UFC/WEC Weight Classes

[mightymike86]

Rumor has it that Dana plans to possibly add more lighter weight classes. I wish they'd have kept the WEC around and bundled the smaller weight classes and women's division into that organization and then put on free TV shows. I mean moving forward guess they will either just have to have more shows since they have a lot more fighters, or it's just going to be longer for guys in between fights. I think we already have too many weight classes at the moment haha. Let me clarify though, I do like watching the smaller guys and getting more familiar with all of the names as apposed to just the champions and short line of challengers, but I've seen a lot of complaints about the smaller weight classes and the women's fights. What are your thoughts?

 

[mrsinister]

The problem with weights below flyweight is that it's harder to get good camera angles because you have to put a cage over the top or they will fly away when they start moving fast.

 

[SeattleFightFan]

I wish they'd have kept the WEC around and bundled the smaller weight classes and women's division into that organization and then put on free TV shows....What are your thoughts?

my thoughts are that your suggestion isn't profitable and that Zuffa isn't in the business of not making money.

 

[Donutdude]

I can't say I'm really interested in weight classes below Flyweight. I can't name a single guy who fights at a lower weight than Flyweight. I do enjoy the lower weight classes and am more excited about the eventual match between Dominic Cruz and Renan Barao than I am in Cain vs. JDS 3.

But if I don't know anyone in a lower weight class then it'll be more difficult for me to be interested.

 

[SBC]

Rumor has it that Dana plans to possibly add more lighter weight classes. I wish they'd have kept the WEC around and bundled the smaller weight classes and women's division into that organization and then put on free TV shows. I mean moving forward guess they will either just have to have more shows since they have a lot more fighters, or it's just going to be longer for guys in between fights. I think we already have too many weight classes at the moment haha. Let me clarify though, I do like watching the smaller guys and getting more familiar with all of the names as apposed to just the champions and short line of challengers, but I've seen a lot of complaints about the smaller weight classes and the women's fights. What are your thoughts?

I loved the WEC too but the problem was they had world class fighters putting on exciting world class fights but they weren't getting the attention they should've been. The cold hard fact was that the WEC brand just wasn't the UFC brand. Those three letters made all the difference. The WEC wasn't pulling in enough money for ZUFFA to keep them around. On top of that, the UFC was running out of contenders in the LW division and running out of interest in some of it's heavier divisions so collapsing the WEC into the UFC was a great way to solve that problem at get more interest by introducing new weight classes and having new contenders at LW and above. You'll never see ZUFFA having two separate organizations for long.

 

[bubkusjones]

Rumor has it that Dana plans to possibly add more lighter weight classes. I wish they'd have kept the WEC around and bundled the smaller weight classes and women's division into that organization and then put on free TV shows. I mean moving forward guess they will either just have to have more shows since they have a lot more fighters, or it's just going to be longer for guys in between fights. I think we already have too many weight classes at the moment haha. Let me clarify though, I do like watching the smaller guys and getting more familiar with all of the names as apposed to just the champions and short line of challengers, but I've seen a lot of complaints about the smaller weight classes and the women's fights. What are your thoughts?

What benefit would keeping the WEC around bring to ZUFFA or the fighters? What would keeping the WEC around for the sub-155's and womens divisions do that isn't being done with them in the UFC?

It's not like they'd get more cards in, unless they do the dumb thing of having both a WEC and a UFC show on the same night (in which case the WEC show will make next-to-nothing). Not to mention that fighters themselves will loose the UFC "branding" and the extra marketing power those three letters bring (and the sponsor money that goes with it). Part of the reason why bringing in the smaller guys into the UFC was to help with just that problem.


Sure, some people have issues with the women, or the small guys, but I have issues with HW's and LHW's who gas before the first round is over throwing nothing but haymakers praying they land. Dont' see me asking for those divisions to get junked. /shrug

 

[tmer25]

Ehhh..... No.

 

[Master Shonuff]

Remember how BW fights were booed and Dana's reaction to that. If it did happen, such fights would be relegated to FX or FS1. Can't imagine them being on PPV

 

[BBMN]

I wish they'd have kept the WEC around and bundled the smaller weight classes and women's division into that organization and then put on free TV shows.

I said something along these lines here before and people grabbed pitchforks and torches.

But it makes sense. There are people that are not fans of the lighter guys, and there are people that love them. Why not just have 145, 135, 125, and Womens in one league? Give them a more reasonably sized cage, and a few free cards a year. I'd like it, and it would help appease the 'just bleed' bro's out by keeping the UFC cards filled with bigger more violent fighters.

 

[Lucifer Alpha]

Holy shit. This "rumor" is based on one sherdogger making a thread about another sherdogger making a thread about another sherdogger making a thread about a six month old video where Dana talks about expanding into Latin America. There is no fucking strawweight division. Stop making threads about it.

 

[Skydome]

Without 145 and below+Women, the next 4 cards are considerably weaker imo

 

[Lucifer Alpha]

Rumor has it that Dana plans to possibly add more lighter weight classes. I wish they'd have kept the WEC around and bundled the smaller weight classes and women's division into that organization and then put on free TV shows. I mean moving forward guess they will either just have to have more shows since they have a lot more fighters, or it's just going to be longer for guys in between fights. I think we already have too many weight classes at the moment haha. Let me clarify though, I do like watching the smaller guys and getting more familiar with all of the names as apposed to just the champions and short line of challengers, but I've seen a lot of complaints about the smaller weight classes and the women's fights. What are your thoughts?

This should explain everything.

 

[Lucifer Alpha]

Without 145 and below+Women, the next 4 cards are considerably weaker imo

They are taking up spots that could have went to Bristol Marunde and Marcelo Guimaraes.

 

[Minnja]

Aldo, Cruz, Faber, MM, Benavidez, McCall, Dodson, Korean Zombie, the list goes on and on... these guys deserve to be in the UFC and the $$$$$ and prestige that comes with fighting in the world's biggest MMA stage.

 

[Dungrove Elder**]

whatever it takes to eventually get to a little people (this is the politically correct term according to Wikipedia) division