Today on MMA Nation on 106.7 The Fan: Malki Kawa, UFC - WEC Merger and Strikeforce vs. Bellator Talk
by Luke Thomas on Oct 31, 2010 8:59 PM EDT
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Today on "MMA Nation" we'll catch up with MMA agent Malki Kawa. We'll talk to Kawa about his background in sports agency, whether he'd set up a fight between clients, how the UFC - WEC merger affects his business and more.
We'll also cover every angle of the announced UFC - WEC merger:
- What will this do to the featherweight division? How many UFC lightweights will drop?
- Can the "little guys" headline UFC pay-per-views right away?
- What does this mean for any potential Comcast-NBC merger? Is this the UFC's backdoor?
We'll also discuss what options Strikeforce has now that the beggars who can't be choosers in Bellator are knocking at their door.
And, as a bonus, I will doing my show in costume as this year's character: Epic Beard Man from YouTube.
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Hmmm
Didnt that one guy named Matt from Jersey just move to Austin?
Did he also just write an article asking if the WEC was a success?
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by Matthew Roth on Oct 31, 2010 9:27 PM EDT up reply actions
Thats whats up
Good questions bra
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Tried helping Luke out since the rest of everyone is trickertreating.
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by Matthew Roth on Oct 31, 2010 9:30 PM EDT up reply actions
If I had kids idk if I'd let them stop by your place to get candy
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Oh so you think your betternme?
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by Matthew Roth on Oct 31, 2010 9:35 PM EDT up reply actions
Never
Your not that dude handing out apples are you?
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I'm the dude stealing reece's peanut butter cups.
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by Matthew Roth on Oct 31, 2010 9:41 PM EDT up reply actions
Ill knock out stacks of those at a time
I’m talkin instant diabetes size stacks
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Yeah...I used to get so mad at the small cups
FUCK GIMME THE REGULAR ONES!!! OMNOMONOM
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by Matthew Roth on Oct 31, 2010 9:56 PM EDT up reply actions
Your not playin man
What the hells the point of the little ones
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by II SMASH II on Oct 31, 2010 10:02 PM EDT up reply actions
This guy is absolutely wrong regarding lighterweights not being a draw…
If Urijah can hold a belt he’d be as big or bigger draw than GSP.
When you look at buys...HW/LHW have bigger numbers than WW and LW
Consistently. American fans have never bought into the small guys.
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by Matthew Roth on Oct 31, 2010 9:29 PM EDT up reply actions
That’s true but that’s a draw versus a bigger draw.
There’s a big difference between that and saying draw vs non draw.
The point I made in my initial post is that they needed these 4 years to sell people on smaller fighters.
At this point will Faber and Torres and Aldo have fans? Sure. But if they just merged the WEC immediately, they wouldn’t have succeeded.
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by Matthew Roth on Oct 31, 2010 9:32 PM EDT up reply actions
Sorry Im late!
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by Earl Montclair on Oct 31, 2010 9:41 PM EDT reply actions 2 recs
Plastic Man FTMFW!
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better. -Samuel Beckett
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by Scott C. Broussard on Oct 31, 2010 9:43 PM EDT up reply actions
Really????
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by Chris Barton on Oct 31, 2010 11:35 PM EDT up reply actions
Dibs on Kyle Rayner.
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by Matthew Roth on Oct 31, 2010 9:45 PM EDT up reply actions
You're welcome for the topic Luke ;)
Another one is who should Zuffa go after from Dream and SRC’s FW and BW divisions
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is the current caller talking about Faber moving up to 155 so we can see wec vs UFC… does he post here?
I generally let things slide like that on the radio. Much less lenient on the interwebs about crazy things.
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Luke opened up but said he won't probably talk SF/Bellator since they are so small
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by Matthew Roth on Oct 31, 2010 9:47 PM EDT up reply actions
it’s very stupid. It makes absolute no sense for strikeforce to do it… but that’s not my beef with coker.
My beef is that he wont admit it, and instead runs around lying. There’s a reason he wont admit it. Because he has a bunch of morons on his nuts who are true believers and they have a world view of co-promotion (josh gross, loretta hunt, etc…) and he doesnt want to upset his “base”
Aoki fighting in Strikeforce wasnt even a co promotion… it was a fighter loan. and the only reason that happened was because dream is on it’s death bed and strikeforce has options to all those fighters anyway.
Coker needs to admit the truth and that is co-promotion with bellator makes no business sense for him..
I wouldn't expect an agent to be as open as Kawa is about financials
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I wonder how much Brock Lesnar gets for sponsorships. I wonder what Malki guesses it would be
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His Scent Killer ad is in literally EVERY firearms and hunting related magazine you will find on the shelf.
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is that the stuff that makes you smell like animal pee or it makes you smell like nothing or what is it exactly. sorry for my ignorance but i have never shot a gun in my life
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by Earl Montclair on Oct 31, 2010 9:59 PM EDT up reply actions
His stuff is what makes you smell like nothing, supposedly. I don’t believe in the stuff, but a lot of people do.
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by Brian Mayes on Oct 31, 2010 10:00 PM EDT up reply actions
It smells like Vikings fucked Vikings for thousands of years.
The deer get scared and run away. It’s counterproductive.
by Brent Ducharme on Oct 31, 2010 10:04 PM EDT up reply actions
Whatever you say Rogan. ;~)
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by Brian Mayes on Oct 31, 2010 10:05 PM EDT up reply actions
He’s doing well with sponsorships but he could making alot more and that’s why he’s toned himself down.
Yeah, getting sick and almost dieing had nothing to do with it.
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by Brian Mayes on Oct 31, 2010 10:02 PM EDT up reply actions
I got on the radio kinda woohoo!
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by Earl Montclair on Oct 31, 2010 10:01 PM EDT up reply actions
odd reply fail
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by Earl Montclair on Oct 31, 2010 10:01 PM EDT up reply actions
I came in just in time to catch it.
Congratulations.
by Brent Ducharme on Oct 31, 2010 10:02 PM EDT up reply actions
I avoided it like the plague
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by II SMASH II on Oct 31, 2010 10:03 PM EDT up reply actions
This guy is a champ
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by Earl Montclair on Oct 31, 2010 10:06 PM EDT reply actions
Luke, I gotta bail
Walking Dead starts and that’s gonna be amazing.
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What a pussy! (grin)
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by Brian Mayes on Oct 31, 2010 10:07 PM EDT up reply actions
Oh like you aren't gonna watch it
I gotta wake up at 6am. So it’s this show and then I’m out.
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by Matthew Roth on Oct 31, 2010 10:07 PM EDT up reply actions
I have no clue what Walking Dead is. So no, I won’t be watching it.
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by Brian Mayes on Oct 31, 2010 10:08 PM EDT up reply actions
Turn on AMC...it's amazing.
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by Matthew Roth on Oct 31, 2010 10:19 PM EDT up reply actions
TV holds almost zero interest for me.
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by Brian Mayes on Oct 31, 2010 10:21 PM EDT up reply actions
Welcome to every Malki Kawa interview ever.
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by Brian Mayes on Oct 31, 2010 10:07 PM EDT up reply actions
A random thought
But i wonder if Woodley and Askren would ever fight each other.
by Brent Ducharme on Oct 31, 2010 10:11 PM EDT reply actions
Pretty sure they are home boys, so I somewhat doubt it.
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by Brian Mayes on Oct 31, 2010 10:13 PM EDT up reply actions
Hahahaha niiiiiiice
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A motherfucker? I just thought you were Santa
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by Earl Montclair on Oct 31, 2010 10:13 PM EDT reply actions
That Bellator New Orleans debacle is still funny.
If Derek Jeter clubbed a baby seal on earth day while wearing a mink coat and crocodile skin boots while burning tires on an iceberg, the reaction would be "Its OK Derek, you’re a Yankee." -First mammal to wear pants
Maybe...
Rebney picked up on Coker’s Oreo cookie tell.
by Brent Ducharme on Oct 31, 2010 10:27 PM EDT reply actions
Well, there goes my call. I was going to ask what Luke’s favorite Ben & Jerry’s flavor is.
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HAY! IF THE MOON WAS MADE OF BARBECUE RIBS, WOULD YA EAT IT?
by Brent Ducharme on Oct 31, 2010 10:34 PM EDT up reply actions
DAMN STRAIGHT I WOULD!
If Derek Jeter clubbed a baby seal on earth day while wearing a mink coat and crocodile skin boots while burning tires on an iceberg, the reaction would be "Its OK Derek, you’re a Yankee." -First mammal to wear pants
“If you were a hotdog, and you were starving, would you eat yourself? I know I would.”
Hey UFC4 go fuck yourself, how about that? Fucking punk, I was just asking for the source that says lesnar gets 5 mill a fight, it’s obvious one does not exist. Bunch of gabronis on a site pulling figures out of your ass.
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You should, it’s good times.
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by Brian Mayes on Oct 31, 2010 10:40 PM EDT up reply actions
vituperous
Had to look that one up.
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Rage Against the Machine
More please
If Derek Jeter clubbed a baby seal on earth day while wearing a mink coat and crocodile skin boots while burning tires on an iceberg, the reaction would be "Its OK Derek, you’re a Yankee." -First mammal to wear pants
Woo hoo! Luke closes the show with my uber-important question.
Hey UFC4 go fuck yourself, how about that? Fucking punk, I was just asking for the source that says lesnar gets 5 mill a fight, it’s obvious one does not exist. Bunch of gabronis on a site pulling figures out of your ass.
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