Being pretentious is my raison d'etre.
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It feels like every ten years or so, someone in MMA convinces themselves that big names from the past are the cure to everyone's problems. Scott Coker tried this a decade ago and interest in Bellator cratered after he ran out of old names.
"If I'm Dana White, the moment this news came out this morning, I'm on the phone with Conor McGregor. I am on the phone with Jon Jones.
I cannot afford for my White House card not to be the biggest event of the year.
If they were banking on the idea of Ilia Topuria versus Justin Gaethje being the headliner, that would be the moment I would have hopped on the phone and called one of those boys because you have to match this." - @NewYorkRic
It’s always funny to see this criticism, because UFC posters promote the main event fighters heavily (and the knock against them ironically is that they never do this) and with this, I’m looking at two fists and have to zoom in and squint to identify anyone. But THIS is good.
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Reaction to this news should help you identify all the hacks who need to spin everything as negatively as possible for engagement. Seriously, some of the takes I’ve seen are incredibly sad. Some people are truly miserable.
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I spoke the DJ for the first time in years last summer, and the first thing I did was bollock him for refusing to show his real personality and humor while he was UFC Champ and I ran UFC PR.
I reminded him I literally begged him to several times.
He laughed at me and was all "Yeah, but now I am chasing that YouTube money!"
Isn’t it also hypocritical that people attacked Dana for this and now want him to do this to Jon Jones?
I think Jimmy Smith nailed the dynamic with MMA promotions when he said it was over for everyone else when the UFC went to Fox and became a mainstream product. There is no competing with that. Stann is also right about focusing on being a feeder league. Seems more interesting.
I assume he just found out what his pay is going to be as a non-champion.
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UFC was just a top rated program on cable last Saturday and did a $2M gate. A random Fight Night. They’re probably getting $1B annually on their next deal. But we get all these show segments on their business that are totally based on vibes.
Man, Sean Brady’s disdain for Leon Edwards is something to behold. He was telling his wife afterwards that he was surprised how much Leon sucked on the ground. World class hating. #UFCMexico
It turns out Jon Anik was wrong and that this IS the cloth from which Leon Edwards is cut. #UFCLondon
I wonder where this came from, because if you’re the UFC, the last thing you’d want is to tell a reporter that you’re desperate for a deal with one particular platform. Sounds like this would come from ESPN, doesn’t it?
The problem is objectively the handling of MLB’s media rights. In the NFL and NBA, the league makes a gigantic sum and splits it up. A cap wouldn’t solve the revenue inequity in baseball. Also, go Dodgers.
“What the Dodgers are doing is within the constraints of the collective bargaining agreement. … But it’s really the feeling of not being able to compete that is harming these teams, and harming fan bases more than anything.”
@JeffPassan on the Dodgers' $392M payroll💰
It’s amazing how you can have a fight with closed scoring where a guy runs away in the final round, and that means we should never have open scoring. Closed scoring didn’t prevent that outcome either, so how does that make any sense? #UFCVegas102
BJ Penn lost at every stage of his career. Regardless of when you thought his prime was, he lost. Him being thought of as unbeatable at any stage was purely on what would potentially happen if he took things seriously.
"Everybody's like, 'Who's the best lightweight of all time?' I'm like, [BJ Penn]. To me, it's not even close.
People don't know about the game back then, so it's recency bias. BJ, in his prime, during that window, was unbeatable.
He was busting those guys up, leaving them mercilessly in a pool of their own blood. It's not even close to him not being the best lightweight of all time."
Din Thomas weighs in on the lightweight GOAT debate.