Hot Take Hear me out the UFC isn't dying

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it's already in rigormortis. Anyone else feel like this Paramount deal is Season 6 of the Sopranos? Where it's already over and they're just going through the motions for that one last big paycheck?

Let's face facts there are no more stars. 5 years from now whatever "stars" were left are gone or so few that they don't even matter. They just opened, Day 1, with an absolute slopfest. Their marketing is more confused than ever. I'm not saying dead for good the UFC will always exist but its future is looking more Fight Night and APEX than anything else. All the metrics point to this being a long slow exhale from a bloated corpse.

Don't let me tell you though, where is the UFC headed under Paramount long term?
 
IDK it seemed ok watching it but all day I’ve felt like something was off about the whole thing

all I can think of is mma was never meant to be a mainstream, highly commercialized sport

But nothing lasts forever I suppose



Oh & that shit you said about season 6 of the Sopranos…

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whocares said:
it's already in rigormortis. Anyone else feel like this Paramount deal is Season 6 of the Sopranos? Where it's already over and they're just going through the motions for that one last big paycheck?

Let's face facts there are no more stars. 5 years from now whatever "stars" were left are gone or so few that they don't even matter. They just opened, Day 1, with an absolute slopfest. Their marketing is more confused than ever. I'm not saying dead for good the UFC will always exist but its future is looking more Fight Night and APEX than anything else. All the metrics point to this being a long slow exhale from a bloated corpse.

Don't let me tell you though, where is the UFC headed under Paramount long term?
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So it’s not dying it’s already dead 🤣
You people are too much
 
The UFC "PPV" starting at 9 PM East and no longer requiring PPV would point in the opposite direction of it dying.

That means it is becoming more mainstream and accessible. It's much better for the consumer...
 
Shit ads everywhere instead of walkouts and stuff.

They made fight pass not worth it here. All it has now is early prelims. No main prelims or even fight night prelims. It's just a fight library of UFC early prelims going forward and other orgs lol.

The production is shit too. UFC is so much bigger than all the other orgs, yet there's regional shows thrown together in basements have cooler production than the UFC does.

UFC always mixing in shit fallout boy pop songs and shit too lol. Like wtf.

I don't know if the UFC is dying or not, but it sure is looking pretty shit.
 
whocares said:
it's already in rigormortis. Anyone else feel like this Paramount deal is Season 6 of the Sopranos? Where it's already over and they're just going through the motions for that one last big paycheck?

Let's face facts there are no more stars. 5 years from now whatever "stars" were left are gone or so few that they don't even matter. They just opened, Day 1, with an absolute slopfest. Their marketing is more confused than ever. I'm not saying dead for good the UFC will always exist but its future is looking more Fight Night and APEX than anything else. All the metrics point to this being a long slow exhale from a bloated corpse.

Don't let me tell you though, where is the UFC headed under Paramount long term?
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Ironic username and deceptively well-written. I agree UFC is in a stagnated state that doesn’t get me excited about the future.
 
I don't get paramount, why in the hell would you do this to yourself lol. A few years back (even tho it went to sh**) with Khabib Conor and alot of other stars i'd understand the move, but now? Haven't they followed the last 2-3 yrs? It's been downhill and its clear there is no coming back. There are no up and coming exciting prospects, the 1 star left in Poatan is retiring after his next fight and then its dead. What will they do? Let Sean fight a 7th time for the title and keep losing? Its dead...
 
bjjwar said:
I don't get paramount, why in the hell would you do this to yourself lol. A few years back (even tho it went to sh**) with Khabib Conor and alot of other stars i'd understand the move, but now? Haven't they followed the last 2-3 yrs? It's been downhill and its clear there is no coming back. There are no up and coming exciting prospects, the 1 star left in Poatan is retiring after his next fight and then its dead. What will they do? Let Sean fight a 7th time for the title and keep losing? Its dead...
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Because the UFC is worth billions more than 10 years ago. The fact that the UFC was reliant on guys like McGregor showed that it wasn't that big of a product. Now it doesn't need guys like that anymore.

Almost every mainstream form of entertainment revolves around brands instead of individual stars. Stars are used to build up something.
 
UFC not dying -- but gets a 6/10 for the Main Card. WMMA and BB fights were crap, Jean Silva's performance was flat, not epic violence, but I'll admit he was a good start to the Main Card. O'Malley v. Song was good not great. Justin v. Paddy was entertaining violence of a less technical era -- so fun matchup to watch, and that saved the Main Car, imho.

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I give Paramount+ a C+ knocked down from a B- for pacing of the event. As Dana said in the post-fight conference, they need to make money.

At the Casino during PPV's I'd walk around between the fights.

At home with Paramount+ I do other stuff between the fights.

The only content I focus on is the fights -- and on that level it looked familiar.

Occasionally glancing at the rest of the Paramount+ production (muted) there were the commercials and UFC festivities of Fighters and Celebrities that I ignore anyways.

Full Card Walkouts in the production? I don't care about that for every fighter. UFC should only have Production Walkouts for one or two Top fights on the Main Card. Everyone else, just get to the cage and fight.
 
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