What’s your unpopular ideas to make UFC better

[MrBlackheart]

1. Remove the fence and replace it with bullet proof glass. Can’t grab it and better viewing for the audience in the arena.

2. If a fighter moves up for the double champ and loses, he is forced to vacate the belt that he holds.

3. Replace one of the 3 judges with AI.

 

[tasticles]

Unless they are on an absolute tear to the title in rare occasions like Mark Hunt, Romero, etc? The cut off age should be generally 39.

I'm tired of seeing dinosaurs with no cardio, knees, or chin coming back to taking floggings.

 

[Lee Danger]

1 Remove the cage and replace with a ring
2 No champ vs champ unless both've raked at least 4-5 defences.
3 5 judges

is it enough unpopular?

 

[El Fernas]

More divisions.

1 Remove the cage and replace with a ring
2 No champ vs champ unless both've raked at least 4-5 defences.
3 5 judges

is it enough unpopular?

Neither of those are unpopular around here, i think.

 

[RockyLockridge]

all fouls should dock .5 points with no warnings.

 

[oski]

better wmma fight gear...

 

[VinceArch]

Get rid of Dana, Buffer and hell fucking yes Joe Rogan for starters.

Stop chasing short term goals and focus on long term instead. IE no more giving title shots to fighters who are coming off losses or that are 2-2 or 1-2 etc. Keep TUF and Contender series if need be but look elsewhere for outside talent and fucking pay them what they're worth. It's not hard when the problems are so glaring.

 

[Shaolin Alan]

5 judges (former fighters or refs)
Missing weight results in point(s) deduction
Create 165. Move 170 to 175.
105 for ladies.
Get rid of ugly female fighters, unless they are finishers!
Allow knees to head of grounded opponents!!
Bring back fighter walk down ramp and allow short performances (Hire Genki Sudo for choreography)
Oh and fire Rogan & DC. Retire Danuh

P.S: Bring back these classics

 

[Luthien]

Gladiator rules
Reenact glorious battles
Weapons / Whips / Animals

 

[DoubleTrouble]

Tournament format for each division

 

[Koala]

Get rid of the rankings
Get rid of LHW and put 90% of those guys at HW while getting rid of unfit HWs
More international cards, even maybe on Thursdays on top of Saturday cards, with a more international roster
Refuse stupid sponsors (they did it for the fighters' shorts but not for the cage, it doesn't make sense)

 

[HuskySamoan]

1. Remove the fence and replace it with bullet proof glass. Can’t grab it and better viewing for the audience in the arena.

2. If a fighter moves up for the double champ and loses, he is forced to vacate the belt that he holds.

3. Replace one of the 3 judges with AI.

Is this trolling?

1. Is an absurd suggestion, guys would be injuring themselves and taking severe clashes to the back of the head constantly if the fencing was replaced with bullet proof glass and then all the smudging of sweat and blood would make the viewing awful.

2. If someone tries to move up for double champ status and loses, why the fuck would they relinquish? If they win, they should definitely be forced to pick which division they'll stay in and then relinquish the other. Or in order to move up the UFC could set a precedent where they have to first relinquish and then win a number 1 contenders fight first at the new division.

3. AI being judges isn't as simple of a fix as people might think, even if we have AI judges that score according to a set criteria there will always be fuss and debate over if the scoring criteria is ideal and how it should be weighted and interpreted. But AI judges might be better in time, tough to prove rigging though by promotions too since can't follow the individual patterns of judges any longer.

 

[bng]

Instead of immediate stoppage after KO/SUB, winning fighter has a chance of performing a finishing move on his opponent like fatality, brutality or friendship.
At this point they can use fence to climb up and perform jumping finishing move

 

[Alacran]

Judges should be former fighters

Start implementing AI judging

Rankings should matter

Get rid of the steroids

 

[HuskySamoan]

Get rid of Dana, Buffer and hell fucking yes Joe Rogan for starters.

Stop chasing short term goals and focus on long term instead. IE no more giving title shots to fighters who are coming off losses or that are 2-2 or 1-2 etc. Keep TUF and Contender series if need be but look elsewhere for outside talent and fucking pay them what they're worth. It's not hard when the problems are so glaring.

Biggest fix would be increasing revenue share from 15-18% to 40-50% for the fighters...that alone would make the floor on pay so much higher that becoming a UFC fighter would be a serious accomplishment. I'd also say do away with win bonus pay unless a fighter/agent wants that in their contract, it's a bogus standard though. If the pay floor for fighting in the UFC was 50-80k (I know 80 is kinda high) it'd really make things a lot better.

Besides this? I'd love to see the UFC do a combine of sorts for prospects to sign each season, where they go over their records, the gyms they train at, their age, killsets, accompligsments etc. Along with some athlstic tests and whatnot. Regardless I'd like to see the UFC become more meritocratic and focusing on skill, talent and potential rather than marketability, style and nationalistic quotas.

I also wish they'd be willing to pay for top talent when/if they reach free agency. It's wild how they pass up on a 25 year old double champ in Salahdine Parnasse but threw money at a 35 year old Michael Chandler...fucking hell. Guys like Keita, Vartanyan, Christian Lee etc shouldn't be in other promotions because they will get paid a lot more than the UFC would pay them...if the UFC is supposed to be the NFL.

I'd also like to see fighters more active if they're able and wanting. Maybe that means a slightly smaller roster number or slightly more cards but fighters averaging 2 fights a year is absurd and makes the sport feel so slow and worthless to follow sometimes.

 

[usernamee]

I made a thread where I shared some good ideas I'll post that here:

Why not have hard plexiglass instead of cage fence surrounding the cage?
- That way we would get some pretty brutal KOs with guys heads bouncing off the glass repeatedly in vicious fashion. It would also leave blood stains and splatter enough to give even Dexter Morgan a hardon.

Another nice feature could be to make the entire octagon floor made out of concrete. That way we would get slam KOs all the time, and maybe even the first death inside the octagon. If that is too brutal, how about we place just a square piece of concrete somewhere in the octagon like this. (there would probably be a lot of blood on and around that block of concrete hence the vivid and realistic illustration)



A third thing I have been thinking of is to arm the Refs with expandable metal batons. That way whenever a fighter is grabbing the fence the Ref can quickly get there and give him a quick but hard stroke with the baton over the fingers to let that fighter know to release the fence. (this is if my plexiglass idea doesn't come to fruition)

Lastly I'd like to add pointy shoes to the refs. That way they can easily run up to a fighter who is not active enough on top and give him a good kick in the ribs with his pointy shoe, that way the fighter will immediately get to work.

 

[HuskySamoan]

Judges should be former fighters

Start implementing AI judging

Rankings should matter

Get rid of the steroids

Fighters tend to be very stupid and biased people. This idea that if all judges were former fighters is hilarious to me, you think that would be a fucking solution? It's like people telling analysts that their opinion is worthless because they never fought...only an idiot would think that's a logical stance to have and fighters make that stance all the time when they get criticized. You ever hear an interviewer try to ask a fighter tough or intellectual questions about MMA? Most aren't too bright, some are, most aren't.

 

[PeterGriffin]

Switch to "day-of" weigh-ins, 8 hours before the card starts. Still no IV's. That ought to fuck up which divisions fighters fight in. No more weight-bullies or fight for 75% on purpose.

 

[VinceArch]

Biggest fix would be increasing revenue share from 15-18% to 40-50% for the fighters...that alone would make the floor on pay so much higher that becoming a UFC fighter would be a serious accomplishment. I'd also say do away with win bonus pay unless a fighter/agent wants that in their contract, it's a bogus standard though. If the pay floor for fighting in the UFC was 50-80k (I know 80 is kinda high) it'd really make things a lot better.

Besides this? I'd love to see the UFC do a combine of sorts for prospects to sign each season, where they go over their records, the gyms they train at, their age, killsets, accompligsments etc. Along with some athlstic tests and whatnot. Regardless I'd like to see the UFC become more meritocratic and focusing on skill, talent and potential rather than marketability, style and nationalistic quotas.

I also wish they'd be willing to pay for top talent when/if they reach free agency. It's wild how they pass up on a 25 year old double champ in Salahdine Parnasse but threw money at a 35 year old Michael Chandler...fucking hell. Guys like Keita, Vartanyan, Christian Lee etc shouldn't be in other promotions because they will get paid a lot more than the UFC would pay them...if the UFC is supposed to be the NFL.

I'd also like to see fighters more active if they're able and wanting. Maybe that means a slightly smaller roster number or slightly more cards but fighters averaging 2 fights a year is absurd and makes the sport feel so slow and worthless to follow sometimes.

The only issue I could see happening over time is of fighters are not necessarily at the same gym but let's say one fighter is in American Top Team in Florida and another is in American Top Team Oregon. It won't be a problem at first but if the incentive to becomes a UFC fighter were to become more lucrative it could create a problem down the road, doesn't mean it would easily happen though. I do think the pay floor at 80k is a tad high but 45k for those making their debuts would be a decent start.

Oh and get rid of that fucking power slap as well.

 

[Only Here for Attachments]

Bring back the Elite XC stand-up timer