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i think this is the only time i fully agree with dana...

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re: pulling conor off the 200 card: ariel helwani and many others keep saying "this is the fight that everyone wants to see". i for one, do not WANT to see it. would i watch it? sure, cuz i'm a big mma fan. but watching conor vs nate 2 doesn't interest me much. we just saw it. and there's many more interesting matches to make for both of them. furthermore, i'm glad dana (appears to be) sticking to his guns and pulling conor off the card. conor seems to think he can do anything he wants and it's great to see him get treated as anyone else on the roster would be treated if they missed the same media obligations. conor's points are irrelevant. i.e. him making the company 400 million over 8 months or whatever etc. and taking last minute fights etc. although what he's done for zuffa is amazing, that doesn't give him the right to create his own set of rules and ignore things he's contractually obligated to do. lastly, IF dana were to allow conor on the 200 card, dana would officially be conor's bitch. so i'm glad dana has stuck to his guns on this one.
 
I thought it was Lorenzo pulling Conor of the card.
 
I'm not directing this at you OP, necessarily, but I find it hard to believe that everyone is so concerned about the principal of this matter. It seems people who like Conor disagree with the UFC's decision, whereas people who dislike Conor are now suddenly in the UFC's corner. And all that is fine, but let's just be honest about it everyone.
 
Shut your mouth.

Dana is only in it to make money, and tons of it. If you really think he cares about what fighters think or what media or fans think, he's laughing at you all the way to the bank.
 
Great. Pretty sure Dana is chuffed an internet noobster agrees with him.
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thewhiterooster said:
re: pulling conor off the 200 card: ariel helwani and many others keep saying "this is the fight that everyone wants to see". i for one, do not WANT to see it. would i watch it? sure, cuz i'm a big mma fan. but watching conor vs nate 2 doesn't interest me much. we just saw it. and there's many more interesting matches to make for both of them. furthermore, i'm glad dana (appears to be) sticking to his guns and pulling conor off the card. conor seems to think he can do anything he wants and it's great to see him get treated as anyone else on the roster would be treated if they missed the same media obligations. conor's points are irrelevant. i.e. him making the company 400 million over 8 months or whatever etc. and taking last minute fights etc. although what he's done for zuffa is amazing, that doesn't give him the right to create his own set of rules and ignore things he's contractually obligated to do. lastly, IF dana were to allow conor on the 200 card, dana would officially be conor's bitch. so i'm glad dana has stuck to his guns on this one.
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thewhiterooster said:
re: pulling conor off the 200 card: ariel helwani and many others keep saying "this is the fight that everyone wants to see". i for one, do not WANT to see it. would i watch it? sure, cuz i'm a big mma fan. but watching conor vs nate 2 doesn't interest me much. we just saw it. and there's many more interesting matches to make for both of them. furthermore, i'm glad dana (appears to be) sticking to his guns and pulling conor off the card. conor seems to think he can do anything he wants and it's great to see him get treated as anyone else on the roster would be treated if they missed the same media obligations. conor's points are irrelevant. i.e. him making the company 400 million over 8 months or whatever etc. and taking last minute fights etc. although what he's done for zuffa is amazing, that doesn't give him the right to create his own set of rules and ignore things he's contractually obligated to do. lastly, IF dana were to allow conor on the 200 card, dana would officially be conor's bitch. so i'm glad dana has stuck to his guns on this one.
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I'm glad as well. No need for a second fight between Diaz and mcgregor. He should be fighting aldo or Edgar because he's basically fucked that division up. By not giving aldo a rematch and by dodging Edgar, he makes whoever wins the belt look weak. I think he knows he would lose both those fights so he's clinging to his belt and looking for fights in other weight classes.
 
SCTwins said:
I'm not directing this at you OP, necessarily, but I find it hard to believe that everyone is so concerned about the principal of this matter. It seems people who like Conor disagree with the UFC's decision, whereas people who dislike Conor are now suddenly in the UFC's corner. And all that is fine, but let's just be honest about it everyone.
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i actually agree with you. i can't stand conor. it's good to see that he can't do EVERYTHING he wants with no repercussions.

TheRassler said:
Shut your mouth.

Dana is only in it to make money, and tons of it. If you really think he cares about what fighters think or what media or fans think, he's laughing at you all the way to the bank.
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TheRassler said:
Shut your mouth.

Dana is only in it to make money, and tons of it. If you really think he cares about what fighters think or what media or fans think, he's laughing at you all the way to the bank.
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if dana was only "in it to make money", wouldn't he have put conor on the card?
 
Hardcores agreeing with Dana is the highest Conor's accomplishment (or lowest, the hardest one for sure).
 
Jon Jones got into a brawl before one of his fights and committed a parole violation before another and he still stayed on both cards. The UFC just makes up what they will and will not tolerate. Conor created more hype for the fight with his little retirement tweets then all of the UFC promo could have done yet he's in trouble about not doing the promo he's already done x100. Some people just aren't intelligent enough to appreciate McGregor.
 
bingbird23 said:
Jon Jones got into a brawl before one of his fights and committed a parole violation before another and he still stayed on both cards. The UFC just makes up what they will and will not tolerate. Conor created more hype for the fight with his little retirement tweets then all of the UFC promo could have done yet he's in trouble about not doing the promo he's already done x100. Some people just aren't intelligent enough to appreciate McGregor.
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JBJ never rage retired on twitter. He also showed up when he was supposed to.
 
I think the way ariel and his colleagues have been acting over this is really not professional
 
thewhiterooster said:
re: pulling conor off the 200 card: ariel helwani and many others keep saying "this is the fight that everyone wants to see". i for one, do not WANT to see it. would i watch it? sure, cuz i'm a big mma fan. but watching conor vs nate 2 doesn't interest me much. we just saw it. and there's many more interesting matches to make for both of them. furthermore, i'm glad dana (appears to be) sticking to his guns and pulling conor off the card. conor seems to think he can do anything he wants and it's great to see him get treated as anyone else on the roster would be treated if they missed the same media obligations. conor's points are irrelevant. i.e. him making the company 400 million over 8 months or whatever etc. and taking last minute fights etc. although what he's done for zuffa is amazing, that doesn't give him the right to create his own set of rules and ignore things he's contractually obligated to do. lastly, IF dana were to allow conor on the 200 card, dana would officially be conor's bitch. so i'm glad dana has stuck to his guns on this one.
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Some good points, I'm not a fan or hater of Conor..but I think it's Dana saving Conor..He could potential lose to Diaz again. And then if he comes back to 145, lose a third fight. If it is Aldo, he could lose. Yes he beat him in 13 seconds, good counter shot. Props to that, but a second fight will really be different. Will he beat him again? He could. But I could see Frankie, if he fights him, looking like the Diaz fight. Sub on the ground where as Frankie will be the one taking it to the ground.
 
I hope to remain as totally delusional as it gets. As such, I am throwing it out there that the UFC brass was uber fucked up when it initially put the non-title WW fight on the UFC 200 card as the main event over real UFC championship fights on the under card.

I maintain that the negative fan reaction to this debauchery did indeed get back to the UFC brass, who elected to rethink the card (this time sober) and invented this "drama" to rectify the initial mental abortion that they had planned.

All is right again in the world due to this revaluation!
 
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