GnastyGnuts [he/him]

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Cake day: August 3rd, 2020

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  • Combat sports in general feel like they’re in a strange place. Like, boxing and MMA seem simultaneously bigger and more popular than they’ve been in a while (which I attribute to the various high-profile celebrity boxing matches as well as hard times generally creating interest in fighting), but the general quality is just the drizzling shits right now.

    I’m way more of an MMA viewer than a boxing viewer, but it seems like various combat sports “promotions” don’t actually do a lot of promoting of their fights and fighters. I’ve thought this for a while now, but it’s so pronounced at this point. UFC’s Dana White clearly doesn’t give a fuck anymore, most fighters have been expected to get themselves out there with self-promotion for years now. I don’t understand why they aren’t pushing the hell out of people like Aspinall and Pantoja and especially Topuria.

    As far as the future trajectory, I think it’s only going to get worse, especially in heavier weight classes where they have to compete with stick-and-ball sports for talent (the only way they could compete is by paying way more, and fuck no they won’t do that).

    Most of the joy I derive from combat sports right now is going back and watching old stuff, learning about fighters I wasn’t around for, etc.