Is joe rogan right in this situation? he owned Dibella here

[ELPacman]

I feel MMA is a sport of many forms of combat but you won't see a "master" of one. In other words, these guys train to be OK at every aspect but don't generally master a single one.

This is why I see Conner being humiliated by Floyd. Conner may have done "boxing" well in MMA compared to the rest in MMA, but his "well" in MMA is amateurish for pro boxing. Honestly, the only factor I see between them two is the age. If Jr. seriously looks like an old man and Conner just bum rushes him and catches him with some miracle blow.

[Endsareforever]

MMA isn't nearly as big as it should have been. Back in 2007/2008, the sport was littered with "stars" like Chuck Liddell, Rampage, Wanderlei, Forrest Griffin, Anderson Silva, GSP, BJ Penn and more.

Then you had a real crazy peak around 2010 when Brock Lesnar was the Heavyweight Champion.

Yet here we are in 2017 and what do they really have other than Conor ? Ronda is done, Bones stays high on crack and steroids and Silva is finished as a headliner. Why do you think they're desperate to bring GSP back ?

10 years ago there was talk of MMA one day being able to challenge the NFL and World Soccer, but in 2017, they're struggling to even get past the MLS in popularity let alone take on heavy hitter sports leagues.

There is an underlying reason as to why this has happened. In general, society has become more pussified. All the LGBT **** and general liberal ethos mean that people have less inclinations towards aggression and violence. In order to attract casuals to sports like Football, look at how many rules they now have about contact and personal fouls, etc.

Why do you think physical defense isn't even allowed in the NBA anymore ? In the 80's crowds used to cheer the violence and the Bad Boy Pistons. Now if you so much as graze LeBron's jersey you get tech'd the **** up.

In that same vein, a lot of potential fans just can't take all the blood and overt/in your face violence of MMA. In Boxing, you have big shots landing and cuts do happen, but it does seem as though the number of visceral injuries in MMA is significantly higher.

That, and also the fact that a lot of people just aren't into grown men spending significant amounts of time pushing against each other on a cage or dry humping each other on the ground.

MMA's growth in 2017 is nowhere near where we thought it would be back in 2008.