That Skyrim soul binding edit was class

The fact that someone was able to go 50-0 and retire an undefeated undisputed champion is truly bonkers and only one man has achieved such greatness. All hail Uncle Chael P. Sonnen

Coming from Brazil I didn't know it was such a hassle to watch a entire card, here we have "combate" it's a Channel that only revolves around fighting and UFC is their priority, so from early prelims to main event in just one place

Cool! I have a cameo in an MMA on Point video! Yeah man, that 12-6 elbow rule needs to go. As an MMA referee, most of the rules make sense from a safety perspective, and I feel good about enforcing them- but that’s never been one of them. We already have a perfectly defined list of legal scoring areas where you can use any kind of strike… except the evil 12-6 elbow that must not be named. It just doesn’t make sense.

The fact that defies logic the most is the fact that Chael is undefeated in all major organizations, and on the street.

Part of my thing with cutting so much weight is that the competitive advantage of fighting smaller guys is moot because some heavyweights are the only guys who fight at their natural weight, anyway. Everybody at 155 probably walks around at 20 or 30 pounds heavier even when they're in peak shape. I completely understand why weight classes need to exist, but if two guys are 185 at weigh-ins, but are both 208 when the fight actually happens it seems like it defeats the purpose.

A good way to discourage dangerous weight cuts (in my opinion) would be to move weigh-ins closer to the fight, maybe morning of. If people know they won't have a day and a half to rehydrate I think you'd see a huge decline in fighters dehydrating to make weight.

1:40 actually this is true. Zuffa still owns the UFC, because Endeavor didn't just buy UFC, they bought Zuffa and all of its subsidiaries.

Loving the clean collaboration of cleverness and comedy blended with solid MMA status and opinions. A+++

3:33 Funny thing is, Khabibs organisation (Khabib is Alis client) Eagle FC also has a lot of dominance MMA clients and they get favorable match up So Ali is the manager of the owner and also manages some fighters

In Australia it's all on fightpass, $10 a month covers all the prelims/fight nights and the ppvs are $55.

It's so simple to fix the weight cutting issue. You weigh in like 30 minutes before the fight. Even if you rehydrate you're going to feel like shit for like 3 hours so that won't work, it forces the fighters to fight at there actual weights instead of cutting. Giving them a full ass day to rehydrate basically makes weighing in completely pointless.

Mario is just letting you “go out on your shield…” also known as dying.

Video suggestion.. 10 big wins that ultimately lead to nothing? By either poor booking or just the fighter unable to follow up on it

Mario "If he dies, he dies." Yamasaki is pretty iconic.

I think the solution to weight cutting is simple: cap it. In the state that I wrestled in in HS, you weighed in at the start of the season. You were then only allowed to cut a certain percentage of that total throughout the season, and only allowed so much each week. You create a regulatory body to develop a system to make sure people weigh in once a year, at or near their natural “walking” weight. You then create ranges of these “walking” weights for each weight class. These will be developed by a panel of fighters, doctors, and nutritionists. This will not only keep the fighters safer, but also even the playing field, by a substantial amount.

weird how one championship actually has solutions to some of these things (at least the idea of the solution). They have a unified rule set i.e.knees to grounded opponent, hey judge the fight as a whole with damage being the predominant factor, and they have hydration testing which i think is a step in the right direction if done leegit

We forget to realize how young the sport actually is. In perspective, MMA today is where baseball was holding in the early 1900s. It will continue to evolve and develop for many years to come.

One solution to the weigh in issues could be multiple weigh ins during fight week making it impossible to cut much

I mean in fairness… getting a doctor to sign off on two people beating the ever living shit out of each other in the hopes of knocking one of the two unconscious is probably… probably a stretch to begin with. Doctors should’ve just said “look I’m gonna strongly recommend you do… none of this.” 😂

MMA on point with the nonstop top level content. Thank you bros

Fix weight cutting by only letting a fighter gain AT MAX 5% of the weight from weight in... That makes the most sense to me

Tai Tuivasa knows a thing or two about how effective elbows are, or should I be saying Derrick Lewis knows? Lol that fight was crazy I had Tai going into that one.

This page has the best edits that have me dying from start to finish. I don’t think there’s enough credit on the writing of these videos.

9:43 the biggest issue with this situation is where you draw the line. For example, Lee/Chiesa or Lawler/Askren, how is the ref supposed to restart the match in those situations? Standing, someone in the guard, back in the position, but then is the elbow under the chin..?? It’s too vague

Actually wait cutting is kind of going out of style. I know a lot of Fighters who just fight at their natural weight or go up or down 5 lb. Dana White UFC fighters in Bellator that are doing the same thing because weight cutting doesn't give you that great of an advantage so it's not really worth it.

To avoid dangerous weight cuts just have a pre-fight weigh-in, same time the ref is checking fighters' gloves, mouth piece and body, if you're over the limit more than a pound or two as you're walking into the cage, then its the regular conditions of missed weight (cant win the title, 20% purse to opponent), if one fighter is almost skipping a weight class (like a lightweight at 154 fighting someone at 184, almost skipping welterweight going into middleweight) they should be able to pull out of the fight with no reprisals, because thats just an absurd mismatch that is not in the fighters contract, and if they agree, its purely exhibition fight and doesn't go to their record. Its so terrible for people who miss weight, that any cut they do will not be worth it. And improving fighter's health and safety outside the cage, and probably increasing performance. Nobody likes to watch a fight where both fighters get gassed halfway into the second round, where their coaches game plan finally starts working, and nearly every pro fighter says the weight cut is the worst part. They are already risking permanent injury, brain damage, and even death (although rare, still a possibility) so why add to the risk with arguably arbitrary weight classes. If both fighters weight 184.9 at weight in, and fight at 203 on fight night, why not just call the fight a light heavyweight since thats the weight they are actually fighting at? When was the last time you heard of a welterweight weighing in at 165 or lower?

I will never forget when Seteve Mazadummy gave Anthony "Rumble" a TKO loss after he was eye poked.

I felt so bad for Ricco Rodriguez when he lost that fight to Big Nog, he looked so great, and clearly dominated. It was his last great performance, and there's a part of me that thinks him unfairly losing that fight sapped his motivation going forward.

The rules almost were universal. The meeting where the new unified rules was introduced to all of the State Athletic Commissions. They had literally everyone in agreement but one; this moronic woman representing New Jersey who gave a long diatribe against the "barbaric" new rules, including claiming figures like Randy Couture knew nothing about the rules of MMA. Her speech broke the agreement, and led to various different states opting for their own ruleset.

You can do the weight in right before the fight. Like judo in the olympics

I think the 10 point system is best way to go. Ya, start trying to score fights by the individual move or completely ignore somebody sweeping the first 4 rounds only to then get rocked in the 5th and "lose the fight" by decision. That's stupid.

I like that Izzy chose the weight class closest to his natural weight, so he doesn't have to cut a lot of weight.

Sometimes i find the editor can be too much for yall but he had me laughing throughout this video. Kudos

10 fighters who are never in a boring fight

Ramsey and Icy Mike getting some shine. Lets go.

What a great list, I’m surprised to never see anything like this before

I had an amateur fight once, but we had to change the rules a bit, I fought a guy with no arms who was only allowed to punch and I was only allowed to use the Force so match ended in a draw, never fought again. 🤷‍♀️

Crazy how we almost romanticize the the term pro with high skill and a pay that reflects it. A professional is literally anyone who gets paid to do what they do. You cook for a living? Congratulations you're a professional cook. You might not be a chef but you're defenitely a professional. Proud of you champ

ONE says they do hydration test, but they don’t show the “official” weigh ins, only the ceremony so there’s definitely something fishy going on in Singapore.

That outro music 🔥, great video too

One good thing about the Globo/Zuffa deal in Brazil is that we have ufc at the Combate channel for a monthly subscription, it also has other promotions. Pretty sweet deal in comparison.

Making the fighters weigh in 4 times throughout training camp at intervals makes more sense than holding a hard number at the end of camp. If the fighter starts camp at 182 and can only get to 168, and the opponent signs up got the fight at 160, it's a 160lbs fight. Make it about averages.

Very cool to see a montage featuring Icy Mike!

In Germany we have Dazn, wich is basically like Netflix. You can watch all of the Ufc (except the Prelims) and tons of other Pro Sports like Nba Nfl etc.

What do you mean you forgot your login details the main events about to start, actually cracked me up ahah, I’ve never bought a PPV myself always watch the fights afterwards a few months later or just highlights but I would hate for this to happen 😂.

Love this episode

When I boxed in college, we had to make weight the morning of our fight. This held us to our true weight much more effectively.

Moving the weight cut to the morning of would be a good way to stop dangerous weight cutting, one other possibility is to use the same method as Judo (at least for international tournaments) for example where you have the weigh on the day before the tournament and on the day of the tournament you can be requested to weigh in again and your weight can't exceed the weight class + 5% on the tournament day. A solution for the weight cut issue could lead to better fighter activity as they wouldn't need as much time to recover after the fight.

I think a good fix to the weight cut problem is, let’s use usman. When he’s not fighting he has to weigh in every two weeks within 10 lbs so anywhere from 160 to 180 then when he starts camp that’s usually what 12-16 weeks? They have to weigh in within 5lbs so 165-175 then final weigh in 170

Was Shogun vs Rampage a questionable decision? I remember it being Rampage getting stomped down and stopped in minutes.

The snuck in memes are getting better each video

What really defies logic is that Ed Herman is still in the UFC. Better yet, Angela Hill and Sam Alvey are still in the UFC. 🙄

The only reason I’m a UFC fan is becuz they put their prelims on Facebook back in the day. I was just scrolling one day when I was like 12 then saw a fight going on the rest is history, fell straight in love

When you said “ from bloodsports to cobra Kai” I genuinely laughed 😂 0:26

It's incredibly easy to watch an entire card from the early prelims all the way thru to the main card.

Good to see icy mike in the Beginning of the video 🤘🏻

Feel like same day weigh ins as the fight would be the best solution to eliminate the problem. Theres always going to be people pushing it but i feel like people would be less likely to kill themselves on a weight cut if theyre fighting in a few hours

Have a height class rather than weight class lol, have DC fight O’Milley 😂

We used to have to weigh in literally an hour or two before the match. Now they do weigh ins the day before...but everyone is required to have already gotten their BMI tested weeks earlier. There is a minimum weight one is allowed to cut down to based on one's BMI. Yes, I know BMI doesn't differentiate between muscle content and fat content, but I would suggest that a system in which each competitor is analyzed and given a minimum safe weight, and where weigh ins are on day of the fight, would easily mitigate the over cutting risks.

I’d say for weight cuts, have them weigh in 2 days before and again backstage before the fight. If they go over before the fight then they lose 80% of their purse to encourage people fighting at their natural weights. If somebody sees a flaw with my idea please let me know, I’m curious to see what other fans think

Early Prelims are on ESPN+ here in the U.S. on both PPV's and the fight nights

Holy shit Ramsey Dewey made it to the video twice hahaha I love it

judges should absolutely face consequences and there needs to be ONE. CLEAR. unified scoring system

Ramsey Dewey sighting! Gotta love that

The way to fix weight cutting is by randomly weighing each fighters at least 3 or 4 times a year and they then fight at what they are typically walking around at. So if a fighter weighs in between 145lbs and 165lbs throughout the course of the last twelve months then they fight at 155 in their next fight and they are weighed before the fight to make sure they both weigh the same. Its pretty simple really

The comedy in this script is top tier.

Loved this video lol so true. Everything

They can say you can’t be more than a certain % of your fight weight. So you can’t have a guy walking around 190lbs cutting to 155lbs

The real detriment to weight cuts, as it relates to performance, is the lack of electrolytes. That makes it harder for your brain to send commands through your nerves to your muscles. Just weigh in the day of, or punish fighters who are heavier the day of than they are the day of the ceremonial weigh in. We call them ceremonial for a reason.

Eddies contract breaking all sorts of laws and there are still people saying that fighers dont deserve better contracts lol

what about usada style weight ins? you keep the regular ones the day before, but there is also a surprise one in the week or two prior. and they both have to match.. or something like that

The Silva, Weidman, Hall triangle is simulation theory confirmed.

If you want to eliminate weight cut, then you need to have a monitoring system, something similar to what IJF used to do, where competitors are monitored over a period of time, testing their weight, hydration, muscular density, and overall health condition. However this requires tweaking, as that also makes it not possible to get fixed opponents like in boxing and mma.

Still waiting on Top 10 Homes Sold by Al Iaquinta.

where's Tommy? he usually has a vid out by now or more than what he's had in the last bit of uploads

Fight pass is great in New Zealand, I see all prelims and can pay for the pay per view on it too.

watching a UFC event has never been more easier than doing it through an illegal stream you dont need to change shit

The Ramsey clips are great lol

Cool to see Hard2Hurt in the opening!

Loved Ali’s intro😂

Wow that's different in Australia we get all access to early prelims, prelims and mainevejt all through fight pass

The 10 point system is basically where they start with 10 points and get deducted from there throughout the fight

I actually have no problem with a 10-point must system. Unfortunately I feel like the judges make it out to be a lot more difficult than it actually is to score a fight. At least, I find myself scoring fights a lot closer to what's realistic and agreed upon in cases where the fight is really close.

The rampage Shogun fight was pretty clear I thought lol

Totally agree with the bs platform stuff. I found out about this the hard way. I already had fight pass. Bought the latest Conor vs Dustin PPV. Watched early prelims on fight pass. Had no way to watch the regular prelims....

Ayyy that guy from Eternal MMA at around the 4:30 mark coaches the MMA class I take

1:03 that was genuinely 💰

Bayliun is actually my favorite

We need hydration tests like ONE championships, we just need to not be so sketchy about it lol and have it open to the public and unbiased commissions. I feel like ONE might let fighters have a size advantage if its in their best interest, like when DJ and other UFC fighters were fighting. They also don't test for drugs lol. But yeah hydration tests seem good. And maybe random weight tests during the lead-up to fights.

Easiest fix to the weight cutting problem? Easy, have the weigh-ins take place on the night of the fight. That alone will see people then fighting in their natural weight-class and not in a weight-loss competition. You can then increase the weigh-in discrepancy to perhaps +5lbs and if a fighter misses weight, then their purse is forfeited to their opponent. It would solve it all overnight.

Top 10 Fighters with the most Blackbelts (Plus highest Blackbelt rank)

UFC Fight Pass in My country Panama allows you to watch the entire Card even main card for PPV for only 19.99 a month

How to fix weight cut. Saturday morning weigh ins that lead right into show

I live in Australia and watch from prelims right through to main event on ufc fightpass

The weight cuts are brutal

the 10 point must system mean no 9-9 round and someone must win the round. Just imagine a draw round out of 5 and 3 rnd fight how many draws in UFC and what kind of beating would a person have to take for a 10-7 rnd b4 the ref just stopped it

I work for an amateur mma company, most states don’t allow you to go pro right away. You’d need amateur fights to get licensed for a pro bout. Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin are some examples that I know.

Im a bit of a casual and I was looking on the ufc Facebook for the early prelims just the other day lmao

'irreversable mistakes' LOL the irony is so perfect i have to assume it was deliberate