Trivial things that irrationally annoy you in MMA!

califano

This is primarily a venting thread about Trivial things that irrationally annoy you in MMA which probably shouldn't!

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When the fighter makes their way to the ring and and goes straight for the grease up official only for the grease up guy to refuse and point to their team as if to say acknowledge them first.
Eh Fcuk you grease up guy what business is it of yours what way i choose to appreciate my corner. Maybe i hugged them before coming out maybe i dont want to do it at all but screw you for thwarting me and telling me what to do like im an ungrateful drunk.
Oh im just waiting for the day the grease up official does this only to find a fired up fighter with the presence of mind to be told dont mind that and grease me up and do your job. I will decide when to embrace my corner.

scudzilla

califano wrote: »

This is primarily a venting thread about Trivial things that irrationally annoy you in MMA which probably shouldn't!

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When the fighter makes their way to the ring and and goes straight for the grease up official only for the grease up guy to refuse and point to their team as if to say acknowledge them first.
Eh Fcuk you grease up guy what business is it of yours what way i choose to appreciate my corner. Maybe i hugged them before coming out maybe i dont want to do it at all but screw you for thwarting me and telling me what to do like im an ungrateful drunk.
Oh im just waiting for the day the grease up official does this only to find a fired up fighter with the presence of mind to be told dont mind that and grease me up and do your job. I will decide when to embrace my corner.

The only reason the grease guy 'ASKS' if they want to acknowledge their corner is if he doesn't, then greases then up and tunrs round, hugs his corner and wipes it all off

califano

They never ask they just pompously point to the corner without saying a word. As if to say ''Ah your getting ahead of yourself there boyo'' corner first.
Catherine Costigan was the latest victim of it.

cletus

I believe this was part of the rule change after greasegate with GSP. Once they've been greased they cannot turn back to their cornermen

califano

cletus wrote: »

I believe this was part of the rule change after greasegate with GSP. Once they've been greased they cannot turn back to their cornermen

Yeah thats right, now that you mention it i think thats why. Which lessons my case but id still like someone to stick it to the grease guy with a big surly noooooo.

ps3man

People tweeting and re tweeting Front Row Brian like he is the know it all of MMA. The chap is a nobody who happens to know Chael Sonnen and goes on like he really knows the inner workings of the UFC.

Mellor

cletus wrote: »

I believe this was part of the rule change after greasegate with GSP. Once they've been greased they cannot turn back to their cornermen

^ This



Thread has potential, but struggled start so far.

Chase3

ps3man wrote: »

People tweeting and re tweeting Front Row Brian like he is the know it all of MMA. The chap is a nobody who happens to know Chael Sonnen and goes on like he really knows the inner workings of the UFC.

This, he's the most negative and irrelevant person in the universe.

califano

Mellor wrote: »

^ This



Thread has potential, but struggled start so far.

Probably best if remarks go unchallenged and let it be more of a venting thread. Otherwise people might not post if they feel they have to justify their remarks. Thats why i put 'irrationally' in the header.

cletus

califano wrote: »

Probably best if remarks go unchallenged and let it be more of a venting thread. Otherwise people might not post if they feel they have to justify their remarks. Thats why i put 'irrationally' in the header.

I think it would work better the other way tbh, let people vent, but if somebody can offer a rational explanation to what you view as an irrational activity, then you've learned something along the way

JoeyJJ

Goldie always names the Ref before the fight starts the same way every fight. Really trivial i know. Goldie shake it up a bit..

MartyMcFly84

Goldie always names the Ref before the fight starts the same way every fight. Really trivial i know. Goldie shake it up a bit..

I just kind of laughed at this. Thinking if he suddenly went really high pitched or shrieked or put on an accent while announcing the ref name.

Its kind of a trademark at this stage, and in all the UFC games etc. Same way Bruce says "Its Time" the same way each time.

dulux99

When Dana White says "never leave it in the hands of the judges". It's honestly one of the most idiotic statements I think you could ever make. It's like watching American football and saying "hey you guys should score a touchdown".

JoeyJJ

Not so trivial however the most annoying this are middle of the road fighters that realise they are going to lose a fight and don't try something radical to shake it up happy to go along and lose the fight.

Mellor

dulux99 wrote: »

When Dana White says "never leave it in the hands of the judges". It's honestly one of the most idiotic statements I think you could ever make. It's like watching American football and saying "hey you guys should score a touchdown".

It's definitely become a misused cliche. But originally there was a point to it. Fighters who thought they were winning so deliberately cruised the 3rd round. Then complaining while they decision.

But mentioning every time it goes the distance on TUF is dumb. Especially for close fights.

dulux99

Mellor wrote: »

It's definitely become a misused cliche. But originally there was a point to it. Fighters who thought they were winning so deliberately cruised the 3rd round. Then complaining while they decision.

But mentioning every time it goes the distance on TUF is dumb. Especially for close fights.

Yeah I know. But when he's spouting that sh*te after a close five round title fight it's a bit ridiculous. He says it as if it's an incredibly profound thing to say, and if only someone took his great advice now and then...

cowzerp

Joe Rogan saying Aldo has great kicks due to soccer! complete bollox and makes no sense at all, he got great kicks from Thai Boxing, it's like saying a boxer got a good right hook from Tennis.

And the biggest stupid thing that just won't go away, MMA is the fastest growing sport! it isn't even close and hasn't been in many years, it has been fairly stagnant for the last few years if anything it has dropped overall in numbers, The fastest growing sports are multiplying by the year not fairly static for years.

Ant695

The fact that you are reminded about advertisers at every opportunity. This is ufc... brought to you by <insert beer brand> as if they were instrumental in arranging the whole thing and bringing the fighters together etc... I realise they pay alot of money for the exposure but it just annoys me more than it really should.

Especially when it's for example a video game and they have to tell you all the platforms it's available on etc... or a car and they give the spec like a salesman on the forecourt.

JoeyJJ

FRAM CAM !!!

riffmongous

JoeyJJ wrote: »

Not so trivial however the most annoying this are middle of the road fighters that realise they are going to lose a fight and don't try something radical to shake it up happy to go along and lose the fight.

Or the fighter who is clearly going to lose by UD and yet does almost nothing for the final minute of the fight

MrStuffins

RIO DAY JANEIRO!!!!

Mellor

The fastest growing sport one bugs the **** out of me too.

And "cage fighting", "cage fighter", etc it's really common here and it does them do favours with the media.

riffmongous

MrStuffins wrote: »

RIO DAY JANEIRO!!!!

I can't take anything Goldberg says seriously anymore after hearing the tommytoehold computer game glitch videos

MartyMcFly84

Ring girls on shows and low pay for fighters. Particularly smaller shows.

In some cases the ring girls make more than the fighters on the show. Really says something when a couple of models are treated better than the athletes on the show.

ps3man

Also Nate 'the great' Kelly. Absolutely milking his 15mins of fame. I do hope he does well but he is at every MMA event and photocall, so annoying seeing him at Dublin Airport when Conor came home. Like an annoying little brother to Conor who won't leave him alone

MartyMcFly84

Also Nate 'the great' Kelly. Absolutely milking his 15mins of fame. I do hope he does well but he is at every MMA event and photocall, so annoying seeing him at Dublin Airport when Conor came home. Like an annoying little brother to Conor who won't leave him alone

You would like to be Nate, wouldn't you?

califano

Mellor wrote: »

And "cage fighting", "cage fighter", etc it's really common here and it does them do favours with the media.

SEVERRRREEEEEE MMA

dulux99

ps3man wrote: »

Also Nate 'the great' Kelly. Absolutely milking his 15mins of fame. I do hope he does well but he is at every MMA event and photocall, so annoying seeing him at Dublin Airport when Conor came home. Like an annoying little brother to Conor who won't leave him alone

Feels weird having a pop off a 10 year old lad but I'm somewhat inclined to agree. I saw grown men queuing to get a photo with him in Vegas. More power to the boy as he's obviously loving it, but he's developed an unbelievable ego. I wonder how he gets on with lads his own age when he's treated as a celeb during fight week.

Again it feels a bit weird slating a young child especially when I've a lad not much younger than him. Then again of course he's going to milk it, what young lad wouldn't!

Paully D

Cerrone and that ****ing cowboy hat. It must be super-glued to his head at this stage.

weemcd

Johnny Hendricks' walkout music
The Reebok deal and how every fighter looks generic now

califano

Rouseys walk out. Or speed march out. Hate the way she speed walks like she cant get to the ring quick enough.

CatFromHue

She's in competition with herself to see can if she walk to the ring quicker than she can finish her opponent.

She's going to start sprinting to the ring soon :pac:

I've nothing against the kid Nate either, he seems like a nice kid, but I don't find the whole situation a bit weird.

ps3man

MartyMcFly84 wrote: »

You would like to be Nate, wouldn't you?

Lets not beat around the bush I would, but I guarantee if they do an embedded for UFC Dublin he will feature in it on several occasions, he will feature on the Q and A and ask Dana when will he be given his contract and low behold he will be in the gibson after getting photos with every single fighter. And probably feature in the Mirror and on Spin 1038.

scudzilla

I hate bad cornering, a few examples.

Few years back on TUF when Dampage was 'coaching', his fighters were ont he ground a few times and all he could shout out, repeatedly, was 'Get Up', You're the fcukin coach, shout to him how to do that

The break at the end of the 2nd round, 1 round left and any idiot will see hat a fighter is WAYYYY behind on points, yet the corner don't tell him this and say he's doing fine. If it was me it'd be, 'You're going to lose, you have 5 minutes to finish it"

ASOT

scudzilla wrote: »

I hate bad cornering, a few examples.

Few years back on TUF when Dampage was 'coaching', his fighters were ont he ground a few times and all he could shout out, repeatedly, was 'Get Up', You're the fcukin coach, shout to him how to do that

The break at the end of the 2nd round, 1 round left and any idiot will see hat a fighter is WAYYYY behind on points, yet the corner don't tell him this and say he's doing fine. If it was me it'd be, 'You're going to lose, you have 5 minutes to finish it"

Nelson v Story was a good example of your second point, JK basically told him he was in control and winning which was far from the truth I found it kind of weird.

Mellor

ASOT wrote: »

Nelson v Story was a good example of your second point, JK basically told him he was in control and winning which was far from the truth I found it kind of weird.

That's something that really bothers me, but I don't think Nelson story is a good example. It was a close fight, Story won by split decision. And its likely that JK was trying to get a specific outcome from Nelson, such as sticking to the plan, rather than outright convincing him he as ahead. By the 5th, I don't believe either of them were under the impression that it was in the bag. And Gunni was going for the finish regardless.


For me a good example was Nick Diaz v GSP (or Conduit, or maybe both). His corner was awful, and he genuine thought he was ahead, instead of going for it.

ASOT

Mellor wrote: »

That's something that really bothers me, but I don't think Nelson story is a good example. It was a close fight, Story won by split decision. And its likely that JK was trying to get a specific outcome from Nelson, such as sticking to the plan, rather than outright convincing him he as ahead. By the 5th, I don't believe either of them were under the impression that it was in the bag. And Gunni was going for the finish regardless.


For me a good example was Nick Diaz v GSP (or Conduit, or maybe both). His corner was awful, and he genuine thought he was ahead, instead of going for it.

That's kinda what I was getting at JK couldn't have been as confident as he was with a win so it was strange seeing him say that to Nelson because maybe if he went out and done a bit more at the end he would of took it, but I suppose the judging on that was a bit mad I think one score was 50-44 Story? So maybe that wasn't the best example to use. Fairly sure Diaz corner told him he was ahead v Silva also.

Mellor

I'd have to watch the fight again to be sure, but I though he was saying it during rounds after rounds 2 and 3, byt after the 4th (ie the last break) he was saying to press on a bit. I took it that it was an attempt to pace him for 5 rounds and stick to the plan, rather than worry him with being potentially 2-1 down midway.

But you are right, there was a 50-44 in there, awful judging.

Mellor

A (not so) trivial thing that annoys me. They're aren't enough 10-8, 10-7s or 10-10s used. I fully accept that this leads to more draws, but I'd also guess that it leads to less judging robberies.

Draws aren't awful either. I'd also rather see two fighters awarded the draw to a 50/50 fight, rather than flipping a coin to see whose career gets knocked back a step.

pablohoney87

The term bandwagoners to refer to ANY new fan.

I get it that the dickie bow, indoor sunglasses, beard growin mcgregor clones are annoying, but there are people who become genuine fans and support the local scene after the initial UFC glamour phase wears off.

90% of us started out with tapout t-shirts and UFC hoodies. Now its just poorly tailored suits and sunglasses

Mr. Manager

pablohoney87 wrote: »

The term bandwagoners to refer to ANY new fan.

I get it that the dickie bow, indoor sunglasses, beard growin mcgregor clones are annoying, but there are people who become genuine fans and support the local scene after the initial UFC glamour phase wears off.

90% of us started out with tapout t-shirts and UFC hoodies. Now its just poorly tailored suits and sunglasses

I don't get the hate for tapout apparel. To me it's the same as someone wearing a jersey on game day or someone wearing O'Neill's tracksuit bottoms

Mellor

Cereal Rapper wrote: »

I don't get the hate for tapout apparel. To me it's the same as someone wearing a jersey on game day or someone wearing O'Neill's tracksuit bottoms

Me neither tbh. I don't get the elitism. I'd see it like a random sports top too.

It's not like talking around in the a full football kit 24/7
#fullkitwanker

Foxtrol

Cereal Rapper wrote: »

I don't get the hate for tapout apparel. To me it's the same as someone wearing a jersey on game day or someone wearing O'Neill's tracksuit bottoms

I think it's moreso down to a type of wearer in the States who uses it as a sign of what a hardman he is. It doesnt seem to be really an issue in Ireland but in the States similar brands are banned in some bars/clubs.

Mr. Manager

Foxtrol wrote: »

I think it's moreso down to a type of wearer in the States who uses it as a sign of what a hardman he is. It doesnt seem to be really an issue in Ireland but in the States similar brands are banned in some bars/clubs.

It still spills out here as can been seen in various threads.

No shame, I have a tapout t-shirt it's so old at this stage though that it's plain black. All the text is gone from the washing!

MartyMcFly84

For a while Tap Out almost the only MMA apparel brand.

For a long time you only saw fighters in Tap Out or Sprawl fight shorts.

It just got big so it was no longer an niche brand any more and people who were not necessary training in MMA began wearing it.Essentially it was "cool" before it got mainstream, now its for "band waggoner's"

Mr. Manager

Cereal Rapper wrote: »

No shame, I have a tapout t-shirt it's so old at this stage though that it's plain black. All the text is gone from the washing!

MartyMcFly84 wrote: »

For a while Tap Out almost the only MMA apparel brand.

For a long time you only saw fighters in Tap Out or Sprawl fight shorts.

It just got big so it was no longer an niche brand any more and people who were not necessary training in MMA began wearing it.Essentially it was "cool" before it got mainstream, now its for "band waggoner's"

Fúck

Professey Chin

MartyMcFly84 wrote: »

For a while Tap Out almost the only MMA apparel brand.

For a long time you only saw fighters in Tap Out or Sprawl fight shorts.

It just got big so it was no longer an niche brand any more and people who were not necessary training in MMA began wearing it.Essentially it was "cool" before it got mainstream, now its for "band waggoner's"

Now it has an apparel deal with WWE. Its been a mental journey for the brand.
Not a brand I can ever give out about though considering the early sponsorship they provided when nobody would touch the sport

MartyMcFly84

I was just joking with the bandwagoners comment btw.

I also hate that term.

It reminds me of children arguing over who was here first.

Professey Chin

Yeah. I was more just saying about how its changed over the years :pac:

Devastator

Professey Chin wrote: »

Now it has an apparel deal with WWE. Its been a mental journey for the brand.
Not a brand I can ever give out about though considering the early sponsorship they provided when nobody would touch the sport

Really? I bought some of them from sports direct(cause they were 3.99 lol) and not really worn them so was gonna fire them on ebay. Thats good because might get some razzlin fans interested in them now

Petermc83

I am becoming really annoyed with Joe Rogans commentary... sometimes he seems to just take a disliking to a fighter.. and regardless of how well theyre doin in the fight, he just shouts total cr*p for the other fighter and is blinded by his own words.

For example, Ross Pearsons last fight against Paul Felder....Rogan didnt give any credit towards Ross when it was clear he was winning on the feet by fighting intelligently and not just throwing wildly like Felder was doing.

Also, anytime a significant strike lands...he shouts.."HES HURT...HES HURT."....