"The UFC will be bigger than soccer."

[Takes Two To Tango]

Soccer/Football will never be surpassed, even 100 years from now if we're still here.

 

[Azzy]

Reports that Mbappe is going to be offere 13.4m a week...

 

[Hellowhosthat]

Yeah, actually, just in terms of money involved and international popularity, the sole Premier League might be above the UFC, and maybe MMA as a whole.

It's not even close, the premier league is far bigger than the UFC.

 

[loisestrad]

The funny thing is: Imagine people passing a ball around by using their feet only, to place - finally - said ball in a certain point of a field.

That's ridiculous.

People fighting is much less ridiculous. That's actually meaningful.

Dana is absolutely right in the way that fighting (MMA) should be much more appealing to the general public.

 

[Prime Goku]

The funny thing is: Imagine people passing a ball around by using their feet only, to place - finally - said ball in a certain point of a field.

That's ridiculous.

People fighting is much less ridiculous. That's actually meaningful.

Dana is absolutely right in the way that fighting (MMA) should be much more appealing to the general public.

Imagine people moving their body parts to place - finally - said body part on another body part.

 

[muaythaidon1]

Football is bigger than every other sport combined, it's earths ordained sport. Deal with it yanks.

 

[Deleted member 592822]

It's definetely a lot more entertaining than soccer. Seriously, they need to do an overall on soccer. Less people on the field and make the field smaller.

that already exists and is called futsal. wake up

 

[Deleted member 592822]

The funny thing is: Imagine people passing a ball around by using their feet only, to place - finally - said ball in a certain point of a field.

That's ridiculous.

People fighting is much less ridiculous. That's actually meaningful.

Dana is absolutely right in the way that fighting (MMA) should be much more appealing to the general public.

you suck at soccer don't you ?

 

[loisestrad]

you suck at soccer don't you ?

No. I'm definitely better at soccer than fighting.


I am, however, able to look at things objectively.

It is what it is.

 

[Takes Two To Tango]

 

[Twist11]

The funny thing is: Imagine people passing a ball around by using their feet only, to place - finally - said ball in a certain point of a field.

That's ridiculous.

People fighting is much less ridiculous. That's actually meaningful.

Dana is absolutely right in the way that fighting (MMA) should be much more appealing to the general public.

But sports like soccer (and other sports), were invented precisely for people to compete without having to physically beat each other up. That's literally the whole point.

In that respect, MMA (and boxing) aren't really sport. Because the objective in MMA (and boxing) isn't to win without violence. Violence is the point & purpose. It's to hurt. It's to damage the other person until they lose consciousness. That's not really a sport, it's violence.

It's true that it obviously takes skill and athleticism to beat someone in MMA and Boxing, but the objective - ultimately - is to hurt the opponent, possibly permanently, or maybe even death. So, it is more like actual conflict than it is sport.

Sport was meant to replace violent conflict. Sports are meant to be a substitute for people competing via violence but MMA (and other fighting sports) don't replace it. They just double down on it.

If we taught MMA and boxing as a sport in schools, and allowed kids to play these "sports" in the playground, they would literally just be beating each other up. Some of them would end up disabled and others would be killed.

So it's not really a sport. It's violence.

 

[Deleted member 592822]

No. I'm definitely better at soccer than fighting.


I am, however, able to look at things objectively.

It is what it is.

Not really because you subject a bias of trying to ground it in human instincts.

with your logic every sport on earth is useless expect the ones that mimic survival acts, like fighting, running, jumping, swimming and so on

But tennis is also two people sending a yellow ball at each other until one sends it wrong, basket ball is just people trying to put a ball in a small basket, volley-ball is just people putting an obstacle and trying to hit the same ball hard in a square on the ground and so on

but humans created rules for different sports and the challenge is to win within those rules

if soccer is the most popular sport on the planet it's for a reason. it's simple as shit to understand, everyone played it at some point, and creates impressive feats and actions. It can appeal to everyone

fighting on the other hand only appeals to people who are attracted to violence. I like it myself but I realize that it's not everyone's cup of tea

maybe you're in the wrong there

 

[loisestrad]

maybe you're in the wrong there

I'm not, but you wouldn't know.

 

[Lee_]

I am, however, able to look at things objectively.

You do know that calling something "ridiculous" or "meaningful" is indisputably non-objective, right? Those words necessarily imply a high level of subjectivity.

 

[Deleted member 592822]

I'm not, but you wouldn't know.

tell me you can't back up your claims without telling me you can't backup your claims

 

[CasualBot]

That might be the funniest thing I’ve heard in quite some time.

Take some medication weirdo,

You heard something in your own head.

 

[Sasha]

It's not even close, the premier league is far bigger than the UFC.

Yeah I was too lazy to actually back it up with numbers, hence the precautions, but it is quite obvious to me.

 

[Busgosu]

No. I'm definitely better at soccer than fighting.


I am, however, able to look at things objectively.

It is what it is.

You suck at :

• Fighting
• Soccer
• Posting

 

[slavomir]

It's definetely a lot more entertaining than soccer. Seriously, they need to do an overall on soccer. Less people on the field and make the field smaller.

Shush football noob.

 

[ColombianFist]

mma is a niche sport and it doesn't help that fighters are still getting paid nickels, so how the hell the UFC planned to compete against that? it could not, that was Dana's classic smoke.