NFL Player Chad Ochocinco Asks Dana White for a UFC Fight Against Anderson Silva
by Kid Nate on Nov 11, 2009 8:25 PM EST
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The Cincinatti Bengals wide receiver tweeted:
"Dana this Ocho Cinco, I want to fight your #1 and #2 best fighters asap,exhibition to raise money for a charity of choice!!!!!!," Ochocinco tweeted. "matter of fact I want Anderson Spider Silva---please don't ignore me or you'll have to fight me yourself!!! Sincerely Esteban :)"
Dana White replied:
If you are really serious @OGOchoCinco, contact me. We'll put a fight together for charity.
I'd put odds against this fight ever happening at about 100-1.
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I responded to dana, “I thought you said Herschel Walker was an embarrassment to the sport?”
He didn’t respond.
Not really..
He’s talking about some charity gig, not a real fight.
"I’m sorry. I didn’t drink last night, so I’m not funny today."
-Sakuraba
Walker is donating his fight purses to charity
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by Brent Brookhouse on Nov 11, 2009 9:03 PM EST up reply actions
It’s a similar sort of “freak” show in that it would be trying to piggyback off an athlete’s fanbase from another sport rather than being in any way based on how the UFC brass think 85 would do in the octagon.
Exhibition vs Walker really wants to fight…..nobody gets hurt they dont really throw punches. It really is just a publicity stunt.
perhaps you didn’t see when thunderlips fought rock in a “charity event”. no one escapes unscathed.
"I want to tell me what you see, let's go ahead and see by the fight what you saw, in the ring"
rocky, not rock
"I want to tell me what you see, let's go ahead and see by the fight what you saw, in the ring"
Yes
Because this, and all of the terms, are official. In other news, Shaq is fighting Brock Lesnar on the same card. Oh, Twitter!
"I’m sorry. I didn’t drink last night, so I’m not funny today."
-Sakuraba
by Blackout612 on Nov 12, 2009 12:30 AM EST up reply actions
I would still watch it
Chad 85 is one heck of an overall athlete, and while he’ll obviously get embarrassed by any halfway decent fighter, he’d still be interesting to watch.
by Cory Braiterman on Nov 11, 2009 8:29 PM EST reply actions
ochocinco just wants a reality show like terrell owens
give the man what he wants. ATTENTION. lol.
by wolfmanshowlforever on Nov 12, 2009 1:10 AM EST up reply actions
I mean...
A charity exhibition fight against Ochocinco would be fabulous publicity for Anderson Silva. He’d be foolish to turn it down.
We're just a million little gods causin' rain storms, turning every good thing to rust.
"Frank Mir had a horseshoe up his ass. I told him a year ago. I pulled it out of him and I beat him over the head with it." Brock Lesnar
by pitbull187 on Nov 11, 2009 8:46 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
beat him down
Dana should tell him to start by doing well on Bully Beatdown…
by loydb on Nov 11, 2009 8:46 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
For what it’s worth…he’s been asking to fight boxers for a while now…
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by Brent Brookhouse on Nov 11, 2009 9:04 PM EST reply actions
At best it would be a grappling match. The CBA would probably prohibit him from doing it. Then again the current NFL CBA expires at the end of the season. I think it should be Dana since he almost did a charity boxing with Tito.
Rashad just said he wants to do it.
by The Bronzeville Bully on Nov 11, 2009 9:18 PM EST via mobile reply actions
I don't even think the CBA matters...
it’s almost certainly built into Chad’s contract that he can’t participate in dangerous activities. It’s built in to almost every pro athlete’s contract. Even things like riding motorcycles…etc
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by Brent Brookhouse on Nov 11, 2009 9:50 PM EST up reply actions
Those contracts are designed to protect the NFL team from having to pay a player while he is sidelined with an injury from doing something stupid. The Bengals won’t care but it will have to be after the season ends.
When players are injured in the offseason the teams still go after players. If 86 were to hurt his knee badly it could impact his next year.
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by Brent Brookhouse on Nov 11, 2009 10:43 PM EST up reply actions
but seriously, I think it’s a possiblity but it would probably be a grabling match or some “Bully Beatdown” thing
by The Bronzeville Bully on Nov 11, 2009 10:05 PM EST up reply actions
@OGOchoCinco u know what 85 we don’t need 2 have Dana set up the fight i would like 2 fight u.. Get your game up!
@SugaRashadEvans you will get your ass whooped by me!!! One more Twitter outburst without raising your hand and it’s on!!!
@OGOchoCinco all I would need 2 do is get in your head like Skip bayless does & the battle would b over. I was in ESPN studios tht day..=)
@SugaRashadEvans Skip talks nonsense for shock value
@OGOchoCinco nonsense or not u were pissed. Here’s what we gonna do. Next time u go 2 ESPN we will have a exhibition & put it on u Youtube..
@SugaRashadEvans lol, you’ll lose
I think A.S vs Ocho would be great.
A.S would be a brilliant representative of MMA in what would be quite a publicised event.
Can you imagine Ocho using his straight boxing, and A.S going all matrix on him? The view of MMA changes in the eys of countless NFL fans, and Boxing fans.
"Hello, Japan"
Why would it change in the eyes of boxing fans? Ocho isnt exactly floyd mayweather. Shit like this makes MMA look like WWE.
"Frank Mir had a horseshoe up his ass. I told him a year ago. I pulled it out of him and I beat him over the head with it." Brock Lesnar
Of course he isn’t Floyd. I think to see someone trained in boxing going against a MMArtist such as A.S who will no doubt put on a crazy show. I think fans of boxing that tune in, and fans of Ocho would be very entertained, and most definitely more likely to watch a MMA fight.
"Hello, Japan"
Lef this out.
I don’t think MMA gets closer to WWE the more entertaining it gets.
I would hate to see Dana do the fight, even though I’d love to see him get smacked one. That would be more WWE than is right.
"Hello, Japan"
Chad johnson is a character who does anything for attention him fighting one of the best p4p mma fighters in the world would be a joke and regardless of how much attention and publicity it got it would make MMA look more like a fad and a gimmic than a long term contender in sports.
"Frank Mir had a horseshoe up his ass. I told him a year ago. I pulled it out of him and I beat him over the head with it." Brock Lesnar
I don’t think MMA is, or should be concerned with being a fad or a gimmic. I think it is still finding it’s niche but popularity has slowly been growing for years.
It is little peices such as this that create bursts of popularity, and I don’t understand why they should be discouraged.
Sure, if it was about ‘Storylines’ or ‘Characterisation’ then I think MMA would be loosing it’s essence.
This? This is a fight for charity man. This isn’t a celebrity coming into the ‘MMA House’ and fighting for a chance to get immunity and have the other voted off.
In every combat, team or ball sport there is always ‘Celebrity Charity events’.
If anything this just helps solidify MMA’s presence in the sporting world.
Not only that, but this helps emphasise that MMA isn’t just about hurting people, creating pain and having a good knockout-reel.
In that same respect, a charity fight like this helps show that athletes in MMA aren’t just bogans and rednecks who wants to slam faces, but are athletes.
"Hello, Japan"
Again...
he has been asking for boxing matches for months prior to this. MMA is his second option to pretend to fight in
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by Brent Brookhouse on Nov 11, 2009 10:44 PM EST up reply actions
does this help?
"Frank Mir had a horseshoe up his ass. I told him a year ago. I pulled it out of him and I beat him over the head with it." Brock Lesnar
by pitbull187 on Nov 11, 2009 9:31 PM EST up reply actions 11 recs
Yes! Hahaha.
(if only I can rec this now)
by Anton Tabuena on Nov 11, 2009 11:23 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
HAHAHAHA
"I’m sorry. I didn’t drink last night, so I’m not funny today."
-Sakuraba
by Blackout612 on Nov 12, 2009 12:32 AM EST up reply actions
Guys it’s an charity event. An exhibition. Chad does crazy stuff like this for a cause all the time
by The Bronzeville Bully on Nov 11, 2009 9:32 PM EST reply actions
Ed Soares probably thinks he should fight Bret Farve first.
by TheChairman on Nov 11, 2009 9:33 PM EST reply actions 6 recs
No way the NFL contract allows this
For you people who cry & whine about the UFC contracts they are highly liberal when compared to the NFL players are allowed to do. Hell they can’t even ride motorcycles.
Doesn’t big ben rothlisburger ride around on his motorcycle without a helmet on
by kanodogg on Nov 11, 2009 10:04 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
and if he gets hurt, they dont have to pay him and ask for bonuses back. Browns did it with Kellen Wislow
by The Bronzeville Bully on Nov 11, 2009 10:11 PM EST up reply actions
well they aren’t going to sue you but I believe you void your contract if you get hurt. If I remember right Kellen Winslow’s dad had to basically beg the Cleveland Browns not to void his contract after his accident.
I think they witheld or ask portions of his bonuses back
by The Bronzeville Bully on Nov 11, 2009 10:12 PM EST up reply actions
Didn't Chad race a horse a few years ago?
I’d say he wasn’t serious but he probably is. Likely if Chad is serious there will be some sort of fight but probably with sparing gear or a grappling match.
I feel bad for Rashad for even replying to this.
If there was anyone in MMA talking about how they wanted just “1 game as a New England Patriot’s cornerback” and talked the talk, everyone would laugh it off and not give them the time of day.
Here we are trying to legitimize our sport and we have these cross sport freak shows trying to drum up popularity for their favorite tax receipt and we all clap our hands like retarded monkeys saying “GOLLY, THIS IS GREAT.”
Well it’s not great, this is a serious sport and these people who don’t train who think because they are decent at their sport, that it makes them great at every sport, time for a wake up call, stop giving him the media attention for his brash boasting.
This is the kind of fraudulent behavior that puts the sport behind, because you cannot make a sport a sport while having these side show attractions for whatever reason, it just reduces the integrity of the sport and the fighters that try to publicize their names by being involved with these tirades from other professional athletes.
So to all MMA and BJJa/Strikers, stop taking offers from people without fighting experience that are trying to bolster their revenue for their favorite tax receipts or latest popularity craze, it is doing the sports NO favors.
^this
Set up the fight against someone like Renzo or Royce. That’ll be a good fight to put on for Charity. Somebody who’s goddamn retired and old and is guaranteed to kick his ass as well. This dude should not be allowed anywhere near Anderson Silva. It’s like Randy Couture calling up David Beckham to play fullback for the LA Galaxy.
LOL
Fullback.
Do they really call a position that in American soccer???
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by Well Read Idiot on Nov 12, 2009 6:29 AM EST up reply actions
How is that any less correct than the American Footbal usage?
Its a defensive position. You don’t really hear it used that often anymore.
In the olden days there were three tiers to your team’s layout:
Forward (offensive end of the field, now usually called Strikers),
Halfback (mid-field plays that play between offense and defense and are responsible for ball control and distribution in addition to offense and defense)
Fullback (defense, usually called Defenders today and actually play in a diamond with a stopper, sweeper and two outside defenders).
yeah you noticed that too uh, I was laughing my butt off when that guy with the fish eyes kept saying “who dey” after the Saints game – it’s Who Dat!
Yes, time flies. And where did it leave you? Old too soon...smart too late. - Mike Tyson
by lovingmma25 on Nov 12, 2009 11:18 AM EST up reply actions
Vegas, are you serious?
Yes, time flies. And where did it leave you? Old too soon...smart too late. - Mike Tyson
Yes. Cincinnati has always been “Who Dey!”
by Chris Barton on Nov 12, 2009 2:17 PM EST up reply actions
Cincy = Who Dey
NO = Who dat?
"That feeling after you win and they raise your hand... it's like you have this energy that releases from your body, and it's like you mingle with the cosmos, and you feel omnipotent"
wow, I did not know
Yes, time flies. And where did it leave you? Old too soon...smart too late. - Mike Tyson
Oddly enough, Peter King tweeted it today, too, a few minutes ago.
"That feeling after you win and they raise your hand... it's like you have this energy that releases from your body, and it's like you mingle with the cosmos, and you feel omnipotent"
Why are so many people so up in arms about this?
Let the guy do an exhibition or something, raise money for a good cause, post flashing red signs that say “Exhibition” and everyone wins. Ocho gets to help raise money for charity and show off what a phenominal athlete he really is, the UFC gets some more mainstream exposure via PTI, Around the Horn, etc. and the world, most likely, doesn’t end.
"That feeling after you win and they raise your hand... it's like you have this energy that releases from your body, and it's like you mingle with the cosmos, and you feel omnipotent"
by woomikee on Nov 12, 2009 9:54 AM EST reply actions 1 recs
I agree with you Woomikee – I don’t see why everyone is being so negative. I like Ocho personally, I think he’s a really good football player and seems to be an all around good guy.
Yes, time flies. And where did it leave you? Old too soon...smart too late. - Mike Tyson
by lovingmma25 on Nov 12, 2009 11:20 AM EST up reply actions
Child Please....
Is this guy serious!? Too bad it would never happen. Somethin tells me the cage would be riddled with gold teeth.
by MMAtt on Nov 12, 2009 10:29 AM EST via mobile reply actions
What the hell?
I say, give him what he wants, and make it a real fight. The UFC is stuck on who Silva will fight anyway.
Either way it will be a work. There is no way, even if this guy had a shot, that the UFC would let Silva be touched.
I even had doubts in my mind about the fight between Silva and Griffin.
As Dana White’s empire grows, I feel the risk of the fights being fixed growing as well.
I fear that if things keep going as they are, UFC will be more and more like WWE.
Hell, Dana White is already as bad as Vince McMahon.
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