Media Two Great Examples of Why You Should be a Fan of Alex Pereira.

[Substance Abuse]

They do call each other out all the time. And I definitely wasn't acting like that. That's just your feels influencing the way you perceive what I said. You wanted to know when and where and all that. Well, the moment they both called each other out and seemingly both agreed to fight each other was in my opinion a good moment to make that fight happen. Seems pretty plain, simple and logical to me. I acted in a way to answer your question, not in a way to suggest fighters don't call each other out all the time.




Depends on the call out.




He didn't turn it down though.



Did he say that? Because in his post fight presser after the Hill fight, he said he had said to the UFC he wanted a fight at HW, but he wasn't going to name names, and would fight whoever the UFC wanted him to fight. That doesn't exactly sound like he will only change divisions for a titleshot. But guess what, both the interim and the official champ at HW can grapple, so either would be fine with me.



Do you even watch MMA, bruh? He has 5 fights at MW. That's more than Alex has at LHW.




I have only talked about grappling threat, bud. That @HHJ can't differentiate (relax HHJ J/K) between wrestling and grappling is not my problem, I understood what he said and didn't feel a reason to correct him. But since you are acting like a child having to mock the argument by making it look like TFerg posted it on social media. I thought I'd make it clear, because you don't seem as level-headed and in-good-faith as @HHJ was being.



I didn't say mismanaged. There you go with your emotions misinterpreting what is actually said. I said I am not a fan of the way his MMA career has been managed. That's something very different than it being mismanaged. On a level of fame and money, it has been managed extremely well. But I am not a fan of fame and money.

But that aside, that has nothing to do with him having to worry about it. I'm just giving my opinion and not once did I even imply he should care about my opinion. Nor that you should care but you obviously do, otherwise you wouldn't be this emotional.



I'm not acting like he is a nobody, you are just reading way too much into what I said and don't actually understand that there is no undertone you have to read into. I understand why they gave him an easy route to the champ. Doesn't change the fact thay it was an easy route and he didn't face any hard stylistic match ups, nor even a lot of opponents. Dude got fast tracked. Everybody knows this. No need to be defensive about it and try to spin it in a way that I clearly didn't say.

Him having had a very successfull career in kickboxing is for me not reason enough to only fight strikers in MMA. He should have stayed in kickboxing if that's all he wants to do.

Don't get me wrong I love kickboxing and was a kickboxing fan way before I was a MMA fan. I'm Dutch for Pete's sake. But I love MMA more than kickboxing, because it's closer to real combat and the spirit of the sport was to find out what styles work against what styles, etc. So only trying to fight one general style is simply against the spirit of the sport, IMO, and like I said before to @HHJ, no one fighter is bigger than or above the sport, even if it's an awesome guy like Alex.



Glad you agreed.



I blame Dana mostly. He should not care that much about a fighter throwing a temper tantrum after a disappointing decision. Even though I don't agree with Ank's reasoning.



The dumb shit you thought you read was just your emotions misconstruing what I actually said.



Thank you. A handy tip for next time; since the last SD overhaul, you can just use the space bar inside a quote and it will automatically divide the quote into two sections.




Sorry, bud. I tried to keep it short and sweet at first. But Poatards can't handle any opinion about Alex except one that's only full of praise. I didn't even give him shit for it, didn't mock him, nor was I disrespectful in any way. I just said I wasn't a fan of one aspect of him. That's enough to grind gears on here. You know this place, bud.

You could, you know, possibly make a thread about this... lol.

 

[Substance Abuse]

But you see, this charity work really doesn't mean much because he hasn't fought a wrestler.

He's ducking Ankalaev, who's he's probably never been offered to fight!? OMG!

 

[Here's Johnny!]

It should be “cemetery,” but I like the reference!

Thanks Fedor, I am getting old

 

[VinceArch]

War Poatan!

 

[Iroh]

I may have possibly seen your original post and applied other people's opinions about Alex to your own, and didn't give proper time to analyze what you were trying to say. Also I was a little fuxjed up lol. I still disagree with your opinion but understand and respect it.

So in conclusion...

j/k thanks for that posting tip bro

No worries, bud. We all made that mistake before.

But you see, this charity work really doesn't mean much because he hasn't fought a wrestler.

I hope that's not what you got from it, bud. Don't want to lose faith in SD moderation.

You could, you know, possibly make a thread about this... lol.

Honestly, I feel it falls within the thread subject. It's about reasons to be a fan of him, so a very mild dissenting opinion of why not to be a fan, in addition of stating that overall I am still a fan, doesn't really need it's own thread, IMO.

Butt again, it seems people only want to see posts that are full of praise and can't tollerate a more sober, nuanced take.

The whole reason it got out of hand is that people can not accept the fact that I am not a fan of the way his career is managed. Not that I think Alex is a bad guy because of it, or that I think he can't or shouldn't manage his career however he likes, just that I am not a fan of the way it has been done Feels like people would try to force me to be a fan of his (and his team's, manager's and the UFC's) managerial decisions if they had the ability to, TBH. People and their feels dominated thinking, SMH. It's the reason the world is as fucked up as it is.

 

[Fukkup]

One guy absolutely losing his shit trying to prove alex has had such easy matchmaking because he never fought through three hypothetical fights, with two of those fights being against guys not in his division and the other is most likely his next title defense should he beat jiri hahaha

 

[HHJ]

It is true poatan was initially afforded a quick road to the beltch.


But cmon. The guy is a proven elite MMA fighter now and doesn't back down from nothin.

 

[HHJ]

@HHJ even Anthony Smith would be interesting, especially with all the talk there has been between the two, and all the fans lol

Talking about, what happened to that BJJ challenge he issued? Smith agreed, right?

Lol @ Anthony Smith being more interesting than actual #1 contenders

 

[SalvadorAllende]

Guy has been a gift to mma/combat sports

Crazy to think how fast he came to the UFC and took over.

Dude was making his debut against that greek dude less than 3 years ago. Unbelievable.

 

[Iroh]

It is true poatan was initially afforded a quick road to the beltch.


But cmon. The guy is a proven elite MMA fighter now and doesn't back down from nothin.

He is a proven elite striker. I can't say you are a proven elite MMA fighter if there have been conscious efforts made to make your resume as little mixed as possible.

Don't you agree that the beauty and soul of the sport comes from the fact that it is a mix up of all styles and the most multidimensional pro combat sport there is? How can you say the champ is the best of it's divions when he has been protected against styles that weren't favorable to the supposed best of the division.

And most of all, if you think he is an awesome fighter, don't you want to see how such an awesome fighter deals with ALL types of challenges? I don't want the fighters I am a fan of to be protected, but that's just me.

I think it's so weird that I always have to defend these values I have about the sport.

 

[HHJ]

He is a proven elite striker. I can't say you are a proven elite MMA fighter if there have been conscious efforts made to make your resume as little mixed as possible.

Don't you agree that the beauty and soul of the sport comes from the fact that it is a mix up of all styles and the most multidimensional pro combat sport there is? How can you say the champ is the best of it's divions when he has been protected against styles that weren't favorable to the supposed best of the division.

And most of all, if you think he is an awesome fighter, don't you want to see how such an awesome fighter deals with ALL types of challenges?

I think it's so weird that I always have to defend these values I have about the sport.

No I don't care.

If his divisions have grappling heavy guys who deserve title shots then he will have to fight them. Nothing is blocking that from happening.

Taking him down has not proven to beat him.
He can not only defend himself down there but can get back to his feet.


I have seen enough. War Poatan the MMA fighter.

 

[Iroh]

Lol @ Anthony Smith being more interesting than actual #1 contenders

Not more interesting, but actually interesting. If any other fighter was champ a fight with Smith wouldn't be interesting at all.

 

[Iroh]

No I don't care.

If his divisions have grappling heavy guys who deserve title shots then he will have to fight them. Nothing is blocking that from happening.

Taking him down has not proven to beat him.
He can not only defend himself down there but can get back to his feet.


I have seen enough. War Poatan the MMA fighter.

Yeah, I don't want to sound like a broken record, so I've seen enough too. War Poatan the exciting as fuck striker and great guy to boot!

 

[HHJ]

Yeah, I don't want to sound like a broken record, so I've seen enough too. War Poatan the exciting as fuck striker and great guy to boot!

Champion of a human being.

So what he is a striker. Khabib is a wrestler. Oh no! NOT STYLES!!!!

 

[Iroh]

Champion of a human being.

So what he is a striker. Khabib is a wrestler. Oh no! NOT STYLES!!!!

I didn't say there is anything wrong with him being a striker. Just calling him like I see him.

 

[HHJ]

I didn't say there is anything wrong with him being a striker. Just calling him like I see him.

uh huh

 

[Iroh]

uh huh

Yuh uh

 

[HHJ]

Yuh uh

 

[Iroh]

 

[HHJ]

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Fuckin HELL yeah.




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