News MMA Trade Alert: Team Dubai trades Rockhold for Team L.A.'s Grant Neil...worst sports trade in the last week?

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Apparently there are more G. Neils in MMA than I thought

 

[HHJ]

Im sorry but...


I cant give a fuck about any of this.


Even if you didnt have a bunch of over the hill guys no other org wants....


TEAM MMA is never gonna work. IFL tried it and it failed.

 

[Thesnake101]

I think we've already seen it play out successfully in real life.

The Monday night wars in pro wrestling. WWF caught and overtook the rich WCW, eventually.

Every Saturday, two simultaneous cards the viewers can switch between would work. Would they want one card and then the other? No, I agree, nobody has time for that. But every promotion has 'toilet break fights', and that's what you'd have to target.

Saturday night MMA wars. It is the ONLY way to compete with the UFC. There is no alternative, that's the one. Target the weak fights with bangers. Heck, people today will split screen that shit. They do it already with boxing events etc.

And why is it possible? Because as you said, UFC is quantity over quality. That right there is why the door has been left open. Just a little bit, but it's open and there to be attacked.

Yes, it would cost an enormous amount of money, but it's the one chance any of these guys have got to compete. Go to war.

You're referring to something that happened 3 decades ago, in a different setting with an org that had decades of history behind it and more financial power than any MMA org looking to play second fiddle to the UFC. It's not a smart investment, especially because you're counting on casual viewers to care about anything other than brand recognition.

Toilet break fights happen? Yeah, and in the year 2025 the viewers have the ability to look into their phone and distract themselves with anything else, shit I wouldn't be surprised if most UFC fans watch the better part of the events as background noise instead of devoting their full attention to it.

You're living in a different era, man. You wanna know how big and powerful the UFC is? The owner slapped his wife and didn't get suspended, a fighter proclaimed his love for Hitler and didn't get suspended. They're untouchable right now, anyone with money knows that which is why you don't see new orgs popping up to and fro looking to compete, but rather have the ones that were there more than a decade ago shopping around a dwindling pool of investors before having to just throw in the towel.

 

[Koala]

They should have added 1st round picks and 2nd round picks for the next years to make it more funny
Funny that MMA Media acts like it is something real, like if Wanderlei and Velasquez had a call to negotiate the trade

 

[Siver!]

You're referring to something that happened 3 decades ago, in a different setting with an org that had decades of history behind it and more financial power than any MMA org looking to play second fiddle to the UFC. It's not a smart investment, especially because you're counting on casual viewers to care about anything other than brand recognition.

Toilet break fights happen? Yeah, and in the year 2025 the viewers have the ability to look into their phone and distract themselves with anything else, shit I wouldn't be surprised if most UFC fans watch the better part of the events as background noise instead of devoting their full attention to it.

You're living in a different era, man. You wanna know how big and powerful the UFC is? The owner slapped his wife and didn't get suspended, a fighter proclaimed his love for Hitler and didn't get suspended. They're untouchable right now, anyone with money knows that which is why you don't see new orgs popping up to and fro looking to compete, but rather have the ones that were there more than a decade ago shopping around a dwindling pool of investors before having to just throw in the towel.

Seems like you've gone off on a tangent, Sherbro. None of this really affects the fact that in sports, like for like scheduling is the most effective form of competition - not gimmicks about leagues and cups that we know don't work or garner interest.

Not really sure what the size of the challenge has to do with it. Seems like we're not really discussing what strategy would work anymore and just fault finding.

 

[jeff7b9]

No they don't, lmao. There's a reason why so many orgs have gone out of business trying to compete with the UFC.

In North America people only care about MMA so long as it has the UFC branding. Even picking up some free agents/UFC names doesn't work out, ask Bellator for a more recent example. They replaced Rebney with Coker to try and grow the brand, did away with tourneys for a while and picked up legitimate ranked fighters like Gegard, Benson, Larkin, Bader to name a few. Ended deep in the red every year, brought back tournaments in a last-ditch effort to turn a profit and that failed miserably.

The only time Bellator was in the green was when DAZN overestimated their value, otherwise they just lost money and viewers.

UFC puts on way too much MMA for casual viewers to care about anything else. Only exceptions are the overseas orgs who cater towards their regions, like KSW or Rizin. And they both have gimmicks.

UFC has a monopoly lock down on MMA

They have literally swallowed up every org that tried to compete with them.

They have the MMA media by the balls.
They have some sort of deal with ESPN.

It is a wrap.

 

[Neck&Neck]

I trully wonder how much they pay Ariel to keep pushing their lies about this promotion. They dont have funds and contracts are comical...+ they're lying about signings.

Who did they lie about signing?
I remember you mentioned Paddy before
But I looked that up on the day you said they signed and there is no mention of that anywhere on their socials or in any news media

 

[usernamee]

This is essentially a regular promotion playing a fake sports league