UFC knows WMMA sucks or they would have run an all WMMA card by now.
If WMMA is so great why won’t UFC or even Bellator or RIZIN do an all WMMA card?
UFC should either get WMMA out of the UFC and let PFL and ONE do it or they should just run their own WMMA cards out of the APEX and then the core UFC product can improve.
The talent pools in WMMA are tiny. PFL just had their 155 lb and 145 lb divisions fail and they ended them. Bellator has not been able to run WAW, WSW or WBW and those divisions actually have talent pools compared to that WFW division they have ran for Budd and Cyborg.
Japan had it right, they kept the WMMA out of PRIDE and DREAM and WMMA had their own shows via Smackgirl and Jewels.
RIZIN has WMMA and its a far worse product than PRIDE and DREAM.
I support WMMA and female fighters but don’t agree that the men should have to carry the females on their male cards. It cheapens the male MMA product for the audience who would like the choice not to watch WMMA on a given evening. Baseball, basketball, football, soccer etc… fans don’t get treated like that.
The day PFL announced a WLW division I knew it would end up a failing pile of garbage. One jacked up FW beating up on a bunch of washed BW’s at LW is not a division to invest in. Kayla was never gonna be another Ronda, she didn’t have the sex appeal. The public is not gonna get behind a female Brock Lesnar like they are say a Gina, Ronda or Tate.
At least Dana admitted it was a failure and got rid of WFW in the UFC. Thats a start.
UFC does not have that much confidence in WMMA and they know the talent pool is limited or they would run all female cards. They don’t. They make the men carry the women while they hope and pray to get another Gina or Ronda.
Last night the men delivered eight KO’s. The men got FOTN and the two POTN’s.
I fortunately skipped the Virna Jandiroba fight though I’m sure it sucked but the Blanchfield fight was terrible, especially as a main event and Blanchfield is one of the best talents they have in all of WMMA.
Come on Dana, just run WMMA on its own out of the APEX, call it UFC-W and let the 20% of casuals who want to watch that shit watch it without fucking up the normal UFC for the rest of us. And get 165 lbs and 175 lbs going. That was a no-brainer. College wrestling has two more weight classes than UFC between 140 and 180 lbs for a reason, thats were the population and talent is.