the flyweights and women's bantamweights are still relatively new without enough people on the roster so we'll see about those 2 divisions in a couple years or less. The eddie wineland title shot made me think how bullshit it was for erik koch to get a chance to face jose aldo in calgary back then. so wineland gets the title shot after a split decision win over pickett backed up by a win over jorgensen? prior to those 2 wins, wineland lost to a flyweight and faber. No wonder why tuf 18 will feature bantamweights.
The top 4 guys in this division are barao, cruz, faber, and michael mcdonald. Among the up and comers, i'm interested in erik perez but everyone else in there is bullshit. that means brad pickett, raphael assuncao, and scott jorgensen. urijah faber is the clear cut #3 and that's why he should be fighting michael mcdonald. the ufc seems to be too invested in matching up fighters who are coming off wins and losses and this to me is overrated. so mcdonald doesn't deserve to fight faber because he's coming off a loss and faber coming off a win?
it's ashame that the division is so thin that they have to resort to putting wineland in there against barao. wineland doesn't have a shot, barao is going to have his way on the ground against him and i don't need to see that. What props would we be able to eve bet on this stupid fight?
put erik perez against wineland, jorgensen, or pickett, don't fuckin' put in johnny bedford in there with him. to me the erik perez stock is high enough to warrant a fight against a top 10 opponent, quit wasting time. You might say the timing wasn't there during the times that fighters were available with matchups, well who cares, just un-plug the dumb matchups and plug in fights that make sense.
i know i'm not perfect in my assessment and thinking but if i'm wrong about anything, forgot about someone, etc, let me know, i'm always open to healthy intelligent debate.