Stacked UFC cards are dead?

[chinarice]

All 3 cards would rank easily as top 10-15 most stacked cards in UFC history lmao. Easily to me anyways.

Shows you how abyssmal the UFC is that X would be a top10 card. Sweet jesus that card is decent at best.

 

[Natural Order]

It's sad how many of you need massive hype and flashy marketing to even be intrested in events anymore.

When everything has become cookie-cutter, uninteresting slop, you need promotion more than ever.

Fights used to sell themselves back in the day. Hype was organic.

The entire thing became too watered down with simpletons thinking MMA needed to sit alongside team sports and other non-violent sports. It's laughable what it is today. Defending it is WILD to me.

 

[Lionheart7167]

As long as the roster is as big as it's been and the UFC continues to put on events weekly or bi-weekly, we won't see stacked cards outside of special events (A white house card, fight island, special numbered events). There's no financial incentive and they don't have the amount of interesting, high-yield fighters that they used to

 

[LordHellraiser]

Disagree. UFC Winnipeg is stacked. I mean Mallott/Burns main event is tough to beat!

 

[Deceasedxo]

Whether a card is stacked or not is subjective.

 

[Trabaho]

Cards felt stacked cause there were 5x less fighters. So we cared about all of them.

 

[SamboPunch]

Cards have been getting way better lately..... so no, I don't think they are quite dead yet. We just had a killer card on paper and for real not too long ago in January.

 

[Tito Tapped]

When everything has become cookie-cutter, uninteresting slop, you need promotion more than ever.

Fights used to sell themselves back in the day. Hype was organic.

The entire thing became too watered down with simpletons thinking MMA needed to sit alongside team sports and other non-violent sports. It's laughable what it is today. Defending it is WILD to me.

Whats wild is your on a niche MMA message board at 7am telling us you need millions of dollars in marketing bullshit to care and that makes you somehow superior to other fans.

Buddy, you are the simpleton here.

 

[Russie]

We've talked a lot in recent years about how few stacked cards we were getting. I don't expect much to change either way with the Paramount partnership. They still have all these cards they must put on so marquee names are going to be spread out. Number of stars are dwindling. It's a large roster with many just clustered in middle in terms name and face awareness barely distinguishable.

For the numbered cards we're lucky to have strong main and co-main nowadays. The main event has to carry cards. I remember PPV events where I almost had as much interest in fights under the main and co-main because they were just that good. I'm hoping for the days to come where we can have multiple stacked cards a year. Right now I wouldn't bet on the much talked about WH card being stacked.

 

[KO Shotz]

Back in the day it was a smaller roster with less fights a year. Now a days it's a bigger roster with more fights going on. Ya some cards are weak, but there are far more stacked cards a year than there are weak cards if you're a true fan & know what the hell is going on. Imo, there were some fight nights that were far better than PPV's. Paramount or PPV the roster still bigger than it ever has been. Household names aren't the only thing entertaining about the UFC.

 

[Killer Kadoogan]

the days of them doing that are long-gone, it's not coming back ever. it's done, they don't need to try hard anymore to make / secure money and contracts.

it's completely done. they haven't done that since the ZUFFA days, it's literally over.

it' time to embrace the future, watered down cards, roster bloat, maybe 1-2 good fights a card, and constantly bitching when sean strickland opens his mouth and complaining about how a white house card, that isn't even happening, is somehow a turd stain on the diarrhea bowl that makes up CTE cage fighting. it's all retarded. as we argue with each other on a dying messageboard that knee capped itself.

this is modern MMA. and it's only going to get worse.

 

[Dagestanaev]

I do appreciate the improved situation with being able to watch the old fights and see all events by just paying for one streaming service rather than Fight Pass, ESPN + AND the cost of PPVs.

Nonetheless, it is hard to miss the obvious take on (what were previously) PPVs since the start of the year- the numbered events (that would have been PPVs) have dropped from usually having at least 2-3 top-draw fights to only having 1. This has been true of what we've had so far this year AND what is scheduled if you look through coming events.

With a similar number of events as last year paired with lower quality cards, similar low pay for MMA fighters, and the inclusion of boxing, it seems like a setup for slowing the growth of the sport- there will be fewer quality fighters as incentives disappear.

Are stacked cards extinct, or so rare that they are nearly irrelevant? How far will this go and what effect with the continued dilution of UFC cards have on the sport long-term? Is the lack of incentive for the UFC to put on big-buy PPV cards actually going to end up shrinking the sport in terms of quality?

While I like a lot of things about the new model, I am also unsure whether it will be a good thing for the sport or an inflection point to deeper degradation.

What do you all think? How will this play out?

Yes. They turn boxing like