Yes, I agree about K1 also liked Pride. I'm not a fan of the UFC/american style productions, I think they are boring and lack the sophistication of for example what the Japanese did with Pride or the great athmosphere you had at old school boxing matches. And like I said I really dislike Rogan and the fucking constant screaming. For example Bas Rutten is much better as a commentator.
Also it's not just a question of how the fights/events are organized and produced, the fact that fighters have less weaknesses have made the fights more boring and the fighters neutralize each other. I rather watch youtube clips of street fights than an UFC fight. You need interesting characters and interesting match-ups. These days everything is overanalyzed and overcommercialized. Not enough real interesting characters in sports. Just a bunch of boring robots.
Absolutely agree... Today everyone is decent on the ground, decent in stand-up, decent in takedown defence, plus a huge lack of characters... Pride, i'm sure that UFC's fighters are overall much superior and more complete, but before we had different interesting characters with different styles, Randleman, Filipovic, Emelianenko, Overeem, Liddell, just to name a few... K1 was stand-up only but we had guys with good kicks, punches, or both, and some great characters, Aerts, Le Banner, Hunt, Schilt, Hari, Ghita, Saki, Overeem, Karaev, Sefo, Hug, and many more... For not talking about the World Max with Kobayashi, Por Pramuk, Kraus, Souwer, Sato, Petrosyan... As you said, today lifeless robots...