Junie Browning Wins Fight, Offends Fans
by Kid Nate on Nov 29, 2009 8:23 AM EST
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Looks like Junie is still embracing his heel persona, per ProMMA.info:
Despite his troubles outside the cage, Browning proved he still had skills that surpass your average Taekwondo black belt by dropping Cornwell to the mat with his very first punch. Junie quickly pounced on his opponent, and at one point tried to put him in a gogoplata. He actually got pretty close, but ended up settling for a trusty triangle submission.
Browning controlled the entire 3:13 fight and was never in any danger. Following the bout, the microphone was handed to Cornwell who was apologetic and genuinely displeased with his performance. The crowd applauded Cornwell's effort, in what was only his second professional bout.
Then the microphone was handed to Junie and the arena filled with boos. Junie said, "I try to come out here and put on a show. If you don't like it, then f**k ya'll!" This actually brought out a few cheers. Then Junie had a special message for the ladies. He said, "LADIES, AFTER THIS I WANT TWO LINES, ONE FOR SUCKING, AND ONE FOR F**KING." He dropped the mic to the ground and walked out of the cage. The boos were deafening.
Between Junie and War Machine, The Ultimate Fighter is certainly bringing MMA an excellent set of representatives.
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Oh, lol, he really did that. Not that I’m surprise. I assume the commission will take action against him?
10/24
Gilbert Yvel gets permission to fight after KOing a ref. Junie will get to fight again, no problem.
by Monday Morning Martial Artist on Nov 29, 2009 1:22 PM EST up reply actions
I’m laughing and I shouldn’t be. Can you imagine the backlash if a tennis, football, baseball, or cricket player acted like this after a match? MMA has a long way to go.
I supported Junie being allowed to participate in this fight. He needs to support himself. Nevertheless, if the rules of commissions in other states permit, he should be banned from competition for a while. No professional, whether lawyer, fighter, or garbage collector should act like this on the job. Seriously, the guys that pick up our trash would be subject to serious disciplinary action if they acted like Junie on the job.
by cmsove on Nov 29, 2009 8:49 AM EST reply actions 1 recs
what do you have against Garbage collectors?
And realistically there is a big difference when you are looking at the entertainment industry. Not that I support his antics but to compare this to a lawyer – swearing at the jury?, or a garbage collector – telling a resident to seperate their garbage into suck and fuck? is pretty ridiculous.
by Beyondadrenalin on Nov 29, 2009 9:01 AM EST up reply actions
also try sitting at the end of your driveway and booing your garbageman, see what kinds of things they have to say in return.
by Beyondadrenalin on Nov 29, 2009 9:03 AM EST up reply actions
SO that’s why he’s been throwing my trash all over my lawn lately.
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by dedstrk316 on Nov 29, 2009 9:14 AM EST up reply actions 2 recs
“I try to come out here and put on a show. If you don’t like it, then f**k ya’ll!”…?
Doubt it though.
When I was a kid a garbage man (I doubt that’s the correct word but my English only goes so far) that used to work in our neighborhood offered me a toy during his round, I didn’t even know the dude. I woulds NEVER boo a garbage man!
10/24
So he offered a toy to a kid that didn't know him?
Ever think there MAY have been an ulterior motive there?
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by MonkeyCHops on Nov 29, 2009 11:52 AM EST up reply actions
I was there covering the fight. I did a live broadcast from there pre fight and interviewed Junie.
Then after the fight I got to spend some time with him. What he did post fight was based on the boos that he was receiving and some of the very foul things people in the audience were yelling at him. He said if they boo then he will give them something to boo.
He was actually a very nice guy and quite down to earth. It seemed to me he is embracing the bad boy status in order to sell fights and to keep himself in the spotlight so he can get back to a larger organization.
All in all it was an amazing night of fights put on by a great promoter.
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by Stay Down on Nov 29, 2009 9:02 AM EST reply actions 4 recs
BUT
Ok it’s disrespectful blablah…isn’t that against the rules of the commission? Can you behave that way without punishement?
Not long ago didn’t a boxer (I don’t remember who I don’t follow boxing) got suspend for saying fuck a few times at the post fight interview right?
10/24
the Indiana commission
won’t be in charge of MMA fights until Dec 1. The promoter deliberately booked Junie for an unsanctioned fight.
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He was suspended by the WBC, which really doesn’t have the authority to suspend fighters.
It would be the equivalent of WAMMA suspending a fighter, it means nothing. It was a joke in boxing, it would be a joke if he was suspended for cursing.
But this is the same kid who has said repeatedly that he doesn’t really know how to deal with the attention he receives and that’s what leads to some of his totally effed up behaviour…
Embracing an image is fine if you can seperate the two, but he doesn’t seem like he can.
Really – what difference does it make what a bunch of people in the audience are screaming at you? Have the class and professionalism to ignore them and demonstrate that you have overcome some of the immature issues you’ve said you need to work on.
Doing what he did only increases the attention and confirms that he’s childish and unprofessional…
Showing the very nice guy that is quite down to earth and professional will get him back into a larger organization faster that telling the ladies in the audience that he wants two lines…
Still An Arrogant Blowhard!
by E. Spencer Kyte on Nov 29, 2009 1:47 PM EST up reply actions
My idea
For a new reality show. It’s called Junie and Jon. Put those two in a house together in Vegas and lets see what kind of trouble they get in together.
"I will do nothing lightly. When I walk, I will walk heavily. When I fight, I will fight with conviction. When I speak, I will speak strongly. When I love, I will love with everything"
LOL at trying to portray scumbags like Junie & War Machine as some kind of outgrowth of TUF.
MMA and combat sports in general have always had their fair share of scumbags and malcontents. Last I checked, Tank Abbott was never on TUF. Neither was Justin Levens. Or Bobby Hoffman. Or Ricco Rodriguez. Or Melvin Costa.
The scumbags you see on TUF are merely a reflection of the wider MMA scene as a whole. The fact of the matter is, no matter how much we like to pretend MMA is all rainbows and sunshine, there is a seedy underbelly to sport that attracts nutcases like Junie and War Machine.
Would it be nice if they completely sanitized TUF and kept the riff raff off the show? Sure. But it would make the show even less reality based than it already is.
unlike
Tank, Ricco, Hoffman, who (for however brief a time) all had the ability to fight at the highest levels of the sport at the time, Junie and War Machine are strictly second tier talents who were given massive exposure via TUF. Without TUF, Junie would be fighting in Indiana and getting no national press.
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Right...
and lets not pretend that fighters are chosen for TUF based purely on skill. If you take two fighters, one is slightly better but with no personality, the other is slightly worse but you KNOW you’re going to get good TV out of him…guess which guy makes the cut?
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by Brent Brookhouse on Nov 29, 2009 9:56 AM EST up reply actions
I think that’s an oversimplification.
As I understand the TUF casting process, the UFC has a certain number of slots that they get pick without interference from the network or the producers. I believe those guys are picked on merit. Then, SpikeTV and Pilgrim get to make their choices and those guys are picked almost exclusively based on their perceived entertainment value outside the cage.
Regardless, I agree that both Junie and War Machine were picked for their entertainment value rather than their actual skills.
He does this so he ends up as a main topic of discussion… like he is now. He is at the top of the page to one of the biggest MMA blogs.
he’s hustlin lol
by dbcb on Nov 29, 2009 9:44 AM EST reply actions 1 recs
I will call him
MINI BROCK.
Just gotta get that chest tattoo taken care of.
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Aww, Junie won his very own tiara and bukkake cup.
by MMAInFeRioRiTy on Nov 29, 2009 12:16 PM EST reply actions
Between Junie and War Machine, The Ultimate Fighter is certainly bringing MMA an excellent set of representatives.
So out of about 160 TUFers, 2 have turned out to be dickheads. That show is an assembly line for bad representatives.
Keep firing Assholes!
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by Ubernoober on Nov 29, 2009 12:24 PM EST reply actions 2 recs
I wouldn’t read too much into it. Kid Nate has fallen into a pattern where he often concludes his posts with a snarky anti-UFC line.
by Jahbulon on Nov 29, 2009 12:42 PM EST up reply actions 3 recs
“Anti-UFC” isn’t even a coherent concept, much less anything used by anyone on staff. If you’re talking about the loose and oversimplified idea that offering even regular criticism is tantamount to taking an ideological stance against Zuffa, that’s someone else’s cross to bear. But this isn’t The Weekly Standard nor Mother Jones. I nor Nate nor anyone else on staff has such a clear and pointed worldview that is anything even bordering on “anti-UFC”.
There is no anti-UFC paradigm in place, so please stop referring to this imaginary ideological flag post. Nate’s posts or statements are no more anti-UFC than they are anti-gravity or anti-cap and trade. If he dislikes what Zuffa does, he’ll say so, but it doesn’t stem from a larger worldview dedicated to the undercutting of Zuffa.
by Luke Thomas on Nov 29, 2009 3:23 PM EST up reply actions 5 recs
Uh, I can see why the words “anti-UFC” set you off, but you’re reading too much into my post. I was attempting to criticizing form, not substance. My intent was to merely point out that Kid Nate has developed a habit of ending his posts with snarky lines. For example, he ended his previous post with:
Of course if they were interested in fighters deserving title shots rather than being marketable draws on a PPV headliner, they’d have booked Nate Marquardt’s for a rematch with Anderson Silva by now anyhow.
Personally, as a huge Kid Nate fan (judo chop is pretty much the greatest continuing MMA column), I think it’s melodramatic and detracts from the quality of his work.
I know I bust your chops a lot, but I don’t do it because I think you’re bad or unethical, I do it because I think you’re great and it seems like you give criticism fair consideration.
by Jahbulon on Nov 29, 2009 5:22 PM EST up reply actions 4 recs
thanks for the feedback
I throw those lines out there as conversation starters. When I stick to a “just the facts ma’am” mode the comments get pretty quiet.
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just my thought as well
though i’d maybe throw Leben onto that pile. There were a lot more dickheads, but only 2 or 3 legitimate head cases, and many many more good reps than bad.
love it.
I can’t claim to have watched the fight, but if Junie was in there with a TKD fighter and nearly gogo’d him (strong evidence this was just some random dude), I fully support him being a jackass about it.
This doesn’t embarrass ‘the sport of MMA @ large’ any more than fight promotions with untrained fighters in them anyway, and this is WAY more interesting than the concept of ‘humble Junie’s road to redemption’ — barnstorming his way through backwater fight shows (some of which may actually be in barns) and saying / doing whatever he feels like in the process is the best for Junie marketing-wise, and I don’t begrudge him the spotlight time it grants him, as it honestly makes for sort of a funny story.
Yep…Junie and War Machine are absolutely horrible for the sport…….so lets keep covering their every miniscule move in detail!!!!!!! Because that doesn’t contribute to their behavior at all….no way.
And by the way, the Ultimate Fighter has introduced some excellent ambassadors for MMA: Griffin, Bonnar, Evans, Bisping, Sanchez, Florian, Swick, ect ect…. But no, lets just keep covering idiots like Junie and War Machine and pretend that the Ultimate Fighter has produced nothing but trash.
There is a responsibility and obligation to cover the stories that are making news and Junie Browning is making news.
This isn’t about covering every miniscule move in gross detail; it’s about reporting the events of last night in relation to previous posts discussing Browning and his return to the ring.
Whether it contributes to their behaviour or not doesn’t factor; do you really believe that both Browning and War Machine would stop being attention-seeking souls if no one was watching? Personally, i think they would amp things up a little more to bring the attention back around…
And honestly, there have been so many more articles and post covering and praising the ambassadors you speak of then dealing with the drama queens that your last comment is utterly laughable.
Still An Arrogant Blowhard!
by E. Spencer Kyte on Nov 29, 2009 4:42 PM EST up reply actions
I find it interesting that no sooner than you post this that I see another article up on “War Machine’s” latest antics.
the thing is without TUF
neither of these guys would have 1/100th of the exposure that they have now.
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"Between Junie and War Machine, The Ultimate Fighter is certainly bringing MMA an excellent set of representatives."
That’s a bit of a cheap shot. You’re talking two nutjobs out of, what, going on about 200 fighters over the course of the show? 1 out of 100 looking bad for the sport actually holds up better than most groups of pro athletes. How many NFL, NBA, etc. types get in trouble?
guys have been playing the heel for ages in wrestling and other persona-driven sports. Frank Mir says all kinds of stuff leading up to fights…nothing like this, my point tho’ is that fans to some degree expect it from at least a percentage of fighters. and like war machine, he does this for attention. if there was ever a case of someone being attention starved and being outrageous at least in part to say visible/therefore get more money, Junie epitomizes it. this isn’t table tennis. this isn’t Kasparov/chess. It’s men fighting in a cage. let him be over the top and offensive. comedians to wrestlers to dennis rodman have all done it. Agassi admitted to using CRYSTAL METH….did it tarnish all of tennis? No. It’s men fighting in a cage.
Reminds me of my last fight, at the rules meeting the commission guy said something about the complaints regarding lyrics for the music being played in the expo center because of children in attendance…and Keith Bell goes, “Um…they’re not concerned about the guys that are going to be hitting each other in the face?”
It’s men fighting in a cage. And i have to wonder if he had his post-victory fight speech all planned out or if that was off the cuff. Ah, the mysteries of life.
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by theworldsoldestsport on Nov 29, 2009 9:53 PM EST reply actions
How can you blame a guy for wanting to keep his sucking and F@cking in seperate lines?
How is Junie supposed to know what he is supposed to do for the “fan” if they don’t get in proper lines?
Just kidding (that joke is probably going to get this deleted), but seriously, did he finish with a triangle from the top? Just wondering.
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