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  • CrucialC Crucial

    @siam said in UFC:

    @crucial said in UFC:

    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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    @crucial so boxing is a thugs sport too?

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    • CrucialC Crucial

      @siam said in UFC:

      @crucial said in UFC:

      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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      Siam
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      #403

      @crucial said in UFC:

      @siam said in UFC:

      @crucial said in UFC:

      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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      • DuluthD Duluth

        Lewis gets a KO with 11secs left in the fight. Was getting his arse kicked up until until then

        Great post fight interview as usual

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        @duluth said in UFC:

        Lewis gets a KO with 11secs left in the fight. Was getting his arse kicked up until until then

        Great post fight interview as usual

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        • SiamS Siam

          @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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          @siam said in UFC:

          @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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            MajorPom
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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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            • MajorPomM MajorPom

              @siam said in UFC:

              @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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              Duluth
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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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              • MajorPomM MajorPom

                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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                Rancid Schnitzel
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                #408

                @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).

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                  • raznomoreR raznomore

                    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).

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                    @raznomore said in UFC:

                    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).

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                    • DuluthD Duluth

                      Co-main event was incredible. Both fighters causing damage, covered in blood. Ferguson with freakish cardio

                      Shame we didn’t get a third round. Pettis broke his hand and didn’t come out after round two

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                      @duluth this was the fight of the night for me. Pettis got the cuts etc but it was a close fight and I would have loved to have seen the 3rd. I think Pettis is an amazing fighter and I hope he gets a rematch. Ferguson is ninja.

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                        kiwiinmelb
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                        They used the footage of Conor and his gang attacking his bus as part of the promo ,

                        You got to wonder how much this incident is going to help them promote the next fight ,

                        Coincidence ?

                        not saying it was set up ,because i dont know,

                        but if they fight again , they will get a bigger audience because of it .

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                          MiketheSnow
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                          #413

                          Great night. Wild night.

                          1 for 3 in EARLY PRELIMS
                          Great KO from Martin
                          Great finish from Lenz
                          Fair play to Kunitskaya. Dominated

                          2 for 4 in PRELIMS
                          Big upset win for Holtzman
                          Ladd fought like a lad. Wow.
                          Turner has some silky skills, but Luque is nails
                          Deserved win for Formiga. Pettis disappointing.

                          2 for 5 in MAIN CARD
                          Watterson v Herrig. Awful

                          Volkov a very skillful tactician and if he'd pressed he would have finished Lewis inside two rounds. Paid the price for dithering.
                          Derrick Lewis Leg End (see above)
                          'My balls is hot' 🙂

                          Hats off to Reyes. Masterclass.

                          Great comeback from Ferguson. Epic fight. Pettis poor bastard.

                          Whoever Ferguson fghts next it will be a cracker.

                          Wrote this about the title fight

                          Conor McGregor
                          Too quick, too powerful, too smart

                          Got the manner, but not the man.
                          Fair play to Khabib. His striking improved more than McG's grappling.
                          Too good, too accurate.

                          Bonkers finish.

                          Who knows what will happen next?

                          If there is a rematch it could go the way of the Diaz fights with McG working his opponent out.

                          But at this stage Ferguson deserves next go.

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                              raznomore
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                              If you're Stipe you would have to be thinking about looking at your options. Deserved a rematch but gets passed over by Lewis because the latter is comedy value with a ko punch.

                              Lots of top guys are getting treated like mid carders due to not being wwe characters.

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                              • raznomoreR raznomore

                                If you're Stipe you would have to be thinking about looking at your options. Deserved a rematch but gets passed over by Lewis because the latter is comedy value with a ko punch.

                                Lots of top guys are getting treated like mid carders due to not being wwe characters.

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                                MiketheSnow
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                                @raznomore said in UFC:

                                If you're Stipe you would have to be thinking about looking at your options. Deserved a rematch but gets passed over by Lewis because the latter is comedy value with a ko punch.

                                Lots of top guys are getting treated like mid carders due to not being wwe characters.

                                Yep.

                                Hopefully the circus will leave town in 2019 and we can get back to a consistency of barnstorming fights.

                                In fairness to Lewis, he deserves a shot. Never ducked a fight.

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                                  https://www.facebook.com/maximbady/videos/334597093766202/

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                                    #418

                                    Was anyone else watching Bellator 208 Live just now on Ch 55 Sport Pop-up 1?? Coverage just stopped all of a sudden just before the main event (Fedor vs Chael Sonnen) and they went to India vs the Windies cricket...far out

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                                      raznomore
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                                      Fedor could fully go to the UFC right now and probably give anyone in the HW division a good go. Fuck I hope Sonnen retires.

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                                        #420

                                        Adesanya passes another test with ease.

                                        Some huge fights coming for him against fighters in the top five. I'm hoping hoping for a New Zealandish title fight with Whittaker in a year or so

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                                        • DuluthD Duluth

                                          Adesanya passes another test with ease.

                                          Some huge fights coming for him against fighters in the top five. I'm hoping hoping for a New Zealandish title fight with Whittaker in a year or so

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                                          @duluth

                                          https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=12154437

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