Let's face it, the UFC cannot put together PPV worthy cards anymore

[Kinger85]

I will say that they can't put TWELVE ppv cards on per year.

Cut it down to 6 or 8 a year. Build them up more. Make them feel more special. Right now they feel more like a monthly obligation.

 

[herra]

Their genuine starpower is over the hill or on the sidelines (Lesnar, GSP, Jones, Conor, Rousey etc)

Injuries ruin at least 30 percent of planned cards

With what's left, the fightcards are getting weaker and weaker

The PPV cost should be going down not up

It don't matter to me. I love the sport and will continue to support it through the good and bad times.

 

[herra]

I will say that they can't put TWELVE ppv cards on per year.

Cut it down to 6 or 8 a year. Build them up more. Make them feel more special. Right now they feel more like a monthly obligation.

I'm interested in hearing some specific approaches on how the UFC can build up their fighters.

 

[superpunch]

I'm shocked that there are still bars showing the average quality and less cards. They get like no business. There's no way the business they get is enough to make up for the cost of those PPVs.

 

[superpunch]

The injury thing is really strange how frequenti t got over the past few 3-4 years. I don't know if it's weight cutting, over training or what but it's bad.

However the UFC also messed up by putting all of their eggs into one basket with Conor. They made him larger than life and diminished the rest of their stars in the process, especially in terms of mainstream appeal

It's higher pay checks and health insurance. Guys can afford to not fight and can also afford their medical bills.

We're lucky that most of the best fighters in second-tier organizations that are exciting right now are from America, Russia, and Brazil. If they were from countries with quality universal health coverage, they'd be pulling out as often as guys do in the UFC.

 

[superpunch]

I'm interested in hearing some specific approaches on how the UFC can build up their fighters.

Recruit the best fighters in the world at heavier weight classes and don't let them ruin their star build up process by pulling out of fights and getting injured.

No one gives a fuck about women and 125ers. People give much less of a fuck about classes below 170. And less of a fuck about classes below 205.

Recruit guys like Minakov but do it 4-5 years ago and let him headline PPVs.

 

[herra]

Recruit the best fighters in the world at heavier weight classes and don't let them ruin their star build up process by pulling out of fights and getting injured.

No one gives a fuck about women and 125ers. People give much less of a fuck about classes below 170. And less of a fuck about classes below 205.

Recruit guys like Minakov but do it 4-5 years ago and let him headline PPVs.

Stipe should be a heavyweight star. What can he do better or what should the UFC do to help Stipe become a star.

I think the UFC is trying to appeal to a new demographic with wmma, but now that rousey's gone, no one has come in to fill the void when she left the UFC.

 

[SuperNerd]

"I was into MMA when it was cool/good" - what 50% of Sherdoggers look forward to telling their friends

 

[superpunch]

Stipe should be a heavyweight star. What can he do better or what should the UFC do to help Stipe become a star.

I think the UFC is trying to appeal to a new demographic with wmma, but now that rousey's gone, no one has come in to fill the void when she left the UFC.

He had 1 fight in all of 2017. Also had 1 fight in all of 2015.

If youre a casual fan, how are you gonna remember a name you hear once a year?

You won't.

Right now, 2x is normal and 3x is looked at as super active. UFC should be targeting guys who they want to build into stars to fight 5x a year.

We read about this shit every day but the average fan just heard a foreign sounding Eastern European once like 12 months ago. <_<

 

[herra]

He had 1 fight in all of 2017. Also had 1 fight in all of 2015.

If youre a casual fan, how are you gonna remember a name you hear once a year?

You won't.

Right now, 2x is normal and 3x is looked at as super active. UFC should be targeting guys who they want to build into stars to fight 5x a year.

We read about this shit every day but the average fan just heard a foreign sounding Eastern European once like 12 months ago. <_<

I agree. Most likely the casuals won't remember a fighter if he's not active. Most fighters can benefit to by being active on social media. i follow stipe on social media, and he has a fight with D.C. Coming up. he has absolutely no content about the fight. No training videos, no content that takes his followers on journey with him to the fight). I don't know if it's Stipe, his management, or the UFC but someone is dropping the ball. People have so many things going on in their lives they need a reminder here or there to remind them not just 2 weeks before the fight.

 

[itz reggie]

Its a new generation of fighters. The UFC is the most entertaining and competitive it has been in years.

 

[EGarrett]

Dana was dealing with career fighters who had sunk costs, so he could get away with being an insane douchebag and screwing them on their sponsorships and other things. But what he didn't realize is that those fighters are the ones who train the next generation, and they didn't do so, since people who don't have the sunk costs could see it wasn't worth it to deal with Dana and Reebok, and the professional fighters said the same. And so just like the WWE, his pipeline of new talent petered out and he's in deep trouble.

 

[Hrvman]

Living in Europe I just don't understand how this PPV model still works in US.

Paying 69 bucks for a live UFC event sounds insane, even more knowing you got the HD version online only a hour after the event on '' alternative '' websites.

They should at least increase fight pass's price and put there all live PPV's and make it immediately available. 20 bucks per month shall be good.

 

[Meathead Jock]

I'm shocked that there are still bars showing the average quality and less cards. They get like no business. There's no way the business they get is enough to make up for the cost of those PPVs.

I havent been able to find if their price went up 2 months ago like the household price did. I know my bar isn't showing it for about the 4th time in 3 years this weekend because they booked a local band instead. Hoping for my sake its not something they replace from their events list permanently.

 

[Hrvman]

I will say that they can't put TWELVE ppv cards on per year.

Cut it down to 6 or 8 a year. Build them up more. Make them feel more special. Right now they feel more like a monthly obligation.

This.

What made Pride so special was that you had to wait for two or three months to have a new event, you were so hyped that on fight day it feel as something special, like going to disneyland.

With UFC, I'm just lost. Is this 221 ? 222 ? 223 ? 225 and 226 already announced, hell, I'm even more shocked that my fav fighter faces Oezdemir in may and I only heard about it yesterday...

It's too much cards with poor quality.

K1 had like 15 fighters in their HW roster and has been more entertaining from 1993 to 2009, UFC should review their roster, less fighters, less weight classes, no wmma

 

[Meathead Jock]

Living in Europe I just don't understand how this PPV model still works in US.

Paying 69 bucks for a live UFC event sounds insane, even more knowing you got the HD version online only a hour after the event on '' alternative '' websites.

I live in America and I still don't know how it works. (In Junior High we used to do it for WWF, but it was Junior High so getting 5 people to bring $10 was easy, the UFC demographic is older and its tougher to pull it off on a regular basis) I'm pretty sure I need to be thankful that there are people willing to hand over that kind of money to keep the sport going strong, but at times can't help but think they are slowing down the transition to a Non-PPV format.