That’s not necessarily true, because White (and Vince McMahon) are forcing them to classify themselves as independent contractors because the government isn’t cracking down on them and making them carry worker’s compensation insurance like they should be. Dana and Vince pretending that fighters and wrestlers are…

yeah but people who are using it in that way don’t add “little” to the middle of it

Ohhhh ok you were arguing in favor of NCAA athletes trying this, my bad. I’m with you then and honestly hope this inspires them to do so, but like you I’m not holding my breath either.

Even if that were true (which it is not), if NCAA basketball players were cutting promos to hype up Final Four games, I might actually give a shit about college basketball.

Same here except I commented on the post yesterday about Dana’s little hissyfit. Before yesterday, I didn’t give the slightest shit about Conor McGregor, but now I’m actually filled with a lot of conflicting feelings about him on the strength of his grandiose bullshit. I want to see Nate Diaz beat the shit out of him…

And again, no one is saying McGregor’s a hero. He’s actually a sexist douche, but again, and this is the key thing you seem unable to wrap your tiny little mind around, he is the one who does the life-threatening work that people actually pay to see. No one is watching UFC because they love Dana White. No one is…

Yeah, the reality of nostalgia, which is catnip for people who’ve given up on life in the here and now.

What do you think does more to promote a fight, this grand-standing or some run of the mill press conferences? Shit, I don’t even like MMA and I almost want to see this fight just to see if this arrogant cocksucker can live up to the hype he’s putting up with this statement. Is some of it ass-covering and spin? Sure,…

At what point did I say he was a hero? I don’t even like MMA. I’m taking his side because Dana White is a reprehensible human being AND he’s management. He produces nothing of value for the world, and much as I’m not interested in anything Conor McGregor produces, I’m on his side by default because he’s the laborer in…

Which one of the two has the longer track record of being a lying asshat, Dana or McGregor? At least I’m basing my opinion on something other than (and more well documented than) Dana White’s self-interested narrative.

Wow, who would have thought that a weird dork who plays a dork sport and was pushed into playing that dork sport by his domineering father before he was out of diapers would become an even weirder, sadder, dork desperately trying to achieve some sort of macho ideal when said father dies!

Nah, see, this is completely wrongheaded. Does management usually have the most leverage? Yes. Is that right, though? They don’t actually produce the labor that makes their industries run, and nowhere is that difference more acute than in sports. You seem to be laboring under the delusion that management has earned…

Yes, capitalism is inherently exploitative, but it’s a lot more acute when the capitalist in question presides over an industry that is basically human cockfighting.

I can’t speak to that because I don’t watch the NFL, but I’ll refer you to someone else in the comments who pointed out that in order to believe the NFL is doing some widespread rigging of its games, you have to believe Roger Goodell is a competent enough administrator to carry off a huge conspiracy and not leave any…

Also, we don’t actually know the situation at hand, people like you keep taking Dana White entirely at his word that the dispute is as he characterizes it, and that’s pretty silly of you considering the man is a bald, style-challenged P.T. Barnum.

He may well be (I think declaring any single athlete in any sport the GOAT is kind of foolish given how much historical context matters and how much every major sport has changed over the years), but I don’t have to like him for it. In fact, his indisputable greatness is a large part of why I hated him and still hate…

That is one sad ass cult to still be a member of, bro. It’s not like MJ really needs a bunch of random ass sycophants running around carrying water for him at this point, he’s in no danger of his cult of personality disappearing.

Oh I’m not saying stars don’t get foul calls much less often than non-stars, I haven’t seen any data that quantifies exactly the disparity, but I wouldn’t be surprised if that was the case (on the other hand, many things that are treated by sports fans as “conventional wisdom” like this tend to be wrong when actually…

Did your last job involve getting pummeled by people and the very real risk of death everytime you did it? Because if it didn’t, your analogy doesn’t work.

Again, I’ll ask: Which one of the two people involved in this dispute, Dana White and Conor McGregor, does the job that involves actually risking death?