If UFC suddenly disapeared tomorrow...

[Davemeddlehed]

True, but those who buy UFC, wouldn't need to start from a scratch.

They would if we're dealing in the context of this thread's hypothetical. The thread specifies "what if the UFC disappeared tomorrow?"

 

[My name is]

life goes on no matter what sport or league goes away

 

[DaleBoca]

I still would have world football, NHL, NBA, tennis, and MOTO GP. Not to mention, there is other organizations you can tune in, eventually one will be the staple of the sport.

But lets be honest here, if a UFC event is going on and Shawshank is on AMC, we're watching Shawshank.

 

[HDKIKR]

Well to be fair at least in MMA they actually hit eachother before they fall to the ground

 

[Sudoistehgoat]

Would the general population care?

There'd probably some alarm/outrage but we'd move on pretty quick.

It'd be a whole different story if it was the NFL, NBA, MLB etc.

Back to watching K1 re runs lol

 

[RhinoRush]

For sure.

Having the best fighters in different orgs. is awesome.

The UFC vs PRIDE era was the golden age of MMA imo, so actually, yeah, having competition is awesome.

 

[Th3PlainTruth**]

There are other orgs out there.

We'd just gravitate towards those.

Yeah but it would suck...as corrupt as the UFC is, its the quickest fix to watch really great fighters and is easily accessible. Other orgs, Bellator, etc doesnt have the advertising power (over doing it sometimes aka Ronda) so you can miss some really good fights and figthers without them.

It would also take some time for the other UFC fighters to migrate to other orgs.
UFC is an instant fix...not necessarily a good one, but...i guess well see when the Chinese take over.