Charles is the greatest champion that’s ever sat on the LW throne. UFC knows it. He’s gotta be making $2-3m a fight in the last 2.
It was disclosed he made around a million for the Chandler fight and I’m not even sure they had PPV points.
I could see Oliveira getting the money for business with Conor.
There’s no money to be made off of Islam yet in comparison to Conor, Chandler, Gaethje, Poirier, Volkonowski and Holloway
Ali Bagov vs Rashid Magomedov is 7/22nd.
Primus vs Shabliy is 6/24.
2nd round of PFL regular season fights is tomorrow.
Bagov, Magomedov, Tiger Sarnovsky, Vartanyan, Raisov, Musayev would all be good to see get to compete in the UFC.
Ready for these UFC summer fights to get rolling here.
Cowboy vs Lauzon
Kutateladze vs Ismagulov
RDA vs Fiziev
Moises vs Giagos
Tsarukyan vs Gamrot
Klose vs Ferreira
Green vs Miller
Riddell vs Turner
Dober vs Alves
Solecki vs Silva Coelho
McKinney vs Gonzalez
Pimblett vs Leavitt
No, he won the title by beating Chandler, defended it against Poirier, then missed weight by .5 lbs (arguable) and was stripped but still beat prime Gaethje in 3 mins 20 seconds.
Oliveira is technically not the champ but still seen as the champ
Hoping Bellator does a LW GP next year. With their recent big signings I see they now have 20% of the top 100 ranked LWs. Only six are ranked in the top 50 and their champ is ranked 25 but still… with Patricky, Outlaw, Shabliy, Primus, Musayev, Barnaoui, Usman Nurmagomedov etc… a LW GP in 2023 would be great.
I repeat:And that changes exactly what about your silly troll logic?
Again, applying your silly troll logic one could successfully argue if Charles is a ‘Sub Paul Felder level fighter’ then Islam is a 'sub Adriano Martins level fighter.
Islam hasn’t fought 1/4 the talent Oliveira has.l through out his career.
Switch roles and Islam would have many losses 1 weight class down early in his career.
Prime Jim Miller at 20
Prime Cerrone at 21
Prime Frankie Edgar at 23
Holloway fight was a fluke - he would win that fight now
The Dagestani’s cherry pick very well. Thats the difference, Brazilian’s like RDA, Burns, Maia and Oliveira are willing to put it all on the line at anytime.