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There won't be any disciplinary action taken against president of the UFC Dana White reported by many media outlets on this so far.
Here is his recent appearance during UFC 67 media day last night:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pVZq5H7xOI
Also Umar discusses the latest on Khabib Nurmagomedov's retirement from coaching during this same press release:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjtdQFG_SGg

UFC Vegas 67 weigh-ins starting in about 10 minutes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYQ7vC0FYXo
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Was getting excited for the UFC to come back to fill our weekends out but yet another main event was cancelled for the first UFC fight of the year.
Don't know if it has been confirmed as it is still early but Sean Strickland is ready to take on Nassourdine Imavov for the main card.

https://www.mmafighting.com/2023/1/9/23547684/kelvin-gastelum-posts-gnarly-injury-video-after-ufc-vegas-67-withdrawal-sewing-my-teeth-back-on

In some serious news, inregards to what everybody has heard about by now with UFC president Dana White in an altercation with his wife on New Years eve. They are now asking for him to step down as president of the organization.
https://www.bloodyelbow.com/2023/1/10/23547954/us-senators-call-for-immediate-removal-of-dana-white-as-ufc-president-for-slapping-wife

This is still an ongoing investigation so nothing has been stated so far from the UFC on this matter.
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After seeing news clips shown on main media, what gave his location away was a pizza box in his rebuttal video back to greta.
Jerry's pizza is a pretty well known pizzeria in Romania and they pin pointed his location from doing some simple searches in those cities.
Her response back was "I guess you should of recycled you pizza boxes." when Tate said in his video back to her he was glad not to use recycled boxes for his pizza.
What was a surprise is that authorities in several countries were looking for him going on five years.
Karma came to him in form of a Romanian cell for his New Years eve.

It has been slow for any news from anything in the UFC since the last fight several weeks ago.
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.. Andrew Tate and Greta Thunberg on my feed.

Didn't even really know he was a UFC fighter (but that tells me it's been around longer than I was aware of).

Trash talking doesn't always pay off, huh?
As far as I know he was a kickboxer in Asia had some good fights then retired into running his mouth for a living.
Funny thing you mention about this Greta Thunberg thing amongst them happening.
Was Just watching a podcast about it which was the stupidest thing I had watched in a long time. And I watch alot of dumb stuff on youtube/podcasts happening.
She told him to send her an email back and the address she sent him was smalldickengery(at)getalife.com
Well you can make your own conclusions on that one.

Then just heard this live while looking for the video I was watching yesterday:
Andrew Tate detained in Romania from twitter exchange with Thunberg:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNGhm8nMpRE
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I never thought the day would come when my UFC browser (yeah I'm the kind of guy who runs about 10 instances of Chrome heh) opens up and all I see is Andrew Tate and Greta Thunberg on my feed.

Didn't even really know he was a UFC fighter (but that tells me it's been around longer than I was aware of).

Trash talking doesn't always pay off, huh?

Edit: So I've been informed my news feeds are at least slightly misguided, more of a former kickboxer.
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Again, the rules "dont let judges decide your faith" worked. I also believe that Gordon won that fight, but he should have done more against UFC future cash cow. Judges that evening made a decision of not who won that fight, but who will sell more PPV in future. And Pimblett with growing popularity and 3-0 in UFC looked much better than Gordon with 7-4. With all that in-fight taunts Pimblett made a overall good impression on judges, and the scales dropped lowered to his side.
I can hear your criticism from that 7-4 score that must of been from that one judge(Crosby) Ariel has been talking about from a clip here:
BREAKING! UFC Judge EXPOSED, Accused of Fixing Fights ! Dana White GOES OFF after UFC 282.. - Young 'n Faded MMA Society
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=085FvJTgdIk
The entire interview can be viewed here and they explain what they suspect the scoring should have been:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaqSX72dyfg

Scorecards and reactions on twitter post fight from big names in the game can be seen here:
https://www.mmafighting.com/2022/12/12/23504077/robbery-review-paddy-pimblett-vs-jared-gordon-at-ufc-282

I always knew that there are a lot of behind the scene games in UFC. The link that you have posted does not fully prove that there are fixed fights in UFC, but it proves that UFC is more oriented in money than in fair competition. Btw, you can search google for Seth Petruzelli interview. He says that UFC offered him money and asked no to use takedown or wrestling skills against Kimbo Slice, because Slice was a newbie in wrestling and a boxer (street boxer) primary. UFC did not want Slice to lose, wanted to make him a series of wins, to face heavyweight champ and make huge PPV sales. To bad Seth was able to TKO Slice instead of submitting him:D
There has always been some behind the scenes things going on in this fighting association going on from the very beginning so no surprise on what has come out as of late with it and a gambling controversy that was hard to ignore since it was banned in a region of North America a while ago because of it.
The video about how all this all transpired a few months ago:
The UFC has a MAJOR Gambling Problem | James Krause is only the beginning,,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltYTPauj_k4&list=WL&index=3

This was all because of a coach of a fighter in the UFC who blatantly confessed to betting on fights and even on the ones of his own fighter.
He had a discord server which gave out predictions on fights in the UFC for a subscription fee.
Very bad stuff to be involved with.
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I always knew that there are a lot of behind the scene games in UFC. The link that you have posted does not fully prove that there are fixed fights in UFC, but it proves that UFC is more oriented in money than in fair competition. Btw, you can search google for Seth Petruzelli interview. He says that UFC offered him money and asked no to use takedown or wrestling skills against Kimbo Slice, because Slice was a newbie in wrestling and a boxer (street boxer) primary. UFC did not want Slice to lose, wanted to make him a series of wins, to face heavyweight champ and make huge PPV sales. To bad Seth was able to TKO Slice instead of submitting him:D

Yeah, and the amount of noise surrounding it too, seems disproportionately high. I mean, nothing compared to football I guess, but just that it seems there's so much streaming and streamers and the fighters themselves seem heavily involved too, it's like a lot of them also seem to live on media a lot.

Definitely seems to suggest there's a lot more money involved and more money-oriented moves than competition (to the amateur observer eye like mine anyway).
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The last UFC Fight Night of the year is happening this weekend and it is a pretty good card they put together as the main event is evenly matched.
Check out the odds and you decide who you think will win: Cannonier or Strickland


https://sportsbet.io/sports/mma/ufc/mma-ufc-ufc-fight-night-cannonier-vs-strickland/matches

Remember to put in your selections on who the winners are for each match to have a chance at of a freebet in the UFC multi master challenge:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/sportsbetio-ufc-fight-night-216-multi-master-challenge-saturday-5428097
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Again, the rules "dont let judges decide your faith" worked. I also believe that Gordon won that fight, but he should have done more against UFC future cash cow. Judges that evening made a decision of not who won that fight, but who will sell more PPV in future. And Pimblett with growing popularity and 3-0 in UFC looked much better than Gordon with 7-4. With all that in-fight taunts Pimblett made a overall good impression on judges, and the scales dropped lowered to his side.
I can hear your criticism from that 7-4 score that must of been from that one judge(Crosby) Ariel has been talking about from a clip here:
BREAKING! UFC Judge EXPOSED, Accused of Fixing Fights ! Dana White GOES OFF after UFC 282.. - Young 'n Faded MMA Society
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=085FvJTgdIk
The entire interview can be viewed here and they explain what they suspect the scoring should have been:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaqSX72dyfg

Scorecards and reactions on twitter post fight from big names in the game can be seen here:
https://www.mmafighting.com/2022/12/12/23504077/robbery-review-paddy-pimblett-vs-jared-gordon-at-ufc-282

I always knew that there are a lot of behind the scene games in UFC. The link that you have posted does not fully prove that there are fixed fights in UFC, but it proves that UFC is more oriented in money than in fair competition. Btw, you can search google for Seth Petruzelli interview. He says that UFC offered him money and asked no to use takedown or wrestling skills against Kimbo Slice, because Slice was a newbie in wrestling and a boxer (street boxer) primary. UFC did not want Slice to lose, wanted to make him a series of wins, to face heavyweight champ and make huge PPV sales. To bad Seth was able to TKO Slice instead of submitting him:D
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Again, the rules "dont let judges decide your faith" worked. I also believe that Gordon won that fight, but he should have done more against UFC future cash cow. Judges that evening made a decision of not who won that fight, but who will sell more PPV in future. And Pimblett with growing popularity and 3-0 in UFC looked much better than Gordon with 7-4. With all that in-fight taunts Pimblett made a overall good impression on judges, and the scales dropped lowered to his side.
I can hear your criticism from that 7-4 score that must of been from that one judge(Crosby) Ariel has been talking about from a clip here:
BREAKING! UFC Judge EXPOSED, Accused of Fixing Fights ! Dana White GOES OFF after UFC 282.. - Young 'n Faded MMA Society
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=085FvJTgdIk
The entire interview can be viewed here and they explain what they suspect the scoring should have been:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaqSX72dyfg

Scorecards and reactions on twitter post fight from big names in the game can be seen here:
https://www.mmafighting.com/2022/12/12/23504077/robbery-review-paddy-pimblett-vs-jared-gordon-at-ufc-282

Yeah, don't know what to make of the drama, never really felt worked up about it, and even feel slightly put off the more I listen. Just give me those 3/1 odds and victory, really can do without the noise. Still, I know it's all part of the build up (and build down).

Put in my picks already, see a few familiar names, Strickland first pick, and then wondering if Brundage, Samelsberger or Dvorak require my money Wink
Agreed with you @buwaytress on everything you said.
It is solely for hyped up attention to the sport.
Dana White can not keep attending each and every event in making sure to carry it's success and has found out early on he needs a shining star to do that for him.
Before it was McGregor and Khabib but now those two are gone out of his operation so he need a Paddy the Baddy to do that for him.
He knows he needs a star fighter every couple of years that can carry it's success over to the next year until they are too old to fight in the octagon.
Paddy is 27 so he can get another decade out of him before his legs give out.
He was limping off after the fight as he injured his foot in the second round from the interviews I had viewed from other channels on the event.

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Yeah, don't know what to make of the drama, never really felt worked up about it, and even feel slightly put off the more I listen. Just give me those 3/1 odds and victory, really can do without the noise. Still, I know it's all part of the build up (and build down).

Put in my picks already, see a few familiar names, Strickland first pick, and then wondering if Brundage, Samelsberger or Dvorak require my money Wink
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Again, the rules "dont let judges decide your faith" worked. I also believe that Gordon won that fight, but he should have done more against UFC future cash cow. Judges that evening made a decision of not who won that fight, but who will sell more PPV in future. And Pimblett with growing popularity and 3-0 in UFC looked much better than Gordon with 7-4. With all that in-fight taunts Pimblett made a overall good impression on judges, and the scales dropped lowered to his side.
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Nobody was happy the way it ended especially Ankalaev because it seemed during the interview right after the fight he kind of stormed off.
He was expecting to be given the belt and even Dana was in the octagon holding it ready to hand it over to him but then heard the judges scores.
It was all a bit weird and everybody even the announcers during the post show were stunned by this outcome.
Both of this guys will not get title shot for some time, and this division is in real problem with this and injuries of Prochazka and Rakic.
There was a lot of complains from people about co main event Paddy Pimblett vs Jared Gordon and judges decision.
Jared Gordon had better percentage of significant strikes and he had three takedowns in that fight, so I don't know how this could be unanimous decision win for Pimblett.
http://ufcstats.com/fight-details/144cd3f62591a5fb
Agree with you there @notblox1
UFC president did address and acknowledge there certainly is a problem in this division during the post fight press conference.
Having a vacant title for very long is not something which looks too good for that weight class. He does want Teixeira to fight in the upcoming UFC in Brazil for the championship which I found strange but it is what it is.
About Paddy, I agree with you on this as well.
Jared clearly won two out of the three rounds and thus should of won the fight.
But it doesn't look like the UFC could allow Paddy to lose because he does look like their cash cow as Conor was many moons ago.
He draws them into the seats as Dana had alluded to in the conference, this was the 29 straight sellout of a UFC main event in a row.

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Nobody was happy the way it ended especially Ankalaev because it seemed during the interview right after the fight he kind of stormed off.
He was expecting to be given the belt and even Dana was in the octagon holding it ready to hand it over to him but then heard the judges scores.
It was all a bit weird and everybody even the announcers during the post show were stunned by this outcome.
Both of this guys will not get title shot for some time, and this division is in real problem with this and injuries of Prochazka and Rakic.
There was a lot of complains from people about co main event Paddy Pimblett vs Jared Gordon and judges decision.
Jared Gordon had better percentage of significant strikes and he had three takedowns in that fight, so I don't know how this could be unanimous decision win for Pimblett.
http://ufcstats.com/fight-details/144cd3f62591a5fb
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Damn, just saw my betslip was voided, thought the match got cancelled but turns out the match just ended as a draw -- apparently, Ankalaev wasn't really cool, saying he wasn't sure he'd want to fight again, while Blachowitz himself actually thought his opponent deserved the win.

So I should have lost my bet, but judges made sure I got a refund instead.
Main event was decided by the judges and they ended it with a split decision draw which is very rare in all UFC fights done in it's history only five were decided in a draw for a main event/title bout.

Here are the scorecards which were available right after the fight and shown on the post show:


Very rear thing to happen in UFC to see a draw in main event, but it happened and Dana White was not happy.
He is already planning to make new fight in lightheavyweight division after this terrible main event, and this was his own words.
Dana plan now is to make Glover Teixeira vs Jamahal Hill in Brazil for vacant title in this division.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvF3H90HT3M
Nobody was happy the way it ended especially Ankalaev because it seemed during the interview right after the fight he kind of stormed off.
He was expecting to be given the belt and even Dana was in the octagon holding it ready to hand it over to him but then heard the judges scores.
It was all a bit weird and everybody even the announcers during the post show were stunned by this outcome.
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Very rear thing to happen in UFC to see a draw in main event, but it happened and Dana White was not happy.
He is already planning to make new fight in lightheavyweight division after this terrible main event, and this was his own words.
Dana plan now is to make Glover Teixeira vs Jamahal Hill in Brazil for vacant title in this division.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvF3H90HT3M
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Damn, just saw my betslip was voided, thought the match got cancelled but turns out the match just ended as a draw -- apparently, Ankalaev wasn't really cool, saying he wasn't sure he'd want to fight again, while Blachowitz himself actually thought his opponent deserved the win.

So I should have lost my bet, but judges made sure I got a refund instead.
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Nice picks @buwaytress

This Paddy Pimblett thing has spilled over onto other media with him going after a well known sportscaster who has interviewed a ton of UFC fighters in the past on his show. I can see this affecting the outcome of his fight same as Adesanya, picking fights and not concentrating on his own.
You can view what him and UFC president Dana White has had to say about the excerpts from his own podcast show below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWSPKnMwW9M
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