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Im waiting for my IRS Agent Mike Smith to make his debut in Super Fight Leaguehe lives in Mumbai.
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ONE CEO Chatri Sityodtong savagely takes down Arjan Bhullar after DQ: 'India will no longer look at him as a hero'
You might say ONE Championship CEO Chatri Sityodtong took a page out of Dana White's playbook on Friday. Countless times throughout the years, White has thrown his UFC fighters under the bus when they haven't performed to his expectations. Sityodtong did just that after…
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ONE CEO Chatri Sityodtong savagely takes down Arjan Bhullar after DQ: 'India will no longer look at him as a hero'
You might say ONE Championship CEO Chatri Sityodtong took a page out of Dana White's playbook on Friday. Countless times throughout the years, White has thrown his UFC fighters under the bus when they haven't performed to his expectations. Sityodtong did just that after…
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ONE CEO Chatri Sityodtong savagely takes down Arjan Bhullar after DQ: 'India will no longer look at him as a hero'
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Bhullar vs Herb Dean next. Make it happen Dana!
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ONE CEO Chatri Sityodtong savagely takes down Arjan Bhullar after DQ: 'India will no longer look at him as a hero'
You might say ONE Championship CEO Chatri Sityodtong took a page out of Dana White's playbook on Friday. Countless times throughout the years, White has thrown his UFC fighters under the bus when they haven't performed to his expectations. Sityodtong did just that after…
ONE CEO Chatri Sityodtong savagely takes down Arjan Bhullar after DQ: 'India will no longer look at him as a hero'
I'm very curious what's going on here. ONE has turned on Bhuller?
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ONE CEO Chatri Sityodtong savagely takes down Arjan Bhullar after DQ: 'India will no longer look at him as a hero'
You might say ONE Championship CEO Chatri Sityodtong took a page out of Dana White's playbook on Friday. Countless times throughout the years, White has thrown his UFC fighters under the bus when they haven't performed to his expectations. Sityodtong did just that after…
ONE CEO Chatri Sityodtong savagely takes down Arjan Bhullar after DQ: 'India will no longer look at him as a hero'
Honestly, that show was unwatchable because of the nonsense decisions, huge errors, and massively overzealous refereeing.
Martial arts aren't all about pushing an insanely high pace, they are also about patience and waiting for openings.
DQing a fighter for inactivity is disgusting.
ONE Championship comes out of this in an appalling light.
I legit stopped watching.
The promotion came off desperate as fuck, and this is the first time I've hated an MMA-based offering from ONE (admittedly I don't always watch the muay thai shows as I'm into MMA)
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He wasn't fighting enough during the fight and got DQd after 2 yellow cards for inactivity.
lol ONE isn't the UFC where you can get away with backpedaling for 3 or 5 rounds and then just throw a flurry in the last 10 seconds and say you "fought".
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This. I like this outcome, fighters who don't fight can kick rocks
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I love it.
It's a fight. You have to actually engage at some point.
UFC have had a lot of wasted fights where fighters get in there and do their best to not do anything.
The warnings for Le were good too. You can't just come in there and throw like 3-4 strikes for 2.5 rounds.
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There's a difference between doing a Kalib Starnes and just not wanting to walk directly into clubbing swings.
Look, I didn't like Bhullar's performance, he deserved to lose, and I don't get why he didn't try to wrestle.
But if we're going to start DQing athletes every time they have a poor performance, I'm out.
ONE Championship looked desperate as fuck. The prelims were great, then the main card came round and it stank of fear - and not from the athletes, from the promotion itself.
Shameful day of Mixed Martial Arts.
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Let me put it this way: I'm a soccer fan, I go to every home game and some away games, and English soccer is passionate.
If the team plays poorly, they will sometimes get booed off, depending on context. Sometimes it's deserved, sometimes it's harsh. Sometimes they're out-played, out-fought, out-thought, and out-scored.
Whatever, it happens, you expect them to bounce back the next time and put things right.
What I don't expect is an overzealous referee or chairman or manager or any combination of those people fining the players for a one-off poor performance.
I don't expect the chairman of the club to start deriding players and telling them they're no longer heros.
This is pathetic, and we get enough of it from Dana White and his tantrums.
It makes MMA look like a trash sport, and it irritates me because I know we've moved well beyond this bollocks of pandering to audiences/investors - or at least we should have.
There, I've had my say, have it y'all.
If the team plays poorly, they will sometimes get booed off, depending on context. Sometimes it's deserved, sometimes it's harsh. Sometimes they're out-played, out-fought, out-thought, and out-scored.
Whatever, it happens, you expect them to bounce back the next time and put things right.
What I don't expect is an overzealous referee or chairman or manager or any combination of those people fining the players for a one-off poor performance.
I don't expect the chairman of the club to start deriding players and telling them they're no longer heros.
This is pathetic, and we get enough of it from Dana White and his tantrums.
It makes MMA look like a trash sport, and it irritates me because I know we've moved well beyond this bollocks of pandering to audiences/investors - or at least we should have.
There, I've had my say, have it y'all.
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Both your posts are spot on. I watched the event live and came away feeling weird about the result. It’s a fight. The only person who should be able to judge how much danger he’s willing to put himself in is the fighter.
Admittedly, Bhullar looked tentative but that would have cost him the fight anyway. Forcing him to be reckless is ridiculously irresponsible.
It’s up to AB to decide how much risk he’s willing to take in the fight. And if the openings just aren’t there and he takes a decision loss, so be it.
Imagine a referee in basketball DQing a team because they didn’t take enough 3s or their pace was too slow. Imagine an NFL referee DQing a team because they weren’t throwing down field enough.
Any armchair asshole who thinks they or anyone else should be able to dictate how a fighter approaches a fight or carries out a fight has never been in a fight before.
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Bang on.
Irresponsible was the byword for that main card.
I especially hated seeing experienced referees losing their heads like that.
