SCRAPP! FIGHT MAGAZINE
October - 2016
7
UFC:
The Case For Women’s Featherweight
Article By: Jay Anderson
Another post-UFC Monday
morning, and two things are
the talk of the MMA town: Roy
“Big Country” Nelson’s knock-
out of Antonio “Bigfoot” Silva,
with a subsequent kick to the
posterior of ref Big John Mc-
Carthy for being a little slow
in waving off the fight, and
the shellacking of Lina Lans-
berg by Cris “Cyborg” Justino
in what was essentially an ex-
ecution. With the latter comes
calls for the UFC to establish
a women’s featherweight divi-
sion, spearheaded by UFC col-
or commentator Joe Rogan,
who while not at the event,
was clearly invested as a fan
of the sport.
The call for featherweight has
ignited a frenzied debate on
the comments pages of all the
usual MMA news suspects:
Junkie, Mania, Bloody Elbow,
MMA Fighting. Everyone, it
seems, has an opinion. Yet
most are knee jerk reactions:
I don’t like women fighting,
so I don’t want more of this.
There isn’t enough talent. Cy-
borg will just crush everyone
anyway.
Maybe it’s time to build a case
for featherweight. Because,
frankly, a third (and arguably
fourth) women’s division in
the UFC is long overdue.
Lets start out with as apples to
apples a comparison as you’re
going to get in this situation:
the introduction of women’s
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