B.J. Penn and Yoshihiro Akiyama at the Zuffa fighter summit in Vegas; photo via Akiyama's blog, which also has this screenshot from the summit:
"ANNOUNCING FIGHTERS & FIGHTS
- UFC/Dana officially announces a fighter/fight
- Planning/strategy goes into announcing a fight
- Please keep fight confidential until UFC announces you or your fight"
Akiyama said the summit lasted 12 hours with breaks for lunch and dinner, and covered stuff like media relations, steroids, contracts and taxes.
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i have more pics and tweets about the fighter summit in the next tweet tweet. :)
everyone was talking about it.. They tackled steroids and it’s harmful effects, twitter being important for everyone, policies like what you posted, sponsors, etc etc.
they were tweeting like a muff hugger today.
I think joe lauzon tweeted about four hundred times today.
by willydynamite on Nov 3, 2009 11:55 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
why would you want to have a picture standing next to a super model?
so that you can ogle at the sexy model ofcourse!
by Anton Tabuena on Nov 3, 2009 10:40 PM EST up reply actions
PS
akiyama doesn’t look like he’s 2 weightclasses above BJ.. he should really drop to 170 IMO.
by Anton Tabuena on Nov 3, 2009 10:36 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
Yeah, as evidenced by Akiyama’s horrible record as a middleweight.
by ufc4 on Nov 3, 2009 11:32 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
now imagine what his record would've been if he was fighting smaller guys
(granted that he doesn’t have weight cutting issues)
by Anton Tabuena on Nov 3, 2009 11:34 PM EST up reply actions
Even at 170 he would fight bigger fighters, or at least his size.
by dancingChicken on Nov 4, 2009 3:58 AM EST up reply actions
when i said fighting smaller guys,
i meant smaller opponents compared to the MWs he’s usually put up against..
by Anton Tabuena on Nov 4, 2009 4:45 AM EST up reply actions
Dana saying upcoming fights must be confidential until the UFC announces it sounds like he’s pissed about the fighters talking to the blogs and taking away his spotlight.
Doesn’t really matter the reason, he’s the boss and if he says don’t do it then you shouldn’t.
by ufc4 on Nov 3, 2009 11:34 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
ah oh, BJ looks like he’s on the haupia coconut pudding diet again.
by cauliflower_ears on Nov 4, 2009 2:50 AM EST reply actions


























