Unearned title shots: 2025 edition

[Dr Fong]

I wasn't going to weigh in, but I'd like your opinion. Do you consider Renato Moicano's current LW undeserved?

Obviously very late notice fights don't count. But late notice fights where the promotion had a reasonable chance of securing a proper contender do.

*Edit* - Actually it does count, the point is just to track title shots that take place, not to dwell on the exact circumstances. The UFC can always have a deserving contender as a backup for a fight that falls through.

 

[RockyLockridge]

The UFC can always have a deserving contender as a backup for a fight that falls through.

Yeah but notice for this fight they didn't? It was weird for them not to have any higher ranked lws available on this card

 

[Harlekin]

Guess their strategy is to not pay for a backup, if the have #9 and #10 on the card anyway

 

[CroCopsLHK]

Strickland and DDP was close

Screw Chimaev. He fights like once a year at best and always overseas. Sean deserves it

 

[Dr Fong]

Guess their strategy is to not pay for a backup, if the have #9 and #10 on the card anyway

U Fight Cheap will U Fight Cheap. Of course.

 

[SalvadorAllende]

You definitely have a bias against Strickland if you can’t see how he’s earned it.

Also Moicano jumping into the fight with 1 day notice.. he might not have the resume but he has the balls.

TS is a complete idiot.

 

[Dr Fong]

You definitely have a bias against Strickland if you can’t see how he’s earned it.

If you think beating Strickland in controversial split decision earns you the title, you’d be right.
I happen to think Sean should've got the judges' decision against DDP. I guess that automatically makes me an incel. Lol

Strickland's getting it because the first fight with DDP was razor close and inconclusive. Khamzat - the next contender in line, has shown to be woefully unreliable and has ruined multiple big events for the UFC.

Just cause you're too daft to understand the reasoning behind it it doesn't make it "unearned".

you can't just shrug off a talking point that plooks your argument up the ass and out the mouth and just say "not part of my criteria. That's not how an objective fair debate works.

You're doing more crying in this thread than Strickland on a Podcast. The entire premise of this thread is so you can bitch & moan about Sean. What a pussy lol

Did you incel retards enjoy Strickland's performance coming off his amazing split decision win over the corpse of Paulo Costa?

Please understand the thread next time.

He is just the most boring fighter in the UFC and a particularly egregious example of the UFC's WWE shenanigans. This thread will list all bullshit title shots.

But seriously - imagine being a Sean Strickland white knight. Deeply embarrassing on many levels.

 

[Dr Fong]

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