my buddy is full of sh!t....right?

[WestCoastKilla]

Ok, this right here may be candidate for most useless and stupid post of the year, but a conversation between some of my peers and myself on MMA led to one of my friends making a comment about how the UFC is fixed, not in the athletic sense of competition but in the way a fighter is marketed and how fight cards are set up, IE Rampage's "retirement" and Evan's win over Thiago Silva, Brock Lesnars origanally stated life threatening illness to a miracle recovery, all the while Mir is ballooning himself in size and reinventing himself after Lesnar's approach to fighting..all building to a "wrestlemania" style climactic and epic meeting that is over-hyped (If Carwin come's out in his fight against Mir looking lack-luster/ not performing to the level he is known like Thiago did against Rashaad or loses due to a poor decision by the judges after 3 rounds).
These comments made me start questioning if my friend knew what he was talking about and then he dropped the real bomb in his follow up to those statements when he said that both Jet Li and Jean Claude Van Dam attempted to enter UFC and were both denied contracts because Dana White and the rest of his business partners decided they posed too much of a risk to their fighters and in turn the credibility of their company and sport.
Has anybody else heard anything about any of this because while I'm not the most educated MMA head I do know a thing or two about a thing or two and I have never heard anything like this...My head is spinning from this shit.

[TheCronik]

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[WestCoastKilla]

I mean...Jean Claude van Dam??... He's not even a fighter or disciplined in anything isnt he?? he's like a fuckin choreographer right?

[TheCronik]

I mean...Jean Claude van Dam??... He's not even a fighter or disciplined in anything isnt he?? he's like a fuckin choreographer right?

hes gunna fight in k-1 i believe pretty soon i dont know how legit exactly he is i suppose we'll see.

[exsanguinator]

I mean...Jean Claude van Dam??... He's not even a fighter or disciplined in anything isnt he?? he's like a fuckin choreographer right?

He was the European kickboxing champ in the 80s.

Also, you're friends theory holds absolutely no water.

[Solace]

I mean...Jean Claude van Dam??... He's not even a fighter or disciplined in anything isnt he?? he's like a fuckin choreographer right?

He was the European kickboxing champ in the 80s.

Also, you're friends theory holds absolutely no water.

Yea I thought JCVD used to compete in Kickboxing. Jet Li on the other hand I believe just did competitive Wu Shu.


As far as you friends theory goes well its just that a theory. Of course the UFC is going to try and hype up fights but to go as far as creating fictional story lines like pro wrestling does, I dont think so.

[Ronin]

LMAO

[cman]

I mean...Jean Claude van Dam??... He's not even a fighter or disciplined in anything isnt he?? he's like a fuckin choreographer right?

He was the European kickboxing champ in the 80s.

Also, you're friends theory holds absolutely no water.

Yea I thought JCVD used to compete in Kickboxing. Jet Li on the other hand I believe just did competitive Wu Shu.


As far as you friends theory goes well its just that a theory. Of course the UFC is going to try and hype up fights but to go as far as creating fictional story lines like pro wrestling does, I dont think so.

This is what I think. They hype it up and do what the money tells them, like Dana and Tito probably did really dislike each other but they realized the money is better working together. And sometimes guys just don't live up to their potential in fights or something else happened that no one knows about.