The MMA Thread: DON'T ASK 4 STREAMS & NO GIFS- Cannonier, Imavov, Reyes, Rosas on NOW

[Vincent Van Goat]

Leites seems like he's really hitting his stride, Bisping may be have the crowd support a bit more for fighting in Europe, but I like Leites

Bisping was talking this morning "I want a rematch with Rockhold to give him the *** whooping he deserves" 

 Bisping really don't want those problems again. If he takes the L tomorrow he'll have a lot of thinking to do

 

[phillyzphan]

 
Bellator tonight should be an entertaining card 

Ready to see the hype on Michael Page, I guess the guy he's fighting is 16-13 though 

Is Page the guy people were calling the British Anderson Silva?

 

[Vincent Van Goat]

 
Is Page the guy people were calling the British Anderson Silva?

Yep. Dude got hyped and then got injured back in FEB.

I always enjoy Lima's fights

For the most part same with Paul Daley, although his last fight was a snoozer. I was really looking forward to Lima v Daley 

 now it looks like they're going to do Daley v Koscheck next

 

[illphillip]

http://fightland.vice.com/blog/report-conor-mcgregor-vs-jose-aldo-will-go-down-in-dallas

 

[QU!K]

I hope they make it a UFC 100 esque event, 3+ title fights

 

[illphillip]

Frankie Edgar [emoji]10004[/emoji]@FrankieEdgar
@DeathSquadBOS @ufc @arielhelwani they have to milk the cow as much as possible before bringing it to me for slaughter

Frankie jumped on twitter to talk Conor.

Said he'd finish him, which is a stretch

Shame they got my dude out here like this. But I can understand his frustration.

 

[Vincent Van Goat]

I'd imagine RDA being on that card since he was set to return in December

Weidman v Rockhold happening or what? Have to imagine them fighting in December or January

Werdum said he doesn't know if he'd return to fight in 2015

I doubt Robbie will be ready to fight by then

DC still up in the air

Plus you have to fill out the New Year's card with crazy fights too... I hope they don't make the Dallas card all Conor v Aldo and the rest crap. At least have one other title fight like RDA

 

[QU!K]

100k is al lot of seats to fill, they need something to fall back on in case of injury

 

[Vincent Van Goat]

DJ- Fighting in September

TJ- Fighting on July 25

RDA- Scheduled to return in December

Robbie- Unlikely to return by December

Weidman- Probably fight with Rockhold or Souza in December or January

DC- Available

Werdum- Said he would like to return in 2016 (probably the New Year's card)

Rousey- Fighting August 1

In terms of title fights, they may be able to swing

Aldo v McGregor

Weidman v Rockhold

RDA v Cowboy 

If they only give us two title fights I think they can come up with a number of other great non title fights. They may be pulling out the stops for the New Year's card with Jones hopefully returning

 

[carver]

Frankie with a little AMA on twitter.

 

[Vincent Van Goat]

 
Frankie with a little AMA on twitter.

Frankie out here speaking nothing but truths although he was pushing it by saying he'd finish McGoat

It's not good business for Conor v Frankie right now. Get the big money Aldo v Conor fight out of the way then they'll talk Frankie 

Dana bout to match Frankie up with Chad

I understand Frankie's frustrations. He should have gotten the fight not Chad. If Frankie started being WWE earlier in the year perhaps he would have got the shot but he's an honorable dude

 

[shogun]

100k is al lot of seats to fill, they need something to fall back on in case of injury

How much of the stadium you think they can fill if no injury bug hits the card?

 

[QU!K]

I think they can sell out if the can get ConnorvAldo, WeidmanvRockhold, RDAvCowboy on 1 card.

 

[phillyzphan]

I'd be really shocked if they actually did it in Dallas. Are UFC and MGM negotiating anything right now? This could be a negotiation tactic.

 

[QU!K]

When else could they do cowboys tho

Gsp v spider era is over

 

[danger style]

I think they can sell out if the can get ConnorvAldo, WeidmanvRockhold, RDAvCowboy on 1 card.

lol there's no way they're filling up 100k seats even with a card like that. Maybe if they added Rock vs. Brock too

If the fight does end up goin down in Dallas, I see them drawing 40-50k like Manny did.

 

[atransta]

Didn't realize tomorrow's card was an early one.

Lazy Saturday

What time is the fight on PST?

 

[QU!K]

You probably right

 

[RustyShackleford]

 
Frankie with a little AMA on twitter.

Frankie out here speaking nothing but truths although he was pushing it by saying he'd finish McGoat

It's not good business for Conor v Frankie right now. Get the big money Aldo v Conor fight out of the way then they'll talk Frankie 

Dana bout to match Frankie up with Chad

I understand Frankie's frustrations. He should have gotten the fight not Chad. If Frankie started being WWE earlier in the year perhaps he would have got the shot but he's an honorable dude

**** like this is why I don't like Frankie, no matter how right he may be about him being able to handle Conor.

The champ says he can be back in October, and your *** outchea campaigning for a title shot against Conor.

Mannnnn Edgar go sit your smug *** in a corner B

Dude says whinning bout title shots.

 

[phillyzphan]

I just don't see it happening. But I could be wrong.

They've just talked about Cowboy stadium a lot of times. Silva v Sonnen 2. Silva v GSP. Silva v Jones. Lesnar v Fedor. Silva v Weidman 2. 

That stadium is huge. And by doing Aldo v Connor, RDA v Cowboy, and Weidman v Rockhold in December then how do they top that for UFC 200 thats scheduled for July?

 

[RustyShackleford]

I doubt the UFC would even attempt to fill the expire stadium. The would probably close off the higher sections.

 

[Vincent Van Goat]

 
I'd be really shocked if they actually did it in Dallas. Are UFC and MGM negotiating anything right now? This could be a negotiation tactic.

MGM booked Bocelli to perform on Dec. 5th

UFC doesn't want to use Mandalay Bay

They could potentially move it to Dec. 12th, but that would effect future cards that were tentatively scheduled. Originally they planned to have a UFC Fight Night on Dec. 12

 

[phillyzphan]

They could always have it Jan 2nd. Thats was when Fertitta said he wanted it to happen.

 

[Vincent Van Goat]

**** like this is why I don't like Frankie, no matter how right he may be about him being able to handle Conor.

The champ says he can be back in October, and your *** outchea campaigning for a title shot against Conor.

Mannnnn Edgar go sit your smug *** in a corner B

Dude says whinning bout title shots.

I think Frankie means if Aldo can't go 

He played nice when Dana skipped over him to give Conor the shot, was gracious about it and understanding

But then Dana skipped Frankie again and put Chad in there 

I don't think Frankie is doing anything wrong here

 

[Vincent Van Goat]

 
They could always have it Jan 2nd. Thats was when Fertitta said he wanted it to happen.

True. I think Dana had the two dates as possibilities initially

Having Aldo v Conor on the New Year's card would be nuts