Yeah right. If fighter A doesnt make the UFC money they get ditched point blank. The UFC went through a massive cull recently. PRIDE had a more loyalty to their stable than the UFC. But by and large if you dont make the UFC money you go. The actual record is fairly immaterial. You only have to look at Randy's record for proof of this. But Randy's a guy who makes them money. The problem with boxing is "promoters" like Warren who put sooo much emphasis on the zero. If the fighter is exciting ala Gatti he'll always sell tickets.
It happens in every fighting sports. UFC has had bad scorecards too. I saw the hamill-bisping fight and it was in england. Hamill clearly won the fight but the decision was given to bisping. Just like the homecook decision picking diaz over malignaggi. If it's a big fight then it shouldn't be in somebody's hometown. Las Vegas or even L.A would have been a good place to have the malignaggi-diaz fight.
Yes, the UFC has bad scorecards too sometimes but seriously it seems like the only huge robbery anyone can think of is Hammil-Bisping.
And really, its not like Dana apologizes after every bad card. Hes apologized for 2 of the most embarassing fights ive ever seen. Starnes/Quarry and Silva/Leites. Its not like hes sitting there making public announcements after every boring fight. Is it really any different than what GBP or Lou Dibella did on Saturday Night? They apologized for the ridiculous decision, talked about how it hurts the integrity of the sport etc. And taking away the judges decision that was actually a real good fight. But they felt they need to apologize. The bottom line is, boxing just like MMA can have boring fights but that is absolutely no reason to apologize. If its a boring fight, its a boring fight. The fact people feel its important for someone to apologize for having a boring fight or game is pathetic and embarassing. And it really only happens from the MMA side because their fans are so fickle, spoiled and have low attention spans. They need to grow up. Like I said earlier, its not like sport commissioners are coming out and apologizing for teams putting on bad performances. **** happens, thats what happens in SPORTS.
There are only a handful of robberies in MMA. But Boxing is far more difficult to judge. Thousands of punches are being thrown, some may land, some may not but its nearly impossible to judge when things are happening at such a fast clip. In MMA, its quite easy to judge a fight and thats why people like Cecil Peoples are so ******ed because they still manage to **** things up. Both sports are corrupt in their own little ways.
This **** aint free. If something is boring then most people won't want to pay for it. If a certain promotion is consistently putting out boring fights, or consistently having poor decisions, then fans will stop paying for it. They don't need to "grow up". They pay to be entertained, and as such, if they aren't entertained then they didn't get their money's worth and they have some cause for concern. Do you think promoters like it when their fans are dissatisfied with their product? I understand, to a degree, the argument that fans are fickle and have low attention spans, but sometimes a fight is just a bad fight. Fans that boo every time a fight hits the ground probably need to grow up and recognize what sport they are watching. Fans that boo everytime there is more than 3 seconds without punches being traded need to get their head out of their asses. But fans that are pissed about terrible decisions, or boring cards where the fighters refuse to fight, or terrible matchups being made that make no sense, those fans are justified in their complaints. We are paying customers, and it matters very much to the promoters that we KEEP paying and if they push an inferior product than they should be worried that we would complain with more than just our voices, but by no longer paying for their events. Not that I think the UFC or even most boxing promoters are so corrupt/incompetent that I would consider, at this point, no longer paying for it.