How can you punch someone in the head hundreds of time and he wraps his legs around your neck for 8 seconds and be declared the winner... In West Linn, Oregon that makes you... not a winner.
I’d argue Tony Ferguson’s win at 216 is one of the only meaningful interim championships just cus Conor never returned. He was basically the lightweight champion at that time
Renan Barao is probably the only legitimate interim champion I've seen. With Dominick Cruz unfit to fight and the UFC unwilling to strip him for inactivity, Barao actually did what an interim does, he defended the belt while the champion was unable to compete. When Cruz got injured yet again after they were set to unify it, enough was enough and he was promoted to undisputed. Every other interim just felt like a promotional tool to rescue some watered down card, a fuck you to the guy currently holding the belt or unwillingness to strip their cash cow who refused to defend.
@@MrDjentlegiant No, that one enters into the categories of promotional tool and unwillingness to strip the cash cow. He was stripped of it before he could even defend it too. It was quite the clusterfuck.
@@roberthall737 So, if in a parallel universe, the fight happened 5 times and Khabib wins all of them, does that mean that you think Tony will win all the fights in this universe since it is reversed? Hmm..
Lmao at the two who said the BMF belt isn't a title belt. It is literally nothing more than a "title" belt. The purpose of the BMF belt was to give the title of BMF to someone and nothing more. Google is for everyone. 🤣
@@wesmerit8855 The Pro Bowl is on a fixed date with fixed rules. Imagine if Goodell decided the Pro Bowl was next week, and all the players were selected by him.
@@rustygrilla No. The 32 NFL teams are split into two conferences. Of those 16 teams, a certain number of players are selected to form a new team to represent that conference. It's the same as combat sports arbitrarily combining fighters for a match.
Interim titles should be reserved for injured title holders, even then only if they have a reasonable return time frame. The fact they create them to boost a card because A) the champion is chasing money fights or B) they refuse to pay the champion accordingly is absolutely preposterous! It takes the prestige of being a champion as badly as it does in boxing.
@F.W. or just have the number one contender be what it should be in like every other fighting sport if your the number one contender you have gained the right to challenge for the title but in MMA they might just not like you and either not give you your shot fully or just make your wait and not get paid for like a year+ that and start cracking down on inactivity due to chasing bigger fights. Also UFC should be paying proper unlike they do now of course i dunno the sports a mess.
@@dimitarbelchev3062 I don't think people hate him for not defending the belts as much as the fact he held up 2 divisions for 2 years, well back at that time at least.
4:10 it's like you completely forgot the UFC was uninterested in the flyweight division until the ESPN deal. Even today the UFC has some bad flyweights when they could snatch up really good flyweights from Europe, Asia, and Central/South America.
@@janblachowiczsfatgrandson7833 oh true that makes sense. Explains why UFC has such little Japanese fighters. Not worth it for them if they only make peanuts.
@@janblachowiczsfatgrandson7833 DJ and Moraes both beat Moreno and Figgy consistently. The ONE Flyweight belt means more and the fighters in ONE's flyweight division get paid more.
And now Montano was cut from the promotion after badly missing weight. Waste of potential, she'll always be overshadowed by Valentina now and with good reason.
Yeah, and at this point you have to rank her worse than De Randaime. She won it against Modiferri....then couldn't fight, missed weight multiple times even in the weight class above and lost her only fight since TUF. Biggest let down, at least Germaine made a run at bantom after being stripped.
I think Derrick's coach specifically asked him to grab the interim belt at the face offs to get one picture with the belt just to hang it up in the gym lmfao.
Don't you guys agree that an Interim Title is pointless? It literally means number one contender, and even guys like Tony and Colby didn't get a title shot when they were Interim champs. What's the point of being an Interim Champ when there is the real champ sitting at the top? Then if you don't beat the champ when you are the interim champ it'll all be just a waste honestly.
@José Flores Cormier vs Rumble wasn't pointless lol, Jon Jones was a drug cheat, he doesn't belong in MMA. I could agree with Khabib v Iaquinta though, but it was just bad luck
While I understand the criticism interim titles fights get, some of the best fights I've seen were interim title fights. And they went all 5 rounds. It would've sucked stopping them at 3
Simple, make all top 10 fights 5 rounds. A fake belt shouldn't make a difference to how good the match is. If a champ cant or wont defend the title in a decent amount of time they are stripped of title and the 2 top ranked contenders fight for the title. If the ex champ had to vacate because of injury they get first shot when they come back
@@madgavin7568 yeah it is, only silly fanboys think different, you know the type, the ones that lap up Dana's bullshit with a fukin ladle. Not 1 "interim" belt is valid, just made up crap to help sell PPV's to idiots that dont know better
@@conradvonhotzendorf5134 lol, petition them to give everyone a "I took part" belt! Everyone will be happy then!! Might even sell a couple of more cards to the really gullible
Since it was called “ Meaningless victories” I thought for sure Aljo‘s “win” over Yan would be #1. No disrespect to Aljo but it is the only time a DQ has led to a title change.
@@michaeltobias3110 It's astounding that they don't have a 1 million at least, the production value of these videos is insane. Especially when they have UFC fighters as guests
"If fans see a shiny gold belt then maybe they won't pirate it" if I see a shiny gold belt on a UFC AD; you're gonna have to start calling me Jack Sparrow
it was reavealed afterwards the bout was only stopped cause chael called it off as he knew jon's toe had snapped and awarded him the TKO..... what a man
Pretty funny that you dissed all those organizations and then immediately turned around and named 3 guys from that TUF season that are at the top of the division rn🤣
