News The Global Fight League will launch in April 2025

[JessePinkman]

its gonna be a shitshow, but i'm here for it. i'm more interested in watching fighters i know and the ufc does a horrible job with that. i know almost all of the 50 guys announced so i'm in

 

[Bobby Boulders]

It's a cross between an old folks home and a graveyard, but I will still watch that.

 

[Elvis.]

Wanderlei is pushing 50 and hasn’t fought since 2018
Global fight league, they should call it Jurassic park fight league

 

[JoeRowe]

Disappointed no Yoel, will watch though

 

[Bobby Boulders]

Most of that list is well past it, but I like GPs, and I will watch. Name value should get them at least a small degree of interest, but that probably goes away when the first dinosaur has a heart attack in the cage.

 

[El Che]

Well, if this is happening then they better let them juice as much as possible, hell, they should encourage it.

 

[David R]

If it had a bunch of young unknown prospects there wouldn't even be a thread here.

Promotions need known names to get off the ground and get people to watch.

Never got why "MMA fans" are so negative towards everything that is not the UFC.

We are negative to everything not PRIDE. But this needs some negative people or better yet some common sense. These guys should be coaching new guys not fighting.

 

[ultra321]

Made with the same production values as those Scientology indoctrination videos.

Xenu For The Win Baby!!!

 

[ultra321]

So here's a serious question... who are these team owners going to be? People like Robert Kraft and Lawrence Stroll or more like Jackson-Wink? or are there none? And the "Teams" are a marketing gimmick?

 

[TheBrownRanger]

lol at all the people on this sub who think they’re going to be too good to watch this league.

I’m with it. We sure as fuck need alternatives besides UFC and PFL.

 

[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.

 

[EndlessCritic]

Such idiocy to be trying to build a promotion with aged fighters.

 

[Shogun515]

Not sure the point of this league, to compete with the UFC?

 

[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.

 

[TheBrownRanger]

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.

I think the point of signing all these vets is to gain attention for the product. The same result isn't happening with just fresh faces. Personally, if these guys know the risks of fighting at that age and if they can produce entertaining fights every so often, then I'm on board. It's a step above feeding a Chris Weidman to Bo Nickal.

Of course, there will be people who will go "man this is sad" or "ohh these guys are getting CTE!". Man FUCK ALL THAT SHIT. They'll still be sharing clips on Twitter for everyone to watch and enabling the product with a complete lack of self-awareness. Honestly, I couldn't care less about those people, I just want to be entertained. And if the older guys are getting checks for it, it's good for everyone.

The new promotion is also not drafting everyone so I doubt we're going to see PRIDE-era fighters on every card.

 

[WokeWarrior]

UFC has some interesting competition

lets goooo FINALLY
https://www.fightful.com/mma/best-canadian-fighters-mma
Former UFC and PRIDE Championships such as Wadnerlei Silva, Tyron Woodley, Anthony Pettis, Benson Henderson, Frank Mir, Fabricio Werdum, and more are part of the initial roster.

According to Co-founder Darren Owen (via The Ariel Helwani Show), GFL offers fighters a 50-50 split in revenue sharing along with omprehensive support for training and medical bills, retirement benefits, insurance coverage, and more.

Spoiler: List of Fighters( Lots of former UFC vets)

List of Fighters:

• Marcel Adur
• Amirkhon Alikhuzhaev
• Andrei Arlovski
• Omar Arteaga
• Stuart Austin
• Renan Barao
• Deberson Batista
• Raimundo Batista
• Stephen Beaumont
• Alan Belcher
• Tanner Boser
• Claudeci Brito
• Will Brooks
• Yan Cabral
• Alexsandro Cangaty
• Pedro Carvalho
• Rafael Carvalho
• Alexa Conners
• Kyle Daukaus
• Ayton De Paepe
• Patrizio de Souza
• Robelis Despaigne
• Marcelo Dias
• Miao Ding
• Junior Dos Santos
• Cameron Else
• Tonya Evinger
• Kalindra Faria
• Marciano Ferreira
• Chauncey Foxworth
• Glaico Franca
• Greg Hardy
• Andre Harrison
• Benson Henderson
• Phil Hawes
• Guto Inocente
• Michael Irizarry
• Bubba Jenkins
• Pannie Kianzad
• Ilir Latifi
• Kevin Lee
• William Lima
• Philipe Lins
• Hector Lombard
• Ruan Machado
• John Makdessi
• Lucas Martins
• Aleksandr Maslov
• Jordan Mein
• Dominick Meriweather
• Frank Mir
• Silvania Monteiro
• Marlon Moraes
• Killys Motta
• Gegard Mousasi
• Bi Nguyen
• Abubakar Nurmagomedov
• Ayinda Octave
• Aleksei Oleinik
• Renan Oliveira
• Sidney Outlaw
• Karolina Owczarz
• Oscar Ownsworth
• Denis Palancica
• Rousimar Palharaes
• Lance Palmer
• Chiara Penco
• Markus Perez
• Anthony Pettis
• Jefferson Pontes
• Jimmie Rivera
• Luke Rockhold
• Charles Rosa
• Thiago Santos
• Cleiton Silva
• Wanderlei Silva
• Emiliano Sordi
• Julio Spadaccini
• Andre Soukhamthath
• Roggers Souza
• Gabriel Souza Galindo
• Jeremy Stephens
• Mohamed Tarek Mohey
• Diego Teixeira
• Oli Thompson
• Francisco Trinaldo
• Austin Tweedy
• Feruz Usmonov
• Fabricio Werdum
• Jozef Wittner
• Tyron Woodley

Fightful will provide more details on the GFL when they are known.

Your days are numbered you Cheap red Tomato !! #danafumbledthebag

What do you think the GFL can do to compete with UFC... i say do catch weight cross over fights like Tyron vs Wanderlei silva
Luke rockhold vs Greg Hardy, Kevin Lee vs Werdum IDK just go for Broke.... also
work with the PFL, Rizen, Bareknuckles, and even allow celebrities to fight.... Leave no stone unturned.

 

[WokeWarrior]

Also they better have entrances like this


Someone forward this to Tony ferguson, Chris weidman, anthony smith, CM Punk, Cody Garbrant,
Uriah Hall.....
BABY WE BACK !!