What if MMA was just a single five minute round?

[Not A Real Fan]

The attention span of some people is pretty sad.

Too many fights are too sad to pay attention to for more than a round.

 

[kflo]

we could give ref a whip

Cattle prod….

 

[Ares Black]

Many fights are too sad to pay attention to for more than a round.

Why not one 2 minute round?

Or even better, one 30 second round?

 

[kflo]

The attention span of some people is pretty sad.

That’s just not acc……

I like birds…..

 

[Not A Real Fan]

it would be great for 1 night tournaments

you could have a 32 man tournament with each guy fighting a maximum of 25 minutes if each fight goes to a decision.

I think I may have suggested something like this at one time.

Take the bottom unranked 32 fighters in a weight class. The winner gets the promotional attention and visibility.

 

[Bowel-forged Stool]

How about fight to the death

No joke, I would pay to see it.

 

[elwani]

I say the moment you take someone down, five of his chosen friends can enter the cage and start beating the shit out of you, like in real life

 

[Bend NvR Break]

I'd like this scoring of MMA better.

 

[rpn453]

YAMMA

 

[Bob Sapp]

Why not just one 15 minute round.

Youre on your way to getting banned but you are right here. Lol

 

[DestinedAussie]

Keep in mind that real fights don't last fifteen minutes. You would be hard pressed to find one that goes one full minute.

Knowing ahead of time you only have five minutes will change a lot. Strategies will be different. Many will assume a wrestler will take an opponent down and hump them for the win. Sure that may happen. But if you know going into a fight that you only have five minutes against a wrestler, TDD and Derrick Lewis "just get up" techniques will become high priorities in training.

Cardio won't be as big an issue.

Fighters will be going for the win immediately. The feeling out process may be thirty seconds max. You cant take a round off if you only have one round.

Fighters may compete 15 to 20 times a year if not more.

There are tons of first round finishes now thus one should not expect a decrease.





This should not be standardized across the sport but I would like to see an org that only has one round fights.

One of the biggest pluses for this format is one night tournaments. You could do an 8 man bracket in a night easily. That would be 7 fights (round of 8 (4 fights), round of 4(2 fights) and final)

 

[IDGETKTFO]

Maybe change the scoring criteria. Effective striking is paramount hence a takedown and nothing more won't score unless the person they took down did absolutely nothing in the fight. The guy with the takedown has to land effective strikes or go for sub for their takedown to mean anything.

Judges would fail.They can change all the rules, but nothing will matter.

 

[Fahcough]

I like it. If it goes to decision, neither get paid.

 

[HHJ]

lame

There's no money in such quick fights. Everyone gonna be dissapointed by the short duration. Easier for people to try and "survive"

 

[lenbiasgoat]

With just one round, Conor will be a 3 division champion

Bj woulda got it 1st

 

[Mal Intentions]

we would have even more boring fights than we do now cus people would be able to implement their runaway or lay and pray strategy while their fresh and capable of boring us the most

 

[baba2008]

The attention span of some people is pretty sad.

TLDR. Cliffs?

 

[Krimzon]

yoel romero would be 0-20

if every fight is only the 3rd round though..

 

[Moral Victory]

Why not just one 15 minute round.

I'd like this honestly, I feel like it simulates a proper fight better as well, I don't really care about less action due to exhaustion, I think it will simply benefit the better conditioned fighter, and fighting through exhaustion is exciting in itself (if they actually try).

 

[Tris]

real fights