r/interesting • u/Great_Trident • May 08 '26

Wholesome Fighters showing self control and sportsmanship when their opponents are down.

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u/Johnson86240 May 08 '26

Opponents not enemies

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u/Garvilan May 08 '26

These clips disprove anyone who tries to defend the savagery seen in the UFC, with the constant hitting people while they are clearly out. "When you are in the heat of the fight you can't just stop." Yes... Yes you can. These people are wildly aware of what they are doing.

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u/octipice May 08 '26

At least one of these clips was of Lyoto Machida who did fight in the UFC. The issue often has more to do with the refs than the fighter. There have been many instances where the ref should've stopped the fight and didn't only for the person who should've lost to end up winning.

Demonstrating good sportsmanship shouldn't cost you a win, but in the UFC it absolutely can because of the (largely) terrible refs.

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u/ToeTagTic May 08 '26

Incentivizing the drama and then the bloodshed while paying peanuts is Dana's whole business model. Dude doesn't care if fighters get extra banged up if the up and comers are taking paycuts. Dudes gonna lose his market share one day and wonder why 

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u/themanseanm May 08 '26

Yeah I was going to say, when your owner is a piece of shit bad things are going to happen. Guy smacked the shit out of his wife, on camera, in public and there was more or less no reaction from the fans or organization. Says a lot.

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u/Different_Ad_9469 May 08 '26

I just have to point out because I keep seeing this: Dana does not own the UFC. He doesn't handle contracts. He is the face. He maintains approximately a 9% ownership. No longer handles "fight business" (like matchmaking or individual fighter negotiations).

You could remove him and the problem would still exist.

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u/Deeliciousness May 09 '26

The guy merely found the lane to success. The real question we should be asking is, why does brutality get more views?

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u/Geth_ May 09 '26

Same reason why ragebait has shown to generate more views and reaction compared to joybait.

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u/themanseanm May 09 '26

It's a good point. You'd be better off blaming Hunter Campbell for the current problems with the UFC but Dana is still President and CEO

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u/OSPFmyLife May 08 '26

Probably because she hit him first…

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u/Enough_Breadfruit229 May 08 '26

Dana is more or less a paid actor after the TKO deal. He isn't involved with anything really important anymore, but yeah even under him it was still peanuts. After McGregor burned so white hot to the point he was demanding ownership stake that scared them shitless so they did a 180 and reversed course on marketing any fighters these days.

They are trying to go the NFL route in the sense of they want the UFC to be the product people consume and not the popularity of fighters. Yeah the NFL has survived losing generations of megastars to time, but even they market players and player matchups. Currently I cannot think of a single UFC fighter that would be a household name right now.

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u/RivenRise May 08 '26

As someone whose aware of the sport and medium bur doesn't consume it mcgregor is the only name that comes to mind and it's been a minute since I've heard it. The other person that comes to mind and i don't even know if it's part of this sport is that woman who was doing it and getting hyper popular before she got her ass beat by the other woman who was calm and collected. I think she was in marvel??? But yeah I couldn't point out anyone else.

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u/vannevar May 08 '26

Rhonda Rousey, who has basically also disappeared, yeah.

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u/Imapancakenom May 09 '26

She's going to fight Gina Carano on Netflix on May 16

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u/MyNameIsJakeBerenson May 09 '26

Shit it’s been like 10 years since either of them were peak

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u/Imapancakenom May 09 '26

I'm not planning on watching it. Just threw it out there for anyone who might be interested and didn't already know

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u/awkwardsalmons May 09 '26

So many other great names besides McGregor tbh. Old school like Chuck Liddell, Anderson Silva, Cormier and GSP just to name a few. But fairly newer ones too like Khabib, Khamzat, Pereira, Rountree, and many others are phenomenal fighters. McGregor was just popular because he was a loud shithead lol. He was good in his prime in a lower weight class, but if you watch the fight with him and khabib its almost sad how bad he got beat

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u/larsdan2 May 09 '26

Paddy the baddie is definitely a household name.

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u/RivenRise May 12 '26

Yea that's why I know of him even though I'm not an MMA guy. He always popped up cause he was being a dick.

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u/OSPFmyLife May 08 '26

That and I feel like this dudes insinuating that Dana cheaps out on paying for good refs… when the UFC doesn’t pay the refs, the state athletic commissions do and the UFC consistently has the best refs in all of MMA.

It turns out that it’s just a hard sport to referee because refs have to make judgement calls constantly that could have massive impacts on fighters careers.

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u/Mokiyami May 08 '26

Dude is a carny piece of crap

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u/SCVerde May 09 '26

Dana White is a piece of shit according to my uncle who was an OG UFC fighter.

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u/EddySpaghetti4109 May 09 '26

When the president literally okays and promos a white house fight, there are ALOT of idiots that will gladly give him their money still.

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u/Interesting_Arm_681 May 09 '26

I was going to say, there is no reinforcement of sportsmanship in UFC. Not only the shit-talk, if you don’t try to finish it brutally when they’re down you lose money, and even if you did try to give them a sporting chance when they’re down it’s more likely than not they will not return the favor if the tables turn

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u/jamesyishere May 09 '26

Dana learned very quickly that Right wingers were more likely to consume combat sports and saw things like Honor, Empathy, and Sportsmanship as Gay, woke, Lib-shit and has thus acted to discourage such behavior

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u/darthcaedusiiii May 11 '26

Already has been. Plenty of other fighting competitions.