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Aug 15, 2005

by FactsAreUseless

Memento posted:

Well, one of the judges from that fight has a restraining order against him, taken out by Ray Longo, who is one of Stephen Thompson's coaches. So considering there's a vague (note that I said vague) chance that the judging won't be irreparably compromised, yeah, maybe.

We need an :mmajudging: emote where it's just a picture of Cecil Peoples doing that retarded little ki-YA before a fight he always did.

Wait what?

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Aug 15, 2005

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Work Friend Keven posted:

Also GSP would never ever fight Yoel Romero if John Hendricks made him retire in fear lol.

I was thinking exactly that

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Aug 15, 2005

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Bisping gets the belt and GSP comes running back

Skip My Posts fucked around with this message at 19:00 on Mar 1, 2017

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Aug 15, 2005

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...and the pitch! posted:

No tune up fight for GSP? That's impressive to me.

He picked who he wanted to fight

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Aug 15, 2005

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Romero would Fuckin obliterate gsp

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Aug 15, 2005

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threeagainstfour posted:

Anyone get the fight pass survey?

One of the potential ideas they are asking if we would find interesting.

"“Lose and You’re Out” match-ups among fighters that are in the UFC, but with multiple consecutive losses; the winner keeps his/her UFC contract but the loser is cut from the UFC"

yikes

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Aug 15, 2005

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Maybe a matchup where their families are held hostage and only the winner's are released

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Aug 15, 2005

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Triticum Guzzler posted:

The Oscar Schindler scene from Schindler's List but it's Dana breaking down and crying that he could've signed more of the Northcutt family instead of buying Bibles carved in the shape of guns

Lol

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Aug 15, 2005

by FactsAreUseless
fuckin bummer

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Aug 15, 2005

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effects of dehydration?

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Aug 15, 2005

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Dan Didio posted:

Hendricks is at Middleweight now as well.

maybe he'll brutally beat gsp into retirement again

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Aug 15, 2005

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Bubba Smith posted:

He probably should, Stipe is the best heavyweight of all time right now.

But if JDS wins like he did 3 years ago then Junior is back to being the greatest ever.

lol

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Aug 15, 2005

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he still hasn't earned a shot at diaz, needs to string together a few wins

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Aug 15, 2005

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ev7maPZrZME&t=42s

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Aug 15, 2005

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he trains with longo/serra but wonderboy's dad is his head trainer, accountant, lawyer, agent, bodyguard, unauthorized biographer, and drug dealer keeper awayer

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Aug 15, 2005

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speaking of 135 god drat i don't wanna wait for a whole season of ultimate fighter to see tj vs no love

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Aug 15, 2005

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Marching Powder posted:

There's a screenshot of no love rape choking TJ which is intriguing. Wanna hear what homoerotic text that act inspires.

drat lol

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Aug 15, 2005

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i'm sure i'll end up watchin it too, is it on FS1?

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Aug 15, 2005

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bisping said he was drunk and doesn't barely remember what he was arguing with eddie bravo about and also said luke thomas is gay for taking pictures of it to post online lol

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Aug 15, 2005

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Triticum Guzzler posted:

Hmm wonder who'd win, the retired 50 year old classroom demonstration skeleton or the current UFC middleweight champion

Lol yeah

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Aug 15, 2005

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But he's a black belt and 10 years ago when he was only 43 he beat Royler Gracie

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Aug 15, 2005

by FactsAreUseless
Crazy that Eddie bravo correctly predicted 9/11

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Aug 15, 2005

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best tuf moment i can remember is some guy's face slowly turning from confusion to pure rage as his teammate explains to him what an upper decker is

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Aug 15, 2005

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Marching Powder posted:

hahahaha when was this? who was this?

i dont remember aything but it was a black dude gettin mad and he said something like, "a prank's a prank but doo doo is personal"

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Aug 15, 2005

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lol

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Aug 15, 2005

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lE_eaXV1r4

ever seen a retarded guy cut a promo?

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Aug 15, 2005

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jay z's sedan posted:

He'll get a retroactive TUE. Doctor prescribed him birth control to stop his period when he was whining about other fighters using PEDs

lol

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Aug 15, 2005

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i had an illness, a medical illness in fact

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Aug 15, 2005

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alvarez vs poirier should be cool, dunno why alvarez was waiting around for some money fight. getting clowned by conor doesn't magically give you leverage

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Aug 15, 2005

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conor has so much pull that even losing to him in humiliating fashion makes dudes believe they can pick their own matchups with big name fighters lol

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Aug 15, 2005

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hollywood jews are less generous than mobbed up casino guys? put htat down in your lil notebook

user was put on probation for this post

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Aug 15, 2005

by FactsAreUseless

Rigel posted:

We're never going to know for sure, but the UFC (and therefore the fighters) got rooked on the Reebok deal because the UFC apparently did not know what the fighters were getting on sponsorship deals.The UFC was going off of anecdotal stories of lower-tier guys struggling to find sponsors and then not getting paid by sponsors, making low-4 figures on the sponsors, etc. The UFC figured "we can do better than that", and proudly presented the new signed long-term sponsorship deal to the fighters.

The mid and upper-tier fighters freaked the gently caress out because they were getting a ton of money on sponsors, in some cases a lot more than even their contracted purse. (sponsors are willing to pay to be displayed on primetime on FOX, go figure). The UFC basically laughed, called bullshit saying there's no way the main card fighters were making that much, then some of those fighters flipped their cards by showing their old now-voided sponsorship contracts, and after that we heard crickets from the UFC.



Nah, they knew it would be costing the fighters money they just didn't care because it was for their own plans/benefit. The UFC absolutely did not go off anecdotes from low tier fighters to make the deal.

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Aug 15, 2005

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Rigel posted:

and you base that on.... what, exactly? The UFC called out the fighters for lying, thinking there was no way they were making what they claimed, and the UFC was publicly embarrassed when they were proven wrong. If they knew and didn't care, they would not have said poo poo.

The UFC negotiated the Reebok deal without knowing what the top fighters were making.

What do you base your 10 paragraph guess on? Publicly embarrassed ? i guess if the public is hardcore mma nerds online.

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Aug 15, 2005

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Rigel posted:

They said the fighters were lying and were proven wrong. That essentially proves the UFC had no clue what the fighters were making. If the UFC is pocketing most of the money, then that only supports my point even more because they got FAR less than they could have. The UFC would not have knowingly screwed themselves while negotiating with reebok.

How do you know they got less than they could have and how does that relate to knowing what the fighters were making on sponsorships?

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Aug 15, 2005

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Dc is a bad matchup for rumble for sure, hopefully it's exciting

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Aug 15, 2005

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Work Friend Keven posted:

Before UFC was getting zero money now they're getting a bunch of money and have more control over how their product looks, the weren't going to get reebok to pay seventeen beeeeelion dollars to cover the amount of every 3rd tier energy drink on Zeeke "The Assassin" Wilsons banner.

Exactly

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Aug 15, 2005

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Frankie vs yair at 211. Cool fight

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Aug 15, 2005

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Agreed Frankie wins every round in my opinion

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Aug 15, 2005

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Atom: I got a 6 hour probation that says cub beats Artem, any takers?

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Aug 15, 2005

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Rigel posted:

The UFC didn't ask the fighters what they were making on sponsorships. Given that, there's no reason for the UFC to know what they were getting, because the fighters and/or their agents negotiated their own sponsorship deals pre-Reebok. Its really not in doubt now that the UFC's exclusive deal was far below what they could have gotten, given what we know now on what fighters were able to get.

The only argument against this is, "The UFC is big and successful, they couldn't possibly be this stupid, right?!" No, the UFC really was that stupid, they let themselves get lowballed by Reebok. They thought the fighters weren't getting much, and didn't bother to check first because they were focused on cleaning up the uniform.

You have no idea what you're talking about

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