Why do so many of you hate MMA??

[fathergll]

The problem is, by the time most of the Pride fighters came over, a good number of 'em were already past their best years ie Dan Henderson, Noguiera, Cro Cop(overrated in my opinion), Wanderlei Silva. And for anyone that thought that every single Pride fighter that went to the UFC was gonna have great success, well, they don't know ****.

Anyway, Noguiera in his prime was the ****. Do you really think that the version of Frank Mir that defeated Nog would done the same against a Prime Nog?

Guess who the UFC rates as its #1 P4P fighter, it's a former Pride fighter, Anderson Silva(still undefeated in the UFC). Lyoto has done well so far, Rampage is still very much a threat and I can see him defeating Evans.

My point is you can't say Pride was great and the UFC is bar fighters gassing in 1 round when in fact many of the Pride talent has gassed themselves here.

yes Im aware Nog is well past his prime and would have killed Mir. Wanderlei actually been past his prime even at the end of his pride days.

Theres just a lot of smoke and mirrors with Pride. Some great talent in their but people are smoking crack when they act like the UFC is terrible and Pride was amazing. I admit i even enjoyed Pride more but I realize they are both MMA promoters and held a lot of great talent. UFC was a more realistic promoter and held more consistent talent. Hence less freak shows, less Japanese fighters(Sorry guys but Japanese fighters are overrated big time...especially 170lbs+)

Also there was no testing in Pride. So its only logical to assume that a good amount of steroids where used with fighters(Yes its logical to assume that because a lot of fighters get busted where there is testing(UFC, Affliction)....so in an environment without testing its only logical to assume that the number is much higher) Im not saying every fighter did but lets not be ****** and pretend it wasnt there