Do you really think the UFC is asking Valentina or Amanda to fight six times a year for hundreds of thousands of dollars every time, against the contenders in their divisions such as they are, and the fighters are passing?

Do you think if the UFC had something as big as Jones versus Rashad today, and the fight wasn't available due to injury, they do what they did back then and make the equivalent of Rashad versus Tito? Or do you think if they had the option to populate ppvs with other flights they'd wait for the big one?

Do you think they would have offered Jones Sonnen as a replacement fight if there was also a HW title fight on that card?

The fighters haven't changed, the company has.

And we even have situations, like the one from December, where options unexpectedly dry up even with the titles has numerous as they are these days, and the UFC goes back to operating like they did on the old days. Look at 230 for instance, there wasn't a viable option so all of a sudden we got a heavyweight title fight on virtually no notice even though there was bigger heavyweight title fights on the horizon. The UFC was in a bind and they paid the fighters accordingly and made the short notice and quick turnaround fight even though it risked the bigger ones on the horizon. And the fighters were willing to do that for the right money, when circumstances put the UFC in that position. Because the fighters haven't changed. We're seeing that again next month, Florida reopened so all of a sudden instead of getting Usman coaching reality television and fighting at the end of the year, he's going to fight twice in the first five months of the year, because the UFC's circumstances changed, they made the call, they paid the money. The fighters haven't changed. Usman will gladly fight three or four times a year if he's healthy and the UFC pays. But absent unexpected circumstances, with as many titles and options as they have these days, they simply won't.