UFC 278

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Costa literally curses every champion on the same card.

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UFC 278: Usman vs. Edwards 2

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Adesanya was one round away from winning via Decision but damn this sport is unpredictable. Same thing happened to Usman vs Edwards 2!

How many events since the last time a weight class has headlines a Fight Night/PPV

With the absence of a UFC event on this August 27th, I decided to take a look at when the last time each weight class headlined an event in the UFC. I scoured Wikipedia looking for each class and the last time a class headlined either a Fight Night or PPV and then the last time a class headlined a PPV as well.

Notes:

The UFC has done a decent job with the last 8 fight nights/PPV’s being headlined by a variety of weight classes as the last 8 UFC cards have had different classes headlined the events.

There has been a lot of flack given to the UFC for its disrespect of the Flyweight division and here we see the numbers prove it. The most egregious offense of this is the fact that back on the March 26th 2022 card, Heavyweights Jan Blachowicz and Aleksandar Rakic were supposed to headline the card in columbus. Sadly the fight fell through, and instead of promoting Flyweight title eliminator fight between Kai Kara-France and Askar Askarov to a 5 round main event, (where the fight went all three rounds too), the UFC decided to headline the event with Curtis Blaydes fighting Kyle Daukaus. The fight ended in the second round. What is even worse is that the Askarov fight was not the co-main event and was FOURTH from the top. It might be a while until a Flyweight headlines another event, however, with Brazilians Jose Aldo losing his last fight, Glover Teixeira potentially booked for December, and Oliveira booked for October, the PPV in Brazil in January of 2023 may be headlined by Figgy vs Moreno 4.

Just PPV’s

Notes:

Interestingly enough, although the Flyweight division had the worst record in headlining a Fight Night or PPV, it actually is second to last when taking into account just PPV events.

Bantamweight’s last PPV was Cejudo vs Morales, and although there have been many amazing fights in the division for gold, they have sadly been relegated to co-main events such as the Yan fights against Sterling (twice), Sandhagen, and Aldo. I imagine if O’Malley beats Yan, the UFC might actually make a PPV headlined by O’Malley vs Winner of Sterling/Dillashaw for the Bantamweight belt as O’Malley has been a huge draw in the stacked Bantamweight division. Its hard to see Vera, Sterling, or even Yan pull in a PPV headliner as the UFC has relegated the division to co-main events or Fight Night headliners like the Sandhagen vs Yadong fight.

Interestingly enough, Although Flyweight champion Valentina Shevchenko has headlined UFC 196 and 215 against Amanda Nunes, both fights were at Bantamweight, thus, a Women’s Flyweight fight has never headlined a PPV. This is partly due to the fact that the division is very new (with a champ only crowned in 2017). Sadly, Shevchenko is now the longest reigning active champ (holding a belt since December 8th, 2018) and deserves to headline a PPV at Flyweight, especially since Women’s Featherweight, which doesn’t even have an official ranking has headlined an event. Shevchenko will probably headline another event soon, a potential rematch with Nunes as Bantamweight, still shunning out Women’s Flyweight

It would have to be in 2023, as all of 2022 PPV’s are basically filled up, but a PPV in Las Vegas at the Flyweight level against winner or Chookigan vs Fiorot is probably the best chance this division has of headlining a card, but in all honesty, it might take a popular name like Molly McCann to rise up the rankings and headline a PPV at the back end of 2023 or even 2024 before the division gets its first PPV.

Tl;DR:

UFC does like the Flyweight division