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Todd Duffee's Post-Fight Interview

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#1 ·


Good for todd for stepping up, that's the kind of thing that makes me a fan But this interview is funny as hell to me. at one point a japanese reporter asks a question that probably takes 2 minutes to ask , it eventually gets translated to " would you like to fight in japan again?"
 
#40 ·
I think Duffee handled himself well in the interview. Certainly paints a much different picture from the what the UFC brass have said in regards to him having a "bad attitude." Who knows maybe those two losses will humble him then he'll reflect back. Nothing to be ashamed of Overeem outclassed him. Duffee came forward and would have KOed a lot of other fighters, but Overeem immediately slipped and countered like a pro.
 
#47 ·
I feel bad for Duffee when people talked about him it was ONLY about his quick KO, and when that happened even guys like Joe Rogen were saying he could be the future champ, and highly respected people were saying this kid Is Champ Status.

Now he is getting some of the craziest comebacks put on him, and getting kicked out of UFC / now joining freak show type of fight...

And when i say freak show i mean a fight that he stands no chance in but we would all want to watch....
 
#52 ·
After getting KOd in his last fight the last thing he needed was another concussion. Taking this fight was a ridiculous decision and instead of building up to big names and improving gradually in the hope of not taking too much damage, he goes and fights one of the best heavyweights in the world and the now K1 HW champ.

Stupidity of the highest order. No money they would pay him was worth that KO.
 
#53 ·
I have gained serious respect for this kid. We all know Duffee got destroyed but, he admitted it and praised Overeem. He doesn't regret it doing it either. In my eyes, that's the word of a martial artist.
I hope Duffee comes back stronger and improves his game.
 
#61 ·
Fanfare as in he would unquestionably be Englands MMA goldenboy, probably Bisping X2 in popularity.

The Netherlands has a population of 16M, England has 50M, on top of that MMA is much bigger in England than it is in NL.

So yes, tis a shame cos he would garner alot more fanfare if he was English.
 
#63 ·
MMA is not mainstream enough a sport in UK for anyone to be the goldenboy just yet.

IF Overeem was English he would probably be loved by mma fans over here, but currently mma is no where near big enough to suggest he would be a huge star over here.

Matt Skelton was an unknown until he took up boxing and the most famous MMA fighter in the UK is Alex Reid....I think that says all that needs to be said about the current standing of K1 and MMA in the UK.

It's growing, rapidly, but don't kid yourself into thinking it is huge here just yet.
 
#65 ·
MMA's popularity in the UK is difficult to gauge, i agree it isn't a top-5 sport here (yet) but it's not too far away and has a dedicated following, alot of shitty local UK shows are getting 1000+ per show.

Alex Reid is the most well known purely because of the tabloid coverage of his non fighting career, so i'd say Bisping is by far the most well known 'for' MMA, but Alex Reid is much more well known in general than Bisping.

An English world champion in an American organisation would defiently push the sport forward by at least a couple of years here, but all this talk is balls anyway, Overeem isn't English.
 
#67 ·
MMA's popularity in the UK is difficult to gauge, i agree it isn't a top-5 sport here (yet) but it's not too far away and has a dedicated following, alot of shitty local UK shows are getting 1000+ per show.

Alex Reid is the most well known purely because of the tabloid coverage of his non fighting career, so i'd say Bisping is by far the most well known 'for' MMA, but Alex Reid is much more well known in general than Bisping.

An English world champion in an American organisation would defiently push the sport forward by at least a couple of years here, but all this talk is balls anyway, Overeem isn't English.
Yea but that's my point.

MMA is still a very marginal sport in the UK, ok since ESPN/Setanta bought the rights to UFC more exposure has increased its popularity but at the end of the day still it is very low down the sporting food chain in the UK.

The average person hasn't got a clue who Bisping is (or hardy or Daley) only really people who are mma fans (of which there are still not many)

If you stopped and asked 100 people in the average street how many of them would know who Michael Bisping is?

Ask them who David Haye is and many more would know.

If Overeem were English and we had our own heavyweight champion I am not sure it would make much difference, not until the sport itself grew in stature over here (if it did) Carl Fogerty was world champion for years but whatever type of motor bike sport he did never became anything more than a minor sport in the UK.

Right now Darts is a bigger sport than MMA, so is snooker and Phil Taylor and Ronnie O'Sulivan are both bigger names/stars than Bisping is or Overeem would be right now even if he was English.

The best thing for MMA's growth in the UK is for the UFC to start putting on more shows here, or at least using some bigger names for the cards (instead of giving us all the skud cards that no one would pay pay per view for it the states)

But like you say, Overeem is Dutch so who really gives a fuk :confused02::thumb02:

Anyway I am off to Amsterdam tomorrow maybe I;ll run into him and tell him to work on his British accent and lay claim to his English roots if he wants a bigger fan base world wide
 
#68 ·
So right now you are saying that British MMA fighters have a similar status that American MMA fighters used to hold in Japan. They were not known in the mainstream but in Pride in Japan they were superstars. So basically Americans are more likely to know who Bisping or Daley or Hardy are!
 
#69 ·
Hardly anyone aside from mma fans would know who they are.

My dad is a huge sports fan for example, I have even made him watch mma numerous times but if I asked him who michael bisping is he wouldn't remember him.

It is growing though and it has received some more mainstream exposure (been in papers and is on the ESPN network, even late night replays of the british fighters shown on terrestrial tele) but people are kidding themselves if they think it is already a big sport here and the fighters are well known to the general public yet.

Personally I kind of like it being less mainstream, but I think the sport deserves to grow in stature and the fighters deserve to be paid the types of money mainstream sports stars get.

I don't want mma to go the way of boxing though, where the biggest fights never (or hardly ever) happen and people duck each other frequently to protect their record and money earning potential.

Also personally, if I was an mma star I'd rather be famous only in the US so when I am there I can live the lifestyle but back home I can walk down the street as a normal guy without the hassle of the UK press and general public.

Heres a quick example, a guy that works for me has the ESPN channel which holds the exclusive UK rights to UFC fights. He is a massive sports fan, season ticket holder at Wasps rugby club big football fan yet he has never watched UFC and knows it only (like most UK people) as 'Cage fighting' and many people still have the old school view of it being a brutal sport or the old chest nut of 'human cock fighting'.
 
#71 ·
the ESPN exposure is great, although it would have been better if SKY SPORTS had bought the rights (as it is a far more established channel and has many more subscribers)

UFC is growing (mma in general too, we have BAMMA and have had the likes of Cage Rage and Cage Warriors which have played their role in the development of UK MMA.)

I hope it continues to progress and one day will surpass boxing as the UK's favourite fighting sport (my own opinion is that MMA is a lot more entertaining and complete sport than boxing, but I agree there is a market for both and room for each to thrive)

I see no real reason for the MMA growth in UK not to mirror that in the States, especially if UFC keep pumping money into promoting the sport here and putting on shows here (I agree that in general the sport would need continued and greater success of UK fighters to really attract attention and break into the mainstream)

This could well happen in the future, kids are certainly a lot more into mma than they were 10 years ago and it stands to reason that the more kids are training to become mma fighters from young the more we will develop successful fighters who can compete at the elite levels.

One worry is the real lack of quality Wrestling background here (and teaching there of) you only have to look at how Semtex Daley was dominated by Koshcheck to see we are lacking in that department.

The quality of boxing training here is more established and consequently 'better' than that of our mma coaching (and the indivdual disicplines within) but as interest improves so will demand and eventually so will the quality and ease of access of our teaching/coaching for the kids who have an interest in the sport and hopefully this will equate to a long term rise in the success of UK fighters and as a result interest in mma in the UK.
 
#73 ·
ESPN only recently bought out IRish based satellite channel Setanta which basically over spent in an attempt to compete with sky (owned by Murdoch who owns FOX in america) which is a long running and far more established company and Setanta ended up going bust as a result.

ESPN is as a result a very new channel in the UK although obviously being owned by Disney it has the money to be a more stable and long term competitor to sky.

(it can be view via SKY but requires an additional subscrition)

Put it this way, the number of UK house holds with Sky Sports packages dwarfs that of the households who have ESPN (although it is currently available free for views with Virgin media...the Richard Branson branded cable tv provider)

Yes the UFC has made great inroads here, it has a growing market share of the UK sport viewing market (probably on a par with other American sports like NBA and NFL) but it is still considered a niche market at this time.
 
#75 ·
Setanta Sports was born in Dublin Ireland (not British) the UK version of Setanta failed to compete with SKY and over stretched themselves by paying big money for the rights to English Rugby, UFC and mostly a numbers of English PRemier League football games (soccer)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setanta_Sports

ESPN bought out the UK version of Setanta (who's parent company is the Irish original company because they were losing money and basically went bust over here.

ESPN does compete with SKY yes, in as far as sky is televsion broadcaster here which also has several of its on channels that produce shows and what not. Sky Sports (there are about 4 Sky Sports channels) have to be bought as part of a Sky tv package if you want to watch them, the same goes for ESPN you can by ESPN in addition to SKY and watch both via your SKY tv satillite dish or via Virgin cable (sky also sell the rights to their shows SKy Movies/Sky Sports/FX channels etc) and both sky and cable show other network channels such as CNN etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Sky_Broadcasting

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Media

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESPN_(UK)

So ESPN can be bought alongside skysports and it has the advantage of being free to Virgin Media viewers. BSKYB however is by far the biggest and most established television provider here in the UK and it's sports channel package is also far more established than espn (it's hard to compete as these packages are expensive already so a lot of people won't/can't pay to have both channels)

The difference this time is ESPN are a massive company, owned by Disney so their money is not going to run out and they can afford to stick around until they gain sufficent market share to become a profitable channel/company here in UK. Which I believe they will, especially if the UFC continues it's current growth and they continue to invest in packages to show Premier league football matches and other sports people want to see.
 
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