evilwaldo
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Get your popcorn out. This is gonna be good.
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Let's not forget that the Brooklyn incident never affected Conor getting a new UFC deal.
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1 hour ago, AxB said:
I took this to mean that you assumed that Khabib beats Ferguson 10 times out of 10. If El Cucuy beats Khabib for the belt, and Conor wins a gimme fight, they'd give Conor a title shot against Ferguson long before they'd sentence him to fight Khabib again, right?
Yeah. Why make one fight when you can make three or four and milk it for a couple of years.
I highly doubt Conor goes back to get crushed again immediately. If he does, people will move on to The Next Big Thing!!! Our society has a short-term attention span. Once you show that you cannot win they jump off the bandwagon so fast the local hospital emergency room overflows with ankle injuries. There is nothing so special about Conor that will hold him in the public's arms for a decade if he cannot win.
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35 minutes ago, AxB said:
Are you saying Ferguson doesn't have any chance at all?
When did I say that?
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1 hour ago, Oyaji said:
Exactly how I see it playing out too. Maybe a token suspension for Khabib of 6 months where he doesn't really miss any actual time on top of the fines.
I'm interested to see where they go next with Conor. I think his aura takes a huge hit if he loses his next fight and a third meeting with Diaz is a coin toss. I watched the main event again with some family members last night and was relatively impressed with Conor's gas tank. He didn't look nearly as bad in that fight as he did in the first Diaz fight and while it makes sense to create that fight now, it's a little risky.
Conor's aura is already dead. He milked his title wins into not fighting MMA for two years while getting everyone to believe his is a tough guy. The tough guy got clowned and shown to be little more than a loud mouthed bully.
I said it before, Conor takes a can as his next fight to get some of the aura back. If he goes straight for the rematch, he becomes Chael 2.0 when he loses. If he loses to Diaz, count his career as over.
Khabib gets a slap on the wrist and the UFC books him with Ferguson. Conor gets a slightly bigger punishment for inciting everything. I would not be surprised if there is a phone call between Dana and the NSAC regarding the UFC becoming what they said they did not want to be. Basically, the job of the NSAC is not to hand out punishments for you.
Khabib-Ferguson
Conor-can
Then UFC can book Khabib-Conor 2.
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I think Conor will book a can for his next fight.
If he books a rematch and loses, hello Chael 2.0. The allure is gone and so are the title fights.
If he books Diaz and loses, see above.
If he books a can and wins, he can claim that he is back and deserves a rematch continuing his trash talking.
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1 hour ago, John E. Dynamite said:
This is the most profitable version of the sport. It will persist until it isn't.
What scares me is that we have yet to discover the line in the sand that should not be crossed. Throwing a metal barricade and injuring fighters is not the line. I doubt what happened last night is anywhere near the line. Khabib gets a slap on the wrist and the UFC shugs their shoulders.
We go on until something terrible happens and then stand around pointing fingers and wondering how we got here.
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1 hour ago, supremebve said:
I have a question, what is in it for the NSAC to punish the UFC? Seriously, why would they do that? The UFC doesn't need the NSAC nearly as much as the NSAC needs the UFC. If the UFC says, "Fuck you, we are going to take half of our Vegas events and move them to New York, Los Angeles, Brooklyn, they are out of millions of dollars, while the UFC loses little to nothing. There is a reason NSAC, UDADA, and whoever else, bends over for the UFC, it's because they constantly bring in cash. The UFC puts on multiple events every single month. Vegas gets more of those events than anyone else. The UFC is too important to the NSAC for them to actually do anything to harm that relationship.
36 minutes ago, Oyaji said:And how did the NSAC clear Conor of any wrongdoing when they would've had all of UFC's camera angles and doubtlessly would've seen Conor throwing the first punch against Khabib's cornermen? It's all such a ludicrous joke.
Yup. They are all in bed with one another and we wait until someone gets seriously hurt so everyone can stand around shrugging shoulders like there was nothing they could do to prevent this.
It is a serious black eye for the sport. Once they cashed out and hit the mainstream, the UFC just devolved into what they said they wanted to avoid becoming.
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What the NSAC should do is take the UFC to task for letting these actions build up and not rely on the NSAC and other athletic commissions to punish their fighters. The UFC has a formula, they are the good cop and the AC's are the bad cops.
In the beginning, the UFC was seen as this clown sport where guys just pounded on each other. They spent years refining the sport and making others believe that it is anything but that. MMA was a sport where people of different fighting styles and nationalities from around the world can test their abilities against each other.
The actions of the last few years, all in the pursuit of money, show that they have come full circle. UFC MMA is not a sport but an entertainment vehicle where what happens outside the Octagon is more important than what happens inside the Octagon. It is all just a show. Instead of random guys wailing on each other, they at least have similar weights at the weigh-in. Everything else is just the clown show they tried to avoid when they started.
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4 hours ago, peterien said:
In case I get misunderstood for what I say below- Khabib absolutely dominated Conor, there is no need for a rematch.
That said, Conor looked like a man going through the motions at time, there was glimpses of his game from two years ago in the 3rd/4th round but even the punches he threw didn’t have their usual zip and speed. Either the hunger isn’t there anymore or the year or so of partying (and whatever else) has taken a massive toll.
He looked like a man that for whatever reason thought it would be a breeze after taking so much time out, got one round in and just went “aw fuck, I’ve bitten off way more than I can chew here”.
Where he goes from here is anyones guess, Khabib will embarrass him in a potential rematch, I think he’d struggle with Ferguson too. If Mcgregor wants to get serious about MMA again he needs to seriously look at who he’s surrounding himself with.
That's what happens when you don't fight for two years.
I never bought into his antics. He parlayed a couple of good strikes and trash talk into a nine figure career. He has enough drunken 'friends' who will buy into his antics so he can pump PPV numbers for a few more years.
Dana can talk all he wants but he is an enabler with no balls. You won't see him do anything more than the AC's hand out.
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View from the rear camera.
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3 minutes ago, Michael Sweetser said:
I'm not sure what was stupider, Khabib throwing his career away or the announcers calling the guy throwing furniture through car windows "honorable". What a complete and utter shitshow UFC has become. You reap what you sow.
Everyone that threw a shot, especially Khabib, should be booked for assault tonight.
Dana basically convincing Khabib to leave without the belt is telling me he's never seeing that thing again. If he's still champion tomorrow morning, something is seriously wrong.
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Who was it that told me back in the Brooklyn incident that I was watching this all wrong for not enjoying the entertainment value? This promotion is no better than AAA/CMLL/WWE.
Maybe Conor will take his career seriously now or maybe owning a pizza shop is in his future.
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On 10/5/2018 at 4:39 PM, Nice Guy Eddie said:
That seems very likely. I watched equally salty Austin Aries go off on a fan at the Inman Sports Club in Edison, NJ because the fan simply told Aries "good match". Aries response was something along the lines of "You're not a wrestler, how do you know what makes a good match?". I love Austin Aries as a wrestler, but I have no desire to ever to meet him and try to strike up a conversation. I hate that mentality. I would get in so much fucking trouble if I tried to pull something like that. "Well, it really doesn't look like my father." Your father was being eaten away by cancer. Can you do any better?
If he ever wants to draw real heat, come to Philly and use that line in a promo. It will top Seattle.
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Khabib in 2.
Conor's last MMA fight was 11/2/16 and I think it will show. It is one thing to train and another thing to actually fight in the Octagon.
Conor will try and stay low to stuff the takedowns and get kicked in the face.
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re: Daniel Bryan
**Hank Hill voice**
That boy ain't right.
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I have said this for years. Something about him is just not right. He fought surgery for years and fought to come back when everyone told him no. The guy was crazy enough to want to work in Australia and train people because he wanted to be a part of a scene. He comes back and returns to the moveset that got him hurt.
His answers regarding Brie's botch showed that he just does not understand the business. It is not ok to hurt someone on purpose or by accident. When you are in the ring, you put your trust in your opponent to protect you and in return you protect them. Bryan does not seem to understand that. It is almost as if he wants to wrestle so bad, nothing else matters.
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Nice to see Murder Clown get the call. I hope he gets more work on Impact and LU.
I see moves like this, the leap over the ropes into a forward roll before popping up for his dive, and I want to see more from him outside of his role as a big superheavyweight who just does power moves.
https://twitter.com/murderelgrande/status/1047702144508284928
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He should have stuck the glove out and tried to push away.
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22 hours ago, NikoBaltimore said:
A little surprised it didn't happen sooner, but Daniel Bryan put up a few posts defending Brie. Would need to click on the tweet to see the ones above it.
Scratch that, it's not a Twitter thread like I'm normally used to seeing. But check his profile and he has a few tweets from today.
After reading his tweets, I don't think Bryan understands the problem.
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13 minutes ago, The Natural said:
Batista's looking for work now with the GOTG Vol. 3 situation.
Dude was a Bond villain. He is a made man in the movie business.
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1 hour ago, John E. Dynamite said:
There just aren't enough bigger girls on the roster to catch Charlotte - who, for the record, is billed around 5'10" 150lbs.. Their current workrate types are tiny (Kairi, etc.), sloppy (Sasha, etc.), or inexperienced (Ronda, etc.). Only people on Smackdown I'd trust catching Charlotte's moonsault would be... Peyton? Or Asuka, who isn't too tall herself. But I guess Nikki Cross will get the proper call-up soon, and eventually Bianca Belair will be snatching human bodies out of the air with one hand. Still pissed they didn't sign Piper the Viper after the first MYC. Such an obvious talent, and the kind they need more of.
Here is a comp video. Inside the ring, she is fine. Outside the ring, you can see everyone is out of place. Either Charlotte needs to stop or they need to teach everyone how to take a bump.
As a nitpick, her choice of where to do the moonsault outside the ring leaves a lot to be desired. In front of the announcers table and with the ring at you back is a bad choice for spacing reasons. You add unnecessary risk of injury.
Crown Jewel - 11/2/18 from null, null
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The worst part of all this is the Turkish government released the detained Priest so you know there was some sort of payback to the Turkish government. Nobodies hands are clean in this. Everyone has blood on their hands. Us, the Saudi's, the Turkish government. Dirty tentacles just extend out in all directions.