Dana's Nightmare? What Would the WORST Line Up of Champions Look Like Right Now?

[Deleted member 585708]

By worst I mean generically least popular (rightly or wrongly).
Is it this?

HW: Jon Jones
LHW: Jan Blachowicz
MW: Nassourdine Imavov
WW: Belal Muhammad
LW: Mateusz Gamrot
FW: Movsar Evloev
BW: Merab Dvalishvili
FLW: Amir Albazi

WBW: Raquel Pennington
WFW: Erin Blanchfield
WSW: Virna Jandiroba

(Picking only top 5 fighters)

Obviously guys like Jones and Jan because they're inactive as hell and close to retirement, the rest because they're largely completely unmarketable and/or have an anti-DWCS fighting style.
Anyone you think Dana would worry about more?
Some of them feel quite harsh...

 

[Luthien]

You nailed it

 

[Carrotman23]

People love Jan. For LHW it would definitely be Rakic lol.

 

[krelianx]

LHW is Ankalaev.

 

[Bubzeh]

I think he’d resign in the cage if Jandiroba won the Strawweight belt.

 

[Poatan]

Machavchev
Ankalaev
Sharaputin
Omar nurmanegomadov
All these guys fight once a year and only in Abu dhabi.

 

[Brigfa2]

This looks like the wet dream of muslims, switch Jan with Ankalaev

 

[HHJ]

I think he’d resign in the cage if Jandiroba won the Strawweight belt.

If it was coming to that he wouldnt give her the shot in the first place.

 

[Deleted member 585708]

If it was coming to that he wouldnt give her the shot in the first place.

Honestly, she's looking like deserving it!

I kinda like her, but I can see all the reasons...

 

[HHJ]

Honestly, she's looking like deserving it!

I kinda like her, but I can see all the reasons...

Im just saying she is probably gonna get the shot. It aint like they been hiding her. They gave her a main event on the fight night

 

[Domitian]

Almeida at HW. Dana probably gets nervous putting him at the top of a card after that BB performance.

 

[Question]

At middleweight, I'd say Caio
UFC seem to really not like the guy

 

[Deleted member 585708]

At middleweight, I'd say Caio
UFC seem to really not like the guy

Really? I believe you, but I haven't noticed.

Also, he's awesome!

 

[Question]

Really? I believe you, but I haven't noticed.

Also, he's awesome!

I feel like the matchmakers aren't big fans of his, like he's 16-1 and ranked number twelve right now
But on the way there(from 2021-23), he had to win two DWCS fights and five UFC fights before getting a ranked opponent offered to him in a pretty thin division that definitely needs some new blood

 

[Lord Pyjamas]

I read it as geriatrically at first and it kinda made sense.
You managed to make it quite horrible for Dana anyway.

 

[filthybliss]

Gane, Jan, Shara or Khamzat, Belal, Conor, Ortega, Aljo and Kape.

Mixed it up with inactive fighters and ones with unpopular fight styles. Since, Dana loves his ticket sales.

 

[Hyperborea]

I always forget Jan beat Izzy and got robbed against Periera.

 

[suizuri]

I feel like the matchmakers aren't big fans of his, like he's 16-1 and ranked number twelve right now
But on the way there(from 2021-23), he had to win two DWCS fights and five UFC fights before getting a ranked opponent offered to him in a pretty thin division that definitely needs some new blood

not disagreeing with you but maybe they were then kinda cherry-picking for him instead? so maybe they were doing it because they liked the guy and not otherwise?

 

[Daelh]

Machavchev
Ankalaev
Sharaputin
Omar nurmanegomadov
All these guys fight once a year and only in Abu dhabi.

Islam literally fought three times in 2021, two times in 2022 and 2023. Blatant lies on your part.

 

[Hdfi]

HW: Jailton. Dana loves Jones or he would have promoted Aspinall as the real champion a long time ago.
LHW: Ankalaev
MW: Jack (because of inactivity)
WW: Belal Muhammad
LW: idk
FW: Evloev
BW: Petr Yan
FLW: Mokaev

WBW: Raquel Pennington
WFW: idk
WSW: Virna Jandiroba