White: UFC 165-pound division ‘ain’t happening while I’m here’

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Talks about the opening of a 165-pound weight class in the UFC have been prevalent for a while now. At the same time, company president Dana White has repeatedly shut it down, despite calls from marquee names like Ben Askren, and from even newly-retired star Conor McGregor.

But in a recent interview with Barstool Sports, White finally put an end to all talks of a 165-pound division, and talks of opening any new weight class in the foreseeable future.

“Not in the next seven years, that I promise,” White said. “I’m here for seven more years, when I go they can make a 180, 165, 122, whatever they wanna do when I’m gone, they can do. It ain’t happening while…


Dana White: UFC 165-pound division ‘ain’t happening while I’m here’
 
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Talks about the opening of a 165-pound weight class in the UFC have been prevalent for a while now. At the same time, company president Dana White has repeatedly shut it down, despite calls from marquee names like Ben Askren, and from even newly-retired star Conor McGregor.

But in a recent interview with Barstool Sports, White finally put an end to all talks of a 165-pound division, and talks of opening any new weight class in the foreseeable future.

“Not in the next seven years, that I promise,” White said. “I’m here for seven more years, when I go they can make a 180, 165, 122, whatever they wanna do when I’m gone, they can do. It ain’t happening while…


Dana White: UFC 165-pound division ‘ain’t happening while I’m here’
Its almost like he just hates being told by fighters what they want.

Like the early weighin debacle

All the fighters told him they did not want to go back to same
day weighins but he pushed and pushed anyway

All the fighters are asking for 165 and he wont do it.

You'd think that fighters just have to take it in the ass
and be ruled by a 1 man dictator as if they have no collective
bargaining power...

Oh wait... thats right they don't cuz they always lay
down and do nuthin' to change their circumstances

Good... fuckem

WAR Danus!
 
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Chromium

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I kinda agree with Dana on this one. Eight (male) divisions is enough, and you know what you'd have gotten if they'd combined Bantamweight with Flyweight without releasing like 15 Flyweights first? The largest division in UFC history. Even if they finished fusing the two divisions now, they'd have 95 fighters in a single division. That's even worse than the current bloat at LW and WW. And anyone complaining about Flyweight being too thin should ask the same thing about HW or LHW, both of which are in worse shape globally. Meanwhile 125 was already a much higher floor than boxing has, and a higher floor than amateur wrestling or kickboxing has too for that matter. The athletic talent is undeniably there.

I'm sure I've elaborated this in the past but I think the best approach would be to simply have an in-house feeder league for 125-185, albeit with only a few FLWs or MWs, and use that to control divisional bloat (among many other benefits). And no, it's not the same as simply cutting 140+ people and just letting the indy scene and DWTNC be their feeder leagues.

Please let's not go down the path of boxing, it hasn't turned out well for them.

I also hate the idea of using more divisions with prefixes like "Super", "Light", or "Junior," (Light-Heavyweight gets a pass due to historical provenance), and I've never seen anyone come up with a good answer for this.
 
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I kinda agree with Dana on this one. Eight (male) divisions is enough, and you know what you'd have gotten if they'd combined Bantamweight with Flyweight without releasing like 15 Flyweights first? The largest division in UFC history. Even if they finished fusing the two divisions now, they'd have 95 fighters in a single division. That's even worse than the current bloat at LW and WW. And anyone complaining about Flyweight being too thin should ask the same thing about HW or LHW, both of which are in worse shape globally. Meanwhile 125 was already a much higher floor than boxing has, and a higher floor than amateur wrestling or kickboxing has too for that matter. The athletic talent is undeniably there.

I'm sure I've elaborated this in the past but I think the best approach would be to simply have an in-house feeder league for 125-185, albeit with only a few FLWs or MWs, and use that to control divisional bloat (among many other benefits). And no, it's not the same as simply cutting 140+ people and just letting the indy scene and DWTNC be their feeder leagues.

Please let's not go down the path of boxing, it hasn't turned out well for them.

I also hate the idea of using more divisions with prefixes like "Super", "Light", or "Junior," (Light-Heavyweight gets a pass due to historical provenance), and I've never seen anyone come up with a good answer for this.
I just want one division called "Gangster Weight"... That would be nice!
 

Waaz

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Talks about the opening of a 165-pound weight class in the UFC have been prevalent for a while now. At the same time, company president Dana White has repeatedly shut it down, despite calls from marquee names like Ben Askren, and from even newly-retired star Conor McGregor.

But in a recent interview with Barstool Sports, White finally put an end to all talks of a 165-pound division, and talks of opening any new weight class in the foreseeable future.

“Not in the next seven years, that I promise,” White said. “I’m here for seven more years, when I go they can make a 180, 165, 122, whatever they wanna do when I’m gone, they can do. It ain’t happening while…


Dana White: UFC 165-pound division ‘ain’t happening while I’m here’
Colby would dominate that division . I would like to see that division since we could see King Colby vs Sheeplover Kabob