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as the champion if i could make it harder for guys to fight me i would. makes it easier for me to keep my belt if guys have harder roads to fight me. plus these guys are probably talking shit about me so its also for the lols
being the champ has its perks.
That's exactly the point.
Thankfully, the UFC does a pretty great job at now allowing this to ever happen. So far, Jones attempts to leverage the matchmaking have actually only made thinks harder looking at how easily Gus got the rematch.
However, if this "attitude" is allowed to fester and grow, it will lead to a world in which there are 22 "undefeated world champions" and the #1 p4p fighter in the world refuses to the fight the #2 p4p fighter in the world at the same weight class ala boxing.