UFC is the MMA version of the NFL
They want the game to have Zero personalities
It really shldnt have much of a personality, it's the sport you love. The fighters come and go but the quality of the sport is what is constant.
If comparing to nfl, Brett Favre left the Packers Rodgers is now the fave. And when Rodgers is gone another packer great qb will take over. Peyton left the Colts, luck is now the man their now.
Ufc was Hughes and liddell and tito and ish moves in then it was bj Penn and gaps, now we got Romero and weidman. The fighters are temporary the sport the ufc is what lives on. Otherwise, jus go watch Bellatrix and glory and etc.
The reason why sport leagues can't get too hooked on personalities is because then the league becomes a hostage to the player. That is never good because the player can't play for ever and you have no control over the player in the real world.I do watch Bellator.. I think them and One FC are great mid majors.
And why shouldn't a sport, based solely on the skill of individuals, have personality?
You tried to jump on my NFL comparison but I do not like that about the NFL either.
I've become a guy that barely watches games because I don't know who these guys are any more. I use to know every player in Madden now I know like 10 guys.
As fans, we lose connection a bit.
Add this crappy deal, to the oversaturation, to the fighter's pay row, to the fighter's with no personality, and my interest is starting to wane
True and false breh NBA is run by Lebron media frenzy NFL it's harder but QB's run the leagueThe reason why sport leagues can't get too hooked on personalities is because then the league becomes a hostage to the player. That is never good because the player can't play for ever and you have no control over the player in the real world.
Look at Bones Jones, he was da champ had a Nike deal money was good for him. But ufc can only control him the few mins he's in the ring. Outside the ring, imagine if that pregnant lady died in that car crash? This is the same fighter who left remember early. Who knows what's going on in his personal life, meanwhile the ufc must keep on. Fans still want fights. DC, Rumble, Gus step up and step in the light now.
Ufc is about the company and the quality of the sport. Not about the fighters as they come and go. No matter how much u pay them they will always want more. Mayweather and paquaino are 2 of the highest paid boxers in recent years. Look how long it took to get then in the ring vs each other. Why, greed. They wanted even more money to fight each other to the point we got a crappy fight cous pac is past his prime now. If this was UFC Dana wld jus force em to fight or ur not fighting ne1 done.
The reason why sport leagues can't get too hooked on personalities is because then the league becomes a hostage to the player. That is never good because the player can't play for ever and you have no control over the player in the real world.
Look at Bones Jones, he was da champ had a Nike deal money was good for him. But ufc can only control him the few mins he's in the ring. Outside the ring, imagine if that pregnant lady died in that car crash? This is the same fighter who left remember early. Who knows what's going on in his personal life, meanwhile the ufc must keep on. Fans still want fights. DC, Rumble, Gus step up and step in the light now.
Ufc is about the company and the quality of the sport. Not about the fighters as they come and go. No matter how much u pay them they will always want more. Mayweather and paquaino are 2 of the highest paid boxers in recent years. Look how long it took to get then in the ring vs each other. Why, greed. They wanted even more money to fight each other to the point we got a crappy fight cous pac is past his prime now. If this was UFC Dana wld jus force em to fight or ur not fighting ne1 done.
So the alternative is let the company run roughshot over their employees without repercussion? Do you see what's going on here?
If the fighters don't like it, go to Bellatrix, glory all those other amazing and how paying companies. It's easy for every1 to hate on the ufc. I cnt count the number of times fighters use to argue all these small organizations wldnt even pay them half the time. Now they all acting greedy, just like in boxing before.