Why UFC dont sign more LHW's ?

[Feniamin]

Almost everyone says that LHW is one of worst divisions and that there are no good LHW fighters outside of top promotions.... but i dont think so -

Tomasz Narkun (17-3) KSW

Dovletdzhan Yagshimuradov (18-5) ACA

Nasrudin Nasrudinov (9-0) ACA

Ivan Shtyrkov (17-1) RCC

Muslim Magomedov (7-0) ACA

Reiner De Ridder (12-0) ONE FC

Asylzhan Bakhytzhanuly (11-1) ACA

Bogdan Guskov (10-1) BRAVE FC

Csaba Hocz (7-1) GCF

Ivan Erslan (8-0) KSW
etc...

All of these guys could compete in UFC ... it seems to me like UFC have lack of interest in LHW

Come on. ACA, ONE FC and KSW have exclusive contracts (and I think KSW pays good that's why there is like only couple of KSW champions who signed with UFC).

 

[Tokoloko]

Im german and live in the neighbourhood feucht and co destroyed.
It was organized by the top hardcore nazis from the whole country and they came with axes and pyrotechnique to strike fear and demolish one of germanies biggest alternative neighbourhoods. He is a nazi.

How he can be NAZI when his friends and training partners are muslims for example Chimaev or Manuwa

edit: he was in "nazi" football hooligan group but changed alot -
(thats why he was included in this "smashing")

 

[Feniamin]

How he can be NAZI when his friends and training partners are muslims for example Chimaev or Manuwa

I can remember that few years ago Benjamin Brinsa (German fighter was cut from UFC before his debut for Nazi ties) posted on social media something like that, that he trains with Asians, Slavs and other people who was considered subhumans by Nazis, so he is not Neo-Nazi. And people here posted that Brinsa was involved or organized some (Neo-Nazi) attack or brawl or something like that a few years ago.
There were recent controversy with cornerman (and his tattoos) of Roman Bogatov and Kiser (cornerman) lives in Thailand and trains and spars with non-White people while on social media he refered to himself a few years ago as a NS (national socialist) sXe.

 

[moreorless87]

All the ACA/KSW fighters will be hard to sign, cause fighters from Russia are paid well and the UFC will have to pay them extra to switch over. Plus most of them are on steriods and will shrink coming over to the UFC.

Yeah that's my guess, the UFC has basically gone after weightclasses were they can pickup talent more cheaply for many years now.

 

[GreenGorilla]

Almost everyone says that LHW is one of worst divisions and that there are no good LHW fighters outside of top promotions.... but i dont think so -

Tomasz Narkun (17-3) KSW

Dovletdzhan Yagshimuradov (18-5) ACA

Nasrudin Nasrudinov (9-0) ACA

Ivan Shtyrkov (17-1) RCC

Muslim Magomedov (7-0) ACA

Reiner De Ridder (12-0) ONE FC

Asylzhan Bakhytzhanuly (11-1) ACA

Bogdan Guskov (10-1) BRAVE FC

Csaba Hocz (7-1) GCF

Ivan Erslan (8-0) KSW
etc...

All of these guys could compete in UFC ... it seems to me like UFC have lack of interest in LHW

Shtyrkov is done, he isn't on Steroids anymore and got destroyed by a middleweight journeyman in yasubey enomoto.
If you speak russian check the comments on his videos he is pretty unpopular.

 

[Nada.]

How he can be NAZI when his friends and training partners are muslims for example Chimaev or Manuwa

edit: he was in "nazi" football hooligan group but changed alot -
(thats why he was included in this "smashing")

If he's honestly turned his life around, good for him and sign him up.

 

[Feniamin]

And if anyone cares Azamat Murzakanov (was signed to UFC, failed USADA test, get released, went to BRAVE CF and won tournament in absolute weight) said in July that he will probably will be signed to UFC and will not defend his BRAVE belt. Also said that UFC offered him to replace some fighter but he turned down that offer because he wasn't training because of quarantine.

 

[zxyss25]

All the ACA/KSW fighters will be hard to sign, cause fighters from Russia are paid well and the UFC will have to pay them extra to switch over. Plus most of them are on steriods and will shrink coming over to the UFC.

Did the UFC have to give Jiri a huge pay raise, or did Jiri also want to come over for increased competition?

These fighters also face the risk of becoming the next Will Brooks or Hector Lombard, and once they face better competition, they began to lose and ruin their brand

 

[Gregory brunner]

They literally just got the RYZEN champ and he looks legit right away.

 

[tekkenfan]

205 is a dead division now tbh not many men are that size most 205ers at least walk around at 240

 

[tekkenfan]

Im german and live in the neighbourhood feucht and co destroyed.
It was organized by the top hardcore nazis from the whole country and they came with axes and pyrotechnique to strike fear and demolish one of germanies biggest alternative neighbourhoods. He is a nazi.

Cool!!

 

[Herwald]

They can't afford them. There's way more manlets and women out there willing to fight for scraps.

 

[GueseGuy]

Because UFC wants blonde hair blue eyes American winning their titles. Last thing they need is another Eastern European champion. You gotta remember UFC is an American based promotion. If they sign all these guys they could actually win and be competitive and UFC just isn’t interested in catering to that market. They already have 2 Russian champs. Don’t see them too excited for 4 or 5.

 

[Feniamin]

Btw there is few LHW fights booked for Dana's Contender Series. Maybe that's the reason -- if some unbeaten 8-0 LHW guy is fighting on Contender Series why UFC should sign some 7-0 Dagestani or 11-1 Kazakhstani?
And also I think maybe they sign some Dagestani guy after they cut some (like 0-3 Ibragimov or 2-3 Antigulov). If I'm not wrong at the moment there is like 21 Dagestani guy in UFC and from what I've seen even Dagestani mma fans thinks that highly likely UFC will cut some guys first before signing new (case with a lot of Dagestani fighters (that UFC signs) that aside from Dagestan, Chechnya and Ingushetia they have very few fans who knows them/cares about them in the country of Russia).

 

[Feniamin]

Because UFC wants blonde hair blue eyes American winning their titles. Last thing they need is another Eastern European champion. You gotta remember UFC is an American based promotion. If they sign all these guys they could actually win and be competitive and UFC just isn’t interested in catering to that market. They already have 2 Russian champs. Don’t see them too excited for 4 or 5.

Actually there is 3 if we count by citizenship (Valentina is a citizen of 3 countries including Russia). And I think if someone like Askarov or Magomedsharipov takes belt it will be good for UFC, seems like their UAE sponsors like Muslim champions.
And correct me if I'm wrong but isn't there is 0 UFC champions at the moment who you can call blonde and with blue eyes?

 

[Nada.]

Cool!!

Besides the damages to buissneses in the millions it was quite a sight.

 

[You Will Vote For Dreyga]

Because UFC wants blonde hair blue eyes American winning their titles.

This is insane.

The two most popular stars in the history of the company, Khabib and Conor, aren’t even American.

In fact they only have 2 American champions on the UFC roster and only one is white.

Your conspiracy theory doesn’t even make sense financially. If anything the UFC wants more Chinese champions so they can expand in that market. Hence why they are personally recruiting training their own team China.

 

[Big Dawg]

Because muricans aint trying to pronounce those weird ass last names!

 

[GueseGuy]

Actually there is 3 if we count by citizenship (Valentina is a citizen of 3 countries including Russia). And I think if someone like Askarov or Magomedsharipov takes belt it will be good for UFC, seems like their UAE sponsors like Muslim champions.
And correct me if I'm wrong but isn't there is 0 UFC champions at the moment who you can call blonde and with blue eyes?

It’s not necessarily about the champions. It’s about who they push. UFC can’t control who wins the belt but you will notice who they push more than other fighters. PVZ and Sage come to mind immediately as fighters who got unusually strong pushes and it was strongly suspected to be because of their looks. Unfortunately neither of them can fight.

 

[GueseGuy]

This is insane.

The two most popular stars in the history of the company, Khabib and Conor, aren’t even American.

In fact they only have 2 American champions on the UFC roster and only one is white.

Your conspiracy theory doesn’t even make sense financially. If anything the UFC wants more Chinese champions so they can expand in that market. Hence why they are personally recruiting training their own team China.

It’s literally not a conspiracy theory. There are so many fighters who can win the belt in Russia but the UFC doesn’t sign them for a reason. They don’t want 8 Russian champions. It’s just business. You just started watching man. Give it time to notice trends.