Do you think colby will sign a fight soon? SHould his ranking be stripped?

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He ducked ian garry.

He called out Oliveira for ww fight and is now claiming oliveira ducked him by staying a lw.

He is trying to start with oretga now and supposedly looking to fight mvp if he beats ian garry.

The guy is currently ranked #4 and refuses to fight any ranked ww. Should the ufc just strip his ranking?
 
Colby has no more value since he won't defend his rank or take tough fights. Cut him. Let him go be Bellator or PFL's problem, or Karate Combat whatever.
 
Don't really care for Colby but he fought in December. Just over 6 months ago. We are nowhere close to a period of time yet where his ranking should be taken away lol.
 
Domitian said:
Hasn't won a fight in a year? That's not going to work out my guy. Now, if they haven't took a fight at all that would make more sense.
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What's your problem with it? If they haven't beaten an opponent in a year and get dropped from the rankings that's incentive for them. And would avoid scenarios like Tony getting 5 top 10 opponents in a row.
 
blaseblase said:
What's your problem with it? If they haven't beaten an opponent in a year and get dropped from the rankings that's incentive for them. And would avoid scenarios like Tony getting 5 top 10 opponents in a row.
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So if the #3 guy takes a fight and loses to another top 5 guy he should lose his ranking altogether?
 
Rankings don't matter
 
I don't know about stripped ranking there is absolutely no fucking reason he should be anywhere near the top 5. Bottom of the top 10 IMO.
 
Domitian said:
So if the #3 guy takes a fight and loses to another top 5 guy he should lose his ranking altogether?
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Yes. He will still have his name value and now he has incentive to fight someone outside the top 5. If he hasn't won in a calendar year he should have to earn his status back. This would prevent rank squatting.
 
blaseblase said:
Yes. He will still have his name value and now he has incentive to fight someone outside the top 5. If he hasn't won in a calendar year he should have to earn his status back. This would prevent rank squatting.
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I think there's some potential problems with this. We don't need to see guys who we know are top 10 caliber fighting guys ranked 25th in rather pointless fights. At LW it might work out, at LHW and HW it would be a disaster. A better solution seems to be to just strip guys of their rank if they haven't fought in a certain amount of time, like 12 months as you bring up. Maybe if they haven't won a fight in say, 24 months might work better.
 
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Colby v. Kelvin, openweight. Loser leaves town, winner gets a lifetime supply of BBQ and spray cheese.
 
blaseblase said:
What's your problem with it? If they haven't beaten an opponent in a year and get dropped from the rankings that's incentive for them. And would avoid scenarios like Tony getting 5 top 10 opponents in a row.
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Usman hasn't won in several years, Belal hasn't won in over a year, Colby, Burns, Wonderboy, Neal. That's 6 of the top 10 gone if that's the criteria, Leon went more than a year between beating Nate Diaz and getting a title shot. Volk expires in 2 weeks at FW, Pavlovich is gone, Jamahal Hill is gone.

That sounds like a great way to have everybody just avoid any fight they could lose and for champs to just ride out the clock until any tough contender just gets removed.
 
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