Thoughts on the UFC

1. So apparently Stipe Miocic is tired of waiting for a heavyweight title shot when most likely the winner of Lewis-Gane next month will get the next shot at Ngannou's belt and then maybe Jon Jones will be waiting in the wings. That seems like a fairly logical order to go in, but... wait... Is this the same Miocic that didn't seem to see an issue in delaying everyone else in the heavyweight division for three years during his Cormier trilogy? So I guess it's not fun when you're the one doing the waiting.

2. In the light heavyweight division, Glover Teixeira is the next person with a shot at Jan Blachowicz's title- and he's the top contender! Crazy how the people that are the most deserving to fight for the belt actually get chances to do so now and then, right? You don't have to go by potential champ-champ status or off of victory interviews.

3. Can we get some clarification on the "booted from rankings due to inactivity" thing? The same inactivity trigger that clipped Tatiana Suarez from the strawweight rankings and Leon Edwards from the welterweight rankings after slightly more than a year... for some reason let Brian Ortega stay at the top at 145 for two years and, even more ridiculously, let Conor McGregor stay at the lightweight rankings top five for more than that- see below.

November 2016- last win at 155 in the UFC

October 2018- fight against Khabib Nurmagomedov at UFC 229

January 2020- return fight against Donald Cerrone- at welterweight, mind you- still in the top five

October 6th, 2020- two years since his last fight at 155- still, for God only knows, ranked at 155

November 12th, 2020: four-year anniversary of his last Octagon win at 155 

January 2021: twenty-seven months since his last 155 bout, takes on Dustin Poirier at UFC 257

Still in the lightweight top five (finally dropped after UFC 264 earlier this month)

So I guess it's inactivity for some fighters. Got it.