Your right about that, most fighter's have the same skills, Mauy Thai for striking, Wrestling for sprawling and takedowns and Submissions with most fighters.
Some exceptions of course but basically the skills are becoming the same.
Naturally this takes away from the Wrestling Vs. Boxing aspect etc, as most fighters take from both arts now a days.
But this was inevitable and makes for better fighter of course, but it does take away some the intrigue, no doubt.
But my main point with this thread was to get people's opinions on how big MMA is going to get.
We've got guys over on the UG who are convinced it is going to get absolutely huge, I'm more skepticle.
Even in Japan where MMA is very big, K-1 is bigger because most people like striking over grappling.
I think it will get bigger but I don't think more than say, 18-20 thousand for a UFC show, and even that will probably take at least 3-4-5 years to get to.
Obviously the cable thing will help, I just can't see the U.S fan taking to grappling (not to mention the anti-violence people, bad press, etc).
Again I'm sort of hoping it doesn't get to big because my personally opinion is that would ruin it in many ways, although the fighters do deserve to be paid a lot better, no doubt.
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