Climbed high enough to see that this game is broken
As the title says, I was enjoying it a little bit (especially the emulating of fighters) until I managed to climb the divisions and started to face the same fighters spamming 5-6 punches combo over and over again.
I'm quite sad about it because EA UFC is my most played game since 3, where I hovered around Top 5 in my region. However this iteration is simply too broken though. I dont know if they changed too much things for patches to be able to fix it and wondering if game is just dead.
I think stamina of course is one of the main issues, but fighter uniqueness also has some part in it. You can kind of sense that some fighter animations combined with punch speed and lack of preset combos allow big cheeses with little counterplay (ex. McGregor flayling his arma in endless body-head hook alternations). I dont think that simply changing stats is gonna do it, they might need to tweak with game design.