The moment the UFC started going downhill

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You've been watching since UFC 1 - If anyone can tell us :)
 
No it started when Jason DuLucia was screwed at UFC 1. He was the best fighter but didn't get his change.
 
For me, it was when Tank brutually stiffened the guy at UFC 7 or something. That's when I knew this sport was too barbaric
 
At the point when the UFC granted Lesnar a title shot in only his 3rd UFC fight that along with giving Rousey a title belt before she even entered the cage to fight for that title the UFC turned into the WWE.
 
Not sure if this means that the "UFC went downhill" but when they signed their FOX contract and left Spike their approach to the sport changed drastically, they incremented the amount of events made by a huge margin: Fight Nights, numbered events, fuel tv, fox cards, extra fights in events to show as facebook prelims (Used to be just 9 fights per event and now is 14), etc... ESPN has been more of the same but in different plattforms.

This meant a lot more events, a lot more fighters and a lot more fights. You think that is good, right? But what it really did was to dilute the events. We were used to having stacked cards once or twice per month, now suddenly we had 3 times the amount of fights overall and more than twice the amount of events.

The UFC tried to stop the watering down of events by adding midget divisions killing off WEC and then acquiring Strikeforce to add WMMA with the Ronda pitch. Then add more midgets with the 125, then more WMMA with 115, and then 145 for Cyborg and 125 because why not? Then the contender series made it possible for UFC to constantly renew their roster with a ridiculous amount of signings. Cheap contracts for regional fighters that can't cut it in the UFC and that can be easily replaced in the next season of the contender series by new blood.

Now we are at more than 40 events a year, 14 fights per event as an average, 600 fighters in the roster, 150 fighters getting cut each year and another 150 getting signed, fighters fighting only 1.5 per year because being active in social media help your image and your chances of a better contract a lot more than fighting often. All this makes it almost impossible to keep track of the sport, of the fighters in each event and getting excited about upcoming events. Not saying it's bad, but it's certainly different from the sport I fell in love 15 years ago...
 
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Goldie leaving, reebok, wmma, midget divisions and mcgregor. All nails in the coffin for ufc. Definitely dying bro, not as good as it was when I was young.
 
went down hill when espn got interested in it now all former fighters that are working for espn are creating manufactured drama because espn wants it like that
 
Greg House said:
Not sure if this means that the "UFC went downhill" but when they signed their FOX contract and left Spike their approach to the sport changed drastically, they incremented the amount of events made by a huge margin: Fight Nights, numbered events, fuel tv, fox cards, extra fights in events to show as facebook prelims (Used to be just 9 fights per event and now is 14), etc... ESPN has been more of the same but in different plattforms.

This meant a lot more events, a lot more fighters and a lot more fights. You think that is good, right? But what it really did was to dilute the events. We were used to having stacked cards once or twice per month, now suddenly we had 3 times the amount of fights overall and more than twice the amount of events.

The UFC tried to stop the watering down of events by adding midget divisions killing off WEC and then acquiring Strikeforce to add WMMA with the Ronda pitch. Then add more midgets with the 125, then more WMMA with 115, and then 145 for Cyborg and 125 because why not? Then the contender series made it possible for UFC to constantly renew their roster with a ridiculous amount of signings. Cheap contracts for regional fighters that can't cut it in the UFC and that can be easily replaced in the next season of the contender series by new blood.

Now we are at more than 40 events a year, 14 fights per event as an average, 600 fighters in the roster, 150 fighters getting cut each year and another 150 getting signed, fighters fighting only 1.5 per year because being active in social media help your image and your chances of a better contract a lot more than fighting often. All this makes it almost impossible to keep track of the sport, of the fighters in each event and getting excited about upcoming events. Not saying it's bad, but it's certainly different from the sport I fell in love 15 years ago...
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<TheWire1>
Dang, bruh! You’ve thought about this. I was just going to joke that it was when Dana somehow convinced people he was the only person that could run the ufc




Into the ground.



I like your answer better tho.
<GinJuice>​
 
Fr the ninjitsu meta never even got to take off smh.
 
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