Where do you see MMA/UFC in the next 5 years?

[The Naitch]

2011-
2012-
2013-
2014-
2015-

I will add my thoughts later

[Funky Fly]

2011- popular
2012- peak popularity
2013- riddled with scandals, corruption and 5234652345 weight classes because the fighters are all cowards
2014- replaced in popularity by actual modern day gladiators fighting to the death
2015- gladiators with laser swords

[The Mask]

it'll probably get really really boring soon when everyone cottons onto the fact the ufc rules and the octagon favour wrestlers something silly, and every championship match will end up being one guy lying on top of the other not really attacking for a very long time.

[IC Champion]

it'll probably get really really boring soon when everyone cottons onto the fact the ufc rules and the octagon favour wrestlers something silly, and every championship match will end up being one guy lying on top of the other not really attacking for a very long time.

That trend is starting to end. Brock and GSP are the only champions who really use there wrestling to win fights. Edgar stands and boxes, so does Silva and Rua. And only one of those guys has a background in wrestling. Spending hours learning how to wrestle becomes useless once the guy across from you learns enough to stuff takedowns. And than wrestlers will get picked apart. C'mon now, Chuck Liddel taught us this 4 years ago.

[Nark Order]

If Maynard wins the belt the sport is going to hell.

[IC Champion]

Even is Maynard wins, I don't see him having a long riegn. He's too one dimensional, all Edgar needs to do is stuff his takedowns and he'll win.

[MoFo]

2011-Still the same
2012-Fedor v Lesnar
2013-New York gets passed for fights
2014-Lack of stars
2015-Mediocrity

[Crimson]

I see a women's division somewhere in there.. :shifty:

[Stickman]

2015-So many better young fighters start to emerge adding a new dynamic to the sport.

[Funky Fly]

I see a women's division somewhere in there.. :shifty:

There are already women in MMA. Never going to happen in the UFC tho. Dana White thinks it's too much of a sideshow.

I'm telling you guys: gladiators avec laser swords.

[The Mask]

i think it is pointless having a womans division in the ufc at this point in time. there are like about 5 good women fighters tops, and it can't help them trying to get it sanctioned in places like new york.

[The Mask]

plus ufc crowds seem wildly misogynistic too.

[Funky Fly]

I've seen some good women's fights. Grappling matches are awesome because you'll see a situation where if it were dudes, one of them would be horribly fucked, but because they are girls, the chick in the submission will do some ridiculous escape via flexibility.

[The Mask]

fucking bints. i keep an eye out for rosi sexton's fights since she used to train where i did, though i never met her. saw some documentary in avec her too. she got sparked out with a nasty knee not so long ago :'(

[The Mask]

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ughhhh

[Funky Fly]

Her foot work is sketchy. Plus that knee was really unfortunate. Put her hands down a split second too quick and ate it. Then again, who jumps around with their head down for that long?

[The Mask]

yeah she had her head down for waaaay too long there. was practically begging to be kneed. i don't know who she trains with anymore though cause apparently she was in a relationship avec my old main trainer guy. so maybe she's just gone awful through lack of coaching.