Hey TJ I like your content a lot, and im happy for your growth and sponsorships! Could you in the future try to bring some more neutral healthy sponsorships? e.g. for Gym Gear, Nutrition,Supps I have just seen gambling or that vape thing. (Just an idea no hate at all brother wish you all good) and nice that you keep the format (with the pictures) and mix it up with sometimes your face!
The ufc doesn’t have enough talent to feed more divisions. The biggest critique flyweight, heavyweight, and lightheavyweight get is that there's not enough talent and compelling contenders in them. People were even calling middleweight boring for a long time. Imagine cutting that division in half to feed another it'd be awful.
@hittingates flyweight isn't and has never been popular whatsoever, cutting it in half won't make it anymore popular. And lightheavyweight is pretty trash. It's hard carried by Periera and Jiri. Most athletic guys this size are not coming to the ufc for nickles and dimes
@@hittingatesLHW is trash. Only Alex and maybe Ankalev are good, the rest are average or bad. And there’s no real up comer in the division. At least at flyweight there are a couple of young talented guys
@@american1207 welterweight is really stacked but that division is literally boxing when it comes to actually booking fights. The last time 2 top 5s fought each other was literally Usman vs Colby. I REPEAT, USMAN VS COLBY. 4 YEARS AGO.
Another thing worth mentioning is all the quick turnarounds and short notace fights that the ufc has been trying to pull. Such with deigo vs Brian on short notice, Gilbert and belal being on 3 weeks notace with the ufc probably hoping Gilbert could get rid of belal, but we all saw that Gilbert broke his shoulder from too much training. Also we saw the ufc trying to give Isreal adasanya over trained versions of dricuus du plessis and Robert Whittaker on a 10 week turnaround, and they even tried to get dricuss to fight Isreal adesanya on a quick turnaround after his war with Strickland. Over training is probably a contributor to fighters pulling out these days.
I saw Gilbert break his shoulder from being overwhelmed by Belal and put into bad positions by Belal, but it’s all about perspective lol such an interesting, wrong take you have here.
Gilbert didn't break his shoulder it was far worse than that. He suffered multiple injuries around his shoulder. You can't cut weight 3 times in such a short amount of time...
I’ll cover the Ryan stuff next week. Videos take a week for me to make so it’s hard to make a video on something that happened yesterday but the stuff Ryan said is crazy. Tune in next week
It should definitely not be the other way around. You should athletically peak at the fight day, you can't hold that level year round, you need to ramp it up during fight camp. But slacking off is definitely not what people should do and honestly I don't think most fighters do. There definitely are a lot of fighters with eating disorders though and the ballooning of some fighters probably stems from there. Weight cuts are just absolutely fucking cancer. We get less frequent, worse fights, with more pullouts AND we endanger the athletes. It's a loose, loose, loose, loose situation and it needs to be fixed...
The UFC needs to start doing hydration tests during weigh-ins like they do in ONE Championship. It's really only a matter of time before one of these extreme weight cuts gets a fighter killed in the ring.
There is a wave of covid going around, and on top of that so many guys are hard sparring with no headgear and ramping up intensity right before their bout
Alot of professional athletes have contracts that prohibit them from doing dangerous activities. Some athletes can't even ride motorcycles. So I don't see an issue with banning hard sparring 2-3 weeks before a fight....unless its a short notice fight.
you should make a video about how huge boxing has been in the last few months, from Joshua knocking out Ngannou, to Ryan Garcia’s crazy upset over Devin, to Inoue retaining undisputed, to Lomachenko master class over Kambosos, to Tyson Fury loosing to Usyk, to 5v5, Gervonta Davis coming back, to most recently Jesse “Bam” Rodriguez fight of the year against Juan Estrada, boxing has been on a crazy streak
a flyweight mma fighter that trained for 2 months ko’s a heavyweight world champion inside 2 minutes in an octagon. no wonder they leach pillows around their hands and jab for 12 rounds
as an alex fan you can’t just say “we all knew how this second fight would play out” literally the entire community was divided. for a guy who loves fighting it kinda seems like you don’t know that anything can happen in a fight.
I think we all hoped (and coped) it would be more competitive, esp how likable and entertaining Jiri is but it really makes sense Alex would walk him. Jiri has poor defense, throws looping shots to close distance, eats shots, and puts all his weight on his front leg, picture perfect for alex
From the moment Jiri said he thought his gameplan for the first fight was perfect we all knew it was going to happen. Anyone who genuinely thought Jiri had anything more than a puncher's chance was deluding themselves.
So the Glory Double Champ who previously defeated Jiri was supposed to lose in a short notice rematch? How so? Besides the weight cut I don't see your point mate
I lowkey want you to cover the Devin Haney situation, he was one of my favorite boxers and while I still appreciate his style I don’t like how he handled it. Also, I like how you cover things 🤙🏽
Highly disagree with sparring before a fight, Max said he started sparring again for Justin because the risk of Justin’s power, sparring isn’t to learn how to fight at that level it’s about timing, beings sharp with counters and conditioning the body for a fight. None of that stuff can be emulated as well on pads
Eh you can spar, but ideally one should really stop hard sparring about 30-45 days before the fight. And stop sparring 3 weeks before the fight. Risk of injury is too high. And if you get injured or aren’t feeling at 100%, it’s bad. These fighters should be doing the majority of their sparring a few weeks after their fights, and before a fight gets announced. In boxing there was a dude who didn’t spar at all. Anytime he was going to, he’d just take a fight instead. Just an interesting side note
@@MrAbcdefgbarney boxing is like 80% can crushing, the whole culture of gyms letting beginners get torn up by their best fighters to help their timing a ego comes from boxing. Boxing is a terrible representation of how any other combat sport should act. Besides that I agree on the 3 weeks before a fight but the idea you shouldn’t be hard sparring in camp and “in between fights is when you improve” is silly, timing and being switched on 100% makes a difference going into a fight. The idea that “you aren’t going to make a difference the few weeks before a fight” isn’t true
@@danielbras5123 true, my only gripe is that fighters will literally do absolutely nothing in between fights and get bloated as fuck. Consider college football, you are p much training all year long except for 1-2 months.
Lightweight in MMA is already 20 lbs heavier than lightweight in boxing. The problem is with the fighters, who try and enter the lowest classes possible.
hard sparring should only be occasionally done to simulate the fight and get used to the pressure of the situations. most other sparring should be play-like, application of techniques. that encourages more freedom and development of skill, while managing longevity.
This recent streak is the perfect example of all the reasons we have so many canceled Fights: 1: scheduling Issues,Hill was coming of a Brutal KO loss but was expected to fight again in less than 3 full months, Ulberg was expected to fight twice in about 40 days. This causes unexpected injuries. 2: Weight Cutting, especially when it comes to Short notice fights causing health Issues to the fighters. 3: USADA cracking down on steroids more than before causing more fighters to get banned 4: less steroids makes fighters less durable than before however the schedule is as demanding as ever. 5: hard sparring leading up to a fight. All of these things were an issue in the past individually but usually not all at the same time which causes so many pullouts nowadays compared to the past. Cutting was not as Common before the late 2010s, Steroids could help fighters get injured less or recover faster and keep up with the Hectic UFC schedule
Top guys realised their stock lowered too much by taking a loss because of fighting injured so they prefer to drop out of fights. Middle of the pack guys are perhaps over training as they are stressed out by not getting enough money(MMA careers are short and retirement is long and terrible)
Dana doesn’t pay anyone unless they fight. These guys probably aren’t even getting back to 100% before their next fight then trying to cut weight ‼️or going into a camp knowing your not recovered because daddy Dana needs your payday again
Yup, plus Dana puts a huge amount of pressure on fighters to accept fights they are offered on short notice. Fighters are probably worried about getting on Dana's bad side if they decline a fight offered to them on short notice.
Same day weigh-ins wouldn't stop fighters from doing extreme weight cuts. The best thing to do would be to implement a hydration test during weigh-ins.
@@LunaticTheCat tbh I guess we did do it to some degree back in high school wrestling cuz same day weigh in all the time, but I feel like it’s not to the same degree as what we see in ufc tho that’d be nuts same day - but I see your point that some may be crazy enough to try tho lol
Max came out and said he brought back hard sparring in preparation for Justin Gaejthe fight. Definitely agree with you on weight cutting needs to change.
hard sparring and weight cutting are a factor I think, but also it's overtraining in general. Like yes hard sparring and grappling is gonna lead to more injuries but I think a lot of the injuries we're seeing is from fighters that learned in an environment that pushes training extremely hard, and as fighters get older and have more miles on them they can't recover as fast and that intense training is gonna lead to things popping and breaking down, especially if they're not taking a lot of steroids and such. Compare this kind of training mentality that pushes extremely hard with the Dagestani/russian approach to training that has athletes train every single day, but not necessarily going crazy hard in every session. I think that's why you see less fighters from those camps getting injured or sick before fights, with the exception of doing so due to extreme/bad weight cuts. (Khamzat doesn't count he's not from those camps).
I think there’s something to be said about the negotiating power of the ufc getting into the heads of fighters and leads to them trying to take fights they can’t or shouldn’t really take. Dana will quickly give a fighter the reputation that they don’t want to fight, and there truly are not that many weight classes as said in the video so if a fighter is presented a fight, a certain degree of their decision making is pushed aside. I also feel like it has been happening more as time goes on, nothing to back that up but it feels like a solid observation, and that would coincide with the ufcs and dana’s rise in reputation.
I think there should be a weight maximum walk around weight if youre going to compete in a certain class, like Max 175lbs if youre going to fight at lightweight for example. random weigh ins like they do with Usada. weight bullys are a real problem and on a more serious note, Anthony Johnson cutting from 230 to 170 while he was in welterweight and his early passing via organ failure were not coincidence
I understand Chandler waiting to an extent. Because look at what happened to Holly Holm for not wanting to wait for the Ronda rematch for Rondas return. Everyone told her to wait and she didn't want to. Fumbled the bag.
Personally I think it’s not helping at all like he said about cutting weight. They should make it fighters only able to cut 10-15lbs in the current weight classes. I don’t really like Adesanya but dude the guy fought Pereira at 185lbs twice and Alex is easily 220lbs walking around he’s going up to HW. It’s dangerous for the fighters.
You don’t go over 50% during sparring. No hard punches or fancy strikes. Just practice your techniques, that’s how sparring should be. You shouldn’t go all out during sparring
Extreme weight loss makes sense since we could compare athletes from different sports that do not require this process, and they are way healthier. Look at soccer players that hardly ever have to cut weigh or gain it. Zlatan, CR7, Messi, etc (of course the healthiest ones I wouldn't compare Maradona with Chimaev haha).
at least they gotta wear all protection needed during sparrings and trainings, because without it theyre literally fighting before their main fight even happens
Conor used to be the model of consistency. He was carrying the box office when everyone was pulling out. Pop that leg and still took on a wrestler. It could be due to age. Or the booze. Maybe the money. But one thing is for certain. He really did change.
I’m pretty sure there is also an element of behind the scenes politics taking place. Guarantee fighters in the past were encouraged to pull out overtly or indirectly for financial or political reasons. Or miss weight. Etc.
Fighting without a real training camp means everyone is losing out… especially the fans watching these fights are the equivalent of eating partially defrosted food - not very appealing or appetising.
Tainted supplements is the typical reason/excuse. Legal supplements that you could just buy in the store can occasionally have extracts of illegal substances, apparently. Hard to say when it’s actually true or just a lie to soften the blow from the suspension.
@@thomassavoie04Keep in mind there's a difference between "banned" and "illegal" too. Not all the substances a fighter is prohibited from taking are illegal to sell over-the-counter. Supplements are completely unregulated too so there's nothing stopping the manufacturers from adding all kinds of legal and occasionally illegal substances to their products. They might sell something as a supplement that "naturally supports" a health-related thing and just add a known (and supposedly "unnatural") pharmaceutical that does the same thing. Honestly most (I'd even say the vast majority) of supplements are complete bullshit anyway. The studies used to show the supplements work are almost comical.
Dana has said like 100 times he would never do a 165/175 which I think is dumb but his company his decision. In regards to the light sparring. In theory its something that would be great. getting these guys to settle down before a fight card would save many cards. BUT YET AGAIN dana does not like to get involved or let the company get involved in the cultures of the teams and how the gyms are ran. It seems like as long as you aren't taking peds. Your team can function however it deems fine and dana has never allowed the company to step in on that.
because the UFC rewards missing weight and generally cheating? so WAY more people are starting to really test the limits and as a result more people are going over that invisible line, thus forcing the UFC to do the BARE MINIMUM of actually canceling the fights.... yeah, seems pretty avoidable....
5 minute into the video still haven't got the answer Not hating but half of the video was just the explanation of things that already happened which we (UFC fan ) already know. And sparring before the fight is essential for majority of the fighters.
@@thenedsmmachannel8970 so explain how doldize an smith made sense? again the point i was tryna make was nobody cares about actual rankings it's all about name value.
@JonnySoJuicy Smith is trash and dolidze had competed at 205 before and actually beat him lmao he was ranked at MW. You're acting like they gave smith someone making their debut who was popular
@@thenedsmmachannel8970 again just aiding my point of ppl will watch regardless of the the paper rankings. romans 1st two fights in ufc/205 were against cans who arent even in UFC. it's reason why he moved to 185
@JonnySoJuicy bro it was short notice for a fight less than a week in advance. You know that was NOT the original fight booked. They got paid, why else does it matter? Also even if this next month is trash in fights. The fights make sense ranking wise like how you're crying about. Rose #6 vs Tracy #11, good replacement when you had #4 Barber fell out, Virna vs Lemos is #3 vs #5. London card has Leon vs Belal, Aspinall vs Blaydes, Allen vs Giga, Mokaev vs Kape, Green vs Pimblett... all fights that make sense ranking wise. If anything be grateful with what the UFC was able to put on for 303, for our entertainment. Just disproved all your points. Good day sir
Good video… BAD SOLUTION.. how about we just force fighters to weigh in EVERY 2 weeks.. whether you have a fight or not.. and when you are offered a fight.. it’s based off of CURRENT WEIGHT which will basically Kill all the WEIGHT BULLIES… this sport is SUPPOSED to be about who the baddest MFR IS!! Vs who has the best system to drop a ton of weight and then put it back on after the weigh in.. some of these guys (boxing too) gain 25-35 pounds after the weigh in!!! That shit should be illegal.. and 9/10 that’s more unhealthy than the DAMN FIGHT!!
@@BiggieTrismegistus Noo not really. It will prevent the BIG CUTS that kill. People will HAVE to stay in a range year long .. no 30pound cuts and 40 pound blow ups before the fights ..
These content creators would highlight nonsense comment or comments which boost their ego instead of more interesting comments. .. it makes the video more interesting and engaging when you also read other people' views and opinions also. Instead we have '8 views in 1 minutes bros fell of" 🥱🥱🥱
All of them and all of the footballers are not in shape any more, they look like they are not in shape and fatigue sets in quik, and they have all got the corona shots, all of them and its never been the same as before
People have always been cutting weight. This ain’t anything new. You didn’t answer the question to why do much more fighters are pulling out recently. They’re doing the same thing they always have so why so much more injuries and sicknesses
Or just make fighters fight in the weight classes the BELONG in, instead of pulling this drastic weight cutting weight bully wet blanket BS. Khabibs record isn't anything special as it is if you know, but had he been fighting closer to where he BELONGED I dare say his fake legacy would've been impossible to create
I enjoy UFC fights. very entertaining. you drivers on the broad and wide interstate, quickly turn around because it's leading to a collapse bridge, with a fire & brimstone river running underneath it, and take the single lane road to life instead, the Jesus 1-10 exit.
My guess is that the UFC is running out of money in this high interest rate environment. Alot of the reason seems to be because of money from Jones to Connor.
I've read alot of wild stuff before but that is one of the craziest things I have ever read on the internet. If you combine ONE, Bellator/PFL, Cage Warriors etc then cross over to WBC Boxing .. literally every combat sports organisation on the planet combine there profits and multiply it like 6x the UFC makes more. Endeavour to TKO, record gates, PPV selling like crazy... because of the low fighter pay, low costs of production, it just sets the organisation up for insane profit. They've invested 20 million so far for the September PPV. No other organisation is anywhere close to that...
& then there's Manny Pacquiao, unrelate to mma but the weight classes seems stay the same imo, even tho hes a beast in many weight classes, i remember when the time hes lacking water hydration! cant remember when but! i have to point out bout this since he shows lil symptom when comparing like Kazmat chimaev! or brian ortega! but i might be wrong & its just that Manny isn't guy who goes to extreme weight cut. or hes just on other level?? any thoughts? foot for thoughts ofc
ufc wanted to make it look like Hill was awesome to take another fight so quick to rematch alex since hill is dana’s boy. ufc knew before roundtree popped and made it look like hill is back but then gave him ulberg. but hill realized he can lose and fall off so he pulled out. ulberg has nothing with a win over smith so they made this snoozer smith vs dolidze. that fight literally didn’t make any affection to the division lol
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Shit channel to cover s shit sport.
Breathing is not dopamine-inducing now?
Hey TJ I like your content a lot, and im happy for your growth and sponsorships! Could you in the future try to bring some more neutral healthy sponsorships? e.g. for Gym Gear, Nutrition,Supps I have just seen gambling or that vape thing. (Just an idea no hate at all brother wish you all good) and nice that you keep the format (with the pictures) and mix it up with sometimes your face!
The ufc doesn’t have enough talent to feed more divisions. The biggest critique flyweight, heavyweight, and lightheavyweight get is that there's not enough talent and compelling contenders in them. People were even calling middleweight boring for a long time. Imagine cutting that division in half to feed another it'd be awful.
Flyweight and light heavyweight has talent wtf are you saying
@hittingates flyweight isn't and has never been popular whatsoever, cutting it in half won't make it anymore popular. And lightheavyweight is pretty trash. It's hard carried by Periera and Jiri. Most athletic guys this size are not coming to the ufc for nickles and dimes
@@hittingatesLHW is trash. Only Alex and maybe Ankalev are good, the rest are average or bad. And there’s no real up comer in the division.
At least at flyweight there are a couple of young talented guys
Flyweight has talent. You’re right about light heavyweight and heavyweight though.
@@american1207 welterweight is really stacked but that division is literally boxing when it comes to actually booking fights. The last time 2 top 5s fought each other was literally Usman vs Colby. I REPEAT, USMAN VS COLBY. 4 YEARS AGO.
Another thing worth mentioning is all the quick turnarounds and short notace fights that the ufc has been trying to pull. Such with deigo vs Brian on short notice, Gilbert and belal being on 3 weeks notace with the ufc probably hoping Gilbert could get rid of belal, but we all saw that Gilbert broke his shoulder from too much training. Also we saw the ufc trying to give Isreal adasanya over trained versions of dricuus du plessis and Robert Whittaker on a 10 week turnaround, and they even tried to get dricuss to fight Isreal adesanya on a quick turnaround after his war with Strickland. Over training is probably a contributor to fighters pulling out these days.
I saw Gilbert break his shoulder from being overwhelmed by Belal and put into bad positions by Belal, but it’s all about perspective lol such an interesting, wrong take you have here.
Great point, dude.
Also, it's spelled "notice" just fyi
PFL fighters must be built different then. They have at least 4 fights a year if they make it to the championship.
Gilbert didn't break his shoulder it was far worse than that. He suffered multiple injuries around his shoulder.
You can't cut weight 3 times in such a short amount of time...
@@jimboSleeeeiiicethen you didn't watch the fight hahahaha
I’ll cover the Ryan stuff next week. Videos take a week for me to make so it’s hard to make a video on something that happened yesterday but the stuff Ryan said is crazy. Tune in next week
i knocked alex pereira tf out last week at a party in dubai. my friend has the video
@@beaualoevvI’ve heard enough give him john Jones next
@@beaualoevv it's true I am alex pereira, chama
It's hard to like him when he's actually mentally unwell
Ryan Garcia is a disgrace as human being. The guy talks about Jesus and hangs out with p*stars and people actually believe that.
I never understood why fighters go through hard training camps and slack on the off season. If anything it should be the other way around.
Because they're monkey brained
They should dump the whole weight cut stuff as is. Every fighter weighs in every week, take the avarage - thats ur weight class. Done deal
@@Rastamanjungle These corrupt American companies like UFC won't do it.
@@Rastamanjungle that’s not practical lmao.!
It should definitely not be the other way around.
You should athletically peak at the fight day, you can't hold that level year round, you need to ramp it up during fight camp.
But slacking off is definitely not what people should do and honestly I don't think most fighters do.
There definitely are a lot of fighters with eating disorders though and the ballooning of some fighters probably stems from there.
Weight cuts are just absolutely fucking cancer. We get less frequent, worse fights, with more pullouts AND we endanger the athletes.
It's a loose, loose, loose, loose situation and it needs to be fixed...
You showed that Charles Oliveira cut way too many times. Demonitzed.
bro was jumpscaring me with that 💀
That shit was disgusting
Looks like he got hit with an axe
The UFC needs to start doing hydration tests during weigh-ins like they do in ONE Championship. It's really only a matter of time before one of these extreme weight cuts gets a fighter killed in the ring.
The hydration tests don't work because they're very easy to beat. I figured out how to do it with a few moments thought.
There is a wave of covid going around, and on top of that so many guys are hard sparring with no headgear and ramping up intensity right before their bout
Better get your boosters and mask up!
The sickest I ever was was when I wrestled in college. A lot of infections. Doc said it's normal since we are always pushing to the brink.
Also all that skin to skin contact, by far the most skin infections are in grappling
Alot of professional athletes have contracts that prohibit them from doing dangerous activities. Some athletes can't even ride motorcycles. So I don't see an issue with banning hard sparring 2-3 weeks before a fight....unless its a short notice fight.
you should make a video about how huge boxing has been in the last few months, from Joshua knocking out Ngannou, to Ryan Garcia’s crazy upset over Devin, to Inoue retaining undisputed, to Lomachenko master class over Kambosos, to Tyson Fury loosing to Usyk, to 5v5, Gervonta Davis coming back, to most recently Jesse “Bam” Rodriguez fight of the year against Juan Estrada, boxing has been on a crazy streak
boxing a dead sport we don t care
a flyweight mma fighter that trained for 2 months ko’s a heavyweight world champion inside 2 minutes in an octagon. no wonder they leach pillows around their hands and jab for 12 rounds
Boxing has been amazing for the past couple of years. Feels like every weekend is a top level fight
@@beaualoevv don’t do my boxing like that 😔
@@beaualoevvcue ray Mercer koing a ufc heavyweight champion
as an alex fan you can’t just say “we all knew how this second fight would play out” literally the entire community was divided. for a guy who loves fighting it kinda seems like you don’t know that anything can happen in a fight.
I think we all hoped (and coped) it would be more competitive, esp how likable and entertaining Jiri is but it really makes sense Alex would walk him. Jiri has poor defense, throws looping shots to close distance, eats shots, and puts all his weight on his front leg, picture perfect for alex
most people voted for alex lmaoo
From the moment Jiri said he thought his gameplan for the first fight was perfect we all knew it was going to happen. Anyone who genuinely thought Jiri had anything more than a puncher's chance was deluding themselves.
Both fights I knew what would happen. Alex beats any striker.
So the Glory Double Champ who previously defeated Jiri was supposed to lose in a short notice rematch? How so? Besides the weight cut I don't see your point mate
I think the tape messed with his system
His body has never received such low oxygen preparing for a fight
No but seriously why does Jamahal Hill have the Hamburger Helper tattoo?
I lowkey want you to cover the Devin Haney situation, he was one of my favorite boxers and while I still appreciate his style I don’t like how he handled it. Also, I like how you cover things 🤙🏽
Highly disagree with sparring before a fight, Max said he started sparring again for Justin because the risk of Justin’s power, sparring isn’t to learn how to fight at that level it’s about timing, beings sharp with counters and conditioning the body for a fight. None of that stuff can be emulated as well on pads
Eh you can spar, but ideally one should really stop hard sparring about 30-45 days before the fight. And stop sparring 3 weeks before the fight. Risk of injury is too high. And if you get injured or aren’t feeling at 100%, it’s bad. These fighters should be doing the majority of their sparring a few weeks after their fights, and before a fight gets announced.
In boxing there was a dude who didn’t spar at all. Anytime he was going to, he’d just take a fight instead. Just an interesting side note
@@MrAbcdefgbarney boxing is like 80% can crushing, the whole culture of gyms letting beginners get torn up by their best fighters to help their timing a ego comes from boxing. Boxing is a terrible representation of how any other combat sport should act. Besides that I agree on the 3 weeks before a fight but the idea you shouldn’t be hard sparring in camp and “in between fights is when you improve” is silly, timing and being switched on 100% makes a difference going into a fight. The idea that “you aren’t going to make a difference the few weeks before a fight” isn’t true
@@danielbras5123 true, my only gripe is that fighters will literally do absolutely nothing in between fights and get bloated as fuck. Consider college football, you are p much training all year long except for 1-2 months.
Add 10-15lbs to every weight class except heavyweight so no one has to cut a dangerous amount of weight.
That’s the way to go imo.
or just get rid of weight cutting or only allow fighters to cut 10-15lbs max
Lightweight in MMA is already 20 lbs heavier than lightweight in boxing. The problem is with the fighters, who try and enter the lowest classes possible.
They'll just go down a weight class
Nah
I don’t like the idea of more weight classes and more champions
8:15 you have to spar hard a few times before a fight - there are very few people who can do well in a high level fight without regularly sparring
hard sparring should only be occasionally done to simulate the fight and get used to the pressure of the situations. most other sparring should be play-like, application of techniques. that encourages more freedom and development of skill, while managing longevity.
i love when you pull out data from real research, good content
Having same day weigh-ins would fix the weight cutting problem. Adding more weight classes would cause the same problems as it does in boxing
More weight classes is stupid and would drop the already low in some divisions skill level even more
This recent streak is the perfect example of all the reasons we have so many canceled Fights:
1: scheduling Issues,Hill was coming of a Brutal KO loss but was expected to fight again in less than 3 full months, Ulberg was expected to fight twice in about 40 days. This causes unexpected injuries.
2: Weight Cutting, especially when it comes to Short notice fights causing health Issues to the fighters.
3: USADA cracking down on steroids more than before causing more fighters to get banned
4: less steroids makes fighters less durable than before however the schedule is as demanding as ever.
5: hard sparring leading up to a fight.
All of these things were an issue in the past individually but usually not all at the same time which causes so many pullouts nowadays compared to the past.
Cutting was not as Common before the late 2010s, Steroids could help fighters get injured less or recover faster and keep up with the Hectic UFC schedule
The UFC hasn't used USADA for drug testing since January 1.
MORE WEIGHT DIVISIONS WILL HELP. 165, 175 185 ETC..
5 minutes in and I still didn’t get the answer
finally got the answer
Then the answer is the obvious one, weight cut smdh
Me too 😂😂
Half of the video is just the explanation of what already happen which we all know.
I was expecting a great answer
@@chiquita683 😂
Yeah that’s annoying
8 views in 1 minutes bros fell off
Cringe
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Is it my turn to comment this yet
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A rule like cutting weight be a max of 15 pounds from your natural walking weight tested over 2 weeks or something would probably work too
Top guys realised their stock lowered too much by taking a loss because of fighting injured so they prefer to drop out of fights. Middle of the pack guys are perhaps over training as they are stressed out by not getting enough money(MMA careers are short and retirement is long and terrible)
Dana doesn’t pay anyone unless they fight. These guys probably aren’t even getting back to 100% before their next fight then trying to cut weight ‼️or going into a camp knowing your not recovered because daddy Dana needs your payday again
Yup, plus Dana puts a huge amount of pressure on fighters to accept fights they are offered on short notice. Fighters are probably worried about getting on Dana's bad side if they decline a fight offered to them on short notice.
Let’s get that extra weight class plus same day weigh ins so no cut
Same day weigh-ins wouldn't stop fighters from doing extreme weight cuts. The best thing to do would be to implement a hydration test during weigh-ins.
@@LunaticTheCat ain’t nobody wanna cut extreme water weight the day of a fight it’s not an advantage at that point anymore
@@alexripianzi You'd be very surprised
@@LunaticTheCat tbh I guess we did do it to some degree back in high school wrestling cuz same day weigh in all the time, but I feel like it’s not to the same degree as what we see in ufc tho that’d be nuts same day - but I see your point that some may be crazy enough to try tho lol
@@LunaticTheCatHydration tests don't work and are comically easy to beat.
In wrestling if you pull out, you forfeit. You get a loss on your record while the other guys gets a win on his record.
I guess that's why they call it dream fights
Imagine this year if Pereira hadn't kept stepping up.
Max came out and said he brought back hard sparring in preparation for Justin Gaejthe fight. Definitely agree with you on weight cutting needs to change.
A good reasoning, thinking and discussion.
Ha, I’m glad you asked…
hard sparring and weight cutting are a factor I think, but also it's overtraining in general. Like yes hard sparring and grappling is gonna lead to more injuries but I think a lot of the injuries we're seeing is from fighters that learned in an environment that pushes training extremely hard, and as fighters get older and have more miles on them they can't recover as fast and that intense training is gonna lead to things popping and breaking down, especially if they're not taking a lot of steroids and such. Compare this kind of training mentality that pushes extremely hard with the Dagestani/russian approach to training that has athletes train every single day, but not necessarily going crazy hard in every session. I think that's why you see less fighters from those camps getting injured or sick before fights, with the exception of doing so due to extreme/bad weight cuts. (Khamzat doesn't count he's not from those camps).
UFC should offer a $50k (or whatever amount) bonus every thing fight that a fighter has without incident. Reward guys that show up consistently.
Looking foward to the Garcia video
I think there’s something to be said about the negotiating power of the ufc getting into the heads of fighters and leads to them trying to take fights they can’t or shouldn’t really take. Dana will quickly give a fighter the reputation that they don’t want to fight, and there truly are not that many weight classes as said in the video so if a fighter is presented a fight, a certain degree of their decision making is pushed aside. I also feel like it has been happening more as time goes on, nothing to back that up but it feels like a solid observation, and that would coincide with the ufcs and dana’s rise in reputation.
I think there should be a weight maximum walk around weight if youre going to compete in a certain class, like Max 175lbs if youre going to fight at lightweight for example. random weigh ins like they do with Usada. weight bullys are a real problem and on a more serious note, Anthony Johnson cutting from 230 to 170 while he was in welterweight and his early passing via organ failure were not coincidence
I understand Chandler waiting to an extent. Because look at what happened to Holly Holm for not wanting to wait for the Ronda rematch for Rondas return. Everyone told her to wait and she didn't want to. Fumbled the bag.
Love ur vids bro
Personally I think it’s not helping at all like he said about cutting weight. They should make it fighters only able to cut 10-15lbs in the current weight classes. I don’t really like Adesanya but dude the guy fought Pereira at 185lbs twice and Alex is easily 220lbs walking around he’s going up to HW. It’s dangerous for the fighters.
How do you define "hard sparring" vs light sparring. How do you effectively police that when you have fighters all over the world?
You don’t go over 50% during sparring. No hard punches or fancy strikes. Just practice your techniques, that’s how sparring should be. You shouldn’t go all out during sparring
Fair enough. How does the UFC effectively put this rule into practice?
obligatory shout out to Lopes and Ige for stepping up to save the card. love to everyone who stepped in short notice to save the card🙏🏼
Extreme weight loss makes sense since we could compare athletes from different sports that do not require this process, and they are way healthier. Look at soccer players that hardly ever have to cut weigh or gain it. Zlatan, CR7, Messi, etc (of course the healthiest ones I wouldn't compare Maradona with Chimaev haha).
at least they gotta wear all protection needed during sparrings and trainings, because without it theyre literally fighting before their main fight even happens
Conor used to be the model of consistency. He was carrying the box office when everyone was pulling out. Pop that leg and still took on a wrestler. It could be due to age. Or the booze. Maybe the money. But one thing is for certain.
He really did change.
People change mane
khabib changed him into a mcchicken
@beaualoevv you're posing like woman in your profile pic, shut up
Connor had a broken toe the night of khabib too, connor just isn’t as hungry the 229 time was way worse too
more weight classes could lead to a boxing situation where the big time fights and best vs best that built the ufc is gone
I’m pretty sure there is also an element of behind the scenes politics taking place. Guarantee fighters in the past were encouraged to pull out overtly or indirectly for financial or political reasons. Or miss weight. Etc.
With the Olivera vs Islam fight I thought getting a crazy gash lile that right before the fight was super sus. 100% agree.
Why are so many fights getting canceled? I'm glad you asked...
Fighting without a real training camp means everyone is losing out… especially the fans watching these fights are the equivalent of eating partially defrosted food - not very appealing or appetising.
Ain’t no party like the diddy party
“Yeah but me and you never really partied” bruh said that once to another man😂
Bruh promoting drugs to channel that watch, new low point
Children watch*
Bag is bag
How do you unintentionally take steroids?
Tainted supplements is the typical reason/excuse. Legal supplements that you could just buy in the store can occasionally have extracts of illegal substances, apparently. Hard to say when it’s actually true or just a lie to soften the blow from the suspension.
@@thomassavoie04Keep in mind there's a difference between "banned" and "illegal" too. Not all the substances a fighter is prohibited from taking are illegal to sell over-the-counter. Supplements are completely unregulated too so there's nothing stopping the manufacturers from adding all kinds of legal and occasionally illegal substances to their products. They might sell something as a supplement that "naturally supports" a health-related thing and just add a known (and supposedly "unnatural") pharmaceutical that does the same thing.
Honestly most (I'd even say the vast majority) of supplements are complete bullshit anyway. The studies used to show the supplements work are almost comical.
Dana has said like 100 times he would never do a 165/175 which I think is dumb but his company his decision. In regards to the light sparring. In theory its something that would be great. getting these guys to settle down before a fight card would save many cards. BUT YET AGAIN dana does not like to get involved or let the company get involved in the cultures of the teams and how the gyms are ran. It seems like as long as you aren't taking peds. Your team can function however it deems fine and dana has never allowed the company to step in on that.
If it's "big brother and dystopian" to stop your fighters from overtraining and risking injury, than you make the same argument for drug testing
- Connor breaks pinky toe, pulls out of fight.
- Pereira breaks his toe on Jiri's head, pops it back in in octagon
Unless you’re Sean Strickland lmao. Dude is a machine
The least surprising thing is that basic MMA fans said "shit happens". I mean you're not talking about Mensa scholars here.
because the UFC rewards missing weight and generally cheating? so WAY more people are starting to really test the limits and as a result more people are going over that invisible line, thus forcing the UFC to do the BARE MINIMUM of actually canceling the fights....
yeah, seems pretty avoidable....
We gotta change the culture not the rules.we have to change this if your a fighter toughness at all cost mentality that's causing cte not regulations
“On paper champion”😭🤣
5 minute into the video still haven't got the answer
Not hating but half of the video was just the explanation of things that already happened which we (UFC fan ) already know.
And sparring before the fight is essential for majority of the fighters.
agree on that but at least he did gave some answers😂
goes to show, ufc can put on fights literally the day of an we'd still watch. were slowly moving away from the rank system an more on fighter stock
Bro if anything Ige vs Lopes made sense. In the FW rankings they were both 12 and 13
@@thenedsmmachannel8970 so explain how doldize an smith made sense? again the point i was tryna make was nobody cares about actual rankings it's all about name value.
@JonnySoJuicy Smith is trash and dolidze had competed at 205 before and actually beat him lmao he was ranked at MW. You're acting like they gave smith someone making their debut who was popular
@@thenedsmmachannel8970 again just aiding my point of ppl will watch regardless of the the paper rankings. romans 1st two fights in ufc/205 were against cans who arent even in UFC. it's reason why he moved to 185
@JonnySoJuicy bro it was short notice for a fight less than a week in advance. You know that was NOT the original fight booked. They got paid, why else does it matter? Also even if this next month is trash in fights. The fights make sense ranking wise like how you're crying about. Rose #6 vs Tracy #11, good replacement when you had #4 Barber fell out, Virna vs Lemos is #3 vs #5. London card has Leon vs Belal, Aspinall vs Blaydes, Allen vs Giga, Mokaev vs Kape, Green vs Pimblett... all fights that make sense ranking wise. If anything be grateful with what the UFC was able to put on for 303, for our entertainment. Just disproved all your points. Good day sir
Haha bro what are these sponsors, this guy is trying to peddle flavored air, I cant man
Sounds like glutamine/NAC supplementation would help the weight cutting illness issue a lot?
Really disappointed in that sponsor bro
Why?
@@BiggieTrismegistus he’s promoting a different versi9n of a vape
Good video… BAD SOLUTION.. how about we just force fighters to weigh in EVERY 2 weeks.. whether you have a fight or not.. and when you are offered a fight.. it’s based off of CURRENT WEIGHT which will basically Kill all the WEIGHT BULLIES… this sport is SUPPOSED to be about who the baddest MFR IS!! Vs who has the best system to drop a ton of weight and then put it back on after the weigh in.. some of these guys (boxing too) gain 25-35 pounds after the weigh in!!! That shit should be illegal.. and 9/10 that’s more unhealthy than the DAMN FIGHT!!
If you force them to weigh in every 2 weeks they'll start cutting weight every 2 weeks.
@@BiggieTrismegistus Noo not really. It will prevent the BIG CUTS that kill. People will HAVE to stay in a range year long .. no 30pound cuts and 40 pound blow ups before the fights ..
Smith vs Dolidze was disgrace to be on main card
These content creators would highlight nonsense comment or comments which boost their ego instead of more interesting comments. .. it makes the video more interesting and engaging when you also read other people' views and opinions also. Instead we have '8 views in 1 minutes bros fell of" 🥱🥱🥱
All of them and all of the footballers are not in shape any more, they look like they are not in shape and fatigue sets in quik, and they have all got the corona shots, all of them and its never been the same as before
5:29 I am a medical expert and I agree
People have always been cutting weight. This ain’t anything new. You didn’t answer the question to why do much more fighters are pulling out recently. They’re doing the same thing they always have so why so much more injuries and sicknesses
Skip to the 5 min mark
Basically fighters need to stop being their own worst enemies...story old as time unfortunately lol
Or just make fighters fight in the weight classes the BELONG in, instead of pulling this drastic weight cutting weight bully wet blanket BS. Khabibs record isn't anything special as it is if you know, but had he been fighting closer to where he BELONGED I dare say his fake legacy would've been impossible to create
No hard sparring? Good luck with Strickland actually doing that 😂
I enjoy UFC fights. very entertaining. you drivers on the broad and wide interstate, quickly turn around because it's leading to a collapse bridge, with a fire & brimstone river running underneath it, and take the single lane road to life instead, the Jesus 1-10 exit.
what's this style of videos called?
Or just do the weights like ONE does, simple
How would raising all the weights 10 pounds help at all?
@@BiggieTrismegistus look up how they do it for more info
I was at 300 and 303 live. Travelled from the UK but after 303 ill never go 2 a UFC event or pay for a ppv again lol. Unreliable
travelled 2x across the world to see some bums fighting… i wouldn’t even go if it was in my country, maybe my city i would consider
maybe if Conor was on it and i had time, i would go too. assuming you wanted to see Conor too? would want a refund for sure
If you don’t spar hard people call you a 🐱 it’s annoying
Awesome 😎🎉
Why you asked? Heh, I'm glad you asked
My guess is that the UFC is running out of money in this high interest rate environment. Alot of the reason seems to be because of money from Jones to Connor.
I've read alot of wild stuff before but that is one of the craziest things I have ever read on the internet.
If you combine ONE, Bellator/PFL, Cage Warriors etc then cross over to WBC Boxing .. literally every combat sports organisation on the planet combine there profits and multiply it like 6x the UFC makes more. Endeavour to TKO, record gates, PPV selling like crazy... because of the low fighter pay, low costs of production, it just sets the organisation up for insane profit. They've invested 20 million so far for the September PPV. No other organisation is anywhere close to that...
Lmao the UFC is not running out of money. If anything they're making more than ever before
The ufc was the biggest combat sports organization last year they aren’t running out of money
@@hittingates Dana probably snorted half the profits from last year
& then there's Manny Pacquiao,
unrelate to mma but the weight classes seems stay the same imo,
even tho hes a beast in many weight classes, i remember when the time hes lacking water hydration! cant remember when but!
i have to point out bout this since he shows lil symptom when comparing like Kazmat chimaev! or brian ortega!
but i might be wrong & its just that Manny isn't guy who goes to extreme weight cut.
or hes just on other level??
any thoughts? foot for thoughts ofc
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Tbf now Khamzat made more money from the crypto scam that from a fight he could have had with Robert
Hill didn't want to fight Ulberg and Ulberg didn't want to fight smith so they faked the injuries.
ufc wanted to make it look like Hill was awesome to take another fight so quick to rematch alex since hill is dana’s boy. ufc knew before roundtree popped and made it look like hill is back but then gave him ulberg. but hill realized he can lose and fall off so he pulled out. ulberg has nothing with a win over smith so they made this snoozer smith vs dolidze. that fight literally didn’t make any affection to the division lol
@@beaualoevv I agree. It was too much of a coincidence for all of them to be "injured"
MMA needs more regulation, more rules and different organisations for it survive
The ufc is doing better than any boxing promotion
Less rules you mean
UFC will survive for a long time trust me
The ufc should have more weight classes instead like 160 ibs so fingers don't have to cut as much weight.
Fighters in the UFC need to form a fighters union like athletes in the NFL, NBA, MLB, etc. have.
Khamzat lose so much money that he need to pump a crypto coin to scam his fan😂
Cancel Cancel Culture 😤😤
Or stop allowing someone to drop 20 pounds to fight😂
It’s simple… end of an era. Appreciate the fighters in their prime bc it only last a few years.
Jamahal Hill is an absolute joke
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