Media Things get heated between Yan / Merab during face offs

[PurpleStorm]

Can i still use the word cringe in 2023?

It’s appropriate here.

 

[MixMartialFarts]

Yan has some Diaz bro in him. He's getting a big fanbase for not giving a fuck.

 

[PurpleStorm]

Yan gives me the impression that he doesn’t take his opponents seriously, especially recently.

Same here and it’s not a good sign. Considering how many close fights he’s had lately he should be taking all his opponents quite seriously.

 

[Elvis.]

They need to fine fighters for getting physical at the press conference/ weigh in , looks really unprofessional

 

[RightToBareKnuckles]

Yan needs to train with Cody to learn how to do it effectively

 

[Gamboal]

Hope Yan brutalized him. Because Yan has two losses on his record that should be wins. The man has been treated unjustly and is due his rub of the green.

 

[CasualBot]

Merab looking like an insecure little child.

What a squirrel.

That was pathetic.

Where was he running to?

 

[SkinnyClaw]

Getting tired of people wearing all these goofy hats in face offs like its Halloween or something, what does your ethnicity etc have to do with a fight, it was cool when Khabib did it, now there's some goofy headgear in every event, Yan please...

 

[CasualBot]

Yan... pissed at opponents. But not enough to get the finish or GSP/ Fitch them.

Wait,

you interpreted that as "yan pissed"



Yan laughed and walked away.

Completely triggering Merab, to the point of witnesses laughing.

 

[Mammothman]

Why does everyone dislike Merab ?

Boring as fuck, annoying, beat Aldo

 

[TheNinja]

There should be a massive fine for touching your opponent at the weigh-in.

They need to fine fighters for getting physical at the press conference/ weigh in , looks really unprofessional

Totally agree. I know it's MMA/UFC and they are going to fight anyway. But how is it legal to commit assault and battery another human being in public? Would it be OK for me to go face to face with someone else and then chop them in the neck?
Faceoffs should be that lame deal where they face up to each other and yell and act all tough or stare at each other. But they should not have to fear about being touched, pushed, or hit.

 

[CasualBot]

Getting tired of people wearing all these goofy hats in face offs like its Halloween or something, what does your ethnicity etc have to do with a fight, it was cool when Khabib did it, now there's some goofy headgear in every event, Yan please...

It is so fuckin' dumb.

Been joking for years that the uniform changes was to stop tough guy furries from changing the shorts.

Then Bryce comes along with his flat earth trump take, and says he needs Camo shorts.

Funny they accommodated camo, but not sponsorships for fighters.

 

[Hypetrainofthemonth]

That was ok but the GOAT face-off throat strike still belongs to Mayorga:

Nah, imo either Jon vs DC face off, or the one from some off wall regional where a dude tries to punch the dude, and ends up getting flash KO'd himself, wish I could find it again, to upload it, hahahahaha!

 

[Wormwood]

There should be a massive fine for touching your opponent at the weigh-in.

I thought there was something implemented after the Stephens incident… then again, I’m sure it’s selective implementation.

 

[Ghostoftheville]

Yan has some Diaz bro in him. He's getting a big fanbase for not giving a fuck.

Does that also mean massively overrated and losses every fight that matters?

 

[MRT]

D-bag move by Yan.

 

[DragRacer]

Exactly.
If that’s okay, where is the line that defines what isn’t okay?

Surely an uppercut from Ngannou isn’t okay, right?

There should be a massive fine for touching your opponent at the weigh-in.

 

[MixMartialFarts]

D-bag move by Yan.

The bigger Dbag move was Mirab at the press conference blaming the Ukraine war on Yan.

 

[stormcloud67]

Totally agree. I know it's MMA/UFC and they are going to fight anyway. But how is it legal to commit assault and battery another human being in public? Would it be OK for me to go face to face with someone else and then chop them in the neck?
Faceoffs should be that lame deal where they face up to each other and yell and act all tough or stare at each other. But they should not have to fear about being touched, pushed, or hit.

You call this assault and battery?

Wow. You must be soft af

 

[PurpleStorm]

Apart from the who is a bigger dbag or assault arguments - which are all amusing - what I don’t like about throat grabbing, hitting or punching at weigh ins is that it could jeopardize the fight.