The UFC is a franchise. And as such looks after its OWN interests. The NBA NFL etc is comprised of a number of franchises. But ALL are part of a sport. The league would give it structure. But the UFC does business with no one and thus its economic model only helps itself and its own unity. It does nothing for the sport as whole in terms of working with others for the betterment of the sport as a whole. All systems have there flaws but to compare a franchise with a sport is futile.
True indeed however the UFC is the face of MMA and have really been the catalyst of the expansion of the sport's marketplace. The other "franchises" in MMA are almost irrelevant when compared to the UFC. It's like comparing Coka Cola to Check, Sam's Choice, and Jones Soda; and there really is no Pepsi to speak of. Without the UFC, the MMA may not even be able to survive or at the very least would drastically lose it's appeal.
No. They have been the face of MMA in the West. MMA was already massive in the East and already big across Asia and well embedded long before the UFC changed its modus to MMA. Prior to that it was literally a no holds barred competition that was outlawed by US law and thus became a failed venture. It was then bought in the early 2000`s by Zuffa and changed into MMA and bought in line by NYSAC. For your information PRIDE was MUCH bigger in Japan boasting bigger audiences than the UFC achieved.
I should have clarified myself in my post that I was speaking about MMA here in the West. It's in the western world where the MMA has become so often paralleled to boxing and so it's the area of the world that's most pertinent to this discussion.
i get what this guy is trying to say, basically the way boxing is run is a joke and MMA is better because fights are made within a organisation with more ease than in boxing. but what he said is lets make one organisation to control all of MMA / valetudo, Zuffa are trying to do this but will never achieve this goal. that system is called communism and it did not work.