who to watch in mma nowadays

[everything]

anyone interesting?

I used to watch:
Fedor
Fedor v CroCop
Couture v Liddell
Sakuraba v Gracies
Anderson Silva
Jon Jones
Machida.

Everything else was a little boring. Anything interesting like those old guys nowadays?

[GrahamB]

Dominic Cruz
Cody Garbrandt
TJ Dillashaw

Daniel Cormier
Connor McGregor
Kabib Nurmagomedov

Tony Ferguson
Daren Till


Plus loads more.

[everything]

ok thanks a lot. will keep my eye out for their matches. after jon jones got in various kinds of trouble, I got a little bored of keeping up with the next generation

[GrahamB]

Dillashaw and Garbrandt just fought a couple of weekends ago.

McGregor vs Kabib is the next big thing in October.

Cormier is apparently fighting Brock Lesner next, but that's just a joke fight for him to retire on I think.

I think Till vs Woodley is the nearest interesting fight.

[marvin8]

anyone interesting?

. . . Everything else was a little boring. Anything interesting like those old guys nowadays?

IMO, the newer generation is more interesting to watch as the fighters and trainers evolve with higher fighting skills; learning from the relatively young history of the sport (e.g., lineage of Bas Rutten —> Duane Ludwig —> TJ Dillashaw).

IMO, understanding the concepts, strategies, fighter's weaknesses and strengths, etc, makes MMA more interesting to watch. For insights, there are before and after fight interviews with trainers/fighters, analysts on youtube channels and podcasts giving predictions and breakdowns (before and after), and documentaries around the events such as "Anatomy of a Fighter" and UFC Embedded. Also, a website to watch past fights.

Demetrius Johnson and Henry Cejudo rematch, Rose Namajunas (skill evolution with trainers Trevor Wittman and Pat barry), and Zabit Magomedsharipov with a wushu background may be interesting as well. Excerpt from "Zabit_Magomedsharipov," https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zabit_Magomedsharipov,

Magomedsharipov was born in Khasavyurt, Soviet Union on 1 March, 1991. He started to train in freestyle wrestling at 10 years and then kickboxing. In 2003 he joined the Wushu club "Pyat storon sveta boarding school", where he lived for 6 years[2] training under Gusein Magomaev. In 2012 he made his professional MMA debut.[3]

[everything]

Thanks. Will try to check some of these out. Are there some better analysts and coaches that give some of the best breakdowns? Is there still a "camp" that stands out?

[GrahamB]

Hands-down best MMA analyst is Jack Slack:

https://www.fightprimer.com/

He has a great podcast too:

http://fightsgoneby.com/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2i7H- ... tjw/videos