A bunch of has been's are chasing UFC money

When you are an MMA fighter in the UFC or really anywhere else you need to realize that you have a expiration date. This is true in all other sports as well and MMA is actually more forgiving than other competitive sports. Not many NBA players maintain their excellence well into their 30's but in UFC it is not uncommon for 40 year olds to be competitive.

However, at some point you have to recognize that it might be time to hang up the gloves and move on. I don't know exactly why it is that so many of these UFC stars of 10 years ago keep popping up trying to create enough hype to have these sort of events that have nothing to do with the current rankings, but that is exactly what Cub Swanson is trying to do.

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Maybe I am being a little bit cruel here but Cub was a contender years ago but now he isn't even ranked and when he comes back out of the shadows pushing for fights that nobody asked for it does see a bit like desperation. Cub wants to organize a "Legends" PPV that will involve himself, Anthony Pettis, Urijah Faber, and Jose Aldo. I think this is a little unfair to Aldo because he still has a chance as far as his current streak is concerned, he won his last fight at his new weight division and looks like a beast.

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That being said, we all know that Aldo is one or perhaps 2 losses away from being released from the MMA. Dana White doesn't hang on to guys that underperform and this is especially true if you used to be something fantastic but now you aren't really very impressive. It doesn't help if you are older as Dana rarely hangs on to older fighters who appear to be past their prime. It also doesn't help if you can't cut a good trash-talking promo because you don't speak English.

Cub Swanson is clearly chasing money here and Urijah Faber, who I really like... has he even had a Win in years? I don't even know. The California Kid has been around for so long but lately it seems like he can't crack the top 10 if we paid off his opponent.

For the time being Cub Swanson is trying his best to attract as much attention to himself because he actually does have a fight coming up in UFC 256 vs Daniel Pineda. Perhaps if he puts up a strong showing in this fight Dana will be receptive to a "Legends" section. But for now at least to me Cub's suggestion just seems a bit pathetic. He knows that he doesn't have a title run left in him and this is almost certainly true of all the other guys also, especially Urijah Faber.

I suppose I would watch it if it were going to happen in the same way that I will watch Mike Tyson's upcoming "old man fight" vs Roy Jones Jr. When we see these guys fight it's like going back and playing your favorite video games from the early 2000's. It's fun at first but after a few minutes (rounds) you realize the newer games (newer fighters) are a lot better and this is just a normal part of the passage of time.