I miss Pride, it truly gave MMA a true sport like atmosphere (excluding the freak fights of course) and I personally prefer MMA in a ring, makes the fights more entertaining. DREAM and Victory Road are just not doing anything for me, oh well at least we got Art Of War from China which is actually pretty good.
I know not all UFC viewers are like that but UFC has a lot of loud and annoying fanboys and don't get me started on the Tapout wearing wannabes.
Back to the topic at hand, more capable fighters the better, that's what MMA was supposed to be about, fighters from different backgrounds that have trained in other systems ducking it out, instead people are making it look like a system itself which I don't agree with, the best MMA fighters are mostly from and rely on specific backgrounds while also trained in other backgrounds but still has that specific style to fall back on (like Fedor has Sambo, Machida has Karate, Big Nog has BJJ and Crocop has kickboxing)