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Miguel Torres cut from UFC for quoting its always sunny

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  1. suitedaces1012 suitedaces1012 is offline

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    Dec 9th, 2011 (12/9/2011 8:09pm)

    http://sports.yahoo.com/mma/blog/cag...ysp_frm_woah=1

    Just saw this, seems beyond messed up to me. Everyone has a different sense of humor, I understand you represent your company as a public sports figure in all aspects of communication, but seems a bit over the line to take a way a very big margin in a guys career salary potential for quoting a joke made on network television.

    Condit and Torres were always the most exciting fighters for me to watch from the WEC too, so its disappointing that he finally gets a chance to increase his exposure and salary potential now that the WEC and UFC merged and he gets dropped for making a small error in judgement
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    Dec 9th, 2011 (12/9/2011 8:12pm) in reply to suitedaces1012

    is it me or was the joke not in that article? lolsigh media
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    Dec 9th, 2011 (12/9/2011 8:16pm) in reply to norcaljeff

     
    Originally Posted by norcaljeff View Post

    is it me or was the joke not in that article? lolsigh media

    It wasn't. Joke was basically if windowless vans were called surpise vans, people wouldn't mind going for rides in them. Don't know the first thing about ufc or dana white beyond who he is, but it seems like and overreaction but a understandable one to avoid the backlash that could come from this, especially consider the events of the last few months.
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    Dec 9th, 2011 (12/9/2011 8:17pm) in reply to danimal703

    Guess it's dark.
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    Dec 9th, 2011 (12/9/2011 8:33pm) in reply to danimal703

     
    Originally Posted by danimal703 View Post

    It wasn't. Joke was basically if windowless vans were called surpise vans, people wouldn't mind going for rides in them. Don't know the first thing about ufc or dana white beyond who he is, but it seems like and overreaction but a understandable one to avoid the backlash that could come from this, especially consider the events of the last few months.

    Replace windowless van with rape van and you've got the joke. He originally posted rape van, but then went back and changed it to windowless van.
     
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    Dec 9th, 2011 (12/9/2011 8:39pm) in reply to gamma21

    gay
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    Dec 9th, 2011 (12/9/2011 8:41pm) in reply to voorh33s

    this story rapes
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    Dec 9th, 2011 (12/9/2011 8:52pm) in reply to gamma21

     
    Originally Posted by gamma21 View Post

    Replace windowless van with rape van and you've got the joke. He originally posted rape van, but then went back and changed it to windowless van.

    That makes more sense. Again, I don't know the first thing about UFC or their politics but now knowing he originally tweeted "rape vans", the punishment seems justified. At least by an outsider.
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    Dec 9th, 2011 (12/9/2011 8:54pm) in reply to danimal703

     
    Originally Posted by danimal703 View Post

    That makes more sense. Again, I don't know the first thing about UFC or their politics but now knowing he originally tweeted "rape vans", the punishment seems justified. At least by an outsider.

    yeah but forrest and rashad keep their job bc they make the ufc more money... fuck you dana
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    Dec 9th, 2011 (12/9/2011 10:11pm) in reply to voorh33s

     
    Originally Posted by voorh33s View Post

    yeah but forrest and rashad keep their job bc they make the ufc more money... fuck you dana

    Part of what makes the UFC so good is what makes the UFC total shit. Dana White having complete control allows better fights to be made, but at the same time when shit like this goes down fighters have little recourse.
     
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    Dec 9th, 2011 (12/9/2011 10:40pm) in reply to gamma21

    Dana better not talk shit about rape/contravans to el burro's face!
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    Dec 9th, 2011 (12/9/2011 11:45pm) in reply to norcaljeff

    rashads comments were so much worse
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    Dec 10th, 2011 (12/10/2011 12:13am) in reply to calibre908

    make a joke about a "rape van" off of a popular tv show quote= lose your job

    directly insult another fighter by referencing a specific person who is being tried for multiple accounts of pedophilia and sexual/ lude acts with a minor = chuckles while standing between the two fights to keep them from going off during a press conference?

    okay dana... gtfo
    Edited By: FistFights Dec 10th, 2011 at 12:16 AM
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    Dec 10th, 2011 (12/10/2011 12:16am) in reply to FistFights

    unfortunately life aint fair and some people get away with things that others get fired for. oh well.
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    Dec 10th, 2011 (12/10/2011 12:18am) in reply to curiousgeorge

    i'm pretty sure this wasn't the only beef Dana and Miguel had...
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    Dec 10th, 2011 (12/10/2011 12:19am) in reply to Geoff Moore

    flip flip flipadelphia
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    Dec 10th, 2011 (12/10/2011 12:37am) in reply to BRm34eva

    @Glenn_Howerton Glenn Howerton
    That is not a quote from our show RT @master_jeff: @ a UFC fighter got cut because he tweeted a joke from sunny mixedmartialarts.com/news/370051/Mi…
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