The term "gatekeeper" is so often used pejoratively. I beg to differ.
How else do you know who is truly befitting of the VIP section without someone manning the velvet ropes? What is a bar without a bouncer? Just a bunch of drunken chaos is what.
We can't have the UFC being in chaos, so we must have gatekeepers. It's a vital role. And in these slides, we salute the gatekeeper in every weight class—that man or woman who separates the contenders from the masses.
This salute is a job that often falls to me, and it's a task I relish. I'm like the gatekeeper of the gatekeepers. That's my role. Anyway, here goes.
