UFC becoming an expression of Dana's NPD.

[yodog]

Dana White basically created the sport of MMA in the US. He is a pioneer. Let him go so the UFC can grow.

Media has been his enemy from day 1. If you don't kiss the ring, you're exiled. This obviously stifles growth, but someone hurt Dana's feelings. How many times has that happened?

The man is absurd and surreal. It's unclear how one person can have so much influence in a company with third party ownership. They must be extremely corrupt.

Now "The Ultimate Fighter" is going to be canned in favor of "Dana White's Contender Series".

What's next? Sunset UFC in favor of Dana White's Fights?

 

[TheMMAnalyst]

Dana created the sport?

 

[blunttruth]

Dana is awesome ! Doesn't give a shit about whiny media who have been an enemy from day 1. The whiny loser media expects every person and entity to kiss their ring and abide by their rules and 'standards". Eff the media.

 

[markys00]

Shit thread. Better the devil you know than the one you dont

 

[Reach4theSky]

Better the devil you know than the one you dont

This^^ is it in a nutshell. Would the UFC be better off if someone else was running it?

 

[Queue]

Dana is awesome ! Doesn't give a shit about whiny media who have been an enemy from day 1. The whiny loser media expects every person and entity to kiss their ring and abide by their rules and 'standards". Eff the media.

weak and lame troll attempt.

 

[Koala]

TUF came back after a three-year hiatus only because ESPN bought the program to the UFC for a certain number of seasons
If the viewership is crap and ESPN thinks the cost is not worth the ad revenues, they will stop buying it to the UFC will end the program again

 

[Natural Order]

Most of it is filler. Oversaturated garbage.

Give me 6-8 PPVs a year with 5 stacked fights and Im good. 40 fights between the best in the org.

All of the other stuff the “real hardcores” jerk off to can stay elsewhere.

Dana sold a long time ago. He’s been coasting on fumes for 10 years

 

[HoiceNJuicy]

UFC? What's the UFC? Dana only cares about Power Slap these days. He's obsessed with making it a success when it's akin to Vince McMahon and his attempts to start a bodybuilding organization and the XFL. These guys have a hard time accepting failure and moving on.

 

[Alpha_T83]

Dana is going to end up in prison. Mark my words. He's become an even bigger scumbag than he was 10-15 years ago. Money/power has corrupted him. Once people get into that position, they start engaging in more and more criminal behavior. I'm sure he thinks he can get away with anything.

 

[TheMMAnalyst]

Most of it is filler. Oversaturated garbage.

Give me 6-8 PPVs a year with 5 stacked fights and Im good. 40 fights between the best in the org.

All of the other stuff the “real hardcores” jerk off to can stay elsewhere.

Dana sold a long time ago. He’s been coasting on fumes for 10 years

You eventually hit a point where you've seen so many fights you have to ask yourself the question "what is the point of watching this shit?"

If we aren't watching elite athletes actually try to hurt each other we are just watching a pale imitation of the thing we love that gets glossed over because "violence."

They've done this by design though - the sacrifice of "spectacle" for "content" means the intangibles don't matter i.e. as long as they are making fights they are making money so the quality control isn't a necessary part of the formula any more.

The real sad thing is being told by some fans that we "don't really like fighting" because we don't want to devote literally days of our lives each year to watching sub-par fighters point-fight for peanuts in an empty Apex covered in enough ads to make a Nascar car blush.

 

[Evangelion]

Most of it is filler. Oversaturated garbage.

Give me 6-8 PPVs a year with 5 stacked fights and Im good. 40 fights between the best in the org.

All of the other stuff the “real hardcores” jerk off to can stay elsewhere.

Dana sold a long time ago. He’s been coasting on fumes for 10 years

lol at the UFC putting on 50 total fights per year. I’m sure they would love to lose hundreds of million of dollars just to appease you.

Deluded ass

 

[VinceArch]

This^^ is it in a nutshell. Would the UFC be better off if someone else was running it?

It wouldn't be any worse.

 

[Only Here for Attachments]

UFC is Dana's power fantasy

 

[Dr. Rose]

"If you don't kiss the ring, you're exiled." This has been true with other sports presidents. Some reporters have been banned from pressors in the NFL, NBA, and WNBA. White just does it in the open.

 

[TITS]

You hardly ever see the wormbeast in the TUF episodes anymore, he mainly just shows up for the fights like in DWCS, only he has no control over whether or not the winners get a contract. The TUF winners are guaranteed a UFC contract, while the DWCS winners have to grovel to the wormbeast in their post-fight interviews, then sit there at the end all lined up waiting to be judged and suffer through Dana's antics, get called "kid" a bunch of times, then if they're lucky they get a contract for 12/12.

 

[TeenageMutantLesnarTurtle]

TUF has been dead for ages tbh. I wish that wasnt the case but it is. Its a relic of 00s reality tv. Also it doesnt work when the roster is ridiculously big, it makes everything seem inconsequential because the fighters are most likely just gonna turn out to be mediocre nobodies who get lost in the shuffle on the main roster anyway. Back at its peak you knew you were going to get a few new stars come out of every season.

As for Dana, he has many faults but I do believe that having a public face who has the gift of the gab and represents the company is a good idea. Same as Don King back in the day, or to an extent Eddie Hearn in more recent times. Even Vince McMahon (not now, obviously). That said, he is getting long in the tooth and someone else should probably take over that role within 5 years.

 

[Elvis.]

Dana white created the sport of mma in the Us
And that’s enough for me

 

[ultra321]

The ultimate fighter always kinda sucked (as does the vast majority of reality TV)... I honestly don't care about these peoples journey or watching them interact with each other... or watching hand picked clips of sparring sessions, manufactured "Drama" or any of that other shit..
It's boring

 

[blaseblase]

Yes, they should absolutely can TUF in favor of the Contender Series. It's a much better product.