UFC / MMA
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What I saw appeared to be repeated attempts to assault a recovering athlete and start a riot in front of 20,000 people. Pathetic. The Irishman had previously received criminal charges for attacking a bus. Pathetic too.
As far from the sportsmanship of the All Blacks against the Boks as you could possibly imagine.
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That reaction by Khabib et al. was pretty fucken bad in terms of a massive Fuck You to the conventions and authority of professional fighting.
This was pure rage and disrespect, no showboating at all, raw narcissism.
UFC will have to react strongly.
If it were me, I'd ban him and team for 2 years, soak up the overreaction with a straight face, reduce the ban to one year in 6 months, ensure Conor gets 60 million and start up the rumour mill for a PPV rematch at ban's end.
Either way those nasty Russian boys need a decent example set as a deterrent for the future
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That reaction by Khabib et al. was pretty fucken bad in terms of a massive Fuck You to the conventions and authority of professional fighting.
This was pure rage and disrespect, no showboating at all, raw narcissism.
Which is EXACTLY why people watch UFC.
UFC will have to react strongly.
In order to maintain licenses etc, yes they will.
If it were me, I'd ban him and team for 2 years, soak up the overreaction with a straight face, reduce the ban to one year in 6 months, ensure Conor gets 60 million and start up the rumour mill for a PPV rematch at ban's end.
60 mill to Conor? For what exactly? Getting his arse kicked?
Khabib, rightly, can claim the higher purse for the rematch. He owned him.
Either way those nasty Russian boys need a decent example set as a deterrent for the future
For licenses, yes. However, I think this reaction is pretty much so perfect marketing for UFC.
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Any wonder this sport has a credibility problem?
If you don’t want to look like thugs and scum maybe stop behaving like thugs and scum.?
There's more illegal incidents in a weekends rugby, than there has been in the entire UFC history (outside drug testing, of course).
UFC is incredibly violent, but for the most part the product is pretty well policed.
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@majorrage conor got 50 mil for this one, another 10 to make sure he fronts, if he doesn't then the whole rematch pay day flies. Anyway, that was my fantasy manager projection 😁
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By credibility, I mean credibility outside of fans.
I get asked often 'why don't you like it?' and can easily point the finger at this shit as a reason.I totally get that it is a calculated audience and what turns some off turns others on.
Oh come on 80 year old Ethel from Takapuna, you waded in and referenced the entire sport as "thugs and scum" and now you speak for a billion non fans who all agree there is a credibility problem with the sport!?
Just admit your first comment was meant for Stuff comments 😁 (you don't like the sport and tried to validate your opinion with a "credibility" red herring 😉)
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By credibility, I mean credibility outside of fans.
I get asked often 'why don't you like it?' and can easily point the finger at this shit as a reason.I totally get that it is a calculated audience and what turns some off turns others on.
Oh come on 80 year old Ethel from Takapuna, you waded in and referenced the entire sport as "thugs and scum" and now you speak for a billion non fans who all agree there is a credibility problem with the sport!?
Just admit your first comment was meant for Stuff comments 😁 (you don't like the sport and tried to validate your opinion with a "credibility" red herring 😉)
Absolutely. I just think it's a thugs game and incidents like this back up my thoughts.
Anyone that tries to argue any credibility as a sport will get this thrown back at them and not just by me.If not excusing a 'sport' that revels in this bullshit makes me a 70 year old woman then fine.
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By credibility, I mean credibility outside of fans.
I get asked often 'why don't you like it?' and can easily point the finger at this shit as a reason.I totally get that it is a calculated audience and what turns some off turns others on.
Oh come on 80 year old Ethel from Takapuna, you waded in and referenced the entire sport as "thugs and scum" and now you speak for a billion non fans who all agree there is a credibility problem with the sport!?
Just admit your first comment was meant for Stuff comments 😁 (you don't like the sport and tried to validate your opinion with a "credibility" red herring 😉)
Absolutely. I just think it's a thugs game and incidents like this back up my thoughts.
Anyone that tries to argue any credibility as a sport will get this thrown back at them and not just by me.If not excusing a 'sport' that revels in this bullshit makes me a 70 year old woman then fine.
Player and crowd brawls after the contest indicates a sport with no credibility?
Club rugby's fucked then...😀
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@majorrage conor got 50 mil for this one, another 10 to make sure he fronts, if he doesn't then the whole rematch pay day flies. Anyway, that was my fantasy manager projection 😁
50??? It's been published as 3.
There ain't anywhere near the money in UFC that there is in boxing.
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KN did his press conference and apologised. He explained why he lost it - the goading from MacGregor about his family, religion, country - he said it was too much.
But he did admit he was in the wrong to do what he did. Maybe a bit manufactured in try and appease the issues he's going to face, but it did come across as sincere.
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@majorrage said in UFC:
50??? It's been published as 3.
The 3 doesn’t include the ppv cut and other payments
50 was thrown around if there were huge ppv numbers (3.5mill, more likely 2mill people). So it’ll be way less than a Mayweather fight but around the same ball park as a Joshua payday
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@majorrage said in UFC:
KN did his press conference and apologised. He explained why he lost it - the goading from MacGregor about his family, religion, country - he said it was too much.
But he did admit he was in the wrong to do what he did. Maybe a bit manufactured in try and appease the issues he's going to face, but it did come across as sincere.
He won the fight. That should have been enough for him. Hope he doesn't get paid and faces a long ban.
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Silliest comeback from Khabib today about how McGregor "insulted his religion, insulted his country and insulted his father..." And yet he jumped out of the ring to attack someone else when the person who did all the insulting was right there in the ring with him.
I totally get the hate but Khabib looks like a class A clown, along with Conor(that sneaky off camera punch is just as bad as what Khabib did).
