RE: UFC in war over fair Salaries
Unfortunately ufc and WWE aren't too different from each other. No matter how good a fighter is, if they aren't bringing in numbers, it's gonna be a bad payday.
If you look at ufc fight stats, 500,000 for a championship level fight sounds fair to me unless you can bring in crowds consistently.
Ive always enjoyed mma, and as a martial art enthusiast, I really appreciate fights. For the vast majority of people however, you're going to find that they don't understand fighting and won't be entertained without huge knockouts or a lot of gore and blood.
My solution to this is to try an alternate approach and split the 3 round system is to striking, grappling and then mma. It would make things a lot easier for people to understand and appreciate and therefor draw crowds.
Changing the scoring is a great idea and they’ve made some attempts to fix it.
I think winning a round should be 8 points mostly.
9 points for a dominant round, and 10 points for a dominant round with knockdowns and significantly damaging blows.
That scoring would solve most of the debates. There’d be a few issues but clearly many rounds that are ties ruin the scoring.
The fighters mainly complain when two rounds are razor tight and one round is a blowout that the loser clearly won.
It’s a great sport though and way more cerebral than most people realize!
i don't like the 10 point scoring system for UFC. I dont have an answer to how it should be, but i know that the 10 point system can be improved.
In grappling you could dominate the whole round in offense, or you can be a complete shut down using strong defense. Who wins? in the judge's eyes, its the person who was more aggressive. But should that really be the case? or should it be the one who has the best technique and application?
You would need special judges specifically for those types of bouts. and it would easier to judge if you split the fighting styles up.
A split analysis is a good idea. They could have an expert in each area score.
I think that form truly shapes the outcome such that the better grappler will move and bend and punish the grappler with worse technique.
The same in striking any error in form will be capitalized on like Aldo’s tendency to come in too strong would have cost him the fight later on even if he hadn’t ran in in the first 10 seconds vs McGregor.
If neither person can make significant progress, I agree with you I’d think the points would have to be rewarded to the more aggressive fighter not the guarded defender.