The Luke Thomas Hate Thread

1. I only wear sneakers made in China. Everyone knows that political prisoners make much better shoes than starving children.

2. We don’t know for sure when Ortiz got knocked out of the show and the fight. I’d also assume Spike has a say on when the info gets released.

3. Much like who makes my shoes, I really don’t care that they said that fight was going to happen, and then they changed the fight a few months in advance of the show. That’s plenty of time for me to unbunch my panties and take the sand out of my vajayjay.

“And as fans, why are you not outraged? …. All I can say is I bet your feet feel really good in those sneakers made by a four-year-old in a Thailand sweatshop”

Cute with the title. I thought we were going to have a club or something :(
Nice to see you agree with what I’m about to say…misleading and lying to people can have it’s place…

Still doesn’t change the point that the people mad about being lied to were the same people that thought Dana wasn’t being kosher to begin with on the subject.

Obviously I wouldn’t want Dana to just outright start lying about everything. But under the circumstances, I can see why he did. (And considering everybody lies about something at some point, I would think we could all at least see that) It’s his credibility in the end and something that if repeated in situations we cannot understand may not hold up again.

Good article though.

Hey man, good post ! Lies beget more lies like absolute power absolutely corrupts. If journalists and fans don’t call him on them they just become more extravagant and belittling. I think where mma journalists lack is having the leverage that a big corporation like ESPN would have if they covered MMA like B.E.

The UFC is on a higher plain than the devoted websites that cover it. There above the law so to speak. So when sherdog or BE or whoever brings up a valid question or criticism about the UFC, Dana can just sweep it away with a one line zinger that is a short cut to thinking when the question has a validity to it that really should be addressed.

Need more articles like Lukes and this one. Good job.

Not to thread jack, but since the alternative for the poor Thai kid is probably prostitution or starvation (or at least something the worker thinks is worse than working at the shop, since he chose to work there), not heading off to Swedish boarding school or a vacation at Palm Beach or something, I do feel ok wearing shoes made by him. I think the sweatshop worker would be very confused and annoyed to find out that people who ostensibly are on his side think the way to help him is to take his job. The only advantage that kid has got is that he works cheap; if you up his pay to amounts acceptable to well off Americans, the factories will go somewhere else and he’ll be screwed.

That’s just me though, thinking things through n stuff.

Luke high fived Nate after every one of the despicable things he did (which we read about in another of your fanposts).

Seriously though, nice article. Kinda sad you went to Mania, as this is my main stop and I’m not in the habit of going there. Plus the posters there have keyboard cooties.

Great article and yes your gypsy magic has worked and I will be checking out this mma4real. Quick question has anyone looked into instances where the media ‘lied’ regarding the UFC, Dana White, etc.?

I like how whatever you write about you somehow make your own life relevant to the situation. Typical writer’s ego. By the way, I’m the greatest.

A little more balanced than some of the main page fare.

A few points on my feelings about this:

I’ve worked in the television industry as a video editor and camera operator for close to 8 years. While it has been some time I used to work on the news for a local station here in southern Ontario and I get the outrage on the part of journalists over this whole “debacle”. What Dana White did was wrong. And there’s no amount of spin by his apologists that can change that.

HOWEVER

I can understand the frustration of the community here at BE over the insane amount of coverage this topic has received. At a certain point the readers of the site, the people who should have some say in driving the mandate of the site, are going to get sick of reading about this. Both Luke and Nate wrote extensive main page articles on the topic that are very similar in tone and content and I just don’t get why it couldn’t have been one article, one discussion, it’s done, it’s over, let’s talk about fights.

I don’t care anymore. Thats all I can muster after all these articles about the samething.

I hate his beard.

it sure as HELL took the attention away from Ando’s dancing and the Glovegate fiasco…

Seriously? I’d say Spike and the NDA’s had a lot to do with this whole situation. No one could say anything other than what had been promoted. And if Dana had tried to dodge the question, it would have been worse. Non-disclosure means STFU, not be clever with how you phrase something. I’m not even sure if it should be broken down into something as black and white as “he shouldn’t have lied”. Probably would have been better to not answer, but that would have been just as frowned upon and speculated about as what he did say. I think this was a no-win for Dana no matter what.

Count me out, there is no way I’m making Luke Thomas jokes. Kid Nate may wield the bannhammer, but Luke mothafuckin Thomas scares me SHITLESS. I can’t even watch the videoblog because of that.

If you mess with him LUKE THOMAS WILL FUCK YOU UP!