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The GI Joe/Cobra Concept Art & Filecard Project
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03-12-2010, 07:10 PM
zuludelta
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Fair enough. But there are plenty of mediocre boxers/kickboxers in boxing and in kickboxing and the same goes for wrestlers and jiujitsu. MMA's a young sport too. Some of the kids who are coming up now have been training Boxing/MT/Wrestling/BJJ their whole lives and it shows. The next ten years are going to be a lot of fun to watch (hopefully you don't have beef with Dana like you do with Stern; I'd hate for you to miss out on great eras in b-ball AND MMA).
Yeah, good point. As for Dana White... my problem with the guy is the same with any promoter who carries himself as something of an attraction himself, kind of like Don King and Bob Arum. I think it detracts from the sport and harkens back to the hucksterism and shady fights of the early 20th century. Also, I've always firmly believed that a promoter's main job is to ensure that the most people watch the fight and White's done an amazing job of that... but when a promotion company starts assuming the role of de facto matchmaker, ranking authority, and sanctioning body, that's where I see a real conflict of interest coming in. I still watch the UFC, of course, I just don't give as much legitimacy to the titles as I used to (and I think the same way of boxing, what with the different sanctioning bodies diluting the significance of belts).
EDIT
: Just wanted to add, this isn't just a UFC problem... it's the same promoter-cum-sanctioning-body issue with Strikeforece and Bellator and all the other also-rans. Until a legitimate third party sanctioning body for MMA comes out with the authority to actually enforce across the board ranking-based matchmaking, we'll be in a position where the fights that should be made to determine true lineal champions in the sport might not get made because of issues between promoters. The presence of the WBA as the most authoritative third party sanctioning body back in the 1960s, in my mind, helped make the heavyweight boxing title the single most prestigious sporting achievement back in the day, and I think MMA needs something like that to propel it into the true sporting mainstream and not just something for the SpikeTV crowd (boxing today needs something like that as well, but at least boxing has the "Ring Magazine title" which has become the only boxing title that means anything anymore, even if it only exists on paper).
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Before Vorona was introduced as part of the G.I.Joe team,she was Diana of the Oktober Guard. She was introduced along side of Mayday,Mariner,Depth Charge and Barrel Roll. So will you be giving her an upgrade into the Joe team.
I'll be keeping her as part of the Oktober Guard. The Guard are a ways away on my to-do list (sometime late this year), though, as I have them scheduled after I finish Cobra.
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