WTF is going on at Featherweight?!?

[JoeRowe]

The ENTIRE FW division is unbooked after tonight. For such an awesome division on paper is sure does suck in reality.
They should book:

Volk vs Evloev
Murphy vs Lopes
Zelal vs Aljo
Garcia vs Yair
Jean vs Allen
Pitbull vs Emmett
Ige vs Giga

Ortega vs a LW(Hooper or Jim Miller)

 

[loisestrad]

Birds of a featherweight flock together, mate.

As the saying goes.

 

[JoeRowe]

Birds of a featherweight flock together, mate.

As the saying goes.

Excellent point that I hadn't considered

 

[Only Here for Attachments]

#FireSeanShelby

 

[Typrune Goatley]

The ENTIRE FW division is unbooked after tonight. For such an awesome division on paper is sure does suck in reality.View attachment 1119357View attachment 1119358
They should book:

Volk vs Evloev
Murphy vs Lopes
Zelal vs Aljo
Allen vs Yair
Jean vs Garcia/Onama winner
Pitbull vs Emmett
Ige vs Giga

Ortega vs a LW(Hooper or Jim Miller)

Agreed. Great division on paper but moving slower than a turtle.

Great matchup suggestions. Hopefully Dana sees this thread and goes ahead and books those fights. It's so frustrating when divisions are on ice. Welterweight has been one of the worst offenders for like 10 years. Unfortunately, Featherweight is now slowed down but all they gotta do is book some fights and get the ball rolling. (I have less hope for WW, HW and LHW)

 

[gentel]

I'm going to label this one as more of a coincidence than of the division being full of ducks

Volk certainly isn't ducking anyone, the only two guys in that division who I consider divas are Ortega and Yair. Those two guys do need to be cleaned out of the rankings, but overall FW is still a top division

 

[Unheralded Truth]

That's what tonight's main event fighter Steve Garcia also said. Or he rather said it's a ripple effect of Volkanovski:

“The way everything kind of went down, I was kind of hoping for something a little bit further up. It’s not a hit on him [Onama]. It’s just,
you want to advance your career. It’s about you. That’s how the sport operates. But also, Volk’s just too busy cooking. He’s holding
everybody up at the top, so he just needs to make a decision. Just pick somebody. I don’t know, just pull it out of a hat. Somebody, right?"

"Because they’re all waiting now and because of you. Please, get our division going again. At the top, I feel like we can still fight. So that’s
what we’re doing Saturday.”

 

[usernamee]

Excellent point that I hadn't considered

I bet you feel real stupid right about now

 

[fendertach]

HW is dead, LHW is dead, FLYW is dead, WMMA been dead etc, etc. Is something wrong with the current matchmaking system? Do we need to bring back Joe Silva?

 

[HNIC215]

UFC died years ago

 

[jeskola]

The ENTIRE FW division is unbooked after tonight. For such an awesome division on paper is sure does suck in reality.View attachment 1119357View attachment 1119358
They should book:

Volk vs Evloev
Murphy vs Lopes
Zelal vs Aljo
Allen vs Yair
Jean vs Garcia/Onama winner
Pitbull vs Emmett
Ige vs Giga

Ortega vs a LW(Hooper or Jim Miller)

obv. Garcia and Onama are fighting in a few hours.

Murphy and Yair are on the shelf with injuries.

Jean just got off medical suspension after fighting 7 weeks ago. He was pretty battered and probably needed the suspension to heal before resuming training and planning a fight camp.

Zalal and Emmett just fought a few weeks ago.

Allen is rehabbing a shoulder injury and considering a move up to LW.

Giga is 1-3 last 4 and missed weight last fight. could be in contract negotiations or on the chopping block.

Aljo hurt his elbow a couple months ago vs Ortega and is holding out for a title shot he thinks he deserves.

Volk and Evloev should definitely fight...

 

[JoeRowe]

UFC died years ago

HW is dead, LHW is dead, FLYW is dead, WMMA been dead etc, etc. Is something wrong with the current matchmaking system? Do we need to bring back Joe Silva?

Flyweight is solid imo but yeah uFc is dying af

 

[Shano123]

Why we instead have to get a Flyweight title fight again in a december ppv for the 100th time ill never know

 

[Portland8242]

The worst part about is Volk has been calling for an opponent for like 6 fucking months now.

He's called for both Evloev and Murphy, said he doesn't care who.

The UFC however - they don't want either of those guys to fight for the title, so they're just icing Volk to see if someone else can pop up. So fucking stupid.

 

[fortheo]

Match making at FW has been absolutely fucked ever since they booked Max holloway vs. Frankie edgar instead of max vs Volk, who was the clear guy at the time. Ever since then it's been fucked with rematches at the championship level, poor match making allowing max to kill off fresh contenders, inactive guys like Ortega, yair, Allen, Evloev and emmett all barely fighting like once a year at best and trading wins and losses, never moving in the division.

It's just absolutely a horribly managed division combined with inactive fighters.

 

[TriangleMonkey]

FW

Forever-wait

 

[JakePaulMMA]

HW is dead, LHW is dead, FLYW is dead, WMMA been dead etc, etc. Is something wrong with the current matchmaking system? Do we need to bring back Joe Silva?

This shit never happened when Corn Nuts was involved.

 

[fendertach]

This shit never happened when Corn Nuts was involved.

Bring back Corn Nuts, Condom Depot and Dynamic Fastener FFS..