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Jon Anik is now hyped for Noche UFC after witnessing the impressive production quality of the upcoming pay-per-view event at The Sphere. UFC 306, known as Riyadh Season Noche UFC, is scheduled for September 14 at The Sphere in Las Vegas, Nevada, in ho…
Jon Anik is now hyped for Noche UFC after witnessing the impressive production quality of the upcoming pay-per-view event at The Sphere. UFC 306, known as Riyadh Season Noche UFC, is scheduled for September 14 at The Sphere in Las Vegas, Nevada, in honor of Mexican Independence Day. The landmark event will represent a significant […]
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Dana White vs. illegal streaming sites is proving to be one of the greatest rivalries in UFC history. On…
Dana White vs. illegal streaming sites is proving to be one of the greatest rivalries in UFC history.
On September 14, the UFC will deliver one of the biggest cards of the year inside Sphere in Las Vegas. The unique setting has proven to be a real challenge for the UFC’s production team, but White has continuously promised that the event will be unlike any combat sports event before it. White also revealed that the budget for UFC 306 — also known as Riyadh Season Noche UFC — has exceeded $20 million making it the most expensive event in promotional history.
Ahead of the highly anticipated pay-per-view event, White spent a portion of his Tuesday night press conference to further threaten illegal streaming sites and those who pirate UFC events instead of forking over their hard-earned cash to partake in the festivities legally.
“Trust me, we know exactly how to combat piracy,” White said. “I will tell you extensively what we do, every event, but we go after piracy hard, and you saw a few years ago, we started prosecuting people. “That’s how you combat piracy. Start f*cking prosecuting people for stealing.”
White’s comments got the attention of one of the internet’s most popular illegal streaming sites, Streameast, who basically dared the UFC CEO to come after them.
“Come and get it then Dana,” Streameast wrote in response to White’s comments.
Responding to another user’s comment about the promotion’s supposed prosecution of illegal streamers, Streameast suggested that White is telling tall tales in a hopeless attempt to deter people from watching PPV events through alternative sources.
“He’s desperate,” Streameast added. “Making up lies and praying it scares away a few hundred people from clicking the link.”
The site was far from done going in on White, bringing the ongoing debate over fighter pay into the conversation.
“There’s a difference between free and affordable,” the platform wrote. “Make Dana White’s net worth being over a half billion yet his employees have to pay for medical out of their own pockets make sense.”
“It’s time for him to pay the fans back and fighters more,” Streameast continued.
White’s comments about combating illegal streaming came shortly after Turki Alalshikh, the Chairman of the General Entertainment Authority in Saudi Arabia, revealed plans to reduce pay-per-view prices for boxing events down to $15-20 in hopes of growing the sport and encouraging fans to purchase the events rather than pirating the cards.
“I dream of a PPV with a good price to make the fans happy and subscribe and get them to watch it legally,” Alalshikh told talkSPORT. “Usually when I see a high PPV [price], a lot of people go and watch the fight illegally, and this is not healthy for boxing and the platform.”
“What I will try to push is to have our Riyadh Season shows at less than £20 in England and less than $20 around the world. I would prefer to have one million fans subscribe and buy the PPV for $20 than less than 500,000.”
Over the last two decades, PPV prices have skyrocketed across the board with UFC events costing $79.99 a pop on top of requiring an ESPN+ subscription to order which will set you back another $10.99 per month. As for boxing, the upcoming clash between Canelo Alvarez and Edgar Berlanga will cost you a whopping $89.99 + tax.
Alalshikh hopes to bring an end to the era where fight fans are forced to fork over almost $100 just to watch an event that, in all honesty, rarely lives up to the hype.
“The people go around it illegally because the price is high,” Alalshikh added. “In the future, this will not build boxing. If I give the fans good fights at a good price, then I will increase the fanbase.”
UFC President Dana White is hoping to change the system in the future so UFC rankings are done via…
UFC President Dana White is hoping to change the system in the future so UFC rankings are done via AI rather than humans. After fighting with reporters on whether or not Jon Jones should be at the top of the pound-for-pound spot on UFC rankings, White is demanding an AI takeover. So, here we supply him with exactly what he wants; AI UFC rankings.
In a press conference, Dana White said:
“Did you guys read the stats?” White asked the media. “He recently just beat the No. 1 heavyweight in the world. Hope you guys read that stat. You know what is fcking great about technology? We’re not far away from AI actually doing these rankings, and it’ll be a great fcking day when AI starts doing this sh*t. I’m really excited about that.” [Ht MMAJunkie]
According to AI ChatGPT, the UFC ranking for pound-for-pound should be as follows:
The above list from ChatGPT seems to be a bit out of date. For UFC rankings, let’s try another program that can find more up-to-date information. ChatGPT is a language model so it tries to predict what is most likely based on its records but does not have the ability to look up new information. Perplexity, on the other hand, is both a language model that looks up the information and cites its sources.
According to the Perplexity AI, asked to create an assessment, the UFC ranking for pound-for-pound should be:
With two different AI models, we end up with two different results for pound-for-pound rankings. We end up at the exact same place with differing opinions, Dana White clashing with the media, ChatGPT clashing with Perplexity. Pound-for-pound is an imagined idea that does not have an exact definition. Ask different people what pound-for-pound should include and you’ll get many different answers. Skill regardless of size? Accomplishments? Wins over notable competition? How long do we go back? Do we factor in possible PED usage? All of these and to what degree? UFC Rankings may not yet be replaced with AI.
Dana White loves that Alex Pereira wants to fight everybody. It only took ‘Poatan’ seven fights inside the Octagon…
Dana White loves that Alex Pereira wants to fight everybody.
It only took ‘Poatan’ seven fights inside the Octagon to etch his name in the history books as a two-division world champion, capturing both the middleweight and light heavyweight titles. On October 5, the ‘Brazilian Boogeyman’ will step into the main event spotlight for his third title defense of 2024 when he meets heavy-hitting contender Khalil Rountree at UFC 307 in Salt Lake City.
There, Pereira will put his 205-pound crown on the line following a pair of highlight-reel KOs against former champions Jamahal Hill and Jiri Prochazka.
Even though Pereira already has another fight lined up, ‘Poatan’ recently expressed interest in venturing back down to 185 for a fight with current middleweight king Dricus Du Plessis.
Asked about Pereira’s plans following Tuesday’s edition of Dana White’s Contender Series, the UFC CEO said that Pereira’s desire to fight anyone and everyone is a very good problem for the promotion to have.
“My take on him is, he’s f*cking nasty,” White told reporters at Tuesday’s DWCS post-fight press conference. “That’s my take on him. He wants to move up. He wants to move down. He wants to go everywhere. That’s why people love him. Those are the type of fighters people love. Pereira wants to fight everybody. I love it.
“… The thing that’s great about it is, this is why I said a minute ago everybody loves him and he’s great. But it also gives us a ton of options that as we’re in matchmaking, ‘Should we do this, should we do that? Shouldn’t we do this, shouldn’t we do that?’ It’s a good problem to have with a guy like him. How about he’s on vacation and accepts the last-minute fight? Everything about Alex Pereira is what makes fans absolutely love the guy” (h/t MMA Junkie).
Following his fourth-round submission victory over Israel Adesanya in Perth, Du Plessis is expected to rematch the man he took the title from in January, Sean Strickland.
Responding to Pereira’s challenge, ‘DDP’ was seemingly open to the potential superfight and broke out a little MMA math by pointing out the fact that Pereira once got slept by the guy he just tapped out in The Land Down Under.
“If Izzy [Adesanya] stiffens you like that, you do not wanna be in there with me,” Du Plessis said at the UFC 305 post-fight press conference. “Especially not when you’re gonna come in there with the excuses, ‘No, I cut too much weight…’ That’s gonna happen. Everybody’s gonna say that. So stay at 205. Fight your fight against the #8 ranked guy. Fight your fight there and enjoy it.”
“If [Sean] Strickland is the next fight, the people wanna see that fight… So, let me handle my business, you handle your business. You don’t have to cut the weight so you have some sort of excuse. I’ll come up after the Strickland fight, I’ll come up to 205, and we’ll sort it out there,” Du Plessis said of a potential fight with Pereira” (h/t Sports Illustrated).
Javier Mendez, the legendary coach of both Daniel Cormier and Khabib Nurmagomedov, has a problem with Dana White’s insistence…
Javier Mendez, the legendary coach of both Daniel Cormier and Khabib Nurmagomedov, has a problem with Dana White’s insistence that Jon Jones is the GOAT of mixed martial arts.
On more than one occasion, the UFC CEO has engaged in a fiery back-and-forth with the MMA media over his belief that ‘Bones’ is the greatest fighter of all time and thus, should be sitting atop the pound-for-pound rankings. However, respected journalists like Kevin Iole and John Morgan suggest that Jones’ lack of activity should exempt him from the P4P list.
During a recent episode of his own podcast, Mendez seemingly sided with Iole and Morgan, but for a decidedly different reason.
“Dana is still insisting that Jon Jones is pound-for-pound #1,” Mendez said. “He has his valid points, but my valid point is I just want to say one thing: Lance Armstrong. Lance Armstrong won the Tour de France how many times, and basically, he got all those titles taken away from him because of one thing—doping. And even though it was many years later that they caught him, he lost all the Tour de France titles.
“Well, it’s been a fact, it’s been proven, Jon Jones has been caught doping. So, I’m sorry, I think that disqualifies him just based on that alone” (h/t MMA News).
Following his third-round TKO victory over Cormier at UFC 214, it was revealed that Jones had tested positive for turinabol, an anabolic steroid typically used by athletes and bodybuilders to increase muscle mass and enhance their athletic performance.
As a result, the win for Jones was overturned to a no-contest and he was slapped with a 15-month suspension by the California State Athletic Commission.
Jones returned 17 months later to reclaim the light heavyweight title. He would go on to defend it three more times against Anthony Smith, Thiago Santos, and Dominick Reyes before vacating the belt and announcing his move to heavyweight.
Fast forward another three years, ‘Bones’ finally made his heavyweight debut, defeating Ciryl Gane to claim the vacated title with a quick two-minute submission of ‘Bon Gamin’ at UFC 285.
Jones is yet to defend the title but is slated to square off with former two-time titleholder Stipe Miocic this November when the UFC returns to Madison Square Garden.
Week four of this year’s instalment of Dana White’s Contender Series delivered some big upsets and one of the show’s most memorable knockouts. Whilst it was Yuneisy Duben that stole all the headlines with her one-punch knockout over Shannon Clark, the evening’s opener set the tone. The first fight between Quillan Salkilld and Gauge Young […]
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Week four of this year’s instalment of Dana White’s Contender Series delivered some big upsets and one of the show’s most memorable knockouts.
Whilst it was Yuneisy Duben that stole all the headlines with her one-punch knockout over Shannon Clark, the evening’s opener set the tone.
The first fight between Quillan Salkilld and Gauge Young was a high-level and super competitive three-round affair in the lightweight division.
Though Salkilld earned the win and thus, his place on the UFC roster, the UFC boss went into the Octagon after the fight to give praise to both men – something he rarely does.
In his post-fight press conference after the event, Dana White spoke about how impressed he was by this fight from both men’s perspectives.
The opening bout of the card has delivered great fights or moments across season 8 of the series and this one was no different.
To emphasize how powerful and durable both men were, White described the impact of some of the shots that they were both landing and receiving across the 15-minute duration.
He compared the sound of these strikes to when Francis Ngannou met Stipe Miocic in a rematch for the heavyweight title back at UFC 260, which took place in a near-vacant UFC Apex due to the restrictions for hosting live events at the time.
“Both of those kids were 24 years old and you know, my thing was however the judges score this fight, however this plays out, both of you have a bright future in this sport. Both durable, tough guys, well-rounded no matter where the fight went. Head kicks, eating nasty head kicks, the body shots that both of those took, the punches. I mean when they hit each other with some of those right hands, it sounded like heavyweights. It reminded me of the night that Francis and Stipe fought in here. When Francis and Stipe were hitting each other that night and you were just like God damn! Those two were throwing those kind of punches at each other, it was a great fight.”
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