Why Trash Talk Is Destroying The UFC

[@SPACECOWBOY705]

"I am not impressed by your performance" is one of the greatest showings of trash talk in UFC history

[@tonbog1053]

The OG BMF & Master legend Bisping & GSP was a great call back

[@DisparityOfBeliefAndTruth]

I read that in a French accent.

[@ruiyurra4996]

@@DisparityOfBeliefAndTruth same😂

[@shahidabdoullakhanzorovr1564]

*Conor tries mental warfare with Aldo:* wins the belt and becomes an overnight sensation *Conor tries mental warfare with Khabib:* gets schooled, embarrassed, turned into a meme, and ends up retiring twice in a 12-month-span while Khabib eventually becomes a legend *Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Proceed with caution.*

[@theunconventionaltalks3580]

win or lose. he will always be the king

[@TheMicahwitz]

Exactly!!!! Everyone has the opportunity to smack talk, but the wise fighters know that it can bite you in the ass if you do it to the wrong guy.

[@0Turbox]

End of the story, trash talk works only when you have to fight gnomes.

[@bobbye7353]

McGregor was famous WAY before Aldo, and would have been regardless of that person.

[@SanjuSingh]

And wr qs dans were entertained by both,which is ultimately the point right? Fighting is entertainment

[@louisvilleslugger6806]

The best trash talker is GSP of course! “Matt Hughes congratulations on your win, but I was not impressed by your performance.” -GSP

[@Maartun]

2008 till 2012 was definitely the golden era for the UFC in my opinion. It was so much fun watching all those events live back in the day, I really miss those days.

[@sonny5982]

2014-2018 is golden

[@llibmukred5906]

Millennials grew up with Mixed Martial Arts (UFC).

[@moonvenerable7897]

The last time i was so hyped that i counted the days for a event was UFC229

[@jimmicrackhead12]

Pride champs came too

[@honestusfitness]

Totally agree.

[@xfilercuba]

So who's the best trash talker of his era...Chael Sonnen?

[@irrelevantideology9640]

Absolutely.

[@SPACECOWBOY705]

100% Who Else? Dom Cruz?

[@sukhdevr3489]

@@irrelevantideology9640 Yep.

[@davidbarton1806]

He is undefeated

[@nash06]

Mcgregor obviously

[@warrennicholsony.fernando4513]

What I miss about the early days of the UFC is the fact that it was about skill and determination. Trash talking is turning it into pro-wrestling.

[@iam-retarded-but]

nah as long as it's not acting it's great

[@altafansari7686]

GSP is a wise man.

[@ceceroxy2227]

When trash talk is authentic and funny, and worth listening to its good, Selling a fight is great. But it needs to be within bounds and authentic.

[@meladgoat]

within bounds? sounds like censoring free speech? are you a communist or socialist? It's the fight business. if you don't like the business part. set up some free fights in a backyard somewhere and call it fight club. case closed

[@ceceroxy2227]

@@meladgoat No, you can say what you want of course, but of course making fun of someone's dead father, or there disabled children or telling someone how ugly their wife is, you can say it if you want, I certainly agree that's your right, but I think trash talk should not be used in that manner. Not sure what you want. They should use it to promote fights not to get everyone to want to murder each other.

[@RTL2L]

You are contradicting yourself. it's either authentic or you are just trying to sell a fight, which means it's fake.

[@ceceroxy2227]

@@RTL2L Conor Mcgregor sold fights, because he people know that's who he is. Nate Diaz sell fights because people know he is authentic. Micheal Chandler even sold his next fight pretty well because we know he isnt acting.

[@RTL2L]

@@ceceroxy2227 What are you talking about? Havn't you seen Conor and Nate or Conor and Mayweather hugging and laughing behind the scenes? Damn, you believe it was authentic?)

[@basedpatriotLT]

you can easily insult his family without knowing any particular real life information about them.

[@darkzero992]

yeah but its meaningless, you're just saying names without faces

[@basedpatriotLT]

@@darkzero992 How so? For example you say "your wife is a h**". How does it differ whether you know her face or not?

[@darkzero992]

​@@basedpatriotLT I'm sure it can still rile a man up, but it makes a difference if you know the abuser doesn't know jack shit about your family but is just throwing shit in the air to see if it sticks. Like " i fucked your sister last night" when you don't even have a sister.

[@bekarare]

Yeah, totally agree with the reply above

[@itsbadvibes6504]

George St Pierre what a guy amazing fighter more than that amazing person; he is lowkey one of the nicest people you'll ever meet, looks like it too, guy always has a smile on his face

[@rajendranadarajan8931]

The problem is most fighters don't know how to talk trash and usually it comes of as cringey. Chael Sonnen and Conor McGregor turned it into an art form.

[@ButchCrassidy]

Nah, Chael is cringy as fuck because it's so outlandish at times. Seems more appropriate for the coked up 80s WWF.

[@Only2GendersCommonSense]

​​@@ButchCrassidybruh, you are definitely an outlier cuz everyone loved Sonnen, not just cuz he was undefeated.

[@StylePoints14]

It was never an art form. Fighting in of itself is an art form. Conor destroyed that with Jose Aldo. We could have witnessed a beautiful striking match, but Conor ruined that with trash talk. Who want to watch grown men insult each other, only spitefull mutants wants to see that shit

[@___Truth___]

@@ButchCrassidy Its not trash talk if its not outlandish, wtf kind of trash talking is reserved and normal? Trash talking is meant to be over the top

[@EveK-North]

I don't think GSP believes trash talk is destroying the UFC like the caption says. He's saying at times individuals cross the lines, because showmanship is part of the fight business. And what GSP did to protect himself from such trash talk is to keep private aspects of his life which are dear to him (what he's most proud of). So, trash talk never became personal to him because he never allowed anyone to have those personal data points to hit him with.

[@FallenGrey]

I think someone like Chael would be great to see again.

[@OCCollects]

It brings more eyes to the sport, Connor brought so much attention to the UFC. Brock lesnar back in the day when he started, Devon larrat in arm wrestling. Eddie hall and hafthor beef in strongman. I understand carrying yourself with class and professionalism but Connor sells more tickets than Usman and Connor isn’t even in his league.

[@hmsp7799]

Go watch wwe then boz0

[@OCCollects]

@@hmsp7799 keyboard warrior joined the chat

[@jayr3381]

@@OCCollects triggered conor fanboy joined chat

[@RANTinASIA]

For real go watch wwe if you want entertainment like that. No other sport where fighters put their health in the line the way mma fighters do. Sport needs more respect not clownery.

[@moonvenerable7897]

Those who are fan of the fight game has moved on from Mcgregor long ago, but the "casual" fans who doesn't know the sport well wants to see Mcgregor fight.

[@Johnnyo1300]

Tito Ortiz was the first in the MMA to act a fool at least that’s what I call it games people play when it comes to fighting it’s about the fight not about the mouth some people have to learn that lesson the hard way some people never learned that lesson until it’s too late hopefully the sport doesn’t find out until it’s too late and it becomes big-time wrestling just another cheap entertainment time Will tell

[@ajbudda1038]

He wasn't acting 🤣

[@geralhammonds9272]

Maybe they canTalk about their feelings go to therapy and have a pillow fight, then finish it out with a loving and compassionate hug 🥰

[@aliraid9248]

Chael was a really funny trash talker and he wasn’t that offensive and always sounded like it’s really him unlike masvidal, colby makes it like wwe so it’s fun imo

[@andrewvincent7299]

Colby is a dweeb and nothing about him and his 'character' is authentic. He is like a bad pro wrestler. He's a Conor wannabe. What made Conor so great early in his career is that it was part of his personality turned up to 100. That's the same story with all the greatest pro wrestlers, their character's were really them and their natural charisma turned up. Colby is just a wannabe and anyone with any intuition knows it's fake and that he is a dork.

[@modern.performer]

*"I am not impressed by your performance"*

[@HardTruthsReviews]

GSP! Absolute Legend!

[@jerryesque3747]

How do these fighters not understand that trash talk is PROMOTION. Interviews are PROMOTION, answering questions is PROMOTION. Its like a commercial about selling your personality, and you better make the most of it. These fighters need to understand that's what will make you money. Once you get a relationship with the crowd, they will not care about your win/loss record. If they think people just want to watch a fight, that ain't gonna sell. They want to know your background, they want to know your fighting style, schools you went to, fighters you know, PROMOTE it all. This is why something as fake as wrestling finds success, they make you care about the person with endless promotions and presentations. If its just fighting, you'd be on world star making nothing. Yeah, this is selling out, but you need money doing something this dangerous.

[@enekaitzteixeira70I0]

That's bullshit.

[@mobiblaize]

The worst example of this today is Colby

[@andrewvincent7299]

Exactly. He's a dork and a big phony.

[@roshanvermezyari5273]

When you start going into detail and make it personal that is no longer trash talking. Colby was way out of bounds and Many people thought he had it coming. Masvidal was in the wrong but you can’t talk about a man’s kids and wife like that and expect zero retaliation or repercussion.

[@mr.christopherdean6705]

Give me all the things he said about his wife and kids? I will wait :)

[@roshanvermezyari5273]

@@mr.christopherdean6705 watch the press conference. I don’t have time to go through everything he said. Most Ufc fighters and even Dana White said he crossed the line.

[@SidmanJam]

@@roshanvermezyari5273 😂 snowflake

[@eljaroebeukes5118]

@@roshanvermezyari5273 he call3d masvidal a dead beat and thats all - you cant name anything because there is nothing.

[@roshanvermezyari5273]

@@eljaroebeukes5118 lol he literally talked about his kids and wife. It wasn’t only about Masvidal.

[@secretagent4610]

GSP is an awesome dude.

[@Ayog06]

Funny how some UFC fighter's don't know their boxing. Duran was clearly the better fighter between he and Ray Leonard. Duran is considered the best lightweight in history, and while becoming champion in four different weight classes. Duran retired with 70 knockouts and while Ray Leonard retired with 36 wins. 🤔

[@DarkArterialGore]

Sugar Ray Leonard skill wise was much better than Duran who was more of a grinding slugger brawler so I think you should re-watch the second fight between the two to reevaluate your deluded opinion on Leonard who was one of the most technically skilled boxers in the history of the sport. While Duran was a beloved and fun fighter you can't honestly say he was a better boxer than Leonard just because he has more "pro" fights when half of them were against bums back in Panama while Sugar Ray was winning Olympic gold😅 Plus, Leonard beat Hagler & Hearns whom both beat Duran🤐

[@Ayog06]

@@DarkArterialGore LOL. Olympic gold means nothing in the pros. Camacho and Terry Norris knocked out Ray Leonard during his comeback. Meanwhile Duran wins two more titles in two different weight classes during that time. Duran was bigger than Ali in some countries. 😆 You're funny.

[@josephajani5071]

I DREAD HEARING PATRICK TALK TO BE HONEST - IM ONLY HERE FOR GSP

[@grantbroom405]

Incredibley thoughtful man

[@tn5630]

Personally i love the trash talking.

[@fearlessjoebanzai]

2:09 Who, on God's green earth, is Rubber Toads Around? as per CC

[@johnwick5081]

You dont bring family in a fight conversation....it has nothing to do !

[@smokespices8417]

Conor has made the ufc take on a WWE type role to get viewers to buy pay per views. It's not like it was before.

[@oxsila]

Me waiting for the part where he explains why trash talk is destroying the UFC ...

[@RaphialLee]

Trash talk isn't destroy the ufc. Trash talk destroyed the ufc. All I know is that's the reason why I stopped watching it. Too many fighting were doing it.

[@devadasn]

The guy in the middle is so long winded. It always take him FOREVER to get a question out

[@darbyheavey406]

I love my opponent because he makes me better- motto on wrestling room wall

[@melaniedupre1003]

Let me put it to you this way I don’t pay attention too much to all the smack talking in trash talking because I’m just wanting to see the fight But when it’s obvious that’s that that there’s hating going on I can do without that If there’s problems real problems take it up with the 🥊 Boxing 🥊 🥊Federation I’m like one of the judges I’m just there to see the fight! I like watching their techniques The sport of it Im a spectator 🥊🇺🇸😎🥊

[@ao24cleve]

PBD is the man!

[@hmsp7799]

Conor and his fanboy ruined it for the MMA COMMUNITY

[@adeyeyedamilola163]

Lol! MMA community is actually filled with bums and low tier people. There’s nothing Conor has said that has not been said before him in different eras

[@snowman374th]

If you can't handle the trash, maybe you don't need to fight. LOL

[@bigheadrhino]

Porier handled trash talk the best out of everyone. He maintained his dignity and Conor ended up looking like the fool.

[@meladgoat]

lol porier is the biggest sleazeball. no dignity. but he managed to fool you pretty good.

[@AroundElvesWatchUrselves96]

"Jolie's woife, Jolie's woife!" 🎶

[@Ar1AnX1x]

I mean Dustin was beating the f*** out of everybody while Conor was retired and partying, why would he be scared? aside from getting knocked out by Conor but since he improved his boxing he wasn't that scared, Max is a great boxer and Dustin did 5 rounds with him.

[@beforetheyear0323]

CRITICIZE by CREATING. In this era of the 21st century, we as a society and as a nation has become habitual to criticize and blame the government for our every problem. We blame the government for corruption, for dry tabs, for load shedding, for illiteracy, for poverty, for unemployment, even for mosquitoes, and many more. The reason behind it is that we live in a democratic country, whose constitution gives us some fundamental rights for the expression of our thoughts, and hence we blame the government. Before blaming the government for our problems, we need to realize our civic responsibilities and duties. We blame the government for illiteracy but first, we need to realize that we are the people who do not send our children to government schools (which provide education, books, and even uniform for free). We blame the government for uncleanliness, dirty roads, and filthy public places but we should think about it who threw the litter. Surely authorities are responsible for daily cleanliness but civilians are responsible for that dirt and uncleanliness when they throw garbage instead of putting it in a dustbin thinking that sweepers are responsible for that mess when they don’t do their duty. We blame the government for territory, but do honor killings ourselves. We blame the government for corruption but we give bribes to police and officials, we use pirated movies, software, and music, we don’t pay taxes, we hide our income during the calculation of income taxes and we prefer to buy exam papers and grades of studying the whole year. Directly or indirectly almost every person is involved in corruption but we have a problem with only corrupt politicians. So, before blaming officials and politicians, we need to correct ourselves and realize our civic responsibilities. 😅

[@Only2GendersCommonSense]

"Tell another jackal story..."

[@adamcox5311]

Conor brought the ufc mainstream like it or not. The problem is like Dana says he has 600+ fighters on contract they can have fights every week. Money is harder to come by unless you’re special in that environment. That’s my opinion, could be wrong I know.

[@clintflapcicle421]

99% of it is to maximise interest in order to milk as much money as possible. its all instigated by the promoters, this tactic enables the promoters to get paid without having to put the ground work in themselves to sell a fight,,, fucking genius,,.

[@wirenutz7869]

Cyndi Lauper , Picatinny Arsenal Wharton NJ !

[@lin_6x579]

Trash talk is literally growing the sport lol every other sport trash talks but when actual fighters do it y’all cry 💀💀💀💀💀

[@meladgoat]

it's literally called the fight business. if you don't like the trash talk or the business part. set up some fights in your backyard/basement for free and call it fight club.

[@goatclips6418]

The answer is chael sonnen, still undefeated

[@mikeborgmann]

Wverybody saw Coner Mcgregor get rich and famous so now thata the strategy alot of them use!

[@christoferprestipino7433]

Trash talk isn’t destroying the UFC..I’m not sure if people recall the pre Connor era, but I’d say it’s about 5x more popular today.

[@videostoragechannel]

I don't feel that way. 10 years ago there was Brock, Jones, Penn, Diaz, GSP and Silva...who is there today? Khabib is the only fighter I liked in the last few years and he's gone. None of my friends watch it anymore but from 09-2012 then we'd have UFC fight parties every couple months. It seems shittier even though the fighters probably have evolved. Not sure why.

[@christoferprestipino7433]

@@videostoragechannel it doesn’t matter how you feel, just go look up the numbers.

[@videostoragechannel]

@@christoferprestipino7433 Where I live, everybody watched it back then and now the bars stopped ordering the packages because nobody cares about it. That's not my feeling, that's something that has truly happened and it was happening BEFORE Covid. When GSP left a lot of people lost interest.

[@surajkamble3538]

Let's go king Colby🙌👊

[@deathwishdan2557]

Bad trash talk is bad but it's infinitely better than the motivational/religious speaker types. Just try having a sense of humour.

[@matthewholmes8638]

The fighters understand Dana wants to sell fights. The more shit talk and outrageous behavior you have the more fights you sell. He wants the Rappers of MMA. He want's showboating and flashy with shit talking. It sells fights. Everyone has seen the money Conor makes from running his mouth.

[@TheMaestro8]

Khabib was also doing the same stuff.

[@irrelevantideology9640]

I hate to say it....I really really do but, Jake Paul actually changed my mind on this subject....all is fair in love and war. If you can go out there and try to kill someone, idk why it matters so much what you say. If you get offended by something, that shows insecurity and you should probably do some inner inventory and figure out why those words hold so much power over you.

[@donaldvanvliet9039]

It’s about respecting your opponent. It’s perhaps an old fashioned concept, certainly in fight sports and in america, where it’s become more about money than about the sport. But it’s not because it’s old fashioned that it is outdated.

[@videostoragechannel]

Dude that's rediculous. If I got on TV and told 20 million people that your Mom blows retarded kids behind 7/11 you're going to be offended, as you should. That's not your insecurity, it's called pride and self respect. There's a fine line.

[@davidfernandez876]

SRL was a better boxer but Duran was a superior fighter

[@faizan5456]

The GOAT

[@peakmaster3273]

🐐

[@TheDentist27]

GSP almost ready to come out of the closet here

[@G225-t4w]

This is factually wrong the ufc has grown even more since the trash talk got better

[@davidbarton1806]

He's not talking about Revenue he's talking about the reverence of the sport and the respect of martial artist and how they should carry themselves

[@wazzabanzook5028]

UFC should sack Colby , he only brings trash 🗑 and he will never be champ

[@sosleepy420]

Diaz and Chael started it lol

[@FreeLevant-b1d]

Dustin does not talk trash

[@rahuljoshi6935]

No it's not its better now

[@vumsang9746]

Smart

[@jin6000]

Completely misleading title. He didn't say anything about how trash talk is destroying the UFC. Disliked.

[@Xathos-cl9px]

And then Khabib ended Conor’s career! 😂

[@lykastannis7662]

Muslim detected. Opinion rejected.

[@o.Struggler]

Chael and GSP are the Undisputed Kings of Trash Talk.

[@sirgregoir]

I find it laughable....childish

[@peakmaster3273]

UFC gets boring.

[@Dobrymolodets]

George’s English is getting worse

[@seangoodl4848]

I am not impressed by your performance (Quebec accent)

[@scottsimon769]

Last 🤬 💩

[@pfffff]

Why are all conservative channels "this is being destroyed". Haha you guys are babies.