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The current UFC is not only better, but the fights and fighters are so much superior than they were on a mass level of the early days. I fuckin hate Joe Rogan but he makes a damn good point in that since MMA's conception the art of fighting as evolved as much in the past decade then in the last few centuries. The current stars of UFC (Liddell, Ortiz, Hughes, etc.) would walk all over people in similar weight classes from 10 years ago.
Now that brings up the point of weight restriction. Personally, I think it needs to happen. While seeing Gracie physically disect someone twice his size is something that every fan of fighting should see at least once, he was a rare exception. For the most part, it's simple fact, big man squash little man. Always going to be examples outside of this, but come on now, if we took Sean Sherk and pitted him against Tim Sylvia...is anyone questioning what the result would be? Weight class actually makes fights better and more exciting.
I LOVE old school UFC stuff. Infact I tend to watch my old VHS tapes of them more than I do my newer UFC DVDs...but that time is over, and I am glad we have UFC as it is right now. Personally I would make it three weight classes instead of five...a 145-170, a 171-205 and a 205+...but that's just my personal opinion.
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