Strawweight is dead man.
Flyweight depleted it of young talent, and what's left is a bunch of women in the second half of their 30s fighting each other for a shot at a champion that doesn't fight, and a bunch of women in their late 30s and early 40s with little name value left to put over the younger women they fight. The rest of the division consists of average and below average women fighting each other in non factor fights that lead to nothing, because the old guard can't seem to lose to them.
Dern is already 31 and at this point, has fought pretty much everyone in the Top 10 but she never made it to title contention. Suarez is still in her early 30s but has a very well documented history of being unreliable. Jessica Andrade is a former champion, and has the most fights out of any woman in the UFC... She's still younger than most of the other veterans, yet she can't get her shit together because her personal life has been a mess for years now.
There's not a single strawweight in her 20s making any type of significant impact in the division. Tabatha Ricci, Loopy, they can't get it together either, so the division will continue to move at a snail's pace for the foreseeable future. Angela Hill at 40 beating Loopy and arguably beating Ricci in 2024 ladies and gentlemen. No disrespect to Angela, but on paper that shouldn't be happening anymore.
