Tournaments for Title Shots?

doesnt hurt to try it for a season and we can see how we feel about it start of next season or even half way at the surivovr series or whatever. i dont see it breaking the whole site in that short time and if it works how bookerman says it does it actually sounds like it makes even more sense to me as long as guys with 5 fight losing streaks arent talking themselves into title shots. what i mean is i dont want all the title shots to go to guys like covington irl who just talk until they get a title shot. i think thats fun but here i think it would just be too much in favor of guys like phx since hes good at the press conference thing so hed just get all the title shots. and hurt guys like me and gap who are more quiet. we still want ranked people up there. so as long as they are top ranked and not as phx said just whoever booker feels just had a good ufc fight or some shit then im in to give it a go. because i hear you having leslie smith fight for title at zenith was kinda anticlimax if im being honest.

No takers on the dog?

The problem exists. We are getting a revolving door of underdogs that are sooo extremely underdog, our title fights are a joke (JJ vs. Ribas? Come on now...). You yourself keep talking about how you want rankings to matter. Well, for ManMMA 41 we have a 9th ranked fighter fighting for the belt before the 6th or 8th ranked fighters have.

This suggestion is the better system right now. The problem in the tournaments cannot be fixed (unless we gave people byes...). I have outlined how this non-tournament method would work, and if you read it, you would see nothing about it is me "just arbitrarily deciding that "fighter X" gets a shot". The same process that goes into tournaments goes into this. It just cuts out a fighters ability to bypass people ahead of them in rankings. As you said, though, at this point it doesn't matter what I say, you've dug in with your stance, and no new proof or evidence will change your mind, so nothing further needs to be said.

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More detailed version for people keeping track of the technicalities (no one except me, and maybe Austin).
For tournaments to work, we need about 9 viable #1 contenders (1 champion, 4 for "this" title shot, then 4 new guys for the "next" title shot). We don't have 9 legitimate title contenders right now in any weightclass, so tournaments are just 2 fighters for legit fighters to walk through for a title shot. Using the non-tournament system would basically mean, in theory, all 8 contenders got a title shot when they earned it (through rankings), before needing to cycle through again. And that's assuming new people were not heavily upgraded to become contenders. If they were, that pool grows. Right now, with 12th ranked fighters getting title shots because of unclose-able tournament loophopes, rankings aren't being utilized as they should be.

Spit-balling an idea hoping it may trigger another idea?

But what about something like...

Guys ranked 2-6 are the tournament fights.
Guys ranked 7 to 14 can be matched for "climbing"
Guys ranked 15 to 20 fight non-ranked fighters to see if someone cycles in?

So you have bottom end gate-keepers to the division. Mid-tier division fighters that are improving and cementing for future shots, and the elite that fight equal competition for a chance at title.

But anyone ranked 1-10 could also contend for a title shot OUTSIDE of winning a tournament. So like a Grand-Prix style tournament constantly sort of evolving, but also turning the bottom half of the top 20 into it's own little Grand Prix for elevation status.

All of this is probably already going on, but just throwing something at the wall to see if anything sticks (if ideas are being asked for?)

Only problem with that if it was concrete, is then it's still just the same ranked 2-6 guys fighting in the tournament fights, and the same #2 and #3 guys winning the tournament. Idk why anyone is freaking out about it tbh. The #1C fights are the only interesting part of a tournament half the time, and if four fighters are all making a case for the tournament, then all four of them can be in line for title shots. Why waste a fighter's momentum against the other three when you have four worthy competitors? Not only that, but tournaments could still happen sometimes and they'd be more interesting when they did.

As long as #1C fights are still happening, I don't see a big deal, but when guys like Andrei Arlovski win three straight fights in the GP, they definitely should get a shot at the belt instead of fighting two more times in a tournament.