According to my quick reading he is talking about a lack of stars and big name fights in today’s game.
For example what I’ve been saying, UFC can’t even book their HW and LHW Champs in Jones and Francis and so they become inactive which helps no one including themselves.
And people have been talking about how garbage the higher weights especially are now like HW and LHW but those larger fighters are the true best fighters in the world. Not the best LW fighter or WMMA fighters. So if those guys are declining then the conclusion is that the Best Fighters in the world are getting worse or as Khabib said becoming stagnate which leads to a decline anyways.
damn Purist , thats hard to imagine and believe with the talent it spawns. Thats why i asked. Like NBA , MLB , NHL talent has have to evolved over time
Is there any current LHW on the planet you would pick over a 2011 Jon Jones?
Is there any LW that would be a favorite over a Retired Khabib?
Would you pick Brandon Moreno over a Prime Mighty Mouse?
Take a look at the abysmal HW and LHW rankings which like I said before are really the most formidable fighters in the world. Not the lighter guys and women.
The game does evolve as a whole and there are outliers but in my opinion we are not seeing the best fighters we have ever seen at the moment.
Francis Ngannou’s power is an outlier and without that his skills are not black belt level to put it lightly…. But that power is insane and is an equalizer. This inactivity is not helping him or the sport at the moment but to me the best MMA Fight today is between the 2 best fighters in Jon Jones vs Francis and they are outliers.
Well those are three all time greats… The sport wasn’t so primitive 11 years ago that the greats from that era are going to automatically be surpassed by the next generation as was the case in the 90s going into the 2000s. All time greats at this point are going to stand until someone even more special than they were comes along.
Yeah I agree the first decade of MMA was exponential growth. But this last decade has been stagnant by comparison and there are cases of a devolution in the product.
User each one as a feed league into UFC Global, which is the best of the best. Instead of cutting them, let them go back to the regional promotions.
Right now with all the events it’s all just UFC and devaluing the product where no casuals know anyone. Need to strengthen the brand & make it another level to get people to care more again.
Yeah because the training has more or less been the same since then with some slight tweaks here and there. The only real difference is the talent pool has grown to be a lot bigger and a bigger talent pool will obviously produce a lot more good fighters than a small talent pool. That’s the evolution that we’ve seen. It’s not as drastic and obvious as the evolution from the 90s to the 2000s and never will be unless a new and improved way of training emerges as it did then.