Bye Sherdog.

[Zebra Cheeks]

Yeah, mostly matchups BS.
You have matchups like Volk vs Lopes 2, a fight nobody but Lopes asked for, while you have tons of other guys more deserving.
You have O'Malley getting immediate rematch after not winning a fight while you have some guys like Evloev or Murphy on a 37 fight win streak but they apparently don't deserve shit yet. Stuff like that makes it my top reason for losing interest.

You have guys being shelved not getting the TS because they are not loud enough on X.

You have guys being cut while still in top 15 and not losing last fight.

You have bunch of cans being signed from Contender series. The roster is bloated with average fighters. Not too many real stars anymore (there are there still like Poatan but not too many).

You have Dana fucking White being checked out a bit, promoting idiotic Power Slap or boxing. Not promoting his own fighters at all.

You have the goof not giving fans the fights they want to see, despite always saying the UFC gives the fans the fights they want to see.

You have the goof doing less media than before, there are less fun conferences too it seems like.

You have goof allowing Tom with the interim belt defending the belt while Jon was around already I believe. Absolute joke.
The goof waiting 2 years to strip Jon because he likes to have him around to suck him off I'm guessing.

You have champs winning the belt and not defending and wanting to be double champs instead of focusing on cleaning out the division first.

You have the goof giving Nelk boys 250k dollars as a gift while giving his fighters absolute peanuts and them having no long term real health insurance etc., the fighters are independent contractors, but have like 0 freedom.

You have horrible ref decisions going unpunished, horrible judging going unpunished, refs allowing eye pokes and nut shots even though the warning has already been given in the locker room. "I know it wasn't intentional" even if the guy sprinted a kick the other dude's balls full speed like a soccer ball in the first 5 seconds of the fight.

You have some really bad cards, horrible headliners, more than a half of the card sometimes filled with fighters I've never heard of + sometimes too many women fights (sorry Ares) that are just not high level at all. I don't mind high level WMMA but mostly it's just horrible.

You have ranking squatters, fighters that don't fight but somehow are still ranked. You have rankings that don't actually matter at all for matchmakers either.

I just want the best fighters fighting the best, regardless of whether a contender is regarded as boring and regardless if they have 37 followers on X.

Stuff like that

Yeah I felt that big time at 155 for a long time after the log jam created by the khabib inactivity. It became a popularity contest and a lot of really talented guys got pushed out. But then I also get from a name recognition standpoint you don’t want someone who is a brand name losing to some nobody. That being said I think it’s necessary because that’s how you suddenly discover gems in this sport. Sometimes the guy with a seemingly non marketable demeanor like Aldo makes the perfect contrast to a guy like Conor and that’s how a classic moment is made.

 

[FriskyRandy]

Don’t blame you. The sport is in the toilet these days and the only thing keeping me here is snark and funny posters

Which get dubs on here while they let obvious retarded trolls and bet welchers live on.

 

[Dionysian]

Weird logic in this thread.

"Yeah the MMA discussion on this MMA forum sucks, so I go to the non-MMA section to talk"

What's the point of that? Anyone want to toss me a sales pitch for the Mayberry as to how it'd be a smart use of time?

 

[Ares Black]

This.

Many of us have lost interest in MMA at times but we can still shoot the shit in Mayberry.

Not me. I've been banned from the Mayberry for years.

 

[Zebra Cheeks]

UFC is doing fine.

Mods seem fine. Have you seen what I post?

Fuck off bitch.

Gosh, I would not sleep at night because you said that.

Bitch ))) hahahahahha

You're weak.

Hi @Luffy

 

[FlowchartRog]

That's a shame, you're a good poster

You have a point about the UFC though. I really do miss the early UFC years.

 

[Alpha_T83]

And I have been pretty terribly treated by forum mods/admin recently.

I think the majority of mods here are awesome, but I feel that there maybe too many mods. As a result, there is definitely not a consistency between how mods handle issues. And especially in the war room... let's just say some of the mods are very partisan in how they handle political issues.

I could say more but I don't want to promote this being a thread ranting about mods, because I do think the majority of them are great.

 

[Danespina]

The PBPs are top notch.

The topic where most everyone is on the same page. Where broad complaints about the industry get narrowed down to "What fight's next?".

 

[wwkirk]

I will be sad to see TS go, but respectfully, where are the titties??

Any good e-suicide needs titties at the very least.

Possibly no e-suicide intended. Just walking away. The benefit is he can either stay away forever or return without hassle if his mood changes. I quietly left for a three to four month period during the last couple of years.

(In case the question comes up I think he's a legit old-timer. Up to now, he's the only one I've seen with that AV.)

 

[FriskyRandy]

Weird logic in this thread.

"Yeah the MMA discussion on this MMA forum sucks, so I go to the non-MMA section to talk"

What's the point of that? Anyone want to toss me a sales pitch for the Mayberry as to how it'd be a smart use of time?

I spend my free time doing stupid shit, im sure you do as well.
Whatever makes people happy.

 

[Zebra Cheeks]

I think the majority of mods here are awesome, but I feel that there maybe too many mods. As a result, there is definitely not a consistency between how mods handle issues. And especially in the war room... let's just say some of the mods are very partisan in how they handle political issues.

I could say more but I don't want to promote this being a thread ranting about mods, because I do think the majority of them are great.

I’ll speak from experience on this one

You guys have no idea how much time and care the mods her put into trying to get it right. Every decision, especially big an noticeable ones often has several mods weighing and and there are decisions that span hundreds of posts over certain infractions, bans etc.

That being said every mod is just a poster that decided to volunteer their time. So it’s hard to handle the volume needed on the forum with just a handful of people. It does require a legit full on team. People go through seasons of life and every season doesn’t include sherdog for some mods. So there’s always turnover and there’s always new faces but there are “pillars” that have been in place for at least a decade. And my that I mean mods like Jack and kowboy who sort of set the tempo and guide the rest of the mods in a way. And for the most part I have to say I objectively feel it’s gotten right 99% of the time. But then again, no one’s perfect so I’d say that’s pretty outstanding. After all mods are people too.

 

[Oscar Madison]

This is the inaugural Paramount+ Fight Week!

Why the long faces?

 

[Dionysian]

I spend my free time doing stupid shit, im sure you do as well.
Whatever makes people happy.

Sure. One of them is posting on an MMA forum honestly. But posting on an MMA forum about topics that have nothing to do with MMA seems weird to me. Especially if you concede the MMA section of the MMA forum sucks.

In other words, why post here, when you could go to a dedicated non-MMA forum dedicated to whatever non-MMA topic (music, politics, etc) you wanted to talk about? Same reason I don't go to yahoo political threads in order to talk about MMA... I come to Sherdog for that.

 

[HuskySamoan]

Who knows? Supposedly the UFC was chasing PPV with ESPN and was putting out dog shit. Now they officially aren't selling any fights atleast in the US. But maybe now on Paramount normies who pay 10$/month for football, who were put off by the 100$/month for UFC, will give it a second chance and it can build a much wider audience. We didn't exactly see that with the DAZN model though.

Speaking of boxing. You got Fury, Usyk, AJ, Tank, Crawford, Spence, Bivol, Beterbiev, Garcia basically on ice sitting around for 1 fight a year or worse. Then even Canelo is out until the end of 2026. The clown show with Jake Paul is on pause with a broken jaw now. Inoue is a monster, but he barely has names to take and you can't expect him to go up too high. Shakur is boring as sin, but still good fighter.

I'd say without new rising stars, boxing is in a bad spot too because the names are wearing thin and out soon. I'm sort of a casual with it, but pretty consistently watch notable cards. From what I've seen I hope the UFC does the opposite of what's going on with boxing, because throwing money at the big stars seems to make them fight cans or fight once a year. Maybe you know a bunch of names coming up, but I'm on a casual radar.


True, I did that for awhile, eventually just settling for paying IPTV subscription which got me through. I think if done correctly it'll open the UFC to a whole new audience that was never going to fidget with the streams and tuned out before. All major sports don't charge 100$/month to follow the top matches. Still, they are going to have to find a Conor or something to suck casuals in if they want growth, putting on Apex slop is going to turn everyone away.

Inoue has Nakatani and potentially Bam. Two huge fights, especially Bam. Beyond that 126 will be his last division but has tons of undefeated exciting champions ShuShu Carrington, Rafael Espinoza, Nick Ball....Featherweight is to me where he can solidify his greatness next to Pacquiao and Mayweather as arguably the greatest boxer of the last 26 years or not. Omar Navarez and Donaire are two hall of fame/hall of fame candidates Inoue has beaten at the lower weights when collecting titles and then Fulton was on a few p4p top 10 lists as an undefeated champion when Inoue mowed him down. But yeah, we will see. Boxing has issues too, but I just have enjoyed it more again and MMA less the last couple years.


Im not hopeful with the UFC. They are militantly against Russian and Central Asian guys, so you see Eduard Vartanyan go back to ACA, you see Razhabali Shaydullaev become a star in Rizin, Nemkov go back to PFL, you wonder if Shamil Musaev and Islam Omarov are the best in the world at their weighs, you watch Akbar Abdullaev and Sanzhar Zakirov become these exciting, young, future champs etc. Its actually too much of rejecting these guys and too much of signing random US, Mexican, Brazilian and British Joe's. They literally told Vartanyan and Nemkov to fuck off and they come from a part of the world with little value to the brand.

Beyond this the UFC isnt that good at promoting fighters and theres only mindless drones as media because theyre all bought. They signed a 7.7 Billion contract with Paramount for 7 years and they really still pay these fighters peanuts. It should be minimum 50k to show for any fighter in 2026 and they should have some very basic benefits at least. Its just whatever. I dont expect much anymore.

 

[Ares Black]

Possibly no e-suicide intended. Just walking away. The benefit is he can either stay away forever or return without hassle if his mood changes. I quietly left for a three to four month period during the last couple of years.

(In case the question comes up I think he's a legit old-timer. Up to now, he's the only one I've seen with that AV.)

Oh he's definitely legit. He's a 2002 account.

 

[wwkirk]

That being said every mod is just a poster that decided to volunteer their time.

Aha! I've long wondered about that but refrained from asking. Seeing that you dudes don't get paid puts you a somewhat different light. You're chumps!
Just kidding. In reality, I consider you real Mensch.

 

[Why did you]

 

[HI SCOTT NEWMAN]

Hey I hope you won't go, the best thing to do is just take a break and come back when you feel that you want too.

 

[Fedorgasm]

Not me. I've been banned from the Mayberry for years.

Seriously? Banning you from one forum seems more cruel than just banning you from the site altogether.

Perhaps you can beg for reinstatement after a certain period of time.

 

[sonhow]

Yeah.. Goodbye Muyl!​