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Boxing = real technical sport MMA = wannabe boxers brawling sloppily, barely above BKFC tier athleticism

That's because most LHWs and MWs and even some WWs are really just heavyweights with less body fat. Consolidate the divisions and the skill level would be brought back up to par.

You may be aghast at the reality that boxing midcarders are making millions a year while top UFC fighters would be lucky to even get $1 million a year on a good streak in the prime of their careers. But they are being compensated in accordance with their skill level. UFC fighters are at best...

A year of TDD training? More like one white belt BJJ class and he'd be MMA HW GOAT.

It's not Ngannou's fault individually. It's simply that MMA fighters aren't as good at boxing as boxers are at MMA, and this is partly due to MMA promoters (especially the UFC) encouraging sloppy brawling for entertainment value over fighters utilizing the full range of techniques for...

Weight does matter, 100%. I'm saying that UFC MWs and LHWs aren't actually smaller though, it's just that they make effort to control their weight, while UFC HWs do not at all. If UFC MWs and LHWs let themselves go, they wouldn't be at any weight disadvantage against most UFC HWs besides a few...

My contention here isn't that weight doesn't matter, it's rather that a lot of UFC LHWs and MWs aren't *actually* smaller than UFC HWs, it's just that they take the effort to work off the body fat, diet down, and cut water weight so that they could make 185 or 205. Meanwhile most UFC HWs give 0...

I actually like the idea of things being arranged in a quasi-round robin tournament fashion (not an actual tournament though), where the top ranked fighters would be expected to fight not just other top ranked fighters but also newcomers, and it would be expected that the newcomers would be good...

Okay so you can concede that 205ers at least are big enough to fight heavyweights. I'll still go further and say that middleweights like Adesanya (who has beaten heavyweights in kickboxing before) or Paulo Costa are 100% big enough to fight heavyweights. Paulo has a fight night weight of well...

The breaking through should be done at the regional level. And frankly I'm not sure how Braxton Smith even got to the UFC, he wasn't even the best on the regional level lmao

Do you honestly believe someone like Rakic is too small to fight someone like Josh Parisian?

Someone who's 177 could definitely make 155 lol. If you can't make 175 though, that means you're either not trying hard enough or you actually weigh over 205, which is 100% heavyweight territory.

Oleksiejczuk could definitely make 175 lol. And not everybody should be entitled to a UFC roster spot anyway

No, there wouldn't be. The top rung of LHWs and even MWs are good enough to beat most UFC HWs.

I have long believed that the UFC has been watered down by management's insistence that fighters brawl sloppily rather than use the most effective techniques to win the fight. Almeida was a breath of fresh air - he fights exactly the way every fighter should be fighting. We need to bring lay...

There shouldn't be any cannon fodder in the UFC. That's what's destroying the brand.

That's fine. But do you really think someone like Josh Parisian would actually beat guys like Rakic, Pereira, or Ankalaev? The upper crust of LHWs, MWs, and even some WWs would run through your Parker Porters or Josh Parisians lmaoo

Isn't the UFC supposed to represent the top tier of MMA fighters? The UFC is devaluing its own brand by flooding its roster with fat guys who don't even pass the muster at the regional levels. The solution is to consolidate weight classes. Just have 4 weight classes - 135, 155, 175, and...

And? Tim Sylvia was a top 10 heavyweight at the time he got knocked out cold by Ray Mercer, who in boxing was ranked... nothing because he was retired.

Unironically yes. It's time for some serious introspection for UFC fans. It's time to end the farce that MMA has become - a sloppy brawlfest.