Ten simple sure fire ways to beat the UFC and be the best MMA promotion ever

1. Throw your big name fighters into meaningless catchweight match-ups that no body wants to see and wouldn’t do anybody any good.

2. Who said champions should defend their belts at least two, three times a year? I say once is enough.

3. If the champion wants to fight more than once a year, give him non-title fights. Don’t worry, they’re just as good as title fights.

4. But be firm, if a champion won’t defend his belt for more than a year because he is busy or just doesn’t feel like it, create an interim belt (but don’t be cruel and take away his belt).

5. Once in a while let your champion hold the belt for two years without defending it, while fighting six times in other promotions (I still don’t know why the UFC wouldn’t do this).

6. Then, sign the best fighter in the business, pay him a big load of money and then don’t give him an immediate title shot.

7. Have your “best” welterweights fight for the vacant title (the middleweight title of course).

8. Be disrespectful to your fighters, it worked out for Dana White very well.

9. Unify the belts with other promotions from Japan, that way we can finally see all the great “juicy” match-ups we couldn’t have seen otherwise.

10. That’s all, I’ve got nothing for number Ten but I’m sure I will “find” one pretty soon (they will make another mistake pretty soon, get it?).

Originally posted on my blog MMAStaredown.com