Conor has caused many longtime fans to become completely disillusioned with the sport. He's completely killed the competitive spirit of the sport with his cherry picking, ducking and dodging and bullshit antics. He's inflicted the sport with a virus that's spread to the point of other so called champions avoiding the most deserving challengers in pursuit of 'money fights.'
What absolute bollocks.
How many 'money fights' has there being? I say Conor v Diaz II and Bisping v GSP.
Let's look at the divisions and their Champions;
HW - not really many options there. Miocic wanted to fight Joshua in a boxing match, but that was never going to happen. Cormier has fought at HW but has never expressed a strong interest in going back up for a 'super fight'
LHW - see above.
MW - Bisping v GSP made no sense - but when money is involved, it's a no brainer for the UFC.
WW - Woodley has probably being the most vocal of the current Champions looking for a fight that will generate him the most money. I think he's aware he's not a draw, thus trying to book himself a fight to co-main 202. And he got to fight on 205 where I'm assuming he got PPV points. How many 'super fights' has he had? Zilch.
LW - yeah, I'd say Conor held up FW, or more Holloway's chance at a title shot. Folk seem to have short memories and forget it was dos Anjos he was supposed to fight before he got injured and there was no short offers of other fighters wanting to fill in. People also forget he didn't pull out of 189 - and without having to bring up his PPV numbers and all the other stuff outside the cage - I think people are kidding themselves if they don't understand why the UFC give him some special treatment, like the 2nd Diaz fight, which a lot of the
HARDCORE FANS were certain he was going to be smoked with Diaz on a full camp.
Fight didn't make sense in the name of sport, but that's potentially another fight that will create big interest. Ferguson next is the most logical fight.
FW - Holloway can't get the UFC to go to Hawaii, never mind asking to fight outside of the division. There was some back and forth on Twitter between him and Conor, but he has Edgar next, imo, and Conor v Ferguson.
BW - Dillashaw was given the green light to fight Johnson while he was waiting for Garbrandt to recover and is still pursuing that fight. I don't think that fight will make a lot of money and at best will scrape past the required PPV buys needed for fighters to earn PPV points.
FLW - Johnson has run out of opponents (unless the Dillashaw fight happens) and is probably asking the UFC to pay him more. They might point out that he doesn't attract a big audience. However, a lot of fans moan that fighters don't get paid enough or, in this case, Johnson is 'ducking Dillashaw'.
Just because a fighter asks for a 'super fight' it doesn't mean it's going to happen. I bet I could find more fighters who probably didn't deserve a title shot than actual 'super/money fights'
