"The fact that the sport is not on track to produce a new Brock Lesnar, Fedor Emelianenko, Jon Jones, or Chuck Liddell in the next decade is seemingly of no concern to the people in charge."
This is something I've been telling for years. Furthermore, Hollywood studios aren't being ran by movie people either. Look no further at the news of Amazon creatively taking over the James Bond franchise from Albert Broccoli's children, Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson.
America's business culture of complete corruption and "value extraction" (ie strip mining of assets and leaving ruin behind) has left us culturally unable to produce the movies and fights the world wants to see.
"The fact that the sport is not on track to produce a new Brock Lesnar, Fedor Emelianenko, Jon Jones, or Chuck Liddell in the next decade is seemingly of no concern to the people in charge."
This is something I've been telling for years. Furthermore, Hollywood studios aren't being ran by movie people either. Look no further at the news of Amazon creatively taking over the James Bond franchise from Albert Broccoli's children, Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson.
America's business culture of complete corruption and "value extraction" (ie strip mining of assets and leaving ruin behind) has left us culturally unable to produce the movies and fights the world wants to see.
I'd say Ben Fowlkes summed it up well a couple years ago, we are in the "just some fights" era.
"guys fighting" was my line long ago
Would love to see some other people take a crack at this. I might even make my own list