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Looking at that photo I'd actually prefer it if they hired Badr Hari for play-by-play.
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Jan 5, 2017 16:49
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I'm a fan of Todd Grishams airport novels about one man standing up to different evil law firms but I'm more so so on his play by play announcing.
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Jan 5, 2017 17:18
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fatherdog posted:https://twitter.com/BloodyElbow/status/816637825558966272 He's pretty much the generic brown haired, white nerd announcer that WWE loves and managed to get to about third in the PBP depth chart. Also he hosted an online call in radio show. https://youtu.be/ud75ZQVh04U
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Jan 5, 2017 17:30
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fatherdog posted:https://twitter.com/BloodyElbow/status/816637825558966272 He was so generic and bad they opted for the charismatic enigma known as Michael Cole.
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Jan 5, 2017 17:42
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Lid posted:He was so generic and bad they opted for the charismatic enigma known as Michael Cole. Cole was always ahead of Todd, just going by tenure and ability to regurgitate Vince.
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Jan 5, 2017 17:52
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At least UFC didn't sign Striker or Matthews.
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Jan 5, 2017 17:54
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I just don't see why you'd replace the main man Goldberg with a dude who has no notable MMA commentary experience or history with the sport, like Schiavello for example or is highly respected for play-by-play in american sports as a whole (I have no idea who that may be). He's just an unremarkable dude who is from WWE to most people. At least Goldberg, a goof at his best and incompetent at his worst, has had a long career with the UFC and he and Joe together have an undeniable brand recognition aspect to them. It doesn't look like a net gain to me. Josuke Higashikata fucked around with this message at 18:13 on Jan 5, 2017 |
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Jan 5, 2017 17:59
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I would imagine they can pay the guy who had an internet radio show nearly nothing vs someone who has brand recognition
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Jan 5, 2017 18:13
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Stinks of corporate mainstreaming to me. We need a Lawler - McDonald 2 type spectacle to keep such things at bay.
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Jan 5, 2017 18:13
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They'll probably replace Joe in six months if this new guy works out. Seems like he wants to retire anyways and this way they don't have to worry about training two announcers at once
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Jan 5, 2017 18:19
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Also, I can't imagine this wwe guy is more professional than Goldberg. He calls every ppv, has never been in a scandal larger than a Twitter fight, and he reads all of the ads no matter what's going on in the fight
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Jan 5, 2017 18:25
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I will always remember the time Randy knocked Big Tim down in their HW title match because Goldie was shouting a promo and trying to get through it so he could call the action but his brain would not let him stop reading the material for The Marine in theaters everywhere now.
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Jan 5, 2017 18:31
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Grandmaster.flv posted:What do you mean by 'sabotage'? he got in the way of kenny training with better people, and his corner strategy was yell everything kenny is going to do loud enough for BJ to hear it
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Jan 5, 2017 18:44
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I.N.R.I posted:the game plan was pretty sound and kenny stuck to it. he just couldnt beat bj penn it was based on some voodoo science poo poo about blood pooling in certain muscles tiring people out.
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Jan 5, 2017 18:46
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Ummm that was from Kru Phil nurse, who was definitely not a witch doctor. Don't you remember him rubbing all up on gsp's chest back for performance and definitely not sexual reasons
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Jan 5, 2017 18:52
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vainman posted:They'll probably replace Joe in six months if this new guy works out. Seems like he wants to retire anyways and this way they don't have to worry about training two announcers at once I don't think they're going to re-sign Rogan when his contract is up and that would be on a mutual level too, but I can't see them kicking him out early either. He comes up with silly things too but he's legitimately popular outside of the UFC too. His podcast gets ridiculous numbers and he constantly talks about the UFC on it too, it's not a bad thing for them to have. He did call himself an MMA expert the other day though, that might be pushing it.
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Jan 5, 2017 18:57
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exploded mummy posted:At least UFC didn't sign Striker or Matthews. Now I really want them to sign Vampiro. Maybe he can mentor Ronda in the art of arm-snapping.
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Jan 5, 2017 19:00
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Josuke Higashikata posted:
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Jan 5, 2017 19:06
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vainman posted:Also, I can't imagine this wwe guy is more professional than Goldberg. He calls every ppv, has never been in a scandal larger than a Twitter fight, and he reads all of the ads no matter what's going on in the fight WWE trains you to do ad reads and plugs while also having a workaholic insane billionaire screaming in your ear. Dudes also been an ESPN anchor now for like 5 years
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Jan 5, 2017 19:14
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The Goldberg thing is probably as simple as cost tbh.
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Jan 5, 2017 19:24
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vainman posted:They'll probably replace Joe in six months if this new guy works out. Seems like he wants to retire anyways and this way they don't have to worry about training two announcers at once Why is everybody so confused about the difference between color and pbp announcers? Is it because Rogan is too dumb and stoned to know the difference so he tries to do both?
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Jan 5, 2017 19:31
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Josuke Higashikata posted:He did call himself an MMA expert the other day though, that might be pushing it. Short of guys like Stann and Hardy, he actually is though. He was a National TKD champion (for whatever that's worth) and has black belts under Machado and Bravo.
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Jan 5, 2017 19:39
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Fat Twitter Man posted:Why is everybody so confused about the difference between color and pbp announcers? Is it because Rogan is too dumb and stoned to know the difference so he tries to do both? he does both because Goldie doesn't know poo poo.
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Jan 5, 2017 19:39
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Josuke Higashikata posted:He did call himself an MMA expert the other day though, that might be pushing it. it's all he does alongside awkward kettlebell powersets
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Jan 5, 2017 19:45
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I would consider that there likely needs to be some element of practical application and first hand experience before you can claim to be an expert. There's probably teenagers out there who have watched the entirety of Pornhub, you wouldn't call them experts at sex just because they have a black belt in jerking off. Like, I'd definitely say he's closest in terms of people involved in MMA who haven't fought in MMA to claim to be one, but expert is something above enthusiast or whatever
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Jan 5, 2017 19:53
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TheRationalRedditor posted:how the hell isn't Rogan an MMA expert exactly Its the new announcer that called himself an MMA expert. Joe Rogan is absolutely an MMA expert even if he doesn't know what a downed opponent is.
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Jan 5, 2017 19:56
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Josuke Higashikata posted:I would consider that there likely needs to be some element of practical application and first hand experience before you can claim to be an expert. lmao what
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Jan 5, 2017 19:58
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Mr. Nice! posted:Its the new announcer that called himself an MMA expert. Joe Rogan is absolutely an MMA expert even if he doesn't know what a downed opponent is. No, it was Joe Rogan, on one of the two who is fat challenge podcasts he did the other day. (Worth a watch actually, those two dudes are quite funny and they've lost a lot of weight in not much time for it.) I'm also doing him a huge disservice because the rest of the quote is that he defers to people who knows better than him for knowledge about things when he knows that they know best, such as Eddie Bravo about Jiu Jitsu. He's genuinely one of my favourite things about the UFC and I'll miss him when he calls time.
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Jan 5, 2017 20:00
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Google Butt posted:lmao what ok, you can call yourself a sexpert.
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Jan 5, 2017 20:00
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Can you be an expert in horse racing without being a jockey? Or a horse?
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Jan 5, 2017 20:02
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Big John McCarthy is not an expert in MMA because he's never competed in the UFC, fam
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Jan 5, 2017 20:07
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Josuke Higashikata posted:No, it was Joe Rogan, on one of the two who is fat challenge podcasts he did the other day. Joe Rogan has a black belt on BJJ and had some degree of accolades in TKD before he quit due to fear of concussions, so not only is your point weird to begin with, but you're also wrong by your own metric.
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Jan 5, 2017 20:13
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1st AD posted:he does both because Goldie doesn't know poo poo. Goldie is actually tolerable with a competent PBP guy like Stann who doesn't step all over him.
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Jan 5, 2017 20:17
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...and the pitch! posted:Can you be an expert in horse racing without being a jockey? Catherine the Great was an expert horse breeder
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Jan 5, 2017 20:26
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Josuke Higashikata posted:I just don't see why you'd replace the main man Goldberg with a dude who has no notable MMA commentary experience or history with the sport Just based on that criteria I would say continuity
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Jan 5, 2017 20:32
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Bluedeanie posted:Joe Rogan has a black belt on BJJ and had some degree of accolades in TKD before he quit due to fear of concussions, so not only is your point weird to begin with, but you're also wrong by your own metric. TKD and BJJ aren't MMA. MMA is mixed martial arts. as in MMA fighting. He'd be the first to tell you he's not an MMA fighter because he can do TKD and BJJ. Like, it's not wrong by my own metric. Weird? yeah, probs.
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Jan 5, 2017 20:32
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Is Joe Silva an MMA expert?
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Jan 5, 2017 20:35
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Josuke Higashikata posted:TKD and BJJ aren't MMA. MMA is mixed martial arts. as in MMA fighting. He'd be the first to tell you he's not an MMA fighter because he can do TKD and BJJ. Like, it's not wrong by my own metric. Weird? yeah, probs. No matter how many times the broadcast team says "he doesn't train wrestling or boxing, he trains MMA!" when describing the "new breed of fighter," people still generally train various single disciplines that they can use to develop a complete skill set for MMA. Joe Rogan has high level experience training and competing in both striking and grappling, and personally knows and works with the only human beings in the planet who have watched more high-level MMA than he has. I think by any reasonable metric he can be considered an expert.
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Jan 5, 2017 20:40
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Bundt Cake posted:it was based on some voodoo science poo poo about blood pooling in certain muscles tiring people out. i dont know what they said in the media at the time but i watched the fight yesterday and they just were trying to wear the chubby hawaian man out by grinding him into the fence. but then kenny got tired first due in no small part to bj punching him in the face and body really hard every time they separated
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Jan 5, 2017 20:42
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*Josuke Higashikata bursts out of breath into local Ancient Greek History university lecture* excuse me "professor," were you there when Plato first addressed the Academy? Did you personally take up a pike and march in a phalanx to defend Athens from the Persian scourge? Of course not, you fraud. You fool. You goddamned moron
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