Just want to say wme was banking on fighters being marks for ufc
Most guys stayed loyal because Lorenzo would drop g’s under the table to keep them happy
Wme can’t have that, so we have fighters looking at their options
Bellator quickly becoming a destination for disenfranchised names and upcoming guys.
At this point ufc had better pr, marketing, pushing, names, and young guys 10 years ago without fox and without the forced reebok shit that fucked over the hundreds of guys without that sponsorship
UFC needs to bring back sponsors, needs to kill the reebok deal, and needs to build draws.
Like having guys shit talk on twitter and interviews with ariel is all we are getting
We need more of that full blown shit talk
We need ufc to be built around fighters and not ufc being the show with dana as the face
If they were pushing mighty mouse like they pushed gsp and even bisping he’d be way more of a needle mover
But mighty mouse does not talk shit. They need to go all ass on a push for him. Give him a fs1 personality profile. Give him paul heyman to work with. Just give the dude the recognition he deserves.
That is what strikeforce did to rebuild dan henderson. That is how they rebuilt werdum. You need guys to push who represent the company.
Bellator is still incredibly particular about who it brings in. All the guys they’ve brought in are established veterans or guys that have worked with Coker in Strikeforce extensively.
But if you don’t have name value, don’t have an established relationship with him and actually have a good chance of winning a title, you’re better off in the UFC. Cat Zingano is really pissed off lately, but she doesn’t really have anywhere to go. Bellator wouldn’t necessarily pay her more and she could be champ one day.
MIghty Mouse will never be the draw GSP. GSP was fighting top P4P guys every other fight meanwhile Mighty Mouse is the only top P4P guy in his division. Even Silva was bouncing around weightclasses fighting anybody Dana would let him, so they really need to drop all of this “DJ is the best ever!” nonsense.
Record for most consecutive wins. Included in those wins were multiple UFC champs (Henderson, Belfort, Griffin, Franklin). What’s the case for DJ again? A bunch of wins against a bunch of guys nobody remembers or even really knew at the time in a weight class that doesn’t even really need to exist.
Yes, because Anderson Silva consistently faced killers like James Irvin, Travis Lutter, Patrick Cote and Chris Leben.
Silva has good wins, but who are his best opponents? Rich Franklin was good, but after that? Maybe the Dan Henderson that lost to Kazuo Misaki a year earlier? Chael Sonnen? Forrest Griffin?
The argument for DJ kind of speaks for itself. He’s consistently dominated solid opposition (and also John Moraga) to the point where he now shares the record for most UFC title defenses.
The only person of note that he defended against was Dodson. Silva’s comp was better, GSP and Jones’ was WAY better. His run is similar to Ronda’s. It’s cute and he gets credit for beating who’s in front of him, but that’s where it ends.
Dj confirmed he’s not interested. Tj and ufc were the ones bringing up the idea not dj. He was interested when tj had the belt and tj wasn’t really. Now tj needs money and wants it but he has no leverage with no belt. So dj is fighting the people in his division. Wants to break Andersons record, told tj to get in line like everyone else if wants the fight.