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OT: WWE/MMA/Boxing Thread

GGpX said:
Btw, it's not a coincidence that GSP was on the Showtime broadcast either. I don't doubt for a second that he'd love to get some of that Jake Paul action.
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No doubt. GSP, Nick/Nate, maybe even Connor. Paul has all sorts of options going forward.
 
GGpX said:
You know, it's actually funny because if he was talking about himself, he'd be 100% right. Dana isn't the grinder that he used to be and has basically fine-tuned the UFC machine with a bunch of people who do the dirty, shitty jobs he used to do. He doesn't even promote fights anymore.

He's made it rich and now pays other people to do his work and he makes more money than ever.
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That's not remotely the way he tells it. Even recently I've heard him talk about how much he works, how much time he gives each event, each event is do or die, etc.
 
Just looked it up, Spider's biggest UFC purse was 820K

Now, Silva would have gotten PPV points on a number of his fights. The way the UFC apparently does it is dollar figure per buy, set in tiers. So up to 400K buys is $1 per buy, 400-800K might be 2 bucks, anything over that 2.50, etc. Everyone's contract was negotiated individually, so we don't know how Silva's deal allowed him, but Eddie Alvarez apparently had a very attractive deal by UFC standards thrown at him when he jumped to UFC in 2013, so if we use those numbers:

Per buy
0-200: 0
200-400: 1
400-600: 2
over 600K: 2.5

and apply those to Anderson's PPV buys, his highest payday was probably Silva-Weidman 2. Silva received his 600K show money, and then probably something in the range of 1.4 million for PPV buys, so he would have been somewhere around 2 million for that fight. Depending on what the PPV buys numbers were tonight, Anderson might end up making around 5x what he was paid for his biggest UFC payday. His show money tonight was 100K less than his biggest UFC contract's show money was ffs.

Fucking wild.
 
Holy fuck.

As much as any day for any of us isn't guaranteed, I hope this wasn't from the severe shit he put his body through as part of MMA. I don't want to support watching fighters I enjoy kill themselves with weight cuts, extreme diets, etc for my entertainment. Disease is a motherfucker that comes for us all eventually and can happen to even the prime physical specimens like Rumble, but hopefully this wasn't created by his MMA involvement man.

Fuck.
 
Who knows, man. Rumble's body has gone through so much weight fluctuation (and the probable drug use to help in both the weight gain & loss) throughout the years. I can't help but think it was at least a part in what caused his death.

But regardless, this shit is always so sad. 38 years old and he was still one of the better fighters at light-heavyweight.
 
There was a fighter, I think it was Chris Leben, who said he had cut so much weight throughout the years that he needed to be on medication for his kidneys because they weren't fully functional anymore.

MMA's a tough, tough way to make a living.
 
Where does Poirier go now? Conor money fight? Oliviera for #1 contender rematch? Islam for title?

guy put on a show.
 
GGpX said:
I'm of the opinion that they should take the handful of older 155ers that aren't becoming champions (Diaz, Ferguson, Poirier, Gaethje, Chandler, McGregor, Hooker, RDA, Masvidal) and just have 'em fight each other at 170lbs. Just make their lives easier, enough with this weight cutting shit for no reason, we all know they're lightweights and they weight in the 170lbs range on fight night away.

See if some of the smaller welterweights like Luque would like to participate from time to time too.
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This.
 
I'm 0% interested in watching the old guard at lightweight fight the new generation. I think Rafael Fiziev beats everyone in the top-10, maybe even Islam, but he can't get a fight. Nobody wants to fight him, and I don't blame 'em.

With Volk - Islam happening in February, I think the only logical fight for Poirier is Beneil Dariush for the official #1 contender.

And I think Dariush probably wins that one, too.
 


Had no idea Bellator had a show on tonight, let alone that it was between Nemkov & Anderson. You can make a real argument they're fighting for the title of best Light Heavyweight in the world.

Way to go, Bellator, you fucking dopes.
 
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