There’s No Justice Above 205! The UFC badly needs a new 225-230lbs weight division.
by Admin on Feb.11, 2008, under MMA Fighters and Boxers
There’s No Justice Above 205! The UFC badly needs a new 225-230lbs weight division. I have been searching in vain for any proof that I am wrong and there is an actual UFC weight division at 225lbs or 230lbs but in vain. Do the GREAT 220-230lbs fighters (such as Mirko CroCop who fought Gonzaga at about 25lbs disadvantage, by the way Fedor’s team/trainers have stated that after that vicious head-kick knockout any doctor would have mandated 6 month sabbatical) out there not deserve the same fairness awarded to 155 pounders? or those at 168/170/185 and 205lbs?
In any well conditioned fighter, even FIVE POUNDS can be a considerable weight advantage, yet we have fighters face opponents with over 20 lbs of pure muscle and/or bone structure advantage! (It isn’t unusual for fight-time weight advantage to be greater than at weigh-in when the ‘overweight’ fighter comes in completely dehydrated…)
How can there be a “fair fight” between a 220lb fighter and a 265lb monster? Would it be fair for a 185 pounder to face the 225lb ‘monster’? Or to force the 155 pounders to go up against the 205 lb fighters? It seems though that every fight at the lower weight divisions have fighters at exactly the same weight or within ONE POUND of each other whereas at the heavyweight level we send knights after dragons, and while entertaining, for sure, is it fair to the fighters? Why not give fighters the dignity and official recognition they deserve if they choose to go up and fight an opponent in a higher weight division?
