Comments on: Zuffa should hire Joe Warren and bring the Featherweight division to UFC

By: DNGR JAY

DNGR JAY — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:44:52 +0000

how many of you actuactly cut weight and fight hoiw do you know what they can do…you guys just critique from the sidelines …

By: Lendo

Lendo — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 14:16:50 +0000

I’ve been following Warren for about a year now…great fighter. I doubt he’ll come to the USA to fight, it’s been said that he makes more money fighting in Japan.
And this is just my personal opinion, but I like the WEC the way it is.

By: Wolverine

Wolverine — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:51:15 +0000

I checked his Dream welterweight GP weigh-in and he was 161 so I guess he can make featherweight, altough I don’t think it’s necessary in his case.

He is the second best lightweight in the world at the moment, unless he dramatically loses his next 2-3 fights to bigger guys, I don’t believe his needs to drop down.

By: Ivan Trembow

Ivan Trembow — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 10:33:42 +0000

If Aoki’s walking-around weight is 155-to-160, he could probably make 145 easily. There are more than a handful of fighters who walk around at 155 and fight at 135, just as there are plenty of fighters who walk around at 175 and fight at 155.

By: Wolverine

Wolverine — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 10:30:50 +0000

I doubt Aoki can make featherweight, Hansen cane make it easily. Also Warren will be better suited for bantamweight.

By: Ivan Trembow

Ivan Trembow — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 09:13:41 +0000

Suddenly it doesn’t seem so bright to push fighters based on their ability to get wasted and do stupid things: http://www.lvrj.com/news/breaking_news/UFC-fighter-arrested-in-Henderson-hospital-assault-63715747.html

Releasing Junie Browning at this point was the only option that the UFC had, but they could have also released him during the TUF 8 season, or after he lost his fight on TUF 8, or after he lost in a one-sided fight to Cole Miller. They didn’t, which speaks volumes about just how much they rewarded his drunken, “craziest season ever” behavior.

By: 45 Huddle

45 Huddle — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:18:51 +0000

Can Aoki make 145? I know he is a twig, but he is pretty tall. I think if he could get down to 145 pounds, he would be #1 in the world. I see him beating Brown & Faber. At Lightweight, he has a hard time with the power of some of the fighters.

Hansen can definitely get down. He was like 151 for the weigh-ins.

It’s a shame DREAM doesn’t use the unified weight class system….

By: brent

brent — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:52:43 +0000

they should hire aoiki and hansen to the fw class, b/c they sure in the hell’s are not lw’s.

By: 45 Huddle

45 Huddle — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:23:33 +0000

I believe Warren was around 138 pounds for the DREAMweigh-ins. Definitely a Bantamweight over here in the states.

I really want to see the Featherweight & Bantamweight Divisions in the UFC. It would allow the smaller Lightweights to get the same money and move down a weight class. Lightweight is already beyond stacked. If even a few solid fighters make the cut, it will strengthen Featherweight even more.

Te ripple effect will even happen when some of the smaller Featherweights have to move down to Bantamweight due to the shift. I think it only strengthens the sport as a whole.

And the tournament stuff in Japan is like throwing a bunch of stuff against the wall and hoping something sticks. Any larger organization can do that. It doesn’t exactly help out for long term matchmaking needs. If the finals went the other way, DREAM would have a “Featherweight” Champion that was just a WEC washout. That would have been a disaster from an American Fans perspective.

By: Kelvin

Kelvin — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:44:00 +0000

I like the idea of Warren in the WEC.