Comments Thread For: Conor McGregor Announces His Retirement

[BLASTER1]

Idk about this exactly anyway. One could argue that MMA is a modification to boxing using this theory. But boxing still exists.

I definitely think MMA advances just like boxing has advanced. Watch the oldest fight you can find & then watch some fight from Saturday. You'll see advancements & you'll notice more if you read about how things worked back then vs how they work now. So I have no doubt MMA has a similar trajectory but not to the point of using weapons lol.

Granted I do expect new combat sports to be birthed from trying to top MMA or other fighting styles & I think we can already see things like this existing. There are those sword fighting in a cage guys. There is that gang fight MMA league that I believe has 3 vs 3 or 5 vs 5 man fights. Even BKB was a hybrid combat sport & I'm sure there are others. But I think the base of MMA stays the same not unlike the base of Boxing has if we could somehow view it 100 years in the future.

One thing I do suspect is sports, specifically dangerous sports like the NFL, Boxing & MMA among other higher risk sports, will be taking place in a VR environment at some future date when the technology is viable to replicate if not enhance the competive experience. I've theorized on this numerous times in the past cuz I think VR tech is gonna vastly change our world in many ways not just with sports but I think you could push all fighting sports up a notch by having guys fighting to the death in the VR world thus it'd be more exciting without the tragedy of true death. Plus unlike in real combat sports where top guys fight 2-3 times a year you could have VR fighters who are only having a avatar of them being harmed could fight multiple times in a night.

With the video game culture ingrained in the younger generations I think this is a fairly obvious path to take. Along with the fact in our PC wear a helmet culture athletes being seriously injured or dying isn't going to be an acceptable thing forever. VR sports will instantly end deaths, severe injuries & even punch drunkness in boxing.

/my scifi future of boxing, MMA & sports in general speculation lol

When you lay it out like that if course this will be the future.
Especially with technology advancement and the fact everyone nowadays is hooked up into the Web.
Come to think of it its very odvious that this is what the future will bring.
Imagine being able to be Ali in a Ali/Foreman 3 being able to use VR to replicate that fight and experience it thru the eyes of either fighter.
Amazing.

[Eff Pandas]

Imagine being able to be Ali in a Ali/Foreman 3 being able to use VR to replicate that fight and experience it thru the eyes of either fighter.
Amazing.

Yea no doubt. The way we'll likely be able to view things is gonna be enhanced to & its a good bet that whole "first person shooter" view is a road which will be taken.

I've been talking about this with streaming content in fact as the reason I see streaming taking over for broadcasting is cuz with streaming you can customize your viewing experience. They just haven't fully implemented it yet or explored options.

But I think its doable right now to give people the ability to watch the fight (or w/e event) from any seat in the house or from the ref or the judges POV.

And if you extrapolate that out to a VR world of the future you could easily see us being able to view a fight from any seat in the house as brought up but including from the POV of either fighter.

Randomly I think this will be the road movies of the future take also. I kinda feel like movies & video games will blend together more or there will be a new genre of entertainment that will do this. Like you'll be going to play that new movie Friday vs simply watching it.

[OCPancho]

He's pulling a floyd retirement .
He's gonna wait out when the good ones fight it out .
Then come back when Khabib is retired.

[BLASTER1]

Yea no doubt. The way we'll likely be able to view things is gonna be enhanced to & its a good bet that whole "first person shooter" view is a road which will be taken.

I've been talking about this with streaming content in fact as the reason I see streaming taking over for broadcasting is cuz with streaming you can customize your viewing experience. They just haven't fully implemented it yet or explored options.

But I think its doable right now to give people the ability to watch the fight (or w/e event) from any seat in the house or from the ref or the judges POV.

And if you extrapolate that out to a VR world of the future you could easily see us being able to view a fight from any seat in the house as brought up but including from the POV of either fighter.

Randomly I think this will be the road movies of the future take also. I kinda feel like movies & video games will blend together more or there will be a new genre of entertainment that will do this. Like you'll be going to play that new movie Friday vs simply watching it.

Definitely bro.
It's the way of the future.
I'm in my 40s but I can definitely see this happening before I'm no more.

AI and VR will be the next consumer technology boom.