One thing Paige Van Zant was right about was saying the UFC loves giving some fighters a horrible matchup for the last fight on your contract. I have noticed them do this for years. Negotiating with someone coming off a bad loss gives them a big advantage in allowing them to pay the fighter less. Most of the time they match them with an up and coming fighter that the UFC knows is great but that doesn’t have a big name. They kill 2 birds with 1 stone. They get a big win and help grow a new name and they devalue the fighters whose contract is ending. It is such a scumbag move but also smart business at the same time. A few times that come to mind that this has happened was Tito’s last fight. They fed him to an up and coming unknown Machida. Rampage got fed to an up and coming Glover. And I’m convinced the UFC picked Maia for Askren because they knew it wouldn’t go well.