Over the past few months, notable UFC flyweights, from former title challengers John Moraga and Wilson Reis to contenders Brandon Moreno, Dustin Ortiz, and Matheus Nicolau, have all been released from the promotion.

Will the top-ranked flyweights aggregate under another banner?

Time tell, but don’t expect Bellator to addd men’s flyweights to their roster any time soon.

Despite the UFC’s recent releases of over a dozen 125-pound combatants, some of whom were ranked in the top 10, Bellator president Scott Coker isn’t jumping at the opportunity to add another division.

At the Bellator 222 post-fight news conference, Coker said the promotion had considered adding flyweights, but felt it was not a direction they want to head at this time.

“We’ve talked about it, but we haven’t taken any action obviously,” Coker told reporters, including MMA Junkie. “For right now, we’re going to focus on the divisions we have. We’re very excited about the finals of the welterweight tournament and we’re very excited about the launch of the featherweight tournament. We’re going to have our hands full with these events.”

Bellator could become a home for male flyweight competitors at some point down the road, but not for the foreseeable future. Coker remarked Bellator has a lot of other projects to work on before any new divisions are added.

“We’re going to have our hands full,” Coker said. “If at some point, we felt like it was something we wanted to do, we’d really think it through. I don’t want to be jumping in and out of different weight classes. If we’re going to do it, we’re going to do it right.”

Coker said Bellator’s main goal right now is expanding global outreach, while increasing the number of events the company holds per year.

“This is a company when I came on board, we were doing 14-15 events a year,” Coker said “Next year, we’re going to end up being 30 events worldwide. It could grow up to 40 very easily, depending on certain television deals we’re working on. This is a company that’s owned by Viacom, which owns networks all over the world and is a media company all over the world. We have a lot of requests to come to different territories [and] start doing big fights like we’re doing here.”

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