 How was the imposition of weight classes probably recieved by fans?
UFC's flameout from national sensation to total irrelevance is a tragedy of American sports, a cautionary tale of prudishness, heavy-handed politics, and cultural myopia. Promoters built an octagonal chain-link cage, invited eight top martial artists, and set them loose in no-holds-barred, bare-knuckles fights. UFC allowed, even promoted, all notions of bad sportsmanship: kicking a man when he's down, hitting him in the groin, choking. Four-hundred-pound men were sent into the Octagon to maul guys half their size. They tuned in for bloodshed--"the damage," as fans like to call it. Nursed on boxing and Hollywood, Americans imagine fights as choreography, a dance of elegant combinations, roundhouse kicks, clean knockouts.
 It was one of many things that decreased the appeal of UFC over time
 It was upsetting because it made the matches end much more quickly, decreasing entertainment value  They were never officially imposed, because they went against the original motivation for UFC to begin with  They thought it was safer to even the odds, so even though it was less surprising, the fans went with it  It was one of many things that decreased the appeal of UFC over time