<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Blackman" data-cite="Blackman" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="46992" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>I never tried that actually, because it's such a niche idea. But I know you can book the title to be defended. The game will only count the "finals" as the defendable bout. It will detect whether the champ is present in the finals. If he is, he will defend. If he's not, a new champ will be crowned. Most players will opt for this way as it might actually be realistic one day, should a company decide on it. <p> </p><p>
@OP: Would you really want him to be defending it round 1? You are the boss of your own company but that's such a weird thing to implement. That would mean the person "lucky" enough to face the defending champ gets a free title shot. This would cause all sorts of drama in reality, and doesn't make sense. The person r1 would rarely have earned the shot at all. I can see this working if you manually assign the tournament places so a top contender would be up first, but that's a weird way of holding tournaments and - as I said - would never get accepted in reality by the champion as it would give him near unsurmountable odds (3 viable defenses).</p><p> </p><p>
The way it works right now makes more sense to me. <strong>I can almost guarantee this proposed way will never see the light of day</strong>, and asking Adam to change it to this way will make it so the logical way is no longer possible. You say Bellator uses this, but they're basically destroying the belt's prestige this way. It's quite idiotic to have a champ compete in a 8-man one day tournament, because you devalue what it means to be champ. He's just "one of the guys" now fighting for a bigger cause. If you treat your belts like this, you might as well scrap your belts as the crowd won't care for them anymore eventually.</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p>
I could be wrong but isn't this basically what Rory MacDonald is doing in the Welterweight Grand Prix?</p><p> </p><p>
<a href="https://www.sportingnews.com/us/mma/news/bellator-welterweight-grand-prix-michael-page-vs-paul-daley-rory-macdonald-jon-fitch-dazn/xx3wzjbafxn1a8lptcodds8w" rel="external nofollow">Here's</a> a link to a site discussing the tournament.</p>