Quote of the Day: Paul "Semtex" Daley: "Dana (White) = UFC God"
by Kid Nate on Aug 31, 2010 1:00 AM EDT
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Dana = UFC God. He created his world (ZUFFA UFC) and he rules it with an iron rod..."His world" But not my world, I was still making money, fighting and winning before the UFC and i will carry on doing the same now im not with the UFC.
Haters keep talking about me, doing me the world of good.
Supporters, Thank you.
--Paul "Semtex" Daley posting on the UG.
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Didn't he pretty much shrug Dana off after the whole incident?
"If I woke up looking like that, I would run towards the nearest living thing and kill it." -Master Shake
We have to take the amulet to the banana king!
That was the report.
That Dana tried talking to him and he gave Dana the cold shoulder. So White said fuck you and that was that. Had he been cool about it with Dana this could have been a much different story.
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Stupid ass move on his part
He could be makin like 3 times as much if he just took his loss and came back better.
"If I woke up looking like that, I would run towards the nearest living thing and kill it." -Master Shake
We have to take the amulet to the banana king!
It seems obvious to me that Daley wasn’t in the mood to have a normal conversation.
by judonerd on Aug 31, 2010 2:51 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Fuck Dana
I remember him pulling that shit on TUF 1 with Bobby Southworth. Sometimes people don’t want to hear his bullshit. Bobby hasn’t been seen since.
PS He beat Stephan Bonnar.
/sarcasm
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by S.C. Michaelson on Aug 31, 2010 4:29 AM EDT up reply actions
Sometimes people don’t want to hear his bullshit.
Too fucking bad.
If your boss wants to chew your ass, that is his right as your boss. Daley got treated like any other working class stiff who ignores his boss. Same thing would happen to me if I told my boss I didn’t want to hear his shit.
Paul is a perfect example of a spoiled athlete who is out of touch with reality.
by Steve4192 on Aug 31, 2010 7:29 AM EDT up reply actions 13 recs
He's a perfect example of the sometimes volatile people who hit people for a living
Daley is hardly rich or spoiled by athletic standards. He certainly isn’t equivocal to an NBA or MLB player being a diva with a guaranteed multimillion dollar contract.
What he is, is a guy with a quick fuse, who as the original commenter said probably wasn’t in a mental space to have a rational conversation at that moment. I’m not defending him, or criticizing Dana for doing what he had to do, but I think that as fight fans we should probably understand that many of the guys who hit other guys in the face for a living are wired differently than the rest of us.
Tatum: I think he's a good man. I like him. I got nothing against him, but I'm definitely gonna make orphans of his children.
True
But that vast majority of them seem to be able to get a handle on themselves after the final bell rings.
"If the commission would sanction it and Dana would move, I’d fighter Anderson right now."
- Chael Sonnen at the post fight press conference following his loss to Anderson Silva.
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agreed
But post-fight shenanigans are hardly a new development in fight sports. Tempers are hot, adrenaline is flowing and — at the risk of sounding like Gus Johnson — shit does occasionally happen. That doesn’t make Paul too bright for continuing to poke sticks in Dana’s cage, but still.
Tatum: I think he's a good man. I like him. I got nothing against him, but I'm definitely gonna make orphans of his children.
This.
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by Derek Suboticki on Aug 31, 2010 10:58 PM EDT up reply actions
am i one of the few that think stephan won that fight?
We have a saying back home that if your coming on, COME ON!!!!
I thought he won it, close fight if I recall.
Ride the Tiger!
by doonerthesooner on Aug 31, 2010 9:06 AM EDT up reply actions
Sorry Daley
Dana won’t bring you back……until 2011 on an unaired prelim.
Toronto FC - Where road games are forfeited and we STILL have no idea how to play from behind.
I really enjoy watching Daley fight, but he’s an idiot. If he would’ve been apologetic to Dana, I truly believe that he would’ve been back in the UFC in less than a year. Instead, I don’t think he’ll ever be back. Until he realizes that this isn’t Dana’s fault, he’ll continue to make 1/4 of what he could be making. At some point, you have to take responsibilities for your own actions.
by GetYourHeadStomps on Aug 31, 2010 1:17 AM EDT reply actions 4 recs
To be honest, I think that if he would have come out after the fight and apologized at the press conference
And just said he let his emotions and frustrations get the best of him and that he would take whatever suspension/fine that was handed down to him he would probably still be in the UFC right now.
Instead he came up with some lame story about how he didn’t hear the bell and then gave Dana (the UFC God) White the cold shoulder and is now relegated to the B leagues for the rest of his MMA prime.
GYHS
You hit the nail on the head in your first sentence:
Daley is an idiot.
And an arrogant one at that.Terrible combo.
by Matt Mosley on Aug 31, 2010 11:25 AM EDT up reply actions
The saddest part is that despite losing to Kos he still could have been a huge star. He has the look and personality but he’s a fool if he thinks that he can achieve that outside of the UFC.
we each must become like fishermen, and go out on to the dark ocean of mind, and let your nets down into that sea
To be fair, he did apologize the next day, by which point he’d already been fired.
When it comes down to it, I think if you give it a year and Daley keeps winning, Dana White would take him back because while what he did was bad it wasn’t horrific or completely irredeemable. Daley is the second best WW that isn’t in the UFC, and has legit star potential. If he matures a bit, I think Dana would definitely take him back, even if he said he’d never do it (he said the same things about Tito Ortiz and BJ Penn). He’s not a PPV headliner but you could make money with the guy, and that’s what it boils down to.
That being said he still seems like a considerable prick.
Dana White talked about Daley on the UFC 118 press conference:
“‘You just had a chance to fight him for 15 minutes, and now you’re going to suckerpunch him after the fight?’ It’s disgusting. I hate that. I have no respect for that whatsoever. I know some people out there disagree with me, but this is a sport,” White said at the post UFC 118 press conference.
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“There’s a lot of things that I’m lenient about, but to walk up and suckerpunch a guy in the face that you just had 15 minutes with? When you’re a fighter, and the fight ends and you’re walking around calming down and relaxing, the last thing you expect to do is get punched in the face by someone. It’s disgusting. I hate it.”
http://www.fightersonlymagazine.co.uk/news/viewarticle.php?id=5179
by Anton Tabuena on Aug 31, 2010 1:28 AM EDT reply actions 9 recs
won't ever forget it
u had 15 minutes dood.
Exactly.
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by Derek Suboticki on Aug 31, 2010 2:27 AM EDT up reply actions
Didn't he invite Tank back?
/sarcasm
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by S.C. Michaelson on Aug 31, 2010 4:30 AM EDT up reply actions
you’re walking around calming down and relaxing, the last thing you expect to do is get punched in the face by someone
funny thing is, i think Kos was well aware of the possibility as soon as the fight ended, and definately knew as soon as Daley started walking to “congratulate” him
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by eastcoastatlas on Aug 31, 2010 10:22 AM EDT up reply actions
Oh be quite, you sucker punching boob.
Josh Barnett is a thrice proven juicer with a pro wrestling mindset and a personality that would lead you to believe he's never had a romantic encounter that didn’t start with "you gotta pay me upfront."
maybe Jon Jones elbowed him in the dick and he needed reconstructive surgery
"He sucks weiner! He sucks weiner!" - II SMASH II
by Earl Montclair on Aug 31, 2010 1:46 AM EDT up reply actions
The quoted comment is even handed enough I guess...
But Daley is being an idiot for all of the reasons already stated. Had he apologized to Dana like he should have he could have worked his way back into the UFC. He may have been making good money prior to going into the UFC but the other orgs are going to suffer as the UFC gets bigger and before long there won’t be anywhere else to go.
by Polyhedron on Aug 31, 2010 1:33 AM EDT via mobile reply actions
Daley has no legit beef with Dana, he was very supportive of Daley up until that moment.
by Polyhedron on Aug 31, 2010 1:35 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
That’s the way I see this, Daley was 100% in the wrong here and even now he’s still trying to redirect blame. He screwed up and he paid the price, the quicker he accepts that the betteer off it will be for him. It’s not Dana White’s fault that Daley isn’t in the UFC, if he hadn’t of been a jack ass after that fight he would still be there.
I could totally see StrikeForce paying him $100k a fight. Hell they pay Robbie Lawler that much. They badly need a Welterweight who can fight Nick Diaz.
When something you do makes Josh Koscheck look like a classy individual, you know you fucked up.
"He sucks weiner! He sucks weiner!" - II SMASH II
by Earl Montclair on Aug 31, 2010 1:37 AM EDT reply actions 27 recs
lol true
"If I woke up looking like that, I would run towards the nearest living thing and kill it." -Master Shake
We have to take the amulet to the banana king!
how this got 18 recs is beyond me. how does sucker-punching someone make them look classy?
a life: it's the shit that happens while you're waiting for moments that never come -Lester Freamon
by eastcoastatlas on Aug 31, 2010 10:26 AM EDT up reply actions
You might want to read it a little slower
by Steve4192 on Aug 31, 2010 10:31 AM EDT up reply actions 11 recs
no, i got it. read my comment slower, or here's a translation:
Paul Daley sucker punched Josh Koscheck; Josh Koscheck hasn’t ever said a word about it, although he did talk a bunch of shit while holding Daley down at the end of the fight. Daley’s actions do not make Koscheck look classy, they simply make Daley unclassy.
a life: it's the shit that happens while you're waiting for moments that never come -Lester Freamon
by eastcoastatlas on Aug 31, 2010 10:45 AM EDT up reply actions
............
This seriously made me lose so, so much faith. Come on dude.
And then God created Saturn... and he liked it, so he put a ring on it.
Twitter me and what not.
by James Brady on Aug 31, 2010 11:12 AM EDT up reply actions
Daley has no chance to be a belt-holder in the UFC
Even if Dana forgives and forgets and brings Daley back, Daley has zero wrestling ability and would never be able to win a belt in the UFC. At best he could be a gate-keeper.
"You stick a microphone in a guy's face and he calls out anybody but the champion, and Joe Silva should fax him a pink slip right then." -- Chael Sonnen.
If he keeps winning he'll be back...
I can practically hear Dana now, “You know, he’s a young kid, he’s made some mistakes and I think he’s learned from them. He’s been on a tear lately and it’s my job to make the fights people want to see. He’s a good kid who made stupid decisions” or something to that effect.
While I basically agree with his statement and have my own problems with Dana and Zuffas unchecked power, the truth is that maybe Dana wouldn’t have used his vast power if Daley didn’t fucking punch a guy after the fight was over.
by John Nash on Aug 31, 2010 2:12 AM EDT via mobile reply actions
Daley is better off
The UFC welterweight division is basically a wrestling competition, and his ground sucks. Good for him for not kissing ass.
..!..
He doesn’t have to kiss anyones ass. All he had to do is act like an adult and admit he was wrong, then keep his fucking mouth shut.
by sadface on Aug 31, 2010 3:21 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions 8 recs
The UFC welterweight division is basically a wrestling mixed martial arts.competition, and his ground sucks. Good for him for not kissing ass evolving.
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by Derek Suboticki on Aug 31, 2010 2:28 AM EDT reply actions 6 recs
I think he was right the first time.
Tatum: I think he's a good man. I like him. I got nothing against him, but I'm definitely gonna make orphans of his children.
by Monte Fisto on Aug 31, 2010 9:21 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Nope.
Admitting you’re wrong doesn’t mean you’re kissing ass. It means you’re being a man to own up to your mistakes. Not admitting you’re wrong when your boss calls you on it is being an idiot.
I should have clarified. I wasn’t thinking so much about the kissing ass part, as I was about the UFC WW division being entirely dominated by wrestlers, which I think is true.
Tatum: I think he's a good man. I like him. I got nothing against him, but I'm definitely gonna make orphans of his children.
If only Jon Fitch could sucker punch somebody…
by mmalogic on Aug 31, 2010 4:02 AM EDT reply actions 2 recs
Well, he does generally seem interested in making sure fights last as long as possible. Sometimes you have to take things to that next level.
by Brent Ducharme on Aug 31, 2010 4:42 AM EDT up reply actions
haha, yeah…or GSP.
(runs for cover)
I'm the best ever. You're the most average in a minute.
by slapjaw ackrite on Aug 31, 2010 11:43 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
I'll still buy 100 Shark Fights cards that Daley headlines,
before I pay for an Edgar-Maynard PPV.
Tatum: I think he's a good man. I like him. I got nothing against him, but I'm definitely gonna make orphans of his children.
Meh I buy UFC cards
based on all the night, not the main event. I doubt I would buy a Shark Fights card unless it was on the cheap and had more than 1 decent fight.
Daley is delusional
Sure he’s a great [stand-up] fighter, but he’s also a complete and utter fool. Getting fired for sucker punching someone after the bell and then complaining about it…. That’s like getting fired for watching Porn on Company PC’s and then saying that the boss was in the wrong for invading your privacy.
Walking the line between intelligence and ignorance since 1985
@deowade
by Damon O. on Aug 31, 2010 10:02 AM EDT reply actions 3 recs
You keep dropping wisdom like this
and I’m going to bring out The World According to Pretty Toney.
by Brent Ducharme on Sep 3, 2010 12:49 AM EDT up reply actions
Isn't Daley in SF now?
Honestly he’s probably better off there. He has a clear path to the belt, with only Nick Diaz in his way, and will likely be making more money there as an immediate #1 contender, Hendo-lite style.
The early reports that he’d signed with StrikeForce turned out to be false. I think he’s still in negotiations with them. His manager might be waiting until after the Shark Fights bout with Jorge Masvidal since if he knocks Masvidal out he’d probably get a slightly better deal. Or maybe StrikeForce wants to make sure he doesn’t lose first before shelling out whatever sort of cash Daley’s management is asking for.
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and
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by BucktheFroncos on Aug 31, 2010 12:06 PM EDT reply actions
The only part of this that bums me out is that koscheck didn't get knocked the fuck out....
besides that, does anyone think Daley is ever going to have a chance in the UFC again? He fucked up bad, and who knows if he will even rack up wins.
You made a stupid, stupid mistake...
…and so you shouldn’t take it out on Dana White. You can’t be pissed at him because YOU lost your cool and hit another fighter WAAAAAAAAY after the bell. That was your screw up, son.
That being said, I hope that Dana goes back on his word eventually, if you prove that you have control of yourself. I would hate for the impulsive actions of a young man haunt him forever if no one was really hurt. In this case, Josh just laughed so no one was hurt. It was a dumb move, dude, but I hope you are not punished for it forever.
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