A look at how many rematches have taken place recently

[fordman7795]

With McG/Diaz rematch looming here is a look into title fight rematches. This is just title fights that were a rematch but the original fight could have been non title. I picked the point at which to start so not every single title fight is included. The date posted is the point at which I started. It was the start of the division for the lighter classes or a recent dominant champ for others.

Flyweight 9-22-12 2 of 8 fights have been rematches (mouse/dodson, mouse/benavidez)
Bantamweight 7-2-11 2 of 10 fight have been rematches (faber/barao barao/dillashaw; cruz/faber booked)
Featherweight 4-30-11 1 of 8 fights have been rematches (aldo/mendes; non title McG/diaz rematch near booked)
Lightweight 4-10-10 4 of 11 fights have been rematches (edgar/penn edgar/maynard edgar/henderson pettis/henderson) maynard is acceptable because of the draw
Welterweight 12-29-07 5 of 15 fights have been rematches (gsp/hughes gsp/serra gsp/penn lawler/hendricks lawler/macdonald)
Middleweight 10-14-06 3 of 16 fights have been rematches (silva/franklin silva/sonnen weidman/silva; rockhold/weidman rematch booked)
Light HWeight 3-19-11 0 of 11 fights have been rematches (cormier/jones rematched booked but acceptable because jones is making comeback fight)
Heavyweight 11-12-11 3 of 7 fights have been rematches (cain/bigfoot cain/jds cain/jds; werdum/cain rematch was booked but both ducked each other with injuries)

womens bw 2-23-13 1 of 8 fights have been rematches (rousey/tate; tate is expected to rematch holm and/or rousey this year)
womens stw 12-12-14 0 of 4 fights have been rematches


23% of men's title fights in this group have been rematches. The women's division is too young to have many rematches.


TL;DR A lot of rematches

 

[Tamriel Terror]

the amount of rematches is to damn high!

 

[Jorge Luis Borges]

I heard they found an ancient inscription scratched on the walls of the Colosseum in Rome that read rursus in pugna mala est, which means something like rematches suck.