I think thats a good point, but maybe Dana is holding them back?
haha thats true, we don't see all sides to the story, but we do see the fighters side and it ain't a good look. I guess we can assume they saw Dana as an investment and someone worth keeping around, which tells me as someone who's not a huge fan of dana at this point, that this WME IMG takeover wasn't such a progressive move at all.
I don't think that's the case. Seems like he's the only public figure they have in the company that can even talk mma. There are guys like Reed Harris that are awesome but most UFC fans have no idea who he is. The minute they show me a reasonably well mma educated front man to replace him. I'll be happy to move on from his old act.
Which tells me Dana is the pitbull that WME IMG want to stop fighters from 'getting out of line'...but is that the sport we want for the future? there's definately pros & cons to both, a sway of absolute power to fighters would obviously have other drawbacks
There's also the argument that the sport doesn't need this pitbull figurehead like dana, that the UFC do the promotions and the talking is left to the fighters.
Doesn't have to be a pitbull but I do believe a dedicated promoter is important.
like a phased out retirement, i like that idea, but the media bulldogs will always pull Dana in for an opinion.
I think there's also the argument of how can we legitimise the sport for wider media consumption when we have someone who undermines his own employees. I know we've seen this in other sports, but as a growing one, one that even in the UK isn't even covered on major sports news channels (BBC sport don't even list MMA)...I guess i want to see the sport continue to grow, and that is done with fighters, having serious stars of the Sport. Dana can rant all he likes, but it's the fighters that transcend onto other media avenues, Dana's not the one sat on Ellen's couch, it's Ronda. If more promotion was pushed on fighters like MM, and not on stupid TV programming around Dana and his buddies, maybe fighters like MM would make that jump from UFC champion to TV Chat shows, which in turn, turns more eyes onto the sport.
Sorry if you saw that; my thumb gave you a rainbow by accident.
i didn't see that, just returned now. now that i know, i will hold it against you and be biased against your every post.
Dang son, I dislike bisping more than you but you like to fuck with/troll a significant number of threads......
i agree, if
@Mix6APlix were 10 years old, i'd call him a little shitbag
This is kind of my take. Dana does a lot of stuff that I don't agree with, but I'm not sure he'd be replaced by someone who would treat the fighters better. The fighters need to organize and defend each other. That's all that will fix this.
