News The Global Fight League releases names eligible for GFL's draft in January...should Dana be worried?

[TheBrownRanger]

Even out of their prime I would still tune in for Mous vs Gus or Rockhold, Lee vs Pettis or Woodley, Moraes vs Who da fuck, Werdum vs Mir.

The people here know damn well they are gonna watch and they are going to pretend not to like it.

 

[CC27]

So its the PFL with old washed UFC fighters. The fact people actually continue to fund this shit is insane to me. team mma doesnt work, its failed before. This shit is dead in the water. I mean they signed Wandy, Frank Mir? Good luck lasting a few years if that and then going under.

 

[Versez]

 

[STAY GOLD]

Respectfully disagree. Every time they try and make mma like other sports it fails. IFL with the teams. PFL with the season. It never catches and no one ever cares.

Focus on fights and promotion not gimmicks

The IFL is what I thought when he said team MMA has never been done. You can even say TUF is team MMA.

 

[Thesnake101]

The people here know damn well they are gonna watch and they are going to pretend not to like it.

I'd like to think that most, like me, would just read the results the day after and maybe catch some clips on twitter. Old men can still produce some brutal finishes (Chuck vs Tito 3, Wand vs Rampage 4) but the majority of their fights sucks ass to watch, just think back to Chael vs Wand/Rampage or Shogun and Little Nog's rematches. Or Werdum vs Oleinik. Or Arlovski's fights when he wasn't getting KO'd after the Lins win. Or Thiago's fights.

I'm more curious about how long it'll last, NA orgs that try to compete with the UFC never survive in the long run, and I can't imagine that the guys they've signed are the cheapest around. It'll be a moneypit from beginning to end, but I do wonder if they have enough funds to make it to two years at least.