Anyone remember when all these injuries started..

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We had a bunch of people saying "I won't get excited for a fight until the weigh ins."

After the past few events, we should change it to "I won't get excited for a fight until the bell rings."
 
Even with the injuries the fights have been awesome.
 
its been a pretty good year still, but jus thinking about all the matchups that got killed due to injuries...sucks
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFC_85

The card was plagued by a number of injuries sustained by scheduled fighters, forcing the UFC to rework the card several times. Originally, the main event was to be between light heavyweights Chuck Liddell and Mauricio Rua; however, Rua required surgery on an injured knee and could not compete. Rashad Evans then replaced Rua in the main event with Liddell,[4] but Liddell was forced to withdraw from the card due to a hamstring injury.[5]

The UFC then named James Irvin as Liddell's replacement to fight Evans, but Irvin sustained a foot injury that forced him to pull out. Evans was then removed from the card as well. The main event was then changed to Matt Hughes against Thiago Alves. Hughes took the fight on short notice as a favor to the UFC and Alves came in four pounds overweight.

In other changes, a Jonathan Goulet and Paul Kelly match was scrapped when Goulet dropped out citing a lack of training time, followed by Kelly withdrawing before his opponent could be named because of an injury sustained in practice. Due to legal problems which resulted in a lack of time to prepare for his fight with Michael Bisping, Chris Leben was forced to withdraw from the card and the UFC announced Jason Day would face Bisping. Ryo Chonan was replaced by Kevin Burns,[6] and Neil Wain was replaced by Eddie Sanchez
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFC_108

The card for UFC 108 was plagued with numerous injuries, with multiple potential fights being called off as a result.

A proposed main event featured UFC Middleweight Champion Anderson Silva facing off against former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Vitor Belfort. However, it was announced by Silva's manager, Ed Soares, that the fight would not happen at UFC 108 because Silva would not be fully healed from elbow surgery.

A bout between Brock Lesnar and Shane Carwin for the UFC Heavyweight Championship was rescheduled from UFC 106 to UFC 108, but this fight did not take place due to a continuing medical condition suffered by Lesnar.[4]

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Injuries started with Jose Aldo injuring himself repeatedly over a year ago, UFC had to change his opponents several times. Then other champs either refuse to defend their belts or have been sidelined with injuries, which is why UFC have more champs than they really need, fans couldnt care less about them including the Women's, Flyweight and Interim champs.
 
Winning, but in the way the UFC and it's fans want you to win, is more important than ever now.

One loss and you could be out of an MMA job and have nowhere else to go. Even after a win that wasn't exciting you could be cut by UFC.

Winning in exciting fashion means more guys will try and be healthy now. The days of just fighting are over.
 
ZackZed said:
Injuries started with Jose Aldo injuring himself repeatedly over a year ago, UFC had to change his opponents several times. Then other champs either refuse to defend their belts or have been sidelined with injuries, which is why UFC have more champs than they really need, fans couldnt care less about them including the Women's, Flyweight and Interim champs.
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So Jose Aldo started it?
 
Judge and Jury said:
So Jose Aldo started it?
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What? NO! But since he's such a high profile fighter he's generating interest and speculation unlike before, and were starting to see a trend with all the other big names dropping out of monster ppv cards on a much larger scale.
 
MMA Fan 505 said:
Winning, but in the way the UFC and it's fans want you to win, is more important than ever now.

One loss and you could be out of an MMA job and have nowhere else to go. Even after a win that wasn't exciting you could be cut by UFC.

Winning in exciting fashion means more guys will try and be healthy now. The days of just fighting are over.
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Please inform everyone in what time period of the UFC a guy was safe in the promotion after a loss. This post is utter nonsense.

You honestly think guys like Hardy, Grispi, Brown, and Akiyama would still be in the UFC after two straight losses five years ago? They each stayed alive in the promotion with 3-4.

And please try to argue that guys like Grispi and Brown are "draws".
 
TrueBias said:
Injuries became a lot more audible after the insurance was put into place.
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Audible?

So you mean rates haven't actually changed, Sherdog is just bitching more loudly? That sounds about right.
 
The real question is will 2013 be any better? I'm thinking no!
 
Injuries have been happening forever. I assume that with insurance, more fighters are able to get injuries treated.

Either way if a fighter is injured, I don't see how they'd get cleared to fight regardless of whether or not they have insurance.
 
I figured that in like the Elvis Sinosic era, you could fight at 90% or 85% and if you lost, at least you'd get another chance somewhere down the road . Now with the divisions so deep, gatekeepers can't relax and business-wise if you're 8-4 you're better off pulling out than losing one more.

In the new Women's division, they'll be able to go 2-4 and still get fights, until it's fully fleshed out and they can start cutting people. Nobody is going to call-in sick for their debut fight though, bank on that.
 
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