There are many HW fights in other organisations, but MMA fans ignore them because they are not in the UFC, where the average HW age is nearing 40.
I'm watching Fight Channell every day and I see a good number of good HW fights. Old ones too.
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God people miss the entire beauty of HW combat sports. Not sure why people can't just do the MMATH on this.
1. The HW division of ALL combat sports IS the power division. [period].
2. As such the potential for a single strike from an opponent changing the course of the fight in greater in the HW division than any other.
3. The single strike effect applies much further into the rankings in HW than any other weight class.
4. Inertia - HW's by the laws of physics are NOT going to be as mobile as lighter fighters. Their natural ability to defend strikes is slower than other weight classes. This make chances of landing these power strikes in the HW division greater than other divisions.
This in itself does not damage the draw to the HW division of MMA so much as the next factors.
5. Pure Striking combat sports are far more limited of "legal techniques". The fighters are far better prepared to defend the far more limited offenses allowed in other contact sports. The fighter has far better control of mitigating the single strike effect in other combat sports defenses than the UFC with it's far more open offensive rules.
6. IMO, this is the big one. MMA a decade + ago ALL MMA HW's were EXPECTED to take a number of losses. We have had like a grand total of 1 MMA HW go on a 5 year run in major organizations. Fedor = GOAT.
MMA HW fighters with a few losses were still considered absolute world class. Try to think of the Prime PRIDE FC HW legends at the time and find one without the better part of a HANDFUL of losses. Five losses as a top MMA HW used to be considered OK. A (one) loss in Boxing at that time made you a can.
It seems that the MMA fans tolerance for less than Fedoresque perfection in the HW division has reached the level of Boxing.
MMA fans have become even more demanding of "perfection" all the way up to HW than Boxing fans.
To be perfectly honest, it would take something approaching mental deficiency for a 200+ pound serious athlete to consider MMA over tiddlywinks at this point.
Blame "tight ass" Dana. . . . all you want.
Truth be told, any large man with serious athletic skills WORLDWIDE are steered clear of MMA directly by the worst fans with the biggest sense of entitlement in the largest MMA organization on EARTH by far.
The average maturity level of MMA fans is lower than any other major sport with the possible exception of NASCAR if you can include that crap as a "sport".
Dick Flick's want 200+ pound male athletes attracted to MMA.
Try respecting Fedor as GOAT. We NONSTOP have to be pelted by HARDCORE MMA fans that not only isn't he the GOAT, but they actually call him a can.
JDS Greatest of all time. One fight later far less, one more fight, and a broken man.
Cain greatest when he beat Brock. Exposed vs. JDS, Greatest again when he revenges that loss x2 and a sealevel only comodity after Werdum.
Does that childish mentality really attract you?
If MMA fans could get the average maturity/ mentality level firmly into human teenage level, we will be far better off attracting athletes.
Until then Elementary children attract no A level 200+ pounds athletes.
FFS, as others have mentioned, The respect level that most large male athletes receive from the nation is beyond your infant imaginations. Is the ENTIRE Sherdog fan base too childish to at least feel embarrassed at what YOU HAVE DONE?
No, no 200+ pound super athlete from any of these countries are going to give up their life being treated as royalty by their countrymen for a short stint in the UFC being bashed mercilessly by the worst sports fans on the history of EARTH.
Stop blaming others for OUR shortcomings. No improvement until the MMA community grows the fuck up!
