Comment on Is MMA and UFC "somewhat" rigged like boxing was in the Don King era?
GreenBeard@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
There’s just too many ways for it to be rigged behind the scenes in ways no one can see for there to be nothing dirty going on. How much? No one is ever going to be able to answer that.
JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 1 day ago
There’s all kinds of gamesmanship going on in plain sight. The size of the octagon can be altered to benefit a title fighter’s style, legitimate contenders are passed over all the time for more profitable matchups, the UFC brass can put a lot of pressure on a fighter to compete on a certain card or else they’ll be punished in various ways, and fighters who are continuously committing violations and and/or are just legitimately terrible people can be treated with kid gloves, like Jon Jones. To say nothing of fighters routinely gaming drug tests and so forth.
As a long-time MMA watcher, I do think it’s very rare to see someone taking a clear dive, so I’ll give credit to the UFC for not indulging in that, but otherwise they’re a deeply-disturbing org that routinely rips off their fighters, not compensating them fairly for the accumulated brain damage.
I became a fan almost 20yrs ago, and now I can barely stand the UFC. And Dana White truly is a despicable human being who routinely lies and bullies people around him, such as members of the press.