Interesting, I have a little more to share on this but want to research more before posting!
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Interesting, I have a little more to share on this but want to research more before posting!
ONE isn't the competition in China at least.Pretty cool, I can't wait to see what develops out there. Wonder if they will be partnering or competing with ONE Championship? In Singapore One has 5 gyms under it's wing. Evolve, JFC, Impact, Fight G Academy, and Team Highlight Reel. Will those dudes train at this new Gym, so many questions.
Think QJL also had a boxing match. Not sure how much these MMA fights were of real interest to them tbh. To me at least, it's more seemed just that GoH being a little aimless at how they want to go forward and had their 4 main guys all do MMA fights and try and hype them up as multi-discipline guys.I'm very excited with these news, recently two of the best kickboxers of the world, #1 FW Qiu Jianliang and #3 BW Wei Rui, made their MMA debuts. They both lost, being submitted, but to hear that they're interested in MMA is very interesting, because standing they can wreck 95%+ of MMA fighters with ease, specially Qiu, who is phenomenal and very unorthodox. Give them proper high lv training on the ground (will take a few years of course) and hell, you get 2 top strikers. They're both great athletes under 30 so there's still time to work with them.
https://mmajunkie.com/2018/11/ufc-p...9-will-foster-development-of-asian-mma-talent
LAS VEGAS – China will host the UFC’s second Performance Institute, and construction is already underway for the massive 93,000-square foot facility.
UFC officials told MMAjunkie the new Shanghai training center is approximately three times larger than the original facility in Las Vegas and comes with a price tag of some $13 million, as well as an annual multi-million dollar operating budget.
“It’s an exciting day for the UFC and the UFC Performance Institute in that we are expanding our resources globally,” UFC VP of Operations for UFC Performance Institute James Kimball told MMAjunkie. “Part of our ambition from day one with the UFC Performance Institute was to expand upon our resources and build a network of facilities globally, the first of which will be located in Shanghai, China.
“We’re looking to open the facility in Q2 2019. Construction for the facility is currently underway.”
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I lived with a guy from northern China briefly. He was around 6`2" and I was surprised one day when I seen a family photo and realised he was average height among his family, including his cousins. Not sure where he was from but he told me most people in his city were all pretty tall. Can't recall the reason he gave if any but it gave me a whole new perspective.This and a lot of Westerners though they mean well often unconsciously pull up stereotypes to kind of ease back on this sometimes.
Chinese are getting a lot taller, especially urban dwellers, which has been the case for people all over the world. 5'10" is a decent height. People are always upping the standard to say "nuh uh!" ....the growth in the past few decades has been impressive.
Unfortunately I am from a poor region of South Asia with poor nutrition and our height has been the same more or less since Medieval times.
This is a nice way to foster talent.
Based on sheer numbers, there will eventually I am sure be some standouts coming through in the 135-155 divisions.
I still dont think China will ever be able to compete with Japanese MMA though.
Those guys have the 'warrior bushido' in their culture and soul.
But it will push up the asian mma scene and make this a more global sport, until china founds their own mma orgs.
China already has it's own MMA orgs, some are KB + MMA though. A few examples are Kunlun Fight (KF), Glory of Heroes (GoH), Rebel FC and Wu Lin Feng (WLF).I still dont think China will ever be able to compete with Japanese MMA though.
Those guys have the 'warrior bushido' in their culture and soul.
But it will push up the asian mma scene and make this a more global sport, until china founds their own mma orgs.
False equivalent.Waste of money. Mlb has tried to develop baseball players over there for years and has failed. WWE also failed trying to develop athletes over there.
Should had put it in Berlin or another big city in Europe and signed young guys and had them develop them there
Timing seems too suspect to believe that man, these guys have their MMA debuts and a few weeks after these huge news regarding Chinese MMA are reported? IMO they are interested and asked for a MMA fight to test themselves after hearing the rumors.. you could be right and i'm just going by wishful thinking though.Think QJL also had a boxing match. Not sure how much these MMA fights were of real interest to them tbh. To me at least, it's more seemed just that GoH being a little aimless at how they want to go forward and had their 4 main guys all do MMA fights and try and hype them up as multi-discipline guys.
I heard China has a pretty good wrestling program but that's not my thing so i don't really know.i'd like to see how it develops. i wonder how long it will take to see the standouts appear. i think maybe the main reason we have so many american,brazilian, eastern european mma fighters is sort of the 'national base' of wrestling/boxing/jiu jitsu/sambo etc in those countries. i don't know if china yet has a lot of youth competing in stuff like that, maybe in a generation or two?
What the Shanghai UFC PI will look like from the outside.
I think that's just a presentation, it's still being made, will come out on Q2 2019Wow it looks like dogshit. Is that real? It looks like it was made using SketchUp.
It's as if they stuck a UFC sign on a chinese factory
Hopefully they'll be able to manufacture some prospects.
Yes its an artist impression. Those things are usually done before construction starts and they look better than the final buildingI think that's just a presentation, it's still being made, will come out on Q2 2019