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CatFromHue

wonderfullife wrote: »

Interview with Cian Cowley ahead of his BAMMA fight, discussing his training camp, being part of Conor's camps and his future.

Quotes:

"I'm following Conor's blueprint, going outside my comfort zone" (in going to Iceland for camp, comparing it to Conor's path to the Buchinger fight).

"I'll go over and burst you now if you keep it up" (shouting at some little kid annoying him).

"I know for a fact I'm going to do big numbers next Friday. I know there's a UFC on as well but I guarantee I'll blow those numbers out of the water."

"I already have a good fan base but I'm one nice performance from going viral. I know I'm a marketable cu*t. I've all the attributes to go to the UFC within 3 or 4 fights".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAHJ_tAdkeI

He's talking strength from the All Ireland Club Hurling Champions home ground

EagererBeaver

wonderfullife wrote: »

It looks like Joe Rogan did the poster up himself while stoned.

For the life of me I can't work out why the UFC don't bite the bullet and hire BossLogic and Dosbrak. They're both amazingly talented and big MMA fans. It'd make all the sense in the world and there'd be epic fight posters and fight art.

I know WME are all for cut-backs but how much would it cost them really in the grand scheme of things to hire one or two wizards?

It would cost them relatively little but how much would it actually benefit from them? How many people worldwide decide to buy a PPV of a ticket off the back of a poster? Storm in a teacup.

ricero

wonderfullife wrote: »

Interview with Cian Cowley ahead of his BAMMA fight, discussing his training camp, being part of Conor's camps and his future.

Quotes:

"I'm following Conor's blueprint, going outside my comfort zone" (in going to Iceland for camp, comparing it to Conor's path to the Buchinger fight).

"I'll go over and burst you now if you keep it up" (shouting at some little kid annoying him).

"I know for a fact I'm going to do big numbers next Friday. I know there's a UFC on as well but I guarantee I'll blow those numbers out of the water."

"I already have a good fan base but I'm one nice performance from going viral. I know I'm a marketable cu*t. I've all the attributes to go to the UFC within 3 or 4 fights".

Jasus this fella is very delusional.

Team SBG are becoming highly unlikable. Full of egotistical nobodies trying to copy Mcgregor.

Swashbuckler

EagererBeaver wrote:

It would cost them relatively little but how much would it actually benefit from them? How many people worldwide decide to buy a PPV of a ticket off the back of a poster? Storm in a teacup.

I dunno, I just think bad marketing cheapens the brand.

EagererBeaver

Swashbuckler wrote: »

I dunno, I just think bad marketing cheapens the brand.

Possibly. I think there's plenty of other stuff that's a much greater risk to the brand than some sloppy posters though.

Mr. CooL ICE

Gamebred wrote: »

The hack of this.

wonderfullife

EagererBeaver wrote: »

It would cost them relatively little but how much would it actually benefit from them? How many people worldwide decide to buy a PPV of a ticket off the back of a poster? Storm in a teacup.

I've no idea what the cost-benefit ratio is or what correlation a poster has to PPV buys (if any). It'd be interesting to look into.

All I know is the Official Posters are looking more and more like someone chucked it together on the bus to work while BossLogic's posters look like someone actually put effort into it.








When the quality of the poster and promotional material sucks AND the fight card ultimately sucks, the posters and promotional material just become symptomatic of a feeling of general malaise in the overall product.

finglashoop

Imo and from how i view it

Boss logic posters make you look at it and the detail he puts in and is the sort of thing you would share/tag friends in.

Ufc is a bland one size fits all sh^tshow that you only look at twice to marvel at how poor it is for a billion dollar company. I have never used photoshop ar anything and i could have made a better poster.

I think ufc is trolling and know someone will make better posters for free.

That latest one seems like someone had a good idea and its gone wrong

dashoonage

Parke to retire after Poland

https://twitter.com/norman_parke/status/861923139315433474

jcd5971

dashoonage wrote:

Parke to retire after Poland

No real loss always found him dislikeable

Gamebred

An mma retirement, sounds legit.

xtal191

Artem vs Korean Superboy anyone? Choi is down, would be nice to see Artem get another big fight.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BT3kaQpDGPP/?hl=en

ASOT

Would watch that anyway itd be a good scrap. Also Parkes not the worst in real life lads, ticket touting **** but hes sound

darced

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ASOT

darced wrote: »

Parke is a gentleman.

I know people just hate him because he was touting tickets on twitter.

DrPhilG

It's not just the touting, he just always came across as having zero personality but trying too hard to be popular.

darced

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DrPhilG

darced wrote: »

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I don't hold it against him that he didn't have the personality, but his attempts at being charismatic definitely made him seem obnoxious.

Much like people are finding Gallagher obnoxious for trying to force a persona that isn't natural.

The difference with McGregor is that he does seem naturally charismatic and the crap he talks is sufficiently tongue in cheek that it's funny.

ASOT

125 division officially annouced, TUF will crown the winner. Women who feel they are under or oversized for current weight classes in the ufc already can compete.

DrPhilG

Just another weak belt to prop up PPVs with weak headliners, and to put title fights on Fight Nights.

True there are some girls who are small at 135 but can't make 115, but some of the women's divisions are paper thin at this stage.

Zero-Cool

ASOT wrote: »

125 division officially annouced, TUF will crown the winner. Women who feel they are under or oversized for current weight classes in the ufc already can compete.

I'm well happy with this, should get the best of BW and SW. They really should scrap the FW with this introduction. Looking forward to that season of TUF.

Awesomeness

Makes much more sense than a fw division

Gamebred

Serry added to the Glasgow card.

dashoonage

Gamebred wrote: »

Serry added to the Glasgow card.

is that his retirement fight ?

Gamebred

Yep, depending on main event I'll probably go see it, falls on a sunday should be a cheap trip.

raze_them_all_

darced wrote: »

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I agree, back in the day any interactions I had with him at shows and **** was always sound

callaway92

No direct flights from Cork or Shannon to Glasgow on the Saturday (day before the UFC) is some load of balls.

Wrongway1985

If Glasgow card was on Sat would've suited my schedule but I'll have to give it a miss.

Eyeballing the Gdansk event, the last Polish card was a stinker on paper though (And sadly played out as much).

EagererBeaver

callaway92 wrote: »

No direct flights from Cork or Shannon to Glasgow on the Saturday (day before the UFC) is some load of balls.

Dublin is hardly overly inconvenient these days.

ASOT

Gamebred wrote: »

Yep, depending on main event I'll probably go see it, falls on a sunday should be a cheap trip.

Flights are around 30 return which is **** all,gonna head over saturday back monday.