It seems to me that in the UFC guys try to "stand and throw" more than in any other MMA fight league. This is probably because of pressure from Dana White on his fighters to put on an "Exciting show" for the sake of pay per view ratings. I have heard terms like "knock out bonuses" etc.
Well if you ask me, thats tampering with the results, meaning that if you have a ground fighter that tries to fight standing up in order to please the league or to get a bonus, that puts that fighter at a dis advantage.
If you watch the UFC card, such as the one last night (december 27) where rampage jackson fought silva, the card was just one lumbering guy after another all throwing punches with almost no takedowns, and very few kicks. The only fighters that even had ANY real stand up ability would probably have been the 6 fighters in the three main events....
the rest were SUB PAR boxers to say the least and it was both hard and annoying to watch these guys lumber around...
also, the UFC focuses mostly on larger fighters and weight classes which makes their ineptitude with their hand skills even more obvious.
Why focus only on heavier fighters and why discourage ground fighting? i know ground fighting is not as exciting as a "Knockout" but it can be exciting if done well, it is definitely more exciting to watch than much of the rubbish that the UFC card contains get knocked out.
Of course there is the occasional exception, but if you watch fights on HDNET, or the WEC on versus network where they feature lighter, faster, more skilled ground and MMA fighters, the fights are much more exciting, and often go from the ground to punching, back to the ground, with judo throws and jiu jitsu fighting, etc.
the UFC has very little in that way, again, i know there are exceptions, but it seems that the last 4 UFC events i watched all had mainly stand up fights.
And as just stand up fighters, these lumbering guys the UFC features leave a lot to be desired from a boxing fan, let me tell ya.
ANOTHER THING - the UFC is a joke because its heavy weight champion is a WWF wrestler that is about 30 pounds over weight and sports a professional record of 3 wins and 1 loss. He is the UFC's version of KIMBO SLICE, an unproven freak show that has done nothing to earn the title shot he got.
It devalues MMA as a sport and quite frankly is disgusting. Why the fuck would a guy with 3 professional fights total get a shot at the title? in NO OTHER SPORT can such a thing occur...
the UFC is a freak show, sort of a spin off of the WWF, and if you are a fan of the MMA, i think you are better suited to watch fights from Japan, and HDNET fights, as well as the WEC on VERSUS network.
Just my two cents...
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