These stats are supposed to be from Octametrics / Andyhickey on X:
Only 33 fighters have competed multiple times this year. I believe that’s from a roster of around 800 (many of whom have no business out of regional circuit).
35.9% of the UFC roster didn’t fight even once last year. That’s ZERO fights.
Top 15 fighters across all divisions now average ONLY 1 fight per year.
Back in 2016, Top 15 fighters averaged 1.56 fights annually. Just 10 years later, that number has dropped to 1.06 fights per year.
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Dana and his money lender bosses are letting fighters waste their prime on the sidelines.
Why spend more money when you have guaranteed tv deals that aren’t requiring you to produce a better event/product?
Even when the Top 15 fighters were fighting more frequently (1.56 times per year), that’s an atrociously terrible number. Now? It might be 0.
Fill out cards with C-level scrubs getting peanuts, cash the checks from Paramount, and pocket all the extra you would’ve paid out to elite fighters and stacked cards.
Dana is a POS and many on here are noobs who aren’t accustomed to stacked cards or are mindless fanboys. However, the only way to fix this is to stop watching.
Demand quality or watch Dana and his money lending bosses erode mma even further.
I used to watch every event. Now it’s watered down so much I don’t even know who 75% of the fighters are. Some PPV cards now have fighters outside the top 15 on the main card. Not worth it at this point, so now I’ll stream some of the championship fights and not much else.
Why do you blame the company when guys don’t fight? We all know their contract states they must be offered at least 2 fights/year. Not to mention, we see guys that publicly say “I want to fight again right away” magically do get booked quickly.
So my question for OP is, what evidence points to the UFC stopping guys from fulfilling their contracts? I haven’t seen it, but I’m open to see it.
100% right about a ton of these no namers being regional level bullshit to fill foreign cards. It’s going to eventually kill the UFC. People just don’t give a fuck anymore
However, those numbers are definitely made up / highly exaggerated slop.
Start with this:
I know without even checking (I’ll check shortly) that that is nowhere near true. If I were to guess I would say it’s well under 10%. Unless you’re counting people that weren’t even signed at the time. Then maybe.
As stated already Paramount + is garbage, the interface and what not is lousy at best. More than likely opting out and playing update on streaming platforms in the future.
Dong Hun Choi
Pedro “The Young Punisher” Munhoz
Garrett Armfield
Chad “The Monster” Anheliger
Cody Haddon
Fernando “El Valiente” Padilla
Trevor Peek
Ottman “Bulldozer” Azaitar
Alex “The Executioner” Reyes
Shavkat “Nomad” Rakhmonov
Colby “Chaos” Covington
Rafael dos Anjos
“The Leech” Jingliang Li
Tim “The Dirty Bird” Means
Bassil “The Habibi” Hafez
Kenan “The Assassin” Song
Mickey Gall
