What in the world is going on with the UFC’s men’s flyweight division?Here’s the situation as it stands now, as near as we can piece it together from various public statements.

According to UFC President Dana White, the company is “working on some things right now” with the 125-pound weight class. What kinds of things? Well, casting off the talent for starters. But also, paradoxically, booking another title fight amid rumors of the division’s total demise.

Those rumors were not quieted when bantamweight champion T.J. Dillashaw went on Ariel Helwani’s MMA Show this week and bragged that he’s being paid a “f–k load of money to kill the 125 (pound) division and collect a second belt.”

That’s a statement that’s remarkable for two reasons: 1) It has the ring of something that maybe Dillashaw wasn’t supposed to repeat in public, and 2) It basically forces us to ask what’s going to happen if he loses?

Flyweight champ Henry Cejudo isn’t an easy night of work for anybody. He’s fought at bantamweight, though it wasn’t exactly by choice. He beat an all-time great in Demetrious Johnson to capture the 125-pound belt. If he can beat Dillashaw to retain it, then what’s to become of this plan to “kill” the flyweight division?

Cejudo has begun talking about free agency and a potential rubber match with Johnson in a promotion to be named later. Whether the UFC would let him go that easily – and whether it would be forced to after eliminating his division – remains to be seen. But at the moment, the whole thing feels like a big mess that’s only getting messier.

If the UFC wants to rid itself of men’s flyweight for reasons of profitability or roster bloat or any other explanation, fine, you get to do that when you’re the promoter. But why send a bantamweight assassin when you can just throw the switch any time you want?

White’s explanation was pretty simple.

“Dillashaw wants to win two belts,” White told the FS1 post-fight show on Saturday. “There’s five or six guys who have done it, he wants to do it.”

But maybe this is the point where the whole double champ thing starts to seem played out. Based on all available evidence, it sure seems like flyweight will be going away soon no matter what happens in this fight.

If you’re keeping the division alive just long enough for Dillashaw to pad his stats with a second title that will essentially fail to exist almost as soon as he wins it, that feels more like a gimmick than an accomplishment.

Granted, beating a guy like Cejudo is always going to mean something. But admitting that you’re only keeping a belt around because you want to temporarily put it on one specific fighter really drains a lot of the fun out of the situation. It’s like telling us that one guy gets a trophy if he wins, while the other just gets fired.

That makes it tough to know how to feel about this bizarre approximation of a champ-vs.-champ “superfight.” Is it a clash between two of the best in the world? Is it a going-away party disguised as a coronation? Is it all an elaborate hit job wherein one fighter seems weirdly upbeat about putting colleagues out of work?

We don’t really know. And, at least for now, no one with the power to make the big decisions seems to be willing to explain it to us.

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