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UFC tournament or 2nd vs 3rd?
UFC before Dana White was largely tournament based but since then it has become more of a Boxing style format. In the absence of a Belted Champion do you think it's more logical to have 2nd and 3rd duke it out or a tournament to decide the new champion before returning to the boxing style format with second and third points ranked fighters able to take first crack at the new champion?
I don't know that being illegal would hurt it so much these days. It would probably continue on some kind of Pay Per View from Japan or Brazil.
The reason I ask is people claiming that a lot of the fighters are just dragging things out to win on points. From what I see this has a bit of truth about it.
If a champion seat was vacated (like the welter weight one currently is) for too long then the top eight duke it out in a double elimination tournament meaning that the winner has to be explosive and able to end a fight in seconds and conserve their energy for the next fight AND able to go three rounds to defend their title from the second and third seated fighters who get first and second cracks at them when the regular matches resume.
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- Ken PLv 69 years agoFavorite Answer
Being illegal would definitely hurt the UFC, the gate is what pays the fighters not the PPV money that is used for operating cost of the production. Also if it didn’t have ability to do local shows it would return to just being a small almost niche sport, not the main stream sport it has become.
Tournament wise I would like to see the UFC incorporate Bellator style tournaments staggered throughout the year. Take the top 4 or 8 fighters from a weight class do a multi event tournament and the winner of that tournament faces the champion. I think it would be the best time for a division with the champion out, like with GSP’s welterweight title. They could have taken the top 4 welterweights, lets say: Carlos Condit, Nick Diaz, Martin Kampmann, Jake Shields. One first card put Condit/Shields and Diaz/Kampmann, then a few months later the winner of those will face off say Condit defeats Shields and Diaz defeats Kampmann so Condit would face Diaz and the winner would be Intern Champion and face GSP when he returns.
- Kendall SylvanLv 69 years ago
In my opinion, not that it matters for anything, it would be better to have the two top contenders currently in the UFC's particular weight division fight for the title.
This means:
* no switching divisions to fight for the title
* no bringing people in from other promotions as top contenders
* no 'retirement' comebacks
* fighters are already under active UFC contracts
- clown(s) aroundLv 69 years ago
Before Dana White the sport was nearly made illegal. Single-day tourneys are disallowed by the commission -- not Dana White
- Anonymous5 years ago
Rampage is in NO FRICKIN' way the superb UFC fighter of all time. he's had 2 frickin' fights interior the UFC, dude, get a clue. the actual human beings might want to be Randy Coutoure, Chuck Liddell, Or Royce Gracie. they are those who contributed to the sprot the most, even formerly it replaced into mainstream. i can't even initiate, to imagine of ways IGNORANT this question is!!!
