He's SPOT ON about Bellator not that arsed about building fighters. That used to be what made the organisation interesting. Tournaments filled with guys you wouldn't necessarily know about unless you spend every waking moment watching low-level promotions with dominant fighters topping the league.
Now it's about signing big-money former UFC fighters with very little long-term gain, and using jobstains with 4-3 records from whatever city they visit, to pad out the prelims.
Brennan Ward's a good fighter, flawed, but good. He gets a lot of exposure coz he's considered a Bellator product. Tamdan was a UFC 'reject' in some ways, who took a massive layoff and promptly returned to decimate some of Bellator's stock guys. They clearly didn't have much interest in him, the same way the UFC throws former Bellator top dogs to the wolves.
See? Politics happen in every MMA promotion.
It sucks, it does. But it's a reality and some posters on this board need to realise it's not only Zuffa that does this kind of stuff.
He'll do fine in the UFC. He won't win the belt - if you're a realist, which again, few here are:
Bellator - Brandon Halsey, Kendall Grove, Doug Marshall, Rafael Carvalho, Joe Schilling, Histaki Kato, Bryan Rogers, Ben Reiter.
UFC - Chris Weidman, Luke Rockhold, (potentially Anderson Silva) Jacare, Yoel Romero, Michael Bisping, Thales Leites, Dan Henderson, Derek Brunson, Tim Boetsch, Robert Whittaker, Lyoto Machida, Elias Theodorou, Josh Samman.....
Scoff all you like at Elias, Samman, Whittaker....any of those dudes would give Brandon Halsey a tougher fight than Kendall fucking Grove or Doug fucking Marshall, let alone the Rogers of the Bellator world.
If you're serious about your career, you want to be tested. McCrory vs. Josh Samman would be a UFC FN Prelim headliner and a way tougher fight than Tamdan fighting some 8-4 dude from Oklahoma to open the dark matches in Bellator.
Sensible business decision from an intelligent, talented, fairly young fighter who wants to truly test himself instead of fighting nobodies with poor records before getting a title-shot that means less than beating say, Jacare, in the big league.