UFC is feeling the heat about their gross politicization of their product and comically over the top Trump boosterism, so now they’re pivoting to striving centrist Dems to launder their deserved reputation as a right-wing company.
I embedded with the creative team behind “Kagurabachi” to learn how manga are made at Weekly Shonen Jump, which is Japan’s - and the world’s - top manga magazine. You can read all about it in my feature for the New Yorker: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Chuck Norris stunk and his meme format was stolen from a Vin Diesel meme thrad on Something Awful and applied to him
I covered MMA professionally for more than five years and I can speak to his MMA credentials in context, though not any of his statements about his background. He fought in an promotion that features up-and-coming fighters in their first career bouts, usually against what we call tomato cans.
The Pagoda crew, led by @legkicktko.bsky.social, got back together to discuss Carano vs Rousey. And then @punchsport.report took two weeks to edit it so its undercard didn't exist yet. Let the dulcet tones of our voices convince you it's still February.
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This is how you really know the industry is dead. They don't even have good villains anymore.
Threatened a woman he was dating with a fucking knife and got outed in the bad dudes in media google doc that made the rounds around #metoo iirc
This would explain why Al-Shatti ghosted me after seemingly expressing interest in bringing me on to Uncrowned, I guess.
You think MMA is a sideshow when you work inside of it, but the older I get, the more I realize it’s deadly serious.
When I try to cover a sport I've loved for my entire adult life and wind up talking about Lance Henriksen instead do you think that's a good sign
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You got a shout out in this week’s MMA vivisection podcast from @zanesimon.bsky.social as well!
Except the UFC brought it back, because guess what, losers, we didn’t market this stupid bullshit just to give up on it. No, this is now a defended, UFC-ordained, totally legitimate championship, to the point that rather than billing Max Holloway as the #4-ranked man in one of the best weight classes in the history of mixed martial arts, it is more important to make sure you know he’s the defending champion of badly fucking mothers.
That’s three championship belts among four fighters, and the fight for the fakest one of them is the most legitimate one booked this year because the guy holding the interim belt already got the shit kicked out of him by both of the people in it and the guy who should be fighting for the belt isn’t allowed to and meanwhile the guy who does have the real belt doesn’t fucking want it.
man, nobody's doing it like Carl right now.
the best fight you can make at lightweight, perhaps the most sensational matchup you can make all year. and yet, the clownshoes way the UFC runs things these days still leaves you with some bitterness.
you owe it to yourself to check out Carl's work at @punchsport.report - love the way this dude thinks about fighting and the circus around it all.
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UFC 326 is upon us and it's the equivalent of trying to enjoy a wonderful picnic in the middle of a rain except it's raining the dumbest advertising you've ever seen and also the clouds are kind of racist.
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Dana White had copies of my articles on the UFC printed so that he could put them in a big binder of work by people he hated, and in truth, being hated by that guy is one of my proudest accomplishments
Topical.
Live Combat Sport Schedule: 2/25 - 3/1
Complete schedule w/ fight cards, PPV & free live streams HERE:
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#UFCMexico #NavarreteNunez #RAF6 #LFA227 #CombateGlobal #LUX059 #KRUSH187 #Hexagone40 #CooperUrsu #Inka54 #EFC131 #FNC28 #JungleFight #Unified67
bleh
SIXTINE COUSIN AGE 26 and it's a ski lady
it's-a me, mario. i got-a big-a family. i got-a
if you like my writing about mma nonsense you will like carl's writing about mma nonsense
Sir, yes sir. Budget-Chicken-2425. He’s the antifa number 2. Real mastermind
Frame #58950 from S04 -E04 - Battle Lamb-628198
In what Carl (@punchsport.report) calls an actual good main event, the UFC has also begun its full corporate partnership with Facebook. Leaving him incapable of feeling joy, and now he wants to free Kyoji Horiguchi from the Meta Apex.
www.punchsportpagoda.com/p/carls-figh...
February is now here and it brings more events in the MMA landscape, explained in an excellent fashion by Carl (@punchsport.report).
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Dan Prostituta
Andrew Huberman's only experience as a journalist is writing a column for Thrasher magazine 25 years ago, and that's not a joke.
