What is your opinion on the recent matchmaking?

[Blastbeat]

Big Lopes fan but he doesnt deserve to fight for the title again this soon.
I think im just going to become less engaged with the sport and try to just watch the fights for fun. The UFC doesnt seem to give a crap about keeping loyal fans. The fact they keep advertising the organization rather than individual fighters makes it harder to be a fan anyway

 

[MDoza]

Paramount has the U.S. broadcast rights for the UFC, not international rights generally. Booking fights to appeal to international audiences does precisely dick squat for a big Paramount launch.

None of them will watch on Paramount though

It doesn’t translate directly to Paramount views, but when you spend 8 billion dollars, you need to ensure that you are capturing your entire market. The UFC will still be tracking viewership metrics across all platforms, and when they have their first quarterly meeting of the year they need to show up with good numbers.

If all of a sudden viewership from the UK and Oceania decline and they fail to meet projections, they could lose investor confidence and the stock price of the media group goes down.

 

[dipstickjimmy]

Agree re Usman

Rest of your post is bollocks

To each his own. Islam is a great fighter. At LW his resume as champion is thin. One defence as champion against a top 5 ranked LW. That is simply a fact not Bullocks. Not saying its on Islam necessarily, the UFC are for sure the main party. The whole point is they now consistently choose options that are far outside the realm of reasonable. I live in Toronto area, the Leafs haven't won a Stanley Cup since 1967. If the League just booked them into the finals and they won against the team from the west that earned their way and beat 3 other teams to get to the finals but lost to the Leafs the Leafs aren't actually champions.

 

[wrb]

Big Lopes fan but he doesnt deserve to fight for the title again this soon.
I think im just going to become less engaged with the sport and try to just watch the fights for fun. The UFC doesnt seem to give a crap about keeping loyal fans. The fact they keep advertising the organization rather than individual fighters makes it harder to be a fan anyway

Kind of agree, it sucks but I guess whatever.

 

[Blastbeat]

Kind of agree, it sucks but I guess whatever.

I've been watching more boxing lately as a result tbh. Also i like ONE's Muay Thai fight nights, those are really fun.

 

[cburm]

Volk vs Lopes 2
Paddy vs Gaethje interim
And now rumored Islam for Usman for 326


Seems that with the new paramount era - merit is now being thrown to the wayside completely.

Are you in favour of it? Against it? Discuss.

My personal opinion I think it's officially descended straight into boxing type BS now.

IMo i want to see jg and paddy.
The rest of the card looks great.

Volk vs lopes I don't care for but it's gonna be a great fight and free... So def gonna watch it we'll see if lope made any changes.

It's not fair but at the same time I can see the business side and these are still good matchups to watch at the end of the day.

Did they earn it who am I to say I think lopez fights to finish and win. So I'd put him on any card that I needed to produce numbers on. I think he's earned that.

Same with gaethje I'm gonna need him in the card Armen could fight the most exciting guy and making it boring... Can't fault for that..

These guys say there the best because they can get decisions and wrestle for 25 mins... Yeah armen subbed hooker but the fight sucked..

Imagine you're main event was ddp and khamzat for Paramount.. I think less folks are gonna care to see a UFC card.