UFC matchmaking has been horrible lately

Corrado Soprano

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There must be an unlimited supply of Bud Light at the UFC headquarters because that would explain the horrible matchmaking lately. We have Jon Jones taking on a 45 year old shot Stipe who hasn’t fought in 3+ years. Stipe’s last match was a brutal KO loss. They’re bypassing a championship unification to make this atrocity.

We have Nick Diaz vs Vincent Luque. Diaz’s movement was like a Roblox character his last fight. Nick unfortunately got hooked into partying and there are stories of him becoming an alcoholic the last few years.

Next we have Tony Ferguson vs Michael Chiesa. If CTE were gold rings, Tony Ferguson is Sonic The Hedgehog. Chiesa is best known for someone talking about his mother.

Lastly we have Usman vs Shavkat. Usman is coming off a bunch of losses and Shavkat is a title contender. Sad to see Usman being used as a stepping stone.
 
Definitely not the best choices. BUT They are obligated to offer Diaz fights, he accepted this one, who knows why though. Shavkat I feel does need one fight to not fall into obscurity cause MMA fans are stupid and this will help but I feel like anyone could've been better than Usman. Tony needs to be let go cause he'll keep on accepting fights, unfortunately and Jon vs Stipe... yeah, no one wants that.
 
Corrado Soprano said:
There must be an unlimited supply of Bud Light at the UFC headquarters because that would explain the horrible matchmaking lately. We have Jon Jones taking on a 45 year old shot Stipe who hasn’t fought in 3+ years. Stipe’s last match was a brutal KO loss. They’re bypassing a championship unification to make this atrocity.

We have Nick Diaz vs Vincent Luque. Diaz’s movement was like a Roblox character his last fight. Nick unfortunately got hooked into partying and there are stories of him becoming an alcoholic the last few years.

Next we have Tony Ferguson vs Michael Chiesa. If CTE were gold rings, Tony Ferguson is Sonic The Hedgehog. Chiesa is best known for someone talking about his mother.

Lastly we have Usman vs Shavkat. Usman is coming off a bunch of losses and Shavkat is a title contender. Sad to see Usman being used as a stepping stone.
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The talent pool is very shallow and watered down now. There are very few skilled and elite fighters. Most fighters are middle of the road guys with marginal talent and abilities. Anytime you have over saturation it is a bad thing unless you are under the sheets Alexa Grasso
 
Usman/Shavkat is just the only fight you can give Shavkat and Usman has only lost the belt in 2 close fights with Leon since at WW, so unfair to say it's a bad match.

Nick/Luque is a loser leaves town kind of match, 2 guys who don't look like they have it in them to win anymore. So they are trying to let someone get a W.

Tony/Chiesa is just the situation with Tony where he's popular enough they don't want to let him go to a competitor org, so they are trying to give him more of a grappler that is out of his prime too.

These matches seem decent.
 
Corrado Soprano said:
There must be an unlimited supply of Bud Light at the UFC headquarters because that would explain the horrible matchmaking lately. We have Jon Jones taking on a 45 year old shot Stipe who hasn’t fought in 3+ years. Stipe’s last match was a brutal KO loss. They’re bypassing a championship unification to make this atrocity.

We have Nick Diaz vs Vincent Luque. Diaz’s movement was like a Roblox character his last fight. Nick unfortunately got hooked into partying and there are stories of him becoming an alcoholic the last few years.

Next we have Tony Ferguson vs Michael Chiesa. If CTE were gold rings, Tony Ferguson is Sonic The Hedgehog. Chiesa is best known for someone talking about his mother.

Lastly we have Usman vs Shavkat. Usman is coming off a bunch of losses and Shavkat is a title contender. Sad to see Usman being used as a stepping stone.
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Jones/Stipe is only bad cause it's holding up the HW division. As a match up, as a name vs name - it's phenomenal.

Nick/Luque is the dream fight of... 2019, but hard to defend now. I'm still interested, though.

Chiesa/Tony is kinda sad.

Usman/Shavkat is awesome. I'm not sure what you're on about there. For Usman to not back down from these kinds of match ups alone is fucking awesome.
 
UFC has always had a lot of talent but honestly something I don't feel has ever impressed me is their matchmaking.
 
Corrado Soprano said:
Lastly we have Usman vs Shavkat. Usman is coming off a bunch of losses and Shavkat is a title contender. Sad to see Usman being used as a stepping stone.
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This fight isn't a reality, but if it were it would be awesome. Usman ain't no stepping stone, he did great against Khamzat up a weight class on short notice, imo he got robbed of a 28-28 draw
 
Corrado Soprano said:
There must be an unlimited supply of Bud Light at the UFC headquarters because that would explain the horrible matchmaking lately. We have Jon Jones taking on a 45 year old shot Stipe who hasn’t fought in 3+ years. Stipe’s last match was a brutal KO loss. They’re bypassing a championship unification to make this atrocity.

We have Nick Diaz vs Vincent Luque. Diaz’s movement was like a Roblox character his last fight. Nick unfortunately got hooked into partying and there are stories of him becoming an alcoholic the last few years.

Next we have Tony Ferguson vs Michael Chiesa. If CTE were gold rings, Tony Ferguson is Sonic The Hedgehog. Chiesa is best known for someone talking about his mother.

Lastly we have Usman vs Shavkat. Usman is coming off a bunch of losses and Shavkat is a title contender. Sad to see Usman being used as a stepping stone.
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Well, when your CEO is too busy fasting and commenting on social media and lying about POWER SLAP numbers, the product tends to suffer.
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