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    Feijao is not a bad opponent. His last fight was beating down Igor Pokrajac.

     

    He sort of is. His best win is probably King Mo, which says a lot. He has a reputation that is pretty much built on nothing. 

     

     

    But he is not given that Cormier's best LHW win is Pat Cummins.

     

     

    Feijao isn't being fast tracked for stardom or anything.

     

    That's why he is fighting Cormier.

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    Feijao is not a bad opponent. His last fight was beating down Igor Pokrajac.

     

    He sort of is. His best win is probably King Mo, which says a lot. He has a reputation that is pretty much built on nothing. 

     

     

    But he is not given that Cormier's best LHW win is Pat Cummins.

  3. Who's complaining?  It sounds like an awful idea, and it is. They could end up making it and churning out a classic, for all I know. I doubt it, but anything's possible.

     

    You said they would drop it if people said it was a bad idea. In this very same thread, YOU ASKED if people knew there was a Scarface remake in the works. Apparently, you thought no one knew about it. So how can Universal drop it if people aren't talking about? Shit, they've had people working on it for at least 3 years.

  4. Honestly, for all the fuss, I can't see this coming to pass. It'll be like the announced Lethal Weapon reboot or the Whedon-less Buffy movie that got reported on a while back. Enough people will point out it's a terrible idea and eventually it will be dropped.

     

    How can you complain about it if you don't know about it?

  5. Hercules with The Rock will be a fun Redbox rental or possible Netflix viewing.

     

    Scarface cannot be remade. I mean, it can but it has no shot of succeeding. The movie despite its flaws is fucking iconic.

     

    It's not a remake just like '83 version wasn't a remake of the the '32 version. It's about Mexican drug cartels. They're just recycling the name like De Palma did.

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    I could've sworn he did at least a couple.

     

    Simmons probably isn't an MMA fan, because he tends to wear his loves on his sleeve and he's never talked about MMA. I'd bet it was just decided that MMA wasn't worth covering on Grantland. 

     

    Plus, you have to wonder about UFC being on Fox and how maybe ABC/ESPN/Grantland might not want to promote it.

     

    I don't think it's that since ESPN has boxing (there is a "World Heavyweight" title bout in primetime on main ESPN coming up), and Grantland has jackshit on boxing. Plus, Simmons talks boxing (Floyd, Pac, and Triple G at least) way more than MMA.

     

    Sure sportswriters know Manny and Floyd, along with most of the world, but aside from that, I think they would struggle to name 5 other current boxers. I wouldn't consider that to mean they have any any knowledge of hockey whatsoever. I mean, I know who Ryan Braun and David Ortiz are, but I haven't watched baseball since the late 90's.

     

     

    I don't think that's really the issue since boxing has experienced quite a resurgence in television ratings in the last 2 1/2 years. Add in the fact that two Floyd bouts did 3.1 million buys in a calendar year while WWE did around 3.2 million. The talent is definitely out there and better than half the crap currently on Grantland. The guys from The Cruelest Sports will probably do it for free. Given the quality of the stuff I've read on Grantland, I am perfectly fine with those guys staying where they are.

     

     

     

     

    I can't be bothered to comment on that list because, content aside, the font color gives me a headache.

    1. Chris Hyatte

    2. Bob Ryder

    3. Dave Scherer

    4. Wade Keller

    5. Jonathan Widro & Ashish Pabari

    7. Dave Meltzer

    8. Me

    9. Scott Keith

    10. Sean Shannon

    11. Mike Samuda

    12. Rick Scaia

    13. Al Isaacs

    14. Dean Rasmussen

    15. Eric Szulczewski

    16. Greg Dillard

    17. Jeff Marek

    18. Herb Kunze

    19. EC Ostermeyer

    20. Mark Madden

    21. Bob Morris

    22. Rob Feinstein

    23. Joey Styles

    24. Zach Arnold

    25. Josh Nason

    25. Bill Milano (hmm, two #25s - must be a mistake)

    26. Buck Woodward

    27. tOA

    28. Phil Rippa

    29. Bruce Mitchell

    30. Rajah Kumar

    31. Mike Mooneyham

    32. Jon Petrie

    33. Michael K. Johnson II

    34. Bob Magee

    35. Honky Tonk Man

    36. Dave Gagnon

    37. Diamond Dallas Page

    38. Ray Duffy

    39. Seth Mates

    40. Ultimate Warrior

    41. Don Becker

    42. Georgianne Makropoulos

    43. The Cubs Fan

    44. Kevin Podsiadlik

    45. "That Chick from Scoops years ago who use to be involved with the business but told everyone to forget her name" (I will guess he's probably talking about Carrie A. Zohn [n�e Messantonio])

    46. Al Galdi

    47. Mark Coale

    48. Tom the Actuary

    49. Terry Talyor

    50. IGN

    51. Jeff McGinnis

    52. Ken Anderson

    53. Jon Richardson

    54. GP Ryan

    55. BJ Bethel

    56. ?

    57. Freakboy

    58. Ben Miller

    59. Remy "The Slammer" Artega

    60. Josh Shiaman

    61. Erik Ashley

    62. Michael Jenkinson

    63. Joshua Grutman

    64. Bryan Alvarez

    65. Jason Powell

    66. Jeb Tennyson Lund

    67. Jess McGrath

    68. Jeremy Botter

    69. Scotsman

    70. Luke Johnston

    71. Mike Michaelson

    72. Lance Storm

    73. Ben Morse

    74. Tom Zenk

    75. The Superstar

    76. Chris Williams

    77. Jay Bower

    78. Christopher Bird

    79. Tom Daniels

    80. Bryan Alvarez

    81. Nicolas Seafort

    82. Justin Baidsen

    83. Justin Shapiro

    84. Carlos Mauhad

    85. Pat Brower

    86. Michael Tavares

    87. Derek Burgan

    88. John Keane

    89. Robert Ortega

    90. Phil Schneider

    91. Alex Marvez

    92. John C

    93. Scott Christ

    94. PK

    95. Brian Garside

    96. Tommy Fierro

    97. Tim Whitehead

    98. Steve Schroeder

    99. Jeff Lynch

    100. Fab Glitter

     

    Can you be bothered now?

     

     

    Actually, yes.  Thank you.

     

    I don't recognize an awful lot of those names.  However, I do remember Scott Christ, who once stated he didn't like joshi because of the "yellow bitches dropping each other on their heads."

     

     

    Hopefully, this is the same Scott Christ of Bad Left Hook who I follow on Twitter. He doesn't like many things. Quite a sourpuss.

  7. June in the UFC is the August of professional boxing. It wouldn't be the first time a UFC PPV in June has gotten screwed over. Every June PPV in the TUF era has stunk when it came to star power and card depth.

  8. He said it himself that it was between Mendes and Swanson and now just Mendes since Cub was given a fight already. I don't think he has any illusions of any other options on the table.

  9. Aldo is already training so I guess they would have contacted him by now. It doesn't sound like he is too keen on a rematch from an interview I've read, but he is not in a position to negotiate since 169 was far from gangbusters in terms of buys.

  10. Can Renan Barao vs. Raphael Assuncao make this card?

     

    I intentionally left that out. You don't go to the MGM with that fight. Hell, you would do that at the Marquee ballroom inside the hotel. I know Aldo and Barao are the same level of draw, but Barao/Assuncao is a fight you do in Northeast Brazil on FS1.

  11. Dos Santos/Miocic (or any replacement bout) isn't a big enough co-main event to being doing all that. They need the help in May when everyone has spent their money on Pac/Bradley II and Mayweather/Maidana. Cotto/Martinez is two later weeks after 173.

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