PFL is counterprogramming itself on its own youtube channel playing an old PFL Africa event. The event from 2025 currently has about 1/3 of the viewers of the live event.
@BeholdPaleH0rse Imagine throwing a sucker punch just to get knocked out by the same guy who didn’t even think you were important enough to turn around.
@arielhelwani This is silly revisionist history. Trump let the UFC rent “his” Atlantic City hotels which were drowning in debt just like he did with Miss Teen USA beauty pageants.
Trump was literally UFC competition in 2008 as capital for Affliction MMA with De La Hoya and Tom Attencio.
That Ougikubo-Shinryu promo was better than anything I've seen from UFC in years. Told you everything about the fight, the rivalry, and both fighters in the span of 3 minutes. And not a word of English spoken.
Rico Verhoeven explains how the open scoring affected his mindset during the Usyk fight:
"There were open scorecards and after 4 rounds, they said we're even. I was like, 'Hmm, ok.' I felt like it was at least 3 to 1, but ok, we're even, that's fine.
Then we got the scorecards again after another 4 rounds.... And still we were even. It started to feel fishy because I felt like I was winning these rounds.
I was working more, I was getting hit less... So maybe I have to push it a little bit more."
The boxing elitists think they’re part of a sport that’s somehow superior to every other combat sport.
“You don’t know shit about boxing. Only the intellectuals can truly understand it.”
Yet in almost every major crossover fight, the debutante has actually done pretty well.
Conor had success early. Francis, I still think, won. And Rico should’ve been ahead going into the 12th.
The element of the unknown, the surprise factor, tends to play into the hands of the debutante.
Now, what happened to Francis against AJ should be a lesson for Rico. Once there’s tape and opponents know what to expect, the outcome can look very different.
But spare me with the boxing superiority complex. If boxers entered MMA or kickboxing, we wouldn’t even be having this discussion.