Anonymous at Sun, 3 Mar 2024 12:11:56 UTC No. 189186

This is a complicated one
I am of the belief that while throwing someone, you are partly responsible for their safety because their ability to protect themselves is limited while being thrown.
The problem is drawing the line between a dangerous throw and an athlete being negligent of their own safety because any set of rules that places part of the responsibility on the person performing the throw is open to "gaming the rules"

Anonymous at Sun, 3 Mar 2024 15:42:10 UTC No. 189199

>>189186
The problem is that it wasn’t even the ref’s decision, Chatri straight up ordered Herb to DQ the guy.
If he legit thought the move was illegal then why not let the ref decide that themselves?

Anonymous at Tue, 5 Mar 2024 17:35:14 UTC No. 189414

>>189199
Wait, so it's like if Dana pulled his CEO card to reverse an outcome of a fight he didn't like?
That's extraordinarily retarded, I was under the impression that ONE had it's shit together more than UFC

Anonymous at Tue, 12 Mar 2024 16:05:27 UTC No. 190379

>>189414
ONE has good things going for it like fairer wages and event diversity, but Chatri seems to kind of indecisive abou what he wants the MMA division to be like. Add in his authoritatian tendencies and you get shit like this.

Anonymous at Sun, 17 Mar 2024 13:38:11 UTC No. 190834

>>189414
ONE probably has a better public face but is way shadier than the UFC from what I've heard.
>more likely than not their official ticket sales and PPV stats are vastly inflated
>generally shady finances, decent chance they'll go bankrupt before the end of the year from what I've heard
>heavy favoritism for fighters from Chatri's own gym
>Chatri threatning to sue his own fighters when they criticize him, closest thing I think the UFC has done was suing Wanderlei for saying that fights were fixed

Anonymous at Sun, 17 Mar 2024 16:50:03 UTC No. 190848

>>190834
What is it with MMA organizations and having extremely shitty management? By this point I'm half convinced every manager is a Dana plant to ensure only the UFC ends up mattering in the sport. It shouldn't be that hard to just hold an honest business capable of attracting fighters with how little pros usually make outside of merch shit. Every promotions either collapsing or fading into irrelevance has to be on purpose.

Anonymous at Mon, 18 Mar 2024 03:26:07 UTC No. 190915

>>190848
Unfortunately an enterprise that involves paying your employees to bash each other’s heads in tends to attract certain types. Same problem with boxing. We’ll see what happens with PFL but given how they’ve handled Ngannou so far I’m skeptical.

Anonymous at Mon, 18 Mar 2024 03:56:57 UTC No. 190917

>>190915
>>190848
Combat sports are even more mobbed up/gambling controlled than any other traditional sport. On the international promotion level, there is no getting away from it.

Anonymous at Thu, 21 Mar 2024 02:40:03 UTC No. 191195

>>190379

The pay in one is even more dogshit than the other orgs.

Kongklai left with 800 dollars not too long ago. The few mma contracts that are public go as low as 1200/1200

Anonymous at Thu, 21 Mar 2024 02:42:00 UTC No. 191197

>>190834
One is terrible almost exclusively because Chatri is a massive tard. He sidelines guys he doesn't like regardless of their skill. He also publicly trahsed japanese fighters while actively trying to break into the japanese market.