Your from Texas yes?

the thing about MMA is that the business is too americanized, just look at what they’ve done to soccer in America! those idiots have no idea about what the sport is and have a whole different system in MLS than any other real football league in Europe, there’s too much money and too much competition involved, HOllywood here we come..
I’ve never seen a football game where they have just one league in the game! that would be a horrible idea and that’s just not how it works in football cause it’s a sport not a thing where leagues compete…

American soccer and Euro soccer isn’t a fair comparison. U.S. soccer is at least two steps below EPL, Serie A, Bundesliga, La Liga and probably several other leagues. Try the NFL and the EPL.

yeah i could but NFL/American football is f’ed up too, It’s the only major league in the world of the sport, and what i meant about MLS that is the system they have not the quality, the business side of the sport is just different in America..

So you would realy want 4 or 5 different football leagues in the US. NFL and CFL are North American sports. Who cares if they don’t play the same sport in other countries. If you have more leagues you water down the talent and the entertainment value. If Soccer had one main league that ruled the sport and all the best players were in it the entertainment level would go way up. Soccer is an old sport easy to play but has much less entertainment value. Sure if you love a team and are a die hard fan you care to watch. Over half the people wo watch the NFL don’t even know all the rules but it’s entertaining to watch. MMA has huge entertainment value but besides a few fights hear and their realy the UFC is the only company that is consistantly entertaining.

Dana won’t change all he cares about is his business and his money, he F’s the sport and the fighters that are outside of his comapny!

There are times when he’ll back down. He brought Randy back, he didn’t fire Fitch. Or the Fertitas can just go over his head too. I don’t know but I hope the spotlight and bad publicity shows them that those are unethical business practices.

He did, but he then set him up to lose against Lesnar… The truth is that they are all about having big fights and making money, there’s no fair system or like a sports league at all!.. all it comes down to is how much they can make for each show

I know this and this is why I don’t hate Dana. I understand that his a business man and promoter first. He’s not MMA nor is the UFC. I don’t expect him to try and better MMA before he tries to better the UFC. So in understanding how he is, I know what to expect from him and I think the fighters as well should be able to do the same. Things like this however cross the line and they make me mad because a fighter cannot fight a company he doesn’t belong to. I think however their main goal is to prevent the game from being made, if they can do that then there are no worries. If they cannot then they either have to stand by their threat making them huge A holes or they have to back down and sign a fighter who signed the game deal. I personally think they will back down if the game is made. I think many fighters (like Fedor, Cung Lee, Frank, Aoki, JZ, Jochiam, Nick D, Josh Thompson, ect.) signing this game deal will be too much for the UFC to deny admission. Tell me if one of those guys signed the game deal and then had an open contract the UFC wouldn’t want to sign them?

Would Kobe be allowed to where a Knicks jersey during practice? Case closed…..

Robert what’s your point? wear is also the word you were looking for..
MMA is the sport and to try to prevent an MMA game from being created is crazy, it gets the sport out there and im sure EA Sports would make a great game, and if they’re so worried about that happening then why didn’t they just sign up with EA Sports instead of THQ!..

I don’t know about the rest of the world, but here even superstars don’t control their own images. LeBron can pimp Gatorade, Nike and whatever else, but he can’t start his own line of T-shirts independent of the NBA. The league controls the licensing, so the NBA gets a pretty sizable cut of LeBron merchandise, Kobe merchandise, etc. It sounds like Dana is at least trying to do the same thing.

Sorry, I don’t spell check for you guys…Cross promotions would never work nobody does it in sports why should MMA? The NY Mets don’t play the best team from Japan in the middle of the season….. samething for MMA…. again why should we care how MMA is recieved as a sport in main stream?

Your posts don’t even deserve a reply. Seriously I’m mad that I even gave you a minute of my time to let you know that your posts don’t deserve a reply. FAIL

lol…I run a successful business. You?

The funny thing is that all the Dana lovers here don’t realize that if the UFc goes through with this threat against fighters who deal with EA Sports over this video game…the UFC’s talent pool drops dramatically. That’s why I run a successful business…by looking ahead 5 to 10 years from now.

If EA Sports signs a whole bunch of prospects to video game deals, and the UFC sticks to their guns…who is going to fight for the UFC in 5 to 10 years? Maybe Dana doesn’t give a shit as long as he makes his money now…ala WWE.

Fact of the matter is, the UFC is milking every dollar they can out of guys like you while the getting is good, and would rather milk the money from video games than from a talented pool of future fighters.

One more step toward a Fighter’s Union.

Sounds like you might not, otherwise you would understand Zuffa’s intentions.
As for me, and since you asked, I live comfortably doing what I do.
In my experience, most people that feel the need to brag about how successful they are or how much they have normally lead lives that are quite the opposite.

Also, I wouldn’t consider being a manager at a Wendy’s “running a successful business.”

Do not make fun of Jim Carey!

Bit harsh there Jared. Yeesh!

Heh, that WAS a bit excessive.

Frankly, they both are, but after watching Mir on TUF I can totally see him more as a high school bully. Again, I’m not a fan of Brock either, but I don’t see him as the bully type.

Good points, but I believe Fitch was actually a little bigger then GSP and I thought the Lytle fight was stopped due to cuts?

doesnt matter if alves ways a few more pounds. fitch was about 6ft tall, and sure he weighed about 10 lbs more at fight time, but GSP threw him around like a rag doll, dont forgett GSP trains against HW olympic wrestlers, he is going to be way stronger, and quicker, than alves, combine that with his greater athleticism, footwork, longer reach, he will pick apart him apart, and if alves tries kick he will be taken down. GSP has no problems taking down much better fighters than alves, such as rashad evans, marquardt, or jardine, which he takes down at will in his camp and they cant even take him once. I think people will be shocked how easily GSP destroys alves, taking him down, holding him there, and picking him apart in the standup. Alves will not win a single round.

no it doesn’t but he’s all muscle and he’s much bigger than Jon Fitch is.. being tall does not make you big!.. Jon Fitch is also very slow..

is that a nickname for one of the girls or would you rather pick seabiscuit the horse? lol

LOL, nice!

Just like all the moroons who thought
serra had a chance?
Man it is MMA and there is always a punchers chance in every fight. It takes just a second to end up glaring at the arena lights from your back!!! How many fights in the last 2 years were people not supposed to have a chance and have won their respective fights….