The most difficult road to the title vs Dana White Privilege

Let's not forget that the UFC, by my definition, fixed the Aljo fight for O'Malley:

First, they scheduled the fight knowing Aljo was injured and when he asked to delay it so he could get surgery, which would delay the fight by 3 months, threatened to strip him for not fighting O'Malley, while injured, as O'Malley would be peaking from his full fight camp.

Then, when Aljo tried to fight O'Malley immediately so that neither he nor O'Malley would have an advantage, they refused to allow it and forced an injured Aljo to fight O'Malley on O'Malley's schedule, when O'Malley would be peaking.

In a championship fight, which can hinge entirely on inches and a single mistake, Aljo was done incredibly dirty by the UFC... I don't know why we're not up in arms about this fight rigging.
 
Alpha_T83 said:
The hardest road for the title right now is Evloev @ 145 pounds.

At 9-0 in the UFC with 0 finishes, the UFC seem intent on denying him forever.
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and Alex even friggin called him out! but they might do Alex vs Yair 2 again because reasons. what a stupid joke.
i dont even LIKE Movsar and i want him to get a title shot. its similar to how i felt about Belal before he got his title shot.
 
Alpha_T83 said:
Eh? Isn't Jean Silva 5-0 in the UFC?

DWCS doesn't count it's not the UFC.
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Yep 5-0 in UFC, 6-0 If they count contender.

Unless Mosvar got some sort of ironclad guarantee in the contract for a title fight with a win over Pico it feels like they will skip him again for Silva.
 
Alpha_T83 said:
The hardest road for the title right now is Evloev @ 145 pounds.

At 9-0 in the UFC with 0 finishes, the UFC seem intent on denying him forever.
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you never know they might have offered him a title fight durring ramadan, he might have said no and it went to lopes. That's how it is, Then they use that to further box him out.
 
Meathead Jock said:
Yep 5-0 in UFC, 6-0 If they count contender.

Unless Mosvar got some sort of ironclad guarantee in the contract for a title fight with a win over Pico it feels like they will skip him again for Silva.
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I wouldn't be surprised.
 
I will always be pissed of by how Gegard Mousasi did not get a fair try for the title!
But I might also just like him because he is so weird.
 
don't ask said:
Let's not forget that the UFC, by my definition, fixed the Aljo fight for O'Malley:

First, they scheduled the fight knowing Aljo was injured and when he asked to delay it so he could get surgery, which would delay the fight by 3 months, threatened to strip him for not fighting O'Malley, while injured, as O'Malley would be peaking from his full fight camp.

Then, when Aljo tried to fight O'Malley immediately so that neither he nor O'Malley would have an advantage, they refused to allow it and forced an injured Aljo to fight O'Malley on O'Malley's schedule, when O'Malley would be peaking.

In a championship fight, which can hinge entirely on inches and a single mistake, Aljo was done incredibly dirty by the UFC... I don't know why we're not up in arms about this fight rigging.
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Thats soft rigging compared to the hard rigging but i agree that it must exist and be deliberate imo


They micromanage everythibg except anything thatll disturb their racket
 
Alpha_T83 said:
The hardest road for the title right now is Evloev @ 145 pounds.

At 9-0 in the UFC with 0 finishes, the UFC seem intent on denying him forever.
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He doesn't do himself any favors. While being very technical, he doesn't have a fan friendly style and seems to avoid going for submissions or throw any heat in his ground and pound. He's also not terribly active. I can't think of many worse situations the UFC could put themselves in than loading up the belts with inactive champions.
 
Skarsgard said:
He doesn't do himself any favors. While being very technical, he doesn't have a fan friendly style and seems to avoid going for submissions or throw any heat in his ground and pound. He's also not terribly active. I can't think of many worse situations the UFC could put themselves in than loading up the belts with inactive champions.
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Honestly I'm not against finishes counting for title shots. The problem is you need a mathematical formula to quantify it, and that becomes very difficult.

MMA is sports entertainment, not amateur sport. I do think fighters should be punished for "fighting not to lose" rather than fighting to finish the fight. But that's a qualitative argument, which you somehow need to quantify to actually make a policy. And converting those qualitative ideas into quantifiable criteria is very difficult.
 
don't ask said:
Let's not forget that the UFC, by my definition, fixed the Aljo fight for O'Malley:

First, they scheduled the fight knowing Aljo was injured and when he asked to delay it so he could get surgery, which would delay the fight by 3 months, threatened to strip him for not fighting O'Malley, while injured, as O'Malley would be peaking from his full fight camp.

Then, when Aljo tried to fight O'Malley immediately so that neither he nor O'Malley would have an advantage, they refused to allow it and forced an injured Aljo to fight O'Malley on O'Malley's schedule, when O'Malley would be peaking.

In a championship fight, which can hinge entirely on inches and a single mistake, Aljo was done incredibly dirty by the UFC... I don't know why we're not up in arms about this fight rigging.
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don't forget the early stoppage in the title fight

also suga being gifted the decision against yan to set him up for the title shot.
 
Like 95% of the time we get one of these threads about "guys on long win streaks not getting title fights" you look at their wins and their best win turns out to be like #8.

Then you look at the comparison fighter getting one on only a few wins and they're coming off beating top 5 fighter(s).

Like no shit.
 
I love the dorky posters who think every passing thought they have needs a thread. You couldn't squeeze this nugget of wisdom into any of the threads about this event lol. Lame asf
 
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