Is it just me or has MMA/UFC fallen off real hard...

[TheGreatShowtime]

Nah, their PPV sales are still good & so are the ticket sales. I think they had one bad event (UFC 149) in terms of both but that's because that card was re-worked to death because of injuries and didn't really have a true headline fight.

They haven't really spoken about it as much as they use to on ESPN though. Maybe that's why people think it's dying

 

[YaBoy]

once they took if off Spike TV i stopped giving a fukk and didnt watch a fight until the shogun fight last saturday

 

[puppetmaster]

shyt it started with the insurance policy that has every major fighter taking months and months off to get paid and vacation without risking the belt

Hate to say it because i'm all for fighters having insurance, but yea cats aren't afraid to pull out of fights now due to injury combined with the UFC producing too much tv over too many networks nowadays it's watering down the cards because they're constantly being reshuffled due to injuries and such.


I'm more or less a lifer but I can see why casuals would be frustrated with mma at the moment



-P-

 

[Poppa_Dock]

over saturated definitely

tried to create culture/style out of being a UFC head and shyt is kind of a joke now

i think they need to overhaul and go back to the gracie way and stop having all the fighters be exactly the same.

 

[JMurder]

shyt it started with the insurance policy that has every major fighter taking months and months off to get paid and vacation without risking the belt

this...too many weak cards name wise as a result of injury. Cards going from must see to don't see.

I would think to recommend less events but that won't stop niccas from getting injured while training

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

I'm with ya most of the time on this but this isn't race related. Boxing was at its peak with heavyweights through 30 years.

 

[yoyoyo1]

it's because they put out what seems to be a card every week and they dont have enough headlining fighters to do that

weakens the card and im pretty sure saturday's card was the first good one in months that i've seen

 

[Kunty McPhuck]

Most of these fighters aint charismatic enough and come across as too nice. Need more Sonnen esque antics from fighters.

 

[iceberg_is_on_fire]

Finishing fights is what the fans want. Bones Jones does that with the hellbows.

 

[MustafaSTL]

More blacks, less cacs. That's the American way.

 

[aixenv]

it has nothing to with race, you idiots always bringing up race.. are just that , idiots

it has to do with over saturation of the product, plus you got a few champs who are hard to market to the American audience because they barely speak english.. to say it's race related is absolutely stupid though, it's about personalities, marketable fighters and oversaturation

look at brock .. he sucked at MMA, but he sure did pack the stands and get the best buyrates.. why is that? not cuz he's white, but because he was marketable.

some of you people always pullin' the race card will always be stuck in life as losers when you're always lookin' to blame shyt on that.. are there times race causes issue? sure. is this one of them? no

 

[Sensitive Blake Griffin]

I'm guessing you didn't watch the last card on fox.

 

[FaTaL]

Too many pay per views

 

[Regular_P]

Low key truth. MMA was a way for white guys to be relevant and claim superiority, because boxing supposedly didn't incorporate all your limbs, and was less technical, because guys couldn't come at you many different ways Now that the low key truth has been shown, CACs losing interest. Who the f*ck really wants to watch dudes roll around on a mat for a half hour? Watch, if NASCAR drivers suddenly were 90% black, you would see a dramatic loss in interest overnight. But to have fallen off, you had to have been on top of something, MMA never fell off, because it wasn't on top of anything. UFC sucks, Pride F-1 better than UFC, f*ck I look like watching dudes dry hump each other until one surrenders to the other

Co-fukking-sign!

Every time I watch a fight, that's all it turns into. Two guys rolling around on the ground together in their underwear.

 

[JMurder]

Co-fukking-sign!

Every time I watch a fight, that's all it turns into. Two guys rolling around on the ground together in their underwear.

*wonders if that's all you're actively seeking*