In combat spprts you need to defend your belt. If you dont defend you are not the champ.

Stipe was approached to fight Jones for the vacant title before Gane, and they weren’t able to get Stipe to agree to it. So they went to Gane next.

Yeah, Dana never lies

The UFC would be so much better without Dana

Dana says the same shit every time there’s a situation like this and these mooks always lap it up

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>Cause he doesn't draw views.

Gane draws even less. You’d have to think Jones vs. Miocic would bring in more views.

The UFC is a terrible organization. Someone needs to start an athlete owned MMA company where athletes aren't getting fucked over.

Historically there isn’t a lot of precedent, but the closest is probably the Tour de France/Armstrong stuff or the collegiate level stuff in Basketball and Football - those titles were all vacated (Armstrong may have also been stripped, not sure, but those Tour titles were vacated meaning nobody technically “won” in the record books).

I don’t know that there is a parallel though, at least in large organized sports, it’s pretty wild for a sitting champ to literally just bail out on the organization and I don’t even know what my feelings are.

You also have, in the NBA, one of the most player-friendly arrangements in all of sport…the NBPA pulls the strings in the league, there’s a real tangible power imbalance favoring players and I’m hugely in favor of that model - I think if this ever happened in the NBA you wouldn’t even catch a whiff of a title being stripped.

About tree fiddy

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I get you gotta finish the fight. With that said Ngannou is pretty consistent with his follow up shots, and his opponents tend to be laid the fuck out. He even seems to want to continue to throw after the ref steps in. The follow up from ngannou comes off very malicious compared to the rest of the ufc roster.

With that said, I am getting down voted for wanting someone to give ngannou a follow up shot. Seems people don’t like the idea of the follow up.

of course he is. he’s a promoter, he’ll say anything he can to make himself look better. brock made $2.5mil to fight mark hunt at ufc 200. i guarantee they didn’t offer francis that. highest base salary francis ever made was $600k for the gane fight and he was making $150-200k before that.

i’ll believe it was the biggest hw contract if/when the contract leaks, until then it’s just dana doing what dana does.

Is it normal for sports to strip champions of titles due merely to them not participating in the league anymore?

Like if the Lakers wins an NBA title, then some contract negotiations resulted in the org exiting the league, can they just take back the title?

you doing alright? that’s easily half of the ufc you described.

I mean he’s not going to just claim that when Francis and Ngannous team could just refute it which they haven’t.

God I miss having the Swarm in MN so bad. Those games were so much fucking fun and cheap as hell. Loved bringing friends who has never seen or heard of lacrosse before and blowing their minds.

so says dana. have any #’s been made public?

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They offered him a deal to be the highest paid heavyweight fighter of all time.

Well done.

Dana is all about inclusivity. He’s an equal opportunity cheapskate who underpays his fighters regardless of ethnicity

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