Minor News & Random Shit

[jimufctna24]

I saw that unfortunate Tweet a few days ago. Underneath it in the commments was seemingly an AI generated picture of Amosov's body being removed from the apparant wreckage, and a screenshot of a fake MSN news report announcing his death.

I quickly figured out it was bullshit after a bit of Googling and searching X for any other evidence. However, the initial Tweet did appear as though it could be legitimate for a moment. 

Scummy behaviour. 

[Dai]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/mixed-martial-arts/articles/cmx2dv23e5y8o

Looks like Strickland has been doing some accounting during his down time and got the bad news hes not set for life, despite being a 2 time champ who has headlined multiple PPVs. 

Let's discount the fact its Strickland, but surely its not right and not actually good long term business that someone with his resume isnt set for life. How can you attract the great athletes if you have stories like this? Does it mean the gameplan for up and comers should always be start in the UFC, and then make enough of a name to cash in the boxing money? Seems like if you want to retire in your 30s then thats the only path to do so.

[jimufctna24]

24 minutes ago, Dai said:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/mixed-martial-arts/articles/cmx2dv23e5y8o

Looks like Strickland has been doing some accounting during his down time and got the bad news hes not set for life, despite being a 2 time champ who has headlined multiple PPVs. 

Let's discount the fact its Strickland, but surely its not right and not actually good long term business that someone with his resume isnt set for life. How can you attract the great athletes if you have stories like this? Does it mean the gameplan for up and comers should always be start in the UFC, and then make enough of a name to cash in the boxing money? Seems like if you want to retire in your 30s then thats the only path to do so.

White has argued in the past that raising fight purses would make fighters lazy. Yet the likes of Canelo and Fury are worth hundreds of millions of pounds and are still boxing. 

All the other major United States sports leagues have collective bargaining agreements. And boxing, while not subject to collective bargaining, actually pays most of its best talents very well (this could change if Zuffa wins the promotional war)

The UFC is not only anti-fan in many ways, it's anti-athlete too. 

 

[Carbomb]

4 minutes ago, jimufctna24 said:

White has argued in the past that raising fight purses would make fighters lazy. 

Yeh, it's only OK for promoters to be lazy. Fucking cunt.

[Merzbow]

Remember Tim Kennedy, beat Bisping that one time?

He just got himself shot three times in DR Congo while over with a PMC owned by the old Blackwater lad.

[BigJag]

Very murky activity. I'm not sure if it was the same operation. The activity resulted in the death of one of his squad.

[wandshogun09]

Some beautiful stuff going on in the ‘MMA fighters in grappling competition’ world lately.

A week or so ago on a RAF card, Arman Tsarukyan schooled Dillon Danis to a 10-0 shutout then literally stepped on the prick after…

I wouldn’t usually applaud dickish behaviour like this but it’s Danis so sod him.

And speaking of Danis, he was supposed to face Colby Covington in a grappling match in Italy the other day. Proper battle of bellends that one. But Danis did the one thing he’s really good at, he pulled out. The replacement was Raul Rosas Jr who was both coming in on just a few days notice and, as a Bantamweight in the UFC, was giving up size to the former Welterweight interim champ. The result…

Raul throttled him in just 43 seconds.

[Carbomb]

The catharsis I never ever thought I would have.

Loving this for Covington. The Republicans chucked out of the House, and then he's choked out in under a minute in his discipline by a guy four divisions lighter.

Superb.

Edited 15 hours ago by Carbomb
Paul Scholes