"Who Cares About The UFC In 2018"
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UFC 217 was an amazing event and brought me back to some of my best moments with friends watching UFC.
that said. that's it, mostly that I can remember from the last few years. Not a lot on the horizon right now. Sh*t one half of the 222 headliner is a female fighter NO ONE has ever heard of on context of her being a UFC main event.
JonnyRico said:
Just enjoy fights. As critical as I am of UFC's decision-making...that's really the goal at the end of the day.
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That's kinda the point of the article, there aren't actually that many people that "just enjoy fights". People are drawn to people and storylines even if they don't admit it, just putting on fights isn't enough.
Spud said:
That's kinda the point of the article, there aren't actually that many people that "just enjoy fights". People are drawn to people and storylines even if they don't admit it, just putting on fights isn't enough.
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Yeah, he's basically asking what many people are asking and that is for the UFC to put on less cards. However, I do disagree with a portion of his article mainly the part where he says
"The lead fight for the UFC on Fox event the week before is an entertaining but existentially meaningless fight between featherweights Jeremy Stephens and Josh Emmett."
That fight means something for the Featherweight Division especially with Emmett knocking out Lamas and Stephens beating Choi.
The one thing I wondered after reading that article though is how has the marketing for the UFC gotten worse over time? When WME-IMG bought it one would think they would be much better at marketing fights and marketing fighters than they have been.
JonnyRico said:
Just enjoy fights. As critical as I am of UFC's decision-making...that's really the goal at the end of the day.
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What does that mean though, we shouldn't be allowed to criticize the product? it's only natural that we question and think about what we enjoy. It's not like people dislike MMA and the UFC, but feel as though things could be better. This is just like people disliking coaches of an NFL team or a new signing by Barcelona. The fights and output could be better. They literally tried to put on Cody Vs. T.J. 2 as a last minute panic decision. That's shows you how they think about fights and fighters.
Tum Tum said:
Yeah, he's basically asking what many people are asking and that is for the UFC to put on less cards. However, I do disagree with a portion of his article mainly the part where he says
"The lead fight for the UFC on Fox event the week before is an entertaining but existentially meaningless fight between featherweights Jeremy Stephens and Josh Emmett."
That fight means something for the Featherweight Division especially with Emmett knocking out Lamas and Stephens beating Choi.
The one thing I wondered after reading that article though is how has the marketing for the UFC gotten worse over time? When WME-IMG bought it one would think they would be much better at marketing fights and marketing fighters than they have been.
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This is a typical Patrick Wyman fallacy, he focuses the top 5 in each division and can't see the forest for the trees. To him, Jeremy Stephens is a no go in terms of title shots because he already lost to Edgar and Holloway, and that in turn, his fights are pointless in moving the contender picture. Half the media right now is obsessed with ranked fights, that the matchmaking does not build the divisions or make sense ranking-wise, like a sport is supposed to do.
JonnyRico said:
Just enjoy fights. As critical as I am of UFC's decision-making...that's really the goal at the end of the day.
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Lol. you were the kind of fan who actively pushed the likes of Ronda Rousey out.
Right when the UFC had a big star, all the fans piled on and pushed that 1 star out and the millions of viewers she'd brought with her. And those millions were made up of woman. not men. woman.
For that reason I'm glad Cyborg is fighting a nobody in a complete joke of a headliner for the UFC and that it will bomb.
The Rousey haters ruined the joy of MMA for a lot people.
Jak said:
Lol. you were the kind of fan who actively pushed the likes of Ronda Rousey out.
Right when the UFC had a big star, all the fans piled on and pushed that 1 star out and the millions of viewers she'd brought with her. And those millions were made up of woman. not men. woman.
For that reason I'm glad Cyborg is fighting a nobody in a complete joke of a headliner for the UFC and that it will bomb.
The Rousey haters ruined the joy of MMA for a lot people.
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I was never against Rousey
fights
. I was against her terrible, childish, non-champion attitude problems.
I've attended 3 Rousey fights live, 3rd time was a charm with Nunes
I do care about the UFC. I have said this many times over and over, but obviously it would never happen; I would like for the UFC to reduce the amount of PPVs per year. I would prefer a PPV every three months. I think the quality would be much greater than what we get now. I would also like for them to get away from booking "Champion vs Champion" idea.
Tum Tum said:
Yeah, he's basically asking what many people are asking and that is for the UFC to put on less cards. However, I do disagree with a portion of his article mainly the part where he says
"The lead fight for the UFC on Fox event the week before is an entertaining but existentially meaningless fight between featherweights Jeremy Stephens and Josh Emmett."
That fight means something for the Featherweight Division especially with Emmett knocking out Lamas and Stephens beating Choi.
The one thing I wondered after reading that article though is how has the marketing for the UFC gotten worse over time? When WME-IMG bought it one would think they would be much better at marketing fights and marketing fighters than they have been.
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I'm not really gonna disagree with him on Stephens-Emmett, it's a terrible Fox main event. If either one of those guys ends up near a title shot it's because the UFC have run out of actual contenders for the belt.