Strategies to revive the UFC

[El Panteron]

I probably would not like the same things as MMA's core fanbase but I'd like to see it more aligned to "normal" sports as opposed to the pro wrestling-style product we see today. They could scale up the spectacle during shows rather then attempt cheap storylines.

Some suggestions:
- Tournaments.
- Seriously, tournaments.
- Outside of them, revamp the matchmaking because it's total shit.
- Bigger production value, spectacle, entrances, etc.
- Individual gear and sponsors.
- Away with the show+win structure, give full money and a smaller bonus to the winner. People may fight less cautiously
- Lager performance bonuses
- Enough with the political alignment, looks like Chechnya level shit, it's pathetic
- Take over the "narrative" side of promotion and sell your athletes, so that they don't have to do it themselves. They are morons. They are not doing a good job.
- Fuck these BMF and interim titles, with them and their shit matchmaking the belts hold no value anymore. This has to change.
- Find a way to reduce weight cutting, or even better eliminate it.
- Change the damn gloves to help reduce eye pokes.
- Think about having a B-show or developemental territory to park all this low level talent, to showcase at the Apex.
- Have torunaments in ring and tournaments in the octagon, you can let different kinds of athletes thrive and move forward the tradition of the sport.

Changes outside the UFC's reach:
- Ruleset needs to be consistent and needs some tweaks.
- Scoring system needs to change to see rounds as a unit rather than divided by time, effort to finish the fight needs to be emphasised
- Reffing needs to be more consistent and more harsh. Too much free cheating.
- Judges and refs need to be accountable when fucking up.
- Add two to four judges, 5 or 7 will fuck up less than 3 for obvious reasons.

 

[PaddyO'malley]

Dana focus on di big moneymakers like slaps an' boxin'
Hunter a tek ova di UFC
More flavors a Nina Drama lets get sum Latinas an' Asians coverin' di sport (don't @ me wid Helen Yee she mamasan status now)


An change di event structure likkle bit:

Held weekly:
Man-Slammin' Mondays: 6 men's mma scraps, unranked scrappers an' professional huggers
Wimmenz scraps Wednesdays: 3 WMMA scraps
DWCS: 3 scraps, Hunter only got like 1-2 contracts each week fi build suspense

Women separate but still get di "same" exposure
Watchin' scrubs an' wall an' stall pacifists is optional
Steady flow of prospects wid opportunity fi build dem up

12 big events per year: 8 scraps, 6 men's MMA 2 women 2 title scraps
-Three prelims only top 10-15 or mandem / gyaldem wid mad hype or OF
-Main card got 5 quality matchups all title scraps title eliminators an' top-ranked bangerz

Supports a roster of 450 scrappin' 2.5x/yr plus sum floaters
Built-in plausible deniability fi equality talk
Regular as clockwork easy fi plan beer runs


Hunter lmk if yuh hirin' fam mi available 12pm - 3pm LAX time mon-weds HMU

 

[mjoln]

If you revive crushed zombie is it still living dead or do we get original motherfucker?

 

[bng]

- Increase popularity with no investments by sharing free streaming links. Develop 3rd party streaming market.

- Replace commentating team with better quality stand-up comedians/podcasters/youtubers.

- Fighters are allowed to fight with anything they are able to bring up in their pants. Good starters are pocket sand to temporarily blind your opponent or a knife.
- Fighters are allowed to use anything they can get themselves. Every 5 fights enhanced fighter gets special jacket from U-PED-A.

- To avoid any controversial fight endings, advancing fighter should pin up his opponent so referee can count up to three. If bottom fighter breaks the pin - fight goes on.

- To avoid controversial decisions judges are replaced by online voting. One user can vote more than once if buys additional votes or using another device.

- Winning fighter can perform finishing move such as BRUTALITY, FATALITY or BEASTIALITY.

- MIXED martial arts. Support feminism dissolving wmma divisions into men's. Woman vs. man.

- Allow fighters have more personality: fighters are able to wear whatever they want - Halloween costumes, masks, etc.

 

[HuskySamoan]

1. Cut all women's MMA, bring back Invicta.

2. Create a draft/combine for prospects and sign talent off of merit, or even onto the contender series off of merit and not nationality quotas, fighting styles or marketability.

3. Sign free agents that are elite outside the UFC. This will also help with the mass contender shortage in most divisions.

4. Pay fighters more money, 18% of revenue is insane. Make it even just 35%

5. Leave ESPN

6. Take the UFC abroad more often to build markets like Tibilsi, Tashkent, Paris etc. Where the existing talent and interest is there.

7. Make better media that focuses on the fighters in interesting, less cookie cutter ways and less on the grand itself through formulaic nonsense.

8. Leave Endeavor/Silverlake.

 

[Fergelmince]

Change the annual schedule to have an off-season. Running it year-round guarantees at least one shitty card every month (or more), and it destroys any cycle of enthusiasm within the fanbase with no end-of-season payoff. An off-season would give every fighter a chance to heal up from the previous year, get surgeries, change camps if needed, and it would create a heightened enthusiasm amongst the fanbase that the UFC seriously lacks at this stage in their "evolution." Schedule the off-season over several months to include Ramadan, considering the sport is getting overwhelmed with the goat-herder crowd. Then they can't use Ramadan as an excuse to duck bad match ups or hold up the division.

 

[Reapzz]

This actually sounds kinda dope fr tho lool

- Fire the following people:

• Dana White
• Hunter Campbell
• Sean Shelby
• Mick Maynard
• Joe Rogan
• Daniel Cormier
• Michael Bisping
• Paul Felder

- Dissolve TKO Holdings

- Cut 60% of the roster

- Reduce PPV prices by 65%

- Have 2 events per month

- Allow all PEDs

 

[markg171]

Literally just get rid of the Apex cards. They give the UFC the sense that audience doesn’t matter to cards when it’s the complete opposite. You have to make cards people want to see. Even if it’s a small audience.

Even something as simple as going back to smaller Vegas venues that are only like 2000 capacity would vastly improve quality. Go back 20 years and look at the cards held in the Hard Rock and it’s night and day what we get these days. Ticket sales matter.

 

[PaulieVegas27]

(1) Fire Dana White
(2) Fire Dana White
(3) Fire Dana White

 

[trinerigelado2]

If you are going to have apex cards make them young gun cards not 14 vs 12 main event because you need a main event , 3 journeyman fights and two guys who are 0-2 in the ufc at 31 and 34 opening the card. make it apex cards are the proving grounds for the next generation of fighters and even announce every once in a while after a fighter has won when they have been getting a few wins and develop a name that there are getting a big fight on a ppv

Actual pay attention to fights that fans want. people want to see yair vs lopez nah Yair should get a title shot no one that he's remotely earned or think he can win and then have Movsar who's the clear top contender cand fight Pico who would't be considered top 5 in the PFL right now instead of giving him the shot. Why book Belal vs garry when if buckley wins belal vs usman and buckley vs garry would make more sense.

Quit being so stingy with guys who have options Vartanyan, Parnasse, Vakhitov all could have been signed pretty much by what Soldic was offered i realize PFL and one can't offer the same as two years ago but ACA, KSW, Glory, Oktagon, BKFC, and Karate Kombat are all options, So you might have to offer a few more contracts that aren't normal entry level contracts.

Actually drop guys down in the Rankings for losing and inactivity chandler, gaejthe, rakic, Yair, etc.. never have to risk and up and comer because as long as you just fight ranked guys you only drop one spot for a loss and sometimes you don't drop at all a lot of prime guys in some of the divisions are unable to break the glass ceiling because why should 7 fight unranked when they can fight 6 lose for the third time drop to 8 while some unranked guy wins his 5th in a row in the Ufc to another streaking guy and still can't get ranked. The UFC encourages rank squatting and its so easy to fix.

Encourage fighters to engage with mma content creators more and not just the approved ones like Bisping, chael, and Nina Drama but people like MMA Guru, Lucas Tracey, etc.. and not the same one or two over and over again. the more fighters do this the more people will care

 

[theincognito]

Give each division its own matchmaker. Make them responsible for all hiring, firing, everything to do with the division they are in charge of.

Their goal is to make their division great again - put on great fights, build stars, etc.

But to avoid complacency, they only get 6 month contracts and only get renewed if they objectively do well.

Why? because the matchmakers they have now are absolutely horrible at their job, probably in part because they're stretched too thin (2 matchmakers for 700 fighters last I heard).

 

[SuperAlly]

Get the champ of the premier division in combat sports to defend or fuck off

 

[GSP_37]

I want to see ring girl vs ring girl and if wardrobe malfunction, she'll just take the rest of the outfit off and continue fighting sort of like Nakamura vs. Wanderlei Silva in PRIDE FC.

 

[Barge]

Cut half the bloated roster, limit WMMA to the best 10 fighters in the world per division, bring back Goldy

 

[Clark Rogers]

Get rid of the wrestling stuff but increase entrance shows and production value.

Beeb bop boop does not compute.

 

[SuperAlly]

Cut half the bloated roster, limit WMMA to the best 10 fighters in the world per division, bring back Goldy

Does women’s 135 and 45 even have 10?

 

[BangBang]

Allow soft toy weapons

 

[Daniel Henry]

In championship rounds introduce weapons its more realistic

 

[JustforBROCK]

A fighters Union and Dana White gone.

 

[wrb]

• Rules for champions, such as how often they must fight per year, criteria for automatic rematches, and rules regarding whom they can deny without vacating their title.
• Set rules for changing weight classes. For example, a fighter must have an automatic three fights before fighting for a title when moving to a new class. This would encourage fighters to think ahead before killing themselves to make a lower weight class with the intention of moving up as soon as possible.
• Implement automatic point deductions for grabbing the cage and for eye pokes. If this is enforced during one fight night, the problem will be gone forever. If needed, use instant replay for verification.
• If a fighter misses weight by a specific amount one time, they must fight in the weight class above in their next fight