Essential The Official MMA Thread

[Mr.Logic]

If Hendricks loses to Neil I think it'll be over for him.

I think he will beat Neil...Neil is super shaky in the beginning, and Hendricks may put him to sleep...In the later rounds Hendricks will take him down and lay on top of him...

If Hendricks has a good weight cut, he is my favorite to EASILY win this fight...

 

[Mr.Logic]

Saw this over on /r/MMA , sherdog writer ETHERS Juliana Pena

Wouldn't call it "Ether"...

This new "money fight" thinking will eventually RUIN MMA just like it did boxing...I would prefer a MMA league were the best fight the best regardless of popularity...

If the NFL and NBA took this attitude of "money championships" then the Dallas Cowboys and Patriots would be the only teams playing for every SuperBowl...

It would be a JOKE (Boxing)...

 

[OfTheCross]

Wouldn't call it "Ether"...

This new "money fight" thinking will eventually RUIN MMA just like it did boxing...I would prefer a MMA league were the best fight the best regardless of popularity...

If the NFL and NBA took this attitude of "money championships" then the Dallas Cowboys and Patriots would be the only teams playing for every SuperBowl...

It would be a JOKE (Boxing)...

I don't understand your NFL comparison

 

[Mr.Logic]

I don't understand your NFL comparison

The UFC is modelling itself like a mainstream sports league, with uniforms, exclusive sponsors and such...If they want to be a mainstream league, then they have to act like one...

That means this philosophy of the "money fight" needs to get thrown in the garbage...The money game in the NFL is probably the Patriots versus Cowboys, and something the NFL would love to have, but they don't OBVIOUSLY rig the league to lead it in that direction...

Thus, a fighter like Pena who has been on a winning streak should be fighting for the championship before a fighter who was knocked out and decided to go on a year long vacation...

Therefore, using the "money fight" argument against Pena is not "Etherous," because it goes against the UFC's philosophy of "the best fighting the best"...

 

[OfTheCross]

The UFC is modelling itself like a mainstream sports league, with uniforms, exclusive sponsors and such...If they want to be a mainstream league, then they have to act like one...

That means this philosophy of the "money fight" needs to get thrown in the garbage...The money game in the NFL is probably the Patriots versus Cowboys, and something the NFL would love to have, but they don't OBVIOUSLY rig the league to lead it in that direction...

Thus, a fighter like Pena who has been on a winning streak should be fighting for the championship before a fighter who was knocked out and decided to go on a year long vacation...

Therefore, using the "money fight" argument against Pena is not "Etherous," because it goes against the UFC's philosophy of "the best fighting the best"...

I haven't read the comment against Pena...but the UFC itself is promoting the "money fight" mentality by continually skipping over those who "earned" a title shot for bigger more lucrative fights

 

[Mr.Logic]

I haven't read the comment against Pena...but the UFC itself is promoting the "money fight" mentality by continually skipping over those who "earned" a title shot for bigger more lucrative fights

My bad...I thought I was responding to Ralph Wiggum...

 

[So UnThotful]

Just saw Ishihara got a fight in that N.Ireland card

Hopefully we get

"Iriissss batches I luvv u"

 

[The G.O.D II]

I think he will beat Neil...Neil is super shaky in the beginning, and Hendricks may put him to sleep...In the later rounds Hendricks will take him down and lay on top of him...

If Hendricks has a good weight cut, he is my favorite to EASILY win this fight...

last time Hendricks faced a tall long fighter he got destroyed. Magny isn't as good at distance management as Wonderboy but I think he beats Hendricks. Hendricks doesn't have the same explosiveness he had. Hasn't come close to hurting anyone since USDA.

 

[The G.O.D II]

The UFC is modelling itself like a mainstream sports league, with uniforms, exclusive sponsors and such...If they want to be a mainstream league, then they have to act like one...

That means this philosophy of the "money fight" needs to get thrown in the garbage...The money game in the NFL is probably the Patriots versus Cowboys, and something the NFL would love to have, but they don't OBVIOUSLY rig the league to lead it in that direction...

Thus, a fighter like Pena who has been on a winning streak should be fighting for the championship before a fighter who was knocked out and decided to go on a year long vacation...

Therefore, using the "money fight" argument against Pena is not "Etherous," because it goes against the UFC's philosophy of "the best fighting the best"...

But this isn't a league or team sport.

 

[bsmooth]

Just saw Ishihara got a fight in that N.Ireland card

Hopefully we get

"Iriissss batches I luvv u"

 

[Roman Brady]

last time Hendricks faced a tall long fighter he got destroyed. Magny isn't as good at distance management as Wonderboy but I think he beats Hendricks. Hendricks doesn't have the same explosiveness he had. Hasn't come close to hurting anyone since USDA.

ain't you the dude that for the longest time wouldn't accept the correlation between his diminished productivity and the introduction of USADA?

 

[curz]

The "money fight" gimmick people think is taking over is just a illusion.

Theres only 4-5 "money fights" a year at best usually involving the same few guys and everything else is everything else.

 

[thernbroom]

 

[The G.O.D II]

ain't you the dude that for the longest time wouldn't accept the correlation between his diminished productivity and the introduction of USADA?

No

 

[puppetmaster]

Dude felt that kick in his soul.