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Message: [QUOTE="OzExorcist, post: 3334955, member: 23910"] You have good taste in fighters :) Just a friendly reminder, they call it the fight business because it's a [I]business[/I]. When you accept that and stop thinking about it like a more traditional sporting league with purely merit-based standings and playoffs and whatnot, life becomes a lot less aggravating ;) On your other point about the rankings BTW I completely agree, they're nonsense - especially now that pretty much every reputable MMA media outlet that was involved in generating them started boycotting the process. I can kind of see why they thought they needed to introduce them, but at the same time I don't think it was a great idea on their part. It just creates a whole lot of unnecessary drama when they ignore them and just make the fights they were always going to make anyway. Who knows LOL. Though I will just say one more time, McGregor and the UFC do have a legit concern when it comes to Khabib staying healthy and keeping the fights he's booked for. And there's a [i]huge[/i] difference between pulling out of a main event against McGregor that's expected to do a million-plus PPV buys, and a mid-card fight against Donald Cerrone or Tony Ferguson. Now just to be clear, I think Khabib is an awesome figher and the match would be exciting as hell. And you could criticise Conor for "ducking" Khabib - the guy's not stupid, if he's got multiple fights in front of him, each of which looks good from a business perspective, of course he's gonna choose the one that's a slightly better style matchup in the cage. But you can't just ignore the fact that this is the big-business end of the sport. When someone pulls out of a McGregor fight, the company is flushing truckloads of money down the toilet just on the marketing spend alone. It's naive in the extreme if you don't think that's a real concern for everyone involved in making this decision. [/QUOTE]

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