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Originally Posted by POINDEXTER
Agreed, some sort of tournament and/or some amount of time and more fights before a title fight would be better. I don't think they need to rush into having a championship fight until they have enough fighters to warrant such a designation.
In the case of Fedor it was appropriate, IMO, since he is considered by nearly everyone in the world to be the best HW. It's a little different in the case of Silva and Franklin. Franklin was the legitimate champion and Silva was a pretty damn impressive challenger coming in. Neither Babalu or Tito could be considered a legitimate LHW champion at this point. I could be wrong, but I think a few more fights should occur.
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They wanted the Fedor-Sylvia fight to be 5 rounds so they made it a championship fight. Funny that it took less than 1/10 of 1 round to get it done but you get the point.
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Originally Posted by rugoatee
I don't think the contractual obligations have anything to do with his book. That is a different matter entirely. I believe there are non-compete clauses in the contracts that extend past the date of the last fight on the contract.
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It's not a non-compete clause, it's a 60 day exclusive negotiations clause. When a UFC fighters contract expires, the UFC has 60 days of exclusive rights to that fighter to negotiate a new contract. If a contract is not agreed upon before the 60 days is up, then the fighter is free and clear to negotiate with whoever.
That 60 day exclusive rights period is actually up today. His last fight was May 24 and today is 2 months to the day of that. The Atencio quotes were probably from a few days ago. I can tell you now, the Ortiz signing speculation will now heat up substantially now that he's free and clear to sign anywhere.
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Originally Posted by rugoatee
Agreed. That is a major obstacle in making this fight happen. Tito is going to want the money Sylvia got (which was obscene).
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Tito could get in the ring and shadowbox and break dance and sell more PPVs than Sylvia.