What does the future hold for the next 10 to 15 years....will the sport slide backwards or move forward. Or could it stay the same. Will the next generation of fighters become better. Will UFC be the sole power still?
Move forward. Now, nearly each division king is unstoppable(Penn,St. Pierre, Silva, Fedor) Machida could be unstoppable at 205.. But in 15 years, the like of Penn or St. Pierre, won't be as rare, that will be much harder to be an unstoppable force because now every child will learn all aspect for MMA in their youth for those who want to fight in MMA. The majority of the athlete in UFC now, were learning just one category when they began to train. Now, when you begin to train to fight in MMA, you train in MMA class with all discipline. That's gonna be amazing, the talent pool in 15 years.
If Black American Athletes start choosing MMA over football and other sports then we are gonna have some seriously gifted fighters to watch. Not being racist or profiling, just realistic. If everyone from the NFL started MMA when they were young, rather then Football we would've never heard of Chris Leben.
Im not neccessarily convinced that the next generation of fighters will be better. There is something to be said about guys that work there fighting style around one discipline like you see with college wrestlers, bjj blackbelts etc....Some of the best fighters in the game today come from a single combat sport background(Randy, Brock, Fedor etc....). I think MMA standup will continues to evolve. Only know are certain fighters starting to realize the importance of distance, effective use of the jab, footwork etc... We will see the standup game become more refined and not just "bombs" being thrown. As for the popularity of MMA? Who knows. The UFC is not here to make MMA popular, they are in the business of promoting there own brand. MMA even to this day has still very far to go if it even wants to reach boxing let alone become a mainstream household sport like the NFL.
Whats wrong with what I said? Its true and not insulting to anyone. Why do you think 99% of the Defensive Backs, running backs, safeties and wide recievers in the NFL are black? atsch
Do you really believe that if you took every defensive back out of the NFl and gave them 5 years of MMA training that Chris Leben would have a chance in hell in ever fighting in the UFC???
Nobody is going to choose MMA over football. Athletic ability is not the only requirement for becoming a good fighter. What all prize fighters have in common, is toughness, scrapiness whatever you wanna call it. They were born to fight.
First of all, I said "IF". I didn't say anyone would necessarily choose MMA first. But the bigger the sport gets and the more accepted it gets, the talent pool and the raw natural athleticism of fighters would become much greater. And yes, a natural fighter loses to a natural athletic fighter 8 times out of 10. :deal And Athleticism is only an attribute and there are many intangibles involved as well, but if you are faster, more explosive, quicker, more flexible and dynamic and just as skilled...you are not losing very often :deal
Your being discriminatory but certainly not racist. Ive read articles stating that better white high school atheletes have been overlooked by big college programs in favour of less deserving black kids. I don't know the percentages, but im sure such cases do exist. Are blacks on average better atheletes, possibly? Im no expert on the matter.
Boxing is still getting the best talent pool as a far as prizefighting is concerned. If MMA surpasses boxing on the payscale then we will see a shift. MMA will have the better more gifted fighters and boxing will not.
I'm not an expert either. My bad, lets forget about race. I'll just make my point as while the sport continues to grow, more and more people will be attracted to it, so the talent pool will be much greater and even today's top fighters may one day look kind of basic in comparison.
Im not saying that we should drop it, a healthy discussion about race is a neccessary thing(maybe not on ESB) but in society it needs to be addressed. Like i said im far from an expert, and even though i do have an opinion it is far from scientific. Is GSP more atheletic then certain fighers in the 168-175 division in boxing, ya most definetly, but could he become the light heavyweight champion of the world or even a serious contender in a few years of training, i would say probably not.
Black person have an advantage in speed and agility, yes. Caucasian person have an advantage in strenght and eye-coordination... Asian person seem to be ****in good in those competition where they dip in that pool. Would that help them in mma? The quality that requiert to be an NFL player is such different than what it requiert to be a great MMA fighter... Hockey player could be as good as MMA fighter as an NFL player would be..
