jimufctna24 Posted March 23, 2020 Share Posted March 23, 2020 Quote On Monday, the UFC boss confirmed to Kevin Iole of Yahoo Sports that he has determined where the contest will be held, however, outside of confirming it would be a closed-door event, played coy. “I do (know where it is),” White said on Instagram Live. “But I’m not ready to tell you yet. I know lots of things. … There’s not going to be any fans there. It’s going to be a closed event.” https://mmajunkie.usatoday.com/2020/03/dana-white-says-he-has-location-for-ufc-249-confirms-closed-door-event I still say this isn't happening. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Posted March 24, 2020 Share Posted March 24, 2020 Hopefully the fight goes ahead. Most likely they'll take it to the Middle East. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members ColinBollocks Posted March 24, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted March 24, 2020 On 3/20/2020 at 5:43 PM, wandshogun09 said: Yeah that type of talk is shite. I’ve always said the ‘Michael Johnson rocked Khabib’ thing was a load of bollocks. That got way more attention than it warranted and I think that was mostly because of Rogan’s overreaction to it. And the round Khabib lost against McGregor wasn’t exactly something to worry about if you’re a Khabib fan. I thought that looked more like him taking his foot off the gas after dishing out a thrashing to Conor the previous round. He was never once in trouble in that round. It's definitely mostly Rogan this Khabib having some sort of rubbish chin/stand up talk. No better example than the Raging Al fight, where the fight was essentially Khabib boxing the face off Al, only for Rogan to shout "OOOWWWW" when Al eventually landed a single blow that Khabib ate. He's so invested in that narrative he finds it nearly impossible to call a Khabib fight outside that story in his head. This fight, though. If the current situation around the world wasn't so dire, you'd find a lot more humour in the fact this pandemic happened in the build up to the contest. It's truly cursed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members wandshogun09 Posted March 24, 2020 Author Paid Members Share Posted March 24, 2020 Dana’s still adamant this is going ahead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Posted March 24, 2020 Share Posted March 24, 2020 Honestly, see if Dana pulls this event off, I'll never be critical of him again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members wandshogun09 Posted March 24, 2020 Author Paid Members Share Posted March 24, 2020 5 minutes ago, David said: Honestly, see if Dana pulls this event off, I'll never be critical of him again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimufctna24 Posted March 24, 2020 Share Posted March 24, 2020 25 minutes ago, David said: I'll never be critical of him again. Steady on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Posted March 24, 2020 Share Posted March 24, 2020 I'm being honest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimufctna24 Posted March 25, 2020 Share Posted March 25, 2020 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Posted March 25, 2020 Share Posted March 25, 2020 It's weird, and maybe this is Dana's past antics coming back to bite him on the arse, but there's a distinct feeling I get from MMA journalists that they actually don't want Dana to be successful in making this event happen. The payoff of being able to say "Hah! See!?! You couldn't do it, you bald prick!!" is worth more than being given an event to cover, thus keeping them in work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members wandshogun09 Posted March 25, 2020 Author Paid Members Share Posted March 25, 2020 Looking like the plan is for this card to be reconstructed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members wandshogun09 Posted March 28, 2020 Author Paid Members Share Posted March 28, 2020 Well if this fight doesn’t end up happening, Khabib’s always got a career as a film critic to fall back on; Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members wandshogun09 Posted March 30, 2020 Author Paid Members Share Posted March 30, 2020 (edited) Yeah. Edited March 30, 2020 by wandshogun09 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members ColinBollocks Posted March 30, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted March 30, 2020 I wonder how much good training has been done by both men in the lead up to this? Khabib probably had tiramisu while having his Sunday morning shit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members wandshogun09 Posted March 30, 2020 Author Paid Members Share Posted March 30, 2020 This pretty much sums it up for me; Except my wife almost certainly won’t console me as warmly as that. More like ‘It’s off? Oh good. You can finally put the bathroom floor down that day then.’ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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