Is Greg Jackson killing the sport?

[Stoo]

Originally Posted by Lynchburg

There are far too many shite cards now... it's like when you only have a little bit of butter left and you try to spread it across two pieces of bread. It all ends up shite

Lynchburg

You mentioned shit and butter in the same post now I cant get a certain Marlon Brando scene out of my head...cheers Lynchy...

[PIRA]

Originally Posted by Thom

Fuck no. Zuffa brought this shit on themselves. If anything, this bullshit Fox deal is killing MMA. It's been fucked up since they made initial decision to only air the Cain/Junior fight on the inaugural UFC of Fox card, but Dana and Lorenzo will never admit that they're wrong about. Zuffa has over-saturated the market and they've over stretched their talent to put on all of these watered down cards. The original card was shit outside of the Henderson fight.

Additionally, it wasn't "eight days notice" like Dana keeps saying. It was two or three. Fighters don't train that much during the last week before the event. They also have to travel and do all of the fight week media. What kind of "legitimate sport" pulls that shit on a world champion? They should have cancelled the card the second that they heard Henderson was out.


I guarantee you that this won't be the last time that something like this happens over the next couple of years with all of the bullshit subpar cards that Zuffa has scheduled.

Welcome to the world of promoting Dana. Fighters get injured, fighters pull out and events have to be adjusted or in extreme circumstances cancelled.

Classy response from Jackson touching on a few of Dana's shortcomings.

[Matt Ldn]

Originally Posted by thewinfella

Greg Jackson is not and never will be in a position to " kill the sport "

Very true

Originally Posted by thewinfella

Still eating bread and butter hey Lynch ??

Sort it out big man you'll never get your weight down like that.

[achillesthegreat]

50-50. Alot of exciting fights, alot of boring fights. Some questionable business decisions but then some great career guidance. Its not really clear cut at the moment.

[davidwatts]

dana shouldn't comment when he is angry, he looks like a wanker when he does.
i find it hard to understand why people are critisizing jones and jackson.
they made the right decision.
yes you may of missed out on an event but so what you selfish prick!
if they had of fought and jones lost, then everyone would be having a go at jones and jackson for taking the fight on such short notice.
if someone was bad-mouthing me i wouldn't give them the satisfaction of the fight they wish for.

chael has everything going for him.
chael doesn't deserve a title shot yet.
chael makes mma look and sound like pro wrestling, embarrassing.
chael knew the fight wouldn't be accepted anyway.

[EL BULLY]

(On Greg Jackson) 'That guy is a fucking weirdo' That actually made me do a little LOL.

[Ne5ville14]

Originally Posted by davidwatts

dana shouldn't comment when he is angry, he looks like a wanker when he does.
i find it hard to understand why people are critisizing jones and jackson.
they made the right decision.
yes you may of missed out on an event but so what you selfish prick!
if they had of fought and jones lost, then everyone would be having a go at jones and jackson for taking the fight on such short notice.
if someone was bad-mouthing me i wouldn't give them the satisfaction of the fight they wish for.

chael has everything going for him.
chael doesn't deserve a title shot yet.
chael makes mma look and sound like pro wrestling, embarrassing.
chael knew the fight wouldn't be accepted anyway.

Glad to see I'm not the only one thinking that !

[Stoo]

Originally Posted by davidwatts

chael makes mma look and sound like pro wrestling, embarrassing.

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3 members of the UFC HOF have been Pro-Wrestlers aswell...

[Lynchburg]

Originally Posted by thewinfella

Still eating bread and butter hey Lynch ??

Originally Posted by Stoo

You mentioned shit and butter in the same post now I cant get a certain Marlon Brando scene out of my head...cheers Lynchy...

Originally Posted by Matt Ldn

Very true

Sort it out big man you'll never get your weight down like that.

No i'm not eating bread these days. I was just making a likeness...

Some cool UK based news if you are interested?

Lynchburg

[Ne5ville14]

For me it's not the Pro-Wrestler background the problem...

It's the attitude, he has a WWE attitude....I just can't stand it.

DW has the exact same fuckin attitude and I can't stand him too !

[scurlaruntings]

Originally Posted by Stoo

Im sure you remember back to when WWE bought WCW and the wrestling audience slowly dropped off... I stopped watching a good while before that but I remember friends saying that it was good to just have one company and the audience will grow because all the talent is under on roof

Sure do...Soon as the Attitude era ended i stopped watching too.

[thewinfella]

Originally Posted by Lynchburg

No i'm not eating bread these days. I was just making a likeness...

Some cool UK based news if you are interested?

Lynchburg

Ofcourse, send it !!

[James23]

A lot of confirmation bias in the brains of those who say yes.

As someone who tends to agree with Dana more often than not (as opposed to someone who hates everything he says and does, Zuffa is the devil, etc...) he is 100% wrong here and in no way is Jones at fault.

Condit has an absolutely ridiculous win rate % (by non-decision) and yet after beating Diaz (soundly) he's Carlos Rundit? This is sheer unfiltered stupidity.

[Lynchburg]

Originally Posted by thewinfella

Ofcourse, send it !!

Che training with Nath Clev in the run up to the Ludwig fight...

Lynchburg

[Atlanta]

So Gregg Jackson is the president/director/controller of the UFC, Strikeforce, and Bellator now?