Strikeforce: Melendez vs. Healy *CANCELLED*

[Steel Mamba]

No, you can not blame injuries on running too many shows.

But the effect of the injuries is magnified when you run too many shows. This is what you are missing.

151 does not get cancelled if they are running less shows, because not only would there are more viable fighters available to replace Henderson, but the card would be deeper to begin with and would be able to survive the lost fight anyway.

Zuffa was playing on thin ice by overextending themselves, and the ice finally broke with 151. Then a month later, they are cancelling a second show for slightly different reasons, but the same principle (weak one fight card lost when the main eventer pulls out).

Do you think either lesson will be a wake up call? Doesn't look like it.

It's not what I'm missing. The point I was being sarcastic about had to do with it being an economically sound decision to pull from fights due to injury, because there's always another card right around the corner. Here, completely different situation, same result. Pulling from a fight has more to do with the fighters mentality and the extent of the injury as opposed to how many cards are being ran.

But, what you have to keep in mind is the amount of fighters the UFC has on roster and how important it is for them to keep all of these guys busy. You can only accomplish that by running a corresponding amount of cards. Unless you want them to go the SF route and let their guys fight in other organizations because they don't have enough cards to keep them fighting regularly. As is, we still see guys complaining about not fighting often enough.

Right, that was some poster called "DocG" who had a theory that more shows, did in fact, cause more injury. I thought it was interesting and shared it.

More shows causing more injuries is silly and that's what prompted my first reply.