🧵 How would you incorporate super heavyweight in the UFC?
Anonymous at Fri, 11 Aug 2023 11:44:37 UTC No. 161118
The simpliest solution would be to keep heavyweight at 265 lbs and add super heavyweight above it but some say heavyweight should be moved to 245 and super heavyweight should be 300 or that super heavyweight should have 30% bodyfat limit to ban fatties from fighting.
Personally I would just do the same thing boxing does to heavyweight which is letting the history happen. In XIX century heavyweight was >160 but boxers are getting bigger so they established light heavyweight, then cruiserweight and recently bridgerweight.
Basically, I would make heavyweight at >205 with no limit, observe it for a few years and split it into heavyweight and super heavyweight if guys under certain weight will have too little chance against giants.
Women deserve heavier weightclasses even more than men because unlike non obesse men over 265, non obesse women over 145 aren't anomal. I would make women's lightweight at 155 and openweight above 155. If there were enough competitors, I would also add welterweight at 170.
Anonymous at Fri, 11 Aug 2023 12:15:18 UTC No. 161119
You'd need zero drug testing. You'd need to lure away the maybe ~10 athletes who could compete at that weight, without falling over, from their current contracts. You'd have to then get someone to sanction it. Good luck.
Anonymous at Fri, 11 Aug 2023 12:23:16 UTC No. 161120
>>161119
>You'd have to then get someone to sanction it
Why is Murica so cucked? Japan allows much more fun. Even Poland has a promotion with no gloves, legal ground kicks and headbutts.
Anonymous at Fri, 11 Aug 2023 13:13:27 UTC No. 161125
The best thing to do is fights at matched weight, if I'm not mistaken in the US fighters can't have more than 10 kg difference, or something like that, so house fights at super heavyweight with matched weight is entirely possible and more interesting.
Anonymous at Fri, 11 Aug 2023 13:49:38 UTC No. 161127
>>161125
Brock Lesnar was 20 kg heavier than Randy Courture
Anonymous at Fri, 11 Aug 2023 15:33:40 UTC No. 161142
>>161119
Wwe has some big guys and theoretically they have drug testing so it's not impossible
Anonymous at Sun, 13 Aug 2023 18:04:34 UTC No. 161522
Honestly any challenger should be allowed to challenge UP to any weight class they want. Why stop a featherweight from trying to fight a heavyweight? For his own protection? If he's challenging the guy let him fucking fight.
All this weigh in shit gets old and boring. Wahh I drank a bottle of water the day before weigh in and I missed weight. Fuck that shit, let them fight.
Anonymous at Sun, 13 Aug 2023 18:41:55 UTC No. 161528
>>161118
>ban fatties from fighting
Why? They would just get owned by whatever low body fat percent fighter meets the criteria
Anonymous at Sun, 13 Aug 2023 18:43:00 UTC No. 161529
>>161142
Anon...
Anonymous at Sun, 13 Aug 2023 18:45:05 UTC No. 161530
why would you even want that? big guys are so unathletic and have much less skill than smaller divisions. Even regular heavyweight is a snooze, just 2 guys throwing bombs until one goes to sleep. very little talent
Anonymous at Sun, 13 Aug 2023 19:19:02 UTC No. 161536
>>161530
That sort of proves the point, Mike Tyson is a really normal sized guy, so he was dynamic and athletic
Anonymous at Sun, 13 Aug 2023 19:19:41 UTC No. 161537
>>161536
He weighed 110 kilograms you dunce.
Anonymous at Mon, 14 Aug 2023 12:17:25 UTC No. 161654
>>161555
This chart doesn't mean what you think it means. Higher rate of taps doesn't equate to greater skill. It just means that smaller dudes survive each others barrages long enough to get inside & find a hold. Versus heavyweight where the strike force is a deterrent from going in tight. Overall in all pro-fights, knockouts are the predominant result. Don't know where your chart is from but it is misleading.
Anonymous at Mon, 14 Aug 2023 12:18:54 UTC No. 161655
>>161654
Not to mention greater mobility in general. Its about the fighters using what works best with their physique. Skill is not a single metric.
Anonymous at Mon, 14 Aug 2023 12:35:44 UTC No. 161656
>>161522
I want this, BUT, as a precaution, so it's not some crazy fucking free for all, make it so only champs can make inter-class challenges.