Plan B for main events

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The UFC could make a plan B for all main events, one or two fighters not on the card but designated and willing to train and be ready to step in if either of the scheduled main event fighters pulls out. The substitute fighters might have to be compensated for their extra work, but at least the scramble to find someone-anyone to step in, with mismatches sometimes resulting, would be avoided, and the whole last minute change of advertising etc. would be less. And the "they just rolled off the couch" excuse would go away.
 
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Keep Dan Henderson on standby for all HW, LHW and MW title fights

Keep Cowboy on standby for WW and LW

Keep Faber on standby for BW and FW

Who cares about FLW
 
vladimir said:
The UFC could make a plan B for all main events, one or two fighters not on the card but designated and willing to train and be ready to step in if either of the scheduled main event fighters pulls out. The substitute fighters might have to be compensated for their extra work, but at least the scramble to find someone-anyone to step in, with mismatches sometimes resulting, would be avoided, and the whole last minute change of advertising etc. would be less. And the "they just rolled off the couch" excuse would go away.
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I agree to the extent that any title fight should also include another high level matchup at the same weight class. In the event one of the main eventer's withdraws a person can be plucked from the other card.

The "backup" card could usually consist of one top 5 guy and another guy in the top 15ish.

So, for the Jones/Cormier fight, they could have had the Glover/Rashad fight as the backup.

Even the Rockhold/Weidman card doesn't have another high quality Middleweight match. The Belfort/Souza fight could have been on that.

OR...at the least, have the "B" match the NEXT card after the title. So, schedule the Belfort/Souza at UFC 199 or 200, not at 198 so one of the two on the next card can possibly ramp up a couple weeks ahead.
 
There's a novel idea that's never been brought up. Wait....


Not to mention, they already do that very thing on occasion.
 
So is the UFC paying for all these training camps? No one is going to train their butts off just to possibly be in a main event to fight someone. I think what they do is the best way to do it. Get fighters willing to take fights on short notice because they will be down to put on a good show most likely.
 
You think paying fighters to train for a possible fight is a logical solution? Would you agree to an alternate form of employment for a possible paycheck?
 
Beyond terrible idea. It basically just locks a guy out until a certain fight happens, what if he isn't needed? When does he get a fight where he's not the fill in fighter? It's not going to be immediately because guys want to train for specific fighters not just general skillset shit. Then who is his second? It just goes down further and further with no real return. It sounds good in theory, just have a guy on standby for fights that fall through, but, like most things in MMA, this requires a misunderstanding of what it is to prepare for a fight and to keep active.
 
How's that fair? Do the guys booked to fight have to train for the backup fighter too, since the backup fighter is training specifically for them?
 
Jon Forrler said:
You think paying fighters to train for a possible fight is a logical solution? Would you agree to an alternate form of employment for a possible paycheck?
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I imagine the UFC loses money on every pullout, more on every fight cancellation, and a lot more on a card cancellations. What the average per year is, I don't know. Nor do I know how much they'd be spending on average for stand-by compensation. If as someone else posted this idea is already implemented or well known, then presumably the math has been done (and I apologize for rehashing.) Not sure what the "alternate form" is about - I don't know of any UFC fighters who have other jobs going; all they do is what they'd be asked to do for a stand-by job. Would the only pay be the purse? - that's not what I'm suggesting.
 
As far as fighters having to fight someone different than prepared for, that's happening the way it is now.

Hey Fullmount, good reply. And amen to Fuck Cancer.
 
If these two imaginary fighters are good enough to step in for a main event why dont they just sign them to a main event in the first place
 
At least your mom probably loves you
 
its never gonna happen
 
Problem would be everyone's gotta agree to the last min changes in opponents and as mentioned before, who's paying for the prep work?
 
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