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A lot of their challengers don’t get promoted or are buried in prelims/fight nights.
Flyweights go from #1 contender fights on the prelims, to main event spots in a UFC title fight.
The division is treated like a prelim division by the promotion.
You're fighting for the title, or near the bottom of the card.
Fans have been conditioned. They know they're getting fights that would be a prelim bout, if it wasn't for the gold belt with a ufc logo.
Before fighting for the title, Alex Perez was fighting on the EARLY prelim. Then we're supposed to take his next bout as meaningful? he's a champion level fighter?
The UFC doesn't even pretend they're special, or lie to us. 125 is treated like the step-child division.
You can go back and see a lot of the #1 contender fights for the 125 title. Very few of them are on PPV main cards. They're prelims, or at best, opening Fight Night cards.