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Not really. He was stripped of the 145 title so, the only title he should be defending is the 155 title which he got last November. Nice clickbait title.
now, lets look at what he did. after the aldo fight he fucked off and fought nate...twice...two weight classes above where he held the belt and outside of nates weightclass as well, so these were completely meaningless bouts, as if cain velasquez had a grudge against his dad and held the division up for almost a year (11 months between the aldo fight and the alvarez fight), having two grudge matches with his dad, just for vanity reasons.
then he got a new belt, and took 9 months off because he was preggo (unheard of for male fighters), and then he fucked off to fight floyd, which was three months ago, and he's now talking about not coming back until april, which is more than four months away
so basically its the same bullshit from him regardless of weightclass. what if they stripped his FW belt straight after the aldo fight, since as it turned out he was never going to fight there ever again? and now here we are, a year since he won the lightweight belt and he still doesnt have a fight booked although he has been fucking around in other sports.
i get it - he gets to keep the belt because the ufc makes more money with things this way. does that make it right though?