Not enough women fighters. How many Cyborgs, Caranos, Coenens, and Fujiis are there? I’m sure the talent pool will grow in time, but as of now, there are too few QUALITY female fighters out there. UFC is typically about top-tier fighters and such. Short of those ladies named, there isn’t enough of them out there.
[quote]Beast27195 wrote:
Not enough women fighters. How many Cyborgs, Caranos, Coenens, and Fujiis are there? I’m sure the talent pool will grow in time, but as of now, there are too few QUALITY female fighters out there. UFC is typically about top-tier fighters and such. Short of those ladies named, there isn’t enough of them out there. [/quote]
Yeah the pool is growing though, the female wrestlers look like they’re finally filtering in.
[quote]sardines12 wrote:
[quote]Beast27195 wrote:
Not enough women fighters. How many Cyborgs, Caranos, Coenens, and Fujiis are there? I’m sure the talent pool will grow in time, but as of now, there are too few QUALITY female fighters out there. UFC is typically about top-tier fighters and such. Short of those ladies named, there isn’t enough of them out there. [/quote]
Yeah the pool is growing though, the female wrestlers look like they’re finally filtering in.[/quote]
I don’t think it really matters though. There’s plenty of good female basketball players, but nobody watches the WNBA.
And this is coming from somebody who actually does watch and enjoy the female fights. It just doesn’t seem that the casual/mainstream MMA fan is interested in watching women’s MMA other than the “yo bro, two hot chicks are fightin” freakshow aspect.
[quote]admbaum wrote:
I dont know…I think that Zuffa (UFC) is trying to monopolize the sport. And the worst part of it is the fact that with TUF being the entry point of the UFC these days, the sport is becoming more like WWE in that they are looking for characters more than they are looking for great fighters. It could be a good thing and a bad thing at the same time. Boxing has way too many promotions for casual fans to keep up with and it was starting to happen to MMA. Anyways, there are many exciting fighters in the heavies…Carwin, dos Santos, Mir, Couture, Nogeria, Cro Cop, Werdum come to mind and when Zuffa bankrupts strikeforce, they’ll have Overeem. You cant tell me the casual fan cant get behind Overeem. The guy is a beast.
- YouTube [/quote]
I wish more people knew about Overeem. A favorite of mine!
[quote]Beast27195 wrote:
Not enough women fighters. How many Cyborgs, Caranos, Coenens, and Fujiis are there? I’m sure the talent pool will grow in time, but as of now, there are too few QUALITY female fighters out there. UFC is typically about top-tier fighters and such. Short of those ladies named, there isn’t enough of them out there. [/quote]
It’s the chicken or the egg problem. I guarantee if the UFC opens up to women, paying six-figures, all the sudden women fighters will come out of the woodwork.
We have women Olympic wrestlers, boxers and judo practitioners (and all the folks in ODPs) who could start crossing-over into MMA pretty quickly.
Dana White is opposed to the idea of female MMA. I’m sure he’ll change his tune when it starts becoming legitimate (i.e there is recognition and money around it), but until then Strikeforce will have to pick up the slack.
My guess is that the UFC is going to let Strikeforce test the waters with female MMA and jump in once it gets warm.
I doubt it. Look at female boxing.
[quote]sardines12 wrote:
I doubt it. Look at female boxing.[/quote]
…look at all boxing.
No offense to boxing, but as a stand-alone sport, it’s not exactly “hot” with the under 50 crowd.
Not to mention, many of the top-level female athletes who might transition over come from Judo or wrestling. I think I mentioned this earlier, but we have a lot of high-level “grappling” female athletes who I’m sure would jump at the chance to do MMA if they could make real money.
anybody watch last night’s WEC? talk about a badass finale… i hope they can bring this energy back to the UFC.