MMA fighters shared their stories and gave practical advice to achieve success
The UFC World Wrestling Championship has been operating since the early 90s of the 20th century. Since then, a huge number of MMA athletes have won champion titles, won and lost, gathered millions of fans and enabled bettors to win and earn money by betting on their performances. What is the secret of such success and strength?
Fight type brings success to the athlete
Considering that MMA is mixed martial arts, most often a sportsman is a representative of some kind of martial arts. Among these sports, sambo, judo, and basic wrestling are most common. It was the athletes-representatives of basic wrestling who most often became UFC champions. Why is this happening? It is the wrestlers who find it easiest to get used to the realities of MMA fighting. Thus, many champions have said that it was their original passion for sports that became the prerequisite for serious events, which eventually led to the championship title.
You choose your own way of development
Previously, the only way to get into the UFC was to perform brilliantly as a member of one of the few organizations. However, later the special program The Ultimate Fighter was launched, the participants and winners of which very often ended up in the UFC. Once upon a time, the UFC was saved from complete collapse by such newcomers.
You could come to the UFC world not as a beginner, but as an already proven sportsman, you just need to catch the eye of the organization’s leadership. The most important criterion is your ambition, endurance and desire for development. All these factors add up to create a MMA champion.
You need the right mix of media and sports
In the modern world, there are practically no such celebrities who are not represented in the media. The same is true in MMA events. Every time after events and championships, the best athletes are always interviewed. To this end, a MMA fighter must be prepared and be able to behave correctly. Otherwise, very quickly such an athlete can become a victim of jokes from fans. Moreover, in our world, an athlete’s personal brand plays a very important role – personal pages on social networks, blogs, discussions. All this helps to maintain interest in a public figure, and this, in turn, has a good effect on the ratings of a fighter and on what odds a bookmaker can offer on his events and how willingly bettors would want to bet on a fighter.
Personal brand and manager do their job
No matter how much a sportsman trains and gives interviews, no success could be achieved without a properly built marketing strategy. In the modern world, there is an urgent need for a personal manager who will organize all the affairs of an athlete. It is his responsibility to ensure that the fighter is noticed and invited to the UFC. The most important piece of advice UFC pro fighters can give to MMA newbies is to make sure you read the contract you sign with your manager.
The higher the level of a fighter, the greater the interest of bettors in him
Fans of betting on MMA events always pay attention to the rating of the fighter they want to bet on. Indeed, on unknown and weak ones, quotes are usually not very attractive. And on very promising and strong athletes, you could raise large amounts of money at different rates.
Although sometimes the system works differently. It is worth keeping abreast and closely monitoring all the features of the MMA fighters, since often the one who is considered an obvious underdog and presented with a bet with a large odds from the bookmaker could easily change the situation and unexpectedly defeat the opponent by knockout. Then all those who made a bet on his victory will bathe in money.