MMA Thread

Roundtree Jr looked good today.

And this: Dana White: Jon Jones officially retired, Tom Aspinall promoted to undisputed UFC heavyweight champion

Good. Jon Jones will go down as the greatest MMA fighter in history (at least out of the last 20+ years) but him sitting on top of the hill and not taking contenders was bad for the sport.

The question now becomes... who fights Aspinall? Big fun matchup would be Derek but outside of that... Gane? Heavyweight isn't exactly the deepest division.

Goatface said:

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on the wnba derail,
"nba's $1.2m min. which they want."
i stated that wrong, currently in wnba min base $66k and max base is something like $250k, they want the max base to be $1.2m, don't know how much they want the min to be.

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I would say that they were on the right track to earning a profit finally if you believe all the hype, but apparently when Clark was out injured the viewership dropped by like 50% or something, and ticket sales by like 75%.

You can't have a single actual star in a sport and expect it to make money. The problem is that a high school boys team would wreck their best's shit 9/10 times. Ain't nobody payin for that nonsense. Just look at the WSNT; they are absolutely the highest paid and most successful women's team in US sports, and they have to cherry pick years where their revenue outpaces their costs. The WNBA is like... several layers back from that. It's a farce.

gak said:

lol, I wanna see him eye-poke a gorilla after the gorilla rips off his arms within 2 seconds.

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Chimps are better at killing people than gorillas. Check some chimp fights where packs fight each other. They're experts at rending attacks. Using their fingertips to shred muscle tissue off the bone. Gorillas don't have the same tendencies, even when angry. I'd like to see him eye poke and grab a chimps balls as he's losing literally all his living tissue off of his body.

Rezz said:

Good. Jon Jones will go down as the greatest MMA fighter in history (at least out of the last 20+ years) but him sitting on top of the hill and not taking contenders was bad for the sport.

The question now becomes... who fights Aspinall? Big fun matchup would be Derek but outside of that... Gane? Heavyweight isn't exactly the deepest division.

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They need to start acquiring East European talent. Other orgs have done so over the years and are thriving. 40 year old Derrick Lewis ain't the future.

Guys like Pavlovich getting exposed did irreparable damage to the division. How you fix it is get more up and comers that you can sell as the next big thing, then have Aspinall knock them off.

Rezz said:

Jon Jones will go down as the greatest MMA fighter in history

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The steroid abusing eye poking criminal legend the UFC deserves.

Gavinmad said:

The steroid abusing eye poking criminal legend the UFC deserves.

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And yet will still go down as the greatest MMA fighter in history (of at least the last 20+ years)

I'd argue about sport legitimacy, but the closest real competitor is Boxing and that shit is so corrupt it may as well be run by Zelensky. Combat sports are real, real tainted.