July - 2015
SCRAPP! FIGHT MAGAZINE
32
Deserving Has Nothing To
Do With Title Shots – But
It Should
Article By: Jay Anderson
Back in 1991’s Unforgiven,
Little Bill (Gene Hackman)
approaches the violent end
of his life by telling Clint
Eastwood’s Will Munny
that he “doesn’t deserve
this” — to which East-
wood replies “deserve’s
got nothing to do with it.”
And so UFC title shots have
been handed out over the
past few years: not to who
deserves it, based off a
winning record over tough
competition, but to who
the organization is better
able to promote.
P.T. Barnum would be
proud. The Fiji Mermaid
has nothing on some title
