Is the UFC growing stale? Top 10 fighters

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These are top 10 from the weightclass.

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  • Champion: Deiveson Figueiredo (20-2-1)
    1. Brandon Moreno (20-6-2)
  • 2. Alexandre Pantoja (25-5-0)
  • 3. Kai Kara France (24-10-0)
  • 4. Brandon Royval (12-5-0)
  • 5. Alex Perez (24-7-0)
  • 6. Matheus Nicolau (16-3-1)
  • 7. Matt Schnell (15-6-0)
  • 8. Amir Albazi (15-1-0)
  • 9. David Dvorak (20-4-0)
  • 10. Tim Elliott (18-11-1)

135

  • Champion: Aljamain Sterling (22-3-0)
  • 1. Sean O’Malley (16-1-0)
  • 2. Merab Dvalishvili (15-4-0)
  • 3. Petr Yan (16-4-0)
  • 4. Marlon Vera (20-7-1)
  • 5. TJ Dillashaw (17-5-0)
  • 6. Cory Sandhagen (15-2-0)
  • 7. Rob Font (19-6-0)
  • 8. Dominick Cruz (24-4-0)
  • 9. Song Yadong (19-6-1)
  • 10. Pedro Munhoz (19-7-0

145

  • Champion: Alexander Volkanovski (25-1-0)
  • 1. Max Holloway (23-6-0)
  • 2. Yair Rodriguez (14-3-0)
  • 3. Brian Ortega (15-3-0)
  • 4. Arnold Allen (18-1-0)
  • 5. Josh Emmett (18-2-0)
  • 6. Chan Sung Jung (17-7-0)
  • 7. Calvin Kattar (23-6-0)
  • 8. Giga Chikadze (14-3-0)
  • 9. Bryce Mitchell (15-0-0)
  • 10. Movsar Evloev (16-0-0)

155

  • Champion: Islam Makhachev (23-1-0)
  • 1. Charles Oliveira (31-8-0)
  • 2. Dustin Poirier (26-6-0)
    1. Justin Gaethje (23-2-0)
  • 4. Beneil Dariush (21-4-1)
  • 5. Michael Chandler (22-6-0)
  • 6. Rafael Fiziev (10-1-0)
  • 7. Rafael Dos Anjos (29-13-0)
  • 8. Mateusz Gamrot (19-1-0)
  • 9. Arman Tsarukyan (16-2-0)
  • 10. Jalin Turner (13-5-0)

170

  • Champion: Leon Edwards (20-3-0)
  • 1. Kamaru Usman (20-2-0)
  • 2. Colby Covington (15-2-0)
  • 3. Khamzat Chimaev (12-0-0)
  • 4. Belal Muhammad (19-3-0)
  • 5. Gilbert Burns (20-4-0)
  • 6. Geoff Neal (15-4-0)
  • 6. Stephen Thompson (16-5-1)
  • 8. Sean Brady (14-0-0)
  • 9. Vicente Luque (21-9-1)
  • 10. Shavkat Rakhmonov (15-0-0)

185

  • Champion: Alex Pereira (7-1-0)
  • 1. Israel Adesanya (21-1-0)
  • 2. Robert Whittaker (25-6-0)
  • 3. Jared Cannonier (13-4-0)
  • 4. Marvin Vettori (18-6-0)
  • 5. Derek Brunson (22-7-0)
  • 6. Paulo Costa (14-2-0)
  • 7. Sean Strickland (23-3-1)
  • 8. Jack Hermansson (22-6-0)
  • 9. Darren Till (18-3-1)
  • 10. Andre Muniz (21-4-0)

205

  • Champion: Jiri Prochazka (29-3-1)
  • 1. Glover Teixeira (33-8-0)
  • 2. Jan Blachowicz (29-9-0)
  • 3. Magomed Ankalaev (18-1-0)
  • 4. Aleksandar Rakic (14-3-0)
  • 5. Anthony Smith (36-17-0)
  • 6. Jamahal Hill (11-1-0)
  • 7. Nikita Krylov (29-9-0)
  • 8. Paul Craig (15-4-0)
  • 9. Volkan Oezdemir (18-5-0)
  • 10. Ryan Spann (20-6-0)

265

  • Champion: Francis Ngannou (16-3-0)
  • 1. Ciryl Gane (11-1-0)
  • 2. Stipe Miocic (20-4-0)
  • 3. Curtis Blaydes (14-3-0)
  • 4. Tai Tuivasa (15-4-0)
  • 5. Sergei Pavlovich (16-1-0)
  • 6. Tom Aspinall (10-2-0)
  • 7. Derrick Lewis (26-10-0)
  • 8. Alexander Volkov (35-10-0)
  • 9. Jairzinho Rozenstruik (12-2-0)
  • 10. Marcin Tybura (23-7-0)
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Probably…but last nights card was pretty fuckin fun

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I’m happy I saw it cause my coworker skipped it because thought it was at Apex. There is no structure or buzz for the event

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Has its moments. They are pumped for the next card coming up. I think they are putting too many lackluster cards together

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Been stale

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I think the next event is decent, missing star power

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Nope. I think it’s been awesome lately overall

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It is but there are tons of really good fights in my opinion. Great main card, and Chris Curtis on the undercard is usually an exciting fighter and Im high on Ankalaev

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2021 was lights out awesome. 2020 the ufc lead the charge on bringing sports back into our lives. 2022 has been solid with a ton of belt changes and big fights

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Sure HW and LHW has been trash. But all the other divisions are going strong

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Been stale for awhile since the UFC decided not to promote fighters and they are just commodities now.

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As long as live tweets are popping up on the screen in the middle of a fight, it can never be stale.

That’s pure excitement, pal.

That’s what the people fucking want!

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There are still exciting fights and great moments for sure.

But 'member when Machida and Thiago Silva, both undefeated, fought for the title shot? Shit like that doesn’t happen now. Just a bunch of random fights and then Dana semi-randomly picks someone to fight for the title based on out-of-cage antics.

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I remember I couldn’t wait until Cain and JDS finally met up.
2 young up and comers just running through everyone.

Cain also being set to fight Shane Carwin at one point was another good one that ended up not happening.

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Maybe back then the story lines were longer and based on accomplishment.

I still love it but social media and money have changed the vibe.

Khabib seems old school in that he really wanted to show that he, and his father’s training, were the best. Not strictly prizefighting. Real budo.

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Cain is very likely the most talented HW prospect of all time, but Gane, Pavlovich and Aspinall are at or above the JDS level and even more than that are above Carwin’s level.

Someone around here always mentions nostalgia as clouding people’s judgment, which tends to ring true. Another thing is so many fighters today are non-English speaking and unrelatable to the average fan from a decade+ ago, which makes it harder to get invested.

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Half of these names I’ve never heard of in my fucking life. In the 2000s and early 2010s, I knew every fighter. The UFC has watered down their brand. Now people are rooting for the top fighters to become free agents, versus continuing in the UFC.

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What an asinine statement this is.

The last challengers in each weight class are Cyril Gane, Jiri Prochazka, Alex Pereira, Leon Edwards, Islam Makachev, Max Holloway, TJ Dillashaw, Brandon Moreno, Amanda Nunes, Taila Santos, and Weili Zhang.

Literally the exact opposite of what you just said. Go back to WWF, dork.

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Maybe. I still watch

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99% of the talent is between 35 and 70