Current Championship Reigns + Defenses

[WoozyFailGuy]

Notice how only one is smiling...​

 

[blaseblase]

Where did you get that picture? Jones has the same stoic look on his face as the others on the UFC website.

 

[don't ask]

ahahaha this is great, I'm stealing this for my noob champs thread

 

[WoozyFailGuy]

Where did you get that picture? Jones has the same stoic look on his face as the others on the UFC website.

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[don't ask]

I just realized the pic is inaccurate, Grasso has 1 defence. Here's the first source I pulled up to confirm it: https://www.sportskeeda.com/mma/ufc-champions

 

[Only Here for Attachments]

Looks like the meta is grind to become UFC champ and then coast.

 

[WoozyFailGuy]

I just realized the pic is inaccurate, Grasso has 1 defence. Here's the first source I pulled up to confirm it: https://www.sportskeeda.com/mma/ufc-champions

I don't think it counts as a defense if the title is retained in a draw, since we use the specific terminology "retained in a draw", but I didn't make the picture anyway

Looks like the meta is grind to become UFC champ and then coast.

That's certainly what it feels like these days...we used to have units like Hughes who would defend 3x a years. Poatan is the first fighter I can think of the last decade that will have fought three times in a single year.

 

[AldoStillGoat]

Looks like the meta is grind to become UFC champ and then coast.

Can the UFC force fighters to take fights as a champ? Conor is coasting right now and the UFC can't do anything about it so I guess that is what UFC champs are doing as well. Holding onto the belt as long as they can to make as much sponsorship money as they can.

I wonder if the UFC is cool with it or if they are trying to get them to fight as soon as possible. Does it help them to let their champs get some name recognition by squatting on the title for a bit to bring legitimacy to the belt? I can't imagine it is beneficial if the title is jumping around from fighter to fighter....

 

[AmonTobin]

Where did you get that picture? Jones has the same stoic look on his face as the others on the UFC website.

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It's a smile that says "I know something you don't know".
540 days and no defenses is hilarious btw.
Not often we get to see an IC with more defenses than the C. What a joke.

 

[JKS]

Jon is only one smiling is hilarious. Possible photoshop?

 

[Kowboy On Sherdog]

 

[fortheo]

Notice how only one is smiling...​

Yes, also notice how innactive weili is? what is going on there? Also, Grasso's draw over shev is a defense. Draws are defenses as the challenger didn't do enough to take the belt. If tbeybretain the belt, by draw, dq, whatever, it is a defense.

 

[Only Here for Attachments]

Can the UFC force fighters to take fights as a champ?

Well, we can assume that fighters have an obligation to fight for the UFC as much as UFC has an obligation to make fights. They (being UFC) could always allege that a fighter is breaching the contract, but then they'd have to go to court and prove that the fighter is willingly and knowingly acting in bad faith. Which is why there's a clause that the UFC can unilaterally end a contract whenever because they don't want to deal with courts and the publicity of same.

Disclaimer: all of my experience with contracts is through real estate, and 95% was handled by my brokerage's contract lawyer.

 

[CrimsonFan]

Everyone always complains that champions don't ever rack up defenses..

But in todays UFC, they're not even giving these guys the chance. I mean you'd have to be champion for 10 years straight to tie Anderson's record at the rate these guys are fighting. Averaging 1 fight a year it seems.

 

[ElLunico]

They dont make champions like Adesanya and Volk anymore. Most champions today want to sit on the belt and rack up years with the belt instead of title defenses.

 

[joy2day]

There are obvious profit motivations for staying champ for as long as possible. Your name earns more passive as well as active income when you can say you are the champ, even if you don't fight for long periods. I could see why a fighter would want to maximize that, especially one that isn't as good as one or more of the contenders in their division; it would look like an unnecessary risk to fight more than once a year from that perspective.

 

[don't ask]

I don't think it counts as a defense if the title is retained in a draw, since we use the specific terminology "retained in a draw", but I didn't make the picture anyway

Huh. That's a damn good point. Ignore it, my bad.

 

[Paolo Delutis]

There are obvious profit motivations for staying champ for as long as possible. Your name earns more passive as well as active income when you can say you are the champ, even if you don't fight for long periods. I could see why a fighter would want to maximize that, especially one that isn't as good as one or more of the contenders in their division; it would look like an unnecessary risk to fight more than once a year from that perspective.

Thats a pretty soft mentality to have...


You are either the "man " or your not...

Champions should be stomping out all contenders to his crown as quickly as possible so he may raise his renown and establish his lands for generations to come..

Only a coward worries about defeat before the battle has even begun ...

 

[joy2day]

Thats a pretty soft mentality to have...


You are either the "man " or your not...

Champions should be stomping out all contenders to his crown as quickly as possible so he may raise his renown and establish his lands for generations to come..

Only a coward worries about defeat before the battle has even begun ...

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Yes, I am going to say you are right that these champions will never match the warrior spirit of Maximus; Internet generation softies. I say we separate the men from the boys- those with real commitment will go to gladiator combat, and the wussies that remain can fight with their fists. What do you say?

 

[BJJ4Tone]

Notice how only one is smiling...​