Is MMA getting boring now?

i can honestly say mma's appeal to me over the last 12 months has seriously diminshed, i was a huge fan but find it hard to get excited about fights like i used to, i guess watching the likes of bisping and leben headline events pisses me off and the ending to saturdays main event was terrible

bring on bj and gsp and get the ball rolling

 

I'm in the same boat you are- I've gone from a hardcore fan to just a casual one and I see the points scurlaruntings and others are making. For me, I just think it's because the sport's evolved from having a variety of different styles to essentially a couple of universal styles/skillsets you see in fights now, and that plays a part in it along with the points brought up in prior posts.

 

You are so right. The sport is still in the early stage's so the fighter's aren't the finished article. For a start, the skills are useally only world class in grappling and they are not even fully adapted for mma yet [in most cases]. The school's are at the moment figuring out the correct way to train, and lack the learned structure of boxing gym's; like the typical skip, bagwork, shadowbox, sparring boxing workout. But in time it will come, then the skill's will sky rocket into unbelievable dimensions.

Young kid's dont get into the sport and once that changes the fella's will be awesome. They will develop amatuer program's and clubs, and technique will grow like a boxer's does. I'd say in two generations the there will be established schools and old timers pasing on tip's to young kids like in boxing today; then there will be guys who are truely world class in every range. I say give it time, mma is the future and the future fighters will be amazing.

 

Getting boring?? The ****'s been boring since the day it came out. Ain't nothin' exciting about watching a couple a guys throw a few punches and then roll around on the floor for what seems like forever. :-(

Boxing is the way to go, always has been, always will be.

 

your very out of touch just like your sam peter prediction and your obama loss prediction.

 

actually , this already exists...so don't get your hopes too high because it's not gonna get any better.

You're never gonna see an mma fighter who'll be a combo of mayweather (with his boxing) , + Ramon Dekkers (for the muay thai aspect ) + Shinya Aoki (for the BJJ ) + Aleksander Karelin (for the greco wrestling) + fedor (for the sambo ) + Akiyama (for the judo)...

That fighter...will never exist. It's wishful thinking.

No one can be the 100% best in all aspects. What makes the difference is the overall talent combined with 1 or 2 specialties + solid gameplans.

These specimens already exist.
Georges st Pierre is one...Kid Yamamoto is another , Hansen , Kawajiri , Fedor , Penn , Alvarez ,Cavalcante , Ribeiro , Ishida , Melendez etc....etc....

the fighters you're talking about already exist. But don't expect too much though. Because it would be as ridiculous as expecting a guy who's got the power of shavers + the workrate of Calzaghe + the speed of RJJ + the jab of Wlad or Holmes + the footwork of Ali..

That fighter doesn't exist in boxing..No one is perfect.

MMA already has the super quality fighters , granted , they're not all of that caliber...but they're already here. The future of mma ?

Will probably slowly but surely eradicate all the one dimensional fighters.. In the future , it wouldn't be surprsing to see 90% of them being capable to perform submissions , defend against them + to have legit wrestling skills.

(the reality is that in 2008...Not everyone is capable to pull subs or defend against them...Couture himself , who's concidered a ufc legend only has a total of 2 submissions on his entire resume...Matt Hughes , very talented but extremely one dimensional compared to the likes of Penn or GSP)

i'm not stigmatising the hw division in particular though...there's many fighters who can't pull the **** gsp or aoki can do in every weight classes...even simple submissions.