Your opinion, Ring, Bellators round cage, or UFC Octagon?

[VIPERdude]

I want to just hear some opinions on which platform you feel is the best for a mixed martial arts fight.

obviously you need to have a fight contained to some extent.

What do you think?

 

[Martialarts123]

The WSOF Decagon

 

[DanAndroid]

Either this or the Elimination Chamber

 

[Unheralded Truth]

I think the hexagon looks more badass.

 

[3sumrock]

Cage > ring
Ufc > pride

 

[TrevorLahey]

I prefer the Bellator circle cage, it's not really the shape though, it's the colour of the floor of the cage that I like. It may be because I have sensitive eyes or something but I find the fights easier to see with the white floor as the backdrop, everything seems brighter and more clear compared to that ugly dull grey that the UFC uses.

 

[Fishmonger]

 

[FrontNakedChoke]

Either this or the Elimination Chamber

Elimination chamber for sure

 

[VulcanNervPinch]

Why doesn't anyone use a square cage?

Best of both worlds

 

[awymore]

I prefer whatever requires the least referee intervention. Ideally that would be some transparent material so you couldn't have cage grabs

 

[thobra]

I like the ring. Easier to pull off submissions. Less stalling And holding against the wall.

And it is less tacky - cagefighting is somewhat socially unacceptable. The ring helps.

 

[The ScorpioN]

A basketball count with mats on it

 

[lagofala]

Doomsday cage.

 

[The Professional]

no walls or ropes, just fire

or perhaps the opposite, somewhere claustrophobic, aka an actual phone booth, or a subway train

water!

 

[welcometohavoc]

I like the ring. Easier to pull off submissions. Less stalling And holding against the wall.

And it is less tacky - cagefighting is somewhat socially unacceptable. The ring helps.

Ring also has the drawbacks of having to restart fighters who get tangled/go outside the ropes and the frequent use of the ropes in stopping one from being taken down.

And as we saw in McCall's first fight in Rizin, the ropes can also cut pretty bad

 

[thobra]

Ring also has the drawbacks of having to restart fighters who get tangled/go outside the ropes and the frequent use of the ropes in stopping one from being taken down.

And as we saw in McCall's first fight in Rizin, the ropes can also cut pretty bad

I agree it is not perfect, but it is imo much better than the cage. I would rather have a few restarts per round And a few standups than the lay And pray And leaning against the cage.

 

[EGarrett]

Advertisements on the side, this is pretty easy on the eyes.

I've also been interesting in seeing a blue mat, or bluish-gray one...

 

[EGarrett]

Why doesn't anyone use a square cage?

Best of both worlds

It's been done in pro-wrestling...gimme a minute...

EDIT:

 

[Pure_Hatred]

Why doesn't anyone use a square cage?

Best of both worlds

This is why

 

[LiLoMMA]

This is why

How did the cage contribute to that? It’s just one of the worst mismatches in mma history