Joseph Benavidez & Wilson Reis Are Looking to Fight Each Other in April/May

[peterparker66]

Looks like Wilson is looking to leap frog everyone to get that title shot after Cejudo

 

[RedCansLoom16]

No, it would not make sense. It would be another easy ass fight for Joe B. 'Grappler with worse striking' makes up the majority of Benavidez' win streak (Elliot, Ortiz, Bagautinov, Makovsky). No reason to see the exact same match up again, we know how that ends.
Horiguchi is the fight. Scoggins would've been a nice match up too but they put him in a stupid match up already

Nah because if Horiguchi wins(very possible) its too soon for him to get another crack and that would leave nobody after Cejudo gets his shot. With Benavidez/Reis you are guaranteed the next contender. I get that ppl aren't all that interested in the 3rd Benavidez fight, but it's not like the FLW division sells anyways. And I don't want to see Scoggins thrown in there quite yet.

DJ/Cejudo
Benavidez/Reis
Formiga/Bagautinov
Moraga/Horiguchi
Makovsky/McCall
Scoggins/Nguyen
Pettis/Smolka
Ortiz/Kelades
Borg/Serrano or Martinez


If McCall and Formiga win they can rematch with the winner getting a shot(DJ hasn't fought Formiga & obviously has history with McCall).

That would basically do it for DJ's title defenses in 2016 and then guys like Scoggins, Pettis or Smolka will be looking for title shots in 2017 + hopefully there's some new blood coming(although they don't really sign FLW's so who knows).