Fighting Twice a Year is BS

[A Very Serious Cat]

If only they were allowed to take some kind of a drug... maybe of the "performance-enhancing" kind to help with recovery...

If only peds helped with brain damage

 

[Alpha_T83]

Why is it the standard to fight two times a year? Seems like everyone does it once they become contenders/champs. I believe fighters should be forced to fight 3 times a year unless they have a documented injury forbidding them from doing so. The UFC needs to come down harder on this shit and rule with an iron fist ffs.

I 100% agree with you. The UFC should institute aggressive contract clauses that only pay fighters their full bonuses if they fight 3x a year.

The problem is they pussy out with the high profile fighters. Jon Jones, Conor McGregor, etc. get away with murder, because they end up making so much money that the UFC can't control them.

The only other strategy that could be employed would be to 100% ban fighters from getting title shots if they aren't active. But again, the UFC shoot themselves in the foot, because time and time again they give title shots to guys that sit out and wait for title shots. Same with champions. They should start stripping champions that have been inactive for 8 months, not 1 year. But again the UFC can't help but pussy out when it comes to high profile fighters.

At the end of the day, until the UFC are willing to metaphorically abduct Conor McGregor and give him 50 lashes in Times Square, then nothing will change.

 

[yookfarb]

The strange thing is that training camps seem to be getting shorter too.

 

[_manhattan]

Why is it the standard to fight two times a year? Seems like everyone does it once they become contenders/champs. I believe fighters should be forced to fight 3 times a year unless they have a documented injury forbidding them from doing so. The UFC needs to come down harder on this shit and rule with an iron fist ffs.

Retardedest take ever.

 

[theincognito]

Contraction was not the argument being made, fights per year was.

We can't run a weekly event now, doing it with 1/3rd of the roster sounds like a hot mess.

Your math is not mathing.

There are roughly 500 UFC fights per year (1000 fighter slots). Since there are currently about 600 UFC fighters, fighters are averaging only 1.6 fights per year.

By getting that average up to 3 fights per year (which would mean just 1 extra fight for most), the roster could easily be cut in half to 300.

That would be extremely doable.

Where you were wrong: Cutting the roster to 300 would be a reduction of 1/2, not 2/3.

 

[_manhattan]

Why is it the standard to fight two times a year? Seems like everyone does it once they become contenders/champs. I believe fighters should be forced to fight 3 times a year unless they have a documented injury forbidding them from doing so. The UFC needs to come down harder on this shit and rule with an iron fist ffs.

Dumbest take ever.

Say if your retarded idea were even possible, do you know what it'd cost for paying all champs, and say the top three contenders in each division, to fight 3x a year? Where is all this extra money coming from, seeing as they run events almost every weekend already?

 

[BowserJr]

Why is it the standard to fight two times a year? Seems like everyone does it once they become contenders/champs. I believe fighters should be forced to fight 3 times a year unless they have a documented injury forbidding them from doing so. The UFC needs to come down harder on this shit and rule with an iron fist ffs.

It should be in their contracts. Maybe as champ make it 2x per year

Also they should not know who theyre fighting until 6 weeks out at most

 

[Gref]

Dumbest take ever.

Say if your retarded idea were even possible, do you know what it'd cost for paying all champs, and say the top three contenders in each division, to fight 3x a year? Where is all this extra money coming from, seeing as they run events almost every weekend already?

If the champ fights 3x per year that's only like 300K max. UFC don't pay shit.

 

[USCinSC890]

Counting the 3 women's divisions there are 11 titles, plus the "BMF title", that's 2 title matches a month to headline monthly PPVs... fill all of these other on ABC, on ESPN cards with veterans and contenders for headliners. However, like someone said, saving particular fighters for cards based on countries and demographics, plus injuries, contract disputes makes this not pan out in reality. The on ABC and on ESPN cards you can fill with prospects, vets and contenders, I wouldn't have a problem with it if it ran that way, yet it doesn't.

 

[Tito Tapped]

Your math is not mathing.

There are roughly 500 UFC fights per year (1000 fighter slots). Since there are currently about 600 UFC fighters, fighters are averaging only 1.6 fights per year.

By getting that average up to 3 fights per year (which would mean just 1 extra fight for most), the roster could easily be cut in half to 300.

That would be extremely doable.

Where you were wrong: Cutting the roster to 300 would be a reduction of 1/2, not 2/3.

600 is not correct, it's closer to 900. Which makes all the math work.

 

[Tweak896]

Really makes you think, UFC has to offer 3 fights a year yet we see so many take 2 or less.... someone is rejecting fights. Or like people here try and cover for them and say "they are making smart career moves".

Seriously though there is so much ducking, taking forever to train a camp for a fight, injuries day of, missing weight, rank squatting, cutting enormous weight, and people willing to wait around as contenders for titleshots. The UFC has regressed. It was so much better when guys used to have to make their mark and they get scooped up the rankings.

 

[LeBron]

Dumbest take ever.

Say if your retarded idea were even possible, do you know what it'd cost for paying all champs, and say the top three contenders in each division, to fight 3x a year? Where is all this extra money coming from, seeing as they run events almost every weekend already?

Wouldn’t better cards equal more money? Rather than the shit watered down ones we constantly get.

 

[Oscar Madison]

5 Year Model.

Fight on avg every 7 months. That's a 5-9 month window between each fight for variables like injuries, waiting for opponent, timing PPV, etc.

5 years (60 months) is approx 8 Fights (avg of 56 months).

That should be enough to sort out Fighter Rankings and keep the Line moving.

Fighters that want more time off are tossed out of the Top 10.

 

[cws80us]

We're lucky to get twice a year these days. Aspinall hasn't fought in almost a year. Khamzat hasn't fought in 9 months. Islam has fought 7 times in 5 years.

 

[theincognito]

600 is not correct, it's closer to 900. Which makes all the math work.

The number is 597 (rounded to 600).

That's what the roster page says.

 

[whocares]

I fight just about every weekend. Sometimes more if my wife is getting lippy. These guys are huge primadonnas.

 

[Streeter]

You're LUCKY if the Russian and Russian affiliates fight twice a year many times ita once. Mak fighting twice is considered very active lol.


I agree unless Injury it should be 3 times - less than twice without significant injury should be stripped

 

[Robbocop]

Iron Mike Tyson:

Fought 18 times in first year of fighting (March 6 1985 to March 6 1986)

Fought 10 times in second year of fighting (March 6 1986 to March 6 1987)

Fought 28 times in first two years of fighting (March 6 1985 to March 6 1987)

Became the WBC heavyweight world champion in his 28th fight, age 20. Mike Tyson stands at 5’10.

 

[Tweak896]

5 Year Model.

Fight on avg every 7 months. That's a 5-9 month window between each fight for variables like injuries, waiting for opponent, timing PPV, etc.

5 years (60 months) is approx 8 Fights (avg of 56 months).

That should be enough to sort out Fighter Rankings and keep the Line moving.

Fighters that want more time off are tossed out of the Top 10.

Except we've seen guys who've had 2 rematches in 5 years. So 8 fights turns into really 6 or less. I like Usman, but he's a great example, fought Colby, Masvidal, Leon 2x, and Buckley/Burns once in 5 years. 8 WW fights, 5 different fighters. That's including when he was active as a champ fighting 3x in 1 year.

 

[orca]

Alex showed us what a good relationship with a champ could be, alas

We are stuck with these divas...

if we where in alex shoes we all would do the same tbh
now imagine if he rematched jan then after that he fought ankalaev
you need a special ufc treatment as well to fighr fighters that you have advantage over