Ari runs the UFC about as well as his brother runs Chicago.
This is beautiful...they appear to be fucking up so badly that it could end the monopoly stranglehold that the UFC has over MMA.
The more players/promotions there are, the better the pay and benefits will be for the fighters.
I'm all for WME continuing to fuck shit up.
Monopoly is dyingIdk, but I hope they keep it up and end up killing the UFC monopoly for good.
1. high quality mma every week instead of just relying on one sourceAs a fan, why would you actually hope for the talent to disperse across multiple smaller organizations and never face one another...???
This^^^^Fertitas had a passion for the sport.. WME bought it as an investment. Looks to me that they want to have lots of small shows with low buys filled with low end fighters with the odd big pay per view.
I've seen a lot of back and forth on this, and it seems to me that most people who disagree with you really just do so out of spite for the UFC. I loved Pride and miss it to death, but the post Pride era of MMA from 2007-2014 really was a Golden Age of MMA. We constantly had epic matches, so much so that super fights weren't even a thing that could be made anymore since all the best fighters were fighting each other, barring a very, VERY few exceptions. One thing the UFC under Zuffa always did a good job of was having legitimate matchups and legitimate contenders to the best of their ability. So when they acquired Pride, and later other orgs with top talents, we were given the best product MMA could be.I really don't think that the demise of the UFC will be any good for the sport.
It's best that all the fighters are put in one org.
It didn't suck at all. It led to better cards from all of those organizations.
People cry about matchmaking and fights not happening just as much now as they did then. The UFC's current matchmaking is awful, and we're seeing top fighters fight less than ever. Look at Jacare. In SF we saw him fight regularly. In the UFC, far less and against weaker competition usually. Worse yet, the UFC is so slow with matchmaking their top fighters that we see top fighters sit on the shelf for months at a time with no fight lined up.
MMA was better with multiple orgs. They have to actually compete with each other then to put on good cards.
because they're, in their opinion, overpaying top fighters.
Yeah so far, in terms of their letting fighters go and match-making / cards, these guys are actually making Zuffa look Einsteinian.