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Why is Ngannou fighting 1 time a year? For the past 3 years? And Stipe fighting 1x a year for 4 year

Francis: Knee injury, COVID-19, Contract.

Stipe: Eye surgery, COVID-19, Semi-Retired.
 
Johnnny said:
Most champs and many title challengers tend to fight very sparingly.

Khabib had only 8 fights over the last 7 years of his career.

Leon Edwards was out for 14 months before his last fight. He was coming off of another long layoff (20 months) when he poked Belal in the eye.

Jiri Prochazka has fought only once in each of the last 3 years and he might miss all of next year.

Davieson Figueiredo fought once in 2022 and once in 2021.
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It's a little bit disingenuous about Leon

Apart from 2022 when he fought once
And 2020 when he didn't fight at all because of covid, he fights twice a year, every year
 
Vacation lifestyle.
As much as fighters complain about fighter pay, most of them fight 2X a year. So the quickest way to make more $? Fight more often. Another way--be exciting. Remember, the loser of FOTN gets a bonus.
 
Because they care more about their health, well-being, and enjoying life than they care about entertaining you
 
MXZT said:
Well he had a nasty knee injury which needed surgery. So that's why he's been off for very long recently.
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Also fought 5 rounds against a MT specialist with that injured knee, which was probably a very bad decision for his health. One of his coach tried to convince him to pull off that fight. We saw the result, inefficient striking, but his monstrous power was enough to snatch the victory. But I suppose that fight worsened an injury that would have healed faster otherwise. Surgery was probably already needed before the fight, and he probably didn't want to relinquish the title.

We saw recently with dillashaw that fighters take stupid risks just for a money fight.
 
BSquared said:
Because they care more about their health, well-being, and enjoying life than they care about entertaining you
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Indeed. Their priority is "enjoying life", yet they still expect to be paid as if their job is their priority to pick up the slack from having so much leisure time and rarely fighting. Fight 3x/ year and your pay triples, but they want to be paid to not fight.
 
Satan's Daddy. said:
The pay structure is so good it encourages inactivity despite what ppl that think they know what they're talking about, clearly don't.
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because they're overpaid for being whiny non essentials
 
Yeah it's kind of strange especially since DC who was almost 40 and had tons of injuries from his Olympic wrestling career went on a stretch where he literally had 5 UFC title fights in a 20 month span.
 
UFC pay so good, champs only have to fight once a year
 
Johnnny said:
Most champs and many title challengers tend to fight very sparingly.

Khabib had only 8 fights over the last 7 years of his career.

Leon Edwards was out for 14 months before his last fight. He was coming off of another long layoff (20 months) when he poked Belal in the eye.

Jiri Prochazka has fought only once in each of the last 3 years and he might miss all of next year.

Davieson Figueiredo fought once in 2022 and once in 2021.
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GNRXI said:
I really like Francis but I have a burning unpopular opinion about the guy. I think he has successfully conned many in the MMA fanbase and the community into believing he is some sort of tragic figure in this struggle with Dana. As bad as Dana is, the uncomfortable truth is Francis is intentionally trying to sabotage his own contract by demanding the boxing clause into his UFC contract, which just isn't going to happen unless you are a generational draw like Conor, and even then it will likely never happen again. Francis is a hypocrite in many ways, if the guy really wants to box and get the bag, he should put his money where his mouth is and vacate the title so his contract eventually runs itself out by January and he can pursue his so-called "ambitions". Unfortunately Francis wants to have his cake and eat it too since he knows once the boxing gig fails he has a failsafe in the UFC.

Furthermore I think Francis, is also a grade A liar when it comes to fighter pay and unions. The moment he gets an improved UFC offer or the boxing bag, he sure as hell is going to be quiet when it comes to pay for other guys or unions because like the central problem of individual sports, everyone is looking out for himself.


I really wish Francis stays and continues to fight, Jones v Francis will be the most hyped MMA fight in years but he has a massive ego and his management is putting some rotten advice to his ears. I hope the UFC would strip him soon and bin the Francis/Jones/Stipe love triangle and let the division move on from an inactive champ and two semi retired fighters and make Gane v Blaydes for the vacant HW title shot.
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I get why he isnt fighting this year or until March next year due to the injury

But why did he only fight 1x in 2021 and not again till early 2022?
 
a rank squatter and an immigrant that would most certainly pull the racist card if his belt was yanked and go on a smear tour. They are holding up the division. On top of that Jon's forever comeback. All this is holding dudes like Pavlovich and Gane back. Aspinall as well, I believe his injury was a fluke and he would have went on to beat Blaydes.

Nonetheless HW division is in a good spot, they need to get the show on the road here.
 
Brutus....... said:
Francis had a a serious injury, but hopefully it doesn’t become a habit.

Despite his haters, Israel was an active champ, and it makes Jiri’s recent decision all the more admirable. Guys like that need more credit.
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Agreeed, at times boring but there’s no denying Izzy was a great champion. The guy fought often and fought everyone.
 
LOL at the endless parade of ignorant responses to this post, given that Ngannou has specifically cited precisely this as a key aspect of his issues with the UFC and their slaveship contract ownership of fighters. You're all on sherdog and none of you have seen this?
 
Worst part is the guys complaining most about pay are fighting 1x a year. It's literally 3x the pay if you fight 3x. So why do so many stay inactive? Prior to his title win, Ngannou was complaining no one was signing fights with him and he wanted to fight often, then turned into fighting as often as Stipe wanted to.

I think there is way to have a win-win for fighters and UFC here, fighters can get paid more fighting more often and UFC gets more fights and doesn't have stitch together last minute cards. As a fan it's hard to watch guys in the UFC literally fight once a year, you're talking about the title being held for an entire year and you forget about the fighter, there has to be some sort of cost to marketability. That was one way Conor blew up was he fought often on his rise, so crowds wouldn't forget him, he took over during that time partly because of his activity making it fun to watch his fights often.
 
He kept taking out potential contenders so they had to put him on the shelf while DC and Stipe duked it out
 
SuperAlly said:
False. No one whines more about fighter pay than a Sherdogger. And those guys never fight.
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Well okay, I've just noticed a huge shift in negotiations since I started watching mma in 2007. Maybe it's not whining publicly, but they stall out and do tons of negations. And while I'm happy fighters get paid more, as a fun it sucks waiting a year to see a fighter fight. I noticed it sharply increased after Conor came in.
 
Because Ngannou want non of that "U Fight Cheap" bull shit.


Here's why he doesn't fight more:

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