Did the UFC dissolve Women's Featherweight division???

[Lionheart7167]

Recently I noticed there are no divisional rankings for Women's Featherweight, and it is not listed on the UFC website. Obviously, there is no current champion, nor are there any identified fighters in the weight class.

Is it fair to say that the division has been dissolved? Has Dana or anyone from the UFC commented on this?

To be fair the division was basically created for Cyborg (now in a different organization) and then maintained by Nunes (now retired).

Anyone heard anything? Are there plans to bring it back? Anything official?

 

[MarkHuntFanboy]

Who cares? It's WMMA. Every WMMA division should be dissolved.

Shame on you for even asking this question.

 

[kfighter]

Who cares? It's WMMA. Every WMMA division should be dissolved.

Shame on you for even asking this question.

 

[Dreyga_King of Sherbums]

Yes, there’s nobody in that division. There are almost no girls in the world that cannot make 135. Even Kayla Harrison is able to make 135. I it is a dead division.

 

[epluribusunum]

Who cares? It's WMMA. Every WMMA division should be dissolved.

Shame on you for even asking this question.

So sayeth the person who comments on WMMA posts (laughing). I think somebody has a "guilty pleasure"!

 

[Shaolin Alan]

It went away all by itself
<{ByeHomer}>

 

[czitos188]

this division is like 7 years old and was made for Cyborg and there was never ranking available for it.

 

[Koala]

Ozempic killed that division

 

[Lord Pyjamas]

They need to get the women less ugly then the men.
It's not a hard equation.

 

[RockyLockridge]

Yes, there’s nobody in that division. There are almost no girls in the world that cannot make 135. Even Kayla Harrison is able to make 135. I it is a dead division.

Personally, this is how womans weight classes should work

Open 105, because it has more talent that 135+ by nature.
then it goes

105
115
125
160

This way, the smallest talent pool (135) becomes as wide as it possibly can be. I can't really think of a "small" WBW fighter that wouldn't benefit from this change. Many fighters have fought between 25 and 35. It would just serve as a more open weight weight class that lets you get attractions like Nunes, Cyborg, Harrison and have them not have to cut weight. They could all make 160 ez and they'd all be without cutting weight so you'd actually get wmma that is remotely watchable.

 

[payton]

Who cares? It's WMMA. Every WMMA division should be dissolved.

Shame on you for even asking this question.

Its pathetic incels like you that give us mma fans a bad name.

 

[Dreyga_King of Sherbums]

Personally, this is how womans weight classes should work

Open 105, because it has more talent that 135+ by nature.
then it goes

105
115
125
160

This way, the smallest talent pool (135) becomes as wide as it possibly can be. I can't really think of a "small" WBW fighter that wouldn't benefit from this change. Many fighters have fought between 25 and 35. It would just serve as a more open weight weight class that lets you get attractions like Nunes, Cyborg, Harrison and have them not have to cut weight. They could all make 160 ez and they'd all be without cutting weight so you'd actually get wmma that is remotely watchable.

I 100% agree with this change. I wish Dana could see this and make these changes. This is the way that WMMA should be. 100% no changes. keep preaching.

 

[dipstickjimmy]

Recently I noticed there are no divisional rankings for Women's Featherweight, and it is not listed on the UFC website. Obviously, there is no current champion, nor are there any identified fighters in the weight class.

Is it fair to say that the division has been dissolved? Has Dana or anyone from the UFC commented on this?

To be fair the division was basically created for Cyborg (now in a different organization) and then maintained by Nunes (now retired).

Anyone heard anything? Are there plans to bring it back? Anything official?

They never had a division. Amanda was paraded around as a double champ yet they didn't even have 10 FWs to list in their "Top 10" like all other divisions.

 

[Domitian]

This is from a year and a half ago. They haven't had any WFW fights in over a year I believe.

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/10078886-dana-white-makes-sense-to-end-ufc-womens-featherweight-division-as-nunes-retires

 

[Khaosan]

There was a women’s FW division?

 

[Ares Black]

There was a women’s FW division?

Not really

 

[RockyLockridge]

There was a women’s FW division?

It was more like a secret challenge stage girls could try if they wanted to quickly get their asses beat

 

[Luffy]

Idk what's been up with the women's divisions. It used to be way more talked about, way more active and with way higher engagement... And it has a lot of potential for very interesting fights, like Zhang Weili vs Tatiana, or a potential move up from Zhang Weili to face contenders like Erin Blanchfield, or even a title match vs Valentina. It has a lot of interesting match ups, but for some reason it's taken a big down... Idk tbh... I think a stronger "women fights suck" started a lot, which is just unfair imo. One of the best fights I've ever watched was Zhang Weili vs Joanna. Rose Namajunas vs Zhang Weili 2 was also a very good fight. Rose vs Manon Fiorot was also pretty good. And that's talking about more recent fights. Idk what's going on... Maybe women are less willing to compete than before is one reason? Btw, dunno.

 

[VinceArch]

It's been dead for a while now, where've you been?

 

[blaseblase]

There never was a real division. The women's featherweight title was only created so Cyborg could be a UFC champion and after she lost and left the UFC the title served solely as an additional accomplishment for Nunes. There's no reason to have the division unless the weight cut starts getting too hard for Kayla.

What they should do is create a women's atomweight division, there are plenty of fighters for that and the standard of attractiveness is much higher.