Oh look, fighters get to earn “points” and there are “playoffs”. Where have we heard this before?
There will be teams, each comprised of 24 fighters with three competitors in the following weight classes: featherweight, lightweight, welterweight, middleweight, light heavyweight, heavyweight, women’s flyweight, and women’s bantamweight. Those teams will be divided into four conferences: North America, South America, Europe/Africa, and Asia/Oceania. They will compete against each other in order to gain points within the regular-season events, which will play role in the qualification process into the playoffs, and from there to a post-season final.
Owen based WFL’s model on that known from other major team sports leagues, NFL, NBA, MLB, and made changes that it would fit into the world of MMA. It will be different from other, previous team-based promotions, IFL for example, by giving more power to the independent team owners, who will share revenues amongst themselves, but only after splitting it 50/50 with their fighters.
Someone else was talking about doing a team based MMA league in like 2012-2015. It was gonna be like twelve US cities each having a team of eight fighters and they would compete vs one another and then there would be a finals. They might have had a couple shows but it never got off the ground I don’t think.
If it would work perfectly then I could see it being entertaining and a fun concept for fans, it’s just not reality to have team-based MMA that’s going to work out as you’d want/need it to.
