Fight fixing does not work like the stuff you see in movies where people get offered a wad of cash in the locker room before the fight and 2 bouncers with baseball bats are waiting for you outside if you don't take a dive etc.. These guys are professionals and if they are fixing anything, than they are doing it the proper way.
There is no real ranking system in the UFC. There are no rules that govern who gets a title shot or who gets to fight who. It all gets decided by the Zuffa boys. So they can take an outsider and throw him to the wolfs, throw him in to fights that he can not win and spit him right out. They can also take fighters and slowly build them, give them easier fights to build their undefeated record until they are ready to challenge the top 5 in the division.
Except the totally obvious title fights, it is all a crap shoot basically. As long as White+Fertita+Silva decide on who fights who, then there is always some fixing going on. If you want a totally unfixed way of arranging fights, then you need to go to league system where everybody fights the same number of fights and each other, couple times per season, one at home and one away.
There is no real ranking system in the UFC. There are no rules that govern who gets a title shot or who gets to fight who. It all gets decided by the Zuffa boys. So they can take an outsider and throw him to the wolfs, throw him in to fights that he can not win and spit him right out. They can also take fighters and slowly build them, give them easier fights to build their undefeated record until they are ready to challenge the top 5 in the division.
Except the totally obvious title fights, it is all a crap shoot basically. As long as White+Fertita+Silva decide on who fights who, then there is always some fixing going on. If you want a totally unfixed way of arranging fights, then you need to go to league system where everybody fights the same number of fights and each other, couple times per season, one at home and one away.
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