Making a WMMA/WNBA Comparison Here

[Leonard Haid]

Game 5 of the WNBA Finals

 

[Gabe]

Invicta was really good for what it was worth. In the sense that women fighters had their spotlight while the men had theirs.

 

[Elvis.]

Ok , I’ll be the bad guy
So let me draw a comparison to a sport I know more about , in hockey there are realistically 6 teams that can win a world tournament Canada , USA ,Russia , Sweden Finland & Czech Republic.
So when you watch a women’s tournament involving those 6 teams it’s not bad , whenever they’ve tried to start a women’s league before they want 10 or 12 or 14 teams ,,,,, you don’t have enough high level girls to make 12 teams you have enough to make 6 , so now they’ve started a new league with 6 teams and it’s not bad , maybe the wnba doesn’t have enough players to have 12 teams , that’s part of why it’s pretty terrible.
To support my insane ramblings I would just like to point out the men’s nhl was 6 teams for the first 40 years

 

[franquito]

 

[Leonard Haid]

Ok , I’ll be the bad guy
So let me draw a comparison to a sport I know more about , in hockey there are realistically 6 teams that can win a world tournament Canada , USA ,Russia , Sweden Finland & Czech Republic.
So when you watch a women’s tournament involving those 6 teams it’s not bad , whenever they’ve tried to start a women’s league before they want 10 or 12 or 14 teams ,,,,, you don’t have enough high level girls to make 12 teams you have enough to make 6 , so now they’ve started a new league with 6 teams and it’s not bad , maybe the wnba doesn’t have enough players to have 12 teams , that’s part of why it’s pretty terrible.
To support my insane ramblings I would just like to point out the men’s nhl was 6 teams for the first 40 years

"it's pretty terrible"

Agree.

 

[Pitier of Fools]

WNBA players are generally better at basketball than WMMA fighters are at fighting.

Of course there are some very skilled female fighters, but speaking in generalities, the above statement is true.

 

[Leonard Haid]

WNBA players are generally better at basketball than WMMA fighters are at fighting.

Of course there are some very skilled female fighters, but speaking in generalities, the above statement is true.

That's one of the worst condemnations of WMMA that I've ever heard.

 

[Blanqa Blanqua]

WNBA players are generally better at basketball than WMMA fighters are at fighting.

Of course there are some very skilled female fighters, but speaking in generalities, the above statement is true.

WNBA players could whip me at basketball.

WMMA fighters could never whoop my ass.






I don't know if that is relative to the discussion or not.

 

[Only Here for Attachments]

Invicta was really good for what it was worth. In the sense that women fighters had their spotlight while the men had theirs.

I liked Invicta, too. Shame UFC gutted it.

 

[Leonard Haid]

WNBA players could whip me at basketball.

WMMA fighters could never whoop my ass.






I don't know if that is relative to the discussion or not.

This either suggests:

- That you are a better fighter than you are a basketball player, or
- That WMMA is even worse than I thought.

 

[BrockLesnarsTurtleBack]

Ok , I’ll be the bad guy
So let me draw a comparison to a sport I know more about , in hockey there are realistically 6 teams that can win a world tournament Canada , USA ,Russia , Sweden Finland & Czech Republic.
So when you watch a women’s tournament involving those 6 teams it’s not bad , whenever they’ve tried to start a women’s league before they want 10 or 12 or 14 teams ,,,,, you don’t have enough high level girls to make 12 teams you have enough to make 6 , so now they’ve started a new league with 6 teams and it’s not bad , maybe the wnba doesn’t have enough players to have 12 teams , that’s part of why it’s pretty terrible.
To support my insane ramblings I would just like to point out the men’s nhl was 6 teams for the first 40 years

In hockey the best women's national teams (Usa and Canada) lose bad when they play against u15 kids.

 

[joy2day]

WNBA players are generally better at basketball than WMMA fighters are at fighting.

Of course there are some very skilled female fighters, but speaking in generalities, the above statement is true.

Agreed. Talent is denser because there are a lot of girls that play basketball, and few that do combat sports.

I don't spend loads of time watching the WNBA, but there are 40% 3-point shooters in the WNBA; that video is 1 minute plucked out to make their game look bad in an exaggerated way. A video could also show them going back and forth hitting 3-pointers as that happens too.

 

[Pitier of Fools]

Agreed. Talent is denser because there are a lot of girls that play basketball, and few that do combat sports.

I don't spend loads of time watching the WNBA, but there are 40% 3-point shooters in the WNBA; that video is 1 minute plucked out to make their game look bad in an exaggerated way. A video could also show them going back and forth hitting 3-pointers as that happens too.

Yeah, you could cherrypick 1 minute of WMMA and do the same thing.

 

[misterfurious]

I don't spend loads of time watching the WNBA, but there are 40% 3-point shooters in the WNBA;

That’s because they’re using a smaller ball.

 

[joy2day]

That’s because they’re using a smaller ball.

Yeah, any size of ball takes a lot of skill to hit 40% from the free throw line. The lighter weight would actually throw my shot off.

 

[PeterGriffin]

Invicta was really good for what it was worth. In the sense that women fighters had their spotlight while the men had theirs.

I liked Invicta because it gave people who enjoy WMMA an avenue to watch it... without me having to watching something I don't particularly care for.

WNBA players are generally better at basketball than WMMA fighters are at fighting.

Of course there are some very skilled female fighters, but speaking in generalities, the above statement is true.

In hockey the best women's national teams (Usa and Canada) lose bad when they play against u15 kids.

That's because most of the 15 year olds boys are still bigger, faster, stronger and more skilled.

Don't get me wrong, of all the professional women's team sports, hockey is the only one I really like watching or look forward to, and the Canadian and American Olympic/world women's teams always turn into gritty, close games... there are rarely blowouts.

Two things I have always wanted to see Olympic hockey use the World Juniors teams instead of the pros (preferably), and to allow countries like Canada, the US, Sweden, Finland, Russia etc.. those countries that could ice an independent second team, should be allowed to do it.

The world juniors is always top quality hockey, and every 4th year would be like having two Juniors tournaments.

 

[checktheknuckles]

That's one of the worst condemnations of WMMA that I've ever heard.

And its 100% true. All the real women talent are all on only fans. Leaving the left overs for the wnba and then what may be left from that is what makes up wmma.

 

[Leonard Haid]

Yeah, you could cherrypick 1 minute of WMMA and do the same thing.

The point joy2day made about that is that cherrypicking presents a biased perspective, thus not representative of the whole, whether it's my WNBA video or your WMMA video above. The girl in the red (Alexis Davis) was at one point THE NUMBER TWO WMMA FLYWEIGHT IN THE UFC.

 

[Dr. Rose]

Yeah, you could cherrypick 1 minute of WMMA and do the same thing.

Allegedly that was Cyborg's handpicked opponent before Nunes. Dana said "no."

 

[tritestill]

This thread is hilarious