125 pound division added to the UFC March 3rd

Posey H8er · Post #1 » by **Posey H8er** » Sun Dec 11, 2011 5:25 am

per Dana

4-man tournament for the title-
Ian McCall vs. Demetrious Johnson
Joseph Benavidez vs. Yasuhiro Urushitani

*edit- yeah, his name is edited out :-?

SDM · Post #2 » by **SDM** » Sun Dec 11, 2011 5:37 am

Posey H8er wrote:per Dana

4-man tournament for the title-
Ian McCall vs. Demetrious Johnson
Joseph Benavidez vs. Yasuhiro ****

*edit- yeah, his name is edited out

REDDzone · Post #3 » by **REDDzone** » Sun Dec 11, 2011 5:38 am

Whose on the list of 135ers we can expect to move down right away?

SDM · Post #4 » by **SDM** » Sun Dec 11, 2011 5:42 am

REDDzone wrote:Whose on the list of 135ers we can expect to move down right away?

Gaudinot for sure, if he's not cut. Caraiso, Dodson, Menjivar, Kid.

Posey H8er · Post #5 » by **Posey H8er** » Sun Dec 11, 2011 5:50 am

i wonder who else zuffa has signed. you would imagine some more names would come out soon. i don't know as much about the 125 division as i should.

some names to consider:

Jussier da Silva
Shinichi Kojima
Mitsuhisa Sunabe
Rambaa Somdet
Mamoru Yamaguchi
Dustin Ortiz
Kiyotaka Shimizu
Akira Kibe
Yuki Yasunaga
Darrell Montague

and i know pretty much zilch about all of them. help me jordan breen or bloodyelbow.

Nemesis21 · Post #6 » by **Nemesis21** » Sun Dec 11, 2011 5:52 am

REDDzone · Post #7 » by **REDDzone** » Sun Dec 11, 2011 5:54 am

Ortiz is a well rounded, scrappy cat. I think he fought McCall really closely, who is widely considered number one flyweight I think.

Only other guys on that list I have seen fight are da Silva and I think Montague.

Post #8 » by **Headliner** » Sun Dec 11, 2011 6:24 am

Nice.
But it's going to be hard to keep track of all these guys and who is which class at the moment.

SDM · Post #9 » by **SDM** » Sun Dec 11, 2011 6:27 am

It's crazy that they poached the current flyweight champs from other orgs.

Post #10 » by **CPT** » Sun Dec 11, 2011 9:48 am

Awesome news.

I'm gonna have to do some research on these guys though. From what I can tell though, that tournament will 100% crown the best 125er in the world, so good news there. **** and McCall are #1 and #2 in the world, and Johnson and Benavidez are top 5ers at 135.

Nemesis21 · Post #11 » by **Nemesis21** » Mon Dec 12, 2011 2:46 am

REDDzone wrote:Whose on the list of 135ers we can expect to move down right away?

Demetrious Johnson, maybe Jorgensen.

Cammo101 · Post #12 » by **Cammo101** » Mon Dec 12, 2011 3:21 am

I would not expect a glut of 125 pounders any time soon. I think they will grow it pretty slowly. You have the 4 guys in the tourney, Dodson and Gaudinot, and maybe a couple other guys like Ortiz, Campuzano, and da Silva who will probably come in. But, I do not expect to see the UFC go out and start signing flyweights left and right. The division is really weak right now and the UFC will probably go very slow with it at first.