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Originally Posted by Rob
GSP ain't fighting Silva and BJ Penn ain't moving up in weight. BJ reckons he would only be 160lbs at welterweight anyway and Dana White doesn't want him in that division.
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basically thats why there wont be any champion vs champion fights in the near future. Like I said before, Dana wants all the best guys and to have them look as good as they can. Plus with the way that they spread out fights now (4-9 months from each title fight almost), a person with two belts would be holding one belt hostage while the other was being contested. And if you havnt figured out why the big names of the ufc fight only once maybe twice a year is because they dont want to shell out the money to those people that often. Liddell makes over 500K just for fights and that goes up with every fight on his contract and when he wants to resign another contract hes going to want that to go up. Like every other fighter out there. The leverage for an incredible amout of money upon renegotiations of a contract would be unbelievable for a competitor that held two belts or beat the champions of another weight class. THATS why it wont happen until UFC realizes that they keep fucking up and losing/chasing away good fighters to other organizations and they dont have any other way to make a good fight/ card. You will know the UFC is in real trouble when these fights start happening.