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UFC is unfortunately picking up more and more traits from boxing in recent years though. I wholeheartedly agree with your post ..... if it had been written anytime before around 2015.
It used to be 100% purely about making the best fights and matching up deserved contenders. The advantage to fighters being company employees was that they basically couldn’t run from fights. Doesn’t seem to be that way anymore ... a crop of stars have disappeared which has made UFC somewhat desperate and fighters seem to push for nonsensical ( in terms of rankings and titles ) money fights over logical title defences and contendership eliminators. This is actually understandable from the fighters, however, as the advantage of UFC having them as employees = great fights, has switched around now as people that aren’t right at the top of the ladder are very underpaid.
I blame the Reebok deal. It is singlehandedly the worst thing that the UFC ever did, and it was entirely based on lies and broken promises.
Interesting.
I wonder how Dana would answer your points.
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