Remy Bonjasky and Marinho Gordon discuss the week in Op De Bank. This week they discuss the press conference for Collision 7, Mike Tyson vs Jake Paul, UFC and more
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Sure cool that Rico said the fighters should get paid more. But you guys forget that Abena said it first (look back). Rico had to think for at least 5 seconds before he dared to say it!
Dear Remy and Marinho,
Nice episode again! I just watched Glory C7's tickets today and was shocked by two things.
1. How little has been sold even though the event is in two weeks. Think maybe half about.
2. Ticket prices. You can't charge 150/190 euros for tickets in the stands. Maybe they should start a Black Friday action of 50% off. Otherwise I really don't see it working out.
Furthermore, I wonder if Glory should not also hold some kind of Contender series with talents. Ngannou indicated that there are hundreds of Ngannou's running around in Cameroon. I would say try scouting there and let fighters of different nationalities decide who deserves a Glory contract. For example, look for a new Alex Pereira in Brazil who grew up in the favelas. Those are guys who are really hungry. I miss that a little at Glory right now.
How do you guys look at it?
wow! Sincerely enjoyed this episode !
how I love these comments all, so pure and no mincing of words . Thought sometimes I was the only one bothered by glory's marketing etc.
realize their put 2 fighters at the table who should be against each other but it looked like they were brothers who were going to chat a little about cows and calves.
glory only holds their self back , they just want the mainstream to be there and do everything politically correct.
Vb: " kick" from Jamal which could perfectly be used as marketing to put down rico vs Jamal , no what does glory/rico are they going to look in the book and suspend Jamal for this . Saw it already in the comments but Dana white would use this and believe me stage would be even re small , Jamal has a heavy fanbase ( fan myself ) .
press conference was just dead , enfusion does it better though it is a " smaller " organization yet more atmosphere and excitement which attracts to go buy a ticket .
Pronikon has taken words out of my mouth , what he says are just FACTS you can't beat around the bush.
abena vs Tarik is not bad blood anymore that thanks to glory ( although they are really going to put up a top match guaranteed December 7 ) but the fact that they didn't promote that or not enough anyway is really disgraceful !!!
I get so annoyed with glory's marketing and handling of fighters , abena etc those guys deserve more credit .
rico/glory are 1 organization together and that was already clear and exposed at the grand prix .
If glory wants to hit 1 big bite then they should let Jamal fight rico and you are guaranteed sincere pure bad blood and a full stage where so much security is needed and then I am also talking for myself but then I will buy gold ticket which I would never ever do for a glory night outside of that party of course .
Conclusion : glory gets far too little out of themselves and hold themselves back from growing the organization .
comments speak for themselves think I am not the only one who shares this opinion .
I miss those press conferences of the past including Badr hari who always had something to bring .
100% agree! I never used to watch UFC because I don't want/can't stay up that late to see it. But when Mcgregor threw a chair through the bus of Khabib and his team, I immediately got a feeling of this is something I have to see. This may have been a slightly "smaller" incident, but still extra promotional material. I even thought for a while that this was arranged behind the scenes to hype up the next Colision. But those thoughts quickly disappeared when I saw that Jamal was suspended.
Dear remy and marinho
Very short and quick 1 robbie has no balls to pay rico less and make glory great 2nd if a dana white boss would be glory within half a year would be millions organization think every top fighter gets zoizo 40k ors per match at least robbie should take some tutoring from dana white because that kick jamal made for example just had to be a match right away quite frankly have almost no sense in watching those press conferences or after glory uberhaupt they should just give the real fans what they want instead of that nonsense rtl and all tv media ofs I seriously think if it goes on like this glory will go bankrupt in 2 years and tough luck then ma live with enfusion here in the netherlands then very straight I'd rather watch a fight of 2 kids of 5/6 than that match levi vs rico but yeah fockk itt we'll see
During that press conference. The question to Rico about revenue. The best man should be deeply ashamed. He grabs 250k for a title match against an Osaro (non-performance). And then he gets to pick hisn opponent in t tournament. Won the tournament effortlessly because his opponent Levi struggled. So our Rico grabs 750k in 4 months. Logical that he doesn't fight more often. It seemed like a gift.
Shameful that a real knucklehead like Ciric have to go public in search of crowdfunding/sponsorship.
Rico picked up more than that. He won 500k at the gp, but he also got his normal starting money there.
Logically he fought the highest ranked fighter (Laidouni). And now he goes again against the highest ranked fighter who has earned his spot. Levi is in the top-5 best opponent ever for Rico. He has finished an impressive list of fighters (Bugwandas, Mahiedine, Mozny, Osaro, concierge, Jurjendal, Bahram, Horta and Bahram).