MMA has basically stopped evolving in the last 10 years

The issue for the slow growth... there's still growth ..is the sport is too focused on the physical advantages vs the skills because of the allowance of Weight cutting ...

The game has been skewed .. whats the point of weight classes if no1 is actually that weight... Should just be open weight at this point if your gunna have HWs fighting at MW and Mws fighting at LW...

And

Because of this ...camps are about 80% getting down to water cut weight from walking around weight and maybe 20% skill development and MMA skill growth .

This is a mistake alot of guys and gyms are making because skill can over come weight differences...Royce taught us that in the first UFCs and weight cutting works best in singular combat sports ...weve seen many guys have issues with making weight or becoming chinny as fuck because with 3 combat sports coming together is already hard enough no need to be super dehydrated as well ..

Its slow evolution is a bi product of weight cutting
 
Vil7 said:
Kicking technique in mma is still pretty crude & basic. There's a lot of room for improvement there.
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Imo the biggest progression in striking technique will emerge from organisations like Onefc as there mma fighters are exposed to high level Mua Thai on a regular basis.
 
fortheo said:
The level of grappling in the ufc today is not light years ahead of what it was 10 years ago. I'd make the argument that the grappling level in the ufc is worse today than it was 10 years ago, but that the striking is better than ever. Ten years ago divisions used to be littered with div 1 wrestlers and BJJ black belts, now you get a random one here and there and a russian guy. The few good grapplers in the ufc today look like the best ever because the ufc hires so little grapplers that there's no real competition for the good ones that they do sign (in regards to grappling).
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Division 1 wrestling and BJJ black belt used to mean something else back then, and just like MMA the wrestlers and BJJ guys today are better than 10 years ago. Today there are a lot of fighters who don't have grappling backgrounds who can hang with anyone, you expect most fighters to have a black belt and know how to wrestle. The pure grapplers are light years ahead compared to 10 years ago too, the specialists are always going to have an advantage in their field, but in this day and age you don't need a grappling background, the average bare minimum level of skill is much higher across the board
 
SkinnyClaw said:
Division 1 wrestling and BJJ black belt used to mean something else back then, and just like MMA the wrestlers and BJJ guys today are better than 10 years ago. Today there are a lot of fighters who don't have grappling backgrounds who can hang with anyone, you expect most fighters to have a black belt and know how to wrestle. The pure grapplers are light years ahead compared to 10 years ago too, the specialists are always going to have an advantage in their field, but in this day and age you don't need a grappling background, the average bare minimum level of skill is much higher across the board
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When you fight guys like Chimaev if you don't have grappling you're dead.
 
Woody869 said:
GSP got beat by Hendricks, who got beat by Lawler. GSP would not be champion today, probably not even in the top 5 WW. Takedown defense alone, is worlds apart from where it was 10 years ago, everybody just got better, and more well rounded. There isnt a champion from 10 years ago that would be champion now other than JJ, and that’s because he evolved with the sport.
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Woodley got beat by Shields who got beat by GSP. I think he’d be fine in the era that followed, or this one for that matter.
 
Bballfan123 said:
Half the roster is Dagestani. They and you haveto realize the average American can't pronounce souffle or enchilada correctly. They simply won't watch

Magomed Gulidhastov
Vs
Usriye Magomedov

It's just not western culture unfortunately. We lose interest if we aren't the best or close to it.

UFC can't be 90% Russian grapplers or it will unfortunately lose too much money
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i'm not saying that's the way to make the most money, i'm saying those guys are integral to MMA's meta changing. i'm not even saying these guys would be champions, but they give different looks that you won't get anywhere else. besides that, that's just one example, they can't get many college wrestlers in America either. what i'm saying is GRAPPLERS are needed in order to change things as they are now. i can't remember a time that had less grapplers in it in basically every division.

markg171 said:
Those random guys are getting knocked the fuck out every now and then or have styles like drying wet paint. That's why the UFC and others don't give a fuck.

The ones doing well like Khabib, Islam, Usman, etc., all coincidentally are splitting their training with teams like AKA that are teaching them how to strike so they're actually great in both areas.
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i'm not saying they will be champions, but you need grapplers from ANYWHERE to balance the divisions out otherwise it just becomes who is the best striker. it makes everything in MMA better when there is a balance of styles.
 
I dont know about "evolution" bit it did improve in athleticism, estrategy and output, obviously more noticeably in lightest weightclasses specially females
 
Bruce Lee666 said:
The problem it's The Grappling you have to choose carefully the kicks if you don't want be takedown, Have High Risky throw a kick against a Elite Grappler.
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They don’t even know how to fake a kick to set up other techniques. Striking has improved but kicking ability is still the least polished
skill in mma.
 
Vil7 said:
They don’t even know how to fake a kick to set up other techniques. Striking has improved but kicking ability is still the least polished
skill in mma.
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What ? The game evolved, Even Masters of Karate like Lyoto say MMA it's always evolving.

Not every kick can work in mma because grappling but we have nice kicks.
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Woody869 said:
GSP got beat by Hendricks, who got beat by Lawler. GSP would not be champion today, probably not even in the top 5 WW. Takedown defense alone, is worlds apart from where it was 10 years ago, everybody just got better, and more well rounded. There isnt a champion from 10 years ago that would be champion now other than JJ, and that’s because he evolved with the sport.
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You don't post often. You should keep it that way.
 
Seahawks Fan said:
As the title says, I believe that MMA has basically stopped evolving in the last 10 years. I'm not saying that this is a good thing, just that fighters seem to have peaked about 10 or so years or go and have basically remained the same in terms of talent and ability.

The best evidence for this is that if you go back 10 years and look at the champions they are as good or better than the champions of today.

In 2013 the UFC had champions such as GSP, DJ, Jon Jones, Benson Henderson, Chris Weidman, Cain Velasquez etc.

The prime version of any of those fighters would be a champion in today's UFC or would be in serious contention. And if you go down the rankings the fighters from then are comparable to the fighters today.

My feeling is that we have pretty much hit the peak in terms of the evolution of fighters. The fighters we've seen in the last 10 years are pretty much as good as they'll ever be.
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Its pretty much the opposite technically speaking...nobody was able to throw a jab, lowkicks were pratically non existent etc...
 
I don't think so. The overall skillset of today's fighters are better than the ones in the past. Even GSP's meta of staying in someone's guard and just can opening with one hand and elbowing with the other isn't seen anymore.
 
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