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... the Zuffa-sponsored excuse.
So today I A) rewatched Cain-Werdum and B) saw the thread about Werdum giving Stipe credit for his win. In that thread there was a litany of Sherdog posts about how excuses work between Brazilians, Americans, how excuses are all over the sport, blah blah blah.
No one cares. No one outside of ultra-hardcores care about Rockhold's or Weidman's camps for 194. But the Zuffa-sponsored excuses are WAY more blatant and WAY more impactful on the sport. Go watch Cain-Werdum again. I'm a Cain fan as most of you know, but damn that was revolting. Rogan over and over and over and SO blatant about it.
It happens every single time a clear martketing favorite loses. Hell it happens before they even lose... it starts when they START to lose. Watch Cain-Werdum and hear Rogan conjecture BS about altititude as soon as Cain starts to get tagged in the 2nd. After Cain loses he asks in English about altititude and then orders Cain to translate the excuse in Spanish in front of the Mexican audience, since they needed to still be indoctrinated to know the BS excuse since they weren't listening to his commentary.
The same thing happened in Jones-Gus. Rogan going on and on about a fucking imaginary recurring toe injury and that that was the reason Gus was punching him in the face. The same thing happened when Brock lost to Overeem. "A kick to the body... a body... that has been SURGICALLY REPAIRED." The excuses are so bad (and so obvious in favor of the marketing favorite) that they'd be considered jokes if it came from us ("altitude" is like a self-parody haha).
The Brock excuse died quickly because he retired so it served no purpose. The Jones one died the moment the fight ended because Jon won the decision. The Anderson "he wasn't serious" excuse started the second he was KOd by Chris.
Hands wrap didn't impact anything. Aldo saying being KOd didn't count doesn't change anything. Fan base internet flame wars change nothing. If you want to see how the excuses that matter (Zuffa excuses) impact the sport look at how the excuses fly when the marketing fave is losing. Look how they marketed Anderson-Weidman 2 and strung all of Vegas into putting Weidman a 2:1 dog again, or how it warranted a Cain insta-rematch after he was decisively finished by Werdum, or how they would have rationalized a Jones loss in his marketing prime before the driving shit ever happened.
TL;DR = There is one kind of excuse that matters, and it is a very blatant form of excuse, and ironically, the one type of excuse LEAST criticized by forum posters. It is pushed mostly by the UFC (not Brazilians, not fighters) to serve a simple marketing job.
So today I A) rewatched Cain-Werdum and B) saw the thread about Werdum giving Stipe credit for his win. In that thread there was a litany of Sherdog posts about how excuses work between Brazilians, Americans, how excuses are all over the sport, blah blah blah.
No one cares. No one outside of ultra-hardcores care about Rockhold's or Weidman's camps for 194. But the Zuffa-sponsored excuses are WAY more blatant and WAY more impactful on the sport. Go watch Cain-Werdum again. I'm a Cain fan as most of you know, but damn that was revolting. Rogan over and over and over and SO blatant about it.
It happens every single time a clear martketing favorite loses. Hell it happens before they even lose... it starts when they START to lose. Watch Cain-Werdum and hear Rogan conjecture BS about altititude as soon as Cain starts to get tagged in the 2nd. After Cain loses he asks in English about altititude and then orders Cain to translate the excuse in Spanish in front of the Mexican audience, since they needed to still be indoctrinated to know the BS excuse since they weren't listening to his commentary.
The same thing happened in Jones-Gus. Rogan going on and on about a fucking imaginary recurring toe injury and that that was the reason Gus was punching him in the face. The same thing happened when Brock lost to Overeem. "A kick to the body... a body... that has been SURGICALLY REPAIRED." The excuses are so bad (and so obvious in favor of the marketing favorite) that they'd be considered jokes if it came from us ("altitude" is like a self-parody haha).
The Brock excuse died quickly because he retired so it served no purpose. The Jones one died the moment the fight ended because Jon won the decision. The Anderson "he wasn't serious" excuse started the second he was KOd by Chris.
Hands wrap didn't impact anything. Aldo saying being KOd didn't count doesn't change anything. Fan base internet flame wars change nothing. If you want to see how the excuses that matter (Zuffa excuses) impact the sport look at how the excuses fly when the marketing fave is losing. Look how they marketed Anderson-Weidman 2 and strung all of Vegas into putting Weidman a 2:1 dog again, or how it warranted a Cain insta-rematch after he was decisively finished by Werdum, or how they would have rationalized a Jones loss in his marketing prime before the driving shit ever happened.
TL;DR = There is one kind of excuse that matters, and it is a very blatant form of excuse, and ironically, the one type of excuse LEAST criticized by forum posters. It is pushed mostly by the UFC (not Brazilians, not fighters) to serve a simple marketing job.
