UFC and the problem with politics Bellator did this with Jake Hager at least he was a champion wrestler...but still he was able to take a pro fight? CM Punk was allowed to just jump in without a pro career of any kind. They had both of his fights in Chicago to make sure tickets sold to see him..that's local fighter stuff.... Most local combat sports fight nights...are filled with 40 year olds, from your local gym, who aren't gonna try and play football now... so they're gonna do MMA...get walked over by some 21 year old..who's padding his record to make himself look better than he is.. gaining local popularity and social media presence...and when get in the cage with a dawg, they're not ready...pushed they've never been taken to deep water before...and it gets muddy and merky, the deeper you go, the darker it gets...and that's when we separate a shark from a fish. The Angel Reese Effect, is in full force! She's been on the cover of, Vogue. She's now on the cover of, “WNBA 2k '26,” and, “NBA 2k '26 Leave No Doubt Edition.” She's also signed a deal with, Reebok. She switched up the game when she went to copywrite, “Mebound.” And in addition to it all, she recently went on a five game streak where she put up 15+ rebounds per game! College athletics doesn't have an NIL problem. It honestly doesn't have a transfer portal problem. It has a blue blood problem. That system is being protected by the, CFP. Six of the top ten spending teams from 2024 didn't make the playoffs. And the reality is that 17 outta the top 25 spenders didn't make the playoffs either. In fact 7 teams had a losing record. This isn't about NIL money. This is about fear. #deiondrasanders #collegefootball #angelreesehighlights
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And all you have to do is look at the
playoffs and see what those teams spent.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Now, at the end of the day, things are decided
on the field, but way before that they're decided and
the bank accounts.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
And you understand darning the white end playoffs, it's kind
of hard to compete with somebody who's giving twenty five
thirty million dollars during freshman class.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
And that needs to be leveled out. Like coach said,
if there's some enforcement and everybody's playing by the same rules,
I think it's a better game.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
It's crazy. We're not complaining because all these coaches up
here and can coach at bucks off and given the
right opportunity with the right players and play here and there,
you'll be there. But it's what's going on right now
don't make sense.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
It's a sad state of affairs in college football. If
he has the richest boosters wins, and I don't think
that's where anybody wants it or wherever it's intended to be.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
And we want to say stuff, but we're trying to
be professional. But you're going to see the same teams
during at the end, and with somebody who sneaks up
in there. But the team that pays the more pays
the most.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Be that it look I need everybody to simmer down. Okay.
The problem with college football is not in al money.
The problem with college football is not the transfer portal.
The problem with college football is the College Football Playoff.
Of the top ten teams that were the highest spenders
in twenty twenty four for college football, six of those
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teams actually missed the CFP, and of the top twenty
five in total, seven of them actually had a losing record,
And in seventeen out of the top twenty five spenders in
all of college football from the twenty twenty four season
actually missed the CFP altogether, which by the way, is
(01:43):
sixty eight percent. Notre Dame was in the College Football
Championship Game, they weren't even in the top twenty five.
Boise State they were in the CFP, they weren't in
the top twenty five. The spending doesn't have to do
with what everybody thinks. It has to do with people
have been trying to buy exceptional teams for years, whether
(02:05):
it was professional, collegiate, even in the high school ranks,
whatever the case may be, they have been trying to
put the money together for a very very long time,
and it hasn't always panned out. Georgia, what were they
They were the fourth highest in all college football first
round exit OU they had a losing record. Washington, they
(02:33):
had a losing record. Florida State. We all saw that
disaster last season and what they spent ten million. There's
no correlation between breaking the bank and winning football games.
LSU spent twenty million dollars in finish the season nine
(02:56):
to four. Alabama was in the top ten. They didn't
make CFP. There's no correlation between nil money in championships,
at least not yet. The economics are gonna be there
(03:16):
when the economics are there. With all due respect to
coach Prime and Scott Frost and every other coach that's
on that panel that is starting to complain more and more,
even some of the coaches that were okay with us,
they're starting to complain, I'm sorry, you're just not right.
And it's bizarre that Prime, of all people, is the
one that is starting to kind of leave the charge.
(03:38):
And look, before we do anything, we got to discuss
the dollars. Sometimes the reality later on is much easier
when the fog clears and everything goes away and you
start seeing what it is. You know, I've been saying
over the last couple of years, and now Arizona's football coach,
Arizona States football coach pardon me, is starting to shine
(04:01):
light on it, and that is it's no longer about recruiting.
It's about retention. You're going to have to do well.
To me, especially when it comes down to the transfer portal.
That's where you're gonna have to excel. And then from
there you're gonna have to be able to keep those players.
And if you're gonna recruit, then you're gonna have to
recruit well and be able to figure out guys that
(04:23):
you know that you can keep for four or five years.
But in the meantime, the money in it of itself
is not the losing battle. The transfer portal in and
of itself is not the losing battle. Look at what
Prime tried to do in Colorado. Maybe you can say
it worked, maybe you can say it didn't. I suppose
it's on how you look at it. It has yet
(04:45):
to net a championship. There's probably the bottom line for
a good majority of people, it doesn't correlate the problem
with college football is the College Football Playoff and the
fact that they still have a voting system. That's where
your money is at. Because let's not forget Alabama was
(05:08):
actually ranked higher by the committee than Clemson, and so
what happened They pushed and pushed and pushed and complained
and complain and complain about rules that were ridiculous anyways,
and they set this whole thing up for failure, and
that is well, now we're just going to go with
the back to the voting system. The top fourteen teams
are going to be in. So basically now a conference
(05:28):
championship doesn't matter, a regular bowl game doesn't like, none
of these things are going to matter. Now it's just
all going to be about top fourteen. And you can
look at Clemson and go, well, how did they really
do the CFP Okay? Great, but Alabama wasn't there. And
Alabama complained and lost to Michigan, a team that a
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lot of people would tell you really wasn't that good
last season. What they finished eight and five on the year,
it's pretty middle of the road. And by the way,
they were a heavy spender a season ago in the
what was it sixteen million, and then what they spent.
(06:11):
I'm just telling you that there's no correlation. Everybody needs
to relax about this. The money is going to be there,
don't worry about it. It's your job to coach. Once
the players get there, that's it. That's all there is
to it. As long as we have a voting system
(06:36):
instead of an actual playoff system in place with rules
instead of voting, that's what's going to continue to destroy
college football. As long as teams like in Alabama will
get favor over somebody else, that will destroy college football. Technically,
last year, they would have gotten favor over a conference
champion in Clemson. They got favor over an undefeated conference
(07:04):
champion in Florida State. I'm not going to rehash that.
I've gone over a million times. Georgia beat Florida State's
practice squad. End of story. Everybody knew it. That's why
ESPN got mad. Mad Dog called him a disgrace to
college football. Coach Smart himself said, what happened out there.
People got to decide what they want. Okay, he knew
(07:27):
what happened. They threw a middle finger up to the
College Football Playoff Committee and said no, we should have
been in all the other guys went to the NFL.
The players that were left behind just said forget about it.
The point of what I'm saying is, if you want
to be worried about something, you need to be worried
about the voting system as opposed to a rule system,
(07:48):
because the voting system keeps those teams that everybody keeps
talking about that's going to have the money at the
top visually, because they're going to be the teams that
are in the CFP every single year, the Angel Rees
Effect is live. Twenty twenty five has been a pretty
(08:12):
good year for Angel Rees. She's been on the cover
of Vogue. She's on the cover of the WNBA two
K twenty six cover. She's on the cover of the
NBA two K twenty six special Edition that also has
Carmelo Anthony and the NBA MVP and NBA Champion SGA
on the cover, so she's marked out with that. Now
(08:35):
she's getting ready to release a major shoe deal with Reebok,
and then in addition to that, this season, she had
a five game stretch where she not only had a
double double, but at least fifteen rebounds in every one
of those games, and by the way as at the
moment of this broadcast, she's averaging thirteen points a game
(08:55):
and basically thirteen rebounds a game. And before anybody says me,
she's suiting forty one percent, which is significantly better than
what people are going to give her credit for.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Now.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
The team isn't doing very good. We can look at
a bunch of different factors, but the reality is, despite everything,
she's having success. She went out and she's she's getting
a copyright put on me bounds. She's having success. She's
taken the script and flipping it on everybody. And there's
people out there that still believe that Caitlin Clark is
(09:29):
responsible for the success of Angel Reese. And before anybody
talks about Angel rees slapping the clipboard out of her
coach's hand, I hope everybody that's upset with that is
reserving pardon me, reserving that same energy for Travis Kelcey.
I hope they're having that same energy for Aaron Rodgers
(09:53):
and what was going on in New York. I hope
they're having that same energy when Paid Manning didn't want
to shake hands at the end of a Super Bowl,
all this unsportsman like bad teammate, YadA, YadA, YadA. I
hope you're keeping that same energy for everybody else. And
before you say, don't compare them to those athletes, I'm
(10:15):
not comparing them to those athletes. I'm comparing the situations.
The situation is Aaron Rodgers shoved his coach on the sideline.
The situation is Travis Kelcey grabbed his coach on the sideline.
The situation is Peyton Manning didn't show any sportsmanship at
(10:38):
the end of the biggest game in the world when
people got mad at Cam Newton for walking out of
the press conference, when we found out later on there
was a whole nother press conference with the Denver Broncos
going on with an earshot and it was the first
time that they had done that, if I remember correctly,
or something that wasn't typically done. I should say. The
(11:02):
bottom line is she's still enjoying success. Whether anybody wants
to say she is or not, that's fine. And you
know what, the slap and the clipboard thing, I'm not
gonna say I agree with it, but I am gonna
say that when you're an athlete and you care about
winning and you're not winning regardless of whatever the reasons are,
at some point it's gonna be Look, I'm frustrated. What
(11:27):
are we gonna do to flip this around. Things happen.
You're in the heat of the moment, you do things
that you might regret later on. It is what it is. Again,
I'm not justifying it. I'm saying it happened. What I'm
saying is is if you're gonna be mad at her
for that, then you better be mad at those other
(11:47):
situations too. If you're gonna call somebody a bad teammate
with literally no backing for it whatsoever. And she's still
not the one despite what people think. That started that
nonsense with Kaitlyn Clark. Caitlyn Clark was going around telling
everybody you can't see me, and she taught at her
a little bit, no big deal, it's sports. But the
(12:10):
media polarized it and made it way, way, way more
than it actually was or even still is. And so
because the media polarized it, other people polarized it, and
it became a whole unnecessary thing, completely unnecessary. She's eating
(12:37):
and she's eating good. Angel's gonna be fine, and eventually
she's going to be a champion. She was a champion
in college. I believe she will be a champion in
the WNBA. And speaking of women in sports, I'm sure
a lot of people by now have heard about Alice Pereira,
(12:58):
who has been signed to the uf as the youngest
female fighter that they've ever signed, at the age of
nineteen years old, by the way, and now a lot
of people are upset with Dana White because they're going,
does anybody remember Julieta. You told her that she was
only twenty years old and she wasn't old enough to
compete in the UFC, and that you're not in your
(13:20):
prime until you're twenty eight years old, and that you
wanted her to go back down to Mexico and have
fights down there.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Now.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Something to add to that, To be fair, Dana also
told her that she was really small and if I
had to bet the farm on it. That was probably
the main thing, because that was the first thing that
Dana White had brought up. But still because he brought
up somebody being so young in one situation, it's kind
of like, bro, we need fluidity inconsistency in all situations,
(13:50):
especially when Perreira has at least one well known fight
that has been flagged that fat or I mean that flight,
my goodness, that fight that was flagged. Good grief is
predicated upon and this is according to topology, by the way,
(14:10):
having basically insufficient evidence and documentation that the fight ever happened.
There's two possible, but one that we know for sure.
And the issue here is becoming with the UFC, and
it's been a thing for a while now, and that
is Dana White, not just picking and choosing, but everything
(14:31):
really essentially amounting to a popularity contest. The UFC has
been allowing things to happen that should have never happened.
To begin with, Does anybody remember when see him Punk
had a fight in Chicago. They knew he was going
to sell tickets, and what did they do? They allowed
him to fight anyways, with no real true experience to
(14:56):
speak of. They just let him in that cage and
it was an a Then they led him back for
another fight in Chicago, again knowing it would sell tickets,
and it was another ugly nightmare decision. Whatever the point is,
it wasn't a good look in the UFC. People looked
(15:18):
at that and they went, bro, come on, what are
you doing. There are people that have been waiting for
their shot and you're just giving it away to somebody else.
The ranking system has no real governing body to speak of.
Their fights have no real governing body to speak of.
They've answered to Mullen's in Congress, who, by the way,
is an undefeated MMA fighter.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
What is he?
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Five to zero? And he's also in the Oklahoma Wrestling
Hall of Fame, right, so he's got some credentials to
be talking about this, and he's going, Hey, how come
we're having fights where a fourteenth or tenth rank or
a thirteenth ranked fighter or somebody outside of the top
ten is competing for a championship? What's going on with
one throne? Are they just not available for a fight?
(16:03):
And we just saw that with John Jones. He fought
me Jochic and they didn't even unify the belts or
attempt to unify the belts with aspinall, he waited nineteen
months for a championship shot, while Dana White let John
Jones play games with that belt, going to retire and
then decide, oh, we're gonna have a big payday at
the White House. Never mind, bro, I'm gonna be back
(16:24):
in the pool. I mean Dana White is legitimately treating
the UFC like it's the local fight scene. And if
you've ever been a part of the local fight scene,
you know exactly what I'm talking about. Local MMA fights
are essentially forty year old guys who are at the
(16:47):
gym and they decide they want to box somebody, so
they feel like they can get into a cage, start scrapping,
they can start wrestling, they train a little jiu jitsu.
One of the promots is there. They've got half of
the fight card as some of their people, and then
along comes some twenty one year old to fight a
(17:09):
forty year old who has no business being in there.
They're competing for a local championship, and they are patting
their record with tomato cans, essentially, and then they got
to fight somebody that's authentic. They got to get in
there with a real dog. They're swimming in the water
with a real shark in muddy, murky, deep waters, and
(17:34):
the deeper you get, the darker it gets. And that's
where we separate the shark from the fish, because only
a few can really swim in that water. And they
thought they had a good and you know, they were
a local disc and they were getting there, stockpiling their resume,
(17:55):
and they were getting their big social media following, and
every time they would post a win, it would get
one hundred thousand views. And so now it's about popularity
and likability, and so essentially what we are hearing when
Dana White says no to one fighter for their age
and their size and yes to another fighter with real
(18:18):
sketchy marks. At this point we look at it and go, dude,
this is a popularity contest. This is not about the
best fighter. He did it again with Connor McGregor. McGregor
absolutely earned being a two division champion, but then he
was allowed to hold up not one, but two divisions
to go and fight Mayweather. It shouldn't have been allowed
(18:41):
in the first place. No, sorry, bro, you've got championship
belts to defend. You can do that on your own
dime and on your own time. No, you've got titles
to defend right now, You're not going anywhere. But Dana
let it happen and supported him all the way. I mean,
what did Dana really think was gonna happen? I don't
think anybody foresaw all the other stuff. But in terms
(19:04):
of McGregor being a fighter. Once he got that payday
like that, come on, I think everybody kind of knew,
like it's over from McGregor. He doesn't have to be
that guy anymore. And now he wants back in oh
White House, huge payday. McGregor wants to come back and
act like he's about to take a fight, but he's
not once he realizes that he's actually got to be
(19:25):
in a fight. It's just it's a mess right now,
and the politics are running the UFC, and they are
running the UFC into a dangerous place because they are
not promoting fighters that are actually good fighters. They are
promoting fighters to get big name fights to draw in
(19:45):
big money. That's exactly why they have nonsense interim championship
belts and be MF belts because there's a title being
defended or a title on the line, and so oh,
we're gonna be able to move that over to pay
per view and we're going to to be able to
charge more at the gate because there's a championship on
the line, but not a real one. And it's bizarre
(20:11):
that true UFC fans aren't really more to a point
now where they're boycotting and going. We don't want that.
It's not what our sport is about. And until you
change it, we're not purchasing, we're not attending, we're not commenting,
and we're not watching in our UFC fight pass, it's
all canceled. Bro, you want to talk, talk with your
(20:32):
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night and or day. Don't remember coming out took
And all you have to do is look at the
playoffs and see what those teams spent.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Now, at the end of the day, things are decided
on the field, but way before that they're decided and
the bank accounts.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
And you understand darning the white end playoffs, it's kind
of hard to compete with somebody who's giving twenty five
thirty million dollars during freshman class.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
And that needs to be leveled out. Like coach said,
if there's some enforcement and everybody's playing by the same rules,
I think it's a better game.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
It's crazy. We're not complaining because all these coaches up
here and can coach at bucks off and given the
right opportunity with the right players and play here and there,
you'll be there. But it's what's going on right now
don't make sense.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
It's a sad state of affairs in college football. If
he has the richest boosters wins, and I don't think
that's where anybody wants it or wherever it's intended to be.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
And we want to say stuff, but we're trying to
be professional. But you're going to see the same teams
during at the end, and with somebody who sneaks up
in there. But the team that pays the more pays
the most.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Be that it look I need everybody to simmer down. Okay.
The problem with college football is not in al money.
The problem with college football is not the transfer portal.
The problem with college football is the College Football Playoff.
Of the top ten teams that were the highest spenders
in twenty twenty four for college football, six of those
(01:23):
teams actually missed the CFP, and of the top twenty
five in total, seven of them actually had a losing record,
And in seventeen out of the top twenty five spenders in
all of college football from the twenty twenty four season
actually missed the CFP altogether, which by the way, is
(01:43):
sixty eight percent. Notre Dame was in the College Football
Championship Game, they weren't even in the top twenty five.
Boise State they were in the CFP, they weren't in
the top twenty five. The spending doesn't have to do
with what everybody thinks. It has to do with people
have been trying to buy exceptional teams for years, whether
(02:05):
it was professional, collegiate, even in the high school ranks,
whatever the case may be, they have been trying to
put the money together for a very very long time,
and it hasn't always panned out. Georgia, what were they
They were the fourth highest in all college football first
round exit OU they had a losing record. Washington, they
(02:33):
had a losing record. Florida State. We all saw that
disaster last season and what they spent ten million. There's
no correlation between breaking the bank and winning football games.
LSU spent twenty million dollars in finish the season nine
(02:56):
to four. Alabama was in the top ten. They didn't
make CFP. There's no correlation between nil money in championships,
at least not yet. The economics are gonna be there
(03:16):
when the economics are there. With all due respect to
coach Prime and Scott Frost and every other coach that's
on that panel that is starting to complain more and more,
even some of the coaches that were okay with us,
they're starting to complain, I'm sorry, you're just not right.
And it's bizarre that Prime, of all people, is the
one that is starting to kind of leave the charge.
(03:38):
And look, before we do anything, we got to discuss
the dollars. Sometimes the reality later on is much easier
when the fog clears and everything goes away and you
start seeing what it is. You know, I've been saying
over the last couple of years, and now Arizona's football coach,
Arizona States football coach pardon me, is starting to shine
(04:01):
light on it, and that is it's no longer about recruiting.
It's about retention. You're going to have to do well.
To me, especially when it comes down to the transfer portal.
That's where you're gonna have to excel. And then from
there you're gonna have to be able to keep those players.
And if you're gonna recruit, then you're gonna have to
recruit well and be able to figure out guys that
(04:23):
you know that you can keep for four or five years.
But in the meantime, the money in it of itself
is not the losing battle. The transfer portal in and
of itself is not the losing battle. Look at what
Prime tried to do in Colorado. Maybe you can say
it worked, maybe you can say it didn't. I suppose
it's on how you look at it. It has yet
(04:45):
to net a championship. There's probably the bottom line for
a good majority of people, it doesn't correlate the problem
with college football is the College Football Playoff and the
fact that they still have a voting system. That's where
your money is at. Because let's not forget Alabama was
(05:08):
actually ranked higher by the committee than Clemson, and so
what happened They pushed and pushed and pushed and complained
and complain and complain about rules that were ridiculous anyways,
and they set this whole thing up for failure, and
that is well, now we're just going to go with
the back to the voting system. The top fourteen teams
are going to be in. So basically now a conference
(05:28):
championship doesn't matter, a regular bowl game doesn't like, none
of these things are going to matter. Now it's just
all going to be about top fourteen. And you can
look at Clemson and go, well, how did they really
do the CFP Okay? Great, but Alabama wasn't there. And
Alabama complained and lost to Michigan, a team that a
(05:50):
lot of people would tell you really wasn't that good
last season. What they finished eight and five on the year,
it's pretty middle of the road. And by the way,
they were a heavy spender a season ago in the
what was it sixteen million, and then what they spent.
(06:11):
I'm just telling you that there's no correlation. Everybody needs
to relax about this. The money is going to be there,
don't worry about it. It's your job to coach. Once
the players get there, that's it. That's all there is
to it. As long as we have a voting system
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instead of an actual playoff system in place with rules
instead of voting, that's what's going to continue to destroy
college football. As long as teams like in Alabama will
get favor over somebody else, that will destroy college football. Technically,
last year, they would have gotten favor over a conference
champion in Clemson. They got favor over an undefeated conference
(07:04):
champion in Florida State. I'm not going to rehash that.
I've gone over a million times. Georgia beat Florida State's
practice squad. End of story. Everybody knew it. That's why
ESPN got mad. Mad Dog called him a disgrace to
college football. Coach Smart himself said, what happened out there.
People got to decide what they want. Okay, he knew
(07:27):
what happened. They threw a middle finger up to the
College Football Playoff Committee and said no, we should have
been in all the other guys went to the NFL.
The players that were left behind just said forget about it.
The point of what I'm saying is, if you want
to be worried about something, you need to be worried
about the voting system as opposed to a rule system,
(07:48):
because the voting system keeps those teams that everybody keeps
talking about that's going to have the money at the
top visually, because they're going to be the teams that
are in the CFP every single year, the Angel Rees
Effect is live. Twenty twenty five has been a pretty
(08:12):
good year for Angel Rees. She's been on the cover
of Vogue. She's on the cover of the WNBA two
K twenty six cover. She's on the cover of the
NBA two K twenty six special Edition that also has
Carmelo Anthony and the NBA MVP and NBA Champion SGA
on the cover, so she's marked out with that. Now
(08:35):
she's getting ready to release a major shoe deal with Reebok,
and then in addition to that, this season, she had
a five game stretch where she not only had a
double double, but at least fifteen rebounds in every one
of those games, and by the way as at the
moment of this broadcast, she's averaging thirteen points a game
(08:55):
and basically thirteen rebounds a game. And before anybody says me,
she's suiting forty one percent, which is significantly better than
what people are going to give her credit for.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Now.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
The team isn't doing very good. We can look at
a bunch of different factors, but the reality is, despite everything,
she's having success. She went out and she's she's getting
a copyright put on me bounds. She's having success. She's
taken the script and flipping it on everybody. And there's
people out there that still believe that Caitlin Clark is
(09:29):
responsible for the success of Angel Reese. And before anybody
talks about Angel rees slapping the clipboard out of her
coach's hand, I hope everybody that's upset with that is
reserving pardon me, reserving that same energy for Travis Kelcey.
I hope they're having that same energy for Aaron Rodgers
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and what was going on in New York. I hope
they're having that same energy when Paid Manning didn't want
to shake hands at the end of a Super Bowl,
all this unsportsman like bad teammate, YadA, YadA, YadA. I
hope you're keeping that same energy for everybody else. And
before you say, don't compare them to those athletes, I'm
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not comparing them to those athletes. I'm comparing the situations.
The situation is Aaron Rodgers shoved his coach on the sideline.
The situation is Travis Kelcey grabbed his coach on the sideline.
The situation is Peyton Manning didn't show any sportsmanship at
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the end of the biggest game in the world when
people got mad at Cam Newton for walking out of
the press conference, when we found out later on there
was a whole nother press conference with the Denver Broncos
going on with an earshot and it was the first
time that they had done that, if I remember correctly,
or something that wasn't typically done. I should say. The
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bottom line is she's still enjoying success. Whether anybody wants
to say she is or not, that's fine. And you
know what, the slap and the clipboard thing, I'm not
gonna say I agree with it, but I am gonna
say that when you're an athlete and you care about
winning and you're not winning regardless of whatever the reasons are,
at some point it's gonna be Look, I'm frustrated. What
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are we gonna do to flip this around. Things happen.
You're in the heat of the moment, you do things
that you might regret later on. It is what it is. Again,
I'm not justifying it. I'm saying it happened. What I'm
saying is is if you're gonna be mad at her
for that, then you better be mad at those other
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situations too. If you're gonna call somebody a bad teammate
with literally no backing for it whatsoever. And she's still
not the one despite what people think. That started that
nonsense with Kaitlyn Clark. Caitlyn Clark was going around telling
everybody you can't see me, and she taught at her
a little bit, no big deal, it's sports. But the
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media polarized it and made it way, way, way more
than it actually was or even still is. And so
because the media polarized it, other people polarized it, and
it became a whole unnecessary thing, completely unnecessary. She's eating
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and she's eating good. Angel's gonna be fine, and eventually
she's going to be a champion. She was a champion
in college. I believe she will be a champion in
the WNBA. And speaking of women in sports, I'm sure
a lot of people by now have heard about Alice Pereira,
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who has been signed to the uf as the youngest
female fighter that they've ever signed, at the age of
nineteen years old, by the way, and now a lot
of people are upset with Dana White because they're going,
does anybody remember Julieta. You told her that she was
only twenty years old and she wasn't old enough to
compete in the UFC, and that you're not in your
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prime until you're twenty eight years old, and that you
wanted her to go back down to Mexico and have
fights down there.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Now.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Something to add to that, To be fair, Dana also
told her that she was really small and if I
had to bet the farm on it. That was probably
the main thing, because that was the first thing that
Dana White had brought up. But still because he brought
up somebody being so young in one situation, it's kind
of like, bro, we need fluidity inconsistency in all situations,
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especially when Perreira has at least one well known fight
that has been flagged that fat or I mean that flight,
my goodness, that fight that was flagged. Good grief is
predicated upon and this is according to topology, by the way,
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having basically insufficient evidence and documentation that the fight ever happened.
There's two possible, but one that we know for sure.
And the issue here is becoming with the UFC, and
it's been a thing for a while now, and that
is Dana White, not just picking and choosing, but everything
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really essentially amounting to a popularity contest. The UFC has
been allowing things to happen that should have never happened.
To begin with, Does anybody remember when see him Punk
had a fight in Chicago. They knew he was going
to sell tickets, and what did they do? They allowed
him to fight anyways, with no real true experience to
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speak of. They just let him in that cage and
it was an a Then they led him back for
another fight in Chicago, again knowing it would sell tickets,
and it was another ugly nightmare decision. Whatever the point is,
it wasn't a good look in the UFC. People looked
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at that and they went, bro, come on, what are
you doing. There are people that have been waiting for
their shot and you're just giving it away to somebody else.
The ranking system has no real governing body to speak of.
Their fights have no real governing body to speak of.
They've answered to Mullen's in Congress, who, by the way,
is an undefeated MMA fighter.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
What is he?
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Five to zero? And he's also in the Oklahoma Wrestling
Hall of Fame, right, so he's got some credentials to
be talking about this, and he's going, Hey, how come
we're having fights where a fourteenth or tenth rank or
a thirteenth ranked fighter or somebody outside of the top
ten is competing for a championship? What's going on with
one throne? Are they just not available for a fight?
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And we just saw that with John Jones. He fought
me Jochic and they didn't even unify the belts or
attempt to unify the belts with aspinall, he waited nineteen
months for a championship shot, while Dana White let John
Jones play games with that belt, going to retire and
then decide, oh, we're gonna have a big payday at
the White House. Never mind, bro, I'm gonna be back
(16:24):
in the pool. I mean Dana White is legitimately treating
the UFC like it's the local fight scene. And if
you've ever been a part of the local fight scene,
you know exactly what I'm talking about. Local MMA fights
are essentially forty year old guys who are at the
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gym and they decide they want to box somebody, so
they feel like they can get into a cage, start scrapping,
they can start wrestling, they train a little jiu jitsu.
One of the promots is there. They've got half of
the fight card as some of their people, and then
along comes some twenty one year old to fight a
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forty year old who has no business being in there.
They're competing for a local championship, and they are patting
their record with tomato cans, essentially, and then they got
to fight somebody that's authentic. They got to get in
there with a real dog. They're swimming in the water
with a real shark in muddy, murky, deep waters, and
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the deeper you get, the darker it gets. And that's
where we separate the shark from the fish, because only
a few can really swim in that water. And they
thought they had a good and you know, they were
a local disc and they were getting there, stockpiling their resume,
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and they were getting their big social media following, and
every time they would post a win, it would get
one hundred thousand views. And so now it's about popularity
and likability, and so essentially what we are hearing when
Dana White says no to one fighter for their age
and their size and yes to another fighter with real
(18:18):
sketchy marks. At this point we look at it and go, dude,
this is a popularity contest. This is not about the
best fighter. He did it again with Connor McGregor. McGregor
absolutely earned being a two division champion, but then he
was allowed to hold up not one, but two divisions
to go and fight Mayweather. It shouldn't have been allowed
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in the first place. No, sorry, bro, you've got championship
belts to defend. You can do that on your own
dime and on your own time. No, you've got titles
to defend right now, You're not going anywhere. But Dana
let it happen and supported him all the way. I mean,
what did Dana really think was gonna happen? I don't
think anybody foresaw all the other stuff. But in terms
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of McGregor being a fighter. Once he got that payday
like that, come on, I think everybody kind of knew,
like it's over from McGregor. He doesn't have to be
that guy anymore. And now he wants back in oh
White House, huge payday. McGregor wants to come back and
act like he's about to take a fight, but he's
not once he realizes that he's actually got to be
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in a fight. It's just it's a mess right now,
and the politics are running the UFC, and they are
running the UFC into a dangerous place because they are
not promoting fighters that are actually good fighters. They are
promoting fighters to get big name fights to draw in
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big money. That's exactly why they have nonsense interim championship
belts and be MF belts because there's a title being
defended or a title on the line, and so oh,
we're gonna be able to move that over to pay
per view and we're going to to be able to
charge more at the gate because there's a championship on
the line, but not a real one. And it's bizarre
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that true UFC fans aren't really more to a point
now where they're boycotting and going. We don't want that.
It's not what our sport is about. And until you
change it, we're not purchasing, we're not attending, we're not commenting,
and we're not watching in our UFC fight pass, it's
all canceled. Bro, you want to talk, talk with your
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dollars in your silence. They correlate. Trust me, all right.
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