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husky429 said:
Muay Thai organization is really convoluted at the national level. I think it's coming up in the '32 olympics and in all likelihood the best fighters are not going to be there. We just have no way to identify them.

There's not really even very clear delineations between pro and amateur. She could have been an absolute nobody or a star.

When I was competing in MT before I was a lazy slob, it was incredibly difficult to find fights. Someone would be 17-0 but actually suck because it's all from the weird events with like 4 fights in a weekend (USA Muay Thai does many of those). Some other guy would be 3-2 and a way, way better fighter because it was all one night events for legit promotions.

It makes it easy to sandbag. I'd show up to one fight and feel bad for my opponent 2 minutes in. Then in the next I get some "amateur" ringer from Spain who flattened me in the first round.
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This group trained out of New York - Academy Five Points. And, they put on a lot of NYC events. Those events were fantastic, with excellent match ups. But, the owner would give me tickets to other events, and it was exactly as you described.

One guy they always had at their events, Andy Singh, (fighting out of Extreme Muay Thai) was definitely amateur for far too long. Amazing to watch that guy fight.
 
I'll throw a name out there, Super Agent Scott Boras. Owners and GM's despise him, fans despise him for his antics. However, his clients love him, because he gets them the highest contracts, but in doing so it's destroyed sports as many of us remember.
 
I’ll throw one out there.

Bill Belichick.

Treats the media like garbage. Players hated playing for him. Documented cheater. Eventually ticked Kraft off and Kraft is a scumbag. Pats crumbled under him after TB left. Now in this weird 24 yr old girlfriend zone.
 
husky429 said:
There are former players who absolutely despise Calhoun. Most would call him a stand up guy.

Same with Ollie. People are complicated. One person's hero is another person's villain
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Chipper jones is a horrible person
 
Horsebrnhil said:
I'll throw a name out there, Super Agent Scott Boras. Owners and GM's despise him, fans despise him for his antics. However, his clients love him, because he gets them the highest contracts, but in doing so it's destroyed sports as many of us remember.
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didn't work out so hot for polar bear pete alonso.
 
superjohn said:
I think OJ qualifies. I met him when I was 12 years old. He was super nice and let us all know he was looking for white women. Less than two years later Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman were murdered.

A year before that I tried to meet Cornelius Bennett and Thurman Thomas at a Knicks game and they told me to "get lost kid."
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Funny I saw Bruce Smith at an airport a few years back and tried to say hello and he was a bit of a jerk. Maybe that entire Bills team is sour. Bruce was still in amazing shape.

HS Buddy of mine shook OJs hand a couple days before the murders. He was working a summer job in a factory for Swiss Army, which his dad was a CFO for and OJ was on the board of. OJ was taking a tour of the factory. He did say OJs hand felt kind of arthritic, but he was a nice guy.
 
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I know a former major league player who when I asked him about other players he would always say they were all great guys. I finally said come on there must be one guy who is a jerk. He immediately said Pat Burrell. I had read that he was a complete jerk and disliked by all the players .Guess it’s true.
 
ucp990411 said:
I know a former major league player who when I asked him about other players he would always say they were all great guys. I finally said come on there must be one guy who is a jerk. He immediately said Pat Burrell. I had read that he was a complete jerk and disliked by all the players .Guess it’s true.
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If you’re bored, google stories about Pat the Bat. He’s a legendary jerk with bar scene and pickup stories galore.
 
RuffRuff said:
Funny I saw Bruce Smith at an airport a few years back and tried to say hello and he was a bit of a jerk. Maybe that entire Bills team is sour. Bruce was still in amazing shape.

HS Buddy of mine shook OJs hand a couple days before the murders. He was working a summer job in a factory for Swiss Army, which his dad was a CFO for and OJ was on the board of. OJ was talking a tour of the factory. He did say OJs hand felt kind of arthritic, but he was a nice guy.
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They're all great to the people who love them, they probably smelled the stink of New Englanders from you all.
 
RuffRuff said:
HS Buddy of mine shook OJs hand a couple days before the murders. He was working a summer job in a factory for Swiss Army, which his dad was a CFO for and OJ was on the board of. OJ was talking a tour of the factory. He did say OJs hand felt kind of arthritic, but he was a nice guy.
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I used to have a younger lawyer at my firm who grew up in Brentwood with OJ's kids. She was in the dance recital with OJ's daughter the night of the murders and her family has home videos from that night where you can see OJ in the audience. Kind of creepy.
 
StllH8L8ner said:
I mean I try to give him the benefit of the doubt as an adult but then at the end of the 30 for 30 he says to his kid “Did you ever see the video of my last second shot against UConn?” and I can’t stand him again.
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Worked at Accenture with a ex-football player from Duke: Bobby Hurley absolutely the nicest guy he ever met; Laettner the absolute worst person he ever met.
 
CCSUblue said:
Lenny Dykstra lost a defamation suit again Ron Darling, the judge said something along the lines of his reputation was already so tarnished before the suit that it couldn't possibly get any worse.
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Lenny's brain is cooked. But he has almost all the best lines in "Once Upon A Time In Queens".
 
BigErnMcCracken said:
I used to have a younger lawyer at my firm who grew up in Brentwood with OJ's kids. She was in the dance recital with OJ's daughter the night of the murders and her family has home videos from that night where you can see OJ in the audience. Kind of creepy.
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So…you’re saying he’s innocent and has an alibi? And your friend never disclosed this to the world?!?!
 
CCSUblue said:
Lenny Dykstra lost a defamation suit again Ron Darling, the judge said something along the lines of his reputation was already so tarnished before the suit that it couldn't possibly get any worse.
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Lenny is an excellent show topic for Howard Stern but otherwise he’s useless as a human. He’s a total scumbag and loser.
 
Lafayette said:
Christian Laettner of course.
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Lafayette said:
Christian Laettner of course.
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Mr. French said:
Lenny is an excellent show topic for Howard Stern but otherwise he’s useless as a human. He’s a total scumbag and loser.
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BigErnMcCracken said:
I think the fact that he was at the dance recital is common knowledge
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Not in this world of making stupid and obvious jokes that I live in.

But I guess we live in different worlds.
 
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