Should there be a title like "Ring Magazine championship " in MMA?

[FedorGOAT]

With all these orgs scattered over the world & every org issuing their own belt kind of tarnishes the legitimacy of their belt. Even though the UFC belt which is the most coveted title right now doesn't indicate that the current holder is the best fighter of the world (A current example Jan Blachowicz, you can argue that he is not the best LHW right now). Also, there can be partially from promotional management, as there is no clear path to a title for a fighter. Sometime you can be neglected from a well-deserved title shot because of many non-sporting related issues. One of the many reasons why many consider it as an entertainment rather than a sport because of its inherent lack of structure.

Now a title issued by an independent body devoid from any partially like ring magazine championship would be way more respected than current promotional belt. A system based on ELO ratings (per division) will be issued to a champion after an end of a calendar year.

It will be quite different from the ring title (which is given to a boxer who holds all the wbc wba wbo ibf title). There is a chance that a fighter may fail to win tis MMA title despite beating current holder due to lower ELO rating because of inactivity. Which will encourage fighters to be more active, & having the champion in your promotion becomes so prestigious that every promotion will want to get their hands on the champion.

What do you think?

 

[CerebralKnievel]

No.

 

[TerrorTimmy]

No.

 

[Kumason]

No cause Ring Magazine is legit, well organized and been around for a hundred years. What group of mma goofs are going to put something like that together? Anything like that attempted to be put together would be just adding to the mess. I think it's a well intentioned thought but I don't see it.

As for Jan, who would you argue is a better LHW? I don't see how someone could put another above him at this time. It's not like when Bisping was champ for example.

 

[Hellowhosthat]

Ring tends to need you to beat the lineal champion in order to have the ring belt, so it'd just be UFC champions anyway unless someone left with the belt.

 

[Hotora86]

no

 

[BFoe]

No cause Ring Magazine is legit, well organized and been around for a hundred years. What group of mma goofs are going to put something like that together?

 

[Kumason]

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touché

 

[BFoe]

touché

Lol could you imagine? It’s for the best that there are no crowds right now; two fighters unify the Sherdog belt and the MMAJunkie belt or some shit, there’d be a riot. <45>

 

[Askren’s chin]

I’ll do it

 

[Eric Silva 2.0]

With all these orgs scattered over the world & every org issuing their own belt kind of tarnishes the legitimacy of their belt. Even though the UFC belt which is the most coveted title right now doesn't indicate that the current holder is the best fighter of the world (A current example Jan Blachowicz, you can argue that he is not the best LHW right now). Also, there can be partially from promotional management, as there is no clear path to a title for a fighter. Sometime you can be neglected from a well-deserved title shot because of many non-sporting related issues. One of the many reasons why many consider it as an entertainment rather than a sport because of its inherent lack of structure.

Now a title issued by an independent body devoid from any partially like ring magazine championship would be way more respected than current promotional belt. A system based on ELO ratings (per division) will be issued to a champion after an end of a calendar year.

It will be quite different from the ring title (which is given to a boxer who holds all the wbc wba wbo ibf title). There is a chance that a fighter may fail to win tis MMA title despite beating current holder due to lower ELO rating because of inactivity. Which will encourage fighters to be more active, & having the champion in your promotion becomes so prestigious that every promotion will want to get their hands on the champion.

What do you think?

If Dana is going to let guys like Romero, Corey Anderson, Mousasi, Bader, Phil Davis and Mighty Mouse go and sign or resign fighters like Mike Jackson and Bethe Correia then they need to fight cross promotion. Dana's watering down the product so it's time for champ vs champ and top contender vs top contender. That's the way right now just like boxing.

 

[Herwald]

I strongly disagree with everyone in this thread who says yes.

 

[letgodiego]

 

[letgodiego]

If Dana is going to let guys like Romero, Corey Anderson, Mousasi, Bader, Phil Davis and Mighty Mouse go and sign or resign fighters like Mike Jackson and Bethe Correia then they need to fight cross promotion. Dana's watering down the product so it's time for champ vs champ and top contender vs top contender. That's the way right now just like boxing.

cause boxing got everything figured out, right?

 

[sonhow]

If Dana is going to let guys like Romero, Corey Anderson, Mousasi, Bader, Phil Davis and Mighty Mouse go and sign or resign fighters like Mike Jackson and Bethe Correia then they need to fight cross promotion. Dana's watering down the product so it's time for champ vs champ and top contender vs top contender. That's the way right now just like boxing.

Jackson is way cheaper to keep on the roster though.

Also Correia is retiring anyway

 

[KillerIsBack V2]

With all these orgs scattered over the world & every org issuing their own belt kind of tarnishes the legitimacy of their belt. Even though the UFC belt which is the most coveted title right now doesn't indicate that the current holder is the best fighter of the world (A current example Jan Blachowicz, you can argue that he is not the best LHW right now). Also, there can be partially from promotional management, as there is no clear path to a title for a fighter. Sometime you can be neglected from a well-deserved title shot because of many non-sporting related issues. One of the many reasons why many consider it as an entertainment rather than a sport because of its inherent lack of structure.

Now a title issued by an independent body devoid from any partially like ring magazine championship would be way more respected than current promotional belt. A system based on ELO ratings (per division) will be issued to a champion after an end of a calendar year.

It will be quite different from the ring title (which is given to a boxer who holds all the wbc wba wbo ibf title). There is a chance that a fighter may fail to win tis MMA title despite beating current holder due to lower ELO rating because of inactivity. Which will encourage fighters to be more active, & having the champion in your promotion becomes so prestigious that every promotion will want to get their hands on the champion.

What do you think?

I am not going to read your thread, because you don't know what you're talking about.

You hold the WBA, WBC, IBO, IFB, and IBO all at the same time.

In mma you can't hold bellator, One FC, UFC, PFL titles at the same time.

So if you gift it to one guy in one promotion in MMA, it will stay in that promotion.

Basically, Lineal/unified/undisputed titles cannot exist in MMA the way it is ran today, and applying the Ali Act to mma is very complicated for that reason. Thus, anybody who is a free agent in MMA signed their retirement.

 

[Dreyga Hates You Sherbums]

Terrible ideas. Do not turn MMA into boxing

 

[kflo]

I am not going to read your thread, because you don't know what you're talking about.

You hold the WBA, WBC, IBO, IFB, and IBO all at the same time.

In mma you can't hold bellator, One FC, UFC, PFL titles at the same time.

So if you gift it to one guy in one promotion in MMA, it will stay in that promotion.

Basically, Lineal/unified/undisputed titles cannot exist in MMA the way it is ran today, and applying the Ali Act to mma is very complicated for that reason. Thus, anybody who is a free agent in MMA signed their retirement.

And there are no current unified titles in boxing, and only a few multiple belt holders across sanctioning bodies. I think Anthony Joshua has the most currently (all but WBC) and he’s not even the ring champ (fury, rightfully so).

 

[DarthChen731]

Fuck no

 

[accolyte1022]

This did not go as TS planned.