GOAT.
He will be remembered as the best fighter of all time. Not the best MMA fighter, the best fighter. Silva couldn't lace his boots. He has better fight IQ and power than Sugar Ray or Tyson. He is a living legend, and it's honestly a disgrace that we're seeing his prime years wasted by corrupt commissions and greedy promoters.
In 20 years, people wont be wearing Ali shirts. They'll be wearing Bones shirts.
In 20 years the UFC will be defunct
Cope. Been hearing this from pillow fist cucks for 20 years now already
This.
Why is MMA dying?
Wrestling is just torture to watch and knockouts are surprisingly boring once you've seen a few hundred.
That's not a good reason to why MMA is dying.
The sport is too volatile. It's too easy for an elite fighter to take a few losses and vanish into obscurity. It takes years for an athlete to develop into a star, but nobody in MMA stays at the top for that long. I look at the list of current UFC champions and I see Cormier (cornball default "champion" with no appeal), Jones (unmarketable due to his steroid use and awful personality) and a bunch of literally whos that look like cholo gangbangers and Russian construction workers.
Jon Jones is the GOAT mma fighter*
>The sport is too volatile.
There's nothing wrong with it, same with boxing it's volatile. Like you said we need more star power for sport and UFC is screwing their fans big time with ESPN+ and others opportunities that MMA could have gotten better.
That's not DC
DC is a pretty honest fighter, Jon Jones is shit and deserves nothing but death.
Until he moves up to heavyweight and stops fighting cans then - no he is not the GOAT. Yes he is impressive to watch but he has been they only good fighter at their peak in his weight class. He needs to move up weight and swim with the sharks at heavy.
Well for one it's really not, it's expanding into new markets constantly and achieving a global presence, but it certainly has peaked in the US with Conor. For one, people don't understand what they're looking at. The best fighters a decade ago had somewhat crowd-pleasing styles that are easy enough for the casual viewer to understand. The sport has progressed skill-wise, especially in the lighter divisions, to the point where the stars of the past like Liddell, Couture, Penn, Hughes, etc. couldn't crack the top 15 even in their prime. People shit on fighters like Usman, Colby, Khabib, etc. for boring wrestlefucking but its the meta and a way to win fights. The requisite skill needed to combat that meta wasn't there years ago, and isn't accessible to the population at large. A leg-triangle, wrist-control ride that Khabib likes to do is obviously very technical and difficult to achieve, yet to the average viewer it just looks like he's laying on them.
>UFC is screwing their fans big time
This. Making MMA even more inaccessible is pure retardation.
Firing Dana White should have happened before the merger now this fuck is killing the company apart with his pathetic decision making. I really love MMA but it's starting to turn me away from the sport and I hope open business will help the company forward.
>He will be remembered as the best fighter of all time. Not the best MMA fighter, the best fighter.
Hilarious
End yourself
He is a shitty sportsman and is only good enough to be considered a cheap faggot
Aside from regular failed bottles he like poking guys In the eyes and kicking out fighters knees likely his worst offense as such a foul contact can ruin a fighters livelihood!!!!
If you give him a pass for fighting like that and calling it fair I really have little issue if those are your rules but don't have it both ways cause he deserves zero sympathy for being a coward for fighting like a punk bitch
worse yet being such a punk bitch who is still talking shit without class
it's not
Stop posting on Yea Forums while you're high Jon.
DC, you a faggot.
MMA isn't dying at all. It's growing and the UFC needs return to National TV. I'm hoping this will lead to getting ABC deal broadcast only title fights.
>he’s mean!!!
he loses against Bruce Lee
He is an amazing fighter don't get me wrong, but he hasn't had as great a cultural impact as people like Ali so to say that in the future they will be wearing Bones shirts is pretty dumb senpai
nah lil faggot
its about understanding
which is what makes a motherfucker badass
such understanding is lacking
stay classy
Pic related would take every punch he has and then knock him out
He would get double-legged
Shouldn't the UFCs best course of action be to alter the rules to promote a more pleasant spectacle?
Marreta will end the >Le Jones is le GOAT!!! meme
Its because people don't want to reinvest in a new fighter once they disappear, whereas in team sports, you support the team and the players that play for them. Obviously you've got people who'll support whoevers doing well, the casuals who'll support whoevers winning, but they're only there for the big fights.
Also lack of effective culmination. There's no superbowl in mma, only title fights, and they've become diluted with interim belts, and the fact that it can be disputed veryu easilt as to whether someone even deserves the belt.
This all results in people not following the sport that closely, and its eventual demise when they don't have their Tyson's and Ali's in guys like Jones and McGregor.
Why do you think those guyss get away with so much shit? becaue there's no one to replace them that's why. Both in the public support and for headlining cards
>Be black
>Consistently beat your opponents
>Never talk trash
>Be humble
>Always deliver an exciting fight
>Be Mike Perry
Pic unrelated
I don't think it's really more volatile than Boxing, just that in Boxing they just feed the top guys cans more frequently so they're never tested and their star can build
It easy and fun to win fights when you are allowed to poke everyones eyes and they aren't allowed to do that back to you
Gloves and Reebok
"MMA" gloves were the worst thing that happened to the sport, barring the allowance of eye pokes for stars
>Jones (unmarketable due to his steroid use and awful personality)
He is unmarketable because he had a sponsorship with Nike and then was forced to do Reebok, and the felonies, and most of his fights being automatic DQs
Enforce the rules against eye poking, hard.
Which results, in a strange coincedence, most of the top stars below heavyweight of the last 15 years getting DQd and then banned