Taken from JRE MMA Show #86 w/Josh Thomson:
https://youtu.be/8zkXLwBnORg
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Taken from JRE MMA Show #86 w/Josh Thomson:
https://youtu.be/8zkXLwBnORg
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Based on what I’ve seen from MVP before MMA I think he’s ufc top calibre fighter
UFC have not all the best fighters case close
Jones UFC goat don't care blah
LIMA VS USMAN IS GONNA BE THE MOST ANTICIPATED CROSSOVER MMA FIGHT IN WELTERWEIGHT HISTORY
I think the two main reasons there isn’t a unified MMA league where definitively the best fighters go versus other major sports leagues is first, because fighting is an individual sport, there significantly more individual voices asking for what they want and in need of promotion/events/etc. If 30 people want to play professional basketball, you put together two teams and play one game then make a schedule so all the the other teams play each other an equal number of times and even if the last guy on the bench wants to play more, if his team is winning, that’s just the way it is. Iff you have the same scenario with 30 fighters, you now have to create matchups based on size/skill level for 15 different individual competitions and afterward have to do subjective evaluations to then determine who will fight who next and when. Creating a fight schedule for every single person that qualifies as a professional is an incredibly difficult task even from a book keeping standpoint especially when there are outside variables like injuries and egos to take into account which makes it easier if there are multiple organizations doing that instead of one huge entity trying to do it all. The second is the relative age of MMA as a professional sport. The NFL and the AFL were rivals and then merged, stars in each league became stars in the new unified league. The NBA and the ABA were rivals and then merged, stars in each league became stars in the new unified league. The NL and the AL were rivals and then merged into the MLB, stars in each league became stars in the new unified league. When sports first start professional leagues there’s always a period of things being splintered before one definitive league overtake everything, it just seems weird to us because we’re past that stage in most other major sports.