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Ricky wrote: ↑28 Sep 2020, 11:17 I can't wait until someone gives Adesanya a pasting. How bad was Costa though? Absymal effort.

Honestly rick I’d love to see you in a fight you must be king kong the way you go on!

Wee Tommy wrote: ↑28 Sep 2020, 12:41

Ricky wrote: ↑28 Sep 2020, 11:17 I can't wait until someone gives Adesanya a pasting. How bad was Costa though? Absymal effort.

Honestly rick I’d love to see you in a fight you must be king kong the way you go on!

Wee Tommy wrote: ↑28 Sep 2020, 12:41

Ricky wrote: ↑28 Sep 2020, 11:17 I can't wait until someone gives Adesanya a pasting. How bad was Costa though? Absymal effort.

Honestly rick I’d love to see you in a fight you must be king kong the way you go on!

I'd get DQd, my best shot is the nut.

Ricky wrote: ↑28 Sep 2020, 16:03

Wee Tommy wrote: ↑28 Sep 2020, 12:41

Ricky wrote: ↑28 Sep 2020, 11:17 I can't wait until someone gives Adesanya a pasting. How bad was Costa though? Absymal effort.

Honestly rick I’d love to see you in a fight you must be king kong the way you go on!

I'd get DQd, my best shot is the nut.

Landing one on Adesanya would be tough! Costa should never have tried to have a stand up fight with him, he’s a BJJ black belt and he tried to brawl with a high level counter striker. He had no chance with those tactics

Wee Tommy wrote: ↑28 Sep 2020, 16:07

Ricky wrote: ↑28 Sep 2020, 16:03

Wee Tommy wrote: ↑28 Sep 2020, 12:41

Honestly rick I’d love to see you in a fight you must be king kong the way you go on!

I'd get DQd, my best shot is the nut.

Landing one on Adesanya would be tough! Costa should never have tried to have a stand up fight with him, he’s a BJJ black belt and he tried to brawl with a high level counter striker. He had no chance with those tactics

I'm actually starting to think there are dominant styles depending on weight class. I certainly think kickboxing is the dominant style for middleweight, yet in the lower classes wrestlers like Khabib seem to be more dominant. Maybe it's easier for smaller guys to get past the calf kicks.

p4p1 wrote: ↑27 Sep 2020, 04:18 Man Adesenya is so good. I want to like him, but every time he opens his mouth he becomes impossible to like for me. I think it’s the false American accent that drops in and out.

fornicate he looked good tonight though. So fast and so clean, I’m not sure if there is anyone at MW who can beat him.

I get ya. That was a flawless victory. Bugger me he is an utter gobshite though.

Ricky wrote: ↑28 Sep 2020, 16:03

Wee Tommy wrote: ↑28 Sep 2020, 12:41

Ricky wrote: ↑28 Sep 2020, 11:17 I can't wait until someone gives Adesanya a pasting. How bad was Costa though? Absymal effort.

Honestly rick I’d love to see you in a fight you must be king kong the way you go on!

I'd get DQd, my best shot is the nut.

McGregor proposes fight for charity with Poirier

In recent days, McGregor has been making headlines due to various tweets he’s shared out. Late last week he posted what were apparently images of a text exchange he had with Dana White this past March, in which McGregor was pushing for another fight.

Then McGregor also tweeted out that he’s boxing Pacquiao next, and the latter’s camp has said talks are underway to make that happen.

Well, more recently, McGregor had the following exchange with Poirier (after firing back at comments Daniel Cormier apparently made about Conor’s recent tweets regarding his next bout).

Hey bro! You want to do an MMA charity fight? Zero to do with the ufc.

I will donate half a mill towards your charity for it. Sell it on ppv or work a tv deal and we work out other charities that are close to my heart also. I am engaged in many. Strictly a charity “exhibition”

December 12th in the Point depot, Ireland. No weigh ins.
Open weight, unified rules.
I will arrange all travel fare for you and family.
McGregor Sports and Entertainment MMA, in association with The Good Fight Foundation.
Charity Mixed Martial Arts!

And then Poirier responded with this:

I’m in! Lets do it! A lot of people will benefit from this @TheGoodFightFDN

Which prompted McGregor to respond with:

Excellent! We shall take it offline and progress the process from here. Good man Dustin! I respect your philanthropic efforts greatly, as well as how you conducted yourself post our first fight. You have my respect!


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Conor? https://t.co/etpDibodtI

— The Diamond (@DustinPoirier) September 29, 2020

MacGregor always does this when he doesn’t get his own way with the UFC.

Although I do think trying to save him for a live gate is poor stuff by ufc. I suppose it’s the only way to pay him what he wants

Don't see the UFC allowing that.

Official Poster

Main Card

Khabib Nurmagomedov vs. Justin Gaethje – for lightweight title
Jared Cannonier vs. Robert Whittaker
Walt Harris vs. Alexander Volkov
Rafael dos Anjos vs. Islam Makhachev
Cynthia Calvillo vs. Lauren Murphy
Magomed Ankalaev vs. Ion Cutelaba

Preliminary Card

Sergey Morozov vs. Umar Nurmagomedov
Sam Alvey vs. Da Un Jung
Liana Jojua vs. Miranda Maverick
Phil Hawes vs. Jacob Malkoun
Stefan Struve vs. Tai Tuivasa

Wow UFC 254 looking like a really good card. Will likely be my 2nd PPV purchase of the year after Usman/Masvidal.

They've some nerve promoting Khabib v Gaetje as "champion v champion".

cmonyouguys wrote: ↑30 Sep 2020, 12:07 They've some nerve promoting Khabib v Gaetje as "champion v champion".

I don't mind, khabib can pretend for a couple more weeks.

Israel Adesanya sets new pay-per-view record for UFC in New Zealand

Mixed martial arts fans cannot get enough of UFC middleweight champion Israel Adesanya and the ratings confirm it.

While the UFC has not released the numbers from Sunday's event in Abu Dhabi, the promotion announced that UFC 253: Adesanya vs Costa – headlined by the Nigerian-Kiwi's spectacular second-round TKO of Paulo Costa – was the largest ever pay-per-view (PPV) event for the UFC in New Zealand.

A record number of fans purchased the event on Sky Arena, Sky Sports Now or UFC Fight Pass, while the second-highest number of commercial venues around the country broadcast the PPV event to its patrons.

It also was the third-highest performing PPV event overall in New Zealand, behind the all-Kiwi heavyweight boxing showdown between David Tua and Shane Cameron in 2009, and Joseph Parker's world heavyweight unification title bout against Anthony Joshua in 2018.

The Tua-Cameron fight reportedly holds the record at 88,000 PPV buys.

“We are reaching new heights in New Zealand” said Peter Kloczko, vice president, UFC Australia and New Zealand. “Performance and results in the Octagon by Kiwi athletes are supported by a growing, passionate fanbase in New Zealand. Achieving a record audience for UFC 253 is a tremendous sign of continued positive development of UFC in the region.”

Adesanya was joined on the card by City Kickboxing teammates Brad Riddell, Kai Kara-France and Shane Young.

Riddell secured his third-straight win since joining the promotion, while Kara-France, who was awarded the Fight of the Night bonus, and Young were unable to leave Fight Island with victories. But all played a part in helping the event surpass the region's previous record held by UFC 207: Nunes vs Rousey on December 31, 2016.

"Sky was delighted with our customers’ responses to the UFC match up on the weekend which aired on Sky Arena and Sky Sport Now,” Sky chief content officer Tex Texeira said in a statement.

“The fight was the third-highest performing pay-per-view event to date and the largest-ever UFC event on our streaming service Sky Sport Now.”

It's yet another example of mixed martial arts' increasing growth in New Zealand, spearheaded by Adesanya and his team at City Kickboxing.

"Sky was delighted with our customers’ responses to the UFC match up on the weekend which aired on Sky Arena and Sky Sport Now,” Sky chief content officer Tex Texeira said in a statement.

“The fight was the third-highest performing pay-per-view event to date and the largest-ever UFC event on our streaming service Sky Sport Now.”

It's yet another example of mixed martial arts' increasing growth in New Zealand, spearheaded by Adesanya and his team at City Kickboxing.
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All four fighters in action at UFC 253, as well as lightweight star Dan Hooker, train out of the Auckland gym and are currently the only New Zealand athletes signed to the UFC.

Hooker deserves of plenty of credit for building MMA's profile in this country. For a few years after his debut in 2014, he was the only New Zealand-based fighter on the UFC roster.

The Aucklander has since worked his way up to become a major player in the lightweight division, having headlined his last two shows and is fourth in the rankings.

On top of the PPV ratings, UFC 253 was also a huge hit on social media.

On Sunday the event sat as the No 1 Twitter trend and No 2 Google trend across Australia and New Zealand, and outperformed recent blockbuster events, UFC 249 and 251, in impressions, video views, and interactions.

With 3.5 million followers on Instagram alone, the UFC said Adesanya now drives equally as much conversation and video views in Australasia as Irish star Conor McGregor would during a fight week.

Adesanya’s last two PPV events have driven close to 100 million impressions, one billion interactions and 27 million video views in the two fight weeks combined, according to the UFC.

UFC 253 did 700k buys globally.

Counter-puncher wrote: ↑25 Nov 2015, 12:28

Deadendgeneration wrote: Showed she can adapt and come through adversity as well in her last fight. She's very impressive.

really? some girl out there actually gave her a fight? I'm impressed. did they give her any issues in the standup?

Becasue this thing is still under rated in the sports industry

Ruthless-RKO wrote: ↑06 Oct 2020, 07:04

There’s no way I believe those numbers. They may be disclosed fight fees but McGregor, Lesnar and several more would have received a percentage of the PPV sales too.

maverick23 wrote: ↑06 Oct 2020, 08:58

Ruthless-RKO wrote: ↑06 Oct 2020, 07:04

There’s no way I believe those numbers. They may be disclosed fight fees but McGregor, Lesnar and several more would have received a percentage of the PPV sales too.

These figures are guaranteed purses that are given to the commision..

Does not include extra income due to ppv revenue, which as you mentioned guys like McGregor and Lesnar have earned.

Look at Ronda Rousy? She's number 23.

Juaquin Buckley just scored the best Ko I've seen in MMA. Spinning heel kick to the moosh. What a knockout.