The UFC's Paige VanZant problem...

[truthisfreedom]

LMAO how frustrated is WME with the Paige VanZant situation right now?

Spent a gang of money trying to promote her, but:


- Mediocre looking chick (a little above average by wmma standards, I guess)

- Very average fighter

- Blatant, cringy attention whoring all over social media

- Lies to kids with cancer




What do they do with her?


I say take all of the VanZant promotional money and throw it at Rose.

-Much better fighter

-Cuter

- Way more mass appeal

- 100X more genuine

- Doesn't post planned, attention whore pics of her in a sauna, saying she's "passed out"


Thoughts

 

[Cozytoesflava]

Never cared for Paige. She wants to be a celebrity, not a fighter. She's annoying as shit.

 

[Ceez]

Thug_Rose be bangin

 

[JohnnyDragon]

Mediocre looking????

I agree with pretty much everything else.

 

[Dream Evil]

Disclaimer: Wood

Reality - 90% of her hotness is due to her fitness. Give her an average physique and she'd be your average, decent looking girl. Nothing really special about her.

 

[SpedDaddyV]

LMAO how frustrated is WME with the Paige VanZant situation?

Spent a gang of money trying to promote her, but:


- Mediocre looking chick (a little above average by wmma standards, I guess)

- Very average fighter

- Blatant, cringy attention whoring all over social media, and not in a good way




What do they do with her?


I say take all of the VanZant promotional money and throw it at Rose.

-Cuter

- Way more mass appeal

- 100X more genuine

- Doesn't post planned, attention whore pics, saying she's "passed out"


Thoughts

-Trains at team alpha male

 

[Otto!]

Agree. The attention seeking is a bit much. I imagine her interviews would go like this:

Reporter: “what is your biggest issue with the sport?”

PVZ: “women are not taken as seriously as the men in MMA”

Reporter: “can you elaborate on that?”

PVZ: “not now! I need to post more pics of my ass on Instagram first”.

 

[Santonja]

The only thing they can do is continue to push her, make good match-ups for her and pray she wins.

Not sure who said it, but in a conversation about Dana White, Vince McMahon, the UFC and WWE... they talked about it: It´s hard to create stars when you don´t control the results of the fight. Even if you put up favorable match-ups... nothing guarantees you he/she´ll win.

They tried to push Paige, and still are, for the obvious reasons: WOOD (I agree she´s above MMA standards, but I wouldn´t use the word mediocre for her looks. Solid 7.5/10)

and she has a couple of highlights againts mediocre fighters (that Bec Rawkings KO) but everytime she´s face some "serious" opposition: Rose, Waterson... she´s lost badly and she will in the future.

Nothing special about her skillwise

 

[Benjamin Burton]

Rose is not cuter. Rose looks like the God damn bully in that rockstar game.

 

[trident]

Wouldn't kick either out of bed....... unless they were better on the floor..... which I suspect is the case.....what's this thread about again?

 

[truthisfreedom]

Agree. The attention seeking is a bit much. I imagine her interviews would go like this:

Reporter: “what is your biggest issue with the sport?”

PVZ: “women are not taken as seriously as the men in MMA”

Reporter: “can you elaborate on that?”

PVZ: “not now! I need to post more pics of my ass on Instagram first”.

Lol pretty much. Tbh, that's basically most wmma fighters, save Rose, Joanna, and a handful of others.

 

[UL]

They need to give her the Ronda treatment

Fake fights where the opponents gets more $ for losing

but this is WME
they probably didn't know zuffa were that shady and that this is allowed

 

[Moezao]

Mediocre looking????

I agree with pretty much everything else.

You're right. She isn't even mediocre, really.

 

[teamfox223]

I think wme likes the social media whoring part is just too bad she can't fight for shit they put her in main events where she cant perform. Now there is a 125 class she can have a few more fights but that wont last long.

Rose is a real fighter, damaged goods but a real fighter she don't give a fuck about looks or social media or anything else. Fighting is what she is good at.

 

[Pakman]

LMAO how frustrated is WME with the Paige VanZant situation right now?

Spent a gang of money trying to promote her, but:


- Mediocre looking chick (a little above average by wmma standards, I guess)

- Very average fighter

- Blatant, cringy attention whoring all over social media




What do they do with her?


I say take all of the VanZant promotional money and throw it at Rose.

-Cuter

- Way more mass appeal

- 100X more genuine

- Doesn't post planned, attention whore pics, saying she's "passed out"


Thoughts

Nobody gives a shit about Paige the same way nobody cares about Rose.

UFC is better off trying to get Gina to come out of retirement,

 

[Levi_]

The only thing they can do is continue to push her, make good match-ups for her and pray she wins.

Not sure who said it, but in a conversation about Dana White, Vince McMahon, the UFC and WWE... they talked about it: It´s hard to create stars when you don´t control the results of the fight. Even if you put up favorable match-ups... nothing guarantees you he/she´ll win.

They tried to push Paige, and still are, for the obvious reasons: WOOD (I agree she´s above MMA standards, but I wouldn´t use the word mediocre for her looks. Solid 7.5/10)

She may be mediocre in terms of UFC contenders, but she is not mediocre in terms of looks, she is above the 4-6 range. I think a little cuter than Rose. Rose is the real deal as a fighter though.

 

[MessiJAH]

She should give porn a whirl.

 

[wake_me]

Did she shave her head yet?

 

[KOskater]

LMAO how frustrated is WME with the Paige VanZant situation right now?

Spent a gang of money trying to promote her, but:


- Mediocre looking chick (a little above average by wmma standards, I guess)

 

[FrankieNYC]

LMAO how frustrated is WME with the Paige VanZant situation right now?

They aren't
She did great buys on Fox twice due to her exposure

Also I have no idea what big money you think they threw at her.
Most of her exposure is from social media (free), sponsors & DWTS