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06-06-2016, 04:33 PM | #6544 |
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Uncle Dana's regime reminds me of Obama's admin.
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06-06-2016, 05:20 PM | #6545 |
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Pretty sure UFC is going to face terrible backlash for the Helwani move, a completely awful thing to do... they're going to be forced to relent IMO
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06-06-2016, 08:52 PM | #6546 |
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06-06-2016, 08:55 PM | #6547 |
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woah, that was quick. This guy is a reputable reporter for the LA Times
We'll see if this ends up panning out, but I assumed Ariel would be hung out to dry for at least 2 more PPV's.
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06-06-2016, 08:56 PM | #6548 | |
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06-06-2016, 08:58 PM | #6549 |
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Speaking personally, I was seriously considering cancelling my UFC Fightpass subscription over this. A LOT of people have been tweeting out screenshots of them cancelling their fightpass subscription and vowing to boycott UFC 200, so if this ended up being a lot of people, maybe the UFC decided "ok screw it, wow, we didn't expect this, but now this isn't worth it. Let Ariel do whatever stupid annoying thing he wants"
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06-06-2016, 09:00 PM | #6550 |
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Holy shit, its real. The UFC just put out a formal statement that basically amounts to "whoops, our bad, we ****ed up. We're sorry, Ariel is welcome to report on our sport."
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06-06-2016, 09:04 PM | #6551 | |
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ok, just to clarify, it looks like this wasn't a total capitaulation. The UFC is basically saying "OK, Ariel didn't know that we wouldn't accept this, but now he does, so now he knows".
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06-06-2016, 09:14 PM | #6552 | |
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06-06-2016, 09:24 PM | #6553 |
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It probably wasn't just the fans though, Rich Eisen basically stated on his show today that he was going to go dark on the UFC and not ever talk about anything about the sport again unless Ariel was reinstated. A lot of big national sports journalist figures who usually only cover the NFL and NBA were beginning to rise up on this story, so maybe that also had something to do with it.
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06-06-2016, 09:30 PM | #6554 |
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Brock Lesnar will smash the dogshit out of Mark Hunt.
This is a stupid fight. Lesnar gnp for the win 2nd rd.
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06-06-2016, 09:35 PM | #6555 |
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OK! Back to normal.
I have to admit that I'm a huge fan of Ariel Helwani, I listen to at least parts of his MMA hour show every Monday, so this drama was a bit gut-wrenching for me, but I'm glad to see that cooler heads apparently prevailed tonight.
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