"A series of softballs"? It's a podcast, you pathetic queeb. Anyone who takes mma as seriously as the fucking 9/11 Commission deserves to have his face fucked into the bottom of a swamp.

I get that in Vegas some people have big money riding on these types of things. Those people are called degenerates and they should be laughed at and dismissed.

Face fucked into the bottom of a swamp tickled my G-Spot. I really hope that was an off the cuff comment that just came to you.

That was fantastic.

Anaerobic ecosystems, the hidden gold mine of Norton-esque "should die in a-" comedy.

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deserves to have his face fucked into the bottom of a swamp.

laughed way too hard at this.

Luke Thomas has long been a self-important, pompous douchebag. He's the type of guy that views himself as an "intellectual" in a world of meatheads and dummies, the irony of "intellectualizing" MMA seemingly escaping him.

Yeah, he's a barely-known massive handjob

this fucking faggot covers MMA like he is trying to catch someone selling nuclear secrets to terrorists ... its a fucking sport and he thinks he is fighting on behalf of us for the truth.... but of course Norton's a company hack... he isn't self employed

Isn't the gag on anyone covering the UFC is they're all company whores or they get blacklisted? Deadspin's had that story for a few years.

deadspin has always been a gawker fagrag

Not really. Of all the gawker sites they're the least gawkery. Sports is 24/7 content so the writers dont have to manufacture anything unlike POV/agendized style writing that needs to literally make their own stories.

ahahaha absolutely not. It's perpetually wacky gifs and agenda driven trash by untalented virtue-signaling blogger hacks.

They've always been salty and pointedly anti-UFC because their faggots on the beat could never get cleared for press passes, which is especially humiliating given the rock bottom standard that exists for any old mumbling retard to claim the mantle of MMA "journalism"

So despite the heavy evidence that the UFC has a strangle hold MMA press and acts punitively in those regards, and how garbagey Dana White is to fighters, deadspin is just butthurt for reporting those things and would gladly stooge for the UFC if they were allowed to?

Well if you're any kind of fan, you already knew that blindingly obvious shit because MMA journalism as a whole is about as effective as a blind 2-legged horse. But woe betide anyone who actually thinks they're getting reliable reports from the gawker network, rofl

ariel helwani isn't even a journalist either, he's a self-obsessed gossip columnist who tries to make all his interviews with famous fighters about himself and his imedla marcos-sized shoe collection. There was nothing noble or heroic about his struggle this past month, he got on his podcast and threw himself a pity party immediately after the ban, bawling like a pansy jerkoff.

So they're biased for reporting something everyone already knows but doesn't report? And you wrote rofl in that statement was that intentional because yikes. Also, is onnit t+ any good?

They even pays the fox sport's ufc reporters directly just so they can get those people by the balls

I remember there was a leaked Bleacher Report style guide on how not to piss off the UFC. Dana White is a straight up goon.

He's annoying to me and I don't even care about any of the actual issues that come up. The Fertittas hired a pit bull and he's trying way too hard to continue to prove that he's that same guy they hired. I guess I can't blame him but I really wish he'd shut up and sit behind a desk and just make phone calls all day. He's a drama queen I think.

I always hated him for whinging about the money the company wasn't able to make due to the supposed infringement by promotions a hundred times smaller. Not because I gave a shit about those promotions, but because when you combine anger and victimhood like that, it stinks to high heaven of deception. Relax, asshole, you've been a monopoly for a long time now. I don't want to hear your guns blazin' bullshit.

The thing that bugs me is how he'll spin things especially things that arent in fighter's best interests. Like talking about it being a mistake for Holly Holm to not wait for Rhonda Rousey to be ready for a rematch before defending the title, or a company wide deal with reebok blocking fighters from having their own endorsements.

I can't begrudge the guy for taking a war-like approach to business. I just wish I never had to see it.

But I like to watch post fight pressers (for the fighters), and big news about future matches, so what can you do.

The Fertitas just sold the UFC yesterday. A 2 million investment turned into 4 BILLION. Dana stays on.

thats why rogan is a piece of shit, he always say dana white is the most honest person on earth and all that

Nah, there's plenty of other reasons why Rogan is a piece of shit.

the snake oil thing, ripping off the bullet coffee etc

Dana white isn't in control, he's just a figure head for television.

still hes far from honest

They say the true founders are mafia related. The thread a week or 2 ago when they banned the reporter that leaked info had a bunch of claims.

I think some material artist fella created the ufc and those mob guys brought it for nothing

A few weeks ago they banned an MMA journalist and his 2 friends for life from all UFC events after he broke the Lesnar return story a few hours before it was announced at a PPV. They actually had them escorted from the building that night. They buckled from public pressure and rescinded the ban but obviously that is how they work.

You mean the "journalist" that was so butthurt about getting fired from his corporate shill Fox/UFC gig that he used his contacts within the UFC to try to embarrass them by ruining every announcement they had, sometimes leaking the info literally 5 minutes before the UFC did, just to spite them? That was truly a case of an asshole getting out-assholed by a bigger asshole. Everyone involved is guilty, and they're all assholes.

Fuck this faggot.

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Im not listening but does the guy basically call him 'a worm'?

"Jim Norton paints himself as a bit of an iconoclast, but he is a company whore when he needs to be." Sums up Jim perfectly, imo.

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I'm actually entirely on the UFC's side regarding the whole Helwani thing. Zac Amico put it best. If there was a journalist hanging around the Game of Thrones set and he found out Jon Snow was coming back to life and spilled the beans, HBO has every right to say "You're not allowed on the set anymore."

Its not Game Of Thrones. Its sports. That's how sports journalism works in every other sport. You are 100% correct in thats how the fucking WWE would handle the situation because they are a fake sport. The NBA doesn't punish ESPN if one of their reports breaks a story because its fucking REAL and they aren't looking for shock returns like Hulk Hogan showing up at Summer Slam.

That's not how sports journalism works in any other sport. Your analogy is missing a few details. Let's say the NFL Network had a reporter that they fired because he kept bringing up topics the NFL had asked him not to. This reporter then goes to ESPN and launches a wholly self-serving one man crusade to try to embarrass the NFL by publishing and reporting unconfirmed anonymous-source stories sometimes FIVE MINUTES before the NFL planned to announce the information themselves. Do you think ESPN would tolerate this?

I don't see why a shock return of Hogan to WWE is any different to a shock return of Lesnar to UFC from an entertainment standpoint. Yes it's a sport, but with a goal to entertain. I don't see why adding a competitive element changes this.

Recently the NHL added a Nevada team. If a journalist leaked that I would have no problem with the NHL not giving backstage access.

Horrible analogy

But what if he wasn't around the set. And an hbo employee told him?? Shouldn't data be mad at that guy??

What?

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Thank you for your service

That was Geordi, retard

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its acceptable if its wwe or some scripted thing, but ufc is trying to build themselves/mma up as a reputable sport, if they are banning everybody who isnt all in with them, what will happen to someone who reports their fighters doping? how long will they start fixing fights?

btw zac is luis's boy and luis is ufc's boy, thats how he gets to host a radio show with mike bisping

All sports are rigged. There's too much money involved for them not to be. Things gotta fit a certain narrative, you know?

come on brotha thats like opie style thinking

How much money did you lose betting on a fixed game?

I bet on Rocky Balboa to lose by knockout to Ivan Drago. Boxing is corrupt.

i almost put money on faber and rockhold last time good thing i am very lazy

Not the same. No one spoiled the outcome of the fight, Ariel just broke the story that Brock will be fighting. It'd be like the journalist hanging around the GOT set and telling people that Jon Snow is in the next episode of GOT, who knows if he's alive or not.

No. That makes no sense. There's no correlation or reason as to why it'd be like that.

I expect the highest standard of journalistic integrity from Mr. Worm.