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PilotMan

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  1. Wow, gotta put someone down in order to make your point? And to think I left middle school so many years ago. I didn't ask why those guys didn't get the chance. I pointed out that they are or were top guys who aren't in the mix at the moment because of the business of the UFC. I understand that plenty. You want to debate the ins and outs of certain match ups fine, but you don't understand, MMA is a sport. Just because there is no BCS of MMA to determine the title shot or the national attention or money that the other major sports bring in doesn't mean that it shouldn't have the same expectation. Simply put, Hendricks and the entire WW division have been screwed up since GSP was injured. Condit waiting was his right, but throwing Diaz back in the mix right away was a mistake. Personally, I hope Diaz wins, that'll mean a rematch right away (the public demands!), and Hendricks will have to wait until 2014 and it'll just make this discussion all the more relevant or someone will beat him and we'll never hear from him again. In the end, it won't matter, because no fighter is bigger than the UFC, and we'll all keep watching because we love the sport/business/product, whatever you want to call it. BTW, I do watch Bellator and love the product. I would have loved to see a Chandler/Alvarez rematch right away. That was an incredible fight, and it would have been accepted as the right thing to do that time as well.
  2. That's all well and good, but sports can't be run this way. It undermines the integrity of the sport itself. Otherwise Notre Dame would play for the national championship every week and the Yankees would be in the Series every year regardless of their accomplishments. Simply because it makes the most money. I don't think that a WWE argument that it's what the fans want or that it's what makes the most money, or it's what GSP wanted holds much water at all. Hendricks had been told numerous times that he would be the #1 contender and he should be. In a fair sport none of that other stuff matters. So yes, they can do it, but the sport itself suffers in the chase for the almighty dollar. This isn't the first time that this kind of thing happens. The UFC backs away from guys that they don't know what to do with. It's why Fitch (pre-Hendricks) never got another shot at GSP or why Rashad isn't even mentioned anymore despite being one of the top 205ers around. It's part of the reason that Rampage walked, and it clearly shows that the UFC is in total control of it. Sometimes that good, sometimes it's bad. In this situation it's bad.
  3. Nothing on Hendricks getting totally shafted by the UFC in favor of Nick Diaz? UFC shows it's doing nothing more than chasing dollar signs rather than give the shot to the guy who has earned it.
  4. The first thing that Strikeforce needs to do is get rid of their announcers. The Diaz/Noons fight was good for about one round, maybe two. There were so many mistakes and mis-speaks, and over blown statements that it was terribly unprofessional. I was watching the fight last night thinking that neither of these guys would go very far against a top 10 fighter, and frankly I think that a guy like Ben Askren could take them.
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