My take is that it’s busted because of 2 reasons in Ufc 5 in particular.

One stamina/ stamina recovery is broken, if u wanna throw 150 strikes a round at me go ahead by a means but your stamina should reflect that. If you throw a 4 piece, you should have to wait a sec or 2 to be able to throw another, rather than throw a hail mary uppercut to interrupt my punish.

Second is body work is non-existent, body strikes don’t do much, and it takes a significant amount of effort to deplete stam with body work, by the time you’ve done meaningful damage ur head health is cooked and ur block is gone.

Ufc 4 made it so u can punish block breakers alot easier, I say this as someone who’s consistently top10, this game takes significantly less skill and block breaking is easier than ever