On his You’re Welcome podcast, Chael Sonnen questions the logic of 5 round mixed martial arts fights. If the Super Bowl is the same length of regular season game, why are the main event and title fights in MMA fights longer? The chance of injury increases and longer fights change the training required to compete making it harder to book last minute fights.
2018-10-04
5 rounds is boring
maybe 4?
Some of the best fights have been 5 rounds, McGregor vs Diaz, Jones vs Gustafsson, Lawler vs McDonald, etc…
wasn't yoel injured in rd 1 and whittaker in rd 2? also, johnson vs cejudo 2??? He's been wrong on everything today, seems to be running out of shit to talk about.
drop in credibility here i am sad to say.
fighters saying "no" on the phone is far from an excuse for the biggest venue to have this main event – and Chael you know it. you believed it was Jones/Gus up until recently exactly because of this simple fact – it was impossible in your own eyes that MSG wouldn't have a great main event. Lots of smoke screen here too – 5 rounds and whatnot and war veterans and all – why not ask a veteran if giving excuses as to why a mission failed is never a defense for a commander.
it is probably much simpler: the ufc corporation has decided it would school its dissident private contractors and prevent them from gaining any leverage in negotiations – and in the process they are willing to piss on their ppv buyers. that's not too surprising – the UFC are business and they are not in the best of shape right now.
what is surprising is that the insightful, observant and fluent Chael is avoiding any mention of the part about how the cake is carved up in this business (for anyone but the Irish phenom).
It saddens me a bit.
5 rd fights are for the champs.
I agree with Chael. Watching that fight with Romero v Whittaker, by rounds 4 & 5, I got this weird feeling that the fight should have been over. It was like I finally could see why ppl thought it was barbaric, lol. And it WAS boring, save for the near-finishes.
However, Whittaker was injured in the first round.
Title fights should be 3 rounds with no breaks tho
You've been off the mark lately
Actually basketball has a series of up to 7 games for the championship and in both basketball and football there has been talk on how the season is to long, or has to many games. And it’s hard on the body.