If you watched last night’s fights on Fuel TV and Fox, a few things caught your eye. One, Nate Diaz is one bad dude. Two, the flyweights are the most excited dudes in sports. If you saw the battle between Demetrious Johnson and Ian McCall a few months ago at UFC on Fuel 2, then you sort of already knew the Flyweights were amazing and exciting, but last nights performances by John Dodson, Tim Elliott, and Louis Gaudinot gave everyone a new outlook on how fun this division is going to be.
So with that said, and the UFC 146 all heavyweight card on the horizon, it makes me think: what if the UFC had a card on FX or possibly even Fox that’s main card was five flyweight fights? Can you say exciting? Now, yes, the Flyweights are currently not very well known by many casual MMA fans, but what better way to display them than to hold a card like this?
The card could come around October and feature the flyweight championship fight between Joseph Benavidez and the winner of the Demetrious Johnson-Ian McCall II coming this summer. Also, feature a co-main event of the loser of Johnson/McCall against John Dodson to possibly determine the next flyweight championship contender.
Then, feel out the card by possibly booking a match-up with Yasuhiro Urushitani and, if the UFC will go ahead and sign him, the previously ranked number one Flyweight Jussier da Silva. Round out the main card with two awesome matchups between Louis Gaudinot and Tim Elliott and a matchup between Chris Cariaso and Darren Uyenoyama.
That is just a card I through together for the sake of this article, but if that was the actual card, it would be the fastest paced main card in UFC history! And all them fighters I named, with the exception of da Silva, are already on the UFC roster, so imagined if they went out and signed some other top-ranked flyweights such as Haruo Ochi, Mamoru Yamaguchi, Sean Santella, or Nam Jin Jo? It would make the card even better and all the fights would shake up the UFC flyweight title picture.
Although fans aren’t going crazy about the flyweights just yet, after a card like last night, fans want more and creating a card like this would without question leave fans wanting even more and give the flyweights the attention and respect they deserve without having to bring each one up one by one through the prelims.
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