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An Open FU to UFC President DanaEffing” White!

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Oleh: Kaya Bergeron

Those who know me personally would all say I am a mellow individual, until you seriously cross me, seperti, for instance, if you become the subject of an investigative report I’m working on, atau sue me for $25 juta. Sometimes I may take things like that as a sign you might not want me to really find out who you are and what you do behind closed doors to screw hard working people over.

Minggu ini, a certain individual who won’t even let me follow him in Twitter (https://twitter.com/danawhite) pissed me off to the point where I could only think of one thing to do. Because I’m officially blacklisted in every possible way by the UFC brass, and have even had restraining orders placed against my directly contacting the Fertittas and ANY UFC fighter, my best option is to publish a drastic diatribe here I am just going to call myOPEN FUto DanaEffing” White.

I’m sure Mr. White will not take my calls or subject himself to a one on one interview with me. Jadi, I will have to settle for a written FUand a multi-tiered and multi-purpose FU.

FU, DanaEffing” White… for many, many reasonstoo many for one small blog post to do justice, but let’s just say Most of all FU….

For what you THINK you know about Holly Holm

Hey, Dana, you wanna talk about youreffingreality showLooking For a Fight????” I was actually looking for a fight when I watched that old realityshit show when you were supposed to box Tito Ortiz, but HE magically backed out at the last minute.

Sekarang, you, DANAEFFINGWHITE, are telling Holly Holm about a decision YOU think she didn’t think through enough??? And now you act like someone pissed in your Wheaties because you have two upset wins at UFC 196 to work around and figure out how to make sense of somehow.

Booeffinghoo, buddy.

Welcome to how things don’t go as planned sometimes in the fight business, you ungrateful prick.

Do you wanna be aneffing” Promoter, Danaeffing” White???

Holly Holm Was the Bantamweight Champion of the UFC when she allowed HER Manager (not Danaeffing” White) to negotiate the Tate fight on her behalf, and she knew (and her long-time manager knew, terlalu) what she was doing and what she wanted. And guesseffingwhat, Dana? She wanted to fight.

Maaf, DanaEffing” White, but Holly didn’t want to sit on aneffingsideline waiting for Ronda Rousey to finish hereffingROADHOUSE REMAKE!

Holly wanted to go to workbut unfortunately she has to work for a boss who has no idea what it’s like to step into HER office and handle HER daily workload with such tenacity, kelas, dignity and grace.

And I think maybe she looks back a bit differently than you do, Dana, with noeffingregrets whatsoever for putting her absolute all into that fight and just plain getting caught in her one area of weakness in a battle where she likely would have won a three-round fight. Maybe if YOU were a fighter, Dana, you might get that whole concept. Maybe losing in this case only makes her better, kuat, and more durable as a career mixed martial artist. Who gives a damn if it makes her less marketable in your eyes? What do you really know, anyway?

UNLIKE YOU, DanaEffing” White, Holly actually respects Miesha Tate and thought it would be a challenge to fight her. Yeah, she lost, but damn, she was absolutely correct about it being a challenge. I think the fight will go down as one of the greatest battles in female MMA history.

Sekarang, why don’t you open youreffingeyes, Dana, watch the fight again, and quit bitching about what should have happened in that cage you never fought in yourself.

Be grateful you have a champion you just paid $92,000 in fight pay (before bonuses) to take your organization’s belt from the girl you WANTED TO WIN (and paid $500,000 just to be there). It may not be what you expected, but the anxiety you feel about it is what you DESERVE to feel for being such a douchebag to the fighters who built the UFC.

My biggest questions on this subject for Dana are: Why are you such a biased, crooked asshole who can’t bother to give Miesha the time of day FOR ALL HER HARD WORK? Why can’t you give credit where it is dueon both sides of that fight? Why can’t you shut theeffup about what you think Holly or her management should have or could have waited for?

It’s not your place to look back with 20/20 hindsight and act like Holly and her manager should have gone all Nostradamus on this fight when you obviously didn’t see this shit coming, sama ada, you dome-headed dimwit.

Pejuang “effing” perjuangan, Dana. That’s what theyeffingdo, which you should know, since I am pretty sure you used to be aneffingmanager of MMA fighters yourself. Ya, that was many moons ago, but how could you forget?

Fighters don’t sit on their asses on corporate jets and stand at podiums in front of the press all day to earn theeffingpaltry paychecks your organization pays out to most of them. Most fighters simply cannot afford to wait around for shit to happen or for someoneworthyenough in your eyes to step up and fight them.

Some fighters need to feed their kids. All of them need to pay their bills and for everything else involved with training camps, daily living expenses, travel and whatever costs medical insurance doesn’t cover when they have to address nagging injuries. Your shitty Reebok deal made it virtually impossible to get any other outside sponsors to help pay for anything like that stuff for many fighters, Dana.

Welcome to selling out and forgetting where you came from, Dana. You used to care more about fighters. Now you act like fighting in a cage is just like doing any other 9-5 kerja. It’s not. Ia “effinghard work.

Jadi, yeah, Holly chose to fight instead of waiting for Rousey to be ready for the rematch. And you think she needs your opinion now that everything didn’t work out as planned for you both?

FU, Dana.

She hurts a lot worse than you, and I can guaran-effing-tee that.

Oh…dan…dengan cara yang…fighters are way more responsible for the growth and success of the UFC/Zuffa organization than you ever have been. And that’s real talk, you rich bitch with a stick up your ass because you were never good enough in your life to ever have your own official fight.

Jadi, get over the God complex and learn to respect ALL of your fighters, not just the ones you want to see win because you might think you can work with them better or you think they will move the organization in a better direction. Respect the effort, the sacrifice and the pain ALL your fighters go through each and every day to get where they get. That belt you put on Miesha’s waist was EARNED, and don’t you ever think it iseffingcool to call the fact that Holly Holm had the guts to face Miesha Tatea mistake.

It rings hollow, especially when I would consider that handing you a microphone to talk about MMA at all was THE greatest mistake the sport ever made, tempoh! Anyone who would try to knock a former champion down a peg that way in his own organization does not deserve to be recognized as that organization’s president.

You have no clue what it’s really like to fight, and your criticism of Holly Holm tells me you can never possibly understand the mindset that led her to take the Tate fight and not wait an idle year for RondaeffingRousey to be ready to appear at one of your precious shows.

Jadi, FU Dana White for treating your former champ like she’s an idiot who doesn’t know how to control her own career without you butting your stupid, bald head into it. Holly’s fine without your advice, and she trusts her manager, which might be something you’re not familiar with, but for other people it is actually a reality of doing business with legitimate people.

 

FU, Dana for being a piss-poor ambassador for the sport, disrespecting fighters who bleed (and sometimes suffer lifelong injuries) for you and the sport, and totally underestimating and failing to grasp what it really takes to actually be a professional fighter who actually competes against other fighters

Do you remember the days when you had to settle for being a lowly boxercise instructor because your boxing trainer Boston slapped you too hard in the ear once? You never had a single competitive fight in your life, Danaeffing” White, and that’s a DOCUMENTED FACT!

Do you ever even look back at those days before the silver-spoon-fed Fertittas helped you claw your greedy, selfish, egotistical ass into the position of OFFICIAL UFC MOUTHPIECE?

Do you remember those hairy days when you blew through $40 million of Fertitta funds to perpetrate theZuffa Mythwhile claiming credit for the UFC brass singlehandedly legitimizing the sport and getting it regulated all by youreffingselves? As if not a single FIGHTER nor any other industry professional who pioneered MMA before you dipped your greedy little paws into it had anything to do with it?

Your Mom remembers thosecoulda been a contender” hari, Dana..when you thought you might be able to have an actual fight with another human being. Your own mother remembers even though you and one of your sleazy friends tried to silence her, BASH HER ONLINE, and even blacklist her BOOK, terlalu.

Do you remember the days when even Floyd Mayweather, Jr. thought you were cool, back when your daily driver was aneffingHonda, Dana? Floyd Remembers. He knew you long before you could afford to blow a normal person’s yearly pay on a single hand of poker.

You’re in a different place now, Danaeffing” White, and it’s a delusional place. Like on the distant planet you live on, people actually believe YOU really, jujur, trulyeffingknow what it’s ACTUALLY like to be aneffing” pejuang? Do you actually believe YOU somehow could ever REALLY know that feeling?

REALLY?

Anda tahu what A FIGHTER is, don’t you, Dana? A fighter is a man or woman who has the courage to willingly step into unarmed combat against another actual man or woman instead of just criticizing up and down the guys and girls who do have the guts to actually stand across from another human being while knowing and internalizing that the accepted goal is to physically destroy each other.

A fighter, in more simple terms, adalah “one who fights.And let’s be clear about oneeffingthing, Danaeffing” White, I know fighters, dan YOU are no fighter.

You are nothing like a fighter, Danaeffing” White, and you nevereffing” akan jadi. You are too weak, both physically and mentally. Until we see you go through a six-week training camp and then get into the cage against someone and kick his ass, we shouldn’t have to listen to one damncoulda,” “shoulda,” atau “wouldaout of your cornfed mouth about what you think of any particular fighter’s performance or decision making process. Those people have the guts to do what you will NEVER do yourself, and you ought to respect that.

FU Dana WhiteFor not recognizing Real Fighters Like Miesha Tate and Nate Diaz who keep at it no matter what and NEVER seem to earn your ULTIMATE RESPECT….

Nate Diaz stepped up to fight Conor McGregor for a reason. He had nothing to lose, and he wasn’t intimidated one bit. He famoulsy went on television with Fox Sports 1 on a split screen with Conor before that welterweight fight and quipped that his nemesis had already been choked out before, “by two lames.Diaz also had the perfect instinct to add humourously that McGregor’s choke losses happened, “like a week ago.

Diaz beat Conor in the shit-talk game long before he ever slapped him down and slipped that choke around his neck in the cage. The media created by that freakshow fight might have stopped the unchecked rise of your big, bold, six-headed dragon champion, but it created a new monster at the same time. And he’s a Reebok-hating, scowling, swearing, Stockton-slapping Mother-F$#king BEAST who doesn’t care what anyone else thinks about what he does or says.

You might think Diaz and his attitude arebad for business,” but I think his victory was the best thing that could ever happen to all you smug punks running the UFC. It just proves once and for all that you do not control the MMA universe.

Nate Diaz went without respect and credit for being an MMA pioneer and a good UFC soldier for far too long. The bitterness brewed and boiled within him, and I loved every second of him letting it pour out in post-fight interviews after he choked the shit out of Conor until the Irish bloke tapped theeffout and left Dana White drooling in a stupor at the thought of having to congratulate a man who’s become more of a mortal enemy than a member of the bigteam.

More power to Nate and all the crazy, abrasive, in-your-face Diaz brother types out there in the UFC who will fight DanaeffingWhite’s flamboyant fire with even more bravado and brash talk of their own. They can always say, “I learned it by watching you, Baldfather!”

As for Miesha Tate, she deserves true respect and admiration for being champ now after picking herself off the mat twice in the face of grueling losses to Rousey. Kudos to Tate for continuing her career and relentlessly focusing on getting by that Rousey armbar once and for all.

Though Miesha never did solve that Rousey submission dilemma, trying at all costs to get another crack at the belt paid dividends at UFC 196. Her never quit attitude led her to an opportunity of a lifetime, and she capitalized on it. Sekarang, Dana, you actually have to pay this young lady what most of her fans would say she was worth a long time ago.

And now you simply have to treat Tate with a bit of reverence and appreciation for once in your ungrateful life, Danaeffing” White. I know it must pain you so much to give this young lady the credit she’s worked so incredibly hard for, because maybe she touched a nerve when she called you out in the past for being the true clueless and disrespectful prick you really are. She was right, and you were wrong about how great she really is at fighting. Then again, weren’t you also WRONG about women fighting in the cage, tempoh?

Jadi, you DON’T wanna be a fighter, Encik. White? Then step aside and let the people who DO wanna be fighters go to battle for you so you can ride around the world on your jet and act like you know what theeffyou’re talking about when you stand in front of a microphone to describe the sport’s true athletes and what they do to make a living in mixed martial arts.

The line from Dana that most stands out to me as comblete BS in this whole debacle is this one:

“He’s an old boxing guy who thinks he’s smart and he isn’t,” White said of Fresquez [Holm’s Manager]. “I feel bad for Holly because I don’t know if she really knows what she lost.”

I have only two moreeffingquestions for you Danaeffing” White…

1.) What makes you think you are really in anyeffingposition to EVER know or understand what Holly Holm lost the other night? Aside from a few bad poker hands and tons of respect, the only thing you ever lost is your mind.

2.) Doesn’t your backhanded quote about Holm’s manager describe your own shitty character a whole lot better than that of Mr. Fresquez?

DAN…just in case after reading all this anyone STILL needs yet another reason to have beef with the Baldfather:

Reebok Rebellion Could Revolutionize MMA as We Know It

Oleh: Kaya Bergeron

You know the Reebok battle is getting heated when people are trashing the terms of the deal both figuratively and LITERALLY:

UFC Lightweight Contender MylesFuryJury really threw his Reebok gear in the garbage recently to make a point in a Twitter post that had UFC Head Honcho DanaThe BaldfatherWhite crying foul.

What was more telling about the incident, walaupun, adalah “Uncle Dananot stepping in to punish the frustrated fighter for his blatant disrespect of a major UFC business partner. This was a watershed moment for theReebok Rebellion.

What could Dana do, Lagipun? Myles was actually pulling a page right out of the UFC President’s own marketing handbook. Jury was being in-your-face offensive to sell his argument. Dana does that every day.

Higher-profile fighters are consistently rubbing Mr. White the wrong way these days when it comes to the Reebok deal, and though he gave Jury and Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone a pass for their recent criticism, he bit back against the likes of Brandon Schaub.

There may be a different kind of fireworks in July when this raw deal officially takes effect and all the fighters who don’t agree with Schaub and Jury start to realize their shortsightedness. Some of those UFC fighters might even regret not joining their peers on the unofficial public picket line when it might have actually mattered.

The worst part about this whole fiasco is the timing. The Federal Trade Commission is once again reportedly investigating the UFC in the wake of a series of high-profile Class-Action Anti-Trust complaints winding their way through the civil courts.

It’s hard not to question whether the world’s most powerful mixed martial arts promotion is overstepping its bounds in the way they are trying to control every aspect of a fighter’s career. It seems like a really bad deal to exchange a little bit of money and the right to fight under the UFC banner for the blood, sweat and tears it takes to stay at the top of the MMA game these days. Even to be at the middle of the pack in the UFC is a heck of a challenge. Fighters have to be starting to ask themselves when the accumulated bumps bruises, dislocations, torn ligaments, broken bones and concussions become so bad that the money doesn’t matter anymore.

What will happen when a tidal wave of former UFC fighters find out that the glory of having fought their hearts out for the fans isn’t paying the bills and/or sending their kids to college? What happens when the cushy medical coverage expires and your legendary fighter status means nothing to the doctors and the hospital billing you outrageous and astronomical fees to keep you healthy enough to live to old age?

Ask Marc Coleman. It’s not pretty.

The more the UFC fight or flight equation turns toward having no freedom to be an entrepreneur and no ability to build your own brand, the more Scott Coker’s phone is going to continue to ring off the hook. At least in Bellator, fighters can still have their own personal sponsors on their shorts.

They don’t throw all their fighters out for losing a few fights in a row, sama ada. They don’t publicly berate their fighters at post-fight press conferences for not putting on a show. They pay what they can, and they do their best to just be considered a UFC competitor.

Phil Davis may be the first of many UFC defectors that could begin to trickle in if this Reebok deal eliminates as much income and opportunity as it sounds like it will.

I am actually disappointed that Viacom isn’t making a bigger push to acquire more UFC fighters with more lucrative contracts, but no business wants to lose money. It’s harder for Bellator to gain massive revenues in return for their investments in their fighters due to the overhead of doing their own production for free television. Namun, pada masa yang sama, Coker and Bellator’s current management seems to actually care a little more about the people who do battle under their banner. They know better than anyone that your sponsors can really keep you alive.

Fighters who value their freedom and want a little more control over their careers might start to see the only UFC competition as a much greener pasture in the wake of this sneaker giant’s exclusive apparel contract. What is supposed to look like a major step forward for the UFC might actually represent three steps back for this organization that is already struggling with cancelled and postponed fights due primarily to an increasing amount of training injuries to top fighters.

Of course we can’t forget Former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Jon Jones allegedly crashing a rented SUV into a pregnant woman’s car and breaking her arm before fleeing the scene on foot. This is yet another unfortunate example of the UFC not caring enough about their fighters. How could they not recognize this guy had a problem that needed to be addressed a long time before this tragic incident unfolded? How can the UFC justify not having their own random drug testing in place like other professional sports? How are illegal drugs OK for a fighter to do out of competition in the first place? Who made the rules with that gaping loophole in them?

Georges St. Pierre has been one of the UFC’s most vociferous critics on the PED-testing front. The former champion continues to sit on the sidelines after one of the most punishing fights of his career led him to announce his retirement with the door left open only a crack. Only a broad, comprehensive drug testing program can bring him back now, St. Pierre maintains.

Even fighters like Ronda Rousey are getting a little upset with the career control measures being wielded over them by their bigwig bosses. The UFC will not even let Ronda appear in a few scripted WWE events. Just because these skits last longer than some of her actual fights doesn’t mean they are much different than what she does in her movie career. Her UFC bosses are fine with her pursuing action movie roles, so why not a little fake wrestling? Maybe it’s the fact that WWE stole the Tapout brand and took it right out of the cage and into the wrestling ring. Maybe it’s jealousy that WWE has the kind of fan base that makes them a legitimate threat, and it’s the kind of fans the UFC desperately needs. Maybe it’s the fact that the UFC lost their chance at retaining Brock Lesnar’s services again and they are still getting over it.

Whatever the reason, the UFC is clamping down more and more on what fighters can and can’t do inside and outside the cage, and it goes far beyond fake wrestling. Contracts are becoming more and more restrictive in every way.

The UFC also used to foster a climate where no fighter would dare speak a foul word about management or any business deal management put in place. The punishment would be worse than a fine if Dana decided to give you the Brendan Schaub treatment in the press.

Complain, and you’d be called a coward or a bum. You’re not a team player, some ignorant fans will still say when you stick your neck out while under UFC contract. Namun, this climate is not enough to stop this new little wave of protest that might grow to a frightening crescendo just before or after this Reebok deal officially becomes reality.

The mindless minions who criticize fighters for speaking out for their own best interests just eat right out of Dana White’s hand, even when he’s passing out rat poison. It is disgusting to hear and see so many people agreeing with a guy who never even fought an official amateur bout of any kind instead of listening to someone who actually put in the effort to compete in even one professional cage fight.

When it comes to matters of what it really meansto be a F#$%ing fighter,” Dana can give all the foul-mouthed speeches he wants, but it’s the actual fighters who bled for years under the UFC banner who gave that speech real meaning and resonance to the fans who now worship the ground Dana walks on. Bagi sebahagian besar, these fans only like White so much because he talks and cusses just like them. Masih, one UFC fighter I interviewed years ago told me there is something wrong with the sport when the most recognizable figure in MMA is Dana White. I couldn’t agree more.

Freedom is not a word to be taken lightly, and free speech is not as free as it used to be. You sign on the dotted line to step in the UFC cage, and you have to play by their rules, even the ones you don’t like or don’t agree with. That was bad enough when that was the only problem fighters faced. Sekarang, it’s much worse because of the Reebok deal and the ramifications and ripple effects it will cause.

Some people forget this deal also alienates other long time sponsors of the UFC and its fighters. Think of all those apparel companies who will not be able to sell their products now in association with any official UFC event. The upcoming UFC Fan Expo situation is a prime example of how the UFC just doesn’t seem to care about the businesses and backers that helped put them on the map in the first place.

The people behind this powerhouse MMA league will alienate anyone or any group of people to make a buck off the backs of better men than themselves. This Reebok deal is living proof of that. Even if all the money from the Reebok partnership does go to the fighters, all those businesses that end up locked out of fighter sponsorship deals will have to line up to sign exclusive contracts with the organization itself. Either that, or they will convert to Bellator supporters and follow burned UFC fighters to that organization.

Suddenly that second fiddle is sounding like it could steal the show, and my prediction that Bellator could fail looks premature and presumptuous now.

So you want to be a f$%^ing fighter?”

Let me give you Scott Coker’s number.

UFC dan PEDs: Jika kita pergi dari sini?


Photo Kredit: Ester Lin / MMA Pertempuran

Biasanya apabila saya bertanya soalan itu, itu di tengah-tengah pemandangan bayar-per-dan saya tertanya-tanya dengan kuat pada apa yang akan datang bagi pejuang yang bertanding di atasnya. Kali ini, Saya bercakap tentang sesuatu yang memberi kesan kepada artis mempertahankan diri SEMUA campuran pada Kejohanan Pertempuran Ultimate.

UFC mengumumkan minggu ini bahawa ia akan melaksanakan jauh lebih ketat, ujian dadah jauh lebih menyeluruh di tengah-pejuang seperti Anderson Silva dan Hector Lombard gagal ujian dadah untuk meningkatkan prestasi (PEDs), manakala Jon Jones dan Nick Diaz ujian gagal untuk kokain dan ganja, masing-masing.

Peningkatan ujian dadah dan hukuman yang lebih berat akan dapat membantu dalam UFC, dan seni mempertahankan diri campuran secara umum. Tetapi apa yang membawa kepada peningkatan dalam ujian ini gagal? PEDs telah menjadi sebahagian daripada sukan lama sebelum pejuang MMA mula mengambil mereka, dan mereka telah menjadi masalah di MMA sebelum bulan-dan-setengah yang lalu.

Tetapi lebih pejuang tampaknya ditangkap. Seperti dalam kebanyakan sukan, terdapat sejumlah besar tekanan untuk melaksanakan dalam MMA dan dalam UFC. Jika anda tidak melaksanakan, anda pada dasarnya tidak dibayar. Peningkatan permintaan untuk pengaturcaraan UFC menurut kuasa perjanjian dengan FOX juga boleh menjadi faktor yang. Mereka berubah daripada pada Spike TV – di mana mereka hanya menyiarkan "The Ultimate Fighter" sekali setahun dan dua atau tiga kad perjuangan hidup setiap tahun – untuk praktikal mempunyai dua kad perjuangan hidup sebulan dan menyiarkan "The Ultimate Fighter" dua kali setahun di saluran FOX.

Peningkatan pengaturcaraan ertinya memerlukan lebih banyak badan-badan untuk mengisi pengaturcaraan yang. Ia juga bermakna bahawa lebih pejuang berlatih lebih pergaduhan, yang boleh membawa kepada lebih banyak kecederaan. PEDs, di samping memberikan anda kelebihan daya saing berbanding lawan, membolehkan anda untuk pulih daripada kecederaan dengan lebih cepat. Dengan keperluan untuk lebih pejuang untuk mengisi lebih kad perjuangan, Saya rasa ada kemungkinan peningkatan yang ketara dalam ujian dadah gagal boleh sekurang-kurangnya sebahagiannya berpunca daripada yang.

Meningkat langkah dadah-ujian UFC ini berkuat kuasa Julai 1. Apa yang boleh kita harapkan sekali ia? Berikut adalah beberapa garis panduan UFC dibentangkan.

Malah UFC CEO Lorenzo Fertitta mengakui semasa sidang akhbar minggu ini bahawa perkara "akan menjadi lebih buruk sebelum mereka yang lebih baik" dengan ujian baru. Lebih banyak, ia masih belum dapat dilihat berapa banyak ini sebenarnya akan melekat sekali Julai 1 gulung di sekeliling. UFC sebelum ini dianggap memperluaskan usaha menguji dadah sebelum tetapi ditarik balik, kos memetik dan yang sebelum botched percubaan berbuat demikian.

Walau bagaimanapun, dengan ruam bintang berprofil tinggi seperti Silva, Jones dan Diaz ujian gagal, kos tidak boleh dianggap sebagai penghalang dan UFC perlu berwaspada. Melayari suapan Twitter saya selepas persidangan akhbar, ia adalah ngeri tenang. Hampir tidak ada pejuang ditimbang dalam pada mulanya. Ia mungkin bahawa hanya hasil sampingan daripada sidang akhbar itu yang berlaku pada petang Rabu, apabila kebanyakan orang yang bekerja atau mungkin ada perkara lain yang perlu dilakukan selain pos di Twitter. Tetapi ia masih ketara cantik. Ia seolah-olah seperti ini telah meraih perhatian pejuang ', seperti yang sepatutnya.

Apa yang saya fikir akan berlaku? Akan ada peningkatan dalam ujian gagal sekali langkah-langkah yang baru berkuat kuasa Julai 1, Saya agak yakin. Tetapi memandangkan bahawa UFC menyokong hukuman keras bagi orang-orang yang gagal – termasuk larangan sehingga empat tahun – Saya mengharapkan pejuang kotor untuk akhirnya kitaran diri mereka dan orang-orang yang bersaing bersih (yang merupakan sebahagian besar daripada mereka, mungkin) untuk mengambil peranan yang lebih besar.

Peningkatan ujian dadah adalah lama tertangguh dalam UFC. Sukan seni mempertahankan diri campuran sendiri masih di peringkat awal, terutamanya berbanding dengan sukan lain seperti bola sepak, bola keranjang dan besbol. Tetapi sama seperti besbol masih pulih daripada krisis sendiri dengan PEDs, ini ujian dadah baru-baru ini telah gagal digoncang asas kepada UFC dan telah harkened kembali kepada hari-hari apabila ia disebut sebagai "adu ayam manusia."

UFC pakai slogan "Masa Kini" untuk 2015, dan saya tidak boleh bersetuju lebih. Masa kini bagi mereka untuk menerajui membersihkan sukan seni mempertahankan diri campuran.

Chris Huntemann menulis tentang seni mempertahankan diri campuran di negeri Maryland. Beliau juga berkongsi pandangan mengenai UFC, Bellator, dan Siri Dunia Pertempuran. Semak beliau blog, atau mengikutinya di Twitter: mmamaryland.

Dana White dan Wanita


Photo Kredit: Ester Lin / MMA Pertempuran

Sabtu, Februari. 28, akan menjadi satu mercu tanda hari untuk Kejohanan Pertempuran Ultimate. Semua pejuang pada kad gaji untuk ditonton bahawa hari akan berlalu dadah pra-perjuangan mereka ...... fikiran .never. Yang terlalu mudah.

Hari itu akan menjadi kali pertama kad UFC mempunyai serangan wanita dalam kedua-dua acara bersama-utama dan acara utama. Selepas juara middleweight Chris Weidman terpaksa menarik diri dari perjuangan menentang Vitor Belfort akibat kecederaan, acara utama yang baru di UFC 184 adalah Ronda Rousey mempertahankan tali pinggang bantamweight wanita beliau terhadap Cat Zingano. Sekiranya bersama utama yang, prospek lebih-gemburkan Holly Holm akan membuat debut UFC menentang Raquel Pennington dalam perjuangan bantamweight lain wanita.

Seperti yang saya nyatakan sebelum ini, UFC telah datang jauh dari semasa Dana White memberitahu TMZ bahawa wanita akan "tidak pernah" berperang pada organisasinya. Rousey akan acara utama berturut-turut PPV Februari ketiganya dan Holm secara meluas dipercayai seterusnya dalam talian untuk pukulan pada tajuk, dia harus mengalahkan Pennington. Holm masih sangat mentah dalam seni mempertahankan diri campuran, tetapi melatih dengan dunia jurulatih terkenal Greg Jackson dan Mike Winkeljohn.

Rousey membawa bendera untuk MMA wanita dan untuk wanita dalam UFC. Pejuang wanita lain telah mengikuti beliau ke dalam Octagon, termasuk Miesha Tate, Liz Carmouche dan Alexis Davis. Apa yang mereka tiga mempunyai persamaan? Mereka semua juga jatuh ke Rousey - Tate dua kali dalam Strikeforce dan UFC, dan Carmouche dan Davis kedua-dua pada pusingan pertama di UFC PPVs dalam 2013 dan 2014, masing-masing.

Rousey dan Tate persengketaan adalah yang direkodkan. Ia membawa kepada dua menjadi jurulatih di The Ultimate Fighter, termasuk pejuang wanita buat kali pertama yang sangat outshined kaum lelaki di acara itu musim yang.

Berdasarkan kejayaan yang musim ini, musim yang paling baru-baru ini pejuang Ultimate dipaparkan SEMUA pejuang wanita dan debut bahagian UFC terbaru, strawweight wanita. Carla Esparza, bekas Invicta FC juara strawweight, memenangi versi UFC sulung bahawa tali pinggang selepas menewaskan Rose Namajunas.

Jadi, dalam tempoh empat tahun, UFC pergi dari tidak mempunyai pejuang wanita dan White dengan tegas menyatakan bahawa ia tidak akan, untuk menjadi rumah kepada DUA kategori berat badan wanita dan sudah pasti bintang promosi terbesar sekarang di Rousey. Jangan percaya saya? Adakah anda melihat filem Expendables ketiga? Atau adakah anda merancang untuk melihat versi filem daripada Entourage musim panas ini? Anda mungkin perasan wajah yang sering.

Oleh itu, bagaimana MMA wanita pergi dari sini? Saya secara peribadi peminat setia pergaduhan perempuan, kerana mereka cenderung untuk menjadi antara pergaduhan lebih menghiburkan dan penuh aksi pada kad UFC. Seperti yang saya nyatakan sebelum ini, pejuang wanita adalah lebih daripada mampu outshining sezaman lelaki. Mengapa bahawa? Mungkin pejuang wanita berasa mereka mempunyai lebih banyak untuk membuktikan di dalam Octagon dan sentiasa pergi untuk muflis. Mungkin mereka pergi ke dalam Octagon dengan lebih daripada "pergi untuk memecahkan" mentaliti dan secara aktif mendapatkan kemasan yang bertentangan dengan "bermain ia selamat."

Perjuangan antara Rousey dan Zingano pada Februari. 28 juga akan pergi jauh ke arah menentukan masa depan MMA wanita. Sekiranya Rousey mengalahkan Zingano - semua papan tanda yang menunjukkan dia akan - akan dia telah pada dasarnya dibersihkan daripada bahagiannya, dengan pencabar hanya diketahui seperti Holm dan Bethe Correia meninggalkan. Jika jarum menarik kecewa, maka bahagian ini mempunyai kelompok segar matchups menarik menunggu.

Tetapi siapa tahu apa yang akan berlaku jika Dana White disimpan janji-Nya kepada TMZ?

Chris Huntemann menulis tentang seni mempertahankan diri campuran di negeri Maryland. Beliau juga menyumbang fikirannya ke laman web kami di UFC, Bellator, dan Siri Dunia Pertempuran. Semak beliau blog, atau mengikutinya di Twitter: mmamaryland.

Jun White Sertai FNU Combat Sukan Show malam ini!

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Jun Putih (JuneWhiteMMA) akan menyertai Tom, Tony dan Kaya pada FNU Combat Sukan Show Malam ini untuk membincangkan biografi beliau yang tidak dibenarkan ke atas Presiden UFC yang terkenal dengan bahasa kurang ajar dan pendekatan kejam untuk membina dan mengembangkan jenama UFC yang. Bukunya adalah unflattering, wajah jujur ​​ke dalam kehidupan bekas pengajar boxercise yang kini alam UFC dengan kuku besi dan mulut yang kuat. Semak ini memberitahu YouTube Promo untuk "Dana White, Raja MMA:"

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Jun Putih (JuneWhiteMMA) akan menyertai Tom, Tony dan Kaya pada FNU Combat Sukan Show Khamis untuk membincangkan biografi beliau yang tidak dibenarkan pada Presiden UFC yang terkenal dengan bahasa kurang ajar dan pendekatan kejam untuk membina dan mengembangkan jenama UFC yang. Bukunya adalah unflattering, wajah jujur ​​ke dalam kehidupan bekas pengajar boxercise yang kini alam UFC dengan kuku besi dan mulut yang kuat. Semak ini memberitahu YouTube Promo untuk “Dana White, Raja MMA:

“Psikik” Tom Padgett, “Pandir Rousin '” Kaya Bergeron dan Tony “The Tornado” Penecale juga mempunyai satu tan pertempuran acara sukan dan berita untuk membincangkan minggu ini. Tinju akan menjadi sebahagian besar perbualan. Dari usaha baru NBC Sukan Al Haymon ini, kepada pertarungan Deontay Wilder dengan Bermane Stiverne untuk kejohanan WBC Heavyweight hujung minggu ini, penggabungan Roc Negara dengan Gary Shaw Promosi, untuk meningkatkan kemungkinan bahawa Manny Pacquiao akhirnya akan melawan Floyd Mayweather Jr. pada 2 Mei, ada satu tan buzz sekitar sukan tinju sekarang.

Kami juga akan membincangkan acara UFC Fight Malam ini Ahad ini di Boston menampilkan Conor McGregor vs. Dennis Siver dalam acara utama dan Donald Cerrone vs. Benson Henderson dalam pertarungan bersama menonjolkan. Bellator juga bermula dengan 2015 Musim Jumaat ini dengan Patricio Pitbull mengambil Daniel Straus sekiranya utama.

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