Monday, August 30, 2010

Really, Dana, Really?!?!?!?

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Soooooooooooooo, every time a UFC pay-per-view is aired, you dig into your pockets and shell out $45-55(depending on if you get it in HD or not) of your hard earned money to watch it. Intermittently, you go to a live UFC show, buying tickets at exorbitant prices. Then there's the ancillary purchases of various UFC merchandise, including t-shirts, bobble-head dolls, action figures, video games, etc. You name it, Zuffa has stamped a UFC logo on it and sells it. In other words, you spend a $hitload of money on the UFC and their related products. There's nothing wrong with Zuffa trying to maximize their bottom line,
until ..................................... they insult our intelligence by promoting that absolute piece of shit fight that was Randy Couture vs James Toney!

Really, Dana, really?!?
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Do you feel good about promoting that smoldering load of shit as a co-main event? As a fan who tries to push the UFC and the sport of MMA on anyone who will listen, I was thoroughly embarrassed by that spectacle. Other than sheer joy from all the money you stole from us, I can't imagine how you and the rest of the Zuffa brain trust felt after that travesty. Zuffa claims to promote the finest mixed martial arts in the world. In many cases that is true, but in certain cases, its complete fabrication and couldn't be further from the truth. First there was the Kimbo Slice experiment, which by the way, was done after tons of publicly dissing the guy as a loser, a no-talent and bad for the sport. While that was mostly true, once the guy was available, he was snatched up, locked up contractually and had an entire season of TUF built around him. What a disaster that all turned out to be. But at least that ridiculous debacle didn't cost the fans any money since "the internet street-fighting sensation" wasn't on any PPVs.
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Then on Saturday, August 28th, 2010, at the first ever UFC show in Boston, James Toney entered the Octagon as a UFC fighter and MMA pro. I know, its hard to believe but its true. How the hell does that match-up even get sanctioned in the first place? A guy with ZERO mixed martial arts fights gets his first fight against a multiple time, multiple weight class, former champion with nearly 30 fights and 13 years of experience in the sport? I could care less how many boxing matches he's had. These are two very different types of combat sports. Would an Olympic wrestler fight his first pro boxing match against a boxer with comparable boxing credentials to Randy's MMA credentials? I don't think so. You see my point here. You can't make this stuff up! What you could make up though, or in this case, predict, is exactly how that fight (if you could even call it that) would play out. Gee, let's see, will Randy get an immediate takedown and finish the fight on the mat? Would that untrained, out of shape, fat bastard, look like a fish out of water on his back? Oh, I'm sorry, I forgot about the $750,000 worth of hype and promotion the ever so eloquent Mr. Toney did. He did such a great job of talking up the fight that subtitles were needed so people could understand what the hell he was saying. You paid Toney 750K for that garbage and REAL mixed martial artists are lucky to make ten grand? That's some pathetic bullshit right there! I also forgot that fat James "chased you all over" and "called you a pussy", so you were forced to give him a lucrative deal. Is that all it takes to get a co-main event fight in the UFC? Damn, playa!
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Really, Dana, Really?!?

People will tolerate getting exploited for a certain amount of time, and then they either revolt or just walk away. Neither scenario is good for you. Treat the people that made you a wealthy man with respect. Stop insulting us and stop selling us garbage. Man up and apologize for that poorly planned transgression against us. That's the absolute least you could do after putting that out of shape, hasbeen scrub in the cage. And it doesn't make it all good because you told the world, after the fact, that he is one and done in the UFC. You already got our money! Where's our fuckin' refund?
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Really, Dana, really?

MMA vs Boxing? That's the master plan approach to market that trash you called a "fight"? So, besides ripping off and deceiving your entire fan and support base, you even went after the pockets of the few boxing fans that are left? That's a new low. What's next? Shaq vs Hong Man Choi?

Treat us with some fuckin' respect, we're much fuckin' smarter than you fuckin' think! You fuckin' heard?!?

The last paragraph was written in a certain someone's vernacular. Please excuse the profanity. Sometimes you have to speak to people in their language.







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