UFC 134: Ross Pearson vs. Edson Barboza Set for Rio
UFC 134: Ross Pearson vs. Edson Barboza Set for Rio
The card for UFC in Rio at UFC 134 is starting to take shape. Now a lightweight bout between British fighter, Ross Pearson (12-4), and Brazilian-born, Edson Barboza (8-0), is set for UFC 134 as confirmed by UFC.com . “Undefeated 8-0 Brazilian sensation Edson Barboza takes on Ultimate Fighter 9 winner Ross ‘The Real Deal’ Pearson,” said UFC president, Dana White . Pearson is coming off of a …
UFC 134: Ross Pearson vs. Edson Barboza Set for Rio
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Question by doc_sinista: The “Face” of the UFC?
As an MMA fan since the beginning, I’ve watched how the UFC has evolved and was very impressed and for the most part with UFC 100. Love or hate him, Dana White has done with the UFC what no one thought would ever be possible with “Human Cock Fighting”, mainstream acceptance. I did have a problem with the remarks that Lesnar had after winning his bout against Mir. As unprofessional as his remarks were, and I won’t go into details cause everyone knows what was said, my real question is why the media has chosen Lesnar as the “Face of the UFC”? Lesnar has a grand total of 5 MMA fights with a record of 4-1. If you look at every other champion’s in the UFC Lesnar’s record can’t compete. Here are the stats:
Lyoto Machida 15-0 (15 fights)
Anderson Silva 24-4 (28 fights)
Anderson Silva 19-2 (21 fights)
BJ Penn 13-5-1 (19 fights)
How the heck does someone with less than 10 fights in his career become the face of anything? Also, with all of the respectable fighters in the UFC, why would the media choose the guy with the worst attitude of all of them. There is no way that anyone in the media would ever say Manny is the face of MLB. He’s one of the best players, but he is not the FACE of MLB. T.O. would never be called the face of the NFL, nor would Artest be called the face of the NBA. So why is it that the guy who has the worst attitude, has less than 10 fights, and who really hasn’t done anything great in the UFC or the sport of MMA as a whole all of a sudden the “FACE” of the UFC?
Mikey Triangles is right. The records should be:
Lyoto Machida 15-0 (15 fights)
Anderson Silva 24-4 (28 fights)
George St. Pierre 19-2 (21 fights)
BJ Penn 13-5-1 (19 fights)
Sorry for the screw up.
Best answer:
Answer by Notsoquickeh
Lets start a boycott on Brock!
What do you think? Answer below!
bottom line is he is the best guy to publicize the sport.
I do agree with your opinion but the new fans are loving brock lesnar and the more fans the more money in the pocket of dana white
I agree with you 100%, but i think we both already know the answer to this… except I think one of your Silva’s needs to be a GSP.
The media wants to make the sport look bad. It’s still illegal in NY, and as long as it stays illegal in NY Madison Square Garden can’t host MMA events, and Boxing still has a shot at growing back some of it’s fan base.
Really boxing’s crumbling fan base is the source of a lot of MMA’s problems. I mean when McCain labeled the sport human cockfighting, and since then I’ve seen him at several championship boxing matches…
Anderson Silva is the Face of UFC in my opinion.
Well Brock has acting skill to go along with his fighting skills, he was in the wwe, which has brought a slew of new fans to the sport.
In addition, although both Machida and Silva are great champions and fighters, neither speaks english. Which makes it tough to be in the spotlight. The only reason Machida ever got a shot was because Rampage turned it down. Similar to the Yushin Okami situation, he’s one of a few guys who has beat Anderson Silva, yet still toils in semi title contention fights, he lost a close fight to Franklin and has beat everyone else….6,7- and 1?…why doesnt anyone talk about him getting a shot. He’s not very marketable, thats why. In the end its all about the dollars.
The UFC like any other business will take the most marketable person as the face of the franchise, for the time being. The Lesnar rant was one of the best things for the UFC. More people will watch now, people love a heel. Chuck, was the face, for a while when he was knocking people out all the time, Tito Ortiz had it for a while, as well as Royce Gracie, Randy Couture, Shamrock. When you win your on top of the world.
Johnny Depp said it best in the movie blow “When your up it’s never as high as it seems, when your down your never as low as you feel.”
He did beat Randy Couture but yeah all of the hype given to Brock Lesnar could blow up on their face like it did during his post fight comments. But the FACT is that Georges St. Pierre is the actual face of the UFC like it or not he is the best at the moment. I would rather see someone like Damien Maia as the “face” of the promotion due to his excellent Jui Jitsu skills……which would get the “haters” to accept MMA as a sport instead of the “human cock fighting” that Senators claimed it to be……but Brock and Kimbo has taken the promotion a few steps backwards in the quest to get $ $ $ $ $ out of the bandwagon fans…
i still think it’s Chuck Liddell and Randy Couture. just cause they aren’t champs doesn’t mean they aren’t the biggest things.
Its whoever Dana White wants it to be. Tito Ortiz in the early 90′s was the face of the ufc because white pushed him on every cover of magazines and ufc games. Then it was Chuck Liddell, now Dana White hasnt given his new poster boy yet.
He’s the face of the UFC simply because he’s somebody already known to at least some part of the mainstream audience. Just like how they keep showing celebrities in the UFC crowd, he’s somebody people can recognise and will probably already have some sort of opinion on. Plus, to a journalist assigned to cover UFC 100 for a general audience, writing about Brock shouting and pounding Frank Mir’s head is much easier than describing the technicalities of GSP taking down Thiago Alves twenty times in five rounds. The mainstream media isn’t really concerned with the intricacies of an activity many don’t even consider a sport, so a literally larger-than-life, and already known character like Lesnar is an obvious ‘hook’ for a lazy journalist.
A further point, of course, is that the Heavyweight Champion is always the focal point of any combat sport. Hence the continuous bemoaning by boxing fans of the state of their sport due to the weak HW division, even though the lower weights are full of good boxers and interesting fights.
Anyway, it’s not like Brock Lesnar is really doing anything new. Mike Tyson was the face of boxing for over a decade (he arguably still is to non-boxing fans) acting in much the same way. The mainstream media, I think, expects everyone who participates in a combat sport to be damaged in some way and act like Jake LaMotta. It’s a stereotype, and playing to stereotypes is easier than trying to counteract them. In fairness to the media, if they’d been paying attention six or seven years ago they’d have seen Tito Ortiz doing pretty much the same things Lesnar is doing now.
i would say forest is the face of the ufc if it wasn’t for him the ufc would not be like it is today he got so many new fans to the ufc