Does Sterling get the automatic rematch?

Safton said:
This is my opinion as well. I don't like instant rematches for dethroned champs unless there is some kind of legitimate controversy from the first fight: a closely-contested and super contentious Split Decision, blatant fouls or bad officiating affecting the course of the fight, etc. I don't care how dominant the champ previously was. They could be a 30-0 P4P GOAT with 12 title defenses for all I care, if they get defeated they go back into the queue to work their way back to their title with the rest of the contenders. Beat a Top 5ish guy or two and earn your strap back, champ. I also don't care how much of a "fluke" the fanbase thinks the outcome was or how it was all based on a lucky shot, bad weight cut, or whatever else. Doesn't matter if the champ beats the challenger nine times out of ten: welcome to the one-in-ten timeline. It shouldn't be necessary to defeat every champ twice right away before you even begin building your own legacy as a titleholder and it fucks over the rest of the contenders in the meantime.
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Even GSP and Serra?
 
Vampire life said:
Even GSP and Serra?
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Yes. Even then. Love GSP, think he's GOAT at 170 and a P4P great... but I do my best to be consistent with this line of thinking. GSP was the better fighter overall, but Serra was the better man on the night and won the fight fair and square. He shouldn't have had to do it twice right away just to make it "count".

EDIT: As was pointed out below and which I forgot to mention here, GSP doesn't really work as an example... Georges did it right. He beat two legit guys in Koscheck and Hughes after being upset by Serra before getting his belt back.
 
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Safton said:
Yes. Even then. Love GSP, think he's GOAT at 170 and a P4P great... but I do my best to be consistent with this line of thinking. GSP was the better fighter overall, but Serra was the better man on the night and won the fight fair and square. He shouldn't have had to do it twice right away just to make it "count".
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Have to admit it was a once ina lifetime punch tho - luckiest guy alive lol
Just like Rose kicking Zhang
 
WaylonMercy5150 said:
O'Malley gets the keys to Dana's castle and that mean favorable matchups. O'Malley fights Chito next because he wants to not because it makes sense. Aljo will move up and Merab and Sandy will never get a ts with Sean as champ.
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Well I don't need to make a long post anymore.

You said everything I was going to, down to a T.
 
Please lord, do not make a rematch here. I only ever want to see them when its a close or split decision. If you finish the champ, they should have to fight a top 5 fighter before getting another crack at the belt.
 
Vampire life said:
Have to admit it was a once ina lifetime punch tho - luckiest guy alive lol
Just like Rose kicking Zhang
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I mean, does that outcome happen more often than not? Probably not. But that doesn't really affect anything; if championships were decided by odds alone we wouldn't bother with fights at all lol. MMA is an inherently volatile sport.

I dunno about the Rose comparison. Weili is great, but she can get hurt, Rose is a solid striker when she's on, and Namajunas has two wins over her now.
 
I hate immediate rematches unless it's a draw or *clear* wrong decision.

That said, even within the modern norm of the challenger needing 7 or 8 wins to "really" win the belt from a champion, it doesn't make much sense. Aljo didn't seem to be a draw, wasn't a hyper dominant champion (although probably the best, marginally so and riding an unusual amount of breaks during his reign), etc...
 
Safton said:
Yes. Even then. Love GSP, think he's GOAT at 170 and a P4P great... but I do my best to be consistent with this line of thinking. GSP was the better fighter overall, but Serra was the better man on the night and won the fight fair and square. He shouldn't have had to do it twice right away just to make it "count".
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GSP fought twice before getting a second fight with Serra. Can't recall why Serra never fought anyone in the mean time, but GSP earned his next shot
 
Safton said:
This is my opinion as well. I don't like instant rematches for dethroned champs unless there is some kind of legitimate controversy from the first fight: a closely-contested and super contentious Split Decision, blatant fouls or bad officiating affecting the course of the fight, etc. I don't care how dominant the champ previously was. They could be a 30-0 P4P GOAT with 12 title defenses for all I care, if they get defeated they go back into the queue to work their way back to their title with the rest of the contenders. Beat a Top 5ish guy or two and earn your strap back, champ. I also don't care how much of a "fluke" the fanbase thinks the outcome was or how it was all based on a lucky shot, bad weight cut, or whatever else. Doesn't matter if the champ beats the challenger nine times out of ten: welcome to the one-in-ten timeline. It shouldn't be necessary to defeat every champ twice right away before you even begin building your own legacy as a titleholder and it fucks over the rest of the contenders in the meantime.
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Well said.
 
The Dissolution of Aljo is complete. He shall be brushed aside until he proves himself of further use. That showing against Sean was shameful for the purported "Goat" of bantamweight he really had nothing to offer him.
 
Safton said:
I don't like instant rematches for dethroned champs unless there is some kind of legitimate controversy from the first fight: a closely-contested and super contentious Split Decision, blatant fouls or bad officiating affecting the course of the fight, etc. I don't care how dominant the champ previously was. They could be a 30-0 P4P GOAT with 12 title defenses for all I care, if they get defeated they go back into the queue to work their way back to their title with the rest of the contenders. Beat a Top 5ish guy or two and earn your strap back, champ. I also don't care how much of a "fluke" the fanbase thinks the outcome was or how it was all based on a lucky shot, bad weight cut, or whatever else. Doesn't matter if the champ beats the challenger nine times out of ten: welcome to the one-in-ten timeline. It shouldn't be necessary to defeat every champ twice right away before you even begin building your own legacy as a titleholder and it fucks over the rest of the contenders in the meantime.
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IDL said:
GSP fought twice before getting a second fight with Serra. Can't recall why Serra never fought anyone in the mean time, but GSP earned his next shot
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Yes, he did, which I should have made more clear. I assume Vampire was talking more in hypotheticals using GSP versus Serra as the benchmark of "what about XYZ dominant champ who got caught?" so I answered the premise as such. He could have easily used Nunes vs. Pena and I would have said the same thing. I actually like that GSP did in fact beat two legit guys to earn his way back to the strap, I'm just saying I feel that should be the norm is all.
 
IDL said:
GSP fought twice before getting a second fight with Serra. Can't recall why Serra never fought anyone in the mean time, but GSP earned his next shot
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Serra was hurt. He had a back surgery.

He says he really wasn't even good to go when he finally fought and was never the same, (but at that point if he didn't fight he would have been stripped) which I tend to believe if you look at how he moved prior to GSP1 and in his fights after that.

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Iirc GSP fought Koscheck and then beat Hughes for interim title while Serra was out.

That's how it was back then. Lose your title, go beat 2 CONTENDERS. *


Rich Franklin beat Jason MacDonald and then had to beat Ushin Okami in a #1 contender fight to get a rematch with Anderson.


Matt Hughes, even with 5 title defenses had to beat Renato Verissimo, then got to fight for the belt because BJ had vacated.






* Unless you are BJ Penn or Randy Couture.
 
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ragreynolds said:
No, and he definitely doesn't deserve it. I don't even like immediate rematches for dominant champions, and Aljo was anything but that. He was dominant against one-armed TJ, but that's literally it. His other two title defenses were controversial split-decisions that could have gone either way. Plus, he won the belt by DQ in a fight he was on track to losing.
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I thought he dominated cejudo. not sure what everyone else saw i saw 4-1 to sterling with cejudo only winning round 5. but whatevs.
 
Vampire life said:
Seems like every time a champ loses they run it back these days
They were touting Sterling as the “ best bw of all time “ and “ dominant champion “
He was talking about moving up- why would volk take that fight now?
He got tko’d- does that factor in?
So does he go to the back of the line or get that rematch?
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Does aljo take an instant rematch? He promised merab it was his turn after THAT fight is he going to kick his teammate back out?
 
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