If I was an MMA promoter with a financial backing similar to the UFC, this is how I would try and compete with them: The Fights - Traditional cards along with tournament style cards for second half of the year, 3 weights per year with champion defending against the winner / participating Balanced ranking/entertainment based matchmaking outside of tournaments Sign the best, cut the rest Add 165 weight class and move 170 to 175 Womens 105, 115, and 125 only Allow cross-promotion events with other big organizations Actually show fighter walkouts and mid round coaching instead of ads Announcer only talks about the fighters (no Cocaine Bear ads) The Fighters - Base pay of $40k (USD) per fight, 15% win bonus, additional 15% finish bonus Guaranteed MINIMUM 10% purse increase per fight for the first 5 fights, and then every 5 fights after. Thats a minimum $58.5k per fight after 5 fights, assuming you went 0-5 (you'd be cut, so minimum is realistically higher, assuming win bonus). Subject to increase based on performance/draw. Full sponsorship freedom on fight shorts (no dumb tattoo ads) Contract freedom to compete in other sports Full health insurance coverage + family plan Full travel coverage for team and 3 family members. The Rules - Pit-Style cage design (KC with a cage) to avoid boring cage clinching/grappling 10 point must system, with properly scored 10-8 and 10-7 rounds Damage is #1 criteria, submission attempts being #2. Control time is solely tie breaker criteria for razer close rounds One 10-minute round Championship fights are 4 five-minute rounds with rd 4 being worth double Coaches are allowed 1/3 of the cageside to move around and coach Knees and soccer kicks to the head of grounded opponents are legal (no stomps) Headbutts are legal 12-6 elbows are legal (duh) First illegal move is an immediate 10% purse forfeiture to their opponent, and forfeiture of potential bonus, 2nd is 1 pt deduction and additional 10% purse cut 3rd is additional 20% purse cut and DQ, possible contract termination Cage-side weigh ins for all fights, no weight bullies! Missing weight means 25% purse forfeiture to opponent Champions must defend within 1 year or be stripped Going 1 year without a fight removes ranking elligbility Failed PED test means immediate contract termination What do we think? What do you love, what do you hate? I think Dana would be shitting bricks personally, I would definitely want to work for me 😎

JON JONES IS THE 🐐 AND IT'S NOT EVEN CLOSE Let me spell this out for anyone still living in fantasy land thinking someone else has a better championship reign than Jon Jones. 16 TITLE FIGHTS. SIXTEEN. Let that sink in. GSP had 13 title fights. Silva had 14. Jones has 16 and most of them were against killers in their prime. Not squash matches. Actual elite competition. Gane, Aspinall, whoever the heavyweight fans want to crown. They've been champ for 5 minutes. They haven't proven ANYTHING compared to Jones' actual body of work. Heavyweight is wide open because there's no dominant force. LHW when Jones ruled? That division was STACKED with elite fighters and he ran through them. The only argument against Jones is something outside the cage, and even then his in octagon dominance is undeniable. You can't name me a single fighter who has had a better title reign. Not one. And anyone trying to put someone else up there simply doesn't have the facts to back it up. He's the 🐐 GOAT. Stop the debate.

tom aspinall vacated his title, cyril gane a the new heavyweight champion of the world, about 3 or 4 years ago, we saw Aspinall dominating the heavyweight division today, it is uncertain whether he will ever fight again. It is undoubtedly one of the saddest stories of 2026. The question is, will Tom Aspinall be able to fight in the UFC again, and if he does, will he regain his form?