Elite level mma is boring

[Söze Aldo]

It's what happens eventually to all combat sports. They become fully sportified. Fighters just end up doing enough to win on the cards, while avoiding taking too much damage.

The athletes will always play to the basics of the rules. If the rules make things less interesting for the fans, than they need to change the rules.

Much more emphasis should be scored on pushing dominance and damage inflicted.

 

[Trabaho]

It's not a chicken fight to the death, your problem if you want just violence.

 

[colorles]

It's not a chicken fight to the death, your problem if you want just violence.

and yet the UFC markets its fighters as "the baddest on the planet"

You can have a fluffed sport with a ton of rules; or you can have "the baddest on the planet". pick one

 

[Hellowhosthat]

I agree with you. But what it is really about is making things harder for wrestlers to fight from their knees like prostitutes and de-incentivizing that sort of mma.

Like I say I think knees will do more for that. Although the number one deterrent for that is to have a good front head lock series.

 

[Hog-train]

I mean One Championship is pretty exciting.

 

[Hellowhosthat]

I mean One Championship is pretty exciting.

The MMA is pretty much the same as everywhere else tbh. It's the MMA gloves kickboxing people like.

Most exciting fight cards for MMA are usually the LFA Brazil ones.

 

[IDGETKTFO]

Agreed. Bring back......

 

[Söze Aldo]

I mean One Championship is pretty exciting.

Because like PRIDE they implement a yellow card system

The UFC should implement something like this to penalize stalling in either grappling or striking.

 

[Hog-train]

The meta is too well established now. Most guys are well rounded and well trained enough that they just kind of cancel each other out.

It's more the ruleset and the 10 point must system IMO.

Out of the 1,000s of TD attempts, only a small handful of knees have ever been effective in stopping them.

You're all looking at it wrong too.

Knees aren't going to stop bad takedown attempts. They'll in fact encourage them because the real danger is going to be getting back up.

Following fighters to their guard when they are rocked is low IQ MMA. Your argument that they should or have to is just silly.

Shitty TD attempts would be severely curtailed if they just allow knees to a downed opponent. Then sprawl and knee would become highly effective.

 

[Trabaho]

and yet the UFC markets its fighters as "the baddest on the planet"

You can have a fluffed sport with a ton of rules; or you can have "the baddest on the planet". pick one

You go out there and be the baddest gladiator in the world. Or go watch some gore online, this is a sport. Mixed martial Arts. It's an Art.

 

[Mohawk Banditó]

Soccer kicks certainly do make a difference in actual fights. In fact, watch any random street fight and there is a good chance a soccer kick will come into play at some point. For reference:

Guy was already done, people don't end up in that position much at all in MMA.

 

[Dreyga Hates You Sherbums]

Fighters “mixing it up” which means going for a takedown when your opponent is not expecting it, is boring. It gives a break from the action to both men and it’s garbage watching two high level fighters cancel eachother out and waste 3 minutes of a round doing nothing with the commentators trying to justify it to the fans “this is so gruelling… for the people at home this is gruelling”

MMA as an idea is very interesting. You get a boxer and a Muay Thai guy and see which discipline is better. That’s how it started. Now what we’re watching is very far removed from that, it’s mixed martial artist gamers dragging fights out for 25 minutes doing everything they can to avoid taking and seemingly inflicting damage

I think MMA will not survive past its infancy. Boxing is supposed to be a restricted form of fighting, but boxing represents the “fight” the argument between two people even more. Boxing fights are won by attrition, mma matches are won by choices

I’ve watched this sport for 18 years, as soon as I heard it existed I was a fan, but long gone are the days of Chuck Liddell and Anderson Silva. Now all the legit guys are being forced to sit on the sidelines for years like Aspinall, you have women talking absolute rubbish in the booth, and you have cards stacked with nobodies in the Apex

This is a very long winded post to say I don’t like MMA anymore.

It’s OK you don’t have to like it. Seems like boxing is more your speed.

 

[Sms_productions713]

These aren't decent fighters being finished though. You're looking at the ghost of James Mcsweeney there.

You can say that about a shit load of fighters on the ufc roster. MMA fighters ( outside of your truly elite) only showed brilliance in a fight here and there. Hell, in terms of excitement and skill, outside of the top few at 205, I’d put Mcsweeney’s first round of his ufc fight with Maldonado over most of 205 these days.

 

[Marko Polo]

Oh I'm sorry, did I not walk into a thread about you crying?

Yeah, I guess I'll take my emotions elsewhere

*edit* wait, do you think I'm targeting you? I called 20 people idiots this weekend alone, you're just among them. Man, what a victim

Don’t trip over your clown shoes on the way out.

 

[mahavishnunj]

Boxing fights are won by attrition, mma matches are won by choices

Have you ever actually seen boxing? It's 80% stinkbombs and decisions. Maybe more.

 

[Tito Tapped]

Shitty TD attempts would be severely curtailed if they just allow knees to a downed opponent. Then sprawl and knee would become highly effective.

I know this sounds good in your head, but picking up your leg and standing on one foot is not the preferred method of stopping takedowns. There's no evidence to suggest this is some dangerous finishing move. In fact we've seen more finishes come from fighters stepping goofy than we have knee strikes stopping takedowns.

But more importantly, wrestlers will be the ones to truly benifit. No more free wall climbing to get back up. No more turtling because you can't fight off your back.

So congrats, in your effort to make MMA exciting you've offered more tools for wrestlers and turned full guard into a joke

 

[Thy]

Them insecurities flooding out bud..

I hate lawnmowers now. :/

 

[Thy]

Are you okay bud?

I am not. I have this infection on my face and had to get on anti biotics. They drained so much puss and blood from it, but i take auto immune suppressants for my disease and i can't take em while i have this infection so everything hurts.

Thank you for asking. How bout you?

 

[Thy]

Yea man well done steak people make me uneasy. I try to be understanding, like maybe they got food poisoning in the past or something, but inside, I’m judging them

Haha, i mean all jokes aside. It's hard to trust the judgement of someone who actually "likes" it well done. I understand people that just never knew any better, or do it out of fear. But man... it's like u wanna taste a rainbow? or just chew on a car tire?

I had a friend who never tried anything other than well done steak cause that's how she was raised and she never cooked her self. I go to arthurs with her and tell her to try the 24 ounce delmonico medium rare. and she was like omg.. is this what steak is supposed to be like??? She's definitely put on weight since that day lul.

 

[Thy]

Are you saying rap is trash?

Not really. It's just doesn't involve high level musician ship for the music aspect of it imo. Mostly copy and paste. As for the rapper themselves. i guess it's a form of singing. Well a form of vocals indeed. There's few rappers who i'm like niiiceeee. Though i guess that goes for any vocalist. I dunno, this is a trap. lul