What do you HONESTLY want to happen to the UFC?

I feel like Tom Cruise here

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Mate, what exactly are you complaining about?

The talent pool in the sport right now is deeper than it has EVER been.

Gyms are opening up all over the world.

Lower-level fighters are getting more and more skilled.

Fighters with top-level experience and connections, like Matt Serra, are opening gyms and training centres. And many more fighters are going to be doing this as the first and second generation of Zuffa stars start to retire.

The biggest brand in the sport is hosting shows all over the world, and going to new countries every year.

American college wrestlers by the hundreds are looking at MMA as a serious post-college career choice, which has NEVER happened before.

The UFC is about to go to free-to-air network TV all over the world, which will only increase the profile of the sport, attract more young athletes to start training, and increase the potential ticket-buyers and fanbase for regional promotions.

You are worrying about a lack of talent in the sport 10 years from now?

Ten years from now the talent levels will be through the roof compared to what we have been used to seeing.

Your complaints are vague and often nonsensical. You are demanding that the UFC pour its resources into promoting and assisting its competitors, which is nonsensical. And you are calling for MMA's top-level talent to be divided into the WBC, WBA, IBF type five world champions per weight class nightmare that boxing has become. :-(

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No Haggis.

Listen to what he is saying.

There's a limited number of spots on the UFC. At the moment the UFC is able to go to regional promotions and get new fighters should a gap emerge in its roster.

What happens if those regional promotions go away? What steps must be taken to ensure new fighters are developed?

Also fighters develop at different rates. You put a guy into the pressure cooker of the UFC and not everyone will thrive. Some fighters need to be the big fish in the small pond to fully realise their potential before going into the UFC. Nick Diaz is a great example of this.

We've already seen with WEC that Zuffa can run a minor league promotion and use it to blood fighters that would probably have been chewed up and spat out if rushed into the UFC. WWE has supported developmental territories for the same reason.

 

Thank you Will

 

No worries. Haggis has made some good points in the thread but I think we've reached a point of consensus that he's pushing against for no reason.

 

Yes, I understand this. I've said on this very thread that the UFC only has a limited number of roster spots available, and it will never achieve a true monopoly in the sport. Only a monopoly of the top-level talent, and that is a GOOD thing for the fans and the sport.

These regional promotions were going absolutely nowhere before the UFC's Zuffa-era success. The UFC raising the profile of the sport to unprecedented heights will only help local/regional promotions by expanding their potential customer base. Local fighters can develop good fan followings in their hometowns without ever making it on the big stage. That **** used to happen all the time in boxing.

If he's good enough, he'll make it to the UFC. If that's too much for him, he'll get cut and go back to the smaller promotions. If he's a real fighter with real heart and determination, that won't be the end of him. In team sports, there are any number of guys who were pushed into national teams too soon, failed, went back to domestic level to work on their game, and then returned with more toughness and will than they had before.

And if the guy doesn't have the heart, the talent and the will to work harder, get better and come back stronger, then he was never going to succeed at the top level anyway.

And that is exactly what I hope they do.

You get some good wins and start to build a following in local shows, you get scouted by Zuffa-owned, independently-operated Strikeforce or WEC.

You work your way up in those promotions and knock over a couple of UFC washouts, you get a spot in the prelims at a UFC event. Perform impressively and your fight might be shown on the main card, and/or your next fight will be one of the first bouts on the main card at a UFC event. From there, if you have the talent and the desire, you'll succeed.

Stoo appears to want the UFC to finance and promote several independent organizations to get them off the ground and help them reach a place where they can eventually provide serious competition to the UFC. That's nonsensical. And his worries about the UFC somehow evaporating the talent pool 10 years down the line are flat out ridiculous. :bart

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I don't see why anyone would have a lot to complain about. Haven't we been getting ideal matches from the UFC? I pay money to watch great matchups/fights and that's all that really matters. With weight divisions becoming much deeper we're getting even more interesting fights in the near future. The picture is not absolute perfection but all things considered you have to be satisfied. Some of you don't agree with certain business decisions but...if your ideas are so much better...we'd be talking about you and your successful company. There's a good reason why we're sitting on our chairs and not in a big office as the corporate leaders who run things.

 

Yeah, a Casino fortune

That was a joke haggis by the way, just to make it clear

 

They should rename it Pride UFC and that should appease everyone

 

****ing right. :happy

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