UFC talent pipeline

[fighters_respect]

UFC inherited amazing fighters like Dustin Poirier from other promotions. As well as recruited amazing fighter's from The Ultimate Fighter.

Once Poirier retires. Who replaces these great fighters

Will the UFC be able to recruit more great fighter's recruited via these methods, like Poirier, Diaz, Sanchez, Ferguson.

Will Raul Rosa's Jr be able to replace some of these legends?

 

[linvillegorge]

I've honestly completely lost touch with what regional promotions are still out there. With the UFC flooding the market with events and having to carry enough fighters on the roster to fill them it kinda feels like there's not a ton of room for decent regionals to thrive.

 

[Oscar Madison]

UFC inherited amazing fighters like Dustin Poirier from other promotions. As well as recruited amazing fighter's from The Ultimate Fighter.

Once Poirier retires. Who replaces these great fighters

Will the UFC be able to recruit more great fighter's recruited via these methods, like Poirier, Diaz, Sanchez

Will Raul Rosa's Jr be able to replace some of these legends?

SLAP gonna bleed off that talent.

Slappers don't have to worry about cardio -- living the dream!

 

[amok attitude]

UFC inherited amazing fighters like Dustin Poirier from other promotions. As well as recruited amazing fighter's from The Ultimate Fighter.

Once Poirier retires. Who replaces these great fighters

Will the UFC be able to recruit more great fighter's recruited via these methods, like Poirier, Diaz, Sanchez, Ferguson.

Will Raul Rosa's Jr be able to replace some of these legends?

I dont really get the question.
Ufc will get new fighters and to do so they will pick them from other promotions.
They have a constellation of promoters, managers, regional promotions, that they keep under their wing, to fill up the roster.
They ll do that to the end of times.

 

[Blanqa Blanqua]

UFC inherited amazing fighters like Dustin Poirier from other promotions. As well as recruited amazing fighter's from The Ultimate Fighter.

Once Poirier retires. Who replaces these great fighters

Will the UFC be able to recruit more great fighter's recruited via these methods, like Poirier, Diaz, Sanchez, Ferguson.

Will Raul Rosa's Jr be able to replace some of these legends?

They will recruit from the prisons.

 

[Kowboy On Sherdog]

The last title fight featured stars from Glory and the Contenders Series ( Pereira / Hill )

 

[Ares Black]

UFC inherited amazing fighters like Dustin Poirier from other promotions. As well as recruited amazing fighter's from The Ultimate Fighter.

Once Poirier retires. Who replaces these great fighters

Will the UFC be able to recruit more great fighter's recruited via these methods, like Poirier, Diaz, Sanchez, Ferguson.

Will Raul Rosa's Jr be able to replace some of these legends?

The UFC didn't inherit Poirier from another promotion. He was in the WEC which was owned by Zuffa.

 

[Ares Black]

Also, every fighter in the UFC fights in another promotion first. No t sure what TS is trying to say TBH.

 

[Ares Black]

The primary pipeline to the UFC is now the Contender Series, which has already produced two champions and a bunch of contenders.

 

[Jose Beehive]

 

[fighters_respect]

I dont really get the question.
Ufc will get new fighters and to do so they will pick them from other promotions.
They have a constellation of promoters, managers, regional promotions, that they keep under their wing, to fill up the roster.
They ll do that to the end of times.

Apart from Umar Nurmagomedov
Or Archie Colgan
Which fighter's from other promotions are good enough to sign for the UFC?

And is this big enough to fill the void of UFC legends leaving. Eg:
Diego Sanchez - retired
Nate Diaz - retired
Poirier - mentioned retirement
Ferguson - a UFC legend from TUF but won't last forever

Also is The Contender series enough of a pipeline for great UFC fighter's?

Apart from Suga Sean O'Malley, Jack Della Maddalena, and Johnny Walker. I don't really recognise any of the other recruits as a casual. Also Greg Hardy

Are the up and coming prospects going to be not as good as legends like GSP and Jones, goat level, or else even not as good as the Pride level? There has always been a big name like GSP, McGregor, Jones to carry. What will happen when all these retire.


Also UFC signed MVP after MVP done a boxing tour, then Bellator fights, and I think they left it late, also with Pereira too. And Ben Askren

 

[Ares Black]

Apart from Umar Nurmagomedov
Or Archie Colgan
Which fighter's from other promotions are good enough to sign for the UFC?

And is this big enough to fill the void of UFC legends leaving. Eg:
Diego Sanchez - retired
Nate Diaz - retired
Poirier - mentioned retirement
Ferguson - a UFC legend from TUF but won't last forever

Also is The Contender series enough of a pipeline for great UFC fighter's?

Apart from Suga Sean O'Malley, Jack Della Maddalena, and Johnny Walker. I don't really recognise any of the other recruits as a casual. Also Greg Hardy

Are the up and coming prospects going to be not as good as legends like GSP and Jones, goat level, or else even not as good as the Pride level? There has always been a big name like GSP, McGregor, Jones to carry. What will happen when all these retire.


Also UFC signed MVP after MVP done a boxing tour, then Bellator fights, and I think they left it late, also with Pereira too. And Ben Askren

My big stupid hype trains thread.

So I'll use the first post to keep a record of upcoming fights involving people I have ranked and to post the rankings themselves (linked to Tap lists). For the purposes of the OP I'll use my long list rather than the top 15. Please bear in mind that there's probably not a massive difference...

forums.sherdog.com

 

[nhbfan8080]

UFC inherited amazing fighters like Dustin Poirier from other promotions. As well as recruited amazing fighter's from The Ultimate Fighter.

Once Poirier retires. Who replaces these great fighters

Will the UFC be able to recruit more great fighter's recruited via these methods, like Poirier, Diaz, Sanchez, Ferguson.

Will Raul Rosa's Jr be able to replace some of these legends?

I spoke about this years back about how the UFC benefited from other promotions grooming their talent. And since its grown big and swallowed up many smaller promotions, its putting on b league events and grooming in house talent.

 

[ArtardFiesta]

mma is mainstream now. you have pre teens taking up mma, bjj, and muay thai. in the next ten years we will probably be seeing young stars hit the scene and win titles before 25.

 

[Hellowhosthat]

There's more good MMA fighters in the world than ever. So many that the UFC feels they can pass on a lot of them.

 

[Tweak896]

DDP was from EFC and KSW not too long ago. They still pluck regional talent

 

[World eater]

There's more good MMA fighters in the world than ever. So many that the UFC feels they can pass on a lot of them.

Especially if they are from Russia.

 

[Hellowhosthat]

If you're interested here's my list of my personal top 100 prospects outside the majors at the moment. For the purposes of it the majors are classed as the UFC, PFL/Bellator, ACA, ONE, KSW and RIZIN so fighters currently signed for those promotions aren't listed.

My Current top 100 prospects outside the majors | Hellowhosthat's MMA Rankings | Tapology

Hellowhosthat's rankings: Current top 100 prospects outside the majors. Register free on Tapology to build unique custom rankings of the greatest UFC & mixed martial arts fighters, bouts, knockouts & submissions.

www.tapology.com

 

[blaseblase]

UFC inherited amazing fighters like Dustin Poirier from other promotions. As well as recruited amazing fighter's from The Ultimate Fighter.

Once Poirier retires. Who replaces these great fighters

The lightweight division already has Arman, Gamrot, Fiziev, and BSD. They are the younger talent and I would pick Arman and Gamrot to beat Poirier right now.

 

[Prologue]

I've honestly completely lost touch with what regional promotions are still out there. With the UFC flooding the market with events and having to carry enough fighters on the roster to fill them it kinda feels like there's not a ton of room for decent regionals to thrive.

Would much rather UFC co-promote with regionals more (as they kind of do with Fight Pass) and scrap the shitty Apex events.