A New Era in the UFC

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Dana White Announces New Changes to UFC

Long-time UFC President Dana White has announced several changes being made to the mixed martial-arts competition, changes that he says will help the promotion in the long run from a financial standpoint.

"We're going to lower the number of fights on a PPV card to six, with three undercard fights and three main card fights, and on non-PPV cards there will be five fights, with there being two under and three main card bouts. This will allow us to put more competition on the cards, as well as allow us to increase the longevity of our fighters' careers," said the man who has brought the UFC to international fame.

White also went on to say that "changes will be made to our rankings system ahead of our next PPV and we will begin right back with UFC 1. New system, fresh start in my eyes, as well as Lorenzo and Joe Silva's eyes as well."

The new UFC rankings will be out in the coming days and the first fight card will be released soon after.


So this is going to be kind of casual, but a fun thing to do. I will do CPU vs CPU on Hard difficulty, normal time, and watch the five and six fight cards and do short recaps of each fight, as well as FOTN, KOTN, SOTN, and the FOTY, KOTY, and SOTY. I'll do like 18 cards a year. This is going to be fun.

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Heavyweight:

Cain Velasquez (C)
Fabricio Werdum
Junior dos Santos
Stipe Miocic
Roy Nelson
Andrei Arlovski
Travis Browne
Alistair Overeem
Antonio Silva
Mark Hunt
Frank Mir

Light Heavyweight

Alexander Gustafsson (C)
Anthony Johnson
Daniel Cormier
John Jones
Ryan Bader
Glover Teixeira
Gegard Mousasi
Rampage Jackson
Dan Henderson
Rashad Evans
Antonio Rogerio Nogueira

Middleweight:

Chris Weidman (C)
Anderson Silva
Vitor Belfort
Ronaldo Souza
Luke Rockhold
Lyoto Machida
Nick Diaz
Tim Kennedy
Gegard Mousasi
Costas Philippou
Yoel Romero

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Welterweight:

Robbie Lawler (C)
Johny Hendricks
Rory MacDonald
Gunnar Nelson
Nate Diaz
Carlos Condit
Jake Ellenberger
Hector Lombard
Matt Brown
Mike Pyle
Demian Maia

Lightweight:

Anthony Pettis (C)
Rafael dos Anjos
Gilbert Melendez
Benson Henderson
Khabib Nurmagomedov
Donald Cerrone
Eddie Alvarez
Michael Chiesa
TJ Grant
Jim Miller
Joe Lauzon

Featherweight:

Jose Aldo (C)
Chad Mendes
Frankie Edgar
Ricardo Lamas
Conor McGregor
Dustin Poirier
Cub Swanson
Clay Guida
Chan Sung Jung
Dennis Siver

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Bantamweight:

TJ Dillashaw (C)
Renan Barao
Michael McDonald
Dominick Cruz
Uriah Faber
Takeya Mizugaki
Brad Pickett
Eddie Wineland
Brian Bowles
Erik Perez
Mike Easton

Featherweight:

Demetrius Johnson (C)
John Dodson
Timothy Elliot
Ian McCall
Joseph Benavidez
Louis Guadinot
Scott Jorgenson
Darren Uyenoyama

Women's Bantamweight:

Ronda Rousey (C)
Meisha Tate
Cat Zingano
Alexis Davis
Holly Holm
Sara McMann
Sara Kaufman
Liz Carmouche

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Top 10 P4P:

Jose Aldo
Demetrius Johnson
Ronda Rousey
Jon Jones
Cain Velasquez
Anthony Pettis
Chris Weidman
Anderson Silva
TJ Dillashaw
Alexander Gustafsson

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UFC 1: Jones vs Gustafsson Announced

The first fight card in this new era of the UFC has been announced, headlined by a fight for the Light Heavyweight title as champion Jon Jones looks to defend his belt vs. Alexander Gustafsson. Here's a look at the whole card:

Main Event: Jon Jones (C) vs. #1 Alexander Gustafsson
Co-Main Event: #4 Hector Lombard vs # 6 Nate Diaz
Main Card: #2 Joseph Benavidez vs #4 Timothy Elliot
Under Card: #8 Antonio Silva vs Pat Barry
Under Card: Gray Maynard vs Joe Lauzon
Under Card: #9 Tyron Woodley vs Demian Maia

The event will take place at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey.

[polyduster]

I will be following as I'm currently doing something similar on here. Nice start!

[smokeydays23]

Quote: Originally Posted by polyduster

I will be following as I'm currently doing something similar on here. Nice start!

I'll follow yours as well! I had already began somewhat of a "Universe" Mode on my own but I wanted to re-start and share it here. Thank you!