UFC title shots can be such a joke

Yes add Charles to the curated avoid path for Connor as well.

Like I said, he could have beaten most of those guys and would have likely gotten to the title eventually but he def coulda lost one or two en route ala Pettis and they couldn’t take that chance.

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Much as I love Aldo, I think Connor would have beaten him anyhow due to the size and styles. Aldo did continue to evolve at BW but I think Connor, Max and Volk’s styles were too next level for Aldo’s more limited style. May have been interesting to see Aldo leg kick Connor but he isn’t a southpaw like Poirier and at LW Poirier is much bigger than Aldo. Calf kicks also weren’t around back then.

Glad to see UFC do the right thing in the end here.

I still don’t see this fight confirmed anywhere but I’m hoping it is

Yeah it was just JackMerridew’s propaganda/FakeNews

Don’t forget the UFC fucked Charles for a while making him fight down in the rankings while you see how they treated Gaethje and Chandler.

See how things went with Makhachev who they thought about fucking and making fight 5x in a year?

See how Oliveira and Makhachev took the long road but look at it, the UFC was unable to stop them despite they favorable situations they put Gaethje, Chandler and Conor in.

See how they told Aldo to go fuck himself on his last title shot he earned while they pushed DillaSnake?

Look how DillaSnake delivered for the UFC.

Look how Makhachev came through.

Fight politics and ticket sales dictate the sport, unfortunately.

Not just sickening, it’s ruining the sport. They should just get rid of the rankings.

They make some really bad decisions at times.

Like when they brought their star Masvidal back for a 2nd title shot after getting smoked in the 1st one and then he just gets KOed. He won no fights between those title shots and got crushed both times. It made no sense. They would have made more money booking him vs someone else and giving Kamaru a fresh challenger but no, they book Jorge 2x in a row for no reason.

And like right now, now Dana is gonna mention Cejudo as the possible next BW title challenger? Cejudo, the guy who has not fought in 2 1/2 years?

So Aldo can’t get a title shot after three wins in a row but TJ can do EPO and barely win one fight and he gets a title shot and then fucks the division and that was the right move?

Now Cejudo has not had a single fight in 2 1/2 years and he is getting the next shot?

So the key to UFC title fights at BW right now is EPO suspensions and not fighting? Aldo should have never won those three fights, should have retired or popped for EPO if he really wanted a title shot.

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So in 3 1/2 years TJ had 1 SD win.
In 2 1/2 years Cejudo has had 0 fights.

Barely going 1-0 in a combined six years is the key to two fighters getting title shots at BW now while ignoring the guy who went 3-0 and giving him the toughest stylistic matchup in the division for his possible retirement fight?

Great job UFC, the BW talent pool was too good, you just had to go and fuck shit up, bravo.

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Like I said @Yoshishi, not his fault Dariush got injured and Chandler and Tony would not take the fight and Gaethje was injured. Guess your whole “he has not beat a top 5” went out the window.

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UFC title shots being a joke is nothing new: At UFC 49 in 2004, Vernon White, 0-3-1 in his last four fights, got a title shot against Chuck Liddell - and not one bit surprisingly, White didn’t emerge from the first round without getting KTFO’d.

Chuck didn’t have the title at that time.

The joke continues. Dana said tonight at the post-fight press conference that Leon vs Colby is next for the WW title.

In the past 4 years Belal is 8-0 with 1 NC. Colby is 3-2 in that time and 0-2 in title fights. In the past year Belal is 2-0 and Colby is 0-0.

Once again, UFC rewards the less active fighters who are marginal level “stars” instead of rewarding the the active and winning fighters.

The key to a title shot in 2024 seems to involve what you did in 2021 and 2020 more so than what you do in 2023.

Of course Stipe who has not fought in over a year and not won a fight in a few years now will also be granted a title shot this summer despite never being much of a draw even when he was champ and in his prime many years ago.

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Getting suspended for EPO, winning split decisions, losing fights and not competing for a year or two, losing title fights and waiting for immediate rematches without winning fights like the active fighters in the division…this seems like the new ticket to a title shot these days.

Too bad Belal is not 0-2 in title fights and has not competed in the past year, could have set himself up for a title shot if he was not so active. He should consider EPO.

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Yeh too bad he’s a quiet nice guy that just wants to fight. That puts him behind the fake magatard with basically the same fight style as him

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Im British and i am actually gonna root for colby when he face Leon.

Colby getting his 4th title shot while Belal has to fight Shavkat next and has never got a title shot while Colby and Belal have been in the UFC about the same amount of time with the same records is a great example of just how much UFC determines your chances of being able to become champ based on how they handle you.

Look at Chander, enters UFC and goes 1-0 and gets a title shot. He lost his title fight but was given a fight vs Gaethje and it was understood the winner of that fight would be granted their 2nd UFC title fight so UFC was basically offering Chandler 2 cracks at the title within his 1st four fights in the promotion.

Meanwhile with Islam, the guy goes out there and wins four fights in less than a year and Dana tells him he has to take a 5th fight on one weeks notice vs RDA or he is not getting a title shot and he has to wait and go fight Dariush (who had just pulled out of their fight on fight week).

When Maia moved to WW…(after going 8-2 at MW and fighting prime Anderson on short notice) he beat Kim and Story who had good UFC records, then he beat Fitch who was 14-2 in the UFC and had only lost to GSP and Hendricks.

That was at the time UFC gave Diaz the title shot vs GSP after lost to Condit and then didn’t fight for over a year.

Maia could have got a title shot over Diaz there but they of course have their favorites who they try to promote in the title picture.

Nobody like Condit or Diaz had to go through Maia to get their title shots vs GSP. Then Hendricks, Lawler, Woodley, Thompson, etc… none of those guys had to go through Maia to get to their title shots.

For like 5 years there at WW, Maia was a killer who could beat anyone on any given night but UFC just had no interest in having him in the title picture and thats why they didn’t grant him a WW title shot until he was 40 and then they wanted to kill him off and use his name to build Covington and Usman up right after he lost to Woodley. Just like they did with JDS for his last five UFC fights when they booked him vs Ngannou, Blaydes, Gane once he was old and washed and they were in that championship sphere.