The Boys in the Back aim to answer a simple question: Does the UFC have a star problem?
Plus, Jeremy Stephens’ UFC return, UFC Vegas 104 preview, picks, P4P green rankings, and your questions answered.
0:00 – INTRO
3:20 – Inoue vs Cardenas
5:20 – Jeremy Stephens back in UFC
11:00 – Does UFC have a star problem?
1:35:20 – UFC Vegas 104
1:50:35 – Big hitters of the week
1:54:30 – P4P “Greens”
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The downfall started when all these Russian fighters started coming to the UFC. Back then you had wrestlers with solid striking which made exciting fights. For example, Frankie Edgar, Brock Lesnar, Cain Velasquez, and Jon Jones.
This was the main talking point in Morning Kombat, interesting coincidence that you guys decide to feature it this week too. Also Dustin Poirier was the one who came up with the title Fight Feast for a series he wanted to do, he mentioned it in interviews before, then you guys titled your series that way too…
Do a push up every once and a while rick geez spaghetti arms
This video doesn't feel fresh. Y'all talk about the same shit urrrday
2:03:31 top 3 Mysterious Frank moments of all time
My boy Frank with the Green River band reference!!!!!!!!!
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Contender series is killing stars…they bring people in too early and then feed them to the wolves…this is the most experienced based sport of the planet, so it takes years to the develop for the most part…I don’t think that managers really care about developing talent gradually, because representing 20 fighters is like holding 20 lottery tickets, you’re hoping that one guy hits it big and they’ll get a cut of it…so they don’t really have the fighter’s interests at their heart…you can say that losses don’t matter, but ultimately if you are 10-0 without any viral KOs, the second you lose to some gatekeeper in the UFC you lose tons of momentum, leverage, and star power…they need other promotions to build people before feeding them to the wolves…
The UFC next to move away from this start line of thought to a sport. All major sports have stars the UFC dosn't act like a sport therefore struggles to "find" or "make stars" starts arn't made.
What do you mean by star?
Fighter who's bout can carry a PPV? We have some of those.
A fighter who is a household name among non-fans? There have been like 4 of those in history. Most sports don't have many.
Do you mean a fighter who has a high number of fans? There are more UFC fans than ever, so yes, we have those.
I think this is mostly a non-issue.
rick was spittin nothin but fax no printer about fighter superstar problems
1:27:07 On air came out of no where with a great point… No starts right now maybe but one guy knocks out jon jones or something and this whole conversation is irrelevant..Just the nature of the business
McGregor had zero title defenses. So when Rick says a long title run creates stars that’s not always the case. Conor is an enigma though.
Almost feels like we're entering the boring era
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GC picks 1:52:40 No Parlay Pals?
Yeeee the boys are back in town!
You boys have made it. You got haters in the comments 😂.
Only casuals care about this question.
If you don't like Mma enough to watch it, then just say it. This isn't wwe or a Hollywood film. It's martial arts 🥋 the best fight the best. And rn the guys with belts earned them by winning. Don't like the champion roster? Watch wwe.
I only watch the onlder fighters main events feel like ufc going down hill aye or im just not enjoyimg it as much anymore