MMA Thread

Janx said:

Rofl holy shit it just gets better the longer it goes.

Edit: Jesus fuck I just saw his ear. Daaaaaaaaaaaamn.

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Paramount got their way. UFC is now censoring fighters. Something Dana White previously said would never happen because he's not responsible for independent contractors opinions during the ESPN deal. ESPN/Disney couldn't get it done. But Paramount has a lot more pull apparently. Likely stronger relationships with UFC holding company Endeavor/TKO which worked directly in Hollywood for many years together. A quick call to Ari Emanuel and the leash went on Strickland.

He called Chimaev a goat fucker and got his mic completely cut off immediately

saw this posted on reddit, colby's last win was 1452 days ago and his last fight was 437 days ago.
seem to recall dana said they were getting ready to fix rankings, like 5 months ago....

Vacated.

Anyone getting an error code 3002 on paramount plus?

shit totally forgot there was an event today

UFC Fight Night: Moreno vs Kavanagh

MAIN CARD
Main Event - Flyweight Bout: Brandon Moreno (125.5) vs Lone’er Kavanagh (125)
Co-Main Event - Bantamweight Bout: Marlon Vera (136) vs David Martinez (135)
Lightweight Bout: Daniel Zellhuber (155) vs King Green (155)
Flyweight Bout: Edgar Chairez (125) vs Felipe Bunes (125)
Flyweight Bout: Imanol Rodriguez (125) vs Kevin Borjas (126)
Bantamweight Bout: Santiago Luna (136) vs Angel Pacheco (135)

PRELIMS
Middleweight Bout: Ryan Gandra (185) vs Jose Daniel Medina (186)
Women’s Bantamweight Bout: Ailín Pérez (136) vs Macy Chiasson (135)
Bantamweight Bout: Cristian Quiñonez (136) vs Kris Moutinho (136)
Featherweight Bout: Douglas Silva de Andrade (146) vs Javier Reyes (145)
Women’s Catchweight Bout (130-lbs): Regina Tarin (130) vs Ernesta Kareckaite (129.5)
Featherweight Bout: Erik Silva (146) vs Francis Marshall (145)
Middleweight Bout: Damian Pinas (186) vs Wes Schultz (186)

surprised they sold 16k, per much an apex card

Goatface said:

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UFC just doesn't have the same talent pipeline it used to. There's still a solid amount of talent at the top and they have a few decent "up and comers", but the big talent have all fucking fought each other and most of the fights they can make are boring retreads.

UFC has also been hesitant to build talent too big since Randy Couture and then Conor McGregor became bigger than the company. They pulled Conor off the Diaz fight once to teach him a lesson.

With the Paramount deal they don't really need to worry about building the next big thing anymore.

One of the few observations Ronda made recently on why UFC passed on the Carano fight. She's salty UFC passed on the fight-- but that doesn't make it any less true what she said about the Paramount deal. There is no more urgency to hype, build, or sell anything at the moment. Paramount is handing them a whole lot of money.

That card was terrible, not much to that. Oh it was also in Mexico .... Mexico sounds like a great place to be lately