Re: |Fight Club| MMA | Noobs guide to MMA in OP | UFC 205 11/11 McGregor v Alvarez for Midgetweight title
Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2016 8:17 pm
Cormier out of UFC 206
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Conor McGregor is no longer a two-division world champion. At least, according to the UFC.
The Irishman, who also holds the UFC lightweight belt, has relinquished given up his featherweight title, the UFC announced Saturday night during the UFC Fight Night 101 broadcast.
Although the UFC says McGregor has given up the featherweight belt voluntarily, sources told MMA Fighting's Ariel Helwani that McGregor never agreed to that decision. Regardless, the UFC has the right to strip the belt from McGregor.
Jose Aldo, who won the interim title back at UFC 200 in July, defeating Frankie Edgar, will now take McGregor's belt and become the undisputed 145-pound champion.
Additionally, it was announced that Anthony Pettis vs. Max Holloway will now serve as the main event of UFC 206, replacing the light heavyweight title fight between Daniel Cormier and Anthony Johnson. Pettis and Holloway will battle for the interim featherweight title in the main event of UFC 206, which takes place on Dec. 10 in Toronto, Canada.
Lotus wrote:1) Why has Conor been allowed to go a year without defending the Featherweight belt
http://prommanow.com/2016/06/06/hit-or-miss-10-ridiculously-long-ufc-title-reigns-with-the-least-defenses/ wrote:#1 Daniel Cormier
The next big thing was supposed to be Daniel Cormier and while we will admit he is a good fighter he hasn’t defended his title like fans hoped. The light heavyweight title is one of the most coveted in the company by loyal viewers and DC has only given us 1 defense in 380 days. That’s over a year and unforgivable when you consider the champs in the past and how they actively defended it.
#2 Matt Hughes second title run
For the longest time, before Georges St. Pierre, Matt Hughes was called the greatest UFC champion to ever step in to The Octagon, but on his second reign he fell short. After losing to BJ Penn in shocking fashion, Hughes would eventually regain the belt and defend it proudly…with 2 defenses in a whopping 757 days. That’s once a year when you break it down.
#3 Matt Serra
After crushing GSP in devastating fashion we expected Serra to defend his welterweight title against all comers, but the UFC did not want it that way. Realizing that their cash cow welterweight king GSP needed to be headlining PPV’s again, and knowing he would defeat Matt, they made Serra wait for a rematch, which gave us 378 days with no defenses.
#4 Anthony Pettis
This one is ridiculous. Pettis was also the next big thing in the lightweight division, except nope. After winning the belt he held it 560 days with only one defense to his credit.
#5 Dominick Cruz first run
Look up injury prone in the dictionary and it says “See Dominick Cruz”. Mr. Cruz held the bantamweight championship for 1,117 days and only defended it twice. That’s once every eighteen months…
#6 Cain Velasquez second run
When Velasquez regained his heavyweight title he managed to defend it only twice in 896 days. That’s once every 14 months! His first run was 385 days with ZERO defenses making this entry a thorough disappointment.
#7 Rampage Jackson
Another one and done here. Quinton Rampage Jackson defeated Chuck Liddell and defended the light heavyweight championship once in 406 days translating to one of the least memorable championship reigns in light heavyweight history.
#8 Sean Sherk
Not to be outdone by Jackson, lightweight champion Sean Sherk defended his title only once in 420 days. Mix that with a failed drug test and most fans of today couldn’t tell you who he was which is a shame.
#9 Rafael Dos Anjos
RDA is the current lightweight champion and he has been the champ for 450 days with a single defense to his obligatory Wikipedia entry. Should he lose to his next opponent he may go the way of champions in the past who clung to their title without defending it as long as they could.
#10 Shogun Rua
The “greatest light heavyweight in the world” in his Pride days, according to hardcore PrideFC fans, never defended his title in almost a full year and when he did he got destroyed by Jon Jones. Rua will go down as the champ who should have been more, and given us more as fans.
Lotus wrote:2) Why has Aldo not been given a rematch.
Lotus wrote:3) Why was Conor allowed to dick around fighting Diaz - twice - rather than defending his belt.
Lotus wrote:4) Why the strawberry float as Pettis and Holloway fighting for an Interim belt? Why noAs ext just the #1 contender position?
ladybayred wrote:Enjoy the ride, he wont be around for long.
“[The UFC are] trying to strip me and I was like, ‘Well, I ain’t stripped. I still got that belt, that belt is still at home right now’,” McGregor said, at a Q&A event. “I’m still the two-way world champion, someone has to come take that from me. I see articles, I see stuff online, but I don’t see the belt not in my presence. The belt is right there, there’s two world titles at my home.
“Eddie [Alvarez] is still unconscious, what do you mean? I only fought last week. Them belts are mine. Whatever they want to say, and they can say, ‘Oh we took the belt and now it’s this guy’s belt,’ you can play with those fake belts all you want. Jose was KO’ed, Eddie was KO’ed, you’re looking at the two-weight world champion and that’s it. I’ll say to the UFC, and I love their company, you’re fooling nobody, you’re fooling nobody with that.
“But best of luck to them, I still got them belts. Someone’s got to come take those belts from me, physically. Not online, not through a keyboard. The keyboard warriors trying to take them belts away from me, [but] you got to take them belts off me physically if you want to come get them.”
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