Reading a lot of the threads on the UG there's a lot of frustration with the wall and stall and lay and pray decision fights etc and to an extent I share this. When I started watching MMA about six or seven years ago a lot of the fights were awful but I still watched and found them exciting because of the novelty I guess. Over the last few years with the full-time training and extra money the fights have improved and gotten more interesting but has a new age of MMA started to dawn where the sport, and point-scoring aspect, is starting to take over? There's more money and fame on the line now which is accompanied by its obvious corrupting power. Are we on the cusp of a paradigm shift? I'm not really sure what I think, what are your thoughts?
It's the golden age of everybody with a computer able to bitch about anything and everything and be heard.
kingjames100 - It's the golden age of everybody with a computer able to bitch about anything and everything and be heard.
I totally agree with you. It is also the golden age of people with a computer bitching about anything and everything in response to aforementioned bitching. So what is your point?
The golden age of MMA was over more than ten years ago, buddy.
Also, the silver age was over just before the death of Pride.
What we are looking at right now is the decline of the bronze age.
No it's not over. It's becoming more popular and mainstream every day.
i personally thought the golden age was over the moment Hughes stopped Royce...
it was over after rarold roward :)
i think it is on the decline, but will be much better than its ever been in 10-20 years when it is more popular and the majority of fans are more knowledgable about the sport.
Moosbrugger -kingjames100 - It's the golden age of everybody with a computer able to bitch about anything and everything and be heard.
I totally agree with you. It is also the golden age of people with a computer bitching about anything and everything in response to aforementioned bitching. So what is your point?
My point is nothing has really changed over the years it's just that there's a lot more people watching now who only want fights to end a certain way.
It also doesn't help that wrestlers come into MMA with no fight finishing capabilities, unlike strikers and BJJ players who start their MMA careers with ways to finish fights.
I think eventually it'll all even itself as wrestlers get as comfortable with the other aspects of MMA as they are with their 'bread and butter'. Obviously the same applies to strikers and BJJ players.
Sagiv Lapkin - No it's not over. It's becoming more popular and mainstream every day.
This is maybe part of the problem. The more money it generates the more fighters play safe, I don't blame them. I'm no great authority but when the sport was smaller people just fought for the sake of finding out who was best. When you get money, and even fame now, involved it's a whole different matter. The growth of MMA over the past few years has been positive for the sport IMO. But having said that there are a couple of things I mean when I say golden age - the excitement of the fights and the popularity. They don't seem to correlate anymore as they have previously.
its like waves, we'll have high and excited moments and dry and lame ones.
Just wait until some of the kids who are 12 watching UFC start looking into pro careers- that'll be something amazing.
The golden age will be in ten to twenty years when the kids who have been training pure MMA since they were five start to become the norm and the rules and fighter promotion have evolved.
kingjames100 -Moosbrugger -kingjames100 - It's the golden age of everybody with a computer able to bitch about anything and everything and be heard.
I totally agree with you. It is also the golden age of people with a computer bitching about anything and everything in response to aforementioned bitching. So what is your point?
My point is nothing has really changed over the years it's just that there's a lot more people watching now who only want fights to end a certain way.
It also doesn't help that wrestlers come into MMA with no fight finishing capabilities, unlike strikers and BJJ players who start their MMA careers with ways to finish fights.
I think eventually it'll all even itself as wrestlers get as comfortable with the other aspects of MMA as they are with their 'bread and butter'. Obviously the same applies to strikers and BJJ players.
Sorry man but MMA has changed hugely over the years. I started watching it when I lived in Japan almost a decade ago and I used to watch really boring fights a lot of the time and really enjoy them. And the fights just got more exciting and more technical but, and I'm not sure about this by any means, I've started to notice a change in some ways. MMA is attracting a different kind of fighter these days. It could be that I'm getting harder to entertain, I don't know, it feels a bit like the peak has passed to me right now.
OBgrappler - its like waves, we'll have high and excited moments and dry and lame ones.
Just wait until some of the kids who are 12 watching UFC start looking into pro careers- that'll be something amazing.
This is absolutely what we are all waiting for! The youngsters can save the sport if the organisations allow them to.
It ended with pride. competition between the organizations was cool.
Golden age hasnt happened yet, numbers dont lie its gettin bigger
clattymine - It ended with pride. competition between the organizations was cool.
OBgrappler - its like waves, we'll have high and excited moments and dry and lame ones.
Just wait until some of the kids who are 12 watching UFC start looking into pro careers- that'll be something amazing.
Agree. In 10 years we'll look back at people like Anderson Silva, Fedor, etc. and it'll be like watching old Babe Ruth baseball vids, thinking to ourselves 'damn, and we thought these guys were so talented, quick, etc.'