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Not even a full day into the new year and already clocking in the first MMA related domestic abuse situation. https://www.tmz.com/2023/01/02/dana-white-wife-drunk-fight-slap-new-years-eve-nightclub-cabo/?adid=social-twa quote:The UFC honcho and Anne White, who've been married for 26 years, were celebrating Saturday night with friends in El Squid Roe ... but things took a turn shortly after they all welcomed in 2023 at midnight. Mekchu fucked around with this message at 01:47 on Jan 3, 2023 |
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Fozzy The Bear posted:For those who don't want to watch the video: It basically goes like that yeah. He approaches her, she sorta moves away, he grabs her wrist sorta aggressively, she slaps him immediately, he then reacts and slaps her back and then they get broken up by ppl around them.
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CarlCX posted:The fact that Dana already gave an interview going 'yup, that was awful, oh well' means he thinks the UFC is already done with it, and he is probably right. Yeah
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BC is stupid as gently caress, but his "nobody is actually out here defending Dana's wife in all of this" comment is actually pretty important as well.
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https://twitter.com/jeffwagenheim/status/1611041735978647583 https://www.mmamania.com/2023/1/5/2...ry-comments-ufc quote:“We’ve been told to not write anything incendiary on social media about the Dana White situation, and I understand why and have abided by that,” Wagenheim quoted tweeted to Stephen A. Smith’s reaction. “I just ask y’all to understand that some of us at ESPN do not have as soft a take as this on domestic violence.” Mekchu fucked around with this message at 12:51 on Jan 8, 2023 |
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Weird how the UFC & its fighters are linked to two country's insurrection attempts by ousted politicians across 2 years.
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Brut posted:Don't write about paul until he actually fights a real opponent (he won't) this is stupid as gently caress
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Jan 15, 2023 06:16
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https://twitter.com/aaronbronsteter/status/1614463760533430273 loving LMAO
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Jan 15, 2023 09:35
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Destro posted:Ngannou was offered a large chunk of money. Says right around 8 million so it was probably more than that. But they wouldn't entertain any of his other wants. He didn't just want money. https://twitter.com/the3els/status/1615416689973235712 He talked about it with Ariel on a special MMA Hour episode on Tuesday that is very much worth a listen. https://youtu.be/0vngym7ChcM?t=84 Mekchu fucked around with this message at 02:54 on Jan 18, 2023 |
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Jan 18, 2023 02:52
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If ONE didn't have awful commentators and dropped the "we get billions of viewers eat event" bullshit, I'd be happy to watch them consistently because they have additionallyfun poo poo like grappling, muay thai and kickboxing.
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Brain Curry posted:Me: can I have Hasbullah? No one should want that shitstain of a human.
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kimbo305 posted:What is the composition of wrestling fans in terms of awareness of and sympathy for CTE? Iow, are they more or less disdainful about slapping vs the average (yuck) mma fan? From what I remember, there was a guy in the WWE who was a former football player (I think only at a college level) and he was very big on the "Hey....concussions are not good and WWE's system/policies (at the time) are trash" and most people agreed with him. I think when it was more or less revealed that Chris Benoit had CTE and went on to murder his wife and kid wrestling fans pretty universally said "CTE is bad and should be avoided"
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Also cross posting this from the grappling thread but Fight Pass finally has new content that will be worth subscribing to for a bit.Mekchu posted:In more positive news, and will likely see try a crack at doing more of those write ups/previews because.....
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CommonShore posted:Don't forget that Figgy was spreading social media posts inciting the Jan 8 insurrection, and that Moreno has a Mexican folk ballad about him. I wanna hear this ballad now.
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Orange Carlisle posted:they could definitely find someone else that is a domestic abuser and will also gently caress over fighters at every opportunity They could easily just pick someone from the Dana sycophants/fans defending ANY coverage saying "don't hit your wife after you aggressively grab her while you're drunk." Their booking/promotion knowledge would basically be the same as Dana's at this point.
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chaleski posted:They're able to make amateur fighters fight potentially two weeks in a row on TUF and that is a real sanctioned sport, I'm sure the official amount for slapping is however much Dana White wants you to or else he calls you a pussy on TV They're professional fighters when they get on TUF (a few outliers though) but yeah they say it's an exhibition bout to get around the commission but keep it full rules etc.
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The Feb 4th card is at such a screwy time because they had been planning to hold it at one of the Olympic arenas in Seoul but then in like late December quietly said its moving to the US with no explanation.
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CarlCX posted:Realistically, Jon Jones hosed the 205-pound title lineage so bad that there hasn't been a 'real' champion since he held it, so you kind of just need to accept it and reset the clock anyway. Snowman_McK posted:It really doesn't matter who the real LHW champ is because it's a dogshit division where Volkan Oezdemir is still loving ranked and, while that's absurd, it's not actually wrong. Shumagorath posted:pretty sure there have been papacies more hosed up than jon jones’ lhw reign but today we can still agree on a pope, so-ooooo…. Having reviewed the LHW Lineal thing I made last fall or so, the UFC LHW title is on its 6th lineage (granted Jones has like 2 or 3 of those lines wrapped up in his lineage). CarlCX posted:[*]Lightweight: Division so bulletproof it survived a title vacancy without missing a beat, no notes There are two vacancies in the LW division's history. The first was when Jens left the UFC as champion (iirc it was when they actually shut down the whole division) and by weird fuckery thanks to BJ Penn jumping up to LHW to fight Lyoto Machida, Jon Jones is now the holder of the UFC's original LW lineal belt. The current title is the 2nd line and was started by Sean Sherk. Although we could argue it is the third as, technically, he was stripped. However, given that his next fight was for the LW title versus BJ Penn, its the 2nd line IMHO but that's a minor detail. But yes, LW has been one of the UFC's greatest divisions since they first introduced it. Mekchu fucked around with this message at 15:41 on Jan 26, 2023 |
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For those interested I post/update this thread with the lineages (and will plan to do it more regularly): https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4010155 For those not wanting to read that whole thread here is, to my knowledge, the most up to date lineage of the MMA LHW titles across most major orgs (I've delayed doing ONE/Rizin because....well it's Rizin and ONE has no one super notable but given their growing exposure it'll be worth doing I think.)  It is genuinely no joke that Jon Jones hosed up the LHW title lineage with his stupidity. He technically owns 3 different UFC LHW Championship lineages under his name. Mekchu fucked around with this message at 15:35 on Jan 26, 2023 |
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Gonna triple post and say that when people say Ngannou is the REAL champ, you have to remember that the UFC HW title he won was the merged title of the following organizations HW divisions: UFC lineage 1, PRIDE, Strikeforce, UFC lineage 3, & UFC lineage 5. Losing him loses the UFC's original HW title by the law of lineage etc. It's  I need more productive things to do Mekchu fucked around with this message at 15:42 on Jan 26, 2023 |
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Josuke Higashikata posted:gently caress me the floor seats for UFC 286 are £7k and the nose bleeds are £400 Cheapest I heard was 600 GBP, but even then 400 GBP is stupidly overpriced.
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Tangy Zizzle posted:Bloody Elbow being dropped by Vox, ah well The amount of people who are crooning/giggling about the layoffs and also saying "keep politics out of sport" is loving amazing given most have Dagestani fighters like Khabib or Khamzat in their avatar, or have #FreeTate/#Trump things in their bio.
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Amidst the BloodyElbow firings is this guy named Chris Rini who is an artist that made the MMASquared "political cartoon" style stuff BE posted. Anyway he also has a Patreon that is 100% a pro follow if you like cool art about this sport. He puts out a book called The Fine Art of Violence that is a collection of his work (and other artists) that focuses on MMA/combat sports stuff each year and its great. https://www.patreon.com/ChrisRini https://chrisrini.com/ These are some of his quick croquis from the recent PPV    
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CarlCX posted:I wonder how long a full back piece makes it uncomfortable to do guard practice. So I did a back tattoo in college across my shoulderblades and stupidly tried doing situps within a few days/less than a week. Let me tell you, it sucks.
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graph posted:hopefully this is where i can put this Oh nice. Def post this in the kickboxing thread: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3630848 Mekchu fucked around with this message at 08:25 on Jan 30, 2023 |
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Tangy Zizzle posted:Ok I change my opinion to 'this rocks' She wouldn't likely bump Anik. She seems more of a color commentator but also an interviewer so most likely she'll do the post fight interviews in the cage. Lucasar posted:I actually have grown to quite like Anik. He seems to be able to get along pretty well with everybody and seems to enjoy his job and he is always prepared. And I mostly don't even notice him which is an excellent quality in an commentator. Anthony Smith can speak well but I think he is more of the studio analyst and not a cage/ringside commentator.
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Also for anyone who doesn't know, there's a new Netflix Korean show called Physical 100. It's a reality competition show where 100 male and female athletes, bodybuilders, models, etc. compete against each other in various physical tests in a sort of Squid Game inspired format where people get eliminated etc. Winner get's 300,000,000 Korean won (little under 250k USD). Anyway Choo Sung-hoon, better known to use as Yoshihiro Akiyama, is on the show and this was what happened when he showed up. Keep in mind the rest of the contestants include Korean UDT/special forces people, members of the Korean olympic teams for wrestling, judo, etc. and they're all fanboying/fangirling over him. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4PILb0BnXk
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Radical 90s Wizard posted:I hope he made them introduce him as sexyama there too Probably not because that's based off his Japanese name (which I don't think he uses anymore? idk how that works) and he's more well known in Korea under his Korean name which, you know, makes more sense. I think at present he spends almost all his time in Korea cuz his youngest is in middle school here. I mean keep in mind, he was also on a bunch of TV shows featuring him (and at times his family), as well as adverts, and doing commercials with his daughter for the past twoish decades (on top of being a top level judoka in Korea but bailing to represent Japan after some issues with racism/bullying on the Korean team). Here is one said ad featuring him and his daughter Sarang (who in her own right was a minor celebrity because of "how cute she is") https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mauDvgxiilI Mekchu fucked around with this message at 12:58 on Jan 31, 2023 |
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Lid posted:He also sat there ominously while Stun Gun Kim murdered some kpop stars. Who among us wouldn't want to watch as some tweeners with impeccable skin get beaten up by Stun Gun?
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I did some additional research on the cast for the show that include some MMA fighters and a pair of boxers. Most of the MMA guys you can skip honestly. MMA cast members Park Hyung-geun (5-4-2 in MMA) - 36 years old and mostly has only ever fought in ROAD FC Yoo Sang-hoon (7-2 in MMA) - "The Korean Assassin" was seen on Contender Series in a losing effort back in 2019, then fought current (?) UFC fighter Andre Fialho in UAE Warriors. Mostly has been doing stuff in Angel's Fighting Championship which is a lower tier of Korean MMA than ROAD FC is. Joo Dong-jo (4-0 in MMA) - Only has fought in Angel's Fighting Championship. Kim Sang-wook (7-2 in MMA) - Also only has ever fought in AFC in Korea. Shin Dong-guk (3-5 in MMA) - On top of doing MMA is also a firefighter and a former RoK Special Forces member. Has only fought in ROAD FC and was not very good! Lee Dae-won (4-O in Kickboxing) - He's a Trot Singer (  ) who also has only ever fought in AFC and has the nickname "The Fighting Idol". Noticing a trend for Korean MMA?Lee Ye-ji (4-6 in MMA) - Super young at 23 and had a slew of fights in ROAD that were, well, far too much for her. Her first fight, if Tapology is to be believed was against a 31-2-2 Japanese fighter when she was like 14 or 15? Boxing cast members Cho Hyun-mi (20-0-1 in Boxing) - Nicknamed "Defector Girl Boxer", she is the reigning WBA Women's Super Featherweight champion. Shin Bo Mi-rae (13-1-3 in Boxing) - Also a super featherweight boxer who said she wants to be the one to beat Cho Hyun-mi in the ring. Also they had a competition against each other in episode 2 where apparently she isn't just learning boxing moves!
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LobsterMobster posted:oh man, Shinashi and Hisae Watanabe back to back as your first and second ever pro fights is brutal EAST ASIAN MMA!
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LobsterMobster posted:MMA February - Hydration Recovery Zone Here's the full text/press release quote:UFC, the world’s premier mixed martial arts organization, and PRIME, the sports drink brand founded by Logan Paul and KSI, today announced a multi-year global marketing partnership that forges an alliance between one of the most popular sports in the world and the fastest-growing hydration company.
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chaleski posted:Remember when Dana took everyone's sponsors away for Reebok because he wanted to clean up the sport and make it look less like NASCAR? Good times Thing is, the cage always looked like a NASCAR covered mess (a bit less than now). They just wanted a bigger cut of the sponsorship money and to prevent fighters from doing advertising of a brand on a card they weren't tied into.
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Radical 90s Wizard posted:Was that when stun gun slapped someone for talking poo poo or something? There was a trend in KPop music videos for a while where the group/singer got killed off in a "gangster" style way at the end of a video for some stupid reason.
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Logan Paul is the elder one who filmed the dead body in the "suicide forest" in Japan and posted it as his thumbnail and made jokes about the guy being dead. (On top of other semi-racist poo poo he did there). He boxed Floyd Mayweather in an exhibition bout. Dana praised Logan and said maybe to when Logan posited he could compete in the UFC. Jake Paul is the younger one who KO'd Woodley & Askren and fought Anderson Silva recently and whose management company MVP Promotions signed a deal with PFL and is set to fight in their "Super Fight Division" etc. He is the one Dana hates.
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Also there was this today on ESPN by DC's co-host for his MMA podcast/show. https://twitter.com/SpringSpringB/status/1620728670536232966
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Oh hey that stupid as gently caress idiot Dana White and his equally stupid as gently caress Power Slap league is promoting their poo poo on Rumble. https://twitter.com/ufc/status/1620589932271267840 That's right, the white power ~alternative~ to YouTube has the Dana White Power Slap League. Also lmao that UFC is having to poo poo out these sort of tweets rather than divorce itself of that stuff.
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COPE 27 posted:How do the ufcs owners let their employee use company resources to promote a competitor that their employer owns I assume, much like the DWCS, it is somehow under the Endeavor umbrella or failing that there's some Company A paying Company B poo poo that keeps the money inhouse.
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She left MMA stuff due to the pandemic and iirc is doing freelance voice acting/voice over work these days. Edit - oh, seems she also does photography for pro wrestling these days. Mekchu fucked around with this message at 18:34 on Feb 1, 2023 |
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