Erik Magraken
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Our brain health knowledge posters are hitting the gyms! I’m going to highlight every club that gets the poster up. Using these hashtags
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#FightingFoundation
High Res copies of posters available here!
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30 years of watching MMA don’t know if I’ve ever seen this before
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Under MMA’s new unified rules the Muay Thai jumping downward elbow will be a legal technique.
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No community note.
This is real.
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Joe Rogan saying "that's tight" means the fighter will escape.
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Somebody please remake this Ngannou meme but with Fury on the canvass.
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Rogan tells us the Olympics are a ‘giant scam’ because of all the $$$ rolling in and the athletes not getting a fair cut.
I agree Joe.
Now do the UFC
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So the UFC heavyweight division now has
A champ
An interim champ
And a Stipe
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I'm actually impressed that in 30 plus years of bouts the UFC has never had an athlete die in the cage.
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The fact that a billionaire can buy out a publicly regulated sporting event, shut out spectators and media is among the compelling reasons why we don’t need billionaires.
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Francis literally crossed the ocean to immigrate to Europe from Africa as a refugee.
Walked away from one of the biggest ufc contract offers to risk it all on the open market.
The man embraces risk.
"It makes no sense to me."
Dana White criticizes Francis Ngannou's deal with the PFL. The UFC boss also said Ngannou doesn't want to take any risks, especially against Jon Jones. 👀
More:
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Dana tried to persuade you that Francis had bad management..
Don't ever let someone else tell you what you can or cannot do with your own life. He believed in himself & never let others distract from his goal.
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Holy shit.
Did you know Mark Hunt is rated in the top 1.4 % of chess players worldwide.
Damn!
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I just double checked with an Arizona based attorney. The laws cited here are up to date. That means Arizona did not hold a weigh in that complies with their statute.
That means Charles O did not miss weight.
No one was weighed in properly.
A shit show folks.
Asking questions that deserve to be asked. Worth a quick read.
Charles Oliveira may not have officially missed weight. Because Arizona appears to not have held proper weigh ins.
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@francis_ngannou
should start calling out the ufc for his next fight.
Saying “I will take on anybody you got for the MMA lineal championship.”
PFL will co promote.
Throw the ‘he’s scared’ narrative right back in Dana’s face.
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Under the new MMA unified rules this is not considered grounded.
So knees and kicks to the head are legal.
And the hands can be stomped.
New realities fighters / coaches need to start prepping for.
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Classic Dana White quote on Ngannou.
“When you’re a fighter, you have to be careful who represents you. I don’t think he’s had the best representation.”
Translation - please hire a manager that’s puts the UFC’s interests first. Not yours.
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UFC champ speaks truth about fighter pay.
Most that achieve their dream finish broke and broken.
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Fighters, this ‘generosity’ is only possible because the promoter is pocketing 80%
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Profound dehydration to then take undefended traumatic brain injury.
All approved by your local government!
The weight-cutting epidemic has spread to Power Slap.
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As many of the first generation of MMA fighters are grappling with the realities of CTE you have regulators clearing the way for this gutter ‘sport’.
Intentional Brain Trauma. With ‘athletes’ who are not allowed to defend it.
Pure garbage.
This has to be the most brain damage inducing “sport” there is
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Yesterday a UFC rep was trying to sell slap fighting to the ABC.
Claimed its less dangerous.
Today a respected Ringside Doctor told the room some of the seizures he has seen from slap fighting are some of the most concerning things he's seen.
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The UFC has now gone to -
We decide
- who you fight
- where you fight
- what you wear
- what your seconds wear
- who sponsors you
- what substances are prohibited
- and who you fight in front of
That last one is quite something.
No media. No audience. Here’s Zuck
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Ngannou got paid.
And still holds the claim to the MMA lineal championship of the world. Where he can return and still get paid.
No shine lost.
Nothing ventured nothing gained.
Respect.
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I’m going to add
“Author of Francis Ngannou Twitter bio” to my resume.
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Its amazing that Dana cannot see that he is the machine.
Fam, please caption this pic of Dana White at a Rage Against the Machine concert
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This is a walk off KO.
But in MMA it’s a ‘keep killing the underpaid man!’
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Roxanne Modafferi (
@Roxyfighter
) is about to set the record for most pro fights in women’s MMA history. But not a peep. If you Google the stat nothing even comes up.
Hey MMA media - give this legend and pioneer the shine she deserves!
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UFC love to position themselves as being like the major league sports.
Except in one key way.
Athlete pay.
Endeavor president Mark Shapiro: UFC is now one of the four major sports
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The contrast tonight between the UFC with a fighter thanking them for a $50k bonus of life changing money and Bellator handing out a $1 million check is something. I know it’s not a full picture but optics reflect poorly on the UFC.
Fighters - organize. They’re making billions!
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Pictures of Professor Ngannout teaching class at Harvard.
"How I did not, in fact, fumble the bag. "
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You can’t make this stuff up.
The fighters listed to testify on the UFC’s behalf never opted out of the lawsuit so they are actually suing the UFC at the same time.
What a world.
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The UFC ‘bonus’ structure is
basically the fight promoter equivalent of giving staff a pizza party instead of fair pay.
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Well fighters, now you have many members of the public literally betting their money that your wages will continue to be kept really low.
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This will be the first UFC with
1. Legal 12-6 elbows
2. The new grounded fighter rule
(knees and soccer kicks to head legal even if feet and both hands are on the ground).
Dana White tells Sportsnet the UFC is going to Edmonton on November 2.
Main Event: Rose Namajunas vs. Erin Blanchfield
Co-main: Derrick Lewis vs. Alexandr Romanov
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UFC - We are the NFL of MMA!
Except no union.
No collective bargaining.
No fighter input on anti doping.
No pension.
No post career health insurance.
No certified player agents.
No livable entry pay.
But we have a monopoly and make truck loads of profit!
NFL of MMA Baby!
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If you don't understand the antitrust suit, the below one sentence tweet should tell you all you need to know about the UFC monopsony.
Nate Diaz reportedly earned more money fighting Jake Paul than he did in his entire UFC career
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A lot of controversy on today's weight miss.
I will dig into the legalities a bit later.
But short answer is UFC can do whatever they want because they are judge jury and executioner over their in-house promotional titles.
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Fighter - Can I smoke weed out of competition?
USADA - Absolutely!
Fighter - Can I smoke weed in competition?
USADA - No!
Fighter - OK. How long before a fight do I have to stop smoking?
USADA - No idea...But you will be punished if you guess wrong.
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“Fighters don’t want their actual pay disclosed because they’ll constantly be hit up by friends and family for loans. And they’ll be targets for kidnapping!”
Lawsuit documents obtained by Bloody Elbow showed the median UFC payout from 2011-2016:
$29,000
More info on the follow up below.
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Couldn’t possibly insist something that crazy of independent contractors!
Unlike say
- USADA drug testing
- Fight kits
- unpaid crypto ads
- dictating who you fight
- dictating where you fight
- contract tolling during injuries
But a life saving vaccine? That’s too damn far!
Dana White says UFC will not require fighters to get vaccinated for COVID-19: ‘Never gonna happen’ (
@DamonMartin
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UFC Hall of Fame induction should come with a $10 million check.
Promotion can easily afford it, a 'big league' move and frankly just pennies on the dollar of how much money they made off the backs of their hall of famers.
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“The only one that’s scared is Dana. Scared to lose his monopoly of ripping fighters off”
Good angle.
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This is a way better look than a fighter asking for a $50k bonus.
Just an observation. Don’t get mad.
I made so much cash 💰 tonight , I may never fight again . It’s been real guys 😂😂😂. PFL took care of your boy !!
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Getting a lot of odd comments about ‘groomers’.
I’ll say this.
In 20 years of practicing law I’ve sued about 2 dozen child molesters.
Most came from religious institutions (priests etc) and more ‘right’ aligned orgs.
Never had a client molested by a drag queen.
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Wonder if there was any pressure from ufc brass, the so called ‘we don’t police speech’ company to Anik?
If anyone was offended by Anik’s words those are the softest of the soft.
Anik apologizes for criticism of MMA fan base: 'I've learned a lot'
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Strickland suggesting it is 'weak' to love a family member who is gay.
The opposite of that is weak. And sad.
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This comment from a UFC fighter coach on sharing hotel with powerslappers is hilarious
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This shit is hilarious because Jon Jones and Derrick Lewis have the same management team
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The UFC is worth billions. And the owners are leveraging that crown jewel attempting to go public. They only are worth ‘more’ for investors if fighters completely fail to get a bigger slice of the pie. Rooting for Jon Jones and all others in getting fair pay.
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The antitrust certification is by far the biggest story in MMA right now. By miles.
And I'm seeing dead silence on some of the biggest MMA sites.
Pitiful.
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UFC antitrust trial back on.
Date = October 28.
Things are getting interesting.
To settle the judge wants to see big $$$ in Le and major contractual changes in Johnson.
UFC wants certainty of settlement but can they stomach offering a deal good enough to satisfy the judge?
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@ICromwell4Van
@benbolliger
@icbc
I’ll tell you what’s more messed up. ICBC successfully lobbied the gov so victims of crashes like this can’t sue bad drivers. To save bad drivers money on insurance. And fatten ICBC’s bottom line.
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The UFC is (largely) now people being signed from Dana White’s warehouse fights to then compete at a glamorous UFC in the same warehouse card.
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If you are an MMA Fighter about to sign a management contract and want a lawyer to look at it I will review it for you for free.
I agree with
@SugaSeanMMA
here. Fighters would be well-served to read any proposed manager contract carefully or enlist the services of an attorney to do so. There are some questionable characters out there serving as “MMA managers”.
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Extreme right wing mma Twitter.
Zero out of five stars.
Do not recommend.
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Bro, UFC pays fighters massive back room bonuses!
…
Not according to the antitrust judge that extensively scoured their business practices.
‘Very limited cases…very small number of fighters’
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Dana White - "Francis left the UFC because he does not want to fight the best"
Francis - "I will box Tyson Fury despite not being a boxer"
Dude is a certified badass.
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This is a good read.
And it gets the history of Jones vs Ngannou right.
Jones did not duck.
Francis did not duck.
The UFC’s monopsonistic greed was the problem.
‘F*** that punk’: Unsealed docs reveal Dana White’s reaction to Jon Jones money demands
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To the new owners of
@BloodyElbow
Your decision to delete the posts from your archives that made it the best site in actual MMA reporting seems like a special bit of dumbassery.
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UFC 306
Ode to Mexico!
Sponsored by Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Headlined by American vs Georgian
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Hot take -
If the UFC embraced a 50/50 rev split they would not be in the antitrust suit, would be locked in as the market leader and would have that position unthreatened for decades to come.
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The man bet on himself. And won.
A rare combination of nerve and skill.
And now he has unprecedented opportunities in MMA and Boxing.
He has earned every bit of whatever comes next.
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UFC hosting cards at the Apex during the pandemic was creative promoting.
UFC continuing to host cards there now that things have re-opened is lazy promoting.
They probably figure why leave their cozy back yard jurisdiction if they don't have to.
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This is damning. I'll explain it like you're 9
UFC to Court - We have major competitors!
- email (ha, ha, no we don't!)
UFC to Court - There are no barriers to competitors!
- email (ha, ha, major barriers)
UFC to Court - We did not create barriers
-Email (we totally did!!!!)
A few excerpts from the Le v Zuffa discovery filings.
1. WME executive email listing the risks (and how to mitigate those risks) in the UFC's business to apparently be put in an investors' or lenders' deck after WME had agreed to acquire the company.
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Major MMA judging reform coming this month. Some details here.
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This week in MMA
Dana - this was the UFC’s best year ever! We’re talking piles on money!
Retired fighter - I have CTE and am struggling with my insurance premiums...
Dana - we all have our problems. I used to teach boxercise and you don’t hear me bitching!
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ZERO fighters opted out of the UFC class action lawsuit.
Not a single one from over 1,200!
Here’s a simple breakdown.
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Unionized sports have pensions for athletes for retirement.
UFC has Powerslap.
Paige Vanzant will be competing at Power Slap 8 per the UFC broadcast
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So UFC class action certified. Presiding judge indicates he intends on unsealing the many previously sealed documents exposing heavy business practices. Dems have control of the Senate, House and Presidency and there is growing support for Ali Act. Times they are a changin!
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How the leaked ONE Championship contract let’s them tie up athletes for a very long time.
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Jared suffered a brain injury.
At a UFC event.
Dana is mad that Jared said what was obvious to anyone paying attention.
Seems the Athletic Commission and promoter fell asleep at the switch.
"You're not a f*cking doctor": Dana White scolds Jared Gordon for not being up front about his health when booked on short notice vs. Jim Miller.
Full interview:
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For those saying
“UFC is not a monopoly because there are other MMA promoters”
That’s not how antitrust law works.
It’s ‘do they have so much power that they can unilaterally set elite fighter pay in the US’?
The court said yup. Unquestionable concentration of power.
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Ready for Mexican celebration fight night sponsored by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia headlined by an American vs a Georgian?
Heck yeah you are!
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The pandemic made the UFC realize their brand is so strong they can just put people in a cage in a warehouse to fight and the public will still tune in.
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Their lawyers must cringe every time they see these comments.
As they’re trying to persuade the court the UFC have real competition in the market Dana keeps boasting they have none.
Dana White dismisses PFL as potential 'co-leader' with UFC.
📰
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How is it that these US athletes can pal around with this foreign war lord that is currently under sanction by the US government?
Former UFC champs Kamaru Usman and Henry Cejudo, along with Justin Gaethje, are all currently in Chechnya at the invitation of the republic's warlord Ramzan Kadyrov.
Here they are testing out guns at a special forces facility in Gudermes.
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Dana basically responds by bullying
But to his ‘why would we do that question’ the answer is
‘Because you are a promoter. And this is the biggest fight that could be promoted in MMA right now’.
Dana White responds to the idea of cross promoting Jon Jones vs. Francis Ngannou
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Boasting
“Here is CTE brain damage. This is the event!”
A ringing endorsement for other regulators being asked to green light this shit show.
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The lawsuit you filed says otherwise
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Some data on bare knuckle boxing.
Let’s start with the wildest stat. Bare knuckle boxers break their hands less than gloved boxers.
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Gotta acclimate to men locked in cages
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Dude got long Covid.
Tried to retire but a murderous dictator told him he can’t.
Quite the thing.
After winning three fights in just over two months at the start of his UFC tenure, Khamzat Chimaev was expected to be "the next one", but now, nearly four years later, is it time for us to channel Jay-Z and move "onto the next one"?
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UFC controlled the sport. Control their media and control the narrative.
But they don’t control the courts.
The times they are a changin’
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Today’s UFC antitrust lawsuit development explained in 90 seconds.
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The lineal MMA heavyweight championship of the world.
Whether the UFC likes it or not.
🚨𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗡𝗘𝗪𝗦 🚨
𝗛𝗘𝗔𝗩𝗬 𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗞𝗘𝗦 For Saturday Night 👀
@francis_ngannou
will face the winner of the Renan Ferriera vs Ryan Bader bout
#PFLvsBellator
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Asking questions that deserve to be asked. Worth a quick read.
Charles Oliveira may not have officially missed weight. Because Arizona appears to not have held proper weigh ins.
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What an absurd thing for a manager to say.
"Only listen to media that get credentials from the promoter (the opposite side of the negotiating table from fighters) who say things that please the preferred narrative of the promoter"
C'mon man.
Guys, please don’t listen to people can’t even get credentials to UFC events fake news bitch
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Kadyrov literally sanctioned by US for Human Rights Abuses. Included in the sanctions are Kadyrov’s MMA properties.
And yet we get this garbage.
Kadyrov also posted this photo of two of his sons, Adam and Ali, posing with UFC President Dana White at
#UFC294
Perfectly normal behaviour for a U.S. sports organization.
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Watching Bellator. This sport is getting soft. Several bouts in and not a single severed finger.
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Court finds UFC uses ‘ruthless coercive techniques’ to keep fighters from enjoying free agency.
It’s nice seeing truth so plainly spoken by an objective body instead of in house media driving the narrative.
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Wow.
Harder hitting questions in this scripted sport presser than you’ll ever see in a modern day ufc presser.
Cody Rhodes was asked about the Vince McMahon lawsuit, whether he believes Janel Grant, and does the locker room believe what Grant is saying, since they’ve “been awfully silent”.
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Jon Jones’ greatest hits
- picograms
- internet dick pills
- smashed Bentley
- pregnant woman hit and run
- out of comp coke
- negligent firearm use in Albuquerque
- now Las Vegas domestic incident
Quite the list.
Am I missing any?
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This is quite the thing.
Speaks volumes.
Zero Eligible UFC Fighters Asked To Opt Out of Class Action Lawsuit.
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So much dirt coming to light.
These guys will not give a jury the warm fuzzies.
Some emails of the UFC team discussing fighter negotiations.
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