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Marching Powder posted:I get the feeling that the worst decision new management has made thus far is letting Joe Silva walk. 2014 was absolutely ravaged by main events falling apart and yet the year itself was great in no small part because he and Shelby got really loving good at their jobs. He retired though, right? If he wanted out there's very little they could have done to stop him.
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Memento posted:He retired though, right? If he wanted out there's very little they could have done to stop him. Throw more money at him and keep him as a consultant and have some puppet hold the phone and deal with the idiot child fighters. You literally cannot afford to lose a man with that degree of knowledge to retirement.
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Marching Powder posted:Throw more money at him and keep him as a consultant and have some puppet hold the phone and deal with the idiot child fighters. You literally cannot afford to lose a man with that degree of knowledge to retirement. no point just relying on him either .. i think the matchmaking is fine anyway
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Feb 20, 2017 02:24
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I just watched the Tim Sylvia "Where Are They Now?" segment and the best part was where it shows him emptying what looks like an entire package of bacon into a big cast iron skillet for breakfast with an audio of him saying, "One of the best things about being retired is you can eat as much bacon as you want", then it cuts to him saying about how much having a son has made him less of a selfish person and the anecdote he gives as an example is about how he's willing to give his son the last piece.
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Feb 20, 2017 02:42
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Dan Didio posted:I think the rule changes are all good changes. I agree, but it would be really cool if they'd enforce them And as soon as I post that the ref cracks down
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Feb 20, 2017 02:51
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I.N.R.I posted:no point just relying on him either .. i think the matchmaking is fine anyway he's only just left. also by all means don't rely on him, but definitely secure the services of a man who is more knowledgeable on the subject of mma than anyone breathing. especially if you run an mma company. or don't i'm not a businessman and for good reason.
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i think silva was gone no matter what, he got a huge payoff with the sale
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Marching Powder posted:Throw more money at him and keep him as a consultant and have some puppet hold the phone and deal with the idiot child fighters. You literally cannot afford to lose a man with that degree of knowledge to retirement. I think dealing with the fighters was one of his best skills though
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He expended too much energy and got tired
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Skip My Posts posted:i think silva was gone no matter what, he got a huge payoff with the sale Whoa he was a part owner? Cool. I can understand if he's now a billionaire or w/e. I was operating on the assumption that he just happened to leave when the management changed. Dangersim posted:I think dealing with the fighters was one of his best skills though Definitely, but semi retirement shouldn't involve 3am calls from Chris avila
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Feb 20, 2017 03:48
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I doubt Joe Silva is a billionaire, but he definitely has 8 zeros of net worth after the sale.
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So he doesn't gently caress is what you are saying.
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HEY NONG MAN posted:So he doesn't gently caress is what you are saying. Silva has always seemed to be someone who knew what they were doing, i'd expect Dana to go broke investing in something dumb though.
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Lid posted:Silva has always seemed to be someone who knew what they were doing, i'd expect Dana to go broke investing in something dumb though. "These Trump brand fight shorts are truly the biggest and best of the all the fight shorts to ever exist. All the fight shorts. I've looked at all of them and these are big league. The most bigly."
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnYS_xPwoB0&t=1425s
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Feb 20, 2017 07:51
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Black Beast's postfight presser is a pro-click.
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Getting through Gonzaga, Nelson and Browne without really getting rocked is pretty impressive. Does Rothwell have a fight? He'd be perfect for Derrick.
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Mr. Nice! posted:I doubt Joe Silva is a billionaire, but he definitely has 8 zeros of net worth after the sale. Either you think Joe Silva makes within 33% of what Dana White does or you don't know how math works...
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Eight figures I could see but not eight zeroes. Getting paid an amount of money equal to ~half a percent of the value of the company you were instrumental in building up from practically nothing seems reasonable. Having said that probably no one outside him, the Fertittas and Dana knows exactly what it was, and never will. He's got gently caress You money and wants to enjoy life with his young kids. Leave the man to his enjoyable retirement.
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Feb 20, 2017 08:53
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Has the Black Beast finally rid the UFC of Travis Browne?
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threeagainstfour posted:Has the Black Beast finally rid the UFC of Travis Browne? If Conor McGregor can not only keep his significant other Artem Lobov in the UFC but get him a main event on a Fight Night card, then one can only imagine the kind of pull Ronda Rousey has.
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Bumpy Johnson posted:If Conor McGregor can not only keep his significant other Artem Lobov in the UFC but get him a main event on a Fight Night card, then one can only imagine the kind of pull Ronda Rousey has. that makes no sense
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Triticum Guzzler posted:I'm glad Lombard lost Lombard, Browne, and Esparza all lost Not a bad night
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Bumpy Johnson posted:If Conor McGregor can not only keep his significant other Artem Lobov in the UFC but get him a main event on a Fight Night card, then one can only imagine the kind of pull Ronda Rousey has. There's a pretty significant difference between those two. I'll give you a few minutes on your own, see if you can work it out.
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Memento posted:There's a pretty significant difference between those two. I'll give you a few minutes on your own, see if you can work it out. 
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Triticum Guzzler posted:I'm glad Lombard lost I'm sad Hendricks won, but this is helping. A friend had a story of Lombard showing up to a wedding (he was invited, he didn't just arrive) and trying to fight everyone.
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See here folks we have an excellent example of Schrödinger's Idiot, where they pretend to have been joking because they were called on it, but if no one called them on it then they were serious the whole time.
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Snowman_McK posted:I'm sad Hendricks won, but this is helping. A friend had a story of Lombard showing up to a wedding (he was invited, he didn't just arrive) and trying to fight everyone. lol. my favourite hector lombard stories are when josh barnett got fed up of him bullying smaller people in the gym so he pinned him down and beat the poo poo out of him, and when dan henderson said he didn't like gym bullies and had heard things about lombard, so lombard immediately started trying to intimidate him at presser events and then hendo knocked him extremely unconscious
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Triticum Guzzler posted:lol. my favourite hector lombard stories are when josh barnett got fed up of him bullying smaller people in the gym so he pinned him down and beat the poo poo out of him, and when dan henderson said he didn't like gym bullies and had heard things about lombard, so lombard immediately started trying to intimidate him at presser events and then hendo knocked him extremely unconscious I met him briefly at one of those 'meet the fighters' things in Melbourne for 193. No one there was fighting in Melbourne, so it was more 'meet some fighters' I can confirm that Soa Paleilei is loving enormous and super nice, and that Hector Lombard has a giant head and bad MMA opinions. Seriously, his head is absolutely enormous and he's really short. He looks like a bobblehead of himself. I'm still sad the Rory fight didn't happen. Snowman_McK fucked around with this message at 09:41 on Feb 20, 2017 |
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My wife and I are watching the fights from today. She would like to know why Bigg Rigg put Vaseline up his nose. Also she said he looked "fat as poo poo" and wondered if his corner were promising him sandwiches if he won.
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Meet my smart wife,
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It's a shame that Mark Hunt has to literally murder Alistair Overeem and Derrick Lewis has to take three months off before they even think about arranging Hunt/Lewis for Fight Night: Dubbo, but hell, I'm excited for it.
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Memento posted:My wife and I are watching the fights from today. She would like to know why Bigg Rigg put Vaseline up his nose. Also she said he looked "fat as poo poo" and wondered if his corner were promising him sandwiches if he won. Bigg Rigg putting vaseline on holes where it's not suppose to be... wonder if that's got an underlying meaning.
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Dan Didio posted:It's a shame that Mark Hunt has to literally murder Alistair Overeem and Derrick Lewis has to take three months off before they even think about arranging Hunt/Lewis for Fight Night: Dubbo, but hell, I'm excited for it. I'd road trip for it.
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Memento posted:Also she said he looked "fat as poo poo" and wondered if his corner were promising him sandwiches if he won. you got a good wife
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Memento posted:My wife and I are watching the fights from today. She would like to know why Bigg Rigg put Vaseline up his nose. Also she said he looked "fat as poo poo" and wondered if his corner were promising him sandwiches if he won. Your wife is pretty rad. Not as rad that goon's mum, but pretty rad. If any of you don't remember that series of posts, some goon's mum watched fights with him, and described Shogun as a 'potato man' and Dan Henderson as 'well punchy' Also, when she watched Nelson/Werdum, she yelled out 'careful, he might not be hurt' which officially makes her a better MMA tactician than Fedor.
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Lewis at the post fight: "poo poo, I appreciate Yamasaki letting it go a while longer. I'll give him a thousand dollars because I wanted to give Travis Browne a beating" (for beating women) oh and he also went into specifics about needing to take a poo poo between rounds and letting out a carefully measured fart to just get comfortable. Josuke Higashikata fucked around with this message at 15:18 on Feb 20, 2017 |
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