125 pound midget division coming. 145 was bad enough. 135 was awful news. 125...im speechless. The octagon is huger they're so tiny it will look so weird. They should have these guys fight in a sand box instead.
This ain't like boxing where these tiny guys can't hurt eachother. The little guys are actually fun to watch in MMA, they don't gas, they are really active and with the 4oz gloves they can actually knock eachother out. I welcome the "midgets" As I am an actual fan of MMA.
Z, these are only featherweights in boxing. Of course boxing featherweights can hurt each other, you as brutal KO's at featherweight as any other weight, we're not talking flyweights here.
Actually, 125 is the perfect bottom weight class IMO. I don't see the UFC ever going smaller. This should really open the door for the UFC in Japan and the rest of Asia. Watch alot of Thai boxers to migrate into the UFC at these lower weights as well. Keeping the weight classes with a ten pound difference or greater is perfect. One of the worst things that happened in boxing was creating divisions less than 5 pounds apart. The only other weight class I could possibly see is one breaking up the HW division, I have read and even seen Dana speak to it before.
But by the same token, I don't consider boxing featherweights, midgets. This isn't strawweight or paperweight or cottonweight. It's the same weight that gave us Nelson, Saddler, Barrera, Kid Chocolate, Attell, Arguello, Sanchez, etc. I'll take it in MMA.
106 pounds. He moved to 126 after being a pro for 8 years. He was a flyweight for years, like 4 or 5 years, which is 112 pounds.
Oh I agree, in fact that's my point. Boxing featherweights aren't midgety at all, it's always been a very good division actually, with a lot of great fights and KO's. I have no problem with it in MMA. IMO when the little guys really start to look little is 118 and below, which is bantamweight. I don't generally like fights under 118, as that's when they really do lack power and strength. It's weird, there's only 8 pounds in it, and yet an average featherweight looks quite a bit bigger than your average bantamweight.
