2 wrongs don’t make a right, plus totally different situations.
DJ’s division was and is dead in North America.
He has been able to thrive in a much more popular market.
Max is very popular as is his division.
He can go to Bellator when he’s 45 if he wants to keep fighting then.
He doesn’t deserve that now.
And as much as Coker loves his old washed UFC stars, he isn’t about to trade his own young homegrown one for someone on the backend. Max isn’t even washed either.
Who would they trade Max for, Pitbull? He’s 4 years older, has been fighting 6 more years, and he also doesn’t speak English very well. It doesn’t seem like a worthwhile trade. Pitbull is likely to fall off sooner than Max And is less popular.
Yea, but 13 fights of styling on Ray Borg and Wilson Reis. Anyone looking at his streak with any semblance of nuance realized he was competing with nowhere near the level of competition as the heavier divisions. He either lost to or avoided his best competition. With all due respect to a great fighter, with context, he should have never been in a p4p discussion.
Excellent point. He dominated a very thin division that UFC never put much effort into building. I mean, Tim Elliott was one of his title defenses… It’s not DJ’s fault that the division was thin but he doesn’t have the resume to be on the level of the GOATs.