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I wonder if Luke Thomas and all the other clowns who called Conor's actions recently 'brilliant' in these breathless tones and hailed him as the common man's hero will maybe look at how things turned out and feel stupid or even a hint of shame.
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Dan Didio posted:I wonder if Luke Thomas and all the other clowns who called Conor's actions recently 'brilliant' in these breathless tones and hailed him as the common man's hero will maybe look at how things turned out and feel stupid or even a hint of shame. Well I mean. Conor could end up making more money long term out of this. I don't think he will, but it's been like three days so it's a little early to be playing the hindsight game
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david carmichael posted:Well I mean. Conor could end up making more money long term out of this. I don't think he will, but it's been like three days so it's a little early to be playing the hindsight game I think McGregor'll do fine out of all this, so long as he doesn't do something even stupider, but it doesn't make the analysis of his actions anymore hilariously wrong. There was a headline about McGregor having the UFC's dick in a vice.
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Apr 27, 2016 01:41
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Hey conor, a million ain't poo poo when a billion next to it
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He'll come back and fight again and make more mountains of cash. It's just hilarious that Luke Thomas and Ariel Helwani want to paint Conor as a trail blazer for fighter's rights, when you better believe that if Conor were really up there on ownership terms with the Fertitta bros and Dana, that he'd be treating the common fighters just as poorly as they do in the interest of driving up profits. https://twitter.com/SBNLukeThomas/status/724956640571695106 They simultaneously praise McGregor's courage for standing up to UFC ownership by refusing to do press for the biggest card in UFC history, and then tell people that "life isn't fair" and that Conor deserves special treatment when fans point out that the common fighters they think McGregor's actions will benefit all have to also show up and interrupt their training camps. Some fighters like Aldo and Joanna coming from Brazil and Poland, all while being paid far, far less than McGregor. As if Conor did not get truck loads of special treatment over the last three years as the UFC put their promotional machine to work to help build him into the star he is today, and make him filthy rich in the process.
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Tate, Edgar, Aldo and co. are doing more commercial shoots to cover for Conor not being there too, interrupting their training, which is a nice little extra hit of how selfish McGregor is.
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threeagainstfour posted:He'll come back and fight again and make more mountains of cash. It's just hilarious that Luke Thomas and Ariel Helwani want to paint Conor as a trail blazer for fighter's rights, when you better believe that if Conor were really up there on ownership terms with the Fertitta bros and Dana, that he'd be treating the common fighters just as poorly as they do in the interest of driving up profits. Maybe now they won't hide him from Edgar anymore  (probably not though)
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Marching Powder posted:Hey conor, a million ain't poo poo when a billion next to it i doubt he reads this thread
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I.N.R.I posted:i doubt he reads this thread https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=933hKyKNPFQ
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threeagainstfour posted:He'll come back and fight again and make more mountains of cash. It's just hilarious that Luke Thomas and Ariel Helwani want to paint Conor as a trail blazer for fighter's rights, when you better believe that if Conor were really up there on ownership terms with the Fertitta bros and Dana, that he'd be treating the common fighters just as poorly as they do in the interest of driving up profits. Well yeah no poo poo so would pretty much every other MMA fighter/boxer ever. Sometimes good things happen despite the person behind them not being a great person
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Aesop Poprock posted:Well yeah no poo poo so would pretty much every other MMA fighter/boxer ever. Sometimes good things happen despite the person behind them not being a great person What "good things" are going to happen for fighters based on Conor's actions this week?
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At last, Drew Dober finally has the freedom to not show up to any press events and continue to lose fights in obscurity and make $200 after taxes and training expenses. Thank you Conor McGregor
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fatherdog posted:What "good things" are going to happen for fighters based on Conor's actions this week? Luke Thomas says over and over that a rising tide raises all boats in a pompous way so it's probably that
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-Atom- posted:Luke Thomas says over and over that a rising tide raises all boats in a pompous way so it's probably that Like how your posts raise the level of discourse in these threads
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A rising tide drowns all flyweights
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fatherdog posted:What "good things" are going to happen for fighters based on Conor's actions this week? Did Nate Diaz really need that at least 500k (but probably a fair amount more being UFC200) that he would have gotten from the fight?
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mewse posted:Like how your posts raise the level of discourse in these threads you're right Aesop Poprock made a real good point.
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If you're going to dogpile on Atom could you at least save it for when he posts things that are dumb or wrong; it's not like you'll have to wait very long
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I was trying to make a fyad style "much like your posting" joke but because it was atom it wasn't funny
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Aesop Poprock posted:Well yeah no poo poo so would pretty much every other MMA fighter/boxer ever. Sometimes good things happen despite the person behind them not being a great person My point wasn't to criticize Conor for making as much money as he can and not actively campaigning fighter's rights or whatever, it was to point out that he isn't the Gandhi of MMA that some goober MMA journalists are making him out to be. Also nothing good is going to come of this, unless you count not having McGregor Diaz 2 headlining UFC 200.
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The UFC is probably going to make more money in the long-run, that's pretty good for the UFC.
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Dan Didio posted:The UFC is probably going to make more money in the long-run, that's pretty good for the UFC. I should clarify, no good things for the average fighter will come out of McGregor's power play.
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mewse posted:I was trying to make a fyad style "much like your posting" joke but because it was atom it wasn't funny Much like
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fatherdog posted:A rising tide drowns all flyweights [Goldberg-bowing-at-bruce-lees-grave]
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Perhaps my most important work (other than ranking dogs owned by fighters)
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LobsterMobster posted:Perhaps my most important work (other than ranking dogs owned by fighters) One day there will be a UFC Embedded where a fighter's dog sics balls on another fighter, and it will be the article you were born to write.
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fatherdog posted:One day there will be a UFC Embedded where a fighter's dog sics balls on another fighter, and it will be the article you were born to write. Yesssss
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LobsterMobster posted:Perhaps my most important work (other than ranking dogs owned by fighters) i actually laughed out loud at 'mutually assured destruction', but i'm honestly surprised that bruce leeroy fight where he got deducted like 2 points for ball attacks and lost didn't make the cut
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Marching Powder posted:i actually laughed out loud at 'mutually assured destruction', but i'm honestly surprised that bruce leeroy fight where he got deducted like 2 points for ball attacks and lost didn't make the cut There was a few instances on the cutting room floor :-/
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fatherdog posted:One day there will be a UFC Embedded where a fighter's dog sics balls on another fighter, and it will be the article you were born to write. There was that one TUF guy who, after getting cut, was attacked by dogs who bit a hole through his 
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I know we're widening the field a bit here but special shout out to Waylon Lowe burning his dick off with off brand penis enlargement cream
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Who was the fighter whose girlfriend broke his dick getting too enthusiastic in froggie?
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mewse is probably satisfied by the way these posts are going because otherwise he'd let you know about it.
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I guess this should go here.quote:On a frosty Christmas Day in the small town of Rostov, Russia, a little-publicized hearing took place in a North Caucasian District Military Court. Sergei Zirinov, a Krasnodar parliamentarian and member of the Legislative Assembly, was on trial for the attempted murder of the deputy leader of the Anapa City Cossack Society, Nikolai Nesterenko. Zirinov was joined by five other defendants, each charged with either murder and attempted murder in aggravated circumstances, banditry and illicit arms trafficking, depending on the role they played. One of those defendants was 40-year-old Amar Suloev, a former UFC and Pride FC fighter.
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The amateur hitmen in the comments provide some comic relief to the story, at least
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She's pumping it! Mixed Martial Arts fighter Ronda Rousey puts in a gruelling training session on the beachquote:The Mixed Martial Arts star hasn't been in the ring since losing her Ultimate Fight Club Bantamweight title to Holly Holm last November. Best of luck to Ronda on reclaiming her Ultimate Fight Club title. Also there is some fantastic video attached to that story https://twitter.com/NakedGambling/status/727166074672795649 https://twitter.com/NakedGambling/status/727167013332877312
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Ah yes, the punishing 2.5 mile run from Main St. to the Santa Monica Pier
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I mean, a less-than-a-5k jog in the sand is extremely punishing to me, a great big fat guy, so I guess given the proper context that's not an absurd statement.
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