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23 Things in MMA We’re Glad We Never Have to Experience Again

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By CagePotato.com Staff

1. A Paul Buentello post-fight speech.

2. Anything Kimbo Slice related.

3. A James Toney promo.

4. Nick Serra’s butt-scoots.

5. Fedor vs. Lesnar discussions.

6. Tim Sylvia.

7. Strikeforce vs. UFC debates.

8. PRIDE vs. UFC debates.

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By CagePotato.com Staff

1. A Paul Buentello post-fight speech.

2. Anything Kimbo Slice related.

3. A James Toney promo.

4. Nick Serra’s butt-scoots.

5. Fedor vs. Lesnar discussions.

6. Tim Sylvia.

7. Strikeforce vs. UFC debates.

8. PRIDE vs. UFC debates.

9. Internet message board rants about how the WEC is more exciting than the UFC.

10. Incessant whining about how GSP is the most boring fighter on earth.

11. Pulling an all-nighter to live-blog a PRIDE event (this is a little bittersweet).

12. Trying to remember the horrid IFL team names.

13. Articles about [insert middleweight] being the Guy to Beat Silva™.

14. Articles about [insert heavyweight] being the Guy to Beat Fedor™.

15. Articles about [insert welterweight] being the Guy to Beat GSP™.

16. Commentators referring to BJJ techniques as “some kind of choke.”

17. Commentators referring to guard as “the Gracie guard” and just putting “Gracie” in front of standard BJJ and Judo techniques in general.

18. Antonio McKee‘s trash talking.

19. Antonio McKee’s fighting.

20. Watching Chuck Liddell get violently knocked out.

21. Gus Johnson doing commentary.

22. EliteXC.

23. Sententious lectures about TRT—either for it or against it.

In Spite of Our Pleas, Fox Execs Pushing for Gus Johnson Involvement in UFC Pre and Post-Fight Shows

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Somebody needs to send Eric Shanks a few links to some mixed martial arts website comment sections and message boards where the topic of Gus Johnson’s MMA commentary skills are being discussed. If they did, the FOX Sports Media Group President and Co-COO might think long and hard about having captain eyeshadow do the UFC’s pre and post-fight shows like he told MMA H.E.A.T’s Karyn Bryant he’s looking into doing.

This could call for a petition.

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This could call for a petition.

We’re not saying that Gus is a shitty commentator. He does a decent job excitedly screaming about how football players have “getting away from the cops speed” and how college basketball players are “rising and firing buckets.” It’s just that, in spite of his claims that he’s a BJJ blue belt under Renzo Gracie, he doesn’t seem to know much about MMA, which is a problem when your job is to talk about the intricacies of the sport. Am I right, Franklin McNeil?

Hopefully Dana puts his foot down on the matter so we can sleep easy knowing that our MMA coverage won’t be sponsored by Cover Girl.

Do yourself a favor and watch the whole interview with Lorenzo Fertitta. He gives a level-headed and articulate breakdown of the deal.

Dear Fox, Please Keep Gus Johnson Away From Your UFC Broadcasts. Signed, Everyone.

(“Maybe he was born with it. Maybe it’s Maybelline.”)

One overlooked scenario from today’s blockbuster announcement that Fox Networks has signed a seven year broadcast deal with the UFC is that Gus Johnson may somehow be involved in its UFC coverage.

Fox recently inked the sometimes MMA commentator to a multi-year commentary deal that will see the veteran football and basketball play-by-play man call a variety of Pacific-12 football and basketball games, the Cotton Bowl and football games on the Big Ten Network, which is also partly owned by Fox. He will also call about 30 BTN basketball games as well as some yet-to-be-determined college basketball games on either Fox or FX.

Hopefully for the sake of the majority of MMA fans who came to loathe the much-maligned Renzo Gracie BJJ blue belt’s oblivious Strikeforce commentary, his other duties will keep his made-up mug off of the UFC-related broadcasts, that are said to include pre and post-fight shows and a weekly or daily UFC magazine-type series.

(“Maybe he was born with it. Maybe it’s Maybelline.”)

One overlooked scenario from today’s blockbuster announcement that Fox Networks has signed a seven year broadcast deal with the UFC is that Gus Johnson may somehow be involved in its UFC coverage.

If UFC president Dana White has his way, Johnson, who he called “bush league” for the way he handled the brawl in Nashville last year, won’t be allowed near any of his shows.

Here’s what White had to say about Johnson’s “Sometimes these things happen in MMA” remarks in an interview with Yahoo! Sports’ Kevin Iole:

“When have you seen anything remotely close to that happen at a UFC event?” White asked. “What kind of ridiculous commentary was that? That was an idiotic thing to say. And then he was yelling at them to stop, telling them they are on national television. That was just another example of how bush league they are.”

UFC color analyst Joe Rogan is also not a fan of GuJo.

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I’d rather see Mauro Ranallo get the gig than Gus and I’d much rather see Chael Sonnen host his own UFC show. Maybe he could do double-duty as a political analyst on Fox News.

Gus Johnson: Any MMA Fighter Would Kill Pacquiao In the Cage

Filed under: MMA Media WatchGus Johnson, the broadcaster who called the blow-by-blow on Manny Pacquiao’s victory over Shane Mosley and who also calls Strikeforce fights on Showtime, has weighed in on the frequently discussed subject of how a boxer woul…

Filed under: MMA Media Watch

Gus Johnson, the broadcaster who called the blow-by-blow on Manny Pacquiao‘s victory over Shane Mosley and who also calls Strikeforce fights on Showtime, has weighed in on the frequently discussed subject of how a boxer would do in MMA. And he doesn’t like any boxer’s chances.

In a radio interview with Dan Patrick, Johnson was asked how Pacquiao would do in an MMA fight against an MMA fighter, and Johnson said it’s ridiculous to even think Pacquiao could last.

“He’d get killed,” Johnson said of Pacquiao in the cage. “No question. Tapped out, easily. In a minute.”

Wednesday Morning MMA Link Club

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Some selected highlights from our friends around the MMA blogosphere. E-mail [email protected] for details on how your site can join the MMA Link Club…

– Gus Johnson Signs With Fox but Stays With Showtime for MMA and Boxing (MMA Fighting)

– Maiquel Falcao Cut From UFC for ‘Legal Problems’ (5thRound)

– Dana White Stresses Personal Finance Management At 2011 Fighter Summit (MMA Convert)

– Jonathan Brookins out, Danny Downes in Against Jeremy Stephens at TUF 13 Finale (Five Ounces of Pain)

– Anthony Johnson Responds to Ben Askren Calling him a ‘Coward’ (MiddleEasy)

– Director Kahleem Poole-Tejada Talks About ‘New York MMA’ documentary (TheFightNerd)

– Exclusive Interview: Ninja Rua Expects a War Against Tom Watson at BAMMA 6 (LowKick)

– Management Break-Up Splits Jon Jones, Rashad Evans (NBC Sports MMA)

– Anderson Silva and the 10 Best Southpaws in MMA (BleacherReport.com/MMA)