UFC 118 Quote of the Day: Dana White: "We Won't Be Doing Any More Boxing" in the UFC
by Kid Nate on Aug 29, 2010 10:41 AM EDT
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"It's unfair to bring a guy in with one discipline, no matter if he's trained for eight or nine months. I wasn't the guy going out there and trying to badmouth boxing and take boxing down and hurt the sport of boxing. James Toney picked a fight, and he got one.
"I don't see [other boxers] ever doing that, coming out and whatever. James Toney is the guy that's crazy enough to come out and do this. He picked a fight, he got one, and we won't be doing any more boxing."
Dana White post UFC 118 via MMA Junkie
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What’s stronger than “cut”?
Ejected?
Expelled?
FIRED. Got it.
"I'm AJB and I endorse this nut-puncher."
by AJB on Aug 29, 2010 11:00 AM EDT up reply actions 4 recs
Did Toney even sign multiple-fight deal in the first place? I always assumed it was a one-and-done thing. And if that was the case, Toney wasn’t cut or fired or anything, he just won’t be getting another shot.
by judonerd on Aug 29, 2010 12:49 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
i think he should actually stick around
toney vs pat barry interests me a ton
We have a saying back home that if your coming on, COME ON!!!!
Toney needs to suck it up and take 100k
Then we can see him get his legs broken.
"I trained with Steven Seagal."
by B.H. Farnsworth on Aug 29, 2010 2:32 PM EDT up reply actions
After Toneys performance last nite, he should be cut.
Dana White wanted to make a statement and he did last nite.
From the moment they signed him to fight Randy Couture it was pretty obvious they were just trying to clown the guy out and get him to go away so he would stop following Dana White around. They made a lot of money off each other(which was probably Toney’s goal to start with) but it was pretty obvious that James Toney had no future in MMA from the very start of this.
call it morbid interest
What are the chances of seeing James Toney in Japan?
by troy_doney on Aug 29, 2010 11:10 AM EDT via mobile reply actions 1 recs
if there is money to be made
He’d go. Toney made $1 million bucks last night. He wasn’t going to come close to making that in boxing, and even though Vitali has been going up against weak competition, I doubt he can make near that now.
by sillycaboose on Aug 29, 2010 11:16 AM EDT up reply actions
Ugliest fight since UFC 1
Boxers have learned nothing
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A wise man told me don't argue with fools
Cause people from a distance can't tell who is who -- Jay-Z
Boxers don’t need to learn anything. That’s why they’re called Boxers.
Toney was always going to be out of his element. Everyone knew that.
by cyke on Aug 29, 2010 12:12 PM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
IDK, those last 4 min were interesting
by Krimson on Aug 29, 2010 11:16 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Yep. Pretty interesting
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by Tonley on Aug 29, 2010 1:28 PM EDT up reply actions 8 recs
Dan Miragliotta officiated that fucking mess? Of course.
Starnes should have had 2 points left by the end of that farce.
Id like to see Kermit Cintron give MMA a try
he’s talked about it in the past and at least was an accomplished wrestler in high school.
Dana's been ducking Kermit
wants no part of it.
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by Kid Nate on Aug 29, 2010 11:25 AM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
I guess you could say
Dana’s not feeling froggy.
/sunglasses
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Cause people from a distance can't tell who is who -- Jay-Z
by thetakeover on Aug 29, 2010 11:33 AM EDT up reply actions 3 recs
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by IRodC on Aug 29, 2010 12:00 PM EDT up reply actions 3 recs
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by Cory Braiterman on Aug 29, 2010 2:18 PM EDT up reply actions
I remember Kermit countering when Dana called out PBF
Sherk vs Cintron would have been interesting.
by sillycaboose on Aug 29, 2010 11:35 AM EDT up reply actions
No more boxing in UFC?
Okay sure. If (somehow, since it’ll never happen, but somehow) PacMan or PBF wanted in on it, Dana would throw any amount of money at them to fight someone legit. Speaking of that, who would succeed more in MMA: PacMan or PBF?
Pacman
Floyd’s a real scientist in his boxing, and would have no hope of transitioning.
"All the time he's boxing, he's thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him." - Jack Dempsey
by Drunken cutman on Aug 29, 2010 6:44 PM EDT up reply actions
Was Toney ever signed to a long term deal?
Or was this just a one fight deal?
"Dodger fans aren’t happy when foul balls get into their section, because it interferes with their playing with the beachball"- Mike Krukow
“It’s unfair to bring a guy in with one discipline, no matter if he’s trained for eight or nine months.”
I thought that one-dimensional wrestlers and BJJ practitioners get into MMA and the UFC a good amount of times.
Boxing is highly specialized and has few counters for the other martial arts. Wrestling and Jiu-jitsu counter strikers by putting them on their butt. Boxing pretty much has the one counter of hitting the grappler while they shoot. At least Muay Thai can throw knees and kicks in there to counter shots and keep some distance.
naw
dude with great muay thai and no ground skills gets eaten alive as well
the following two things are signs of weaknesses:
stay silent when it's needed to speak up, and speak up when it's needed to stay silent.
as far as I know, none of those guys made their MMA debuts in the UFC.
Ishii was close though.
by Anton Tabuena on Aug 30, 2010 11:59 AM EDT up reply actions
No more Boxers in the UFC
Pro Boxing has nothing to offer the UFC so it makes no sense to put on these fights.
by TERRENCEFROMSOUTHEAST on Aug 29, 2010 1:14 PM EDT reply actions
This whole thing was disgusting
and nothing more than masturbation for Dana and some MMA fans.
/sarcasm
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by Thats It For you! on Aug 29, 2010 5:06 PM EDT up reply actions
i wouldn't rule out any boxer coming to the UFC
If a younger guy who is in shape trains in MMA for around a year or so why shouldn’t he be given a fight in the UFC?
I’m not saying give him a title shot or a fight with Couture but start him off the same way you would a guy who has been training BBJ all his like and is inexperienced in the stand-up ala Damain Maia when he started.
So like Marcus Davis or Chris Lytle? Both those guys also trained in different martial arts before and during their boxing careers. Even the basic stance has to be changed from boxing to MMA, it’s not something you can pick up in a year of training. Now if a boxer has a history of training other sports to build off of (trained different martial arts when younger, wrestled in high school/college) then it’s more of a possibility. Boxers who are successful in their boxing career aren’t going to want to try MMA until their boxing careers are pretty much over anyway for the most part (James Toney, Ray Mercer) but boxers who aren’t good enough to go to that next level in boxing (Marcus Davis, Chris Lytle) sometimes do make the cross over to MMA already. It’s two different situations.
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