brashleyholland

Not even heard the rumour. Fined for what?

Dude's almost 40...he never had any intention of a fully fledged MMA career. He supposedly just wanted to give it a go. Part of me thinks maybe he wanted to see if he could capitalise on the fame of cousin Kimbo, get a few big fights then launch his health and fitness coach career off the back of it.

SAY NO TO STOUT-FIN SOUP!!!

Weird thing is that in 'real life' Gray isn't bland at all. He's a bit of a mischief maker!

Correct!

Affliction 2 was scheduled for October 2008, with AA vs Barnett as the main event. That show was canned due to poor tickets sales. Fedor vs AA went down the following January.

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="damonster" data-cite="damonster" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="26660" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>It was a redirect from blecher report, since then they have removed the link. I can't remember the websites name, but I remember reading an article on it before saying GSP passed away.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> ...and that wasn't a good enough reason never to believe anything you read on that site ever again? :-p </p><p> </p><p> They're offering refunds as an exception to their 'card subject to change' no-refunds policy. </p><p> </p><p> I heard a rumour from a journo I know in Brazil that a big group of Brazilian ticket holders were going to file a compensation claim against the UFC after being unable to get a refund on their tickets. He reckons that this was a pre-emptive move. Makes sense, true or not.</p>

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="damonster" data-cite="damonster" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="26660" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>maybe, just what i read it said everyone who bought a ticket previously gets a refund, nothing about not keeping a ticket. plus the title said UFC 147 for free, but I wouldn't be taking that websites words to heart.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Got a link? I'm curious now! <img alt=":)" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/smile.png.142cfa0a1cd2925c0463c1d00f499df2.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p>

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="damonster" data-cite="damonster" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="26660" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>A UFC first is happpening this week, free admission if you bought a ticket before today to UFC 147.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Unless I'm mistaken, there is a three-day window to get a refund on your ticket. You don't get to keep the ticket.</p>

Some good answers/guesses here folks. The guy who fought for free was indeed Tito, who fought as a amateur for no prize money in his first two UFC bouts. He was still enrolled in the Cal State wrestling programme, and as such couldn't receive payment for competing in any sporting events. Affliction scheduled four events. Fedor vs Sylvia (HA!), Arlovski vs Barnett, Fedor vs Arlovski and Fedor vs Barnett. Only two actually took place. One of the 'UFC firsts' at 124 was the fans voting for Fight of the Night. Nobody has the other one yet. Nobody has guessed what Eilers, Couture, Penn and Shogun have in common yet...Makhai came close but there is something much more exclusive than that... By extension, nobody has got the following question...although (big hint) Chael Sonnen very nearly became part of said club not too long ago. Nobody has the ex-UFC fighter who fought for a dollar one either. Clue - the dollar fight wasn't in the UFC.

Really easy MMA trivia - If you google it, you suck! Name the only fighter in history who has fought in the UFC for free. How many Affliction events were scheduled before the promotion shut it's doors? What do BJ Penn, Randy Couture and Shogun Rua have in common with the late Justin Eilers? Name someone else who is set to join that exclusive club before the end of the year. What two 'UFC firsts' occurred at UFC 124? Name a former UFC fighter who once famously fought for $1, and give his reason for doing so.

The run over thing was one factor. The network wasn't happy with the continual overruns. I don't know how much of a big deal that is in the US...here in the UK there is very little live sport that isn't on dedicated sports channels (and our main sports footy/rugby) don't have 'overtime' periods as the norm) so overruns aren't something we have to deal with. FX not supper chuffed, anyway. It comes down to numbers though - the ratings weren't spectacular compared to previous seasons so it just didn't make sense to spend so much more money on them. They're basically doing just over an hour's worth of live TV a week (even though most of it is pre-taped) for 12 weeks, 12 weeks of filming in the house and post production, instead of just 6 weeks filming then a bit of post-production. Personally, I just don't care. Watched TUF since season 1 and hate reality TV :-p All I do now is fast forward to the fights, so it makes no difference to me.

No vitriol, it just gets my goat when people who spend a lot of time on forums/reading MMA sites/twitter etc present stabs in the dark as fact. "From what I've been told" is my favourite. When they mean "What I read on FrontRowBrian's twitter". This isn't directed at you by the way, just a general observation from someone who is rapidly losing the will to live due to an MMA overload of late. IMO it's why most MMA forums have gone down the swanny over the past few years, and why the online MMA community as a whole is so massively misinformed about the sport and how it works. Why it's taken me a decade to be bothered by this, I'm not sure...but I guess as this is the only place I post about MMA online I'm shielded from it. I used to think that I knew MMA like the back of my hand a decade ago...now I have six jobs in the industry and I realise that I'm still learning today. Also realising that I have a Sherdog account that is nearly a decade old just really freaked me out. Eugh. This wasn't directed at you. I was pointing out that because 20-odd million people saw the Aldo fight, that doesn't make him a star when 20 million people tune into the channel every day anyway. Had 40 million people tuned in then yeah, is my point.

Based on what? There is absolutely no data to support that statement whatsoever. Until the UFC does more live events on Globo you're just making a guess based on the fact that you think certain Brazilians are popular in Brazil. I'm not saying that you're wrong, just that there is no evidence to support the fact that Aldo is a bigger or smaller 'star' than the Nogueira's, Silva, Wand or Belfort. (Belfort has the highest celebrity profile of all of them, due to his famous wife). The only other possible comparison (and it's not a great one) is the Silva/Okami fight, which peaked at half the number of viewers that Aldo/Mendez did, albeit on a smaller network. What people also have to remember about Brazil is that there are far few TV channels than places like the US and UK. There are only three main stations vying for the majority of viewers. So when you see a statement like "24 million people tune in to UFC main event" or whatever, it becomes a lot less impressive when you realise that the same station averages 20 million every other day of the week.

Depth is the one they talk about publicly, and the overriding factor. The one they don't talk about is the organisation and some of their bigger sponsors not wanting bloody, battered women all over the TV, internet, print media, etc. The world and their fragile little mind's aren't ready for that! I mean, they get the vote, now they want to fight each other? Madness, madness I tells ya!

Absolute nonsense. I have numerous sources in and around the UFC and I've never heard that before in my life. There are two reasons that Zuffa don't want anything to do with WMMA yet, and that is neither of them.

2012 is set to be worse. Last year 73 fights were changed/cancelled due to injury. This year, 43 have been changed/cancelled so far, and we're only half way through June. You've got to assume that some of the fights already booked will change...then all the unannounced cards in September-December. We're on something like 22% of all fights booked so far this year being changed. Now you could say that there are more cards, so that means more fights and more injuries. But that doesn't solve the UFC's problem - They're still booking the arenas and paying for the shows, they still have tickets to sell, PPV to shift and ratings to get. More shows means more expense, so even if there were the same number of injuries this year as there were last year, it's kinda hurting them more.

The Teixeira fight is a 100% no-win situation for Shogun. If I was his manager, I'd absolutely turn it down. Glover is really, really good...the UFC have been trying to sign him for years, ever since he was Chuck Liddell's sparring partner back when Chuck was rampaging. He's also a 'nobody' in the sense that nobody outside of the super-hardcore MMA fans know who he is, or had seen him fight before the UFC managed to sign him. A win over Teixeira does nothing for Shogun. A loss kills him, and more importantly for his managers, any leverage they have at the negotiating table. Dana's problem is that he is in the middle of the worst injury crisis his promotion has ever had. He needs fights. He doesn't need managers telling him no, especially when they have him over a barrel. Is Dana trying to create a rift between Shogun and his managers? I don't think so. Ask yourself: What would he gain from that? If Shogun sacks his manager, he'll just go and get another one. Or better yet, sign with a big sports agency as is becoming the norm. I wouldn't read anymore into this than just Dana being Dana. Things didn't go his way, somebody caused him a problem and he's trashing them for it in public. Typical day at the office! :-D

Some people do it to look popular, some do it for advertising purposes. If he's running a podcast, and it looks like he has 17k+ twitter followers, it makes his show more appealing to potential sponsors.

You can buy followers in chunks of 500, 1k, 5k and 10k really easily. I get approached all the time. I know of a couple of MMA promotions who have done it with facebook and twitter.

I'll take this one, as the resident 'media' :-p Anyone who asks for freebies, then subsequently sets his twitter followers on you if he doesn't get them - doesn't deserve what they're asking for. Too many people in the media think that freebies are a right; they're not, they're a privilege, and like most privileges, have to be earned. I've got no idea who this guy is, but as far as I can gather from a quick look at his website, he has some kind of online podcast. I seriously, seriously doubt that those 17k twitter followers are real. I can't imagine that relatively popular in the UK wrestling industry amounts to 17k followers - I couldn't even name a wrestler based in the UK - a podcast host getting 17k followers just doesn't add up. You can buy em, they're not expensive. I hope this isn't the reason behind Adam deleting his twitter - can't stand bullies and to think that someone has effectively ceased social networking with their fanbase because of them *really* grinds my gears.

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A cynic might say that with this result, Manny's camp would have to accept a smaller share of the pot to fight Floyd. Not that anything that underhand would ever go down in boxing, oh no....

You're a braver man than me arguing with Ash the Bash! :-D

You've got to take guys like that with a pinch of salt, everybody knows one. There's a guy we know where I live called 'One-up Will'...whatever anyone has done, he's done it first. Whatever you've bought, he's got a better one. He's got a great job and a girlfriend (who nobody has ever seen, but she used to model) and still has time to complete every video game that comes out in the first week, play semi-pro football (had trails for Arsenal but did he knee in as a kid), skydive and paintball regularly and do all his charity work. This despite the fact that nobody ever see's him outside of the pub. I never really paid any notice to Remi until I saw a post where he was talking about being in a street fight and using 'chopping side kicks to the legs' of his opponent. That's when I had my moment of clarity, lol.