UFC brehs, why is Weiman being protected so much ?

[LeVraiPapi]

Dude had like 3 title defenses in 2 years and none of his opponents were tough. Machida (blown up)

Now, he's gonna fight Vitor without TRT ?

The UFC is a freaking joke and Dana White protects his great white hype well since he knows who his fans are.

Meanwhile, let's all look at Jones over the past 2 years

They even tried to force him to take on a challenger on a 3 week notice

Let's elaborate

 

[MJ Freedom]

It's the UFC...

 

[Newzz]

I follow MMA a little more than casually, but I could nowhere consider myself a "hardcore" fan like I am of boxing...but Weidman is a good fighter. He's hated because he beat Silva 2x, but never clearly. His win over Machida should have gave him the stamp as official, but alot of people are stubborn


As far as his recent run of opponents though:

Vitor shouldnt have been on TRT anyways....damn cheater

Machida actually wasnt blown up since he dropped down to Middleweight from Light Heavyweight

And Demian Maia/Mark Munoz/Anderson Silva (Current Middleweight Champion at the time)/Anderson Silva (Former Middleweight Champion)/Lyoto Machida (Former Light Heavyweight Champion)/Vitor Belfort (Former Light Heavyweight Champion) is not exactly an easy run of opponents being all back to back like that over a 6 fight stretch

#USAWrestling for the win @krackdagawd

 

[Roman Brady]

Dude had like 3 title defenses in 2 years and none of his opponents were tough. Machida (blown up)

Now, he's gonna fight Vitor without TRT ?

The UFC is a freaking joke and Dana White protects his great white hype well since he knows who his fans are.

Meanwhile, let's all look at Jones over the past 2 years

They even tried to force him to take on a challenger on a 3 week notice

Let's elaborate

you know why they also think they've found a formula that bares fruit. Place him on a card with ronda and its a jingoistic one 2..They are going to see the he gets as much of a rub off these named brazillian veterans to try and purport the belief hes this legend killer thats a draw but

 

[The Infamous]

So they're protecting him by giving him the #1 P4P fighter & long reigning MW champion in Anderson Silva twice, Machida (top 3-4 MW and former LHW champ) and now Vitor Belfort (top 3-4 MW)?

The Vitor match-up was originally announced after the 2nd Silva fight for UFC 173, but Vitor pulled out of the fight because of the NSAC's announcement to ban TRT. So he was originally slated to fight TRT-Vitor.

 

[The Infamous]

Dude had like 3 title defenses in 2 years and none of his opponents were tough. Machida (blown up)

The lack of title defences is because he's injury prone.

In those 3 title defences, he's fought Anderson x2 and Machida. Two elite and very tough fighters. So Machida & Anderson are not tough?

The UFC is a freaking joke and Dana White protects his great white hype well since he knows who his fans are.

If Chris Weidman was black, he would've still gotten Anderson x2, Machida and an upcoming fight with Vitor.

Conor McGregor is an example of getting protected, Chris Weidman is not.

Meanwhile, let's all look at Jones over the past 2 years

Jones and Weidman share (or will share) common opponents in Vitor and Machida. Yes, Weidman is fighting non-TRT Vitor, but that's not Weidman or the UFC's fault. And like I said, he was originally slated to fight TRT-Vitor.

And I'm not saying that Jones doesn't have a good resume. He has the arguably the most impressive resume in MMA history. At this rate, Jones will easily surpass the likes of Fedor, Anderson & GSP as the greatest MMA fighter of all time (some people believe he already has).

They even tried to force him to take on a challenger on a 3 week notice

It was 8 days notice. Stylistically, Chael was a very easy match-up for Jones, and he (Chael) was considerably under-sized. But I understand why Jones didn't take the fight. Why risk (albeit a small risk) your name/legacy against a fighter with pretty much nothing to lose. This is MMA, anything can happen. A fighter with the legacy/status of Jon Jones can't be taking any unnecessary risks.

 

[The Infamous]

you know why they also think they've found a formula that bares fruit. Place him on a card with ronda and its a jingoistic one 2..They are going to see the he gets as much of a rub off these named brazillian veterans to try and purport the belief hes this legend killer thats a draw but

Explain what differences there would be if Weidman was black. He would've still faced Anderson x2, Machida & Vitor.

 

[The Infamous]

And people seem to forget or discard the fact that Weidman has probably the toughest list of contenders for any champion. Vitor, Rockhold, Jacare, Romero, Mousasi, & a potential rematch with Machida. That is a murderer's row of MWs.

 

[Roman Brady]

Explain what differences there would be if Weidman was black..

they would've taken a phase of action the moment the nsac shenanigans with vitor sprung.He would have faced, rockhold, romero and jacare by now. He wouldnt only fight on ronda rousey cards. The proposed silva trilogy wouldnt be happening

 

[Roman Brady]

And people seem to forget or discard the fact that Weidman has probably the toughest list of contenders for any champion. Vitor, Rockhold, Jacare, Romero, Mousasi, & a potential rematch with Machida. That is a murder's row of MWs.

A man thats been fighting since the 90s, who is off the juice that made him competitive and was never known to have good TDD


Machida gave weidman a barrage of strikes and he was taunting him like chris brown did in "loyal" clearly he has lost something with the drop to mw.And lets not act like his style is foolproof and ferocious, he lost to davis and rampage for a reason, those bad habits took shape in the weidman fight .

Weidman is who we thought he was and for 2.5 rounds he let him off the hook

 

[Newzz]

they would've taken a phase of action the moment the nsac shenanigans with vitor sprung.He would have faced, rockhold, romero and jacare by now. He wouldnt only fight on ronda rousey cards. The proposed silva trilogy wouldnt be happening

Yeah, beacause the UFC has shown this in their prior treatments against Rampage Jackson and Rashad Evans


And your point is contradictory, because you're writing it like Rockhold/etc are tougher opponents than Silva. If the hypothetical black fighter would have already fought Rockhold and them,....why wouldnt he have fought Silva then?


Did Rampage not get Chuck Liddell, Hendo, Forest Griffen, Wandy, Rashad, Machida, and Bones?

Did Evans not get Tito 2x, Liddell, Forest, Machida, Rampage, and Bones?

But, for some reason, your hypothetical black fighter wouldnt get the biggest names in his division...regardless what history has shown for black champions in UFC



?

 

[Roman Brady]

Yeah, beacause the UFC has shown this in their prior treatments against Rampage Jackson and Rashad Evans

And your point is contradictory, because you're writing it like Rockhold/etc are tougher opponents than Silva. If the hypothetical black fighter would have already fought Rockhold and them,....why wouldnt he have fought Silva then?

huh? the fuk are you on? and why are you filling in the blanks and trying to pass them off as my opinion, what part of the game is that? Styles make fights its really not that hard, rockhold has wrestling silva/machida/vitor do not.Rockhold is not a name the aforementioned 3 are..Its not in zuffa's interests to make that fight cuz they have all basis covered with all american weidman getting the rub off these legends

 

[The Infamous]

they would've taken a phase of action the moment the nsac shenanigans with vitor sprung.He would have faced, rockhold, romero and jacare by now. He wouldnt only fight on ronda rousey cards. The proposed silva trilogy wouldnt be happening

What action could the UFC have taken (in regards to the commission banning TRT)?

In this hypothetical scenario, everything else about Weidman is the same, the only difference is he's black. You have to remember he's still injury prone. So let's go the moment where Weidman beat Anderson for the 2nd time (because whether Weidman was black, brown or whatever, he would've still had to fight Anderson the 2nd time). The best & most deserving contender at that time (end of 2013) was easily Vitor. The UFC set up a match-up with Vitor, so hypothetical black Weidman would've also gotten Vitor.

Then the NSAC bans TRT, Vitor pulls out. At this time, you know who the most deserving & best contender was? Machida (ahead of the likes of Jacare,Rockhold, Romero, etc). What fight did the UFC set up? A fight with Machida, hypothetical Weidman would've also gotten Machida. Once Weidman won, the next most deserving contender was still Vitor. At this time, among fans, pundits, media, etc. Vitor was the next highest best MW contender. Also and very importantly, Vitor was the biggest name available. So Weidman got a Vitor match-up and hypothetical Weidman would've also gotten a Vitor match-up. So here we are today.

 

[Newzz]

huh? the fuk are you on? and why are you filling in the blanks and trying to pass them off as my opinion, what part of the game is that? Styles make fights its really not that hard, rockhold has wrestling silva/machida/vitor do not.Rockhold is not a name the aforementioned 3 are..Its not in zuffa's interests to make that fight cuz they have all basis covered with all american weidman.

You dont make any sense.


You said:

He would have faced, rockhold, romero and jacare by now. He wouldnt only fight on ronda rousey cards. The proposed silva trilogy wouldnt be happening

Explain yourself


Why the hell would a Black Champion have faced Rockhold, Romero, and Jacare by now....but he wouldnt be in the running for a 3rd fight with Anderson Silva


That makes no damn sense and doesnt follow history of Black Champions in UFC. If anything, they WOULD make us fight the biggest draw/best fighter in order for us to lose and get the belt back in the "right" hands (and Anderson Silva is considered more of the "right" hands than say Rumble Johnson)


Again, that's why Rampage fought Chuck Liddell, Dan Henderson, and Forest Griffen in back to back fights as Champion and why Rashad fought Forest Griffen and The Dragon in back to back fights as Champion (forget about the other big names they fought in the UFC)...they were trying to get the belts off of them against big names/draws and also sell out the venue/PPVs with people the UFC fanbase wanna see which is the bottomline for them.


Also, UFC doesnt go by "styles make fights"....they go by who puts asses in seats and orders PPVs. That's how you get Chael Sonnen fighting Anderson Silva 2x and then Jon Jones over a 5 fight stretch.

 

[The Infamous]

A man thats been fighting since the 90s, who is off the juice that made him competitive and was never known to have good TDD


Machida gave weidman a barrage of strikes and he was taunting him like chris brown did in "loyal" clearly he has lost something with the drop to mw.And lets not act like his style is foolproof and ferocious, he lost to davis and rampage for a reason, those bad habits took shape in the weidman fight .

Weidman is who we thought he was and for 2.5 rounds he let him off the hook

You cherry picking a few minor/trivial faults is not going to accomplish anything. That's like me saying Jones is facing Rumble? The same Rumble that got submitted by a lightweight in Clementi and later on a WW in Koscheck. The same Rumble that had to lay & pray to victory against Dan Hardy?