Originally Posted by
95 TA - The Beast
Actually, once they get to a set of unified rules that EVERYONE accepts, there will be a huge rise in teh sport and most of the organizations will get a big boost due to cross-organization belt holding... That is really the only way ANY of them can even begin to compete with the UFC...
Ideally the UFC can offer bigger purses, thus attracting bigger fighters, but ideally many will 'find a home' with an organization and it eventually *should* lead to belts of only one class being held, regardless of the organization.
I mean really, the big thing holding some of that back right now is the UFC's absoloute greed, in that they only want thier fighters to fight thier fighters. They don't want to share ANYTHING, and thier 'elitism' may just end up causing them to be one of the last to adopt a 'unified' sport...