I think Holly winning hurt Dana in the long run. She was his cash cow. Not no more.
He's hurt personally. He's also known to place bets (even though it's illegal for the promoter) so he may have lost a little cash. Business wise, this is great. She's still a cash cow. More people are gonna tune in to see the rematch. It's the way the fight game goes. More people watched Silva return against Weidman, than they did the first Weidman fight. More people tuned into the GSP - Serra rematch than the first. Cain -JDS 2 did WAY more buys than the first. People tend not to buy PPV when a champ is so dominant and seems undefeatable. Once they get beat, a new appeal is there and suddenly people are more engaged than they were before.
What ever happened to GSP I remember saying something like he had to take some time off because it was best for him?
He's considering a comeback. Right now, he's in a 6 week striking camp with Freddie Roach. Then he's gonna do a full mma camp after that. If he's still feeling good, he wants to come back for Hendricks.
Unfortunately, I think this will spark more Floyd talk. Whats sad is that people don't realize that Holm is not just a boxer, she's a martial artist. A boxer would not have the ability to escapes those clinchs and top positions. But as you said, these people who talk about this know nothing of fight game.
He took a few months holiday and then went right back to TriStar. He's been coaching and training almost every day. Just did a few weeks with that Northcutt kid that's coming up. He never retired, just didn't feel the drive to take on any fights. He was also trying to get them to up the drug testing, which they did. Oh, and he's the star of the new KickBoxer remake
I don't see her coming back and being champion again. She will prbably fight again, but I don't know if she'll be champ again. She's been exposed everybody's going to gain confidence from this in the whole 135 pound pool. She's a meltdown away every minute of the day. She's got issues with her head, she's been lucky with her winning streak. The knockouts she had previously look sensational but they were horrible backyard amateurish styled fighting. The arm bars are great but she looked so amateur last night. She chased Holly around and couldn't even cut off the Octagon to corner her. She looked like an amateur last night. Her take downs are always generated as a counter when her opponent moves in on her. She uses their momentum to flip them over. When you're standing toe to toe with a striker she has to try to create the takedowns. She couldn't do that. She is very limited. She looked bad last night! I knew it was going to happen, and I'm glad it happened. She's a very poor sport seems like a lot of people confused her rudeness and unprofessionalism as badass. Rudeness and bad manners should never be confused with badass! Good riddance to her! At least it was fun to cheer against her for a couple of years. Of course one more thing, Dana will try to somehow keep the money train going on with her and proper up there again against somebody. Hopefully its not going to be Holly again because I don't see a different result if they fight again.
