What do you think of the current state of the UFC?

[Corrado Soprano]

When it comes to management, the fighters, and the media, UFC is in a strange state. Lets look at some of the major figures in the sport.

Dana White - Has a legion of fans who want to oil him up. Fans are clamoring for Dana to get oiled up and he’s into it. Dana has publicly stated he would get oiled up under the right circumstances.

Jon Jones - Career is filled with missed opportunities. First fighter with endorsements with Nike and Gatorade, only to lose them due to his behavior. Missed UFC 200 due to PEDs and turned down the UFC 300 main event. Recently was in Australia threatening to finger a comedians butthole.

Sean Strickand - He’s still affected by DDP’s Daddy comments. Lost the title and cried on a podcast. Exposed as a hypocrite - someone who can dish it out but not take it. Was incapable of knocking down a untrained youtuber who is significantly lighter in sparring despite going 100%.

Nina Drama - UFC shill reporter who is being pushed on the fans. May also have Daddy issues. She is a less attractive version of Ariel Helwani.

Conor McGregor - The sports biggest star who can’t get a fight scheduled. Today he’s more known for attending Boxing matches and party excessively and having rendezvous with different females.

 

[jeff7b9]

It is fucking trash

 

[jeskola]

It is clearly dying. - Random sherdogger 18 years ago

 

[ipowerslapmywife]

Nina is amazing for the ufc

 

[Question]

I'm tired of Apex events, especially considering how frequent they are

 

[ipowerslapmywife]

Dana is sabotaging the UFC to create new fans of powerslap. So if he ever gets fired powerslap would be more popular

 

[Corrado Soprano]

Dana is sabotaging the UFC to create new fans of powerslap. So if he ever gets fired powerslap would be more popular

Powerslap is more exciting than the UFC. Non-stop offence, fighters don’t waste time with defence. Never been a boring Powerslap match. The athletes are superior to MMA guys.

 

[Get To Da Choppa]

When it comes to management, the fighters, and the media, UFC is in a strange state. Lets look at some of the major figures in the sport.

Dana White - Has a legion of fans who want to oil him up. Fans are clamoring for Dana to get oiled up and he’s into it. Dana has publicly stated he would get oiled up under the right circumstances.

Jon Jones - Career is filled with missed opportunities. First fighter with endorsements with Nike and Gatorade, only to lose them due to his behavior. Missed UFC 200 due to PEDs and turned down the UFC 300 main event. Recently was in Australia threatening to finger a comedians butthole.

Sean Strickand - He’s still affected by DDP’s Daddy comments. Lost the title and cried on a podcast. Exposed as a hypocrite - someone who can dish it out but not take it. Was incapable of knocking down a untrained youtuber who is significantly lighter in sparring despite going 100%.

Nina Drama - UFC shill reporter who is being pushed on the fans. May also have Daddy issues. She is a less attractive version of Ariel Helwani.

Conor McGregor - The sports biggest star who can’t get a fight scheduled. Today he’s more known for attending Boxing matches and party excessively and having rendezvous with different females.

We don't have transcend stars like Conor, Chuck and Ronda anymore, and we pay our fighters peanuts and Venum coupons, but the UFC is about to overtake soccer as the world's biggest sports. Just you wait

 

[tymikeson]

i liken the current state of ufc to marvel movies that disney churns out.

at first it was awesome...we had avengers, thor, iron man, orginal spider man movies, now theres a new series or movie every second day thats coming out with generic plots and repeat story lines with shitty superheros.

ufc burnout has set in like it has with marval movies/series burnout.

dana needs to tune it back a bit and fire half of the roster.

only the best of the best of the best should be in UFC.

who cares about developing them in a UFC type farm system. let belator and other smaller orgs do that.

It used to be a novelty and something to look forward too, now its just kind of annoying exept for the ppvs.

 

[don't ask]

It's garbage and getting worse. They've never been less interested in being a merit-based sport and it shows.

 

[World eater]

Judging by the last few apex cards it is dying. Judging by the upcoming 298, 299 and 300 cards, they are doing great.
So basically you are asking about a half full/empty glass of water.

 

[DoctorStoppage]

UFC is dying

 

[Oenomaus]

Having a hard time following the sport, the cards are super watered down and I don’t really have the motivation to go out of my way on a Saturday to watch them like I used to.

 

[ThePimblettEra]

My interest has been steadily declining for a while.
I just find myself not that interested in 95% of upcoming fights.

 

[sdpdude9]

It’s alright. I’m fine having frequent cards even if they’re not always of the highest quality, so long as we still get some quality ones in there. It seems they’re going closer to weaker FN cards and stronger PPVs at least in the immediate future. I prefer that to what they were trying to do which was spreading talent thin across every card.

I don’t care for how much of a mess divisions are with the champ/champ stuff as well as “money” fights. Think things would be much better if they restored some order and got some reigning champions established.

All in all, my interest is not at the highest it’s been but rather somewhere in the middle. It’s fine and some cards and fights definitely still get me pumped up.

 

[blackheart]

You forgot to add in a comment about the UFC fully embracing the right wing culture war. Every other fucking PPV has Trump in attendance and double as republican rallies. It's fucking insufferable.

-watered down ppvs
-ppvs are now right wing political rallies
-biggest stars in the sport never fight (Conor, Jones)
-wmma in full collapse after nunes left, because the ufc completely stopped building the talent pool. Now Raquel fucking Pennington is champ
-almost all of the exciting fighters are rank squatters that never fucking fight
-every fighter trying to build a name just turns into walmart McGregor
-arguably the most important division, heavyweight, has been locked up for fucking YEARS. first the ufc stiffing Francis, then jones being allowed to hold the division hostage
-welterweight is stagnant and has a bleak future. Leon is an incredible fighter but he's already beat all of the talent in the division. Ufc let the top 170s rank squat for years and now as a result the top of the division is dead. The ONLY exciting fight left in this division is Leon vs shavkat but if it headlines a ppv it will do 100k buys.

All of that being said, I think the breadth and depth of the ufc talent pool overall, is the best it's ever been

-205 is in the best shape it's been in 10+ years. You have jiri, pereira, ankalaev, jamahal hill, blachowicz, walker. The problem is they never fight, besides ankalaev and Alex
-185 talent is stacked with izzy, ddp, Strickland, cannonier, Costa, Whittaker, khamzat and bo nickal in the future
-155 is still a stacked division oozing with talent. Again the problem is these fuckers never fight. The champ fights once a year. All of the division's talent fights once a year and they only fight each other.
-135 is stacked with o malley, sandhaegan, chito, merab and cejudo, Yan and now Davison

The UFC has a TON of problems right now. But the biggest problems, like watered down cards, can be traced back to the lack of activity from the promotions highest ranked and/or most exciting fighters. They have to do SOMETHING to pressure these guys to fight more often.

Think of how much better your average card would be if the following fighters fought 3x per year instead of once a year or once every other year: Islam, Oliveira, Costa, Whittaker, Cejudo, Jones, McGregor, Poirier, Gaethje, Jiri, Jamahal, O Malley, Aspinall, Brian Ortega, Cyril Gane

If the UFC could just fucking get these guys to fight 2-3x per year, the average card would get 50% better. Hell, we might even be able to get exciting top contenders headlining free cards again! Instead of the likes of Roman Delidze vs Nassourdine Imavov

 

[richardjohnson]

Leon is an incredible fighter but he's already beat all of the talent in the division. Colby, usman x2, belal. The next title defense is a rematch against someone he already beat

Leon did not beat Belal

 

[Mcnugget]

It’s in a weird spot all their champions are weird people lol

 

[big franklin]

definitely dying...

 

[Frostline]

As of recently late it's been uneventful because of these low level Apex cards dominating what we've had so far for this year, but these upcoming PPVs seem like they're going to be extremely promising. Wished some of these people in the upper echelons of the divisions fought more than once a year though.