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05-14-2017 , 12:50 AM

#12951

DodgerIrish

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JDS gonna sleep him early or get dominated.

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Didn't see undercard but don't think main lived up to expectations. Maia/Mas was just ok, Frankie dominated, Joanna dominated.

Undercard was very good, somewhat depending on whether Eddie/Poirer was a bad sour taste.

Finishes and/or exciting fights overall.

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05-14-2017 , 12:55 AM

#12952

Kowabunghole

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Lol

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05-14-2017 , 01:00 AM

#12953

ut2010

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meh

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05-14-2017 , 01:02 AM

#12954

Kowabunghole

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Card was worth it for Frankie and Maia

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05-14-2017 , 01:18 AM

#12955

bluef0x

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kind of disappointing that ppl showed up to my house during main card and not the undercard tonight.

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05-14-2017 , 07:50 AM

#12956

Prawney

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Seems crazy that with that win Stipe tied the record for most HW title defenses at 2.

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05-14-2017 , 10:04 AM

#12957

Onlydo2days

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Stipe starting to build quite the resume. Last 2 years he has KO's on Hunt, Arlovski, JDS, Werdum and Reem.

I watched the post-fight presser, he said he needs to "step back and weigh my options" quite a few times, seems like that means he wants more $ and for the UFC to promote him more. Feels like they should but HW is just so hard to get behind a guy because of the variance.

Francis Ngouno (sp) and a healthy Cain would be the fights I'd like to see him in. Not really interested in him getting the winner of Reem/Werdum as much but that might be what happens.

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05-14-2017 , 11:19 AM

#12958

Exothermic

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^^ Don't forget the black beast.

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05-14-2017 , 11:44 AM

#12959

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Please don't make him fight TBB yet, I just started liking him and I don't want to see him to get his muffins waxed yet.

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05-14-2017 , 11:44 AM

#12960

rainbowsinthesky

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Dana says he reached an agreement with Conor for the Floyd fight. Starts negotiating with Floyd's team this week. Fight happens this year or it's off and doesn't have much time to negotiate with Floyd. Conor wants to fight two times this year.

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05-14-2017 , 12:26 PM

#12961

DodgerIrish

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Conor's getting squeezed to accept like 25-30 million or there's not enough $ for the UFC.

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05-15-2017 , 07:25 AM

#12962

electricladylnd

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$200 million fight, Floyd getting 75%, Conor and UFC split the $50Mill. Seems about right. I would be very surprised if FM gets less than 70%.

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05-15-2017 , 10:05 AM

#12963

Onlydo2days

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I think something like 60/20/20 or 50/25/25 is possible.

Keep in mind this is sparring for Floyd and he is gonna make 9 figures.

Dana knows that Floyd is getting a total gift to fight CM and make what he is making for it, so he can negotiate from a position of strength in that sense.

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05-15-2017 , 10:32 AM

#12964

rainbowsinthesky

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Dana said a while ago that Jeff Mayweather was wrong about the UFC wanting 50% of Conor's purse, so I can see something like 125 mil for Floyd, 75 mil for Conor, like Dana said a few months ago, and they get like 25-30 mil from Conor without doing anything really.

What's the second fight for Conor tho? Nate Diaz III? The winner of Khabib v Tony? Aldo II if he beats Holloway?

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05-15-2017 , 11:19 AM

#12965

Onlydo2days

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Diaz 3 is it I imagine. Maybe vs Khabib in Russia if the $ is right, I dunno.

http://www.mmafighting.com/2017/5/14...ufc-retirement

AJ going into the weed business. Good for him even though he tanked that fight with Cormier.

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05-15-2017 , 12:09 PM

#12966

Perhaps Shimmy

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I thought you guys said diaz-ferguson was in the works?

And its funny that McGregor would be the fight that technically breaks the all time unbeaten wins record for Floyd

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05-15-2017 , 12:11 PM

#12967

Onlydo2days

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Diaz turned it down. Said he doesn't give a **** about an interim title. Obviously making the right move to make him vs CM III the biggest event it can be.

He probably has a price, but the UFC so far has been unwilling to meet it.

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05-17-2017 , 10:38 AM

#12968

rainbowsinthesky

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Can't wait to see Rory back in action on Friday ;D

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05-17-2017 , 11:30 AM

#12969

Videopro

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New weekly fight series coming to UFC.TV

http://www.ufc.com/news/dana-white-t...ht-pass-051217

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05-17-2017 , 11:51 AM

#12970

Exothermic

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lol@ you guys thinking ufc just wants 25-30mill for this fight.

They are looking at this fight to be atleast as big as mayweather vs pacman, so we're talking 400+mill. Conor 75mill is his show $ not including ppv, no way ufc takes less than 40% of everything conor makes in this fight, this could very well be conors last fight & ufc needs to be paid just to allow conor to have this opportunity right now. All in all if the fight nets 400mill, conor probably walks away with 90mill, ufc 60mil & floyd 250mill & i think the fight makes more than mayweather vs pacman tbh so figures are probably small.

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05-17-2017 , 11:57 AM

#12971

Onlydo2days

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Starting next week, UFC has fight nights 4 of the next 5 weeks (with a PPV the 1 week they don't)

Wish they could just consolidate that stuff and have cards that are stacked rather than a bunch of cards with maybe 1-2 fights you wanna see.

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05-17-2017 , 02:30 PM

#12972

Johnny Truant

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I agree as a spectator but they gotta start building the bench or we are just going to see rematch after rematch at the top (except for when olds come out of retirement or go into retirement)