3. The MMAAA
It’s not so much the new MMA fighter’s association that will have a detrimental impact to the UFC, it’s the company that is most likely bank-rolling the efforts.
George St. Pierre, Tim Kennedy, Cain Velasquez, Donald Cerrone (though he didn’t really know what was going on apparently) and TJ Dillashaw joined Bjorn Rebney recently as representatives of the new “Mixed Martial Arts Athletes Association” (MMAAA). Conveniently, the fighters representing the organization are all signed to WME-IMG’s rival talent agency, the Creative Artists Agency.
During the press-conference the association held, they made it pretty clear that they were really just going after the UFC, and other promotions aren’t currently on their radar. It doesn’t take much imagination to figure out what is actually going on there. This is a proxy war between two talent agencies; it has little to do with MMA directly.
I don’t agree I think 2017 is wen we will see what they plan for the future an the way the ufc is putting their events in as many different countries as they are I can see the idea of maybe agreeing with u on the too many different champs an as a way of countering that I see them after establishing all the top fighters from all the globes corners an having a once yearly super tournament where whicheva country chosen to hold it an all the best come together to compete against the best of each other so there will be the one true champion of his weight division, atm they seem to be going around signing a range of different fighters but in fairness they all seem to be the top few guys/ladies from each fighters region
The Ali Act would be AMAZING! But the UFC will be piiiiiiiissed, it will mess them up, they never really worked with merits, if the Ali act had been around for a while, McGregor wouldn’t have gotten a title fight, Ronda would never have held a belt, Sonnen would never get big fights…
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