Originally Posted by batdude_uk1:
“Well there was a shock, Ronda wins by armbar in the first round, I wonder where she goes from here now? Who else do the UFC have that they can put in with her, and market them in a successful way?”
Dana said yesterday how they're already bringing in 15 new fighters and are going to start putting them out there. In the mean time, Tate is taking on Zingano at the TUF finale, quite likely the winner of that will be Ronda's next opponent. People would eat up Ronda/Tate II, could easily do great business.
Originally Posted by JCR:
“Dana said today they have too many fighters and need to cut 100! They cut 16 yesterday, including Jon Fitch, who had a 14-3-1 record in UFC.
I'd expect this will lead to more boring fights as people will play it safe in attempting not to lose.”
Not so sure about that, could easily lean either way. Dana said while announcing this that people need to go out there and put on entertaining fights, he's made that clear time and time again. Be a 'boring' fighter and you're at arguably a bigger risk of being cut to be perfectly frank. All it takes is a couple of losses. Whereas we've seen that if you go out there and put on a show and entertain, you can actually afford to lose quite a few and still be kept around (Hardy went through a four loss streak, while Fitch basically lost two fights, not even back to back, and was cut). The positive is that even with cuts, Dana made it clear they can work their way back, so it's not really a bad thing.
Anyway, pretty good event. Bermudez/Grice was a war, go check that one out for anybody that hasn't seen it yet. Koscheck stoppage seemed way too early, but after the amount of cheap con jobs he's pulled in the past, I'm not complaining. Main Event was great, Carmouche looked really good and put Ronda in danger, before Ronda eventually added yet another arm to her collection. About as good as it could of gone there.