Mr. Bungle

Pride fighters walking in and taking the titles?

And please dont assume that I'm being a "troll"...I'm asking this question sincerely because I'd like to hear your opinions. I also consider myself a UFC fan and while I find it slickly produced and extremely entertaining I've always believed that the talent was second rate. I've seen so many of you vehemently (sometimes violently) argue against even any inkling of a suggestion like that but do you see it any differently now? Or I guess I should say will you see it differently when most of or all of the titles are held by former Pride fighters?

Your thoughts?

Organik

anderson silva was the beginning... mirko SHOULD also do the same thing...

i dunno about rampage but if they got shogun or wandy chucks days might be over

gsp is pretty secure..

but gomi may take sherk also

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Ghizman

no comment on that, enough people will. Great f-in avatar!! I'm still laughing

randyspankstito

that seems pretty accurate. I think Rampage can take chuck too though, we'll see what he looks like next weekend.

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herton17

Devils advocate is the role I chose for this argument.
In the same regard as your argument that former Pride fighters are taking the UFC belts, I am going to say that former Rings fighter holds the PRIDE heavyweight title, former UFC fighters holds the middleweight and welterweight titles and the former Shooto figher holds the Lightweight title.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that Anderson Silva is now a UFC fighter. Mirko Filipovic is also a UFC fighter. The talent comes and goes, it's just what it is. UFC has been around longer, correct?
You may like the rules or the setting in one organization better than the other, but saying that one is talentless and the other one is not is inaccurate. It merely states the current fighter distribution, at best.
This argument tecnically settles all UFC vs. PRIDE BS arguments. You're either an MMA fan or you're not. You love it or you don't.
This is an MMA forum...

Zender

Agreed, spoke about it all before but just thought I'd get my post count up.

<M>MA

Well said.

Unseen

I think the more competition in the UFC the better

Slamnbam88

silva and crocop are the only guys who are holding/will hold a title

....i think vera/herring are good hw fighters...esp vera whos young and still undefeated(great matchup for crocop btw)

chucks fine
gsp is fine
the talents spread out....hughes/gsp/penn could beat most it not all the people in their weightclass in pride...as could sherk and chuck

Mr. Bungle

I completely agree with what you're saying but it doesn't really address the question of my thread. I want know if the fans who have been so stubborn and defensive when the talent in the UFC was questioned feel any differently now that it's so obvious that the talent in other organizations is far superior. I just want to hear if they can admit it...I can see having a true passion for MMA and but c'mon, it's silly to be loyal to a league or organization isn't it? Why is it so hard for some people to admit that yeah the fighters in the UFC were good but only B-Level when compared to Pride.

Either way I'm sure we can all agree that it's great that the UFC is finally getting some real talent.