UFC matchmaker Mick Maynard gives perception on scouting regional expertise

UFC matchmaker Mick Maynard gave a uncommon perception into the method of scouting expertise for the promotion.

Maynard, who began as an MMA promoter in 2006, has been across the struggle recreation for fairly a while, with a novel eye for expertise. After working Legacy Preventing Championship as proprietor and president, he was employed by the UFC because the vp of expertise relations in 2016 alongside senior vp of expertise relations Sean Shelby. The pair make up the UFC’s matchmaking staff, creating fights that happen week in and week out.

“There’s so many points that Sean and I actually focus on,” Maynard began in a video posted to TKO Group’s social media. “Clearly, you bought to have a look at the document. You must take a look at, are they ending fights? Fairly frankly, in the event that they’re not ending fights on the regional stage, they’re not going to come back into the largest league on the planet and end folks, and that’s essential.”

Shelby is the matchmaker for the boys’s bantamweight by means of welterweight divisions, whereas Maynard is chargeable for the ladies’s divisions, males’s flyweight and middleweight to heavyweight divisions.

At present, fighters have a number of paths to enter the UFC. A hopeful could be supplied a contract to enter the promotion straight, be chosen after a formidable efficiency on Dana White’s Contender Sequence, win a season of “The Final Fighter,” or win the Highway to UFC match.

“Clearly, you search for expertise first, and also you need them to be the very best fighters on the planet, however then once in a while you’ll get a Conor McGregor that has this character that’s off the charts, and you’ve got a complete new animal, you’ve gotten superstars. … All of these issues mixed, we take into consideration.”

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— TKO (@TKOGrp) Might 15, 2024