Penn was drawing 500k buys every time he was defending. Then two fights with Edgar later, the division is doing less than half that. But everyone was still high on lightweight division - Edgar had two of the best fights of that year vs Maynard. He was slowly building up steam. He was even getting the respect he deserved for that Japan show. The first time he is the favorite in his title defense, he draws nearly 400Ks(with help from Rampage though).
Then comes Henderson, steals a decision, then an absolute robbery. Doesn't establish himself. Gains no respect. Expect for a few fans, everybody starting to get sick of him. Doesn't even show any intent to finish fights. Gets moved to Fox, defends a bunch of times, always stealing/robbing decisions.
With his appearance, and his undoubted talent, and with his exposure via Fox, he could have become a really good draw, someone to consistently do 400K. But instead kills a whole division. Now the whole division is cursed.
The champ out, No.1 Contender concussed, the other No.1 contendership stolen, No one wanting to fight one guy, what a mess! Such an exciting division, what a mess!
"With his appearance, and his undoubted talent, and with his exposure via Fox, he could have become a really good draw, someone to consistently do 400K. But instead kills a whole division. Now the whole division is cursed.
The champ out, No.1 Contender concussed, the other No.1 contendership stolen, No one wanting to fight one guy, what a mess! Such an exciting division, what a mess!"
Blaming this on Bendo is bizarre. 
lw was more exciting with the goat lw BJ (an agressive finisher), then got pretty dull with franky and bendo point fighting their way to decisions. Hopefully it will bounce back with pettis. super excited to see pettis vs aldo happen (hopefully ASAP)
thecoder - Penn was drawing 500k buys every time he was defending. Then two fights with Edgar later, the division is doing less than half that. But everyone was still high on lightweight division - Edgar had two of the best fights of that year vs Maynard. He was slowly building up steam. He was even getting the respect he deserved for that Japan show. The first time he is the favorite in his title defense, he draws nearly 400Ks(with help from Rampage though).
Then comes Henderson, steals a decision, then an absolute robbery. Doesn't establish himself. Gains no respect. Expect for a few fans, everybody starting to get sick of him. Doesn't even show any intent to finish fights. Gets moved to Fox, defends a bunch of times, always stealing/robbing decisions.
With his appearance, and his undoubted talent, and with his exposure via Fox, he could have become a really good draw, someone to consistently do 400K. But instead kills a whole division. Now the whole division is cursed.
The champ out, No.1 Contender concussed, the other No.1 contendership stolen, No one wanting to fight one guy, what a mess! Such an exciting division, what a mess!
agree 100%
My god this use of the term "robbery".
I don't think he killed it per se but he's now exactly what Fitch was in the WW division.
OP logic:
"BJ Penn was doing 500,000 buys consistently...Edgar did 400,000 buys...Ben Henderson defends on FOX and brings in millions of viewers...he obviously killed interest in the LW division."
TFK_SickEye - I don't think he killed it per se but he's now exactly what Fitch was in the WW division.
Really? He fights even fights with elite top5 fighters in the world, mostly standing up. Blame definitely goes both ways, also owned your boy Nate like a sack of lisp potatoes
Lick Boners -Mad cuz your boy "snooze" is gonna get buried in the prelims and Nate will continue to headline or co-main?TFK_SickEye - I don't think he killed it per se but he's now exactly what Fitch was in the WW division.
Really? He fights even fights with elite top5 fighters in the world, mostly standing up. Blame definitely goes both ways, also owned your boy Nate like a sack of lisp potatoes
TFK_SickEye -Lick Boners -Mad cuz your boy "snooze" is gonna get buried in the prelims and Nate will continue to headline or co-main?TFK_SickEye - I don't think he killed it per se but he's now exactly what Fitch was in the WW division.
Really? He fights even fights with elite top5 fighters in the world, mostly standing up. Blame definitely goes both ways, also owned your boy Nate like a sack of lisp potatoes
Not really mad, I'll watch Bendo over Nate anytime. Also, Bendo will go down as probably the 3rd best LW ever, Nate Diaz is just another victim in that list. ;)
Well I'll watch Nate over Snooze anytime, so go fuck yourself ;)
Lick Boners -TFK_SickEye -Lick Boners -Mad cuz your boy "snooze" is gonna get buried in the prelims and Nate will continue to headline or co-main?TFK_SickEye - I don't think he killed it per se but he's now exactly what Fitch was in the WW division.
Really? He fights even fights with elite top5 fighters in the world, mostly standing up. Blame definitely goes both ways, also owned your boy Nate like a sack of lisp potatoes
Not really mad, I'll watch Bendo over Nate anytime. Also, Bendo will go down as probably the 3rd best LW ever, Nate Diaz is just another victim in that list. ;)
I rather watch a dog hump a dead decapitaded bird then watch Bendo
Good luck finding that video you weird fag. Diaz-Thomson and Diaz-Bendo are my two favorite fights ;)
Bendo is getting a lot of hate. I feel he lost the Thompson fight when watching it live but the guy is a elite level fighter fighting other elite level fighters. So we can't blame him for the close decisions. If he is so bad then the other fighters should be putting him away. Pettis is the only person to have done that in the UFC.
I know he has lost his killer instinct since his WEC days but to say he is killing the lightweight division is madness.
It's like people hating on GSP for going to decisions again. For the record I honestly don't mind watching Henderson fight. They are always super technical but I do wish he would take a few more risks
I really like watching Bendo fight, but he does need a bigger sense of urgency.
Lick Boners -Bendo could go down as the 3rd best LW in history? What does that make Pettis?TFK_SickEye -Lick Boners -Mad cuz your boy "snooze" is gonna get buried in the prelims and Nate will continue to headline or co-main?TFK_SickEye - I don't think he killed it per se but he's now exactly what Fitch was in the WW division.
Really? He fights even fights with elite top5 fighters in the world, mostly standing up. Blame definitely goes both ways, also owned your boy Nate like a sack of lisp potatoes
Not really mad, I'll watch Bendo over Nate anytime. Also, Bendo will go down as probably the 3rd best LW ever, Nate Diaz is just another victim in that list. ;)
Pettis has his number and I could def see Pettis as an all time great if he stays healthy.
Thanks Obama
Like I said probably, Pettis still has some defenses to get, but he will probably end up as the #1 or #2. Penn is great and all but Bendo has been fighting way better competition than Penn ever did so you can argue that. Even if you put Bendo at #4, still better than poor Diaz can ever even dream of.
I didn't realize it was Bendo's responsibility to judge the close fights to his favor. It's ridiculous everybody is shitting on him, because of how the judges see the fights.