After the Shamrock/Ortiz fight I really have to wonder if UFC doesn't have more in common with professional wrestling than I previously thought. I think Dana White is setting up for Tito Ortiz to face the winner between Chuck Lidell vs Wanderlai Silva. It seems fishy that he just happened to choose Shamrock and Ortiz for the Ultimate fighter coaches and then has a grudge match between them that was stopped too soon. Shamrock is done, and Dana wanted to use him to give Tito a push after Tito was reduced to all but a mockery after getting slaughtered by Coture and Lidell. Dana knows Tito vs Lidell or Silva will be a big draw, and Tito has lost to both of them so he has the revenge factor.
So what do you think is UFC downright rigged or are they more concerned with hot shot booking than competition?
2006-07-09 02:49:45 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports ➔ Martial Arts
Yeah i saw that fight last night myself and it looked pretty fishy to me. Look at the first fight the guy was bleeding all over the place and they didnt stop it until the end of the round. Shamrock gets on his back and takes 4 elbows and it is stopped. Maybe it was just different refs judgement maybe not but i beleive they should have let them fight a little longer and at least have given Shamrock a chance to fight out or wrestle out of his prediciment. At any rate i think Ortiz was gonna beat him any way but it would have been nice to at least see a fair fight
2006-07-09 03:01:54 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
As a natural reaction to its growth and popularity UFC is becoming more business orientated like all sports are. UFC is not rigged or fixed, but people would be a fool not to think that they are out to put the most popular(not necessarily the best) or most deserving fighters in the ring together all the time. They are following in Pride's footsteps. Its a business and how the fighters draw matters. Its a work/shoot. I guess if that is what you are asking, then by that criteria they might be a little less than legit by those standards. I prefer not to think of them as less legit, but more business orientated like professional boxing.
2006-07-09 14:04:42 · answer #2 · answered by Bobby the Brain 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I couldnt have said it better myself. I thought I had changed the channel to wrestling when Dana got in the ring and introduced Silva and his memorized speach. I think the only UFC official who is still just all about the fighting is Big John.
2006-07-09 09:43:08 · answer #3 · answered by MCgunner 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think its rigged. I think Dana is a smart business man who is always thinking one step ahead and knows what will make people buy tickets and PPV events.
PS Tito beat Wanderlei on UFC 25 back in 2000. It was Wanderlei's last loss before a 5 yr winning streak.
2006-07-09 05:46:41 · answer #4 · answered by Mariposa 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are you kidding me? It can't be rigged...I blew 40 bucks last night on two of the worst fights that I have seen. The best fight by far last night was an undercard fight. Dana knows what fights people want to see, and that's it. He might have a little more creative input on TUF, though. I am talking about the letter that Nate recieved from his girlfriend when the guys aren't supposed to be having any contact from the outside world.
2006-07-09 11:33:00 · answer #5 · answered by The Nag 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i'm not American or British so from a thoroughly purpose perspective this Hamill Bisping strive against changed into thoroughly rigged. Like anybody who talked concerning the strive against, the first 2 rounds were obviously Hamill's. He merely thoroughly ruled Bisping, and the in ordinary words way for Bisping to come back lower back changed into to knock him out in the 0.33 round. yet he not in any respect did... and by some ability he gained the strive against after dropping 2 rounds out of three. My acquaintances and that i are disgusted... we were so bowled over that we couldn't even watch the the Quinton strive against. immediately I went on my computing device to make certain if we were the in ordinary words ones who concept the strive against changed into rigged and espresso and behold posts throughout MMA forums are claiming the strive against changed into rigged. it really is humorous because beforehand the first strive against began my acquaintances lady friend requested if UFC changed into rigged like boxing and all of us advised her that we not in any respect seen a rigged strive against and it really is not some thing like boxing. Then what takes position... this happens... i fairly couldn't believe it. that is the in ordinary words strive against i have ever seen rigged and is not it a coincedence that is a British fighter, scuffling with on British soil. Hamill changed into robbed, he merely ruled his opponent. What will we do to teach our dissaproval with UFC? what's Dana White's mailing adress. i have been hooked on the UFC for variety of three years now and that is the first strive against i have seen it really is rigged. yet I gained't STAND FOR IT!!! He changed into thoroughly robbed... i choose the UFC to do some thing about this... to teach that they are extra acceptable than this. Frankly, i'm disgusted and in protest i'm not determining to purchase any PPV UFC events till Dana White corrects this difficulty and awards the alternative to Hamill.
2016-11-01 12:12:40 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope, and Ortiz beat Silva.
2006-07-09 18:04:22 · answer #7 · answered by Tank'08 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i agree that the ufc has become very questionable and that dana likes his grudge matches to go the way they do. i even agree w/ the hot shot booking thing, but it's def. not all fixed. if it is i feel stupid.
2006-07-09 03:04:15 · answer #8 · answered by js8incher 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
its not rigged...dana is smart and he knows that if he puts two people who hate each other together something will happen and people will want to see it happen...i think its hot shot booking so he can get paid more
2006-07-09 07:15:20 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋