Paid Members wandshogun09 Posted February 26, 2013 Paid Members Share Posted February 26, 2013 Fucking yes! Wasn't doubting you just wanted to make sure before I got excited. Seriously can't wait for that fight. There's bigger fights this year but Aldo vs Pettis for me might be THE fight of 2013 I'm most looking forward to. Fuck it, it is. There's no other fight on the horizon I'm more erect over. EDIT - Sod it this should be on this page as well. Dana White @danawhite Aldo vs Pettis is ON!!!!! Yes Aldo vs Pettis and it's for Aldo's UFC 145lb title Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cutch Posted February 26, 2013 Share Posted February 26, 2013 Aldo gets a LW Title shot if he beats Pettis as well, makes sense if he can beat two top rated LWs in a row, then he should get the shot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Egg Shen Posted February 26, 2013 Paid Members Share Posted February 26, 2013 noooo, Melvin Manheof has accepted a fight with Brock Larsen in OneFC for April, whats the hold up here!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Posted February 26, 2013 Share Posted February 26, 2013 Premier Sports would be the absolute worst thing UFC could do. First and most importantly, Premier Sports isn't available to Virgin Media subscribers - so they'd instantly be getting rid of a big chunk of their UK fans and I don't think people are going to go through the hassle of switching providers just solely so they can watch UFC, I know I wouldn't bother. Secondly, their production values and content space are truly awful - they have almost single handedly killed NHL coverage in the UK, just a terrible small-time channel. As one of those Virgin customers you're talking about I have to agree. Also, is Premier Sports even available in HD? After watching UFC in HD for so long I wouldn't want to go back to standard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members lambyUK Posted February 26, 2013 Paid Members Share Posted February 26, 2013 Premier Sports would be the absolute worst thing UFC could do. First and most importantly, Premier Sports isn't available to Virgin Media subscribers - so they'd instantly be getting rid of a big chunk of their UK fans and I don't think people are going to go through the hassle of switching providers just solely so they can watch UFC, I know I wouldn't bother. Secondly, their production values and content space are truly awful - they have almost single handedly killed NHL coverage in the UK, just a terrible small-time channel. As one of those Virgin customers you're talking about I have to agree. Also, is Premier Sports even available in HD? After watching UFC in HD for so long I wouldn't want to go back to standard. Moving to a shit hole like Premier Sports would be the worst move possible for the UFC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Egg Shen Posted February 26, 2013 Paid Members Share Posted February 26, 2013 yeh you cant go back to standard definition after watching in HD, its painful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Posted February 26, 2013 Share Posted February 26, 2013 In other news, apparently it's still 1995 in South Dakota; South Dakota is one of the last remaining states that does not regulate mixed martial arts. Like Montana and Alaska it's a state with no athletic commission rather than a state with an explicit MMA ban. All of that may change very soon. First there's an effort led by state senator Mark Johnston to create a commission to regulate boxing and MMA. The Argus Leader reports: Sen. Mark Johnston, R-Sioux Falls, and others support creating a South Dakota Athletic Commission that would regulate sports such as boxing, kick-boxing and mixed martial arts. South Dakota has no such commission, meaning those events either avoid the state or happen without oversight. The result, Johnston argues, is people getting hurt or even killed fighting in unsanctioned bouts. The athletic commission created in Senate Bill 84 would be able to create rules. Unfortunately, there's opposition, including from the Governor: But Gov. Dennis Daugaard and others say the athletic commission would legitimize these violent sports and lead to more, not fewer, people getting hurt. "I'm offended that the state would legitimize cage-fighting and the bloody violence that those kinds of spectacles create," Daugaard said in January. "I think it's interesting that we declare that it is a crime for one human being to strike another, and yet the state now proceeds to legitimize, and label a sport, cage-fighting." But no one is going quite as overboard as Johnston's fellow Republican, state rep. Steve Hickey who penned the following in a blog post: The conversation on violence in society has to start somewhere so why not with our most violent sport or form of entertainment? Decent and civil societies have to draw the line somewhere; with smoking we draw the line after tobacco and before pot; with "adult entertainment" we draw the line at child porn. With violent combative "sports" I suggest we draw the line at cage fighting. The line should be drawn after boxing, wresting and legitimate martial arts. They are violent too but the line needs to be drawn somewhere. Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) or "cage fighting" is over that line - in fact, even the martial arts people I talk to tell me they hate cage fighting because it is a smear on legitimate martial arts. MMA Cage Fighting is the child porn of sports. The psychological community will tell you that desensitization to violence works exactly like desensitization to porn. You know how porn progresses... a peek at topless isn't enough, it all has to come off, then a pic is not enough... it goes to video then to virtual and then to the devaluation and mistreatment of women, human trafficking and sex crimes against women. Violence works the same way. Boxing wasn't enough so they took the gloves off, then they allowed kicking, kneeing people in the head, then elbows to the face, then they put a cage around it. The point is to knock the other guy unconscious while pay per view crowds cheer it on. Why not nunchucks? In Rome they'd gather in colosseums and bring out prisoners and entertain themselves by making them fight to the death. That wasn't enough so they brought out the helpless and the hated and brought in the hungry lions. Crowds cheered. In South Dakota this week there is a bill, Senate Bill 84, which is an attempt to legitimize cage fighting in South Dakota. It's billed as "economic development." If that's all we can come up with for economic development we are in trouble. And our decisions on our tolerance for things violent shouldn't be about money. If we want to attract dirty and bloody money why not legalize prostitution or bring back the gladiators? We need to stop and think about why two governors in our state have been reticent to appoint people to a boxing/MMA commission. Hopefully Sen. Johnston can win the fight against hysteria and anti-MMA predjudice in South Dakota. "MMA Cage Fighting is the child porn of sports." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members wandshogun09 Posted February 27, 2013 Paid Members Share Posted February 27, 2013 Mighty Mouse is injured, his title defence against John Moraga is off April's TUF finale.Hopefully nothing too serious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Egg Shen Posted February 27, 2013 Paid Members Share Posted February 27, 2013 Matt Riddle's been busted for the marijuana for the second fight running and been cut from the UFC, what a berk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Natural Posted February 27, 2013 Author Share Posted February 27, 2013 Mighty Mouse is injured, his title defence against John Moraga is off April's TUF finale.Hopefully nothing too serious. I like the replacement main event fight, Urijah Faber vs. Scott Jorgensen announced by Dana White on Twitter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Egg Shen Posted February 27, 2013 Paid Members Share Posted February 27, 2013 bit of an off the cuff main event, but that should be a great fight. Faber proved at 157 that he's capable of main eventing still, i know it was in Cali but he probably had the best reaction on the card, people love Faber. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Posted February 27, 2013 Share Posted February 27, 2013 I love being part of the UFC, that's all. That's the latest from Michael Bisping's Twitter. Anyone think he doesn't want cut? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Supremo Posted February 27, 2013 Paid Members Share Posted February 27, 2013 Matt Riddle's been busted for the marijuana for the second fight running and been cut from the UFC, what a berk. Really sad news. I love Riddle. It's interesting though; will this mean that the Che Mills fight will be changed to a no-contest, and if so what will that mean for Che's release? Will they be contractually forced to bring him back? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Natural Posted February 27, 2013 Author Share Posted February 27, 2013 Matt Riddle's been busted for the marijuana for the second fight running and been cut from the UFC, what a berk. Really sad news. I love Riddle. It's interesting though; will this mean that the Che Mills fight will be changed to a no-contest, and if so what will that mean for Che's release? Will they be contractually forced to bring him back? I think Che Mills will be brought back. Brandon Vera lost to Thiago Silva at UFC 125 and the UFC cut him. Silva failed his drugs test so the result was turned into a no contest and the UFC rehired Vera. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members lambyUK Posted February 27, 2013 Paid Members Share Posted February 27, 2013 Matt Riddle's been busted for the marijuana for the second fight running and been cut from the UFC, what a berk. Really sad news. I love Riddle. It's interesting though; will this mean that the Che Mills fight will be changed to a no-contest, and if so what will that mean for Che's release? Will they be contractually forced to bring him back? I think Che Mills will be brought back. Brandon Vera lost to Thiago Silva at UFC 125 and the UFC cut him. Silva failed his drugs test so the result was turned into a no contest and the UFC rehired Vera. Maybe. The only reason I could see it that way is if Mills has one fight left on his contact because of it. The major difference is marijuana is not a PED whilst Silva's was. It really is a shame for Riddle. He's an interesting character too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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