#5 It’s all about wins and losses, or is it?
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This is one of the biggest differences between the UFC and WWE. The question of whether wins and losses actually matter.
UFC tends to treat them as being more important than anything else, and with good reason – fans have been up in arms before, if a fighter coming off a loss has been pushed into a title fight, and obviously in a real – rather than pre-determined – sport, wins and losses are how you track who’s on the up and who’s going down.
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Two or three losses in a row and a fighter can easily find themselves on the way out of the UFC.
WWE, meanwhile, seems to have run with the idea that the results of matches are simply just another tool to help them tell the story of a feud. After all, with so many matches on TV each week, who’s going to remember the results anyway?
While that might be true, it doesn’t do any good for a wrestler’s credibility if he loses matches every single week. And if wins and losses are constantly traded then who actually looks like a real winner? The answer is nobody.
So which way is right, Dana’s or Vince’s? I think the answer is somewhere in the middle.
Sure, in wrestling the results don’t always matter – it’s the story that’s being told. But actually having wrestlers win consistently can help them become bigger stars, and of course, certain wins and losses are remembered – it’s why people still talk about Booker T’s loss to HHH at Wrestlemania XIX today.
On the flipside for the UFC, though, I don’t think they should be all-important. If you’ve got a fighter who consistently puts on entertaining fights, has a popular personality, or has come into the company with a big reputation and has fought a murderer’s row of opponents, they shouldn’t really be cut after two or three losses.
If Dana and Vince swapped places, we’d probably see the emphasis changed. For WWE, winning streaks, big victories over big names, and clean pinfalls would suddenly become vogue. Gone would be those awful distraction-into-roll-up finishes that everyone hates.
For the UFC, meanwhile, fighters like Sokoudjou – who came in with a big reputation but was cut after going 1-2 – might’ve lasted a little longer. Someone like Donald Cerrone would probably have a job for life.
Well, he probably has anyway, but you know what I mean. And we’d probably see more instances of someone like Nick Diaz being largely gifted a title shot due to his popularity. It’d be interesting to see for sure, and I think it’s the biggest change that could be made in both UFC and WWE if Dana and Vince swapped places.
Any other examples you can think of? How do you think each company would fare? Let us know!
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