Media Dana White responds to claims Belal Muhammad should be next for the title shot, not Colby Covington

boxing lol. boxing even has their champions fight "warm up" fights like when Tyson Fury fought Otto Wallin. if you follow boxing there is tons of fuckery and corruption that happen in that sport.

Doesn't boxing have mandatory defense clauses for their belts, irregardless of the best "money fight" at the time? I'm a fan of boxing, but I'm not a huge nerd, so maybe I'm wrong. But I thought boxers commonly relinquished titles to chase bigger fights?
 
but then why not give Masvidal the shot? he's the one who has public history with Leon, he's the bigger star, and this wouldn't be his first time getting a title shot off a loss.



boxing lol. boxing even has their champions fight "warm up" fights like when Tyson Fury fought Otto Wallin. if you follow boxing there is tons of fuckery and corruption that happen in that sport.


Covids (more or less) over.
They have to get back to pretending that it's a merit based "sport;" even if we all know that it's not.

2-2 with the 2 losses coming to a prime Usman isn't as bad as 0-3 since beating Nate Diaz.
^ is how I believe that the UFC operates.


FWIW: Belal Muhammad is the guy for me.
Would love to see Burns vs. Shavkat for the next shot.
While Burns did get stopped by Usman 2 years back, training partner fights are always (IMO) anomalies.

Of course if Khamzat was in the WW picture, he would probably be next up.
 
Belal wont get title shot, ever.

Cry about it. He doesnt have aesthetics or personality of a champ. My 93yo grandpa is more handsome than him

I see clearly now. Fighting and fighting records have little to do with who qualifies for a title shot. If you have a WWE type of personality its all good.

You have to love MMA fans.
 
So now you have to want to fuck a guy for him to be good enough to be champ?
Why the fuck is Dana picking Colby then? I say who cares about him or Belal. The true fuckmonster is coming for Leon
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Realistically, there aren't enough of us to care sufficiently to have Leon Edwards fight Belal Muhammad.
Maybe one day; but not today.
I know I'm living in a crazy world of my own, but I often imagine what it would be like if the "prize" in prizefighting was the title. Or at least, the title brings the most prizes to prizefighting. And then the most responsible party for promoting the fighters and the title is the promotion.

But hey, prizes being the prize and promotion being the promotion is just too insane to comprehend. Throw me in the fuckin looney bin
 
Why the fuck is Dana picking Colby then? I say who cares about him or Belal. The true fuckmonster is coming for Leon
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I know I'm living in a crazy world of my own, but I often imagine what it would be like if the "prize" in prizefighting was the title. Or at least, the title brings the most prizes to prizefighting. And then the most responsible party for promoting the fighters and the title is the promotion.

But hey, prizes being the prize and promotion being the promotion is just too insane to comprehend. Throw me in the fuckin looney bin

Well since you brought him up, Im fully erect now sir lol.
 
"That's nice of him, but yeah." This response almost makes it sound like DC and Dana are at odds. Maybe we'll get lucky and DC will get shitcanned from the booth.
 
Ariel SikZev Emmanuel might not be too fond of the particular cause Belal stands for (You might have to think about that one for a minute to figure it out)
 
it rules that a mediocre man-baby is the public face of the largest mma organization in the world. very fitting

I find nothing inaccurate about your statement.

Frankly, considering that PRIDE was the #1 or 2 org in the world, if not for Dana White we may not have MMA as we know it today.

Conor is an American fighter now?...since when?

Since more Americans (whores of course... especially after the sh-t he pulled in BK) in the stands were cheering for him than his American opponents.

Colby calling Brazilians filthy animals and asking Usman if his “little tribe” contacted him via smoke signals was totally not racist, bro….cuz like the brown skins aren’t as important or something.

All due respect but anyone who doesn't get it simply doesn't want to.

Why the fuck is Dana picking Colby then? I say who cares about him or Belal. The true fuckmonster is coming for Leon
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I know I'm living in a crazy world of my own, but I often imagine what it would be like if the "prize" in prizefighting was the title. Or at least, the title brings the most prizes to prizefighting. And then the most responsible party for promoting the fighters and the title is the promotion.

But hey, prizes being the prize and promotion being the promotion is just too insane to comprehend. Throw me in the fuckin looney bin

Nothing wrong with wanting the world (or MMA) to be a better.
I say pretending that it is might be a problem, though.
 
He is the best shot at selling PPVs against Lame Leon.
I'm double replying to this cuz I'm gonna double down on something. Colby did, what, 600k and 700k across from Usman? And I believe it's reported that Edwards beating Usman only did 500k, yeah? Would those numbers sound accurate or acceptable to you?

So what do you think is the chance of Leon doing over 800k in his defense over Usman? I'd think it's pretty good chance he beats that. Which means that he'd have a higher PPV than Colby, a total higher PPV than Colby, and a higher increase in PPV sales than Colby. I mean, that shouldn't be too hard to figure because Leon actually won his fight (and subsequent defense), unlike Colby. But that would mean Leon is the star here, regardless of how many youtube views Colby pulls.
 
Doesn't boxing have mandatory defense clauses for their belts, irregardless of the best "money fight" at the time? I'm a fan of boxing, but I'm not a huge nerd, so maybe I'm wrong. But I thought boxers commonly relinquished titles to chase bigger fights?

yeah they have mandatory defenses, but the defenses are almost meaningless because the sanctioning body is the one who picks it. it's not really based on merit because there's so many differnt sanctioning bodies they all have their own fighters and they usually never have all of the top fighters in the division.

this is why the belts are constantly spread out among a pletheora of different fighters and is hardly ever held by a single fighter.
 
He has plans for everyone. Have all of the contenders fight each other, eliminate each other, so he can cherry pick who he wants his paper champs to fight in order to keep them in the spotlight.

This has been Dana's MO for a few years now.
 
i don't hate Colby but what's the deal with him getting such a big push for him to get a title shot? i hear people say it's so he drops the charges vs Masivdal but that seems like a hell of a push just to get Masvidal who is clearly on the downward trajectory.


Its a weird one for sure, but presumably Dana thinks Colby will sell more PPVs.

The booking team also white boards if/then scenarios based on who wins and what that lines up next. Colby x Leon likely outputs the best combination of sales, regardless of who wins.
 
Reminds me of the contender series :D

DC was going on about how Dana made the wrong call and Dana clapped back angrily with how DC should shut up and stick to commentary :p
 
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