UFC/MMA Thread - 2020


When you're the only show in town, you can do what you want. I hope we end up with a nitro Vs raw situation with belator.

Are we forgetting ONE Championship and other pro promotions like Cage Warriors exist nowadays?
Then there was stuff like Pride in the early days.

The fight game has changed, and it applies to all disciplines, sports and promotions, if you're boring as fuck you don't sell tickets. Being able to fight is 10% of the battle, personality is the other 90%. Promotions exist to make a profit, if you don't make money you get paid basic rate, it's as simple as that.

The only thing which changes this is a fighters union, but Boxing and the UFC have become so self-sustainable to the point they can just fuck off literally anyone who tries to establish a union, too little too late.
 
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Are we forgetting ONE Championship and other pro promotions like Made 4 Cage exist nowadays?
Then there was stuff like Pride in the early days.

The fight game has changed, and it applies to all disciplines, sports and promotions, if you're boring as fuck you don't sell tickets. Being able to fight is 10% of the battle, personality is the other 90%. Promotions exist to make a profit, if you don't make money you get paid basic rate, it's as simple as that.

The only thing which changes this is a fighters union, but Boxing and the UFC have become so self-sustainable to the point they can just fuck off literally anyone who tries to establish a union, too little too late.
They don’t lay a glove (pun intended) on the UFC though imo. Aye the proper MMA nuts will watch all the other organisations but I think I’ve watched about 5 bellator cards and that’s it. They are allowed to rip the piss out of fighters knowing 90% of them aim to be fighting under their banner.
 
They don’t lay a glove (pun intended) on the UFC though imo. Aye the proper MMA nuts will watch all the other organisations but I think I’ve watched about 5 bellator cards and that’s it. They are allowed to rip the piss out of fighters knowing 90% of them aim to be fighting under their banner.

ONE Championship really does lay a glove on the UFC. Askren was on a million quid a scrap, until they traded him for Mighty Mouse and gave him the same contract.

If UFC fighters are so bothered they can always fuck off to Singapore where they'll get smashed because that promotion is seriously underrated and is full of killers.
 
ONE Championship really does lay a glove on the UFC. Askren was on a million quid a scrap, until they traded him for Mighty Mouse and gave him the same contract.

If UFC fighters are so bothered they can always fuck off to Singapore where they'll get smashed because that promotion is seriously underrated and is full of killers.
Not saying they don’t have the dough to hoy about, just think the UFC Has a lot more pull in terms of where people want to be fighting.
 
Not saying they don’t have the dough to hoy about, just think the UFC Has a lot more pull in terms of where people want to be fighting.

Yeah, the UFC is considered the holy grail but by going to the UFC the fighters are accepting shitty contracts thus the fault falls on them.

Uncle Dana won the war when the fighters accepted the Reebok contract without revolt.
 
Yeah, the UFC is considered the holy grail but by going to the UFC the fighters are accepting shitty contracts thus the fault falls on them.

Uncle Dana won the war when the fighters accepted the Reebok contract without revolt.
Yep, exactly my point mate. Doesn’t make it right but it’s just the crack unfortunately.
 
I'm hoping Khabib Eagle FC takes off and is a serious rival eventually.

We'll find out maybe in the year 2050 (not even exaggerating) But long enough to the point none of us will be old enough to care about MMA nonetheless.

Even the UFC was 1 day away from death once upon a time.. UFC39 Couture v Rodriguez - The whole event was backed by a casino and the UFC needed it to survive, the latter decides to get a tattoo of a bookie (equivalent to PaddyPower nowadays) which is a clear conflict of interest and the casino refused to pay out. Dana had to some hard dick-sucking otherwise he's in administration.

If there's ever going to be another promotion which will do well it'll be under Scott Coker as he's done Strikeforce and Bellator, just the latter aint it - Too much stereotype around them signing washed up fighters for the mass market to give a shit, did well with the former for the UFC to buy it so he's got something.
 
Welcome back UFC.
What a performance by Kattar. To come back after the Max fight and do that to someone who was looking past him was brilliant.
Shows ya how good Max is annarl.
 
ONE Championship really does lay a glove on the UFC. Askren was on a million quid a scrap, until they traded him for Mighty Mouse and gave him the same contract.

If UFC fighters are so bothered they can always fuck off to Singapore where they'll get smashed because that promotion is seriously underrated and is full of killers.
Yet askren bossed it over there?....
 
Welcome back UFC.
What a performance by Kattar. To come back after the Max fight and do that to someone who was looking past him was brilliant.
Shows ya how good Max is annarl.

Not gonna lie, had Chikadze, dude has been slaying the Featheweights like it was some sort of hobby but got stopped well in his tracks.


Gutted for Michel Peirera though, was meant to be co-maining, a fight which would of brought him into contention with the big boys but the opponent bottled it, he's been given a new fight on 1 weeks notice on the 270 card against a debutant.. Been given the O'Malley treatment instead.
 

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