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the yellow dart
Jul 19, 2004

King of rings, armlocks, hugs, and our hearts

BlindSite posted:



Welterweight
Aaron Kampmann



This is not a thing.

A good way to look at most of the best 170ers int he UFC is to watch all of Paulo Thiago's fights. They're all pretty exciting and will give you a pretty good idea of what the top echelons of the UFC are all about at 170 outside of GSP.

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the yellow dart
Jul 19, 2004

King of rings, armlocks, hugs, and our hearts

Xguard86 posted:

it seems like a fighter's guild would make more sense, since they are independent contractors on shorter contracts.

I don't really know the legal distinction, I just know that actors, writers, and reporters have guilds and they all follow sort of similar employment structures.

The main issue remains that some fighters would do far worse under systems that a union would propose than they do right now. Getting paid similarly based on performance (W/L) would hurt fighters like Chris Leben or Lytle dramatically. Neither of those guys are world beaters, but even in their losses they get paid significantly more than others because they are entertaining. Working things out to be "fair" would be extremely "unfair" to those guys since their paydays would essentially evaporate.

the yellow dart
Jul 19, 2004

King of rings, armlocks, hugs, and our hearts

Fentry posted:

The Gracies pretty much got to fight under whatever rules they wanted at the early MMA events

Because they literally ran that poo poo.

the yellow dart
Jul 19, 2004

King of rings, armlocks, hugs, and our hearts
Brock vs. a non-broken Nog would have been interesting but Lesnar would have been tough to stop unless you were the best MMA wrestler ever.

That's right, Mark Coleman would have re-gained his HW crown.

the yellow dart
Jul 19, 2004

King of rings, armlocks, hugs, and our hearts

maffew buildings posted:

'I got jungle fever chasing a rogue pitbull through the Amazon so yeah'

How else is a reward hunter going to make a living?

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