I think if Joe does a hell of a job, I could care less what guys (Pride or otherwise) receive what treatment, or what their supposed ranking is, I like the idea of generating a fight by subjective matchmaking, not by numbers...
It's not a perfect system but no system is perfect. Either way I think the guy's done a tremendous job of establishing exciting fights or intriguing match ups at least on paper... the rest is up to the fighters...
Tito/Machida turned out of be a great fight imo when I was expecting a rather boring or limited engagement, as did Tavares/Winman, Burkeman/Hazelett, etc...
The UFC may not have every fighter I want to see, but they certainly have the marketshare on quality of match ups...
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