Ultimate Fighting Championship understands their biggest fans and creates events with that audience in mind; whether tailoring an hour long Q&A session with Dana White himself into a sort of "MMA Town Hall" or putting 16 men into the same house with the hopes of duking their way toward a UFC contract, the Fertitta Brothers and White pride themselves on setting up fights that fans are interested in seeing.
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It's always been a recipe for success financially, but leads to some second-guessing down the line as many divisions might begin to show clear signs of dominance over one another; after Georges St-Pierre's dominant title defense over B.J. Penn, one could make the case that the welterweight division has an edge over UFC's lightweight counterpart.
And with a win by Anderson Silva, it could seem that the middleweights are superior led by their champion. On Saturday, Silva faces former light heavyweight champion Forrest Griffin.
In professional wrestling, where the results are predetermined, there is nothing wrong with a 250-pound man fighting a 155-pound man, and it is believable that this would be a competitive encounter. In MMA, that's not always the case and while matchups can be set up "by popular demand," it's rare when they occur.
With many fighters cutting much weight to make the limit for each fight, some competitors are taking a chance with and fighting at a more natural weight. It's not only the money, we know that, and we also know that White wouldn't allow a C-level rookie get in over his head. He only allows the best of the best to compete in this unique fights and catch weights and so long as nothing too serious comes out of it, these matches come off like Pride's Grand Prix, something unique to that year and not a title that was defended regularly.
