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I don't think 1/2 would be that feasible at AT&T Stadium since the Cowboys' last regular season game is at home vs. WSH the next day. I mean I would love to see that happen and Pugmire's tweet I saw earlier indicates Dana is still thinking that way. However, Vegas is still Vegas. This would have been a great time for NY to have come through because I feel that UFC should break up that MGM-MGM-MGM early Dec-late Jan. run a bit. So going to Calgary at least helps that and with a quality headliner for right now. Here is what I would do. You do Aldo-McGregor along with Weidman-Rockhold and you throw Jacare-Romero and Overeem-JDS on there as a cushion. Put a prospect building fight as the opener, and you're good. For Super Bowl Saturday, I would go with Ronda-opponent and then have Joanna vs. the Gadelha/Esparza 8/1 winner. I think having Ronda would boost Joanna's popularity. Then, I would put Cyborg vs. Tate/Zingano/McMann at a catchweight. I just feel that at some point you're going to need to pay Cyborg money to do something. She'll have one more squash match on this upcoming September Invicta card, and that's when I would make my move. Nothing is stopping them from removing the 135 clause from her contract. It's not like they going get into a legal confrontation with themselves over this. You put two good to solid male fights on that main card and put a bow on that.

I wonder if the UFC would really pull the trigger on Aldo/McGregor & Weidman/Rockhold + Rousey vs. person w/ confirmed pulse. That would be bananas. UFC 193 still needs a main event, but it would make sense to make 1/2 a loaded show. We also have the RDA/Cerrone fight that still needs a home.

According to Jeremy Botter, it looks like that UFC 194 card will Lawler/Condit will be in Calgary.

DKP doesn't have to be mid peak for Don King to be terrible. Hell, Don King was on television last Saturday behind Amir Imam calling out Mayweather like a lunatic. Then, everyone still treats him like your favorite crazy uncle at the cookout despite the fact he destroyed countless lives over the span of 30 to 40 years. Plus, the whole killing people thing again. As far as the standards thing go, they have improved. However, the political and business nature of sports makes it possible for a lot of things to happen. Donald Sterling was around a LONG TIME. His whole situation wasn't like this miracle moment where people finally knew who he was. It's foolish to believe for example, "OMG Adam Silver is the best! He got rid of the mean man!" If the owners are the extension of the face/brand of the league/org, it would be silly to praise someone for doing something that should have happened YEARS ago. People want to make money without a ton of hassle. They also want to manuever politically and be successful. Thus, you have people like Sterling and Marge Schott in stick and ball sports. People aren't stupid. They know who these people are. However, league/orgs/etc. are not going to do anything that isn't advantageous for them. So at some point, those people being around made sense from a financial standpoint. If people ULTIMATELY in charge are still morally corrupt, the standards can improve steadily from here to the year 2929 and nothing changes overall. So knowing the above and that combat sports is still in the stone age, you'll understand why Dana White and the Galveston mafia connected Fertitta family are in charge of the UFC.

I dunno. The superlative didn't help your argument. Anyway, he likely wouldn't make my top 25 list. In fight sports, he is about the same as all the other guys. I mean Don King has a couple homicides, and he's still marching around with 150 flags in hand.

Ah, was this before or after she launched into numerous racial and homophobic tirades in public and behind closed doors?

"Kevin, let me tell you about the fruits and the Coloreds..."

Woodley was beating Condit and he threw a kick that injured Condit. Like I said before, Condit's handlers should avoid going through Woodley again. If trying to wait until Woodley slows down didn't work the first time, I wouldn't force the issue to have a second go round. With that said, Condit is coming off a HL reel win while Hendricks is coming off a kinda pedestrian, safe win against Matt Brown. Even though personally I didn't dislike the Hendricks-Brown fight since I knew that was the most likely outcome, I can see why the promotion would go that route. I don't see it as all that bad because the timeline would matchup for the Hendricks-Woodley winner to get their shot soonafter. I think the problem with trying to navigate through earlier this year is that Hendricks-Woodley could have happened in the interim at the same time as Lawler-MacDonald II. We went through the whole "Woodley is scared to fight Lombard" before Lombard tested positive and then Hendricks deciding to play the waiting game instead of fighting Woodley who wanted to fight him. That slowed things down.

As far as I can see it's a rumor but there is talk of Lawler vs. Condit being the main event for UFC 194 w/ Hendricks vs. Woodley underneath.

On the DVD commentary for Shooter, Fuqua threw a passive-aggressive tantrum over being ordered to do reshoots and change the ending, so I don't think he'd be very cooperative with Marvel. Yeah, Fuqua has a few creative issues in the past. However, I think in terms of having the total package for this job, he fits the bill. Although he probably won't totally acquiesce to everything, he is still willing to take on studio vehicles of all kinds more than almost everyone named so far. Plus, he has done beer commercials quite recently. He is more of a team player than you would think.

You know what? Rick Famuyiwa would be a great choice.

If SOC is successful either critcally or commercially, I think Legendary Pictures throws money at FGG to do one of their monster movie projects. Lord knows they need someone decent to helm those movies.

Hasn't this been known for a few weeks now? I swear it came out last month, or around then, that she wasn't interested in directing Black Panther after all those rumors came out that she had signed on. I say hire Steve McQueen, or F. Gary Gray like VileOne said - if Marvel is deadset on having a black director. Steve McQueen? Wait....what? Shit, you might as well throw out Spike Lee and John Singleton. If you're gonna hire someone who isn't going to make a fuss and do as told, Steve McQueen is not a viable option. FGG probably isn't the guy either. I don't know why people are naming these directors when in actuality it would probably be someone like Carl Franklin. He's been around forever and is a capable director. Fuqua would be the closest in terms of name recognition and ability to pull it off, but he has a dozen projects already lined up. He would have to drop something. Marvel has a better shot landing John Ridley or Mara Brock Akil than STEVE MCQUEEN.

Sergey Kovalev is fighting this weekend and this time against someone he should probably take out inside of six rounds. If you're following along, Mohammedi would be tuneup #1 before Kovalev takes on tuneup #2 in Russia in November. Then, we might get Kovalev vs. Ward in early 2016.

Doing it to the wrong type of fighter is a bad look. Doing it to an unknown or someone who is already kind of a pariah is not exactly the worst move. Doing this to an Angela Magana is not exactly going to be the death knell in the Reebok deal. I think they were very carefully initally when Mitrione and a few others spoke out, but some of that got worked out behind closed doors while others stayed unhappy. Now a couple months from now or a few months from the launch date? Yeah, there are going to be quite a few more expendable people. If you're feeling froggy and fight in the bout right after the curtain jerker, you better watch out. That's why I feel like someone like Tom Lawlor better be careful (if that's the right way to phrase it). He has a forum to speak out in doing the F4W shows. It's nice that he understands he is a mid level fighter and that's his ceiling, but I think that he may be too accessible to the idea that might be the right place to vent his frustrations. Once that stuff goes online for people to hear, you cannot unring that bell. He could go from having a fight on Fox to being just a guy having trouble getting indy dates.

Tried to delete VileOne's double post and ended up deleting both. So yeah, let's avoid those because this option ain't exactly working out I've discovered.

I don't think unprofessional comes to mind because unprofessional covers a ton of a ground depending the parties involved. I think the problem partly revolves around the fact cutmen occupy such a weird space in MMA. If it's not something like David Heath bringing his sister's BFF or whoever that lady was as his personal cutman against Babalu at UFC 74, then people really don't give a shit. However, they are really important in the scheme of things. Jim Lampley and other boxing commentators helped make cutmen an important narrative for fights along with all the other roleplayers like judges and refs. Now, HBO and Showtime don't even have the graphic that show who the cutmen (or 2nd assists FWIW) are. If it ain't Stitch, Don House, Danny Milano, Rafael Garcia, Miguel Diaz, or somebody like that, I have no clue who these people are. As for the pushing him to boxing comment goes, he was already involved in boxing. He is Andre Ward's personal cutman as well as Josh Barnett's cutman in MMA. The problem is Ward AND Barnett took two long hiatuses at the same time. That probably fucked up his money something fierce. Now with both of them back in active competition, the Reebok deal comes along. So you would think he would take the chance to do more personal cutman gigs because it's not like there are bunch of people that are as good as him. There are cut stoppages I see almost every week in boxing (and MMA) that could have been avoided had someone half decent been in their corner. I know I've heard him say stuff in the past years ago (IIRC about the cutmen being flown out to shows or per diem being cut down), but it didn't seem like he was the most loyal person under UFC employ. I would think even he was that loyal, he would still tell the UFC, "This is a nice gig and all but I can make the same money plus sponsorship dollars to corner some European fringe contender on a Sauerland card in Hamburg, Germany. I'm out this bitch." I just don't know how firmly entrenched cutmen should be in the business side. It makes more sense in MMA for it to be like referees or judges where the commission assigns them because that 3rd cornerman spot usually goes to another coach.and not a cutman.

Prior to the Reebok deal, the level of involvement in this type of scenario was about the same as cornermen. If you remember, Firas Zahabi at some point never wore the sponsor gear of his fighters in favor of wearing Hayabusa IIRC. I think the same thing applied to "Bang" Ludwig. It looks weird much like Joe Goossen cornering someone in boxing nowadays, but the UFC didn't really care. Now, the cornermen have no choice but to wear the same thing. So if the UFC doesn't care about the trainers' side hustle, then the cutmen have less of an argument. The trainers at least have the argument that these sponsors help keep their gyms open, which is definitely valid because MMA gyms are money pits to begin with. However, I don't even think that is far up the UFC's priority list in terms of concerns.

I was able to catch a few bouts into between watching boxing. I don't know if there is a strong, rational reason as to why, but they just feel like a cash strapped promotion that can only afford to have Strikeforce, UFC, Bellator, and WEC vets because ____ vet doesn't mean much anymore. The FP show did feel like a time warp, but it feels like that era in non-UFC North American MMA between 1999 and 2002. Some of that could be the fact that I saw the Pele fight, and he looked ancient, quite antiquated, and almost mummified. His IVC stance from 1997 also had me in stitches. The cage mat looked like something you would see in at an Iowa Challenge or something. It was like they had a bunch of Walmart plastic bags spray painted gray, glued some sponsors down, and put it down as a fighting surface. The 25 thousand fights a card thing is something that I would definitely cut down on, but they also owe people fights I'm safely assuming. I don't think they're going to be the promotion that does bi-monthly cards and definitely not bi-weekly cards that Legacy and RFA are seemingly doing. If they only hold a card every three or so months, this is what you can look forward to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uj4yXKmuEgY

I think she has won two (vs. Zingano & vs. Rousey II).

Just in case anybody is interested, the Christy Mack-War Machine saga will be the subject of the next episode of HBO Real Sports tomorrow night. I assure you the trailer is quite NSFW if you don't believe the title:

He does recon on people's houses by watching their Vines.

By the way, Miesha jinxed herself by saying that Caraway and her were the UFC's only couple. Apparently, this was probably taped before the formation of the new rhyming surname MMA power couple of Paige VanZant and Cody Garbrandt.