Flyweight division comingto UFC later this year

GDPofDRC wrote:

these 6 for sure

Ian McCall
Mamoru Yamaguchi
Jussier da Silva
Darrell Montague
Joseph Benavidez
Demetrious Johnson



Maybe Ulysses Gomez, Chris Cariaso, Scott Jorgensen, Charlie Valencia, even Kid Yamamoto. Or land some Japanese fighters like Shimizu or Urushitani.

Gomez would be a must IMO, but those 6 would be an epic grand prix. I don't think Kid or Scotty could make the cut but would be sweet if they could.

Those guys are pretty small.

GDPofDRC wrote:

Those guys are pretty small.

I know Kid is pretty short but he is also pretty lean, he fought at larger weights for awhile. I'm just guessing it would be too hard of a cut for him. Scotty's head is too big. I think it weighs 100lbs.

Demtrius Johnson vs Kenny FLorian in a year for the belt!!

Im sorry but this makes me wish Royler Gracie wasnt so old

anyone remember what he weighed when he fought Sakuraba?

I do, 150 pounds

he could have easily made 135

I KNOW Banuelos can make it lol

Talking about Fly Weights Bird

Birdofthad wrote:

Demtrius Johnson vs Kenny FLorian in a year for the belt!!

LOL, Skinny Florian would be a zombie.

I know GDP, just all the smaller weight classes got me thinking about that
and if he was fighting at 150 shit he probably coulda made 125
that woulda been crazy to see

Kind of on topic, but McCall tried out for TUF Bisping/Mayhem, and most likely made it, but said he's sticking with Fly, just watched a vid on BE if you're interested.

Surprising, he would be pretty pro for that show but I've heard they got serious fighters this season too so it would make sense.

Heard the same about TUF, most interesting TUF for me in a while, but said he wants to become the best in the World at Fly before moving to the UFC, I wonder about the date of the vid though cause they were talking kind of like this news about adding Fly hadn't broke yet.

About 7 months ago last December was the first time I'd heard Dana talk about adding that division.

During local news coverage of Jussier da Silva's debut at TPF they quoted Dana White saying, "the 125 division is gonna be in the UFC faster than people think".

McCall hadn't debuted yet for TPF at the time, I think he was still out after leaving WEC.