Re: |Fight Club| MMA | Noobs guide to MMA in OP | UFC 203 09/10: CM Punk makes first & last MMA appearance
Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2016 8:05 pm
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Brerlappin wrote:So if Cristiano Ronaldo has transcended football, does that mean he can demand to go play for a different team each match? Just because people will pay to watch him play?
Brerlappin wrote:UFC are desperately trying to shed the old image of human cockfighting and become a legitimate sporting league. That's what the Reebok deal, the uniforms, the removal of fighter sponsors was all about. Making it a legit sport. But giving your FW champ a crack at the LW belt, despite not one single title defense in a year, 2 fights at strawberry floating middleweight against Diaz who up til the Michael Johnson fight wasn't even ranked, when there is already an interim FW champ waiting for the title shot, and a ton of other FWs who are all deserving of a title shot.
Brerlappin wrote:Is it fair to them to completely stall their division, denying them the chance at the belt and making more money? Just so he can hold onto it so he can have his 2 belt dream come true? (And even if it does come true, it's practically been set up for him at this point so it's barely even legit).
Brerlappin wrote:Just because you "put bums on seats" doesn't mean you should be able to tell your employer's how things are gonna be. But Conor has the UFC by the balls so they pander to him and it just makes the UFC look less and less legit as a sport every time.
Brerlappin wrote:That's why this is a joke. I guarantee once he gets 2 belts hell drop the FW belt. He doesn't ever want to make that cut again but doesn't want to vacate the belt until he can say "2 weight world champ".
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Brerlappin wrote:That's wonderful. Just one other question tho, how many other 155ers has Conor beat to get the LW title shot? Actually how many fights total has he had at 155? Must be quite a few to get a title shot, right?
Lucien wrote:Technically, but there'll be a Manhattan-sized asterisk next to his name and the "155 champion" label would be treated (rightfully) as shady by sports fans.
Brerlappin wrote:He's just an over hyped loudmouth that appeals to casual plebs.
Brerlappin wrote:So your answer is, 0 fights at lightweight, 0 previous wins at lightweight, yet somehow deserving of a lightweight title shot over all of the actual lightweights who have fought and competed for a LW title shot for years.
Brerlappin wrote:Yeah, makes sense. Give him a WW shot next, maybe LHW after that? Thatd make a nice poster for your bedroom! Connie Mac with FOUR belts!! *Swoon*
Brerlappin wrote:And there already is an asterisk over his career. He had the easiest road to a FW title shot of anyone, and now if he does get the LW belt, he gets it without having a single FW defense? Yeah cause that's what real champions do right? Sure, maybe in the strawberry floatin WWE.
Brerlappin wrote:Hes been strawberry floating babied because he makes money. End of. He got his gooseberry fool destroyed by a Diaz bro who walked off a party boat and into the octagon on 11 days notice. Never defended any of his CW titles either.
Brerlappin wrote:He's just an over hyped loudmouth that appeals to casual plebs.
Brerlappin wrote:Rocsteady wrote:I do actually think that McGregor's a better fighter than many on here give him credit for. He's not some Godlike entity, and I can't forgive a few people on my Fb feed comparing him to Ali, but he's definitely one of the stars of fighting from the last few years, even stripping away all the PR bullshit.
Hes definitely talented. No doubt about it. I give him credit for that, but hes also way, way overhyped and doesn't have a record to back up the hype.
Look at Mighty Mouse, Cruz, or Jon Jones, as much of a scumbag as he is. Dominant, dominant champions. Jones has dismantled a whos who of the LHW division. The people hes beaten are practically a murderers row of the best of the LHW division. Mighty Mouse literally looks invincible. Like hes activated a strawberry floating cheat mode or something. Cruz is a god damn magician. Any of these guys moving up or down a weight class would be a superfight. If you want to make a superfight it needs to be with Champions that are proven, Alvarez Mcgregor isn't a superfight, its 2 guys who are 0 - 0 for title defenses, where one guy knows he can make a shitload of cash win or lose, and the other can pick up a 2nd belt. That's all. Will it be entertaining? sure. Does it make sense? None at all. If you want a real superfight, make MM fight Cruz. There you go, 2 dominant champions, both have never lost in the UFC (Cruz only dropping his title through injury), both riding massive win streaks.
Bisping V Hendo is equally dumb, but at least theres a backstory there, and the threat of Hendo retiring as a champ, or Bisping avenging a brutal KO. I don't agree with it but at least it makes slightly more sense than Alvarez Mcgregor. Realistically these are just "sports entertainment" fights, with a heavy emphasis on entertainment and not so much on sports. Its making a mockery of ranks and belts, everyone just wants money fights, and its honestly the kind of WWE horseshit I cant stand. Manufactured beefs with fighters, smack talk, all that gooseberry fool. I like a good villain to root against once in a while but not if it means everyone in the entire sport just says "strawberry float it, let me fight him cause ill get rich, screw the belts and the P4P ranking".
Its not Conors fault, if the UFC paid better they wouldn't be in this situation. But they've given in to him at almost every opportunity and let it get like this, and what are uninteresting journeymen like Alvarez gonna do when Conor retires? I'm sick of these guys shouting "CONOR FITE ME" for a payday. Youre the strawberry floating LW Champ, youre supposed to be the money fight people clamour for.
The McGregor era truly is the darkest timeline of the UFC
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