BFC tournaments cancelled

News came out the other day that the British Fighting Championships are now dead in the water. For those that didn't know, the BFC was set to be a year long set of tournament with tournaments at 135, 145, 155, 170, 185, 205, and Heavyweight to crown unified British Isle champions. A bunch of promotions were going to be involved, FX3, Ultimate Force, and Cage Warriors Fighting Championships, which in my opinion is the best organization in England over the past couple of years.

I am really disappointed that these tournaments are getting cancelled. The potential match-ups in the semi-finals and the finals had some real potential. The first round had a bunch of veterans verses young guns, but as I said, by the time you got to the later rounds, there would be some great fights. It sounds like there were a couple reasons why these tournaments went down the gutter, but the main reason is that there television deal went down the drain. It would have been great to have a country join forces to create truly unified national champs. In comparison, that would be like the UFC, StrikeForce, WEC, and Affliction joining forces and putting all of their top guys into 16 man tournaments to create one champion.

The thing that sucks most about this is that the state of British MMA is really in trouble right now. Cage Rage for a long time was the leader in British MMA, but over the past year they have folded up shop for a number of reasons, money issues and being associated with Elite XC the two main ones. Then Cage Warriors took over the top promotion but now with the BFC falling through, they have said they are no longer going to be promoting shows in the UK. This leaves a gaping hole at the top of the British MMA scene and one organization really needs to step over and be the face of British MMA. Yes the UFC will still come over 3 times a year, but after that, there is a big drop in competition levels which is something that will be changed soon.

Busy weekend coming up, tomorrow I'll be making picks on Palace Fighting Championships, Bellator Fighting Championships, M-1 Challenge, Shine Fights, Jungle Fight, and Shooto. Making predictions for about 30 fights in total. Need to rebound after a less than stellar last weekend.