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The reebok deal sucks for the fighters but i also dont even understand how reebok can afford giving out hundreds of thousands in sponsorship money every ufc fight night in hopes people will buy their lovely half assed gear. I hope theyre losing lots of money on it
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Feb 2, 2016 04:28
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Bendo is a B-league fighter now e: oh wait, this should go in the TNA thread
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How in the gently caress could the UFC break up their Reebok deal? They have to be at the point where they are looking at options.
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quote:"I won't lie, it was a very big deal," Henderson said. "The ability to get sponsors on your own and not have to rely on the amount that Reebok dictates to you was a huge factor. I'd be straight up lying if I said it wasn't a very big part of my decision to go to Bellator. I remember when news of the reebok deal came out I said it was great news for bellator and fighters would start jumping ship, pretty much everyone in this forum scoffed, lol
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In terms of sheer accomplishments, Bendo has got to be the biggest score in Bellator history. He's tied for most lightweight title defenses in UFC history, he went up a weight class and beat a man who was huge in comparison, and he whipped that Diaz rear end with a toothpick in his mouth. He's also in the prime of his career or at least relatively close. This is just a huge contract blunder by the UFC and I can't wait for my dude "Smooth" Ben Henderson to style all over multiple Bellator divisions. PS: Scott Coker, please use this as an opportunity to run a show in South Korea and have Tito give a speech to bring the peninsula back together.
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Feb 2, 2016 05:55
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Charles Gnarwin posted:This is just a huge contract blunder by the UFC and I can't wait for my dude "Smooth" Ben Henderson to style all over multiple Bellator divisions. Having a guy with losses to three of their current top lightweights style all over Bellators welterweight division is not exactly going to be keeping the Fertittas up at night.
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Feb 2, 2016 05:59
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Bendo will become a two-division champ before Conor.
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fatherdog posted:Having a guy with losses to three of their current top lightweights style all over Bellators welterweight division is not exactly going to be keeping the Fertittas up at night. The cocaine is what will keep them up at night. I guess they got their Korea main event out of Bendo and there just wasn't much perceived value left after that. I'm a big fan, so it is irksome when the UFC seems hellbent on driving away good fighters. If Aljamain Sterling follows suit and signs with Bellator, that would be an even worse look for the UFC, in my opinion. You could argue that Bendo peaked but Sterling is a clear star on the rise.
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Neeber posted:Bendo will become a two-division champ before Conor. Conor was already two division champ in the b leagues
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Charles Gnarwin posted:The cocaine is what will keep them up at night. I guess they got their Korea main event out of Bendo and there just wasn't much perceived value left after that. I'm a big fan, so it is irksome when the UFC seems hellbent on driving away good fighters. Though mind in the past we've had some pretty good hype trains build up from "That Guy in the Other Organization." They might decide to let Bellator take Sterling, build him up, and take the risk on paying him bigger money early. If Sterling loses, then the UFC lost nothing. If Sterling wins, some hurf and blurf can build. And after 6-8 fights Sterling can return as a developed prospect and the UFC will be happy to pay him once he has proved what he is worth. And all of this can happen without him knocking off UFC prospects. Guys like Shields, Giblert, Alvarez, and Overeem all came into the UFC with lots of interest. Even Hendo managed to have his stock increase with a few fights in Strikeforce. Or look at what happened with Nick Diaz. The guy hasn't won a fight over anything resembling a ranked opponent since... Robbie Lawler? And he has a following that cost the UFC basically nothing to build.
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fatherdog posted:Having a guy with losses to three of their current top lightweights style all over Bellators welterweight division is not exactly going to be keeping the Fertittas up at night. did everyone forget the rise & fall of Strikeforce from 2009 - 2011, cause I seem to remember them being a much bigger threat than Bellator and UFC survived just fine. UFC lost on a few big signings to Strikeforce, a couple of guys left UFC for Strikeforce (sometimes it took a few years of wandering the b-league landscape before they wound up there), and in the end Robbie Lawler came back and became a UFC champion. So I don't see why Bendo going to Bellator the home of Shamrock vs Gracie III means everybody at the top of UFC is going to leave and UFC's brand will suffer forever.
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Bubba Smith posted:did everyone forget the rise & fall of Strikeforce from 2009 - 2011, cause I seem to remember them being a much bigger threat than Bellator and UFC survived just fine. UFC lost on a few big signings to Strikeforce, a couple of guys left UFC for Strikeforce (sometimes it took a few years of wandering the b-league landscape before they wound up there), and in the end Robbie Lawler came back and became a UFC champion. So I don't see why Bendo going to Bellator the home of Shamrock vs Gracie III means everybody at the top of UFC is going to leave and UFC's brand will suffer forever. Strikeforce's first event was shamrock vs gracie
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Bellator has deeper pockets than Strikeforce ever did, Strikeforce was owned by silicon Valley sports and bellator is owned by Viacom
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Lord Waffle Beard posted:Strikeforce's first event was shamrock vs gracie Yeah, Frank Vs Cesar.
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Lord Waffle Beard posted:Bellator has deeper pockets than Strikeforce ever did, Strikeforce was owned by silicon Valley sports and bellator is owned by Viacom I'm honestly surprised Cerrone hasn't gone over. I don't know what the ufc is paying him but a few hundred eyes watching him bash up a b-league guy and immediately crack open a bud lite has to be worth serious money.
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Marching Powder posted:I'm honestly surprised Cerrone hasn't gone over. I don't know what the ufc is paying him but a few hundred eyes watching him bash up a b-league guy and immediately crack open a bud lite has to be worth serious money. My best guess is that Bellator puts on significantly less fights than UFC and he likes to fight all the time.
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DumbWhiteGuy posted:My best guess is that Bellator puts on significantly less fights than UFC and he likes to fight all the time. True but I'd be great to see Cerrone KO b-league bums every week when Bellator do a cycle of weekly shows
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Lord Waffle Beard posted:I remember when news of the reebok deal came out I said it was great news for bellator and fighters would start jumping ship, pretty much everyone in this forum scoffed, lol I thought you said "major" or "relevant" or something.
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The biggest signings bellator has made from the ufc were Tito, bonnar, and rampage, in that order. Bendo won't do near the viewership that Tito/bonnar did.
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Brett Okamoto posted:Benson Henderson will challenge Andrey Koreshkov for the Bellator MMA welterweight title on April 22 in Uncasville, Connecticut.
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Lord Waffle Beard posted:Bellator has deeper pockets than Strikeforce ever did, Strikeforce was owned by silicon Valley sports and bellator is owned by Viacom Strikeforce had the Showtime premium cable thing which was cool, and definitely coveted by the ufc.
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i feel like bendo in bellator's ww division is ultimately meaningless because i don't know anyone in that division, whereas at lightweight they have some fights i could get excited for i hope bellator can slowly grow to fill the strikeforce role
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Triticum Guzzler posted:i feel like bendo in bellator's ww division is ultimately meaningless because i don't know anyone in that division, whereas at lightweight they have some fights i could get excited for Yeah I would be interested in seeing him vs. Chandler and Brooks, but their welterweight division sucks.
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1st AD posted:Yeah I would be interested in seeing him vs. Chandler and Brooks, but their welterweight division sucks. I think a non-negligible part of Benson going to Bellator is the fact that he can probably run the table at 170 there now that he's discovered how wonderful it is not to cut weight.
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Yeah, he might as well go for 170 first. Without Askren it's just an abandoned division. If he can get that title, they could hype a 155 superfight. Will Brooks is fast, powerful and diverse as a fighter and is on pretty much every top 10 list at this point. Meanwhile, Koreshkov is just a dorky looking Russian kid with no discernible strengths that nobody has heard of or cares about. It's pretty obvious which is the easiest path to a belt.
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http://mmajunkie.com/2016/02/contract-disputes-see-jake-shields-out-at-wsof-30-jon-fitch-now-meets-joao-zeferino Terrible news Shields/Fitch is off. Jake didn't want to take the fight because he would get locked into a WSOF champion contract, a place that no one wants to be. Fitch is now gonna fight Zeferino, a lightweight who recently lost the WSOF lightweight tournament to Brian Foster despite defeating Foster in the quarterfinals.
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I think that instead of 1000 years of never ending success Benson will lose a boring fight to someone none of us have heard of in a year or two
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david carmichael posted:I think that instead of 1000 years of never ending success Benson will lose a boring fight to someone none of us have heard of in a year or two same
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Roger Huerta's Law
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david carmichael posted:I think that instead of 1000 years of never ending success Benson will lose a boring fight to someone none of us have heard of in a year or two i don't know man look at how well fitch and okami did.
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Speaking of Bellator:quote:Scott Coker is linking up with another familiar face. Sergei vs Kongo seems like it could be funny. Aside from that, meh.
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colonel_korn posted:Speaking of Bellator: Coker got a fat Russian for Henderson to KO
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Sergei is a good pickup for a bad division because he can mop up some clowns in fatly devstating fashion. On the other hand Fight Nights is trying to set up a fight between him and Minakov which could mess things up.
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I will say that his casual murder of Arlovski is still one of the coolest (but simultaneously disturbing) things I've seen in the sport. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbIIsOAg1rU Something about the way he just relentlessly walks AA into the corner and then just obliterates him once he's hurt.
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Triticum Guzzler posted:Sergei is a good pickup for a bad division because he can mop up some clowns in fatly devstating fashion. On the other hand Fight Nights is trying to set up a fight between him and Minakov which could mess things up. Isn't Minakov fighting in Fight Nights instead of over here due to visa issues? I wonder if they'd just strip him so Coker could live his dream of putting the belt back on a Pride guy. also, the Bellator heavyweight title has existed for more than half a decade and has had a grant total of five fights and that will never stop being funny to me
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colonel_korn posted:I will say that his casual murder of Arlovski is still one of the coolest (but simultaneously disturbing) things I've seen in the sport. Holy gently caress AA also landed some right hands in that fight which looked like they could cave in a medium-sized house and Kharitonov just shrugged them off like nothing.
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colonel_korn posted:I will say that his casual murder of Arlovski is still one of the coolest (but simultaneously disturbing) things I've seen in the sport. Please watch the superior version from thereem https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ce0nBNY-cw8&t=828s
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