Middleweight is going to be amazing in 2014!!

Well yeah, when LHW's lose a step they drop down to an easier and less demanding division. MW has always been a refuge for bottom half top 10 and mid-low tier LHW's.

It's still not a strong division, but it looks like it will be more competitive. The only regret i have is that this is happening now that Anderson is apparently in his way out.

Heavyweight is just stacked.
 
A huge factor in why it's happening now is BECAUSE Silva is on his way out. Opportunists see that the belt is no longer held by a seemingly unbeatable champion and they are changing weight classes to take their shot at the much more mortal Weidman.

This is true, but the weight class is also just better now.

The possible MWs for 2014 are actually simply better than the MWs of years past. Machida, Evans, Jacare, Weidman are just better than guys like Okami, Thales Leites, Lutter, Franklin, Cote, etc...

If you compared the top 15 middleweights from 2009 or 2008 to the current 2013 middleweights the difference is startling. Or if you want a laugh, go back to some 2006 rankings and see how far we've come.
 
They all think they deserve a title shot so it needs a strong hand to make them fight one another.
 
Well yeah, when LHW's lose a step they drop down to an easier and less demanding division. MW has always been a refuge for bottom half top 10 and mid-low tier LHW's.

It's still not a strong division, but it looks like it will be more competitive. The only regret i have is that this is happening now that Anderson is apparently in his way out.

The only thing stronger about 205 right now is Jones. If Machida and Evans move down to MW, that makes the division stronger than LHW by far, champion aside.
 
The only thing stronger about 205 right now is Jones. If Machida and Evans move down to MW, that makes the division stronger than LHW by far, champion aside.

So MW is stronger than LHW because fighters that were not conteding or lost at LHW dropped down to it?

K.
 
When people are saying stacked, I take it they mean with star power not quality? Because LW is clearly the most stacked division in terms of quality, but LHW is still probably the most stacked in terms of star quality, but thats fading fast with Tito and Rampage leaving, Machida & possibly Rashad + Chael moving down and Jones making the rest of the division kinda irrelevant. Lol at HW being stacked, its top heavy as hell.
 
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