1. All sports have ups and downs with reffing judging. MMA judging is bad, but not as bad as all the complaining would have you believe.
2. The only things that would be likely to delegitimize MMA as a sport are fixed fight and gambling corruption and the perception that the UFC and the ACs tolerate PED abuse.
Title shots awarded to fighters you disagree with will not be the downfall of the UFC or MMA in general.
You most likely want your points addressed, so here.
1. Yes, there will always be controversies, in every sport. Doesnt mean the state we are in now is acceptable. Shit reffing makes it look like pseudosport to me, with no good standards or means to keep up with them.
2. Well in the PED department it has been a great fuck up, UFC backpedaling with their plans after the Cung Le incident. Who really talks about delegalizing the sport of MMA, I am sure MMA will stay as a sport, how credible one, thats the question in my mind.
I am sure most people just eat up what they are served and good for them. I just hate to see the shael sonnens get the title shots vs jon joneses and then get crushed like the undeserving challengers they are.
Then to some other issues.
For one ufc could decide what size of a cage they use, not just use the small or the large one when they please, make some clear weight class to divide the use. Not just randomly pick one they see fit at the moment and possibly affect the outcome of the match in a certain way, you have all seen the statistic with stoppages in the smaller cages.
Also, I complain a lot for not signing Askren for example, thats just bullshit. Doesnt really degrade the sport, but makes ufc seem to be more in the entertainment again, not really trying to make the best fight the best as they claim. This is more my personal issue with the UFC and their way of cutting boring, but top tier fighters.
I know its not that black and white, and money is always an issue in every sport, but UFC just makes MMA look like a circus sometimes with their PR and other shenanigans (yes Dana).
Who said anything about a downfall of the UFC? I disagree with lot of things that UFC does and what AC's dont want to do or dont know how to do. Doesnt mean its the downfall, just means it makes the sport look like amateurish shit with no standards in my eyes, hence pseudosport. Wannabe sport, where people dont really know how things work and ufc / ac dont have standard procedures and sometimes seems like AC doesnt even know what MMA is. And dont get me started with incompetent refs and lack of warning / point deduction control.
Too much text already, time to take a break from this shiat forum.
