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Chad Mendes: I made more money for my BKFC fight than I did for any of my UFC fights, including my title fights and the McGregor fight.
Also Chad Mendes: I still haven’t been paid by BKFC.
Jan Blachowicz vs. Magomed Ankalaev is the new main event for UFC 282 and will be for the UFC Light Heavyweight Championship. Jiri Prochazka is out due to a serious injury & vacated the title to keep the division going. Glover Teixeira turned down a title shot. More to come.
@FinzZombie
@arielhelwani
Because it doesn’t cost them money to put on shows there. Even though they rake in more than a billion dollars a year in revenue.
There are people who actually think the Gripebomb/Brawl Out is a bigger news story than Vince McMahon resigning in disgrace due to sexual misconduct. What is wrong with these people?
Interesting tidbit here- Joanna Jedrzejczyk has been removed from fighter pool for the UFC rankings.
She's still listed on the rankings site, but she's unavailable to rank.
If you’re a WWE fan rooting for the demise of AEW, it’s time to accept that they’re going to be around for a long, long time.
If you’re an AEW fan who has been nervous about their future, they’re going to be around for years-and-years to come.
If you’re a wrestling fan, enjoy!
I can confirm that UFC 288 on May 6 is headed to the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey. First UFC event in Newark since August 2019, and first PPV event there since February 2014.
#UFC288
This is how much WWE being the only major player in town for nearly 20 years until the last couple of years has damaged the business. People who grew up watching terrible ideas be executed think they’re great ideas, because that’s all they’ve ever seen in wrestling.
@LantzGaming
He was booked against Masvidal in December after the Diaz fight in June, Masvidal pulled out, UFC pulled Edwards and told him he was getting a title shot instead, Usman was out for extended time due to hand injury in second Colby fight. That’s why Edwards was out then.
Again, a reminder- the UFC sale was “completely false” up until about an hour before the press release was sent out. And even high-ranking employees didn’t know of it.
Well, finally got something much more firm.
A high-ranking
#WWE
source with knowledge of the situation tells me reports of a sale or agreement to sell at this moment are “completely false.”
The CM Punk being in Florida because he’s calling an MMA show thing is such a fascinating look into the mental gymnastics wrestling fans play with themselves.
@Grabaka_Hitman
Yes. It was explained to me that Jiri is going to be out for a while, and he decided to vacate as to not hold up the division, and he'll get an immediate shot when he's ready to return.
My grandmother passed away last night. 97 years old. Holocaust survivor, came to the United States right after WW2 ended & she met my grandfather. Lived a full life. Loved her dearly. It was hard to see her in recent years as the dementia got her & she had no idea who I was…
I can confirm that the
#UFCVegas59
bout between Jason Witt and Josh Quinlan has been scratched from the card tomorrow.
It has been re-booked for next weekend's card in San Diego at a catchweight.
@Graham1576
@JohnFetterman
Sorry that two men, both of whom you will never know personally, somehow did something that is going to ruin your life in some way.
It’s a dumb backstage fight against the single most important figure of wrestling in the last 50 years being forced out of his own company due to sexual misconduct. It’s not even close.
So a guy comes in 25 pounds overweight, negotiates for a catchweight fight to where he only needs to lose 15 pounds, only gets fined 20%.
Guys who busts his ass to make it but barely misses by .25 pounds also gets fined 20%.
It’s gotta change.
Tom Aspinall posting a picture of a flight search is not a confirmation of a single thing.
Also, if he was fighting at UFC 300, or even appearing as a guest, the UFC books the travel.
My best buddy Copper needs emergency surgery to remove a tumor before it spreads. I’m financially strapped & could use some help in getting him taken care of. Please consider donating, my family would greatly appreciate it.
@paga_daga
It is. They’re announcing a new TV/streaming deal. I don’t have 100% of the details so I don’t want to expand, but all indications are it’s massive.
Now we have grown men apologizing to whiny wretches on twitter for wearing a fucking T-Shirt? Ole hated everyone individually, not as a group. Also, seriously? This is a fucking issue a wrestler needs to do penance for, wearing a shirt of a wrestler? Do boxers wear rapist Tyson?
@RealCandaceO
Pulled out of speaking engagements due to "illness", people claim COVID, deny COVID and call people claiming a conspiracy theory, supposedly vacationing in Aspen, yet trying to find somewhere to get tested for COVID. Sure, some conspiracy theory.
I'll say it to your face. You're an asshole who is always fishing for shit and trying to stir pots. You acted like this for years on the F4W Board as well. If you wouldn't be such an asshole weirdo, maybe people wouldn't talk bad about you when you tweet questionable stuff.
Here’s some math for you.
WWE gets $470 million a year for Raw & Smackdown, and they average a .57 rating for their five hours per week.
If you take that Dynamite gets a .28 & Rampage gets a .10 & guess that Collision gets in the middle at a .19, that’s a .21 for five hours.
@LoveReality9
@TMZ
Breaking news: grown man goes to studio to record his weekly podcast that has no need for her to be sitting around there for.
Oh I forgot some people live in Fantasyland where they have to be attached at the hip and doing every single thing together.
Update: he’s home! Surgery went great. We aren’t out of the woods yet, but he’s doing a lot better than he has since before he started feeling bad Sunday night. So proud of my boy.
@Ragingjf
@LantzGaming
My proof is I’ve been covering the UFC and Dana for 20 years and he says stuff all the time that isn’t the 100% truth & it’s proven so. Maybe you should research the “Dana says a lot of things” meme.
Dana himself is one of those who started the “internet bullshit” by posting on his IG that picture of Conor with the “coming soon” caption.
If you’re getting 1 million PPV buys for tonight as you claim, it would be dumb not to announce the fight in front of this large audience,
@Cxstelloe
@Grabaka_Hitman
Should an NFL, MLB or NBA player be paid by the outlets every time they do an interview for ESPN, FOX, TNT, NFL Network, etc…, or anytime they do an interview on the radio or a 15-minute spot on a podcast?
@Imboredbrother
It’s a figure of speech. But the ones having a hard time accepting that AEW actually sold 60K+ tickets for All In are going to have a hard time accepting them getting a big-time TV deal. But WWE is also going to clean up on their next deal. People should be happy for both.
Since this tweet is blowing up at places, let me tell the true meaning behind this. It’s not a shot at WWE fans even if it definitely reads as one. (continued)
Hello everyone. I rarely ask for help for anything, especially financially. I’m desperate to help out my best friend and am really in need of assistance. I’d appreciate any help possible.
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Hey Joe, what about healthy young(ish) people like Alexander Volkanovski, Khamzat Chimaev and Cody Garbrandt? Ask them how they’re feeling about COVID.
Spotify’s Joe Rogan encourages "healthy" young people not to get a coronavirus vaccine. His show is Spotify's most popular podcast.
“If you're like 21 years old, and you say to me, should I get vaccinated? I'll go no.”
@PharrFromHeaven
@TrevorDame
Forrest is the Vice President of Athlete Development at the UFC Performance Institute, so he actually has an important job. Liddell and Hughes were paid just to go appear at events.
For those asking why Glover would turn down the title shot- he's trained for three months specifically for Jiri, and with two weeks of camp left it's hard to switch for an opponent with a completely different style.
Since everyone is sharing the photos, here is my shot of Julianna Pena’s daughter squaring off behind her at the
#UFC277
weigh-ins today. Such a cute little moment.
@Tony220jdm91
@AndyHickeyMMA
@LewisGloverMMA
You guys don’t know Brett then. Hard worker, always one of the first to the building and always one of the last to leave. But, to you guys, he’s a puppet because he’s the top guy working at UFC’s media partner. He does his job well.