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Work Friend Keven posted:drat these guys sure love fried chicken haha. I wonder what else they love. Collared greens? Some kind of melon? If they aren't fools, probably.
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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. 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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Mar 9, 2017 18:10
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Work Friend Keven posted:drat these guys sure love fried chicken haha. I wonder what else they love. Collared greens? Some kind of melon? DC has specifically said that he loves Popeye's over and over, to the point that it seemed like he was trying to get a sponsorship/commercial deal. Ronda too for that matter.
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Mar 9, 2017 18:15
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Skip My Posts posted: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. 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.
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InfiniteZero posted:What is the diet called where you order the spicy chicken but only eat two biscuits with it? Wasn't Mark Hunt unironically on something like this? Like he was still gonna get combo meals, just not supersize them?
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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. 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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InfiniteZero posted:DC has specifically said that he loves Popeye's over and over, to the point that it seemed like he was trying to get a sponsorship/commercial deal. sounds like they already had one
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Mar 9, 2017 18:25
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1st AD posted:no way dc is on the atkins diet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0CfNA12aFw I will never tire of this video 
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Skip My Posts posted:What do you base your 10 paragraph guess on? Publicly embarrassed ? i guess if the public is hardcore mma nerds online. 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.
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Mar 9, 2017 18:39
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I.N.R.I posted:i wouldnt bet on rumble winning Me either but he does have a chance
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Kekekela posted:Wasn't Mark Hunt unironically on something like this? Like he was still gonna get combo meals, just not supersize them? Hendricks talked about how he was on a diet plan where he could still go to whataburger and just not get the fries and be fine, don't remember if he missed weight 2 or 3 times in a row after that.
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Mar 9, 2017 19:09
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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. This is my favorite part of the whole thing, the UFC played themselves because they wouldn't do the most basic amount of work.
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Gay Horney posted:Hendricks talked about how he was on a diet plan where he could still go to whataburger and just not get the fries and be fine, don't remember if he missed weight 2 or 3 times in a row after that. That's when he got on LouTrition, before 200, so that's 2 misses and 1 new division
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Mar 9, 2017 19:17
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Tezcatlipoca posted:This is my favorite part of the whole thing, the UFC played themselves because they wouldn't do the most basic amount of work. Giblert Melendez disagrees.
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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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Mar 9, 2017 19:20
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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.
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Mar 9, 2017 19:21
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Dc is a bad matchup for rumble for sure, hopefully it's exciting
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Mar 9, 2017 19:22
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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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Some of you seem very confident that the businessmen in charge of the strongest mma promotion ever are simply bumblingly incompetent with money instead of greedy assholes
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Mar 9, 2017 19:23
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Skip My Posts posted:Dc is a bad matchup for rumble for sure, hopefully it's exciting Yeah for all the poo poo DC gets I think he still deserves a lot of credit for taking an overhand from Rumble and not immediately exploding into a pile of bones.
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Mar 9, 2017 19:30
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Thinking the UFC had no idea what fighters were making off sponsors is hilariously naive. Have we already forgotten? 
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Neeber posted:Thinking the UFC had no idea what fighters were making off sponsors is hilariously naive. Needs to be the forum background.
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Daniel cornier made a video of him dancing to a parody of all about that bass, except it was about fried chicken. One assumes it was for a commercial and not strictly for love of the game
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Similaraly, Derek Lewis was sponsored by a number of youtubers who screencap track and field or volleyball events for moments when women's shorts are up their asses, and is not and never has been organically horny.
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Mar 9, 2017 20:29
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Frankie vs yair at 211. Cool fight
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Work Friend Keven posted:Similaraly, Derek Lewis was sponsored by a number of youtubers who screencap track and field or volleyball events for moments when women's shorts are up their asses, and is not and never has been organically horny. I'm so glad I don't understand any of this.
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Skip My Posts posted:Frankie vs yair at 211. Cool fight I think Yair is really going to struggle with someone who he can't hit with something crazy and wild and is forced to rely on fundamentals. Cool as hell fight.
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Mar 9, 2017 21:12
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watching the yair / bj fight it was surprising how big yair was in comparison to bj, and bj used to be the ww champ. the times are changing. and it will probably look like the frankie / oliveira fight - competitive and high level but the unanimous decision will be clear for all to see.
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Remember when Johnson landed one of his Punches on DC and he knocked him across the cage, but he didn't die?
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Forceholy posted:Remember when Johnson landed one of his Punches on DC and he knocked him across the cage, but he didn't die?
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Ditch posted:At most gyms where guys spar too hard, their chins get destroyed. At AKA they avoid this by somehow transferring all damage directly to the ligaments. Luke Rockhold would beg to differ, but he's in a dark room and can't look at screens for very long
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Gay Horney posted:Hendricks talked about how he was on a diet plan where he could still go to whataburger and just not get the fries and be fine, don't remember if he missed weight 2 or 3 times in a row after that. The other go-to hilarious diet plan item was when BJ mentioned that he had to go on a diet and eat things like chicken salad, a dish that is like...half mayonnaise (h/t fatherdog I think)
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Forceholy posted:Remember when Johnson landed one of his Punches on DC and he knocked him across the cage, but he didn't die? it must suck knowing that in a few weeks time you are going to eat at least one of them again.
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anthony "rumble" johnson will have an 8 foot height advantage and a 7,000 pound weight advantage going into this fight
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Intel&Sebastian posted:The other go-to hilarious diet plan item was when BJ mentioned that he had to go on a diet and eat things like chicken salad, a dish that is like...half mayonnaise (h/t fatherdog I think) Well if you make it from mayonnaise sure. But more typically one makes chicken salad from chicken poo poo.
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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. 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. Rigel fucked around with this message at 22:59 on Mar 9, 2017 |
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