Usain Bolt lost to a fellow Jamaican in 2012, was beaten by (AMERICAN) Justin Gatlin in the 100m two years ago, and has lost several times since then........he was pretty dominant, five years ago., but the sun has set on his empire as well, I fear......
Actually yes, Brit bashing and Tez bashing, don't care about the last but unfair on the rest of Brits here, did ask mods to look at it, see my posts but obviously they won't.
Am on phone trying to catch intermittent signal up on the moors.
Maybe in the US yes, but one country does not a planet make. I could list MMA fighters until the cows come home, at work, in the pub, at home, in the street and most people woudl have no idea who or what I was talking about.
I just can't take it, Tez. You are making things up and it's crazy. It's not until you're spinning the situation and trying to play the victim that you're suggesting it's Rousey's "public persona" that you don't like. That's not what you were saying in the beginning pages of this thread (which are still there... if anyone wants to read what you ACTUALLY wrote). You said in your first response:Sigh, he doesn't get it. I'm not condemning anyone.
Now back to women's MMA. I've said a few times now and I'll say it again, I dislike Rousey's public persona, the face she presents of sleeping around and swearing, being disrespectful etc, now I do understand that it's a side of her that the UFC can sell a la WWE, it may well not be the 'real' her, it maybe something she puts on in public but that doesn't mean to say I have to like that. if anything she encourages and has said so in the past that so called hatred against her because she says she fights better but I still don't have to like it. perhaps she's sweet and kind to those she knows but I'm never going to see that so have only the public side and that I don't like. I wouldn't want a girl to take her as a role model based on the behaviour that is seen in public. My opinion only, based on what I've seen, read and heard. Perhaps it's wrong but that is what it's based on and if your opinion is different good for you, how boring it would be if all opinions were the same. Most people don't take other people's opinions so personally though, it's a bit worrying when people start insulting others because they don't share the same opinion, smacks of communism lol.
I've said nothing about her nationality nor her fighting abilities, and no one else is picked up for disliking a fighter which is interesting.
What has that got to do with the English...absolutely nothing. I do realise that people say 'English;' mistakenly believing that everyone in the UK is English but a little education would go a long way, not only are they not all English they aren't in the UK, Ellan Vannin (the Isle of Man) and the Channel Islands for example aren't in the UK but are self ruling Crown Dependencies. Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales have their own countries and their own governments.
As for the UFC, I can take it or leave it, mostly leaving it. Why? because it doesn't figure in my life, it's no different than FIFA or UEFA or the Olympic committees, nought to do with me. There has been a knock on effect for those poor despised British shows though in that people come to watch 'UFC' fights on them so in effect the laugh isn't on us. MMA is still relatively unknown in the UK when you compare it to football, rugby and boxing, I daresay it always be like that. The Brits love their footie however something we are seeing more of here is properly organised and run bare knuckle boxing fight nights, hard to say if it's a fad or whether there is a real appetite for them. We'll have to see.
MMA for me has been fun, the fight nights have been fun, meeting people, having a laugh and training however since January I haven't been able to have much to do with it or any martial arts, it's unlikely I will be able to in the future but it's upwards and onwards whatever and a few silly comments made by people on here looking to flex their pyschobabble muscles as well as their poor humour ones, is water off a duck's back frankly, however in trying ( and not succeeding, sorry) to upset me please try not to insult entire nations of people, we may be insignificant in your eyes but the mark of a person is how they treat people who are smaller than them.
PS in case people were wondering Conor McGregor is from the Republic of Ireland ( Eire) he's not British.
Have a nice day people..
Wrong. Or at least VERY debatable. Which, if you had stopped there, would have been just fine. You voiced your opinion. But, no. You didn't. For 9 pages and 170+ posts you have been slinging mud.
If she's that 'dominant' she needs to be asking for a pay rise to keep up with those other 'dominant' women
10 Yani Tseng - In Photos The World s Highest-Paid Female Athletes - Forbes
