palatable sporting occasion.”