Quote of the Day: Dana White on the Weather in Abu Dhabi "Right Now There's No Plan B"
by Nick Thomas on Apr 6, 2010 1:29 PM EDT
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"If it starts raining and the wind starts blowing ... right now there's no Plan B."
"The high possibility of rain happening…it's not gonna happen," White said. "It's not gonna rain there; we know it's not gonna happen. It would have to be crazy for it to rain in Abu Dhabi."
"Wind could be a factor. It's very dusty and sandy there. I'm worried about the wind."
-- Dana White says he has minimal concerns about the weather, but does believe the wind might be an issue.
Here's the weather forecast for Saturday night:
HT: sportsnet.ca, photo by bert671
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DO YOU WANT TO BE A FUCKING FORECASTER?
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by Tim Burke on Apr 6, 2010 1:38 PM EDT up reply actions 9 recs
I called ms Cleo
She said Anderson gets hit by a lighting bolt which increases his size and quickness and grants him electric shock punches.
electric shock punches.
Like Sho-Nuff, the Shogun of Harlem?!?
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The Packers, that’s who.
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Ask Bruce Leroy
by doonerthesooner on Apr 6, 2010 2:23 PM EDT up reply actions
I'll see if Rogan can ask him
After the Maia fight.
by asa on Apr 6, 2010 2:49 PM EDT up reply actions
I can't believe there isn't a 10,000+ seat arena in Abu Dhabi
Maybe there isn’t. I don’t care to google it.
I don’t see the point of holding MMA outdoors. The last thing we need is controversy about sand being in someone’s eyes or some shit.
In my best Curly from the 3 stooges voice “meh, here’s sand in your eye….nyuk, nyuk!”
by Norm78 on Apr 6, 2010 1:34 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
I love the Three Stooges, and I'm fuckin 20 years old
We're just a million little gods causin' rain storms, turning every good thing to rust.
I’ve been saying all along that they should have let Wandy fight on this card. “Sandstorm” during a sandstorm would be pretty sweet.
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by Tim Burke on Apr 6, 2010 1:39 PM EDT reply actions 6 recs
Dana actually hired UFC Iran President Dehghani Sheeva to secretly build a second, fully enclosed arena in the desert. He got the idea from watching Contact on cable.
by smoogy2 on Apr 6, 2010 1:40 PM EDT reply actions 8 recs
And to anyone who doesn't believe UFC Iran is real...
If they weren’t real, would they have their own trading cards???
by smoogy2 on Apr 6, 2010 2:16 PM EDT up reply actions 12 recs
Is this picture for real...
… Or do all of these guys have various forms of mustaches? :-/
Semper Fi
by ChicagoMarine on Apr 6, 2010 4:19 PM EDT up reply actions
Where do they have ADCC?
Why didn’t they just hold it over there? Rain would make for some epic stories and pictures that will be talked about years from now.
first off, ADCC isn’t even always in Abu Dhabi anymore, it moves around.
secondly, pretty sure ADCC isn’t in big arenas, certainly not close to 18,000 big, considering the amount of people who are big enough fans of pure grappling to go to the event is at most half of MMA fans
agreed
yup, gotta figure with all that crazy construction over there that they would’ve already had some sort of arena capable of hosting a UFC event. somebody (Dana? Sheik Tahnoon, more likely?) must have wanted it outside or really wanted it at this Ferrari World thing. regardless, all these pics just give me the overriding feeling that everything over there is just a fancy facade on a piece of crap. although i could be wrong, considering the Mythbusters did bust the idiom that ‘you can’t polish a poop’
Diff forcast weather.com
Saturday 10
Mostly Cloudy
Mostly Cloudy High
90°F
Low
71°F
Precip: 0%
Wind: NW
at 12 mph
UV Index: 9 Very High
Humidity: 38%
Sunrise: 6:06 AM
Sunset: 6:42 PM
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details details
More clouds than sun. Highs in the low 90s and lows in the low 70s.
Some people think I am a dumb, ugly human being, but really I am a beautiful ape, with exceptional verbal skills.
From accuweather.com
Sat Apr 10 Considerable cloudiness
High: 30C RealFeel®: 31C
Winds: N 16 kph Gusts: 26 kph
Rain: 0 mm
Snow: 0 mm
Ice: 0 mm
UV Index: Very High
by sadface on Apr 6, 2010 1:56 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
I wouldn't mind watching fights in the rain
but unfortunately there are TWO title fights… only meaningless freak show fights are awesome in crappy weather.
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kimbo vs toney during the next hurricane in whatever bahama island gets hit the hardest
id pay to see that fight
anyone see those king of the cage fights that got rained on??
not sure which one it was buts its in one of my box sets.. Started raining halfway through an guys are tryin to throw high kicks an fallin on there arses.. If KOTC can survive rain, so can the UFC… Plus, just think of how epic it would be when the spider of bj walks out a huge crack of thunders roars to there entrance music.. Im down
have u ever even been in a fight??
by MMAJUNKIE__83 on Apr 6, 2010 2:00 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Yeah I have to admit that I’d love it if they had to fight through a storm. Anderson knocks out Maia and let’s out a victory scream while lightning flashes and sheets of rain are strafing the Octagon. Epic indeed.
by Kwisatz Haderach on Apr 7, 2010 12:31 AM EDT up reply actions
That’s what they get for calling it “Invincible”.
by Polyhedron on Apr 6, 2010 1:50 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
Sorry Dana, you may be able to boss around your fighters and organization, the same doesn't work for the weather.
Rain in dubai is so insignificant that Dana can ignore it. The wind/sand issue, though, is a much more real problem. Big gamble on the UFCs part unless the seating area they are building has wind baffles along the perimeter and sticking up higher than any other surrounding structure.
Is it bad
that I this card didn’t really excite me that much because its on tape delay, but If i start reading play by plays that say that its raining over there I am buying this card for sure
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by Jordan Whitaker Friesen on Apr 6, 2010 1:56 PM EDT reply actions
i think you guys are mistaken, It’s going to be 9 or 10am Abu Dhabi time and LIVE at standard PPV time here in the US. 7P 10E
No it's not.
They’ve said time and time again the card will air live at 1 PM ET/10 AM PT. Go look at their poster.
Why would they make them fight at 9 in the morning? They’ve never done that.
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I think it’s obvious why they would do that. So it will be live at standard times here in the US. They deviated form the once and it was a total flop.
Dude, every single UK PPV is on at noon here. They’ve never deviated from that once. Bud, you’re wrong here.
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OK fine you were right, 112 is at 10 am P 1pm E. but I think the last UK UFC’s weren’t PPV. They just made it free at a delayed time.
It was live in Canada at 12 PM.
The only time the UFC has aired at the 7 PM timeslot live for a foreign card was 110 and in this situation it was their Sunday afternoon.
Sig bet record: 1-0.
Great, now I’m confused as to when I can watch the damn show.
What time will it be on for the East Coast?
"A champion is someone who gets up when he can't." - Jack Dempsey
Courtesy of UFC twitter:
We’re only going to say this one time – you CAN watch UFC 112 live on PPV at 1 pm ET/10 am PT; replay is at normal time 10 pm ET/7 pm PT.
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by pdl on Apr 6, 2010 3:03 PM EDT up reply actions 3 recs
ok, that’s what I thought; but all this going around in a circle about it had me in doubt
"A champion is someone who gets up when he can't." - Jack Dempsey
It’s not going around in a circle, there’s just one guy who doesn’t know what he’s talking about trying to confuse everyone.
by ufc4 on Apr 6, 2010 5:35 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Calling it now: Maia defeats Silva rnd 1, via sandstorm.
“UNBELIEVABLE NEW CHOKE FROM THE RUBBER GUARD by Maia, I’m gonna start drilling this one immediately!! … Maia named it the mummy choke!” – Eddie Bravo
I don't want to lick any butt. - GSP
by pud333 on Apr 6, 2010 1:56 PM EDT reply actions 12 recs
Strikeforce appears to have caught Dana in a bad situation by manipulating the weather to suck on fight night.
But, because they’re Strikeforce, they botch their evil plan and the sun shines throughout the day.
Sig bet record: 1-0.
M-1 signs the Sorcerer Rasputin, finally pulling their co-promotional weight
by LBo on Apr 6, 2010 2:09 PM EDT up reply actions
I heard Dana is paying Cobra Commander a significant amount of money to borrow Cobra’s weather dominator. For compensation, Cobra will be the new lead announcer and Mike Goldberg will be thrown into a pit of Cobras.
Does Agent Smith’s robo-puncher style remind anyone else of Nate Quarry?
by LBo on Apr 6, 2010 2:32 PM EDT up reply actions
Reminds me of chuck tee-ing off against Tito
Massive hip pivots and all.
by asa on Apr 6, 2010 2:55 PM EDT up reply actions
Oh, no... I hope the fights don't suck as much as this.
We're just a million little gods causin' rain storms, turning every good thing to rust.
by Anthony Pace on Apr 6, 2010 6:06 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
I was thinking more of KO by sandstorm blown desert creature
by who me on Apr 6, 2010 2:50 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
“It looks like Penn has a small mouse under his eye…”
by Verklemptomaniac on Apr 6, 2010 3:11 PM EDT up reply actions 20 recs
That is amazing.
"Well, yes, but I’m afraid I prematurely shot my wad on what was supposed to be a dry run, if you will, so now I’m afraid I have something of a mess on my hands." - Tobias Fünke
"There are just so many poorly chosen words in that sentence." - Michael Bluth
One of my favorite lines from the best TV show ever.
What kind of thunderstorm only brings 2.51mm of water? I don’t think that even if it does rain 2.5mm will be much of a problem.
From the UG:
Imagine Wand coming down to Sandstorm and an actual sandstorm started. That would be badass.
I posted that up there! The UG is stealing my lines!
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by Tim Burke on Apr 6, 2010 3:23 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
by up there
I mean earlier on in the comment section here. Never posted on the UG.
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I call BS. Dana is either unaware or feels like spinning a yarn because I can’t see anyone organising an event this big and not take weather into any kind of consideration.
If they really haven’t thought anything about the possibility of rain, then they need to fire whoever should have thought of that. Oh yeah, and while you’re at it, fire Dana and get a frontman who can actually speak a full sentence without blowing his top and dropping a palletload of f-bombs.
by Monday Morning Martial Artist on Apr 6, 2010 3:37 PM EDT reply actions
I'll take Tina Turner by TKO (crazy)
We're just a million little gods causin' rain storms, turning every good thing to rust.
Fighting in the rain.. freaking awesome… just put some fires in the background and you have the setting for the best Jet Li kung fu movies.
Just hoping no one plays "Ghost Riders in the Sky" as they're entrance song
We're just a million little gods causin' rain storms, turning every good thing to rust.
Fucking Kid Nate, making it fucking rain in the fucking desert the fucking day of a fucking outdoor fight card, your hatred of the UFC knows no bounds.
Blackout is always right
by Ubernoober on Apr 6, 2010 7:51 PM EDT reply actions 2 recs
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