Fighters fighting twice a year is why the UFC can't enter mainstream like the NFL, NBA, etc...

[ComfortablyNumb55]

Who made up the dumb ass rule that fighters should only fight around two times a year? With mainstream sports like the NFL, NBA, MLB, etc, you get to see your favorite sports stars frequently. In the UFC, we're lucky to see our favorite fighters twice a year.

Why can't we normalize 3-4 fights a year?

It's pissing me off that we have to wait so damn long to see our favorite fighters. Man up and fight more! People are so afraid of an L that they need 6 months to get ready for their next opponent. I don't buy into fighters being so injured that they're forced to recover for 6 months after every fight.

Fighters should fight more!

 

[Ares Black]

No, it's because the vast majority of audiences don't want to watch people kick the shit out of each other.

 

[ComfortablyNumb55]

No, it's because the vast majority of audiences don't want to watch people kick the shit out of each other.

Damn, that's ridiculous.

Who wouldn't want to watch that? The movie Gladiator was huge with audiences.

Fighting has been around since the beginning of time. It's natural.

 

[Get To Da Choppa]

Who made up the dumb ass rule that fighters should only fight around two times a year? With mainstream sports like the NFL, NBA, MLB, etc, you get to see your favorite sports stars frequently. In the UFC, we're lucky to see our favorite fighters twice a year.

Why can't we normalize 3-4 fights a year?

It's pissing me off that we have to wait so damn long to see our favorite fighters. Man up and fight more! People are so afraid of an L that they need 6 months to get ready for their next opponent. I don't buy into fighters being so injured that they're forced to recover for 6 months after every fight.

Fighters should fight more!

Exactly. Even Draymond Green fights more times in a year in the NBA than the UFC GOAT Jon Jones

Against A level athletes no less

 

[ComfortablyNumb55]

No, it's because the vast majority of audiences don't want to watch people kick the shit out of each other.

And just to be clear, I want to fight you for disagreeing with me about Sean.

It's just natural to want to knock a head clean off!

 

[Ares Black]

And just to be clear, I want to fight you for disagreeing with me about Sean.

It's just natural to want to knock a head clean off!

Send location

 

[ComfortablyNumb55]

Send location

Alabama.

Behind my trailer.

 

[Ares Black]

Damn, that's ridiculous.

Who wouldn't want to watch that? The movie Gladiator was huge with audiences.

Fighting has been around since the beginning of time. It's natural.

Sure and some people love it. Most people do not.

Spoiler Alert: the average person (if they think about MMA at all) thinks that it is either

A) Brutal and disgusting
B) Stupid and pointless
C) Ridiculous and homoerotic

or D) All of the above

 

[ComfortablyNumb55]

Sure and some people love it. Most people do not.

Spoiler Alert: the average person (if they think about MMA at all) thinks that is either

A) Brutal and disgusting
B) Stupid and pointless
C)Ridiculous and homoerotic

or D) All of the above

I don't trust men that don't like fighting.

 

[Sean Ryan]

They need to bring back knives.

 

[Pancake Sprawl]

Alabama.

Behind my trailer.

how about Iowa, behind the shed.

 

[Ares Black]

I don't trust men that don't like fighting.

Me either

 

[ComfortablyNumb55]

how about Iowa, behind the shed.

Always a good spot.

 

[ineverpost]

Dude mainstream means money. the UFC is poverty organization compared to the NFL. They do as much revenue as about 2 NFL teams combined. They can't enter mainstream because the target demographic is almost impossible to escape. People like sports that they can participate in. Almost everyone has played in some type of football game or baseball game in America. Almost everyone in the world has played soccer. How many people have had a serious fight for RECREATIONAL purposes? UFC is something you go to jail for when done outside of a sanctioned event. It's an adult male meathead sport.

 

[Adamant]

Who made up the dumb ass rule that fighters should only fight around two times a year? With mainstream sports like the NFL, NBA, MLB, etc, you get to see your favorite sports stars frequently. In the UFC, we're lucky to see our favorite fighters twice a year.

Why can't we normalize 3-4 fights a year?

It's pissing me off that we have to wait so damn long to see our favorite fighters. Man up and fight more! People are so afraid of an L that they need 6 months to get ready for their next opponent. I don't buy into fighters being so injured that they're forced to recover for 6 months after every fight.

Fighters should fight more!

Absolutely. Especially when fighters are willing and able (like Khamzat)

 

[SG123]

No, it's because the vast majority of audiences don't want to watch people kick the shit out of each other.

That’s not true. Humans have loved combat for entertainment for centuries

 

[ComfortablyNumb55]

Absolutely. Especially when fighters are willing and able (like Khamzat)

Let Khamzat smesh.

You're telling me there's no way a billion dollar enterprise can get Khamzat in the states for a fight? Come on.

 

[Pancake Sprawl]

Sure and some people love it. Most people do not.

Spoiler Alert: the average person (if they think about MMA at all) thinks that it is either

A) Brutal and disgusting
B) Stupid and pointless
C) Ridiculous and homoerotic

or D) All of the above

how do you explain the popularity of the NFL, boxing, and pro wrestling then? the participants in those events get fucked up way more often than MMA fighters do. or do you mean just the visuals is viscerally disturbing to a lot of people?

 

[Skarsgard]

Most people I know think boxing looks too brutal.

 

[ComfortablyNumb55]

Most people I know think boxing looks too brutal.

Do you work at Starbucks or something?