What if UFC had heightclasses instead of weightclasses?
I've always said this should be the cade, every 4 inches is a new class and you can keep the same division spread
>>197415All combat sports should be open competition with no classes of any kind.
>>197418But what about manlets?
>>197419Well not for nothing but why do they think they have a right to be professionals in a sport if they're not athletically gifted enoughOther sports don't have a professional manlet divisionIf you want to play basketball or football or some shit, be a big person or get so good that you can be 5'6" and still keep upSports fans want to see the best of the best, not the jr.s
>>197419If manlets can become top division mainstays in sumo, they can manage in any other sport. Go and tell Midorifuji he shouldn't be allowed to fight the big boys.
Height and reach are a huge factor when it comes to striking, being shorter allows for better grappling. But yeah, Suga Sean is basically on PED's being that fucking tall in his weight class. Nobody can get close.
>>197423I get your point but I wouldn't want to miss out on Demetrious or Cejudo
>>197423now who are you going to put on your undercard
>>197425>>197415I think it would promote bloatmaxxing too much, fatties are boring to watch
>>197415Are O'malley's shoulders uneven or is it just me? Has he always been like that?
>>198059I guess you could look at the old ufcs, like the first 10, when everything was absolute, and see what the weight advantage to win ratio was like. But the data is so old its hard to compare to modern day.
>>198059>>198148Oh well, I guess someone will have to run an open-weight MMA tournament for a few years and see what happens.
>>197415So thankful i have wide shoulders
Dc is only shorter because he has no neck which is an advantage in all combat sports. Look at his waste line and shoulder height he is 6’2 proportions with no neck and a short round head. Put omalleys neck and head and he’s 6-2
>>197423That is the beauty of combat sports though. Because in team sports weight classes are impractical we have a place to put athletic midgets.
>>197419They can compete. Manlets have gotten way too cocky lately. They're like women who thinks they can actually fight a grown man. All thanks to this UFC bullshit.
>>197476FUCK undercards. Elimination tournament. One big night. No matter HOW fucking long it takes. Don't have the stamina to watch the whole thing? Fuck you. You don't DESERVE to be in the presence of warriors.
>>198835I'm inclined to agree with thatpreliminaries on day 1, 8 man bracket day 2
>>197419They would finally learn
Sean O'Malley is pretty good and everything but his work on South Park I find a little lack luster.
>>197423The reason team sports don't have weight classes is because it is a logistical head ache. For individual sports it is possible. Also heavy weight MMA fighters are typically low skill because the best heavy weight athletes have other options as you mentioned whereas midgets can only compete in combat sports so we get to see the absolute best of their weight class. Remember the ultimate casual favorite was Connor Mcgregor not some 250 lber.
>>197423Funny how short Sumo's dominate a lot of taller good for nothing trash rikishi.
>>197415The whole sport would be full of fat blobs like heavyweight already is
>>198835>cue the injury retirementsAs based as they were, tournaments were full of random bullshit ruining the competition
>>204815Best modern Sumo is 6'3" or so
>>198835Oh yeah I totally want to watch Royce vs Shamrock 2 again. No time limits, 33 minutes of lay and pray. true warriorsFucking cringey shithead
>>204922I think most people who romanticize the tournament structure never really experienced a few live. They don't have the same investment because the fighters aren't current, so there's less disappointment when all of the sudden a bout change happens because X fighter can't continue for whatever reason despite winning.
>>204923No, it's 6ft8
>>197415Weight classes are merely height classes in disguiseSomeone who's 5'6 won't be as athletic at 300lbs as someone who's 6'6And it goes both ways Someone who's 6'6 won't be as athletic at 150lbs as someone who's 5'6
>>197418maybe i will start watching mma again
>>197415Pretty grim that a lanky dyed hair wigger schuab o'cuckly is champ
Why are some people able to successfully start a fight in the wrong and potentially win it? Those with bad intentions.I'm always confident and ready to fight when I know I hold the moral ground. However if I feel that perhaps I started something I tend to maybe want to back out of a fight.
>>197415I have said this for decades. Weight is stupid when you're allowed to use more than your fists. Fighters should be classified based on size. Within a certain height, you are allowed to have a certain reach, leg length, weight, and size. And vice versa. We want fighters of similar size, not just weight, to fight one another.An "open" heavyweight division with no upper limit is also retarded because it just ends up being taken over by the largest fighters who just end up being fat. Jack Dempsey was a heavy weight. Mohammed Ali was a heavyweight. Think about that. Then today? You have Tyson fury, Klitschko brothers... Compare fighters by size. Volume. You must be within such and such a volume, and any of your attributes cannot exceed certain particular limitations, and then it'll be fair.
>>210953How would you personally want it calculated and set up?
>>205290Hakuho is 6'4"
>>211182Hakuho isn't active, he's talking about Hokuseiho who also isn't active because he got caught glueing his stabelmate's wallets closed and putting his fingers in their butts or something.
>>210953I think that's too much of a hassle to implement. Especially when height doesn't seem to impact fights alot unless it's a massive height difference.If height was that big of an advantage most ufc fighters would be tall and skinny, since it'd be more advantageous to be a 6'3 155er than a 5'10 155er. But that's not the case, because taller fighters are worse wrestlers.
>>211200I heard he was fingering their wallets and gluing their buttholes shut
>>211203Japanese can be a mysterious language. There may have been no overt mentions of either buttholes or wallets, merely an implication of fingering and gluing.
>>197415UFC is a shit promotion that hates fun. Next question.
>>197415Kudo do a kind of height + weight score to determine weight classNo idea if its effective but its out there
>>198292there's a 5ft gigamanlet in one that would rape you with ease
What if they had melanin classes
>>197415It should be like Kudo.>Athletes are not ranked by weight, but by physical index. The physical index (PI) is the sum of weight, in kilograms, plus height, in centimeters.Category: under 230Category: 230–240Category: 240–250Category: 250–260Category: 260–270Category: 270 and over
>>215030It's pretty effective from what I've seen. The more evenly matched the opponents, the better the fight, and Kudo has some pretty amazing bangers. This is the MMA the world is sleeping on.
>>215790Cheick Kongo undefeated niggest
