Tennis players win Wimbledon and play again next year.
Teams give up their Bowl, Cup, etc every year and start over the next year.
I see it also stopping the best fighters from being too complacent. If they are that good, then they can try it again next year.
Next to Wins/Losses/No Contests could be another section for Belts won...
Maybe
Tell them what, they should forfeit their rankings and every golf player should play the US Opens and may the best man win? Sure good luck with that. Let's see what they'll say to that. I suppose you think they'd say, sure, let us have a 30000 people tournament and by the time it starts again next year, Nike will know who to sign to a sponsorship contract. Obviously the guy won't make it through that tournament again, perhaps ever, but that way maybe Nike can sponsor the winner for a week and then that's that? Media would just love to sit in front of a new dude every year. Then everyone could hold interviews with him only and all the rest of the guys will be poor as fuck. Then if he loses all of 12 people will show up to watch the 30000 golfers they don't know and Nike will stop sponsoring anybody in the sport. Then nobody will want to learn it any more and all the golf courses would go bankrupt quickly. But hey, maybe that one dude you really like that seems stuck making millions now could possibly one day have the honor of being the Champion for the week that it's worth, probably not though. Chances do not really get better for them, but then again it won't matter since you will have destroyed the sport. Maybe I can tell to golfers and tennis players that they need to forfeit their rankings to make it more interesting for you, I doubt they would listen to such a dumb proposal though.
Tennis players don't play 3 times a year. They play over 50 matches a year and there are almost 2000 ranked players in the world. There aren't 2000 players in the UFC.
Tennis also has no weight classes. They have one champion for the males and one for females. There is clear world number 1 at all times. They may not win Wimbledon, but yet still be number 1 based on their points, because they won the most important matches. For this to work in MMA you need 50 fights a year or so. Imagine tennis rankings and tournaments in MMA. Cain would be below JDS right now for fuck's sake. How would that work in your great idea TS? Takes a beating, gets crowned Champion regardless. That would go over well with MMA. Hey maybe in 10 years Cain will have won enough big fights to warrant a number one spot. Tennis is not MMA. They don't fight often enough for it to be comparable.
Tennis players don't train in teams, they may have a main training partner, but they usually train individually. They have no issue playing against their training partners either. They don't wreck people for a living, they hit a ball.
And I could go on and on and on about differences in those sports that make them very hard to compare. You simply can't compare these sports. The only thing they really have in common is that they have individuals competing against each other.
And what you propose is not playing out Wimbledon new every year. You already have that. The winner of UFC 145 is not automatically the winner of UFC 146 and UFC 147 and so on and so forth. Every event has main fights and winners of those in fighting as well. You propose to have no clear number one for sponsors and fans to cling to, which you can promote, break into new markets with, etc. You want to strap them of this which they worked all their life to earn for no reason at all.
What you want is to strip everyone of all their points and to restart the atp world rankings after a certain time, which you say would give good tennis players that can't win major tournaments a much better shot at making it to the first place in the rankings, where you rake in the sponsorship cash. And you claim this would make it more interesting. It's nonsense though. They don't do that, because then it would be impossible to have clear seeds to major tournaments and people wouldn't come to watch them. Tennis is organized in a way that lets the best play the major tournaments and some lesser players play a qualifier, which is a mini-tournament that lets lesser players get into a big field provided they make it through those rounds.
People on the Challenger and ITF tours play hard to make it to the ATP rankings and get into bigger tournaments or even qualifiers. The same happens in MMA. People win locally, they win regionally, then in big organizations and lastly they get a shot in the UFC. Then they work their way up. If they can't reach the very top it doesn't mean the system is wrong. Not every good tennis player is highly ranked in the ATP. Some of them dominate the Challenger tour and do not even try their hand at Wimbledon. Some players only play sand, regardless of being ranked high. They may chose not the play in Wimbledon at all and they might still be in the top 10 and rake in millions because of it.
Stripping them of all points and having everyone always start at the same level, I suppose the ATP level and seeding them into Wimbledon would give you a 3 months tournament. This is not how it works in the real world.
You get the points you got last tournament and you defend your points. They don't arbitrarily restart the rankings to give some middle of the road guy a shot at being the best for no good reason other than you claiming it would give their existence more purpose.
And on and on and on, I could go. You are not even close to being the Michael Jordan of tennis.
(belt relinquish-er gets some sort of a 1st round BYE)
