Noticed something in UFC 42

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Plague Lord

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So, I was watching UFC 42 (watching everything from the beginning, might be a noob but that doesn't mean I'll never see it all) and I suddenly noticed this.

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Pete Spratt was seemingly sponsored by this very site :P

Does anyone know the story behind this?
 
Hmmm... Interesting. I'd like to know the story about this as well
 
I don't know the story behind that, but I know the team of Joe Rogan and Phil Baroni was some pretty horrendous commentating. I always think of that when people bitch about Goldie.
 
Now tell us you weren't staring at dat ass, TS...
 
The story is that sherdog probably paid him, so he wore shorts.

There is going to be a movie about it someday.
 
RespectWalk said:
I don't know the story behind that, but I know the team of Joe Rogan and Phil Baroni was some pretty horrendous commentating. I always think of that when people bitch about Goldie.
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Haha, yeah. Wasn't too much of a surprise though, considering Phil Baroni's reaction to being interviewed at UFC 39. I was pretty amazed, really, that they offered him a commentating spot.

Interviewer: Why are you the best fighter in the UFC?

Phil Baroni: Why are you the best fighter in the UFC? Well, why do you like to sit behind a camera and ask me stupid questions?

Other sound snip:

Interviewer: Why do you fight?

Baroni: Well I can't sing or dance and it beats fucking working every day.
 
Sherdog used to sponsor several guys and Jeff Sherwood, who started the site even managed (basically for free from what I understand) a few guys at one stage. Some guys 'sponsorships' were basically giving the some hats, shorts, rash guards, etc with the sherdog symbol on them for them to wear in fights or training. Have heard Jeff explain several times that he basically stop any sponsorships due to not wanting people to think the websites coverage was tainted towards 'their' fighters. Lots of old UFC/Pride pictures around with big name fighters wearing sherdog gear.
 
Dpro said:
Sherdog used to sponsor several guys and Jeff Sherwood, who started the site even managed (basically for free from what I understand) a few guys at one stage. Some guys 'sponsorships' were basically giving the some hats, shorts, rash guards, etc with the sherdog symbol on them for them to wear in fights or training. Have heard Jeff explain several times that he basically stop any sponsorships due to not wanting people to think the websites coverage was tainted towards 'their' fighters. Lots of old UFC/Pride pictures around with big name fighters wearing sherdog gear.
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Aight, thanks.

I had no idea Sherdog was ever so 'involved' in the sport.
 
RespectWalk said:
I don't know the story behind that, but I know the team of Joe Rogan and Phil Baroni was some pretty horrendous commentating. I always think of that when people bitch about Goldie.
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I like Baroni's work in Pride.
Like when he referred to a fighter as "pork fried rice."
 
Plague Lord said:
Aight, thanks.

I had no idea Sherdog was ever so 'involved' in the sport.
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Honestly don't think it was even looked at as a big thing back then, at the time the Tap Out guys used to make all their shirts themselves and travel to events to sell them from the boot of their car.
This was one of the only mma sites around at the start and before he fell out of love with them Dana used to often thank Sherdog in interviews for being one of the main reasons mma kept going in America.
Would love to read a tell all book or hear a very long form interview with Jeff Sherwood because some of the stories he tells about hanging out with Bas, Rampage, etc in Japan during Pride or with Tank in America are fantastic (even a street fight he was involved in with some still current fighters).
 
Dpro said:
Honestly don't think it was even looked at as a big thing back then, at the time the Tap Out guys used to make all their shirts themselves and travel to events to sell them from the boot of their car.
This was one of the only mma sites around at the start and before he fell out of love with them Dana used to often thank Sherdog in interviews for being one of the main reasons mma kept going in America.
Would love to read a tell all book or hear a very long form interview with Jeff Sherwood because some of the stories he tells about hanging out with Bas, Rampage, etc in Japan during Pride or with Tank in America are fantastic (even a street fight he was involved in with some still current fighters).
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Well now you've peaked my curiosity, I want more!
 
Journalistic outlets sponsoring people they should be commenting on does not really engender neutrality.

See: Video games "journalism".
 
ReDiCuLouS said:
Well now you've peaked my curiosity, I want more!
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Some of his stories are just random stuff like Rampage with multiple gorgeous Japanese women hanging of him every time he seen him at Pride. Some more specific stuff is thinking Bas had die one night while they were out drinking in Japan. Apparently he was pretty hammered and step on the road in front of a bus, Sherwood said when the bus stopped he thought he was going to walk around and see Bas dead on the road but he just got up (with a badly scrapped hip I think) brushed himself off and kept going.
Can't remember all the specifics of the fight but I'm sure Josh Thompson was involved and if I remember rightly a lot of running was involved after a gun was pulled (would need to confirm that though).
 
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