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What do you think about this concept ?
Did you see the draft video and hear that rap song ?
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I hope they succeed, but I’m not a fan of the format. I appreciate them trying to be creative, but it feels like they’re trying to do too much too soon.
The draft video and song was hilarious. They played it like 4-5 times.
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If I'm doing bad at life right now, I gotta hate to feel better about it. Is my psychology psychologyin ? All good.
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They called up Uncle Chael but he declined:
"Yes, they did [call]," Sonnen said. "In hindsight, maybe I should have said yes. There were signing bonuses. But there's a point where it's weird. There's a point where fighting is really cool, and your buddies will look at you like you're really cool, and you go to the coffee shop, and they'll look at you like you're cool. There's a point where it's weird.
I've seen some guys, and I won't name them, who are 40, who are 41, that fought. I remember thinking, 'Put your clothes on. You're taking your shirt off, putting your mouthpiece in, you got no problem with this guy.' At some point, it's weird. That's the reason I said no.
"Whether you're the greatest of all time or not — which I am — at some point, it's weird," Sonnen added. "There's just a point where you got to stop."
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"Yes, they did [call]," Sonnen said. "In hindsight, maybe I should have said yes. There were signing bonuses. But there's a point where it's weird. There's a point where fighting is really cool, and your buddies will look at you like you're really cool, and you go to the coffee shop, and they'll look at you like you're cool. There's a point where it's weird.
I've seen some guys, and I won't name them, who are 40, who are 41, that fought. I remember thinking, 'Put your clothes on. You're taking your shirt off, putting your mouthpiece in, you got no problem with this guy.' At some point, it's weird. That's the reason I said no.
"Whether you're the greatest of all time or not — which I am — at some point, it's weird," Sonnen added. "There's just a point where you got to stop."
Chael Sonnen reveals he declined GFL fight offer, because 'at some point, it's weird'
Chael Sonnen likes what he's seen out of the GFL so far, but he wasn't ready take part in MMA's newest experiment.
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I am actually intrigued by this. Idk if it will all work out in the end, but I'm glad they're doing something different with weight classes. I've felt it needed an overhaul for some time.
I'm guessing this isn't going to be unified rules based, and I'm also ok with that. I do not believe WW and MW here are recognized under those rules. They should nix striking limitations while they're at it, and use open scoring.
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On one level I could careless about the format. But beyond that they do have the basis of doing good for the fighters. Which at the end of the day is more important.
Sucks that you got a lot of these more or less washed up fighters but as fans we have to understand that this is their marketing. They don't have money to do national or worldwide marketing so bringing in the aged vets with name value accomplishes this. There is more talk on here about GFL than ONE or just about any other org outside the UFC. No one would give one look at the GFL if it was a bunch of prospects with little to no name value among MMA fans. In the end it is a necessary evil for most orgs outside of the UFC.
Will it all work, history says no. But hopefully it gains enough traction to give fighters another org to make money in. It is also nice to see an org really laying the basis that if the org finds success the fighters are compensated as that success grows immediately.
Sucks that you got a lot of these more or less washed up fighters but as fans we have to understand that this is their marketing. They don't have money to do national or worldwide marketing so bringing in the aged vets with name value accomplishes this. There is more talk on here about GFL than ONE or just about any other org outside the UFC. No one would give one look at the GFL if it was a bunch of prospects with little to no name value among MMA fans. In the end it is a necessary evil for most orgs outside of the UFC.
Will it all work, history says no. But hopefully it gains enough traction to give fighters another org to make money in. It is also nice to see an org really laying the basis that if the org finds success the fighters are compensated as that success grows immediately.
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Have they announced something regarding their events?
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The only thing I recall is that it begins in April. I haven't heard anything beyond that
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No set date. As @Bobby Boulders mentioned; they just announced the events start in April.
The teams are supposed to be training and in fight camp at their locations, but I really haven't seen them mention anything.
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Nah. Fact of the matter is that negotiations, setting the arena, and matchmaking take time, especially for new MMA companies with major funding behind them. Really just nothing to announce right now.
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Luke does a good job of explaining it all and he is a 100% correct.
Cliff notes for people: These orgs outside of the UFC basically can't make the right decisions to ever be viable on a big stage because the UFC is so large they have taking all the right decisions that would lead to success for these orgs off the table. So on top of some questionable choices they make they don't have the ability to make the right choices that would matter in the big picture. A big part of what he is talking about is fighters that matter are all under contract and won't ever get to these orgs until it doesn't matter(past their prime or peak drawing years). The UFC chews up every media deal worth anything and sponsorships that everyone else is left with the scraps. Even when a Francis gets lose once every few years or whatever it doesn't matter because the UFC is already taking 90 cents plus of every dollar MMA takes in the world.
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They called up Uncle Chael but he declined:
"Yes, they did [call]," Sonnen said. "In hindsight, maybe I should have said yes. There were signing bonuses. But there's a point where it's weird. There's a point where fighting is really cool, and your buddies will look at you like you're really cool, and you go to the coffee shop, and they'll look at you like you're cool. There's a point where it's weird.
I've seen some guys, and I won't name them, who are 40, who are 41, that fought. I remember thinking, 'Put your clothes on. You're taking your shirt off, putting your mouthpiece in, you got no problem with this guy.' At some point, it's weird. That's the reason I said no.
"Whether you're the greatest of all time or not — which I am — at some point, it's weird," Sonnen added. "There's just a point where you got to stop."
Chael Sonnen reveals he declined GFL fight offer, because 'at some point, it's weird'
Chael Sonnen likes what he's seen out of the GFL so far, but he wasn't ready take part in MMA's newest experiment.
This is really good quote from Chael (which has become a rarity nowadays) and exactly how I feel about playing in a band (I often draw parallels between punk/hardcore/metal and MMA fighters). I quit playing 10 years ago, but I still have former bandmates (most of them older than me) still playing the music they played when they were teenagers, and it's sad, and some of them have tried to drag me back for a "reunion" or some shit. I just decline the invitation, no offense, I'd just feel out of place, it was supposed a youth movement not a 20-year-highschool reunion. No one wants to see middle-aged guys with grey hair playing songs about how school sucks or the cops stopping them from skating on the sidewalk.
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