If you grow up wrestling and are an elite athlete, MMA is basically the only career path available, save for a very special few who can compete internationally.
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If you grow up boxing and are an elite athlete, it probably makes way more sense to be a professional boxer. Wrestling is still the best base to have in MMA, but more and more that seems to be a product of the fundamentals that base instills in competitors from a young age, coupled with the limited financial opportunities later in life. Wrestling is still incredibly important, but more fighters are starting to understand the advantages that can be gained on the feet, since every round starts there. All of the female champions employ striking-based styles, as do both current interim champions, Dustin Poirier and Israel Adesanya. Yes, wrestlers still litter the tops of the UFC’s rankings - five current champions hail from a wrestling background, and eight of the top 15 pound-for-pound fighters are wrestlers as well, not including Robert Whittaker, who adopted wrestling later and is the current Australian national champion - but lately we are seeing more and more the advantage elite strikers have in MMA. However, I actually think the overall MMA metagame has shifted more heavily towards striking than ever before in MMA. Wrestlers have been dominating MMA for a considerable amount of time at this point, so this isn’t exactly a new trend.
Will there be a point where the sport as a whole is dominated by wrestling?- Diet Dr Handsome April 23, 2019 What’s your take on the trend of wrestlers dominating every division lately. I think many expected more out of flyweight than has initially been delivered, but those expectations will eventually be met. I suspect Valentina Shevchenko - a woman who arguably beat Amanda Nunes, the current champ in both weight classes above flyweight - putting together a dominant title run and establishing herself among the all-time greats will also help. But that should all get better with time as the weight range is one that should be among the most populated with female talent. Also, fewer fighters moved from the surrounding weight classes as predicted, and as such, the division lacks the perennial contenders and well-known names near the top that would make non-title fights in the weight class feel more important. Flyweight was completely fresh ground and is still finding its footing. Featherweight came in with Cyborg attached, giving its historical context and legacy. At the moment, women’s flyweight has failed to gain a ton of traction, but it also had further to go than featherweight. That being said, though Nunes says she intends to defend her 145-pound title, the future of that division still seems up in the air and I don’t think anyone would be surprised if they folded it in the near future, or just made anything over 125 into “women’s heavyweight” and unified it all into one belt.Ĭompare that with women’s flyweight. So right now, featherweight has the edge. However, Cyborg’s reign as champion was well worth watching and Amanda Nunes’ upset of Cyborg to become the first ever female champ-champ was truly something special. When the UFC finally introduced a featherweight division for women, it was met with a fair bit of skepticism as basically the Cyborg division, and, in actuality, it has been mostly that, with very few 145-pound fights taking place that didn’t involve Cyborg. This is an interesting question because the answer right now is likely not the same as the answer will be in a year’s time. More than a year in,it's a dud.1 good fight & just searching for victims for Valentina.
What UFC division is a bigger dud in WMMA, flyw or Featherweight? Prior to it coming to be flw was set up to be basically "the division, big strawweights going up, small BWs going down.
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