UFC Fans Mostly Hate Women's MMA and Who Can Blame Them?

Two women's fights on a main card was two too many.

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UFC Twitter last Saturday night was an absolute celebration of brutality. And it wasn’t the brutality inside the cage being celebrated but rather it was fans celebrating their freedom to openly hate on the product inside the cage.

Here are some representative examples, all from small accounts, and I can assure you, just a few drops in the bucket of the torrents of hate that rained down on UFC 307 Saturday night:

"Another $80 dollars down the drain get these bitches off my screen. #UFC307"

"This fight looks like 2 moms fighting in the school pickup line over who was first #UFC307"

"#UFC307 do you know how much of an asshole you have to be to put TWO women fights on a PPV??!!"

Let’s pull up the Wiki results:

For their $80, the shrinking minority of fans who elected to pay for the card got a total of 84 minutes and 32 seconds of “UFC action.” And of that 84:32, 40:00 consisted of Kayla Harrison vs Ketlen Vieira grinding to a one-sided decision and Juliana Peña taking Raquel Pennington’s title in a twenty-five-minute snooze-fest.

I presume the plan had been to build up Harrison, the highly-touted Olympic judo gold medalist, as the next title challenger.

Unfortunately, the fans were bored to tears. While she did prove for the second time that she can make the 135-pound women’s bantamweight limit, Harrison also confirmed that she can’t strike, can barely wrestle and is physically struggling to cut to 135… and yet, the new champ definitely wants no part of her.

Just why are Endeavor-era UFC fans paying a high price to watch this level of “quality” from Women’s MMA fights? Zach Arnold argued on The MMA Draw recently that this is the price of admission for Ari Emanuel if he wants massive government contracts for UFC shows.

Politics. It’s about pleasing the politicians and HR departments.

Time to dig up some dirt and review the recent online mud-slinging from the most hyperbolic and representative UFC fans online.