Originally Posted by
Ben Eddy
What you're really getting at is people enjoy seeing style vs style matchups. I think EBI needs to get away from being seen as a BJJ promotion and just be submission grappling. Who can win if no strikes are allowed?
Now you get to market the event with styles in mind. The catch wrestler, the mma guy, wrestler, sambo. Styles of attack like Danaher leg lock guy vs ryan hall leg lock guy etc. etc.
What if they did super-fights between rounds, but instead of only kids and ladies, we got some crazy matcups like a metamorris style fight-making. Throw a couple grand at them even, just to get some guys to do exhibitions. Just 1 match, EBI rules, exebitions style, where you could get all kinds of crazy guys, with who knows what styles or even levels of jiu jitsu... let's get some UFC rivals who have moderate grappling skills to do a match! Who cares if it's not state-of-the-art technique, it's just an exhibition between rounds of the main tournament, that features the best sub-only grapplers at that weight.
You could even do like geo vs glover type stuff, grapplers with a history of amazing performances against each other.
People want to see fun stuff. Give them some freakshow between rounds. Some of those kids matches are amazing feakshow stuff. Tell me Grace and what she can do isn't a freakshow! But instead of 3 kids matches, do one and then find an old Gracie to go against some old rival.
Give them some crazy match that transcends the sport of submission grappling. Give them some shit that goes viral!! Give them something that the UFC fans who won't put on grappling will go watch.
Get some attention by putting crazy shit between rounds....
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