UFC is not a Sport its Entertainment
All sports are entertainment
Stripping is entertainment you consider that a sport?
sports = entertainment
stripping = entertainment
entertainment =/= sports
nice try though
I was making the comparison of a president of a company giving a title shot (to someone who has a mass media of wwe followers ) to fight for the heavyweight belt with a mma record of 2-1-0. Or having a lw fight a champion ww when there were plenty of ww next in line just to show "What if Entertainment." Or having GSP vs Anderson just because he wants to see a "what if Entertainment." when they clearly are in diff weight class, have nothing to prove in a diff weight class. Tell me what sport does all that in NFL, Soccer, or Basketball. You don't have one basketball team play another basketball team just because they look good but have no rank to do it.
Thats the camparison I made with entertainment and sport.
if you havent noticed, theres not a very large field of heavyweight fighters. who else would have fought? theres like 5 heavy weight fighters in the ufc.
if someone can cut or gain to the next weight class then how do you figure its not thier "weight class" as far as im concerned it is. its not like they are taking a 205 guy and having him weigh in at 205 but fight a guy who weighs in at 170. dont be an idiot.
there is not just five heavyweight figthers in the ufc
brock lesnar only had 3 fights which one of them he lost
Courture was gone for a year(he was the heavyweight champ by beating sylvia) and came back but his first fight was with Brock
before brock came to the ufc Nog was clearly next in line and so was mir.
But they didn't get there title shot he gave it to brock because he new it would draw in money.
Shane carwin should have had the title for the belt since his apperance in UFC 84 he is undefeated
Kongo should have a shot at the title before brock since he went on a 3 fight winning streak after his defeat from Herring
Here the list of UFC heavyweights and records
Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira 31-5
Frank Mir 12-4
Shane Carwin 11-0
Cain Velazquez 6-0
Junior Dos Santos 8-1
Barry Pat 3-1
Gonzaga Gabriel 10-4
Hardonk Antoni 8-5
Herring Heath 28-14
Kongo Cheick 20-5
McCully Justin 9-4
Mirko "Cro Cop" Filipovik 25-6-2 (now with the UFC)
That doesn't look like five to me. But im the idiot. I can clearly list 8 heavyweights with their record and streak of wins who clearly deserve the title shot before Brock lesnar. Pat barry was a well know kick boxer just enter the UFC and got a 3 fight streak and he didn't get the type of attention Brock Lesnar did when he enter the ufc. Shane Carwin been amazing the past few fights but didn't get the attention Lesnar did either and he is also undefeated. Along with Cain Velasquez, Gonzago Gabriel, and Dos Santos.
BROCK HAS ONLY BEEN IN THE UFC SINCE FEB 2008 AND HIS RECORD IS 4-1
The reason he got the title was because of his fanbase, entertaiment, and money making value. That is it... MONEY AND ENTERTAINMENT.
You want another example?
Lyoto Machida( he is the Champion now) has been dominating opponents since his first debut in UFC 67. Undefeated with a record of 15-0. Everyone who is a fan of MA and MMA knew he was long overdue for a title shot. Matter of fact, he wasn't even suppose to face Rashad Evans..Rampage Jackson was. He only got a chance at the title shot because he was injured and Dana gave it to Lyoto. It clearly shows Lyoto didn't get the shot because people consider him boring and didn't like his style
Shit Dana stated for the TUF season it would consist of Lyoto and Rampage but gave it to Evans because it would draw in more entertainment.
Dana White clearly just wants to make money, bring in more people by displaying "What if Entertainment." If you draw a big crowd of people wanting to see exicting fights he doesn't care about the sportman fair value.
I understand that all sport is for your entertainment. But there is a clear sign when something that suppose to be sportman like is not clearly in that catergory and is just for the entertainment factor for our eyes. (that why i brought the comparison of stripping)
The definition of a sport is Sport is an activity that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often engaged in competitively. Sport is commonly defined as an organized, competitive and skillful physical activity requiring commitment and fair play.
Thats why i don't consider it a sport. I understand you watch it and might know a little about MA or MMA but you don't know enough. You are clearly just going by what you see and just the entertainment of it.
And about the cut and whatever point you were getting at with weight class..wtf are you talking about?
I was making a point on how he is having other fighter in diff division who are dominating in that weight class fight someone else just to see a good fight.
you want sportsman go watch a sport where theres no money involved. bottom line if shit isnt done to bring in the money the fighters dont get paid. ask them if they would rather fight for nothing and have it be "fair" as you would call it or have to sit on the sidelines for a bit to get a fat check. im pretty sure most of these dude fight for a living.
if a guy can drop 30lbs to fight in a different division then so be it. im pretty sure dana didnt make anderson fight in another class, he WANTED to do it himself. until someone steps up to the plate in middleweight, thats what will happen.
thank you for proving my point that its not sport. And please stop acting like you know anything about MMA when you don't.
ALL SPORT INVOLVES MONEY so what are you talking about again?
They are only making money when they fight. They one who are fighting are the one who making money. So if you were in a 5 winning fight streak and someone who is a bigger name than you gets a shot at a title and would get more money (even though you deserve that shot and money first) you wouldn't be upset right?
first off not all the fighters are just in the UFC for money. Brock is but not Lyoto, Anderson, Fedor, and many others. They are there because they are fighters and want to fight. Why do you think Cro cop left the UFC? because he wanted to fight more than 3 fights in a year. He didn't give a shit about the money.
Why do you think Fedor is not in the UFC. Because he can see the money hungry tyrant bullshit Dana is. He can give a shit about the money
Dana said he wanted Anderson and Lyoto to fight. They said they would never fight each other because they respect each other. They dont give a shit about the money.
GSP was hinted to fight Anderson but doesn't want to right away and said maybe in the future. He doesn't give a shit about the moeny.
I'll make it clear for you since your not getting the weight issue I brought up.
Dana wanted GSP and Anderson to fight. GSP is a ww. Anderson is MW. GSP doesn't see why he has to fight Anderson because they are not in the same weight class. He turned that down as his next fight because he rather compete in the WW division and clean that division out. Once he does all that and can get his weight and train as a mw then MAYBE he will fight Anderson.
He see that just Dana trying to draw a hugh crowd to watch ufc when they aren't in the same weight class.
GSP walks around 190. Anderson walks around 215. Again I don't know what your getting at with the weight class. Are you saying how much they normally weight before they drop down? That not what im talking about kid...