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It's become better lately, but it's hardly the most exicting or deepest division. Ffs, Boetsch, a former 205 journeyman, managed to become top 5 just like that.
Why Middleweight Is Now the Most Exciting Division.
In the past year it looks as though Middleweight has had a sudden rush of top talent coming up. They've quickly made it to the top of the division and now the days of Patrick Cote & Thales Leites fighting for the title are long gone and there are at least 10 good fights to fill out Anderson Silvas 10 fight contract. So right now middleweight has:
- The champions of the top 3 companies in the world(UFC, Bellator and the recently closed Strikeforce)
- Five of the best grapplers in the world(Roger, Jacare, Palhares, Shields and Weidman)
- Great strikers(Anderson, Cung Le, Vitor, Phillipou among others)
- Strong wrestlers(Munoz, Weidman, Sonnen, Okami)
- Fighters who can do everything(Bisping, Lombard, Weidman, Franklin)
- American heroes(Stann and Kennedy)
- Exciting mid level fighters(Belcher, Herman, Larkin)
And with the possible middleweight return of Mousasi I really can't wait to see how this all plays out. You'd be a fool to still call this division 'weak'.
It's been an exciting division with a decent talent pool for some time, people just like to discredit Anderson Silva.
Also, I'd list Rockhold among those who "can do everything". Hope he gets a title shot soon.
It's become better lately, but it's hardly the most exicting or deepest division. Ffs, Boetsch, a former 205 journeyman, managed to become top 5 just like that.
Fair call mate and I agree, there are a lot of very interesting matchups you can make. Though if Anderson goes through and keeps beating everyone you can guarantee people will still say it's weak.
LHW is even weaker though
when he only defends the title once per year? unlikely.
LHW is a murderer's row, it's just that none of them can beat Jones.
All the non-title fights are fascinating.
he's fought twice every year since 2009 though. and 3 times 2008 - 2007
he's been the most consistant champion in UFC history.
The days of Cote and Leites? Well those were also the days of Rich Franklin, Dan Henderson, Chael Sonnen, Nate Marquardt, Yushin Okami, and Demian Maia. The new crop of MWs still have a little ways to go to prove they are on the level of these guys.
last year he was out until july, defended the title vs sonnen, went on vacation, came back to fight bonnar icon_lol then went on another vacation. i think that's more indicative of what he's planning on doing for the rest of his career as opposed to what he may have done 3-4 years ago.