What do you make of the Bellator situation with Rampage, where he feels they lied and screwed him over? Or the shady deals of the Japanese orgs, including Pride? Or WSOF's legal issues? I mean who do you support in the MMA game?
Not talking about you specifically, but a lot of people on here talk about Zuffa like they're the worst and there's some shining white knight ready to take over and make the fight game pure or something. It's pretty silly! Do people think guys Scott Coker and Sakikabara would make things better? The shit the Japanese pulled with Pride is more disgusting than anything I can remember Zuffa doing.
Yeah, the things i liked more about Pride was the vast majority of their rule set and their presentation. That whole steroid shit and the yakuza scandal pissed me off a lot with them.
As far as Rampage goes, the ruling was that Jackson breached the contract, not Bellator. Rampage is not a bastion of forethought or careful thinking in my mind. He may have had some CTE contribute to this, but imo he has shown quite reckless behavior with other people's well being in the past, and anyone that DUI's immediately loses some respect in my eyes.
I like the fact that Coker and Sakakibara are willing to co-promote, because i absolutely want to see the best fight the best all across the board in MMA. Now if there proves to be some Tomfoolery with Rizin, of course my opinion would change due to new information.
WSOF's Ali Abdel-Aziz has always come across as a shyster to me. I find him to be a deplorable human being in fact.
I don't believe Zuffa is all bad; In fact they've done a great deal of good for the sport in many ways, and to deny this is not objective. However -to me- that does not let them off the hook for lying, cheating, and stealing their way to success.
