Damn you are a ****in stuborn ****... Learn to ****in read...English isn't event my first langage and I understood Stoo point since page one....you on the other keep rambling about BS like always...
The option I want isn't there.... My honest answer would be stop the monopoly, but I can agree that from time to time it is a good thing. The thing I'm afraid the most is, like Stoo said, at some point later they will be in position of hyping anything as the best even (even though I know they are already doing that....wich is kinda proving Stoo point). The real model I want is want Will was talking about. At some point the UFC should put regional show to promote to sport in certain area with local fighter(please no more TUF...) and keep those show running(most of UFC show are saturday anyway...it could be like the FNF in ESPN or stuff like that) have some kind of title elimination or Bellator like tournamenet and the winner at the end of the years end up in the UFC... I could really see some kind of East coast Canadian event and West coast and same for the US. Same thing for Europe and Asia, if there are too many contestant then divide that between country.... So the option I want isn't there... ! My big problem is that I had more fun watching several org then to tune in to the UFC each and every week end....The fight are still really great, we had a great 2011 year...but it just feel weird now !
Well, that's your opinion !:thumbsup Cause the same thing that is happening to the boxing HW division right now could NEVER happen to MMA
Agree with this 100% I would love someone to do this! I remember Joe Rogan talking about how he thought there was a market for it.
Continue to grow as a brand and grow the sport with it is the ideal. But they are a business first and foremost, and their own interests will always come just before the best interests of the sport itself.
Monopolies stunt the creative process eventually.UFC shall decline in the coming year or so and it's PPV numbers indicate this even now.
Even if the UFC does fold and MMA becomes like boxing with different sanctioning bodies and titles and the fighters are all represented by agents that hammer out contracts for evey fight as a seperate event. The UFC will have done more to create that than anything else. Really I see the UFC just like an organisation like the WBC or whatever. They have their belt, their rules etc but they promote their own events and have a stable of fighters. Is this a monopoly? Maybe. Does it mean the best fights get made. Yes, I think it does. The 'all fighters under one roof' business model has it's merits. The UFC have outlaseted all otehr organisations for whatever reasons. On the whole I like the product, it's not perfect but it keeps me coming back here to talk ****.