UFC Fight Night Mega-Thread

[King 277]

Anyone watching the UFC in Dublin tonight?

[Guest John Hancock]

Yeah, the crowd's mental! Someone tweeted a picture, and every seat was filled for the first prelim. McGregor's reaction is going to be madness.

[Guest Magic]

Might give this a whirl seen as I'm staying in tonight and have BT. It'll be nice to catch a bit of UFC that isn't on at 4am.

[Guest John Hancock]

The prelims are almost over, I think the last fight is just starting, so I guess the main card starts in half an hour.

 

EDIT: The only problem so far is that because they're using a lot of British, Irish and Irish-American fighters, pretty much everyone on the card so far has looked exactly the same. Every fight has looked like a mosh pit at a Skrewdriver concert.

Edited July 19, 2014 by John Hancock

[King 277]

Boooooommmmmmm

[Guest John Hancock]

Well, that's about that then! McGregor's one of those guy's who's so cool that I don't really want to see him tested, just give him a title shot, he's like the new Brock Lesnar.

[King 277]

"We are here to take over", this man has just become our new national hero :lol

[Guest John Hancock]

I wonder where you put him next. The UFC have been very sensible with where they have him fight, it's always somewhere where he'll have hometown fans, not just Dublin, but Stockholm, where he'd get British and Irish tourists, and Boston, where everyone thinks they're Irish anyway. I wonder what sort of reception he'd get somewhere like California or Vegas.

[King 277]

He wants a football stadium next, he would sell out one over here, depends if Dana wants to go that level over here.

[Guest John Hancock]

I wonder if they'd do a Fight Night in a stadium, that could be pretty awesome actually. Ariel Helwani tweeted that the Irish fans were the best fans he's ever dealt with and been around in his entire MMA-reporting career.

[King 277]

Wow that is a compliment!!

 

When the Irish get behind someone it's like an obsession, he will just explode in the press now and be on every talk and radio show.

 

He's gonna become huge!!

[Guest The Beltster]

I hope they skip the sports part of it and go with the business part and get him a title shot ASAP. Can you imagine how much more of an amazing c*cky b@stard he would be with the belt? That would be wicked.

[King 277]

Man that was great, UFC has always been popular here, but now it's going to a whole new level, exciting times ahead :)

[Guest John Hancock]

 

Conor McGregor, ten years ago.

[Guest John Hancock]

There's one of these tonight, if anyone's interested. It's not the best card in town unfortunately, but there's an Englishman in a main event, even if he is a northerner.

[Guest The Beltster]

There's one of these tonight, if anyone's interested. It's not the best card in town unfortunately, but there's an Englishman in a main event, even if he is a northerner.

Otherwise known as Scottish, or a c*nt.

 

Looking forward to the show, after a ton of UFC's it seems like there hasnt been a show in ages. These under-the-radar shows seem to have a habit of producing though so fingers crossed...

[Guest John Hancock]

There's always something surprising in the UFC Prelims. This time, I've surprised myself by finding out I'm capable of hating f*cking cricket even more than I thought I did.

[Guest John Hancock]

No one cares, because the fights were at dumb o'clock on Footballday, but Michael Bisping just killed a man. Killed him dead. He is now a murderer.

[Guest The Beltster]

F*CK! I didnt know it was on this time and now I know the result. Double bad luck me.

[Guest John Hancock]

I thought it was tonight too until they absolute last minute. Terrible promotion from the UFC considering how big a deal Bisping is.

 

EDIT: Also, really, really strange news coming out of the show. Two fights in, the UFC threw one of the judges out for submitting "bizarre" score cards. Looks like he was either taking bribes, or literally didn't understand the rules. Because the show was in China, there's no proper athletic commission, so all the judges and referees were hand-picked by the UFC themselves, which means they also have the power to fire them mid-show. Kenny Florian was apparently openly calling the judging "awful" during the prelims.

 

Other fun facts, Michael Bisping is now the most successful UFC fighter to never get a title shot. No one else who hasn't had a shot has so many wins.

 

Also, there's another show happening right now, because f*ck you for trying to watch all the UFC shows, and Ben Saunders, after, almost 21 years, has become the first person ever in the UFC to win a match with an omplata, which is noteworthy because it's like the third move most people learn in any sort of grappling.

Edited August 24, 2014 by John Hancock

[Guest The Beltster]

Wow, Benson Henderson just got knocked the f*ck out!

[Chris2K 176]

I literally ran out of time to watch the Henderson/Dos Anjos show, I caught most of the Bisping/Le one though and Bisping gave Cung quite the beating. Time for Cung to step down now and be a very useful UFC ambassador to China.

[Guest bigmatt]

I thought it was tonight too until they absolute last minute. Terrible promotion from the UFC considering how big a deal Bisping is.

 

EDIT: Also, really, really strange news coming out of the show. Two fights in, the UFC threw one of the judges out for submitting "bizarre" score cards. Looks like he was either taking bribes, or literally didn't understand the rules. Because the show was in China, there's no proper athletic commission, so all the judges and referees were hand-picked by the UFC themselves, which means they also have the power to fire them mid-show. Kenny Florian was apparently openly calling the judging "awful" during the prelims.

 

Other fun facts, Michael Bisping is now the most successful UFC fighter to never get a title shot. No one else who hasn't had a shot has so many wins.

 

Also, there's another show happening right now, because f*ck you for trying to watch all the UFC shows, and Ben Saunders, after, almost 21 years, has become the first person ever in the UFC to win a match with an omplata, which is noteworthy because it's like the third move most people learn in any sort of grappling.

 

 

 

 

After an internal review, the UFC organization announced today that a breach of its independent regulatory protocol occurred on Saturday night during UFC FIGHT NIGHT MACAO.

 

After the second fight of the night, UFC President Dana White requested that Howard Hughes, one of the event's five assigned judges, be removed from working any further bouts. Pursuant to UFC's protocol, neither White nor any other UFC executive possesses such authority. Nevertheless, protocol was breached and Hughes did not work further bouts on Saturday night.

 

The UFC organization has always been in support of government regulation and oversight. Additionally, the UFC has established a protocol when required to self-regulate events due to the lack of an official athletic commission, federation or other regulatory body. In those instances where UFC holds events in locations without a regulatory body, the UFC's protocol dictates that the organization's internal regulators will handle all commission functions independently and without interference by company executives or employees.

 

The UFC remains committed to maintaining the strictest regulatory environment for competition and vows that no similar breach of protocol will happen again.

 

Both White and the UFC apologize to Mr. Hughes for calling his professional judgment into question. Hughes has judged more than 25 UFC fight cards and the UFC looks forward to him working on its events again in the future.

http://ufc.com/news/UFC-Statement-Regarding-Judging-at-UFC-Fight-Night-Macao

 

Interesting.

[Guest John Hancock]

So Dana White got caught breaking his own rules, which only he cares about enforcing? Very weird.

[Guest John Hancock]

There's another of these tomorrow night, and it looks great. Mousasi, Overeem, Lauzon, someone's getting f*cked up.

 

Interesting side note, it's on a reservation, so it's under the jurisdiction of the native American athletic commission, and they're using a much smaller cage than usual (who know's why, maybe they're scared buffalo spirits might try to graze in the bigger cage because of racism) which means much, much more people punching each other in the head, and much, much less Carlos Condit moonwalking.