[MMA] Centraal MMA topic #325 Stockton Slap time

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Op woensdag 20 april 2016 02:15 schreef Vox_Populi het volgende:
Conor die eens géén media-aandacht wilt? Om zijn training in IJsland niet te hoeven onderbreken? That's a first Oh well, hij heeft alle tijd nodig om zijn jiu-jitsu op to par te krijgen Ach, maakt nu toch niet meer uit. Overigens stinkt dit zaakje

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Op dinsdag 19 april 2016 16:13 schreef Opperkwal het volgende:
Weet iemand of de weigh ins toegankelijk zijn (UFC Rotterdam) voor normale tickets of moet je daar een extra ticket voor kopen?

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Op woensdag 20 april 2016 11:32 schreef Paxlie het volgende:
McGregor dacht dat hij ermee weg kwam omdat hij zoveel publiek trekt en de UFC heeft even laten zien dat zij nog altijd de baas zijn. Leuke fittie wel

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JonathanShrager twitterde op woensdag 20-04-2016 om 04:14:33 #McGregor Update 1/2: Conor confirmed to my source (see earlier tweet) a couple of hours ago that he's retired reageer retweet

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JonathanShrager twitterde op woensdag 20-04-2016 om 04:14:52 #McGregor Update 2/2: Conor informed my source that the promo tour was unrealistic; not just the presser, it was more like a mini world tour reageer retweet

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Op woensdag 20 april 2016 13:57 schreef THEFXR het volgende:
Wat doen ze nu met die 145 belt? gewoon voor de echte belt op ufc 200?

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Op woensdag 20 april 2016 13:57 schreef THEFXR het volgende:
Wat doen ze nu met die 145 belt? gewoon voor de echte belt op ufc 200?

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Op woensdag 20 april 2016 14:00 schreef _-_ratjetoe_-_ het volgende:

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Vreemde keuze wat betreft die interim belt suggereert iig dat er al langer iets speelde.

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Op woensdag 20 april 2016 11:45 schreef Tazmaniac het volgende:

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Tja.. ik ga Conor nu niet zien

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Op woensdag 20 april 2016 14:26 schreef Miauw_Zedong het volgende:
Wat ik las is dat het nog steeds voor de interim is @ UFC200. Volgens mij heeft Dana nog wel het idee dat er wat te redden valt, iets dat niet goed komt als ze hem van zíjn belt strippen.

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Op woensdag 20 april 2016 15:25 schreef THEFXR het volgende:

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ja hallo, hoe lang mag hij die divisie nog ophouden?
en als hij schriftelijk geritered is, dan duurt het weer 4 maanden voordat hij terug mag komen.

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I am just trying to do my job and fight here.
I am paid to fight. I am not yet paid to promote.
I have become lost in the game of promotion and forgot about the art of fighting.
There comes a time when you need to stop handing out flyers and get back to the damn shop.

50 world tours, 200 press conferences, 1 million interviews, 2 million photo shoots, and at the end of it all I'm left looking down the barrel of a lens, staring defeat in the face, thinking of nothing but my incorrect fight preparation. And the many distractions that led to this.
Nothing else was going through my mind.
It is time to go back and live the life that got me this life.

Sitting in a car on the way to some dump in Conneticut or somewhere, to speak to Tim and Suzie on the nobody gives a fuck morning show did not get me this life.

Talking to some lady that deep down doesn't give a fuck about what I'm doing, but just wants some sound bites so she can maybe get her little tight ass a nice raise, and I'm cool with that too, I've been giving you all raises. But I need to focus on me now.

I'm coming for my revenge here.
I flew an entire team to Portugal and to Iceland to make my adjustments in preparation and fix my errors I made with the weight and the cardio prep.

With the right adjustments and the right focus, I will finish what I started in that last fight.
I will not do this if I am back on the road handing out flyers again.

I will always play the game and play it better than anybody, but just for this one, where I am coming off a loss, I asked for some leeway where I can just train and focus. I did not shut down all media requests. I simply wanted a slight adjustment.
But it was denied.

There had been 10 million dollars allocated for the promotion of this event is what they told me.

So as a gesture of good will, I went and not only saved that 10 million dollars in promotion money, I then went and tripled it for them.
And all with one tweet.

Keep that 10 mill to promote the other bums that need it. My shows are good.
I must isolate myself now.

I am facing a taller, longer and heavier man. I need to prepare correctly this time.
I can not dance for you this time.
It is time for the other monkeys to dance. I've danced us all the way here.
Nate's little mush head looks good up on that stage these days. Stuff him in front of the camera for it.

He came in with no shit to do that last one. I'd already done press conferences, interviews and shot the ads before RDA pulled out.
Maybe I'll hit Cabo this time and skull some shots pre-fight with no obligation.
I'm doing what I need for me now.
It is time to be selfish with my training again. It is the only way.

I feel the $400million I have generated for the company in my last three events, all inside 8 months, is enough to get me this slight leeway.
I am still ready to go for UFC 200.
I will offer, like I already did, to fly to New York for the big press conference that was scheduled, and then I will go back into training.

With no distractions.
If this is not enough or they feel I have not deserved to sit this promotion run out this one time, well then I don't know what to say.
For the record also -
For USADA and for the UFC and my contract stipulations -
I AM NOT RETIRED.

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Our sources tell us ... besides the massive payday, the UFC told Conor it was willing to move mountains to accommodate the fighter during the UFC 200 media tour.

Not only did UFC offer to fly Conor to every destination on a top-of-the-line private jet ... but also offered to ship out every single piece of his gym equipment from Iceland to Vegas for this weekend's media event so there wouldn't be a kink in Conor's training.

We're told McGregor was told his gym would be set up identically to his Iceland training center and it would all be ready to go the second he stepped off the plane.

Still, McGregor refused to budge -- and our sources tell us Conor was "shocked" when he was told the media obligations in Vegas were mandatory.

As for Conor's future ... we're told he blinked on retirement partially because of anti-doping rules that require fighters to wait 4 months after they un-retire before they can fight again -- and Conor doesn't want to wait that long.

Dana White told Colin Cowherd he believes McGregor will fight for the UFC in the next year -- but our sources tell us it will NOT be against Nate Diaz. Instead, he'll have to fight Frankie Edgar or Jose Aldo.

And when he does return ... he's expected to do a FULL run of promotions for that fight too.

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Op donderdag 21 april 2016 17:43 schreef Geo4kant het volgende:

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Die gaat dus nooit zijn FW belt verdedigen.

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Op donderdag 21 april 2016 18:53 schreef Miauw_Zedong het volgende:

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Misschien dat hij niet zo heel veel meer te kiezen heeft.