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Fall_Guy

eagle eye wrote: »

This applies to nearly every elite professional athlete.

Well yeah possibly, but come on. There's levels to this

MrStuffins

Mehaffey1 wrote: »

UFC running 25 Greatest Fights of All Time on the FightPass24/7 section, makes for good watching especially the odd one or two I haven't seen and in the absence of new events.

Is anyone still subscribing to Fight Pass and is it worth it?

I haven't in a couple of years but with all this isolation business I looked it up. €90 for the year now? Wasn't it €60 or €70 before?

Mehaffey1

MrStuffins wrote: »

Is anyone still subscribing to Fight Pass and is it worth it?

I haven't in a couple of years but with all this isolation business I looked it up. €90 for the year now? Wasn't it €60 or €70 before?

£5.99 per month for me here in the North.

I find it worth it for the Prelims, Fight Library and other events like Combat Ju Jitsu and Submission Underground. It's worth it because, for me anyway, when I've access to good internet access at home, the streams are faultless.

cletus

Same as above for me. You get lots of good grappling, more MMA than you could watch (although a good portion of it is regional at best), back catalogues of most organisations, Glory kickboxing, and considering I don't have a paid TV subscription, I can get all non ppv main cards on it as well, by telling my computer I'm in Italy...

Zero-Cool

Full card announced today for 249 apparently. Funny that Dana says this responding to a fake account.

https://twitter.com/danawhite/status/1246955303326773249?s=19

robwen

https://www.espn.com/mma/story/_/id/28998832/works-facility-ufc-249-closer-being-confirmed-once-all?platform=amp&__twitter_impression=true

Sources say it's looking like it will take place on the West Coast of the United States.
Headlined by Tony Ferguson vs. Justin Gaethje, however, that fight isn't signed yet.
It is also expected, that the UFC will hold multiple events over the coming weeks in this same new location. Following April 18, they have shows scheduled for April 25 and May 2 and UFC 250 on May 9. The organization has already begun working on filling up these cards with some of the same fights originally scheduled and new fights altogether

monty_python

robwen wrote: »

https://www.espn.com/mma/story/_/id/28998832/works-facility-ufc-249-closer-being-confirmed-once-all?platform=amp&__twitter_impression=true

Sources say it's looking like it will take place on the West Coast of the United States.
Headlined by Tony Ferguson vs. Justin Gaethje, however, that fight isn't signed yet.
It is also expected, that the UFC will hold multiple events over the coming weeks in this same new location. Following April 18, they have shows scheduled for April 25 and May 2 and UFC 250 on May 9. The organization has already begun working on filling up these cards with some of the same fights originally scheduled and new fights altogether

When does Ramadan start? Khabib v McGregor mid/end of may??

Mellor

monty_python wrote: »

When does Ramadan start? Khabib v McGregor mid/end of may??

Ramadan starts this month.

monty_python

Mellor wrote: »

Ramadan starts this month.

That's that idea scrapped so

clsmooth

Mellor wrote: »

Ramadan starts this month.

He’s not the most active of fighters is he whether it’s due to Ramadan or injuries.

ricero

clsmooth wrote: »

He’s not the most active of fighters is he whether it’s due to Ramadan or injuries.

Way more active than Mcgregor and Tony the past few years

derfderf

ricero wrote: »

Way more active than Mcgregor and Tony the past few years

Him and Conor have the same amount of fights in the ufc, and he's in it one year longer. Considering Conor had 2 year, and 18 months, between his last fights, that's not saying much.

Zero-Cool

https://twitter.com/BigMarcel24/status/1247126937367175168?s=19

monty_python

What time can we expect Dana's announcement on 249?

Zero-Cool

Not the fight we wanted but should still be a cracker! Hopefully then Conor to fight the winner and then winner of that to fight khabib after the summer.

https://twitter.com/bokamotoESPN/status/1247244482363314176?s=19

Zero-Cool

Officially for the interim.

https://twitter.com/ufc/status/1247244643248422912?s=19

ricero

Oh baby, we dont deserve this violence. Cant wait !

EagererBeaver

Still can't see the event going ahead.

ASOT

EagererBeaver wrote: »

Still can't see the event going ahead.

Iv been saying this all along but Dana seems adamant that the next 4 events will be in this location on the west coast.

With the daily rate of new cases in the states it's mental of it goes ahead.

Esse85

Chances of this fight actually happening?

Mellor

ricero wrote: »

Way more active than Mcgregor and Tony the past few years

Not really. All 3 guys (Conor, Khabib, Tony) average about 1 fight per year the last few years. Depending on where you draw the line, any could be top, but it's really marginal. None of the three any anywhere close to being active which many fighters hitting 3+ per year.

Wayne Jarvis

The full card has been revealed. I'd be amazed if this actually happens considering how bad things are projected to get still as if they weren't bad enough already but there are some potentially cracking fights here all the same.

Tony Ferguson vs Justin Gaethje (Interim Lightweight Championship)
Jessica Andrade vs Rose Namajunas (Women's Strawweight)
Vincent Luque vs Niko Price (Welterweight)
Jeremy Stephens vs Calvin Kattar (Featherweight)
Francis Ngannou vs Jairzinho Rozenstruik (Heavyweight)
Uriah Hall vs Ronaldo Sauza (Middleweight)
Greg Hardy vs. Yorgan De Castro (Heavyweight)
Alexander Hernandez vs Omar Morales (Lightweight)
Marlon Vera vs Ray Borg (Bantamweight)
Michael Johnson vs Khama Worthy (Lightweight)
Sijara Eubanks vs Sarah Moras (Women's Bantam weight)
Sam Alvey vs Ryan Spann (Light Heavyweight)

EagererBeaver

Dunno if bull**** but I saw some suggestion that it's all going to take place on a private island somewhere and that fighters won't know location until they're flown there?!

ASOT

EagererBeaver wrote: »

Dunno if bull**** but I saw some suggestion that it's all going to take place on a private island somewhere and that fighters won't know location until they're flown there?!

That's for after the next 4 events, so Dana says anyway. He said the next 4 events are secured at this current unknown location however they are building infrastructure on some island to host events after that, that will enable them to bring in international fighters.

https://themaclife.com/featured-posts/dana-white-reveals-deal-close-private-island-host-fights/

weemcd

https://twitter.com/espnmma/status/1247382362306084864?s=19

I think Dana has lost it entirely. A secret island for fights? Taking people to an unknown location without telling them where they're going? Is there a hospital on this island? Say someone breaks their arm or needs an MRI? What commission oversees this? Are they doing any drug testing?

Zero-Cool

MOOORRTAAAAALLL KOMBAAAAAATTTT

ASOT

weemcd wrote: »

https://twitter.com/espnmma/status/1247382362306084864?s=19

I think Dana has lost it entirely. A secret island for fights? Taking people to an unknown location without telling them where they're going? Is there a hospital on this island? Say someone breaks their arm or needs an MRI? What commission oversees this? Are they doing any drug testing?

My understanding is they will be overseeing it themselves like most international events which brings its own host of potential issues.

I completely agree and think he's lost it myself. It's going to be an interesting couple of weeks.

EagererBeaver

I have decided to abandon my opposition to this on all ethical, moral and sporting grounds. I'm fully behind Dana on this from here on out.

Battle Royale, Hunger Games, Warrior, Fortnite etc. Roll in all up into one and make it happen, Dana!

ricero

If Dana can pull this off and actually has an island then he will go down as the goat promoter.

martyos121

How original of him, stealing almost the entire plot of the 2006 masterpiece of film, “DOA: Dead or Alive”, putting a bunch of fighters on an island to compete for a cash prize with nefarious intentions.

Don’t want to spoil that classic for anyone, but it doesn’t end well for Dana White. :pac: