UFC have signed top LHW prospect Magomed Ankalaev.

[under_t]

Meh, I thinks the best lhw outside UFC & Bellator is this Guy

http://m.sherdog.com/fighter/record/Batraz-Agnaev-176657

Thiago Silva & Nunes are legit

Better than the 10 guys Ankalaev fought.

He is too green and ACB won't allow their champ to sign with UFC.
After fulfilling current ACB contracts, it's possible.

 

[Danespina]

Hopefully he does better than Magomed Bibulatov.

 

[mattandbenny]

Ankalaev is legit. Future top 10 LHW for sure. I'd even go as far as to say he could be champion one day if he continues to develop well.

 

[007]

beefing up for Moscow

 

[Ceez]

16k to show 16k to win, he'll be poor in no time

 

[theTKDguy]

I agree.

I also think a lot of what you are describing is a mostly American based company expanding to a more international reach.

This is also why PRIDE was the bigger and grander stage than the UFC was. UFC has always favored and promoted stars that can speak English. In Japan, they had Russians, Croatians, Brazilians, Americans, Japanese, and Lithuanians...fighters of every country. It is also why many of their promos featured little to zero dialogue, because the audiences all spoke different languages. And the times where there was a narrator, it was relaxed and monotone and not forced and screaming like Rogan.

Instead of trash talk and fake hype, the PRIDE production team usually focused on stories told without dialogue, like training footage and they loved to capture raw human emotion.

Sorry for the rant. Just the whole international flavor made me think of PRIDE

 

[Feniamin]

Scheduled to fight against Paul Craig, March 17.