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How a UFC Women's Flyweight Division Could Look

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dtrain24
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03.12.2017 | 4:21 PM ET

Hey guys, I was just curious as to how you thought a women's flyweight division could look in the UFC? Obviously, there would be girls moving up, down, and free agent signings. 

Here's an article I wrote for MMASucka.com to kick off the conversation:

http://mmasucka.com/2017/03/10/ufc-womens-flyweight-division-look-like/

I won't lie, I appreciate every click. But I am genuinely interested to see who you all think the UFC should sign, and what you think of some of the women I listed. 

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SlongKong
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03.12.2017 | 6:35 PM ET

nah

The UFC should focus on taking care of the female fighters already under contract, not add another division for girls to be used and underappriciated.


and like Featherweight, the best fighters are in Bellator. So it'd be rather meaningless.

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03.12.2017 | 7:41 PM ET

There's plenty of 125 talent out there imo (and girls changing weight/already signed FLW/BW's) to make a division,especially considering they made that absolutely worthless 145 division.I still shake my head about that ridiculous division.125 has a lot of potential though imo and could eventually be the best female division in the UFC in terms of depth with 125 possibly being the optimal weight for a female division.125 is inevitable imo.I'll read the article tonight.
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03.12.2017 | 7:53 PM ET

Yeah, the thing is, a good portion of a potential 125 division would already consist of women that are under contract. Essentially, all of the bantamweights that are too small for the division, and all the strawweights who have a hard time making the 116 limit.

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03.12.2017 | 9:46 PM ET

If you can have 145 which, even if you sc****d together every natural 145er in MMA, would still consists of Cyborg and her victims then 125 which actually has a fair share of talent shouldn't be that hard.

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03.13.2017 | 12:46 AM ET

Let me get this straight, the UFC, currently on a mission to completely destroy their roster, should consider adding a new division? The UFC should not, repeat SHOULD NOT add any more divisions. WFW was stupid to add w/o Cyborg being available, and even then it was stupid b/c there is a total of two good fighters. Compounding this stupidity is the fact that the UFC is intent on letting go of their current talent to make way for gems like: Thibault Gouti, Russell Doane, Angela Magaña, Bec Rawlings, Garreth McLellan, Chris Avila, and CM Punk.

Having said that, 125 lb female division is more deserving of its own division than WFW. Though, I think if the UFC works on another women's division it's just going to dilute Invicta, which would be sad. They had a good thing going before the UFC started adding divisions. In some ways, I'd prefer UFC to stay out of WMMA and let Invicta promote WMMA. I'm also of the opinion that the way the UFC has been doing business lately they'll just use the division as a way to further dilute current product, which makes it extremely unpalatable to me.

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03.13.2017 | 12:14 PM ET

No, having a big gap and a missing weight class makes the UFC look amateur.

This is the last class they need to add though.
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03.16.2017 | 9:37 PM ET

The UFC signed a couple of top 10 ranked flyweights in Chookagian and Botelho (yet to make promotion debut). I recall Carmouche stating interest also. While it logically should create a 125 division it will realistically take a 'big draw', possibly Dern though she appears commited to 115 at present, to force their hand. I acknowledge I would be in the minority but I would love to see Rousey paying it forward and agree to fight at 125.
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03.17.2017 | 11:57 AM ET

straweight is already a weak division! I think they should not make it weaker by creating a flyweight! 

Maybe, changing the bantamweight limit for 130 would be a better choice

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