Ariel the man
The UFC keeps saying, too, we canât give Charles the belt, the commission has rules, youâre the number one contender. Well, the commission came back and said that the belts are not official, i.e., theyâre just belts owned by the UFC, the UFC CAN DO WHATEVER THEY WANT with them.
This keeps pointing back to an ecosystem of the UFC doing whatever the UFC wants. Good for them being able to capture so much control and still maintain a veneer of innocence and legitimacy. Sucks for guys like Charles, though, I guess.
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Dos anyone here watch live official weigh inâs ?
He didbnt say that was what actually happened. He said guys mess with the scale sometimes and specifically finished with âWho knows?â
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What do you change when you switch from kg to lbs . I really donât understand?
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âWhite indicated that non-U.S. fighters may have been responsible for altering the promotionâs scale used at UFC 274, possibly resulting in inaccurate readings.â
Fucking Un-Americans, always fucking shit up! This is why the whole goddamn world should be American!!!
âI BLAME THE METRIC SYSTEM!!!â Dana White
Charles weigh-in controversy, Khabibs UFC 254 super fast reading. Khabibs 242 also fast reading.
There is a lot more juice stuff out there. You guys arenât looking
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The MMA media has been captured by the UFC. Thereâs no such thing as independent MMA journalism.
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Of course, itâs just how it is. It not just the UFC.
And itâs amusing that people are discussing solutions and how to make it better.
Like the UFC and the people running the company arenât smart people that make shit happen.
It wouldnât be impossible to fuck up a digital scale inadvertently. Usually itâs just a slide switch on the back to switch between lb and kg but if it is sophisticated, you would press the program button to get to the switch menu. Since no one reads the instructions even in their own homes, conceivably the âit techâ on the team could press and fiddle with the program button until he thinks heâs found the switch menu. Very easily could have hit the calibration menu hit the button several times add some weight to that as he sought the kg/lb menu etc etc.
But this is all bullshit. Any digital scale should show 0.0 weight when you tap it with your foot to switch it on.
Quite frankly I think Charles and his team are full of shit and he simply was over weight.
Thatâs what Iâm trying to say. We extend them the benefit of the doubt by assuming they donât know how to do it right. When itâs obvious that theyâve chosen for it to be this way.
Look at the weights for that night. 75% of them were over by half a pound. Something happened. And thatâs fine. Shit happens. But donât fuck over Charles. Heâs not innocent as is evidenced by his history of weight cutting. But why should he be the sole person to suffer from this situation which was clearly not his making? Just doesnât seem fair.
Give that man his fucking belt! Heâs earned it. Paid for in blood.
I pointed out before the scale is basic 100 LB x 1/2 LB scale. Might be in this thread. So if someone comes in at 155.1 it will be recorded at 155.5 and every other weight. There is a close up picture of the scale.
All weight classes if under 0.5 would be recorded as 0.5 over or a full pound over, if above 0.5 etc
Let me find it for you.
It was the other thread:
At the end of the day itâs a business and entertainment and then a sport. So you have to expect some unfairness.
UFC have given us world class fights for almost 15 years. And I can say with almost 100% confidence that they are one of the most fair promotions that have existed. Pride is like fight fans sanctuary, butt everybody knows what whent on over there.
And you should here some of the fighters storyâs about the European promotions .
So if the UFC is tampering with the scales to move things where they wonât to. Itâs nothing , itâs just that people are stupid and actually debate it.
And arenât even talking about the real juice weigh in context.
I hear ya brother. Iâve seen some shit in smaller promotions myself. Gong show. The sport ainât for the weak thatâs for sure.
Still, this situation is easy to resolve. And I also donât believe the official narrative: that the scale was fine and that it was Charles who was out of line.
If they decide to give Charles his normal championship pay for his next fight all will be forgiven on my end. Dana said they could do that.
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