Dana White: "Strikeforce Is A Lower Level Show"

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  1. snakerattle79

    snakerattle79 Well-Known Member Full Member

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    http://www.heavy.com/post/dana-white-on-strikeforce-herschel-walker-kimbos-next-fight-and-more-3489

    On Strikeforce as competition for the UFC

    Dana White: "Yeah, I worry about Strikeforce all the time. Come on. Do you know how long I've been hearing about this? First it was Affliction and then it's somebody else. No, I don't worry about Strikeforce. Strikeforce is a lower-level show where guys who aren't in the UFC can go and make some money. It's never going to be anything more than that, ever."
     
  2. scurlaruntings

    scurlaruntings ESB 2002 Club Full Member

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    So lower level that a few of his fighters were there enjoying the show.
     
  3. Boyd

    Boyd Well-Known Member Full Member

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    well in a way he is right but what he fails to realize is that you don't need the best guys to have great fights. plenty of top fighters have shitty fights in the UFC. i thought it was a great show(minus the walker fight). how many times is the main event on a UFC card the fight of the night? not often to my knowledge.
     
  4. Tuffnutz

    Tuffnutz ESB 2002 Club Full Member

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    Dana should spend more money bringing some of these SF fighters to the UFC instead of keep waisting it on so many poor TUF fighters who don't even belong on TV.
     
  5. Rattler

    Rattler Middle Aged Man Full Member

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    Irrelevant.

    In the context of "competition" to UFC place, it is a lower level show. There were a few good fighters in Affliction that UFC fighters went to see, but Affliction failed. Strikeforce won't, because it's learned from other orgs mistakes, but it's nowhere near the UFC in terms of size or impact.
     
  6. aliwasthegreatest

    aliwasthegreatest Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Miami was awesome IMO. no it does not have the top divisions in the world, but it has some great fighters and some appealing matchups.
     
  7. curmudgeon

    curmudgeon Active Member Full Member

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    Strikeforce is backed by a solid propmotion company, they had been around for longer the UFC, and it seems that they do know how to run a business.

    Yeah, Dana is worried.
     
  8. Rattler

    Rattler Middle Aged Man Full Member

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    They were a regional kickboxing organization for 20 years before they fully got into the MMA game.
     
  9. chimba

    chimba Off the Somali Coast Full Member

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    Strikeforce is a lower level show, still a good show.
     
  10. Polymath

    Polymath Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Dana is lower level white trash.
     
  11. TKDfighterJoe

    TKDfighterJoe Oneshot Knockout Full Member

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    They should publish that as an article
     
  12. achillesthegreat

    achillesthegreat FORTUNE FAVOURS THE BRAVE Full Member

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    SF has some of the best fighters in MMA and are continously getting better.
     
  13. cryptic

    cryptic Active Member Full Member

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    i don't like dana white
     
  14. yesihavearm2

    yesihavearm2 ESB Chinchecker Full Member

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    id watch sf over ufc .
     
  15. PH|LLA

    PH|LLA VIP Member

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    wherever the best fighters are is where the fans will go. Strikeforce is good but UFC is still on top.

    On a different subject, MMA is still young. They should get together and implement some sort of matchmaking system where the fighters next fights are not made based on who the more popular fighters are but actually based on the results of their previous fights.