The MMA thread

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BAMMA is on Dave week on Friday.

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g4ry13 said:

Would he bother coming back? UFC is going to pay him ~$2 million/fight. It's not worth it when you compare it to the Mayweather payday.

What will that be?

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Popularity in the UK would be helped by UFC not being on a pay channel.
Just feels like UFC management is prety stupid.
I get my UFC news mostly with Joe and Brendan's chats now.

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FredClogs said:

I've said for the last 18 months that the UFC is on borrowed time, as much as Dana has done and as much as the sport owes him he's made some bad decisions and the corporate dollars are too wise to follow him down a hole.

Which are bad decisions?

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ajprice said:

She's not MMA anymore, but Rousey's first WWE match was on Wrestlemania yesterday

Rousey / Kurt Angle vs Triple H / Stephanie McMahon

https://youtu.be/iOug6haER5U

IMpressed that Angle can still go, considering his body is held together with string and copper wire.

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Judoka Vlad the impaler Putin?

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So I just read about this.

how come the LHW champ faced the HW champ?

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Don1 said:

Uncle Dana wanted a superfight, a champion on champion.

Good fight, OK card but Beast/Predator was horrific. Brock needs to dial back the PEDs.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/mma/2018/07/07/ufc-226-stipe-miocic-lighter-light-heavy-champ-daniel-cormier/
sounds great, DC sounds cool too.

what weight did DC fight at?

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GregK2 said:

246 pounds DC weighed in. Heavier than Stipe (242.5lbs) Surprisingly.

those are two big boys.

so for a title defence of the lhc, he'd gonna have to get down to 205. I find the whole cutting thing a bit silly. I wonder if Dana will allow sufficient time for scheduling title defences.

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I had to search those names, in the old days that would be Magnum PI impersonators, Don Frye and Dan Severn.

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Corny chimes in on the Lesnar/Cormier angle
https://youtu.be/h6jTX183418

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Chael Sonnen on the brock/daniel shove match.

Brock Lesnar knew he was in the cage with an amateur...

https://youtu.be/NOyzhdt76O4

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TheAngryDog said:

McGregor is a huge muppet.

he's about the right size for a muppet isn't he?

hi snumbers don't lie though.

http://mmapayout.com/blue-book/pay-per-view/
shame
https://www.mmafighting.com/2018/7/27/17620732/ufc...

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Sounds like somebody poked a bear and somebody didn't read the script
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/mixed-martial-arts/457...
crazy

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AdamIndy said:

As DC said, khabib takes the insults personally, he’s from a completely different culture. Mcgregor needs to wind his neck in with the insults. Something like this was always going to happen.

I think there's elements to both sides here.
Dana wants the UFC to be the WWE, so he uses the same promo beats, and the UFC is an AMerican culture.
Kabib comes from a different culture, but he's now in the UFC. He should remember that. Having said that, the likes of mcgregor should take into account they're dealing with someone who isn't reading from the same script, or at least, he can see the dialogue but not the subtext and stage directions.
having said that, the ufc shouldn't be a circus, but it shouldn't throw the baby out with thebathwater and get rid of all razzamatazz, it's a fine line.

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From watching the video, Conor jumps up on the cage, then the other fella jumps up, and as he has both hands still on the cage, conor pops him first.

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I think trying to pretend COnor is still a champ after this defeat would help end the cashcow quick, and not in Dana'a favour.

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Taaaaang said:

You realise conor wasn't a champ before this fight and hadn't fought for the UFC for two years?

I hadn't realised it'd been two years

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I'm interested in the buy rate now.
https://www.cbssports.com/mma/news/ufc-229-ppv-pri...

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Joe Rogan on the Conor/Khabib Aftermath

https://youtu.be/6kNwaw8reBA
JRE Clips Published on 15 Oct 2018
14mins

with Justin Wren and Rafael LOvato