UFC 'real' belts are the joke, not necessary interim titles

[Sheepdog]

In 2017, 2018 and 2019, there were 52 non-interim title fights and only 6 interim title fights. That means the 'real' belts across all weight divisions were only defended 4.3 times every 3 years. If a UFC champ holds a belt for a decade, he/she will on average only fight 14 contenders given no rematches.

Canelo Alvarez, the biggest North American boxing PPV star, who makes more for a fight than most UFC fighters earn in their careers, fights twice a year, every year, for comparison. Dipshits whine about rare, and usually very necessary, interim titles, and not the joke that is the UFC"s mandated structural inactivity of champions.

Every time the UFC and retarded fans want a shitty rematch, they are on average asking for a division to be held up for more than 2 years sorting it out. 8.5 months since the champ fought someone else, 8.5 months until the rematch, 8.5 months until they fight someone fresh.. Rematches turn fresh championship fights into a biennial event across all divisions. You add in 'fun' fights and trilogies, and you should realize how bad it can get.

Stipe Miocic is 1-1 in the last two and a half years and has no current interest in fighting. There is no legitimate sporting basis to consider him a 'champion' of anything other than being a champion at virtue signalling while chasing a pension. Aldo gets a title shot. Cruz gets a title shot. So why whine about interim belts, when they are the only thing that most real contenders can fight over? They keep the sport more legitimate, not less.

 

[BeardOfKnowledge]

In 2017, 2018 and 2019, there were 52 non-interim title fights and only 6 interim title fights. That means the 'real' belts across all weight divisions were only defended 4.3 times every 3 years. If a UFC champ holds a belt for a decade, he/she will on average only fight 14 contenders given no rematches.

Canelo Alvarez, the biggest North American boxing PPV star, who makes more for a fight than most UFC fighters earn in their careers, fights twice a year, every year, for comparison. Dipshits whine about rare, and usually very necessary, interim titles, and not the joke that is the UFC"s mandated structural inactivity of champions.

Every time the UFC and retarded fans want a shitty rematch, they are on average asking for a division to be held up for more than 2 years sorting it out. 8.5 months since the champ fought someone else, 8.5 months until the rematch, 8.5 months until they fight someone fresh.. Rematches turn fresh championship fights into a biennial event across all divisions. You add in 'fun' fights and trilogies, and you should realize how bad it can get.

Stipe Miocic is 1-1 in the last two and a half years and has no current interest in fighting. There is no legitimate sporting basis to consider him a 'champion' of anything other than being a champion at virtue signalling while chasing a pension. Aldo gets a title shot. Cruz gets a title shot. So why whine about interim belts, when they are the only thing that most real contenders can fight over? They keep the sport more legitimate, not less.

I always wondered who fell for interim titles.

 

[Sheepdog]

I always wondered who fell for interim titles.

There's nothing to fall for. The UFC often arbitrarily decides who is and isn't champion and interim champion and when. Putting inherent value in a 'real' belt makes you more of a dipshit than someone who argues that, dependent on circumstances, interim belts can have more meaning.

Belts are just shiny trinkets. It's the inter-subjective value we put on them that matters. Seeing as I am a renowned internet influencer, I aim to change these subjective viewpoints with my brilliant arguments.

 

[member 3289]

There should be a semiannual mandatory title defense clause in their ridiculous independent contractor agreements

 

[BeardOfKnowledge]

There's nothing to fall for. The UFC often arbitrarily decides who is and isn't champion and interim champion and when. Putting inherent value in a 'real' belt makes you more of a dipshit than someone who argues that, dependent on circumstances, interim belts can have more meaning.

 

[Robbie Hart]

I always wondered who fell for interim titles.

Yeah, it means fuck all but maybe makes it “mean something” to Rick, Brett, Charles, Robert, Link, Chad, Auburn and Jonathan and their fraternity brothers who talk about the “title fight” happening and how they’ll talk like they know the sport and invite their gay friends over along with a bunch of girls who can’t speak full sentences and gaze into their eyes like their actual fighters

 

[Sheepdog]

There should be a semiannual mandatory title defense clause in their ridiculous independent contractor agreements

Yep, just so the UFC can use it as an excuse more than anything. Champions they like will still mysteriously be allowed to not defend for 2 years, but then champions they don't like - like Stipe - they can just go 'oh yeah, he hasn't fought in 6 months, we're stripping him'.

 

[Onetrickpony]

In 2017, 2018 and 2019, there were 52 non-interim title fights and only 6 interim title fights. That means the 'real' belts across all weight divisions were only defended 4.3 times every 3 years. If a UFC champ holds a belt for a decade, he/she will on average only fight 14 contenders given no rematches.

Canelo Alvarez, the biggest North American boxing PPV star, who makes more for a fight than most UFC fighters earn in their careers, fights twice a year, every year, for comparison. Dipshits whine about rare, and usually very necessary, interim titles, and not the joke that is the UFC"s mandated structural inactivity of champions.

Every time the UFC and retarded fans want a shitty rematch, they are on average asking for a division to be held up for more than 2 years sorting it out. 8.5 months since the champ fought someone else, 8.5 months until the rematch, 8.5 months until they fight someone fresh.. Rematches turn fresh championship fights into a biennial event across all divisions. You add in 'fun' fights and trilogies, and you should realize how bad it can get.

Stipe Miocic is 1-1 in the last two and a half years and has no current interest in fighting. There is no legitimate sporting basis to consider him a 'champion' of anything other than being a champion at virtue signalling while chasing a pension. Aldo gets a title shot. Cruz gets a title shot. So why whine about interim belts, when they are the only thing that most real contenders can fight over? They keep the sport more legitimate, not less.