They took what Dana said awfully personally.

It’s a numbers game. Regardless of how talented Bazler, Santos, La Rossa, Carano, et al are, it doesn’t change the fact that there are relatively few female fighters available and that, at present, EliteXC essentially has the market cornered. What is Dana to do, embrace a division where he cannot actually sign any talent to fill it out?

I don’t mind women’s MMA. But I find it’s the same for Women’s basketball or women’s hockey. It just doesn’t do anything for me. Maybe it’s the lack of promotion/marketing for female fighters other than Gina. It just seems there’s one female fighter at the top, then everyone else that gets fed to her. As it is, I’m pretty ignorant of the fighters out there, yet surprisingly (or not suprisingly depending on how you see it) I have no real desire to go do any research to find out.

Matt Hughes isn’t a fan. (video)

There was a commercial for lady Cyborg (featuring only her!) during Big Brother last night.

I personally think it’s ridiculous when fighters say they want to fight executives. But anyway..

UFC has the WEC for lighter weight classes because they can’t afford to carry even one other division. Adding one women’s weight class is a whole new division. And they neglect to acknowledge that the UFC doesn’t do limited divisions. There is a lot of depth at each weight class in the UFC and Dana is not being insulting to say that he doesn’t believe the depth is there. Can you tell me that there are 10-12 female mixed martial artists in the US, in the same weight class that are both available and able to compete on a similarly competitive level for an extended period of time? Those reasons, in combination, completely validate Dana. But Cyborg wants to fight him.. Get in line behind Tito, I guess.

Just sounds bitter to me.

Dude asked Luke to take the post down, I don’t know why I found that so funny.

Maybe it’s the fact that when they’re fighting you can’t tell their girls. Just weird, small looking men. I do like to watch them fight, I’m just digging.

It may have been from a year ago but Dana has said that he, personally, doesn’t like seeing women fight. And that his opinion of it plays a huge part in whether or not the UFC will have female fights. It was in a video interview but I can’t remember from where.
Although most likely it was said only a few months ago during one of the Gina Carano hype weeks. The internet moves so quickly it’s easy to lose track of time.

Here’s a little for-instance regarding women’s MMA in the UFC. Let’s take a look at next week’s UFC 87 show. Consider that if the UFC added a women’s division, they’d have to air a proposed women’s fight on the main card, lest they come under even more fire for it not being good enough to broadcast. Here are the to-broadcast fights on Seek and Destroy;

GSP vs Fitch
Brock vs Herring
Florian vs Huerta
ManGam vs Emerson
MacDonald vs Maia

One of these fights would have to be pushed back, or would not have made the card (perhaps deferred to a future event). Tell me; which of these five fights would you be willing to sacrifice viewing so that you could watch a women’s fight (that would not include the likes of Gina Carrano, no less)? It is a foolish proposition. Not only would I enjoy the card less as a viewer on PPV (though I will be there live, as I’ve mentioned thousands of times), but it would likely accrue lower buyrates and, subsequently less revenue.

Like I’ve said previously; the UFC doesn’t have room for a women’s division of any nature. They are too loaded up with contracted men’s talent.

As a final note; I find it bizarre that these women are so angry about it. Are they being poorly compensated by XC? Shouldn’t they just be happy to be performing on CBS come Saturday?

As a huge fan of female MMA, I think it’s fantastic the UFC wants no part of it. :)