Do you think Ankalaev's reason for refusing to fight Pereira and asking to fight him in Abu Dhabi is Alex's Black Belt?

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Now with Jan gone, Pereira is the only LHW with a BJJ black belt. Ank has fought two black belts, and he got submitted once and had a draw in the other one. I don't think this is a coincidence, especially for a fight that he needs to take his opponent down at all costs.
 
Draw, no-contest, win over Walker, then not accepting UFC 300 ( after saying he would be ready), then asking for the title fight six months out in Abu Dhabi, while Alex took another fight at 303 (who knows if that Ank was considered there). I’m sure he isn’t in Dana’s good books here. Probably not the black belt.
 
MMA as a sport is being held hostage and now it is faltering away because of Dana white now blatantly openly being against a certain Demographic Muslim Caucus and central Asian fighters. They are barring them from title fights, now even releasing some undefeated fighters.

Example the Poatan vs roundtree fight is the last straw.

First Dana refused to give Belal a title fight for years and he should have gotten it before forcing Belal to take more fights then he should have.
Now he barres Ankaleav from a title fight and everyone knows he is the best fighter in the division.
Cutting Mokaev while he is undefeated.
He forced Makhhaev to clean the entire division before he gave him title fight.
Same with Khabib he should have had title fight back in 2016
He even said recently Khamzat is gonna become top 5 if he beats fuking Robert Whittaker I mean why even take the risk if there is nothing on the line for you.
Where is Shavkat´s title fight? We hearing Colby

The UFC is the only sport in the world that is openly and publically xenophobic. (Dana is practising xenophobia openly without shame and proudly killing meritocracy or any resemblance of sport.

Honestly the UFC is minor league at this point because it is definitely not a place where best fighters fight each other. Someone has to save MMA and start a world league where actully the best can fight the best.

He is still trapped in that regional mindset which is backward and he is not the man to push this sport forward.

UFC/MMA is the only openly xenophobic sport in the world in the 21st century which is kinda of backward. This sport will seriously benefit from a European takeover they know how to globalize sports and more in tune with the international markets. The UFC itself as format doesn´t work
 
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Lepo Lepo said:
Draw, no-contest, win over Walker, then not accepting UFC 300 ( after saying he would be ready), then asking for the title fight six months out in Abu Dhabi, while Alex took another fight at 303 (who knows if that Ank was considered there). I’m sure he isn’t in Dana’s good books here. Probably not the black belt.
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You forgot to add Ank making demands to the UFC that he gets to weigh in at 215 lbs & bring brass knuckles into the cage to make things fair. :eek:
 
octagonation said:
MMA as a sport is being held hostage and now it is faltering away because of Dana white now blatantly openly being against a certain Demographic Muslim Caucus and central Asian fighters. They are barring them from title fights, now even releasing some undefeated fighters.

Example the Poatan vs roundtree fight is the last straw.

First Dana refused to give Belal a title fight for years and he should have gotten it before forcing Belal to take more fights then he should have.
Now he barres Ankaleav from a title fight and everyone knows he is the best fighter in the division.
Cutting Mokaev while he is undefeated.
He forced Makhhaev to clean the entire division before he gave him title fight.
Same with Khabib he should have had title fight back in 2016
He even said recently Khamzat is gonna become top 5 if he beats fuking Robert Whittaker I mean why even take the risk if there is nothing on the line for you.
Where is Shavkat´s title fight? We hearing Colby

The UFC is the only sport in the world that is openly and publically xenophobic. (Dana is practising xenophobia openly without shame and proudly killing meritocracy or any resemblance of sport.

Honestly the UFC is minor league at this point because it is definitely not a place where best fighters fight each other. Someone has to save MMA and start a world league where actully the best can fight the best.

He is still trapped in that regional mindset which is backward and he is not the man to push this sport forward.

UFC/MMA is the only openly xenophobic sport in the world and which is kinda of backward. This sport will seriously benefit from a European takeover they know how to globalize sports and more in tune with the international markets. The UFC itself as format doesn´t work
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Still not as bad as what they do to Canadian fans.
 
octagonation said:
MMA as a sport is being held hostage and now it is faltering away because of Dana white now blatantly openly being against a certain Demographic Muslim Caucus and central Asian fighters. They are barring them from title fights, now even releasing some undefeated fighters.

Example the Poatan vs roundtree fight is the last straw.

First Dana refused to give Belal a title fight for years and he should have gotten it before forcing Belal to take more fights then he should have.
Now he barres Ankaleav from a title fight and everyone knows he is the best fighter in the division.
Cutting Mokaev while he is undefeated.
He forced Makhhaev to clean the entire division before he gave him title fight.
Same with Khabib he should have had title fight back in 2016
He even said recently Khamzat is gonna become top 5 if he beats fuking Robert Whittaker I mean why even take the risk if there is nothing on the line for you.
Where is Shavkat´s title fight? We hearing Colby

The UFC is the only sport in the world that is openly and publically xenophobic. (Dana is practising xenophobia openly without shame and proudly killing meritocracy or any resemblance of sport.

Honestly the UFC is minor league at this point because it is definitely not a place where best fighters fight each other. Someone has to save MMA and start a world league where actully the best can fight the best.

He is still trapped in that regional mindset which is backward and he is not the man to push this sport forward.

UFC/MMA is the only openly xenophobic sport in the world and which is kinda of backward. This sport will seriously benefit from a European takeover they know how to globalize sports and more in tune with the international markets. The UFC itself as format doesn´t work
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at first i gave your post a like but when i kept reading i took it away. you are reaching and are waaaaaaay off with your conlusion. you stated alot of facts about guys having to have long streaks and guys that get it quickly but to state that it has to do with xenophobia/discrimination is just plain weird.

he wouldnt have signed all of those fighters in the first place. it has to do with selling tickets/star power.
 
Hassan Mouzine said:
at first i gave your post a like but when i kept reading i took it away. you are reaching and are waaaaaaay off with your conlusion. you stated alot of facts about guys having to have long streaks and guys that get it quickly but to state that it has to do with xenophobia/discrimination is just plain weird.

he wouldnt have signed all of those fighters in the first place. it has to do with selling tickets/star power.
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Look at it however you want but seriously some of the elements in the match-making and Dana himself are freaking country-folks who are still in the 16th century. These people should not be near sports mann. MMA needs to be globalized and saved. The salary will be rised 10 times where fighters get paid for the first time what they are worth
 
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Lepo Lepo said:
Draw, no-contest, win over Walker, then not accepting UFC 300 ( after saying he would be ready), then asking for the title fight six months out in Abu Dhabi, while Alex took another fight at 303 (who knows if that Ank was considered there). I’m sure he isn’t in Dana’s good books here. Probably not the black belt.
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You forgot the part where he after the draw acted like a total baby. I can't remember what he said but it was like negative PR IQ once again from Ank
 
Trabaho said:
He wants to do steroids with Islam mackachev the russian vitamins they took as kids. He knows his muslim friends in dubai will permit ut.
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Sad how Sherdog has become permissive, years ago you would be banned for a post like this.
 
pinero said:
Sad how Sherdog has become permissive, years ago you would be banned for a post like this.
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Weird that you use Pinero as a username but then say someone should be banned for saying words sir.
 
No, it's because he doesn't want to fight in a country where the officials would be preferential to his opponent
 
With this bout, pereira will have fought 3 times since ankalaev last fought.

Ankalaev accepted the bout with rakic. Everyone should just accept his choice too
 
CatchtheseHands said:
No, it's because he doesn't want to fight in a country where the officials would be preferential to his opponent
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Judges are not from Abu Dhabi, they predominantly western based.
For Machachev Volk 2 in Emirates they had Derek Cleary, Vito Paolillo, Darryl Ransom as an example.
 
kingmob6 said:
Judges are not from Abu Dhabi, they predominantly western based.
For Machachev Volk 2 in Emirates they had Derek Cleary, Vito Paolillo, Darryl Ransom as an example.
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I dunno man. Either way, AD is kinda sketch.
 
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