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Piracy will NEVER be stopped Dana. He knows it too, that's why he stopped funding that cause. Even your own fighters use streams. I send you Russian link brether
It’s possible. And if it happens the ppv would only cost around 5-10 bucks since it will have like 30 million buys instead of 800k lol. I’d rather pay 5 bucks than having my pirated low quality stream crash every 5 minutes between fights.
@@BrdOutaMyMndConnor didn’t pop for PEDs, and Dana doesn’t want to talk about Connor at all. Contrary to Jones, who Dana has been sucking off every press conference and interview and podcast he gets on for the last however many months. And Connor isn’t dodging fights like Jones.
Jon Jones is a woman beating PED cheat, anyone else who had his kids calling the cops because their dad is beating their mom bloody, Dana would condemn them & ban them from the UFC. Read the police report, Jon Jones own kids had to get the police!
anyone else who had his kids calling the cops because their dad is beating their mom bloody, Dana would condemn them & ban them from the UFC. Read the police report, Jon Jones own kids had to get the police!
@@mmabusiness1353 First off, nobody mentioned Tommy. Rent free. Shows how important you know he is. Secondly, he's beaten 6/10 top 10 fighters, all in the first round.
You'd have to be mad in the head to pay $70 for a UFC card. They're worth about $3-5. I would never watch the UFC again if I couldn't stream it for free.
If PPVs were even $50 bucks again I’d buy most of them. I had 2-3 buddies who we would rotate houses. One guy would buy the PPV and host, another guy would bring a case and some weed, another guy would bring some takeout. Everyone ended up putting down $40-50 and we would just rotate the next event to someone else’s house and who brought what. I’d love to get back to that. At $70-80 a PPV is too fuckin much though
To everyone here: Don't know if it's available in the US but if not get a VPN (pretty cheap), buy a "DAZN" subscription for ~12-15$/month and enjoy all UFC events (fight night + ppv + prelims), NBA, soccer,... all included. I also would never even consider paying 30+$/ppv.
@@loveliban1 its more reasonable though. i can go out to eat at a restaruant and have a few beers at a bar in the same night and come out 50-60, upwards of 80 if i got like a big steak or something. the way i view it, going out is my entertainment for the evening. so i can rationalize spending that to stay in and watch the fights. but if i order a pizza, get a six pack, and buy the fights now im easily spending 100. 50 i can deal with, 70-80 im gonna pirate when theres sometimes 2 ppv's in a month. i aint gonna budget 1000 annually to watch the fights
How can he act like he’s good at combating piracy when literally nobody buys ppv’s. The 200-700k that sell each event are mostly businesses and rich people. Most of the rich people are connected to the ESPN or the ufc in some way. Ppv is ancient business model in 2024. Make ESPN+ 19.99 a month and include ppv’s. That will stop most of the piracy and they’ll make a lot more money.
And piracy knows EXACTLY how to sort out a rip off company. Make it affordable for everyone again, and people loose interest in piracy. Simple mathmatics..
If you guys are on a windows PC and the audio only coming out of the left speaker is bothering you, hit the windows key and write "mono" and enable mono audio. Then you can turn it off again after the video. This makes the audio split into both speakers.
Jones has been hiding down at LHW his entire career with the same height/reach as Francis Ngannou. He took fights vs literal Middleweights rather than moving up to make super fights with Cain Velasquez, Fabricio Werdum, Anthony Johnson or Francis(not to mention Stipe in his 30's). He wouldn't move up to fight DC who started their trilogy at 36 and had a harder time each fight making weight. Frankly dude is the most overhyped cheat the sport has ever seen, his win over Gane was a neck crank--a move that should be considered small joint manipulation and 100% illegal as are "oblique kicks" AKA knee stomps and the arm wrench that injured Glover Teixeira. That doesn't even touch on his PED usage or the complete robbery of Dominck Reyes.
They guy is one of 3 insanely successful brothers in athletics. His genetically superior, probably did use peds, but so did half the goats of MMA. Also, he’s making weight, why should he have to go up a weight class? He’s a psychopath and a bad person but he’s one of the greatest ever, clearly.
Wow the Jon Jones promo in the middle of the episode 🤣🤣🤣 An entire promo just to promote Jon Jones, not even promoting a fight or inducting him into the hall of fame, literally just a random Jon Jones appreciation video... Dana is hilarious 🤣🤣🤣
@@Christophergarcia-cd5hs I was against it but me and my boys always go to Boston Pizza to watch it, we prefer going out than being at a crib (all of us live with parents atm as well). Like I said though I paid 650$ for tickets for a UFC event so I could've bought like 5+ ppv's with that purchase, I'm not against spending money on the UFC but PPV is basically watching at home and I like going out a bit better, maybe when I own my own home In the future and I can host better I'll do it a couple times.
It's Kevin Iole man, he's known Dana since Dana was a boxing promoter. Plus Kevin is super respected by his peers, he's one of the OG's so Dana wouldn't oust him. Too much backlash from the rest of the media if he did.
40 dollars to watch an event online is unheard of in europe, people pay 150- 200 euro for a whole year of soccer live matches , so the ppv model is just not for europe, maybe it´s more common in America
I watched Jones vs Rampage yesterday and it's interesting when you realize Jon was always a heavyweight, weight bullying and outsizing every LHW by a ridiculous margin. Man made Rampage look like Cejudo.
LMAO John Morgan's tone is fucking hilarious. So fucking tongue in cheek AND he still brings up how Jon hasn't fought anyone of note recently. Good on him!
Yall notice how upset he was when Alex said he wanted a heavyweight fight... But now he's happy since his moving back down. He either hates Dricus or protecting Jones
Dana only started all this Jon Jones shit when Francis went to PFL. He definitely shit his pants when Ngannou beat Fury up and will say anything to keep people from saying Ngannou is hw king
yes, he was talkin shit about jj pricing his way out of ngannou fight etc and if he 100% believed jj is best why not let him fight ngannou now and make easy $$ would be Huuuuuge! but he knows he’s just protecting the brand and can’t blame him
"You say he wants to fight everybody, what about Jon Jones?" Dana: Are you fuckin kidding me? Listen, nobody wants to fight Jon Jones and I mean NOBODY. Jon Jones is the single greatest fighter to ever walk this earth without a shadow of a doubt.. okay? I know you all sit there with your little fuckin social media groups thinking you know everything about this sport I get it, but trust me, nobody wants that fight, alright?
I've been watching pirated cards and counting for 4 years, and even if it was 1 cent I wouldn't pay, because I would be giving money to those who don't give a damn about the fighters or the corrupt judges.
The judges are paid by the athletic commission, not the UFC. And the UFC doesn't like the corrupt judging either, which is why they fired that judge in Australia mid-card after giving the Tuivasa-Rozenstruik fight to Tuivasa. But I agree their fighters are severely underpaid. Ppl are paying $10g for tickets to the Sphere when some of those prelim fighters are probably walking home with less than that.
Make Pereira Jones - offer them 10m each or an offer they can’t refuse. Both likely on the tail end of their careers. Both similar weight/build, both in conversation for GOAT. I think Aspinall kills either of them, he’s far too big and quick, although he 100% deserves the next title shot, obviously.
Blacks live vicariously through him though. He's the Last Samurai. The last black "champ". Once he's gone, they can't claim superiority anymore. That's why the support is so fierce 😂
Let me tell you how this all plans out: Jon beats Stipe easily (not ruling out match fixing as Stipe is now an ambassador for a betting company) Jon calls out Aspinall in post fight speech Jon doesn’t fight for 18 months claiming an injury or court case holding up the division then finally gets stripped Jon retires without fighting Tom Aspinall
They tried to say Jon Jones has wins over 8 current and future champs which makes no sense lmao. He doesn’t have a win over any current champ right now and did they foresee guys like Anthony Smith winning a title anytime soon that we are not yet aware of? They also said he is the youngest champion in UFC history but that belongs to Vitor Belfort.
@@Bob.sakamento oh ya man way younger Vitor was 19 when he won his first world title in the UFC. He was a baby. Like how they try to erase Francis they try and erase this fact too.
@@TMeek94 1. That still doesn’t make sense because he doesn’t have a win over any current champion. He never fought Alex who’s current champ at LHW and he hasn’t fought Tom who is IHW. They specifically said he has 8 wins over past, current and future champs lol. And if it did make sense do you realize how absolutely unnecessary it is for them to state it in that way? That confused the hell out of a lot of people for no reason at all. Just say he has wins over 8 Champs that’s it that’s all they had to do. They do too much. 2. And Vitor winning the tournament is the same thing because that’s all they had back then and it still was a world title. Tournament winners are real champions. Just because the format was different and they used a Catchweight or Openweight division doesn’t make them any lesser. The HW title itself came to exist in the first place because of a unification of two titles between the Tournament Champ and the Superfight Champ. So they were real championships. Just like the Interim. That match was a unification bout between two different Heavyweight champs Dan Severn and Mark Coleman. With that being said just because a title doesn’t exist anymore doesn’t mean it’s irrelevant. Those were the titles that ran the entire UFC at one point. When Dana got rid of the WFW division it didn’t take away from fighters accomplishments in that division. When he gets rid of the FLW division that won’t undermine all that fighters have ever done there historically. That won’t undermine Mighty Mouse. The same way defunct OW/CW Super and Tourney titles are not to be undermined. Thats what they had at the time. It’s not Vitor’s fault. Regardless he still captured an available world title at the time and you can’t erase that. Whether he captured a Interim or Unified, WSW, WFYW, WBW, WFW, FYW, BW, FW, LW, WW, MW, LW, LHW, HW or CW title and by what way and path he captured it makes no difference. A title is a title. He was a CW champion period. The championship existed. He was 19 when he took home a world title and it happened in the UFC. They said Jon Jones is the “YOUNGEST EVER” in “UFC HISTORY” meaning EVER in any division in the entirety of the UFC and it’s just simply not true. Vitor was 19 when he captured his first world title. Jones was 22 when he captured his first world title. The division, format and name is just irrelevant. People need to stop playing with semantics. Vitor Belfort is the “youngest champion in the UFC’s history” period. The UFC was a tournament then and it’s still a tournament now just as the name of the company says it’s a “CHAMPIONSHIP”. Just because the tournament changed from a bracket style to a ladder style and went from multiple fights a night to a single fight a night doesn’t mean it’s no longer a tournament. The UFC was, is, and always will be a tournament.
@8:31 - "It'll be a great day when A.I. starts doing this sh*t." I highly doubt Dana would like what A.I. comes up with. If the press were A.I., they wouldn't be afraid to ask him hard questions either.
anyone else who had his kids calling the cops because their dad is beating their mom bloody, Dana would condemn them & ban them from the UFC. Read the police report, Jon Jones own kids had to get the police!
Seeing dana say there's alot of pressure on him is so unusual it feels like we're moving into a different era of the ufc less and less influence from dana on what happeneds now
anyone else who had his kids calling the cops because their dad is beating their mom bloody, Dana would condemn them & ban them from the UFC. Read the police report, Jon Jones own kids had to get the police!
When Dana White talked about A.I. doing the rankings, I thought that was a great idea. A.I. don't lie, A.I. isn't bias, A.I. don't make mistakes. A.I. is the perfect tool to judge strictly by stats.
“We don’t cut corners, we cut fighter pay” “We don’t promote fighters, they need to promote themselves. But here is a multi minute promo for jones since no one likes that he is fighting stipe”
What does it even matter? You’re as good as your last fight in the eyes of the fans. Jon will go down as a legend like GSP, Anderson and Artem Lobov. It doesn’t go any further.
*”Hey gang stipe is not making it, good news Alex pereira will be fighting Dricus du plesis for the MW Belt. Tom aspinall will be fighting Ankalaev for the interim belt”*
The last time that guy weighed in at Midway he looked like death warmed over if he tries to make metal weight. You will not end up fighting that night. He'll end up in the hospital because he's trying to come wait that he shouldn't be cutting. The only way he makes weight at middle weight is to lose muscle mass, which is very difficult to do. He can't lose 50 pounds of water weight.
Dana legit spent maybe a million on a Jones production to prove his point. And I missed it lol. And mark my words the sphere card/show in general is going to bomb and lose millions. Dana crying about a non-existent guaranteed gate while having Riyadh season for a Mexican card. "It's just about execution means" = we already lost 10 million.
It’s ok there were a lot of lies. They tried to say he has wins over 8 current and future champs which makes no sense lmao. He doesn’t have a win over any current champ right now and did they see Anthony Smith winning a title anytime soon that we don’t know about yet? They also said he is the youngest champion in UFC history but that belongs to Belfort.
The last time that guy weighed in at Midway he looked like death warmed over if he tries to make metal weight. You will not end up fighting that night. He'll end up in the hospital because he's trying to come wait that he shouldn't be cutting. The only way he makes weight at middle weight is to lose muscle mass, which is very difficult to do. He can't lose 50 pounds of water weight. That guy walks around at 230 pounds
I love Dana. All these jealous losers can’t stand that Jon is the greatest and are dying to see him beat so bad that they’re literally emotional about it 😂
Nobody thinks Jones is the greatest. His career as a fighter is obsolete since he’s a PED cheat. Dana is a legend & deserves a lot more respect than Jones should ever receive.
Even if Alex moves down to middleweight for one fight, he could still transition to heavyweight. Alex's walk around weight was the same at middle weight as it is now at 235.
Prior to the Jone Jones redundancy, it was UFC Noche- how its gonna be the biggest sporting event ever. People forget he started as a promoter and as such says what he says to generate interest/talk into future events (Jones stipe happening later this year)