MMA Thread

[Rob]

Originally Posted by Reavant plus dana is spreading out the fights for guys that make a lot of money now.... big names are waiting at least 6 months now between fights (with GSP being the only real exception) so that he doesnt have to shell out the money that is guaranteed to them in their contracts.

I think he has to spread the stars out because they have too many shows. To be fair, most of them, he tried to get fighting in London once Chuck was out. Again, the one of the biggest problems is that he thinks the UFC brand draws more than the fighters. It draws but nothing close to the fighters name value. If BJ Penn goes back to 170lbs, under no circumstances should they ever let him fight at 155lbs again. Only hurts that division. Plus he needs to do the big fights while they are big. Let's take Matt Serra for example. He has two huge fights possible - GSP and Matt Hughes. Common sense says have the GSP fight first. If he loses, it doesn't hurt the Hughes fight at all since he just lost to the best guy in the division. If he wins, even better. However, if they do the Hughes fight first and he loses, they fuck any chance of a third fight with GSP doing any numbers.

[Reavant]

Originally Posted by Rob I think he has to spread the stars out because they have too many shows. To be fair, most of them, he tried to get fighting in London once Chuck was out. Again, the one of the biggest problems is that he thinks the UFC brand draws more than the fighters. It draws but nothing close to the fighters name value. If BJ Penn goes back to 170lbs, under no circumstances should they ever let him fight at 155lbs again. Only hurts that division. Plus he needs to do the big fights while they are big. Let's take Matt Serra for example. He has two huge fights possible - GSP and Matt Hughes. Common sense says have the GSP fight first. If he loses, it doesn't hurt the Hughes fight at all since he just lost to the best guy in the division. If he wins, even better. However, if they do the Hughes fight first and he loses, they fuck any chance of a third fight with GSP doing any numbers.

I agree but look at the layoff he has been giving the champs lately other than GSP. BJ went all the way from last summer to his match with stevenson. chuck was slated to go from december till june which is a big jump. He wont give nog a fight it seems for like 7 moth spans of time. The thing is, that if they have so many shows, it should be easy to set up the big names at least 3 times a year.