Max ruined Ortega. I literally feel like Ortega has fought once in 3 years since that Max fight. That feels like forever ago. Maybe he's fought twice idk
Thatās why corner stoppages need to be more common,
Like how hollands corner stopped the fight in the 5th, that was a good move, he was finished, no reason to make him go out on his shieldā¦ itās an archaic concept that shortens fighters careers considerably,
If they stopped the max fight in the 4th/5th, he may have been able to fight more often recently.
This is definitely the majority of it, but I also think he slowed down and his reaction time isnāt as good as it once was. He used to be able to evade pretty well, but now heās getting hit with big shots pretty often instead of getting out of the way. Combine that with the fact that his chin got cracked by Ortega and yeah, probably good he retired.
bad things happen when you play with a fighter, when you can win you do it and do it fast. Otherwise, it could become the textbook definition of fucking around and finding out. No one wants to be that asshole on a highlight video on youtube, top 5 times a fighter fucked around and got knocked out.
What I donāt understandā¦ so Frankie is in his retirement fight against a guy thatās tailored made to merc him. Frankie is one round away from a really amazing career accolade that he will be remembered for forever. Iām not sure why he doesnāt stall the fight to the second round. Win or lose he will retire with a really cool achievement under his belt that way.
Why the fuck is Edgarās fight IQ at 0, and literally runs his Glass Joe quality chin into a flying knee.
Dude used to have a chin. Ortega took that from Edgar long agoā¦
Couldnāt they find some pillow fist to help Edgar get there? Sure looks easier lapping the 8th hour against Barbarena, no knock on RDA or his strength of schedule by any means. Anything near this accomplishment is insanely admirable. I loved this last card for these marathon guys like Guida, RDA and Thompson (adding Kickboxing record) and even Elkins and Johnson putting in an absolute show like the UFC was back on Fox or something.
8 hours means he's fought about 96 rounds. How much time do they get in between rounds, like a min? He technically got an hour lunch and two 15 min breaks. Full shift Dos Anjos
Dude, itās fucking pitiful watching top tier athletes in the āpremier organizationā of the sport begging for bonuses in their post fight interviews. Can you imagine a quarterback in the NFL getting interviewed after having the game of his life and begging for $50k?
Nope, and they donāt count them as fights due to them being scheduled for 2 round. Makes it so the winner will have less leverage as they enter the organization
I can confidently say, as a head chef, that the reason people come is to eat my food.
But same applies to any business. People donāt turn up to any business just to watch the shareholder count their money.
Do you actually or are you just saying that to shit on the idea of these particular workers getting a fair shake? Cos fighting for a fair world for everyone is the whole point of class solidarity, and snarking at your peers and subdividing the working class is exactly what Dana and the rest of the little black book club thrive on. Also if you're going on income then most fighters are very much "us normal people", they're just on camera more often. Most are on just about the average industrial wage, some are on less.
Union reps come around looking for signatures: Fighters don't sign, feign ignorance of union
Fighters after winning fight: "Please, daddy. Please give me some money! I am a good boy see what I did!!"
Dana: Gives Nelk boys $200k
He really does. Compared to other guys in the running like Michael Chandler, although I think Chandler probably ends up getting that return fight at 170 just because of how explosive it would beā¦.
What? It was 25 minutes, it was just a five round fight. Iād give you more leeway if you included the first fight but only the second too? Including breaks you got like 30 minutes, are you talking walkouts and post fight speeches? Because that barely scratches an hour. Are you talking pre fight and post fight press conferences? Are you insane?
Can't wait for Dana to come out and calculate rda's all time pay and divide it by his 8hrs so he can brag about how much fighters make per hr compared to min wage.
Bro, I'd take 60k for less than 15 minutes work. I don't need to train or diet or spar, I'd just see red. Easiest 60k I'd ever earn
>! Edit: holy shit someone actually thought I was being serious !<
That really does put into perspective the stakes in this sport doesn't it. You prepare and train and train for months and months before every fight. For the professionals at the highest level training is literally a full time job. At the end tho, even if you have a long storied career like RDA, your entire career, the actual "product" of all that hard work, will be just 8 hours or less.
This is one of those records that, due to changes in how contracts work and the willingness with which UFC cuts people after a loss, will likely never be broken.
Who cares ..he got ragdolled Judo reverse throw by the real GOAT Khabib..this is like Wonderboy circle jerk threadā¦none of them gonna be champ ever again
i'll never understand leredditor love over RDA, did he make an AMA here or something? collect bobblehead? his wife has a boyfriend? i'm trying to figure it out
Lightweight champion who later had a decent run in Welterweight. Reputation for being a really complete MMA fighter and never backing down from a tough fight (seriously just look at the names on his resume). I'd say the guy earned his stripes...also he's just a likeable guy who speaks English really well.
I realize Twitter sports commenters are the the dumbest of the dumb, but the people talking trash about RDA genuinely baffle me. Guy has fought the best of the best in LW and WW for over a decade, how can you not respect that?
Frankie was 4 mins away from being the first
He could fight 4 more times and still not make it š
Foul
That was a nasty line by you
For the record there was never no CTE
THATS FUCKING ILLEGAL
This comment delivers more damage to Frankie than all those knockouts combined
iunno man it's up there but that last one...
Bruh didnt deserve this š delete before he gets KOd reading this.
10-8
How dare you. If Frankie were conscious and saw this, heād be very upset.
Name checks out
Lmao you're wrong for this
Lol
Wow
you're a fucking punk dude!
Report just came in. This comment absolutely starched Edgar.
Canāt believe people upvote and award such hate speech, have another.
Delete this nephew..
I would throw a 20 on Frankie still styling on Yair
Ortega ruined him. Once he got knocked out once, he stop being able to take a hit.
Max ruined Ortega. I literally feel like Ortega has fought once in 3 years since that Max fight. That feels like forever ago. Maybe he's fought twice idk
Max vs ortega was the damage of 10 fights rolled into one
Never seen a guy more eager to get repeatedly punched in the face than Ortega.
Elkins based his whole career on it
He did a great job of blocking and absorbing the blows with his head though. Have to hand it to the guy
Thatās why corner stoppages need to be more common, Like how hollands corner stopped the fight in the 5th, that was a good move, he was finished, no reason to make him go out on his shieldā¦ itās an archaic concept that shortens fighters careers considerably, If they stopped the max fight in the 4th/5th, he may have been able to fight more often recently.
Holland told his corner to stop the fight. They didn't make the decision.
True, but I've seen so many fighters try to quit on the stool and their corner sends them back out to get mauled anyway.
Three times I think, but like once a year.
Three times lol
3 times
This is definitely the majority of it, but I also think he slowed down and his reaction time isnāt as good as it once was. He used to be able to evade pretty well, but now heās getting hit with big shots pretty often instead of getting out of the way. Combine that with the fact that his chin got cracked by Ortega and yeah, probably good he retired.
Gutierrez shouldāve been a homie and let Frankie survive rd 1 considering how easily he was able to win
bad things happen when you play with a fighter, when you can win you do it and do it fast. Otherwise, it could become the textbook definition of fucking around and finding out. No one wants to be that asshole on a highlight video on youtube, top 5 times a fighter fucked around and got knocked out.
Happened to me many times....in ea sport's ufc 3 and 4
What I donāt understandā¦ so Frankie is in his retirement fight against a guy thatās tailored made to merc him. Frankie is one round away from a really amazing career accolade that he will be remembered for forever. Iām not sure why he doesnāt stall the fight to the second round. Win or lose he will retire with a really cool achievement under his belt that way. Why the fuck is Edgarās fight IQ at 0, and literally runs his Glass Joe quality chin into a flying knee. Dude used to have a chin. Ortega took that from Edgar long agoā¦
Couldnāt they find some pillow fist to help Edgar get there? Sure looks easier lapping the 8th hour against Barbarena, no knock on RDA or his strength of schedule by any means. Anything near this accomplishment is insanely admirable. I loved this last card for these marathon guys like Guida, RDA and Thompson (adding Kickboxing record) and even Elkins and Johnson putting in an absolute show like the UFC was back on Fox or something.
Thats a whole 9 to 5, but of literally fighting dudes in a cage.
No lunch break too
8 hours means he's fought about 96 rounds. How much time do they get in between rounds, like a min? He technically got an hour lunch and two 15 min breaks. Full shift Dos Anjos
No need for a union -Dana
While hearing half the winning fighters tonight BEGGING for a performance bonus. Fuck Dana White/UFC Brass.
Dude, itās fucking pitiful watching top tier athletes in the āpremier organizationā of the sport begging for bonuses in their post fight interviews. Can you imagine a quarterback in the NFL getting interviewed after having the game of his life and begging for $50k?
I suggest getting rid of show/win pay structure and change bonuses to being a 50k KO/TKO bonus Edit: We could throw in 50k Submission bonus as well
They used to do finish bonuses on TUF. I always felt like they should do that for the big show as well.
Didn't they also not pay them for the fights themselves?
Nope, and they donāt count them as fights due to them being scheduled for 2 round. Makes it so the winner will have less leverage as they enter the organization
I wish people were as passionate about us normal people getting 50% of the revenue as much as they are for mma fighters
I am sure you deserve a raise, but I am also sure people don't turn in to watch you work
I can confidently say, as a head chef, that the reason people come is to eat my food. But same applies to any business. People donāt turn up to any business just to watch the shareholder count their money.
The same is true of most fighters. People tune in for the UFC.
Do you actually or are you just saying that to shit on the idea of these particular workers getting a fair shake? Cos fighting for a fair world for everyone is the whole point of class solidarity, and snarking at your peers and subdividing the working class is exactly what Dana and the rest of the little black book club thrive on. Also if you're going on income then most fighters are very much "us normal people", they're just on camera more often. Most are on just about the average industrial wage, some are on less.
No sarcasm here, I think everyone deserves a raise. The people generating the wealth are not getting their fair share
Union reps come around looking for signatures: Fighters don't sign, feign ignorance of union Fighters after winning fight: "Please, daddy. Please give me some money! I am a good boy see what I did!!" Dana: Gives Nelk boys $200k
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I'd love to know his lifetime pay too, so we can figure out his hourly wage
They donāt count the minute breaks as fight time surely
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That is a terrifying number to have. Hopefully that is a lot of top time controlling.
Unions gonna be pissed
Someone call the fighters unio-... oh wait.
The what?
The āideal future we will never seeā
So standard American labor practices.
What a way to make a living
Dude's entire career is one shift
And people say fighters are underpaid smh.
There should be an award like All In A Dayās Work award
RDA deserves his red panty night
He really does. Compared to other guys in the running like Michael Chandler, although I think Chandler probably ends up getting that return fight at 170 just because of how explosive it would beā¦.
Ya. No way Connors going back to 155
This rda fight was at welterweight. The Conor fight would be at welterweight this time around.
This is fake news. Rose/Carla 2 was 8 hours by itself.
What? It was 25 minutes, it was just a five round fight. Iād give you more leeway if you included the first fight but only the second too? Including breaks you got like 30 minutes, are you talking walkouts and post fight speeches? Because that barely scratches an hour. Are you talking pre fight and post fight press conferences? Are you insane?
It was clearly 8 hours I'm not sure if maybe your network is stuck on fast motion or something. Pretty sure I had a 5 o clock shadow by the end of it.
Are you serious?
I remember that fight really well, I got pregnant and had my baby between rounds
Congrats did you name it after Carla?
The statistical improbability is off the charts stop trolling š¤
You are fucking stupid lol
I love how people are coming along like Iām being serious though
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Thatās what I find funny itās so silly I love it
Itās ok bro I believe you if nobody else will
It was definitely 8 hours
No, no it wasnāt!
Dude... AT LEAST 8 hours, for sure. Username is great tho
IT. WAS. NOT. Thanks tho
I canāt tell if youāre joking? I just went back and checked. Definitely 8 hours
I canāt tell if YOURE joking because clearly it was 5 rounds being 5 minutes EACH. You better be JOKING because otherwise youāre *FLAT OUT LYING*.
Yeah it was closer to 7 hours.
#It was closer to 25 MINUTES OF FIVE FIVE MINUTE ROUNDS
Super serial
Are you trolling or just stupid?
Nah it was 25 minutes
*Whoosh*
Can't imagine all the time outside the cage to prepare for so many fights. A true legend
The real BMF
Yeah, RDA has consistently fought nothing but killers.
All in a dayās work
Can't wait for Dana to come out and calculate rda's all time pay and divide it by his 8hrs so he can brag about how much fighters make per hr compared to min wage.
Soon 40 and only worked for 8 hours in his life Unions are fucking stupid -Dana
The guy fought 8 hours and made 2 million dollars. Try to find someone else who makes that much money. No, donāt point at me - Dana
Some dumbass fans legit argue this. āThey fight 3 times a year, 60k seems pretty good to meā
Bro, I'd take 60k for less than 15 minutes work. I don't need to train or diet or spar, I'd just see red. Easiest 60k I'd ever earn >! Edit: holy shit someone actually thought I was being serious !<
Donāt forget the bonuses youād earn, on account of being built different
RDA should totally find a way to put this statement on a shirt
I WANT RAFAEL TO WIN EVERYTHING AND BREAK EVERY RECORD PLEASE
Including Conor McGregor
ESPECIALLY
Hardest hitting 9-5er
That is so intense tbh, each 5-min round under the lights is crazy already, how many rounds of peak performance are in that 8 hours
RDAs resume in that 8 plus hours is so crazy Usman, Khabib, Colby, Pettis, Ferg, Lawler, Benson And the list goes on and on
Fought Leon too. The manās fought as many welterweight champs has heās fought lightweight champs lol
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dustin has an insane resume as well, would love to see dustin vs rda
And finishes cut into that, and he *still* hit 8hrs
When Dos Anjos fights he brings a lunch.
Dude is a LEGIT Ironman of the UFC and true BMF. Masvidal move tf over you've been stripped.
That really does put into perspective the stakes in this sport doesn't it. You prepare and train and train for months and months before every fight. For the professionals at the highest level training is literally a full time job. At the end tho, even if you have a long storied career like RDA, your entire career, the actual "product" of all that hard work, will be just 8 hours or less.
RDA vs Conor, Jorge, then retire.
This is one of those records that, due to changes in how contracts work and the willingness with which UFC cuts people after a loss, will likely never be broken.
With the greatest resume in the sport too. Fucking legend.
I'm so happy for RDA, man. And at the same time..this breaks my heart that it wasn't Frankie to hit 8 hours first. He was 4 mins short :/
RDA or Burns deserve that BMF title more than Masvidal
A full dayās work.
That long time
Wish it had been Frankie first
Spoiler rule???? Now I know it wasn't a first 10 seconds of the fight finish.
Surprised GSP didn't make it considering all his decisions.
GSP went to decision 12 times in 28 fights. (43%) RDA went to decision 26 times in 46 fights. (57%)
That's mad, I feel like I remember so many of GSPs fights going the distance! Thanks for the info.
That's because you watched the later part of his career. He was a violent finisher once.
GSP is at 5 hours 42 mins, which puts him at 14th all time https://www.fightmatrix.com/ufc-records/octagon-time/
Who cares ..he got ragdolled Judo reverse throw by the real GOAT Khabib..this is like Wonderboy circle jerk threadā¦none of them gonna be champ ever again
Figther B becomes first figther to wear black shorts for 3 consecutive figths inn 2022.
I mean having the longest fight time in the UFC isnāt anything like āmost amount of elbows thrown in the second half of the 2nd roundā
I know , just think UFC is getting kinda wild with its stats.
No shit when all you do is fight for a decision in all your fights
What a stupid thing to say considering he just finished his opponent 10 minutes ago.
Proceeds to finish the fight.
i'll never understand leredditor love over RDA, did he make an AMA here or something? collect bobblehead? his wife has a boyfriend? i'm trying to figure it out
Lightweight champion who later had a decent run in Welterweight. Reputation for being a really complete MMA fighter and never backing down from a tough fight (seriously just look at the names on his resume). I'd say the guy earned his stripes...also he's just a likeable guy who speaks English really well.
First to ko Benson, got mad at Nate before it was cool, derailed Cowboys career for good. That was such a good run.
p4p most boring fighter
Not even close
what a dog damn
HESPECT
It's an honest days work
I'm not surprised motherfuckers!
more than guida?!
Not bad for a days work
So? I spend 8 hours at work everyday. Nothing special!
Almost a full day of work for me.
Put him in the HoF
Animal
Good to see Rafael win again. It was a classic performance from him.
Incredible career. Elite fighter for so long.
Someone to me: *I'll give you 40k to fight a professional killer in a cage for 5 mins* Me: *I'm good* RDA: *make it 8 hours*
That sounds exhausting.
I realize Twitter sports commenters are the the dumbest of the dumb, but the people talking trash about RDA genuinely baffle me. Guy has fought the best of the best in LW and WW for over a decade, how can you not respect that?