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Hot Take Enough is enough

This year is the year MMA completely sold out to big interests. It was slowly happening ofc for a while but the selloff to Paramount (Trump crony), the ridiculous matchmaking at LW (fight fans know Arman -douche as he may be- is the best after/ together with Ilia and Paddy is a pure laughable cash grab). Gaethje and Usman in title fights is to appease the supreme leader and Volk - Lopes is for the (Mexican) money. I expect more insane matchmaking with undeserved opportunties for Americans (looking at you O'Malley) and 'charismatic' fighters from countries with big markets. Dana buckeling for the supreme leader by doing an outdoor event with only billionaire audiences while the commoners get to watch on big screens outside while they eat cake, and the whole fight year will be messed up because of this nonsense. We commoners are better than this.

The sport has lost it's soul and became a political instrument. Just for once it would be nice if vested interests don't win again. They will though, but I'm out, cancelling my HBO subscription (which in NL gives me access to the events). It's not ony principle, but I'm also just not interested in any of the title fights they have lined up so far. I just want the best to fight the best. I'll miss a few nice non-title fights but so be it.

Thank you for reading my rant, I wish you all (my fellow dawgs) all the best.
I was in Mexico for the first Volk v Lopes fight. Mexicans don't like Lopes, he's not Mexican, he ain't bringing in the Mexican money 🤣
 
These Paramount + cards look better than 95% of what ESPN gave us this past year.

Have you seen tonight's card?
Tonight's is really bad, but feels like a middle finger to ESPN to fulfill the contract.

With that said, I find the main event interesting, because I don't understand why Kape is such a large favorite.
 
This year is the year MMA completely sold out to big interests. It was slowly happening ofc for a while but the selloff to Paramount (Trump crony), the ridiculous matchmaking at LW (fight fans know Arman -douche as he may be- is the best after/ together with Ilia and Paddy is a pure laughable cash grab). Gaethje and Usman in title fights is to appease the supreme leader and Volk - Lopes is for the (Mexican) money. I expect more insane matchmaking with undeserved opportunties for Americans (looking at you O'Malley) and 'charismatic' fighters from countries with big markets. Dana buckeling for the supreme leader by doing an outdoor event with only billionaire audiences while the commoners get to watch on big screens outside while they eat cake, and the whole fight year will be messed up because of this nonsense. We commoners are better than this.

The sport has lost it's soul and became a political instrument. Just for once it would be nice if vested interests don't win again. They will though, but I'm out, cancelling my HBO subscription (which in NL gives me access to the events). It's not ony principle, but I'm also just not interested in any of the title fights they have lined up so far. I just want the best to fight the best. I'll miss a few nice non-title fights but so be it.

Thank you for reading my rant, I wish you all (my fellow dawgs) all the best.
Nice throw away account....
 
If the UFC actually ran MMA like an actual sport instead of like WWE, the below would happen which they do not want in this new Paramount entertainment era

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Ya if only Umar didn’t get wrecked by Merab, and Movsar fought more than once a year, and Usman was good enough to make the UFC, and if Arman wasn’t from Armenia, and if Ank didn’t get his shit pushed in by Alex in a minute flat….
 
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