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From a new press release on WEC.tv:
So that’s it — Condit and Larson are gone, and they’ve taken the 170-pound division with them. And it’s only a matter of time before the WEC completes its differentiation from the UFC, axes the lightweight class, and sends Jamie Varner and Donald Cerrone up to the big leagues. But while it’s good to see the WEC adding divisions to make up for the ones they cut, you’d think a women’s division (or two) would come before a horse-jockey division. It kind of bothers me when women’s MMA is roadblocked due to a perceived lack of depth, then Zuffa installs a new men’s division where the #1-ranked fighter doesn’t even have ten wins yet, and the #8 fighter has won four of his ten fights. (And of course, how many American MMA fans out of 100 would be able to pick them out of a lineup?) Does this make any sense from a marketing perspective?
And the idea of 125-pound men fighting — doesn’t that seem kind of, I don’t know, unnatural to you? All your talk about their speed and endless gas tanks will seem beside the point when Frank Mir enters the cage and asks them to take us through the fight. Either the flyweights are going to have to stand on a step-ladder to reach the mic, or Mir is going to talk to these boys on his knees…








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commentsIf he was allowed to fight as his current weight, though.
Mir: Okay take us through the fight.
Flyweight: Sure thing! My, you're a tall fella! Do you need me to fix your shoes or make toys?
Flyweight is a ready made division, with smaller fighters cutting down, and existing fly's coming in.
I would like for Zuffa/WEC to have Primetime Show (like BJ/GSP) type show to showcase the women of mma.....After they are lock into a contract.
Damn! Corey Hill is a Cage Potato reader!!
Seriously though, they need to sign Kid Yamamoto ASAP since the Japanese won't touch his pot smoking ass
And I can't wait for the controversial fight when one of them is accused of rubbing some orange slippery substance all over his body.
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