Meltzer: UFC frustrated with Conor's lack of promotion for Khabib fight

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Sex Chicken

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Fuck Dana White for fucking over fighters and then expecting them do favours (promotions/last minute replacement fights) out of the goodness of their hearts. The guy plays cold business hardball whenever he likes, and then whines when fighters play the same game.
 
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I say good on Conor for it. His job is to fight and be entertaining enough in it to create demand, he's done that flawlessly.
He's got to make sure he doesn't give his opponent an advantage in terms of time and energy spent on training as opposed to promotion.
He promotes himself well but it takes time and energy to do that, it becomes compounded by the fact he lives and trains more than a few time zones away from the nearest u.s. coast.
He's completely in the right on this.
 

La Paix

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I say good on Conor for it. His job is to fight and be entertaining enough in it to create demand, he's done that flawlessly.
He's got to make sure he doesn't give his opponent an advantage in terms of time and energy spent on training as opposed to promotion.
He promotes himself well but it takes time and energy to do that, it becomes compounded by the fact he lives and trains more than a few time zones away from the nearest u.s. coast.
He's completely in the right on this.

 

FrankieNYC

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I say good on Conor for it. His job is to fight and be entertaining enough in it to create demand, he's done that flawlessly.
He's got to make sure he doesn't give his opponent an advantage in terms of time and energy spent on training as opposed to promotion.
He promotes himself well but it takes time and energy to do that, it becomes compounded by the fact he lives and trains more than a few time zones away from the nearest u.s. coast.
He's completely in the right on this.
Travel to US & interrupt training?
I agree

But he could do a 5-10 minute interview with ESPN in-between a two-a-day from his gym.
No reason he can't do that
 
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Travel to US & interrupt training?
I agree

But he could do a 5-10 minute interview with ESPN in-between a two-a-day from his gym.
No reason he can't do that
There's a Slavic expression, it translates to "Give them a finger and they want the whole arm."
I find it more fitting than the English equivalent in this instance. I think he knows what he's doing based on his past experience.
 

Sex Chicken

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The UFC went overboard with the Conor/Aldo promotion. It got dull watching them do the same schtick over and over.
They only need a couple decent promos and people will be all over this fight.

I’ve been reading La Paix @Chad Wagner ’s blog on “Edging” and I think the UFC could learn a lot from him. In essence the UFC’s promos should tickle our balls with a feather and then slap a mouse trap on them just before we blow. Then on fight night tickle our balls again, but this time just let us blow all over ourselves.
 
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i was looking forward to conor saying some racist shit and pissing off the dagestsanis and muslims before this fight happens. it might have been smart on the ufc to mussel conor before this as muslims and dagestanis dont like infidels talking shit about their traditions and religion .if he said half the shit he said about brazil and to aldo to khabib and about russia/dagestan/islam he might run in to problems irl.
 

FrankieNYC

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The UFC went overboard with the Conor/Aldo promotion. It got dull watching them do the same schtick over and over.
They only need a couple decent promos and people will be all over this fight.
The issue with Conor/Aldo was they did it twice for one fight due to Aldo pulling out (injury)
Otherwise, I didn't think it was too much.

Those things are not for hardcores, but for casuals.
a casual might only see a highlight of one presser, not all 3.
 

FrankieNYC

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Does this fight need any promotion?
To do 1m buys?
no
To do 1.5m? Most likely
To do the 2m DW thinks is bottom line? 100% it does

Every 100k = about $4m to bottom line

Remember the majority buys are casuals
 
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GJdeux

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i was looking forward to conor saying some racist shit and pissing off the dagestsanis and muslims before this fight happens. it might have been smart on the ufc to mussel conor before this as muslims and dagestanis dont like infidels talking shit about their traditions and religion .if he said half the shit he said about brazil and to aldo to khabib and about russia/dagestan/islam he might run in to problems irl.
you aren't wrong. he honestly better tread lightly if he is going to talk trash about anything other than his fighting or whatever. You know what I mean.
 

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you aren't wrong. he honestly better tread lightly if he is going to talk trash about anything other than his fighting or whatever. You know what I mean.
Tread lightly? He's already thrown a dolly at Khabibs bus and called he and his dad cowards. Khabib ainta doing shit outside of the cage.