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Belal finishes less than a anorexic girl at a pie eating contest.Belal finishes opponents at a lower rate than most WMMA fighters. Lmao
Belal finishes less than a anorexic girl at a pie eating contest.Belal finishes opponents at a lower rate than most WMMA fighters. Lmao
I assure you I am not embarrassed. Was Lemos vs Rodriguez not a #1 contender match?So let me get this straight. It is your contention that Rodriguez, who had wins over half of the top 10, didn't deserve a title shot but to instead to be placed in a "title eliminator" with a fighter on a one fight win streak? The fight also didn't become a title eliminator until AFTER Marina lost its convenient how you left that part out.
you are embarrassing yourself.
There was a time at which after Carla won the belt that Marina should pretty clearly have been next. People were using the "The Yan fight was too close" logic to deny Marina while ignoring what a robbery Carla over Marina was.And as I pointed out earlier, there was a more deserving contender ahead of Marina. Esparza was on a longer win streak and also had a win over Marina as part of that win streak.
Belal arguably was a more deserving contender than Leon himself.
Go see a doctorLeon was piecing him up, his win streak is 5 in reality.
its the ufc bud lol unfortunately belal isnt a marketers dream, he could be 30-0 still they'd be hesitantGo see a doctor
That's nice, but a completely different point from your delusionsits the ufc bud lol unfortunately belal isnt a marketers dream, he could be 30-0 still they'd be hesitant
Leon dominated for 5 minutes, thats what we do know.That's nice, but a completely different point from your delusions
A 10-9 "domination" in one round (that Leon fouled him in) of a 5 round fight?Leon dominated for 5 minutes, thats what we do know.
I agree, it DOES feel like winning your fights is theater when it apparently doesn't matter the opponents you've beatenEveryone knows Shavkat is the best so everything else just feels like theater.
First off you seem to have not gotten the whole nobody cares about WMMA message.
If that was my only point maybe but it wasn't. Also there are levels, Belal is somebody that isn't that popular but fighting in a popular division. Rodriguez isn't popular nor is her division or WMMA in general. Also Belal has 5x as many IG followers if that means anything.yeah and no one cares about Belal Muhammad.
Making his argument, just as strong as yours.
Lemos was on a 1 fight streak after previous losing to Andrade, the former champion of the division who had just challenged the division up. Prior to that she had won 5 straight only losing in her debut.[There was absolutely no demand for Lemos, who was on a 1 fight win streak to get a title shot, you pulled that out of thin air.
But since that is all totally legitimate from your pov what would be the problem with Belal having a title eliminator with a more marketable fighter on a one fight winning streak, like Vicente Luque, while Shavkat gets the next title shot?]
In both cases I forgot their name.I see a lot of folks outraged that the UFC have not yet guaranteed Belal Muhammad a title shot, on the basis of “meritocracy”, but these same outraged fans didn’t say a peep about Marina Rodriguez not getting a title shot after arguably cleaning out the strawweight division last year. The UFC made Rodriguez continue to fight contenders, until they found one who was able to beat her, and then immediately gave that contender (Amanda Lemos) a title shot.
Rodriguez defeated Amanda Ribas (then #10), Michelle Waterson-Gomez (then #9), Tecia Torres (then #8), Mackenzie Dern (then #4), and Yan Xiaonan (then #4); she had wins over five Top 10 ranked fighters, headlined multiple fight nights, and never received a title shot. Whereas Belal beat Demian Maia (then #9) in his retirement fight, Sean Brady (then #8), Stephen Thomson (then #5), Vicente Luque (then #5), and Gilbert Burns (then #5); the exact same number of Top 10 wins as Marina Rodriguez.
I would argue Rodriguez’s opponents had more momentum going into their fights with her, but more importantly she had the exact same number of Top 10 wins as Belal yet there was no outrage when she didn’t receive a title shot. So why would it be such a tremendous injustice if Belal did not receive the next title shot, when Rodriguez very recently did not receive one despite being just as deserving, and you have an undefeated contender with all finishes like Shavkat waiting in the wings?
It's funny that all this militant thread did was give dozens of dude the opportunity to laugh at WMMA, and TS knew that.You actually watch and are emotionally invested in women fighting?