Meh, I’ve always just enjoyed the fights and felt the press conference were ways to get casuals interested in the event.
Tbh a lot of the time I’m not even rooting for one fighter or the other, I just find MMA entertaining as hell and enjoy watching insanely skilled guys get matched up and try to beat each other.
It’s fine if you enjoy the shit talk and everything, but imo it’s taken away from the sport and now if a guy wants to be a draw he has to inorganically try to be a dick, which leads to a Cejudo situation.
I miss the days of guys just being draws simply because they were highly skilled fighters
GSP
Silva
Fedor
Cro Cop
Shogun
Machida
BJ Penn
Velasquez
Aldo