Through mainstream advertising and marketing, UFC has now overtaken as the king of the MMA brands. However, this does not mean that the UFC is the only brand of MMA, nor the best.
There are so many MMA brands out there: IFC, IFL, WEC, Pride, CFFC, EliteXC, etc. It all depends on what your taste in MMA is.
I don't write this to knock on the UFC, I just point out that there are other brands for MMA out there—the UFC just happens to be the biggest and most widely-known of them. Many of the big names that made the UFC what it is today have left the UFC or are in the process of leaving and closing out their contracts.
Tim Sylvia (24-4-0) left the UFC earlier this year to fight Fedor Emelianenko (28-1-0) on July 19 with Affliction. Randy Couture left the UFC because the only fight that made sense to him was the Emilianenko fight. However, Dana White and the UFC refused to put together a contract for Fedor for the Couture-Fedor fight.
Among all this, the UFC has a history of not paying their fighters what they're worth, which is another reason why Couture left the UFC.
To 99 percent of you reading this, you already know that the UFC is not the only MMA brand out there, you know who left the UFC, and you know the reasons why.
This is only meant to point to those that love MMA and are looking elsewhere for a fresh change of stale air and plenty of good action.
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3 months ago
Adrenaline? It's Affliction man. The brand is Affliction, not Adrenaline.
The UFC is indeed not the only brand out there. The UFC is losing great fighters at a rapid pace it seems like.
from 3 months ago
http://www.adrenaline-mma.com/
from 3 months ago
http://www.afflictionclothing.com/banned_july19/
It's called Affliction: Banned
from 3 months ago
Ah, mixed my A's up. Thanks for pointing it out :).
from 3 months ago
lol no problem man
from 3 months ago
No it is also Adrenaline. Adrenaline is a different promotion run by Monte Cox. They had thei first card before Affliction. Remember, MMA isn't all about Affliction!
from 3 months ago
No but the brand that Fedor and Sylvia is fighting each other in is Affliction. Donald Trump owns it IIRC.
3 months ago
There are other organizations that I do love to watch, but no one can deny that the best are in the UFC. Now I know many of the UFC fighters came from bla bla bla organizations, but lets look at where they are at now, in the UFC. Most of the other organizations have guys coming up in MMA or they are UFC rejects.
Look at Tim Sylvia and Arlovski, they both are going on losses and kind of in a rut. Sylvia might prove me wrong, but I can see him losing this next fight. Arlovski looks really bad now a days, after his losses to Tim, he just seems like crap. Robbie Lawler and Jens Pulver are in the same boat, after getting their asses kicked in the UFC they are now doing other shows (pulver is still getting his ass kicked)
3 months ago
Couple of things -
IFL is going bankrupt. WEC is under same parent company (zuffa, llc) as the UFC and PRIDE was purchased by the UFC in 2007 and no longer exists.
Couture is still under contract with the UFC and is still considered their heavyweight champion.
Dana white and the ufc did not refuse to put together a fedor/couture card. They negotiated with fedor's management and could not come to any common ground. There were rumors that fedor wanted an enormous fee, fighters from his red devil sport club on the same card, he wanted permission to fight in a sambo competition in Russia, and even talks of a co-promotion with M-1 global (now affliction mma) which the UFC does not do.
As far as the fighters go the UFC has the best stable of fighters in the world overall, however, there are plenty of fighters from other promotions that could step in and be very successful in the UFC. I would argue that DREAM has the best collection of lightweight fighters and not the UFC.
Sylvia, Arlovski, and Lawler are top 10 guys in their weight classes in the world.
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