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ONE has been circling the drain for a long time and I don’t expect them to last much more than a few years at maximum. You think UFC fighter pay is bad? Holy shit. Dig into how lopsided ONE pays their talent. The big names like Haggerty are fine, but everyone else is getting the proverbial hotdog and handshake. The fact that ONE is losing their marquee fighter, Rodtang, is going to be a huge blow for them. A lot of people were turned on to ONE because of Rodtang, and now due to legal matters, they’re losing him. They also lost their big BJJ star in Musumeci because they almost killed him.

The eastern audiences really dislike the unified MMA ruleset. They love their stomps, grounded knees, and soccer kicks. They love the spectacle, but the spectacle isn’t producing any marketable names. Excluding those I mentioned above, they have the Lee family (you might’ve heard about the young girl who killed herself after her debut at ONE at the age of 16), Stamp Fairtex, and a few others. You’d only know these names if you were a deep fan of MMA. Not many people care at all.

Chatri himself is a retard of the highest degree. He’s very vocal about how he disagrees with the UFC, their treatment of fighters, etc., but he simultaneously runs a sweatshop where he’s paying his talent the equivalent of a couple of grand worth of Thailand Baht. One thing he really loves to flex is giving his fighters 50,000 baht for killing themselves, and that’s worth less than 2,000 USD.

If UFC is WWE, ONE is ECW. UFC is obviously the biggest show in town, not always the best, but it’s the standard to which everything else is, unfortunately, compared to. ONE has some amazing talent that goes relatively unnoticed, and their cards are mostly electric. I love that you can get your fix of Muay Thai, traditional kickboxing, and BJJ on the same program in the same card. Chatri, like Paul Heyman, is very capable of bringing the absolute best out of his talent. He puts on amazing shows. You don’t need to know the names of any of the fighters, the matchmaking is typically very balanced and it’s reflected upon in each bout. He’s just an absolute moron when it comes to money and the backstage politics. He’d be a great company face for sure, but he cannot run a business. He’s punching far above his weight in terms of ONE’s global reach, they cannot sell out the arenas they fight in locally, but are pushing large events outside of their respective countries. Lopsided fighter pay. Bad contracts. Fuck… I’m going to miss ONE when it eventually fades. There’s always RIZIN but the spectacle is sometimes too much for me. Just want to see people bleed.
 
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Am I going crazy or this there something a little gay about this?
 
who dare wins? said:
I mean yeah dagestani’s tend to be pretty gay lol. Inb4 it’s a total snoozefest
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He's Chechen, not that it matters cause Muslims are the undisputed champs of saying the gayest shit you've ever heard then pretending that it's really cool and badass. I hope Strickland beats the absolute brakes off this guy and I'm not a Strickland fan.
 
Dirt sheets suggest Khamzat is recovering from an illness. We all know if that dude catches pneumonia if he so as much steps outside, so this isn’t surprising. There has been a stark lack of social media presence from him and his team leading up to this fight. There has been a complete lack of marketing what should be a huge grudge match. I don’t think UFC née TKO, expect much from this one. I have near 0 expectation of an interesting fight after watching this guy gayly pin Dricus down for 25 minutes.

Autists in the same betting circle that I am in have noticed that the majority of the posts made within the past two months have been vague and prayer-related. This is throughout his team and family. Usually his team posts training footage of him running through people at the gym. The footage we have seen that involves training is a very sluggish Khamzat jogging up an incline on a rocky pass, and a fake training montage for Venum where he is throwing strikes while wearing a very loose fitting necklace which is flopping around all over his face (you take that shit off during any session, or you make sure your chain is cinched in).

There has been 0 of the usual trash talk we come to expect from his guy, very few interviews…. Fight is three weeks away.
 
Looney Troons said:
Dirt sheets suggest Khamzat is recovering from an illness. We all know if that dude catches pneumonia if he so as much steps outside, so this isn’t surprising. There has been a stark lack of social media presence from him and his team leading up to this fight. There has been a complete lack of marketing what should be a huge grudge match. I don’t think UFC née TKO, expect much from this one. I have near 0 expectation of an interesting fight after watching this guy gayly pin Dricus down for 25 minutes.

Autists in the same betting circle that I am in have noticed that the majority of the posts made within the past two months have been vague and prayer-related. This is throughout his team and family. Usually his team posts training footage of him running through people at the gym. The footage we have seen that involves training is a very sluggish Khamzat jogging up an incline on a rocky pass, and a fake training montage for Venum where he is throwing strikes while wearing a very loose fitting necklace which is flopping around all over his face (you take that shit off during any session, or you make sure your chain is cinched in).

There has been 0 of the usual trash talk we come to expect from his guy, very few interviews…. Fight is three weeks away.
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Shit, Really?

Does this pass the smell test in the rumor mill?

Because, and I'm no betting junkie here, Chimaev V Strickland is paying 6-1 for Sean, and if Khamzat is getting off anything that was fucking up his lungs, then he lost the one and only weapon he has, that fast and low double leg of his.

The reason Chimaev is so good is because he is the only guy in the division (maybe the entire UFC roster) that can shoot a double leg so low that you can't sprawl against. However, you need gas to do that shit, it takes a lot of sprint to muster the strength to take down someone from such a low position ince you lose a lot of leverage to shift the weight.

But if that shit is gone, then there is nothing for Chimaev to do.

He can't strike, he has no defense or footwork, sure as fuck won't out point Strickland, and I doubt Khamzat can count on power either, fucking Gilbert Burns, a guy way smaller than him and already over 35 and at the time, was eating Chimaev's overhands with a grin on his face.

Shit, I'm gonna wait a bit for some of the weight ins or some live footage, but if khamzat looks depleted, I'm gonna bet some cash on Strickland, these odds are way too good to not risk a bit.
 
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I just find it funny that apparently the mongoloid retard that follows the preachings of a pedo is a wolf. Both of them should be represented as sheep.

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Thought this would be worth posting because UFC may be going downhill but ONE beat them to being rock bottom
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I swear to God if I see that bald, coked out, wife beater champion another company going under before his shit company does, I’ll have a stroke.
 
Looney Troons said:
Dirt sheets suggest Khamzat is recovering from an illness. We all know if that dude catches pneumonia if he so as much steps outside, so this isn’t surprising.
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I thought Khamzat was Chechen, not Quarian. Bratha is getting 10-8'd regularly by the common cold.

Speaking of shit that will make you sick:

UFC owner Ari Emanuel’s pay jumps from $18 million to $67 million in 2025​

Ari Emanuel, the chief executive officer at the UFC’s parent company TKO Group Holdings, saw a sizable increase in his salary from 2024 to 2025.

In a new filing with the SEC to prepare for the annual shareholders’ meeting, Emanuel’s pay for 2025 was revealed alongside that of other key executives at TKO Group Holdings. In 2024, Emanuel took home just over $18 million, which was a dramatic drop from 2023 when he earned $64.9 million based on total compensation, including salary, bonuses, and stock.

Emanuel rebounded in a big way for 2025, earning just over $67 million, which includes a $3 million base salary, over $11 million in bonuses, $43.8 million in stock awards, with additional payout for non-equity incentive plan compensation and additional compensation. The grand total topped out at $67,361,782.

Since TKO Group Holdings was created as an amalgamation of the UFC and WWE — before eventually adding other properties as well — the company has enjoyed robust revenues year after year. It’s expected that 2026 is likely going to produce huge numbers as well, especially after the UFC inked a seven-year, $7.7 billion broadcast rights deal with Paramount that kicked off in January.

TKO Group Holdings president Mark Shapiro also enjoyed an increase in his overall pay after earning $31.96 million in 2024 and then jumping up to $42.64 million for 2025. That includes his $4 million base salary, $12.5 million in bonuses, $25.84 million in stock awards, and an additional $297,565 in compensation for a total of $42,644,346.

TKO Group Holdings is a publicly traded company, but the primary stockholder remains WME Group (previously known as Endeavor), which went from public to private in a deal led by Silver Lake Financial that closed back in 2025.

As part of that deal, Emanuel took home an additional $173.8 million as a payout, and he now serves as executive chairman of WME Group.
I'm keeping my hotter takes to myself on this, but nobody deserves a raise in UFC or TKO management while we're getting cards that suck as badly as they have in 2026.

"Real American" Hokit and "Santa Muerte" Grasso aren't enough to justify the $7 billion.
 
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