After reading how many are disappointed at production, sound, canned audience, ect, no longer gonna support, politics, blah blah, I got to thinking...... UFC is not the only MMA there is! Maybe if you supported the other events as much as you do UFC, they would grow & become just as big. After all, the fighters in UFC now, were doing the same thing before they got chosen.. just in other events!

I also hear it said when you mention MMA to strangers they think only UFC, why is that? Could it be because thats all you talk about, the fighters in UFC? I've been to lots of smaller events & ya know, I get just as excited! Why? Because I'm there to watch fighters! I'm not there & comparing it to UFC. I'm there because I love MMA...... period!

You think the fighters at UFC train any harder than those who compete at KOTC or WEC or any of the other events? I doubt it. They have just as much heart as any of those that get singled out for UFC. Thank god for the other events, where else would these fighters get to show their many talents? Oh sure, once they are noticed by UFC, all of a sudden they get mass attention. But, they've been here all along people, right under your noses doing the same thing they were "already" doing!

Think about it, if you are unhappy with the performance of UFC, then help build the other events & make them successful! Make sense? When UFC has to compete with "other" good competition, they will keep their standards high, to compete......

What do you think?

I support all of them but ufc is all most none fans know about mma and is usally the first show anybody see's. You say your the best in the world of mma. Then you better act like it.

i think that the general public needs to be convinced that mma is a sport and not some terrible slaughterfest.

we can thank the media for that because everytime that this sport DOES get some real publicity and attention it's always followed up immediately by the reporter pointing out how most people find it so ****ing savage.
then they start interviewing senators and other people campaigning to outlaw mma. so in the end, they ALWAYS leave mma exposure to be looked at as some kinda of.....
CONTROVERSY rather than a sport.

what this does is prevent this sport from growing to where it needs to grow. it's not our fault that kotc, gladiator challenge, hook n shoot, etc don't get the support, it's just that the events are publicized enough for them to become major. they need $$$ to do that and as long as the public still thinks that mma is a morally degrading activity, then they're not gonna get the $$$.

right now we NEED ufc and pride to open the doors to outsiders who don't know the sport. then once people see the sport in this and can appreciate a fighter they will be much more interested in the b,c, and d level events.

Zuffa has a ****load of money.......others promotions don't yet. End of story. But, I've been trying to help out other shows anyway I can.

Most of us have are KOTC DVDs and WEC tapes ect ...I rent every KOTC PPV they have had..The reason we complain about the UFC is that they represent our sport in North America....When they look bad, we look bad to new fans and other media

the UFC is run like some sort of prowrestling show - with all the gimmicky ****ty colorful lights and ****ty announcers and everything.

Look at pride - straight out, ****ing class.

I support them all and if more fights came to detroit! I would go there too

Originally posted by Magic Man
the UFC is run like some sort of prowrestling show - with all the gimmicky ****ty colorful lights and ****ty announcers and everything.

Look at pride - straight out, ****ing class.

bullseye

Except for Pride, the talent at UFC overall is clearly much better than the other MMA shows. There's no comparison. Of course, their productions and choice of commentators could be improved, but people watch their shows because the fighters are top notch.

I go to every show I can possibly make it to.

I personally have seen more UCC than anything because I'm Canadian, and I'd have to say I like their shows a lot more than what I've seen of the UFC.

Same goes for the ring girls...

there is one difference in pride and ufc, and that is japan. there is accepted, here it is seen as a brutal display, but for some reason boxing isnt. stupid.

Yeah no ****... I think boxing is waaaaay more brutal than MMA. All you do in boxing is take repeated headshots (and body shots). Your brain is sloshed around up there, getting bruised and damaged and ****. Rogan made a comment on the last UFC about this and I'm sooo glad--I've been saying it for years now--MMA is much more safer than boxing (not to mention more scientific, entertaining, blah, blah, blah, the list goes on...)

Also too I think some of the promoters out there should think up of some "lesser-brutal" names for their fight promotions so they don't sound like "human ****fights".
Like anything with the word "cage" in it, makes it sound more like a brutal spectacle than a technical sport IMO.
I love KOTC just as much as the next guy---but I wish they would consider changing the name (for the sports sake), because they're right up there on UFC's and Pride's heels in popularity. Those reporters have a field day with the names of some of these organizations, and it makes it much easier for them to bash the sport of MMA.

Just my 2 cents.

K-1 is the most brutal. Well actually full Muay Thai is, the only reason MMA isn’t except is cause the average American...and most of us Canadians are ****ing DUMB close minded *******s.

Originally posted by Purity
i think that the general public needs to be convinced that mma is a sport and not some terrible slaughterfest.

we can thank the media for that because everytime that this sport DOES get some real publicity and attention it's always followed up immediately by the reporter pointing out how most people find it so ****ing savage.
then they start interviewing senators and other people campaigning to outlaw mma. so in the end, they ALWAYS leave mma exposure to be looked at as some kinda of.....
CONTROVERSY rather than a sport.

what this does is prevent this sport from growing to where it needs to grow. it's not our fault that kotc, gladiator challenge, hook n shoot, etc don't get the support, it's just that the events are publicized enough for them to become major. they need $$$ to do that and as long as the public still thinks that mma is a morally degrading activity, then they're not gonna get the $$$.

right now we NEED ufc and pride to open the doors to outsiders who don't know the sport. then once people see the sport in this and can appreciate a fighter they will be much more interested in the b,c, and d level events.


Very true, it's sad that MMA is often grouped with wrestling from a lot of reporters and magazines that dont know what the **** they're talking about

Originally posted by Crystalline Dream
Very true, it's sad that MMA is often grouped with wrestling from a lot of reporters and magazines that dont know what the **** they're talking about


like Lisa Durgen?:?:

lol.

and guys named Dogg. They never seem to get their facts straight :devil

Originally posted by Crystalline Dream
and guys named Dogg. They never seem to get their facts straight :devil

you really want me!!!.... dont you??:whipped: