Joe Rogan wants UFC to add weight classes: 'More champions is better'

Joe Rogan sees various perks in MMA adding more weight classes.

There are currently 11 weight classes in the UFC and only four fighters who have held two belts simultaneously: Conor McGregor, Daniel Cormier, Amanda Nunes, and Henry Cejudo. As of late, Ilia Topuria and Islam Makhachev both had to vacate their belts before moving up to capture titles in the weight class above.

In a conversation with former three-division undisputed boxing champion Terence Crawford, Rogan explained why extra weight classes would be beneficial.

"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 in a recent episode of his "Joe Rogan Experience." "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."

Currently exploring the idea of moving up a weight class is UFC middleweight champion Khamzat Chimaev, who has been calling out light heavyweight champ Alex Pereira. However, Pereira himself is pondering a move up to heavyweight.

This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: Joe Rogan argues more weight classes is better for the UFC