UFC / MMA
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Luque
Bautista
Pyfer
Harrison
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Absolutely cracking day of fights,
Only one that slightly dragged was Spivac vs Acosta, even down to the early prelims had me glued.O'Malley was better than last time but I did not expect to see Merab that much better again, might be long reign. Harrison was awesome, assuming the next weight cut doesn't kill her (reasonable odds on that) then the match vs Nunes could be awesome.
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In a hardly surprising turn of events. If you are not a main event fighter. Life is pretty shit in the UFC
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@SouthernMann really tried getting through that. Legacy media just so out-of-touch. Default position that they expect their audience to have is "trump is evil". If you don't accept that then its just nauseating.
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Same
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There is a strong narrative around refusal to pay talent well, and closed contracts interms of performing elsewhere though...
It isn't just orange man bad.
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Fair enough, I loved the interviews with the fighters but when they started down the 'racist, mysogynist, sexist' trope about the fighters and the UFC's refusal to apply cancel culture to stop radicalising young men I started to grind my teeth..end point for me was the claim that the UFC was purposely training people specifically to vote right wing.
Would be really interested to get a take on how fighters are paid, how it compares to other organisations, has it changed since the TKO merger, CTE issues, hospital bills, UFC absorbing other competitions that sort of stuff but got to a point where I couldn't trust that the documentarians were going to be objective presenting issues rather than just trying to paint a narrative to support a political position facts be damned.
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@Rembrandt said in UFC / MMA:
This was super weird. Delayed knockout or faked to try and get a dq win?
That angle looks legit
But there are other angles where he's looking at the ref and remonstrating before he hits the canvas
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@MiketheSnow said in UFC / MMA:
But there are other angles where he's looking at the ref and remonstrating before he hits the canvas
Yeah there's a couple of damning angles
On a related note I think upkicks on a technically grounded opponent should be legal
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@MiketheSnow said in UFC / MMA:
But there are other angles where he's looking at the ref and remonstrating before he hits the canvas
Yeah there's a couple of damning angles
On a related note I think upkicks on a technically grounded opponent should be legal
Agreed
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The kick didn't even seem to hit him flush, so weird to think someone might flop in mma. Like if that's your attitude surely you're fucked before you're even in the cage. Ref must have had enough doubt to make it a no-contest rather than dq. Great call.
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Atlanta purses released, not including post fight bonuses. More than I was expecting considering there is so much talk of fighters not being paid but, huge variance that I can't really get my head around. I mean why does Namajunus get $200K more than Usman when he is the headliner? No win bonus for the main card? I guess these are all individually negotiated? Certainly must suck starting out, are they stopped from getting individual sponsorship when they join ufc? If not then is it really that bad?
