wtf happened to WMMA

[2004 account]

I snoozed and woke up twice and the shit wasn't over yet. That was torture and fucked up the pacing of the card. Stupid matchmakers leave the bushleague shit for the prelims or Dana's contender series

 

[BullyKutta]

Its interesting how a mediocre fighter from the "golden era" can now be champ.

So I speculate this. WMMA failed to recruit new talent.

Why? Those early girls like Rousey, Tate, Cyborg were esentially doing it as a passion. Money and fame wasn't a thing yet. MMA was a cool countercultural thing back in those days. Now MMA is no longer cool but kinda staid and its reputation for paying squat is well established. Without this coolness factor no new talent is appearing.

Weird how this is true in the higher weightclasses but less so the lower ones. Though even Esparza got her time in the sun.

UFC failed to recruit.

There are a LOT of killers in the B leagues.

I feel like the investment just isn't there for the UFC.

 

[Nihongi]

135 has been shit for years, 115 is where it’s at and 125 is getting interesting

 

[Azzy]

I tend to go outside for a zoot during the women's fights so don't really mind them every now and then to break up the card so I can get high ready for the proper fights

 

[Nihongi]

UFC failed to recruit.

There are a LOT of killers in the B leagues.

I feel like the investment just isn't there for the UFC.

The UFC should just buy out Invicta already to bolster the ranks

 

[ProfessorF8]

Bar folks keep asking, when is the main event?

....its next.

How many folks on SHERDOG didnt know this was a title?!

I didn’t know. That’s because my mind couldn’t place either fighter in a title fight.

 

[ProfessorF8]

The UFC should just buy out Invicta already to bolster the ranks

Just ship the female fighters to invicta and rename it WUFC

 

[Jon's Drug Dealer]

9 out of 10 WMMA fights are crap. That will never change.

 

[Huligani]

Nothing happened, that's what. It's the same shit it always was.

 

[Morning Star]

To be fair it did live up to expectations <45>

 

[Quietus]

It was never great overall to begin with, but you had a few fighters like Nunes, Cyborg, Valentina, Zhang Weili, Rose (when switched on) etc who still could put on entertaining fights, most of them are retired or soon retiring, the new generation isn't filling the gaps with any monsters like that. Even Ronda for as one dimensional as she was, was must-see TV for her time. You can't tell me Ronda couldn't roll off the couch and sub Pennington for that belt in 1 round.

 

[P4p Islam]

I remember when Nunes vs Zingano happened and I told my wife "they'll fight like hell because WMMA doesn't have legitimacy yet" and sure enough they fought like hell like the legitimacy of the sport depended on it. The WMMA fights back then were great.

And now we have this. Lackluster fights I can't bring myself to care about. A 15-9 person waging a lackluster fight against a lackluster contender for the undisputed title.

Don't ever tell me the sport has evolved and that is was soccer moms back when Ronda was in charge. This is ridiculous. I hate it being the co-main knowing nothing will happen and it'll just delay the main event.

You still watch it though

 

[Kyojiro Kagenuma]

I remember when Nunes vs Zingano happened and I told my wife "they'll fight like hell because WMMA doesn't have legitimacy yet" and sure enough they fought like hell like the legitimacy of the sport depended on it. The WMMA fights back then were great.

And now we have this. Lackluster fights I can't bring myself to care about. A 15-9 person waging a lackluster fight against a lackluster contender for the undisputed title.

Don't ever tell me the sport has evolved and that is was soccer moms back when Ronda was in charge. This is ridiculous. I hate it being the co-main knowing nothing will happen and it'll just delay the main event.

Don't act all surprised. We all knew this fight would suck, even the big WMMA guys like me.

 

[Kyojiro Kagenuma]

Anyone who said that these divisions would develop has now been proven wrong, if that were true these old hags like Holm, wouldn’t be anywhere near the top of the divisoon at 43 years old. It’s nearly been a decade and WMMA has proven to be filler other than the absolute tip top of the divisions and even then its a mixed bag.

Yeah, 125 and 115 would beg to differ.

135 is a wasteland tho

 

[TestosterOWN]

Wmma has always sucked ass. For every 100 soccer moms you’d have one mediocre fighter who would stomp the soccer moms and people on here would go crazy over them. Shits boring and I will never pay a dime for a ppv with that shit on them.

 

[TheNinja]

The only women's sports I enjoy:

Volleyball
Tennis
Track and Field

Volleyball and TEnnis are good b/c you get some good vollies (the men are just too good at serving in both of these).
Track and Field is good b/c the women are usually crazy hot

The rest are just horribly watered down versions of their male counterparts.

 

[Poirierfan]

The decision makers for the UFC are some dumb fucks.

 

[The Eagle]

Women were not created to fight. They have different purpose.

 

[Hog-train]

All of Zhang's fights are exciting IMO.

 

[swarrrm]

If they're going to insist on this at least bring back Jojua and Ostovich.