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That is actually pretty hosed up. Punk said in a recent interview that he'd like to fight in the first fight pass prelim if it was up to him. And god knows that Fight Pass needs something for people to tune in. Hell they might even get the audience to show up before main card
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i get the feeling whatever audience there was for that guy is severely not interested now
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TheCool69 posted:That is actually pretty hosed up. Punk said in a recent interview that he'd like to fight in the first fight pass prelim if it was up to him. if he actually gave a poo poo, he would have fought an out of shape carpenter at a duke roufus quasi-sanctioned bum fights show instead of the ufc
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mewse posted:A guy thats 0-1 is officially a bigger draw than overeem Nah. The first PPV fight is almost always a lower marquee name than the final televised prelim. They want the final free fight to be a big one so it drives up PPV sales.
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Mr. Nice! posted:Nah. The first PPV fight is almost always a lower marquee name than the final televised prelim. They want the final free fight to be a big one so it drives up PPV sales. 
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Triticum Guzzler posted:i get the feeling whatever audience there was for that guy is severely not interested now Wrestling fans are used to seeing their favorites be booked to lose night after night for sometimes months or years at a time so they'll probably be able to shrug off one loss in real fighting
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May 21, 2018 21:48
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One time they booked Tyron Woodley vs. Jake Shields in the prelim main event spot and thought yeah, this will help the buyrate
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Mr. Carlisle posted:Wrestling fans are used to seeing their favorites be booked to lose night after night for sometimes months or years at a time so they'll probably be able to shrug off one loss in real fighting the issue is less that he lost and more that he lost and looked like total dogshit. there's no intrigue there at all now.
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May 21, 2018 22:15
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Yeah, it was a mistake putting him against someone that could actually fight
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May 21, 2018 22:25
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guy is afraid of a can of beer how do you expect him to fight a grown man
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May 21, 2018 23:47
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i'd be more inclined to buy the pay per view if they spent 15 minutes at 9:45 showing Overeem's greatest hits and then told me that guy is fighting on the card tonight, tune in
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May 22, 2018 00:35
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Punk didn't get beaten into oblivion in his first shot. He just looked desperately outclassed. Let him slang and bang with Tank Abbott or something. I promise you, tens of dollars are to be made.
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Captain Log posted:Punk didn't get beaten into oblivion in his first shot. He just looked desperately outclassed. The elderly, profoundly obese Tank Abbott would wheeze into the center of the ring, do a combat roll made lopsided by the leg he lost to diabetes, and then loving destroy CM Punk.
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Brock threw his first UFC fight too, it's all part of Vince's plan.
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Bundt Cake posted:I looked up Curtis Blaydes to make sure its real and hes a weeeeeeeeeeed guy the name certainly sounds like a '70s blaxploitation protagonist; i don't know how the weed relates to this.
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May 22, 2018 05:54
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Boco_T posted:This is like when Faber used to always fight as the featured prelim. Didn't Faber fight on the prelim by choice? In that he felt there was a bigger potential audience for him there than there was in a relatively low spot on a PPV Card? Not saying he was right, just that I recall hearing this was his reasoning for doing it - I'm guessing this was probably before the Reebok deal too when something like that might have mattered for sponsors?
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Neurosis posted:the name certainly sounds like a '70s blaxploitation protagonist; i don't know how the weed relates to this. He 's probably referring to Blaydes being one of the people who had a win overturned in Texas for living on a planet with weed on it.
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LobsterMobster posted:werdum popped So much for him fighting in Russia.
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Mr. Nice! posted:So much for him fighting in Russia. unless its a tainted supplement 6 months, time served would put it at late november, which is when i thought they were considering ufc moscow
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LobsterMobster posted:unless its a tainted supplement UFC Moscow is scheduled for the middle of September. Thats probably way too soon for a successful tainted supplement defense.
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werdum better retroactively become a customer of that one place in brazil everybody just got unbanned for
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LobsterMobster posted:werdum popped usada will have to be careful with their approach to this case since he will probably try to pull guard during the hearing
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USADA official giving a statement: we tried on 3 occasions to look at his dick and balls and watch him pee and then collect his piss and drink it but every time he would just fall over and try to get us to lie on top of him. we refused every time because we arent gay
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I.N.R.I posted:USADA official giving a statement: we tried on 3 occasions to look at his dick and balls and watch him pee and then collect his piss and drink it but every time he would just fall over and try to get us to lie on top of him. we refused every time because we arent gay lol
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I.N.R.I posted:USADA official giving a statement: we tried on 3 occasions to look at his dick and balls and watch him pee and then collect his piss and drink it but every time he would just fall over and try to get us to lie on top of him. we refused every time because we arent gay take it to the oildome if you aint gay, bitch
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He who throws the boomerang must be ready for its return.
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USADA having to go through the oildome to collect a sample is a perfect middle ground
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Jose Aldo running out the back door of Nova Uniao, leaving a trail of baby oil behind him
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I'm not the only one furiously F5ing hunto's instagram account am I
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Soothing Vapors posted:I'm not the only one furiously F5ing hunto's instagram account am I First thing I checked when I saw that Werdum popped.
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I.N.R.I posted:USADA official giving a statement: we tried on 3 occasions to look at his dick and balls and watch him pee and then collect his piss and drink it but every time he would just fall over and try to get us to lie on top of him. we refused every time because we arent gay hahaha
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Rockhold injured his "knee" with an apparent gash to the shin graphic content  https://twitter.com/i/web/status/999043898906415104
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dox posted:Rockhold injured his "knee" with an apparent gash to the shin Meh pretty tame graphic content. This reply though... https://twitter.com/dxhdesign/status/999045942648045568 
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I.N.R.I posted:USADA official giving a statement: we tried on 3 occasions to look at his dick and balls and watch him pee and then collect his piss and drink it but every time he would just fall over and try to get us to lie on top of him. we refused every time because we arent gay loving lol.
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dox posted:Rockhold injured his "knee" with an apparent gash to the shin and i thought rockhold was known for his prowess with gashes.
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Neurosis posted:and i thought rockhold was known for his prowess with gashes. Not when they’re bleeding.
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http://variety.com/2018/tv/news/espn-adds-30-fights-to-ufc-tv-rights-deal-reaching-1-5-billion-value-exclusive-1202819447/Variety posted:Sources familiar with negotiations say ESPN has struck a deal for a second portion to the package currently held by Fox Sports that will bring the total cost in the neighborhood of $300 million per year for five years, totaling $1.5 billion. The new deals, which cover a total of 30 fights, kick in early 2019.
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Guess I'm not going to bother seeing about a third of future UFC shows and that's fine
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Thirty fights is only a few cards
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