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**BREAKING NEWS** ZUFFA (UFC ) buys Strikeforce

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This could be great for fans depending on how it's handled. Overeem vs Cain for Christmas? Yes please! Jacare vs Demian Maia? Fuck yeah. Nick Diaz vs Diego Sanchez 2!
 
Zuffa has always deterred all of its fighters from fighting in any other promotions while Strikfeorce allows its fighters to fight in other organizations so long as thye fulfill their contractual duties.

Will Zuffa be changing these rules as each contract expires?
 
Woosta said:
Brandon Wolff, a former NAVY SEAL is 7-5 in MMA against low tier competition.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandon_Wolff

I'd say the average navy seal has a 20-30% chance against the lowest of the barrelin MMA. They would die against top level MMA fighters.
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I'm talking about active duty Navy SEALs, a former Navy SEAL is gonna be a little rusty. This proves my point, once a Navy SEAL leaves the Navy and starts training for MMA, his skills quickly deteriorate due to the inferiority of MMA.
 
JD50 said:
I'm talking about active duty Navy SEALs, a former Navy SEAL is gonna be a little rusty. This proves my point, once a Navy SEAL leaves the Navy and starts training for MMA, his skills quickly deteriorate due to the inferiority of MMA.
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Woosta said:
Brandon Wolff, a former NAVY SEAL is 7-5 in MMA against low tier competition.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandon_Wolff

I'd say the average navy seal has a 20-30% chance against the lowest of the barrelin MMA. They would die against top level MMA fighters.
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Not this crap again.

Seals fight to incapacitate or kill in the least amount of moves and have no restrictions of what they can or can't do. There are no illegal moves to get you DQ or points taken away. MMA fighters have to fight within the rules and practice all the time fighting like that and are not trained to kill.
 
zerocool84 said:
Not this crap again.

Seals fight to incapacitate or kill in the least amount of moves and have no restrictions of what they can or can't do. There are no illegal moves to get you DQ or points taken away. MMA fighters have to fight within the rules and practice all the time fighting like that and are not trained to kill.
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So you're saying that an MMA fighter is incapable of killing another man? So a guy like Timothy McVeigh who was never trained to kill people in his life is incapable of killing others?

And the MMA fighter is trained to knock people out, goes through a tougher regimen of training, is most likely more physically stronger and has been in more fights, and would likely have more of a chance of knocking a guy out which he could then proceed to kill, or put the SEAL in a submission hold and actually break the limb which would cripple the SEAL.

An MMA fighter that primarily is say, a striker, would not be trying to take the SEAL down and smother him for 5 rounds.. he would just knock him out and/or kill him.
 
Navy Seals don't spend 100% of their time training fighting - they have to divide up their time and practice shooting, practice weaponry, formations, all types of equipment, possibly even school/strategy work?

Fighters spend primarily all of their time................................... fighting/training to fight, thinking about fighting combat strategies. They do not have to think at all about all that other sh!t the SEALs train.

So in a 1 on 1 fight with no weapons....

The fighter would win the fight in most cases, whether it's to the death or not.
 
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Wow this is big. Never would have seen this coming.

BTW, the thing about Navy SEALS vs MMA fighter is just something on an old, long thread where it was debated. He wasn't seriously talking like that...
 
dud said:
This changes nothing ...

I wouldn't watch UFC if you tied to to a chair, pried my eyes open and forced me to watch this crap.

If you watch this crap you need to get yourself either a girl, some counseling ...or both.
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keep on trolling trolling trolling.

Woosta said:
Fedor
Alistair
Barnett
Bigfoot
Kharitonov
Werdum
Dan Henderson
Nick Diaz
Gegard Mousasi
King Mo
Gilbert Melendez
Jacare
Marloes Coenen
Cris Cyborg
Melvin Manhoef
Roger Gracie
Paul Daley
Daniel Cormier
Rafael Calvacante
Cung Le
Marius Zaromskis
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why would you list female fighters when you know what dana white has said about women fighting in the ufc. today is a bad day for female mma fighters i suppose, but a good day for fight fans.

Woosta said:
So a guy like Timothy McVeigh who was never trained to kill people in his life is incapable of killing others?
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i really didn't think you could sink any lower in the douche bag chain, but congrats, you've hit rock bottom.
 
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pyonir said:
Great. Championships in Strikeforce were on Showtime or CBS...now they'll all go PPV and I'll lose interest in MMA.
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Dana said strikeforce is going to go on as it was. Itll still be on how it was under the strikeforce name.

This is only good news because now we get to see Ubereem vs real competition
 
Interesting rumors...

* So you're probably wondering why Dana White announced the Strikeforce buyout on a Saturday morning. It's rumored that Dana White wanted to ensure that the NFL player's lockout was official before announcing the UFC purchasing Strikeforce. Dana's plan is to literally undercut the NFL fanbase by providing UFC/Strikeforce in a time slot that would be endemic to NFL fans. Now that the 2011 NFL season is essentially displaced, it's heavily rumored that Dana will work with CBS to host weekly fights that will air on Sunday morning/evening.
* Once the Showtime contract with Strikeforce is up, ZUFFA will let the Strikeforce brand die and select which fighters they would like to accept into the UFC. There is simply no room for brand confusion in such a young sport.
* However, another rumor states that Dana White will keep Strikeforce around, but the organization will be used as a 'lower-tier' promotion and the 'top' guys will be absorbed into the UFC. In this scenario, ZUFFA would own UFC and Strikeforce and each organization would use the other as competition, sort of like how Starbucks owns Seattle's Best Coffee.
* The ZUFFA bumper will be shown at the beginning of Strikeforce broadcasts, starting with the April 1st Strikeforce Challengers show.
* Don't expect to see anymore Strikeforce Heavyweight Grand-Prix fan-made promos or any highlight reels for that matter. Much like how ZUFFA has already snuffed out all YouTube videos that use content from the UFC, they will also seek to expunge any copyright infringing videos that use intellectual property of Strikeforce.
* Elbows will still not be allowed on the ground in Strikeforce.
* As of right now, Sumner Redstone is the most powerful man in MMA. He's the majority owner of CBS Corporation, Viacom, and MTV Networks -- essentially the guy owns MMA. It will be interesting to see what, if any, plans he has for mixed martial arts.
* Apparently the UFC/Strikeforce deal was discussed in Abu Dhabi.
* If ZUFFA lets Strikeforce die and handpicks fighters from their roster, women's MMA is essentially finished. Dana White has no intention on accepting women into the UFC.
* Apy Echteld and Dana White had a phone call yesterday. Not sure what they were discussing, but one can only assume Dana is going through Apy instead of Vadim Finkelstein to see what's actually going down with Fedor's contract.
* As mentioned before on the Sunday Morning Rumor Mill, Fedor's contract is with Showtime, not Strikeforce. In about nine months, Showtime's contract will be finished which also denotes that Fedor's contract will be terminated. Should be interesting to see what happens with The Last Emperor.
* Showtime still plans to go full-force with M-1 Global in 2011.
* It's rumored that Scott Coker made an estimated $15,000,000 - $20,000,000 on the Strikeforce buyout.
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Nvidiaguy07 said:
Dana said strikeforce is going to go on as it was. Itll still be on how it was under the strikeforce name.

This is only good news because now we get to see Ubereem vs real competition
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UFC bought Pride, they weren't going to change shit, that went well
UFC bought WEC, they weren't going to change shit, that went well also
UFC bought one other MMA org, forget the name. Dana claimed they weren't going to change shit, that went about as well as the other 2.

SF will be SF until the Shotime contract is up. He's going to pluck the fighters he wants from their roster. I doubt Sho or CBS will even care enough about SF to show them once Dana has yanked all the fighters he wants. And at that point there will be no point in UFC keeping the SF name alive.

As for Roidastair "The Roidolition Man" Roidereem, he wouldn't want to be in the UFC because they will keep him from kick boxing in Japan. As it stands he hardly ever fights in MMA any more any ways.
 
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LOL - funny how guys like Barnett are suddenly kissing Dana's ass. Barnett and Dana HATE each other, not Barnett is all like - Oh, I totally respect the guy, he's a great business man and a true pioneer of the sport. If I have to work for him I have absolute no problem and it was a huge mistake to leave UFC back when I did

Paul Daley hasn't caved yet, saying "What if I don't want to work for Dana or make Dana money?!?"

I think this is GREAT for the fans, but kind of sucks for the fighters. If Zuffa doesn't like them they they are screwed. I hope Coker sticks around too, from what people say he is genuinely a good guy and cares about the sport and the fighters.
 
I think this is GREAT for the fans, but kind of sucks for the fighters. If Zuffa doesn't like them they they are screwed. I hope Coker sticks around too, from what people say he is genuinely a good guy and cares about the sport and the fighters.
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Yes, this is exactly the problem. I'm really surprised that Randy Couture just made the statement that it is not really good for the fighters. And he continued not holding back by saying if as a fighter you get cut or you don't get along with the UFC, you now have very limited options. Of course, I'm sure he is looking out for his son who is currently in Strikeforce. Then I saw the interview with Dana White. He did quelched the rumor that Elite XC was looking to buy, so he jumped in instead. Claims he didn't even know. (Not that he would admit it.) Also claims that Strikeforce will not be a type of minor league or development league. I agree with him on this. It just won't get the fan base. Strikeforce, while up and coming, doesn't have the fan base with the names that Woosta mentioned.
 
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