A few days after Benson Henderson neglected the importance of the “BMF” title Nate Diaz, Jorge Masvidal will fight at UFC 244 on November 2, 2019. Another fighter came out and expressed his disapproval.
Kevin Lee, who recently traveled back from Welterweight to Lightweight, told MMA Junkie that the reason for his refusal to MMA Junkie was because the 170-pound sector was stagnant. Despite the fact that UFC fights at UFC 245 with Kamaru Usman and Colby Covington, he is not wrong in any sense as division builds up, but it is difficult to book a meaningful title fight. It turned out.
But when UFC could not give Usman or Covington the headline of the UFC 244, the promotion created a “BMF” strap.
"This was a lot of factors," Lee said about his reasons. “Especially in accordance with the way Khabib (Nurmagomedov) hits Dustin (Poirier), lightweighting is starting to get a lot more momentum, and there are too many moving parts.
"Welterweight is a bit stagnant," he added. “Masvidal and Diaz are making new titles that are winning. A sort of little boy title. "
The biggest difficulty for Lee's cogs is that the promotion failed to spend more than $ 50,000 to create a "BMF" title instead of making a 165 pound belt (and department).
He campaigned repeatedly.
"They would have made a 165-pound title to make another title." “I don't like to say dead horses, but because I had little exercise, I wanted to get back to 155 naturally. Do."
Lee may have a point, but Diaz and Masvidal are currently one of the biggest needle movers. And as history shows, if a fighter can get the numbers, the promotion is pushed back and becomes happy.
After just one fight at 170 pounds, the loss of Raphael dos Anjos, “Motown Phenom” was 155 pounds to face Gregor Gillespie at the same UFC 244 event in New York City. Go back.