Robert Winfree
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@WinfreeMMA
411mania MMA live coverage guru, host of the 411 Ground and Pound MMA Podcast
Chris Island and Tate Wilder studying The Rock vs Hulk Hogan at WrestleMania X8 with Terry Taylor #WWELFG
Cain Velasquez(13-2) vs Travis “Hapa” Browne(18-3-1) UFC 200: Cormier vs Silva July 9th 2016 One last appearance of Vintage Velasquez🥹
Dana White reveals he took $3,000,000 and turned Power Slap into a billion views a month "I called the Fertitta brothers and we all put up a million bucks, $3 million. Got the commission involved and turned it into a real sport" "It does a billion views a month on social media, and it is a sponsorship home run" "I invited all the influencers to come. If you had over 5 million followers, you got invited to the event and I let these kids come in, do your thing and create content" "Power Slap is the most successful thing I’ve ever been a part of in such a short amount of time. The first two years it had more sponsorship than the UFC did in 10 years. Power Slap is a beast"
Anime studios in the 90s casually gave us top action scenes like this that cant be done today
Tony Leung says he pushed for an MMA fighting style in ‘Shang-Chi’ but was rejected by the director 👊 "The production was much bigger than what I had experienced before, and the people were very professional ... It’s very efficient, but you can’t improvise" "I argued with the director: 'If a guy comes from a thousand years ago, the way he fights must be a combination of all martial arts, like MMA today, because he lived through all that time'" "The director said no. I said, 'Why not? Why just typical kung fu in the ’70s?' He said, 'This is Marvel'" (via @vulture)
something I love about THE BATMAN is its realism without being embarrassed of itself Nolan's films were epic but there was an element of trying to obscure its inherent comic book nature not here -- Batman flies but then also crashes to the ground like a Looney Tunes character
The criticism of the Odyssey casting veers into delusion once people start demanding Greek actors. This is a major Hollywood film and the fame of the cast matters very much. To demand a film studio risk their film failing in order to cast unknown Greek actors is ridiculous.
At today's JP Morgan global tech, media and communications conference, TKO's Mark Shapiro said the reason UFC passed on Ronda Rousey vs. Gina Carano was it "more of a stunt than a meaningful MMA event" and one he thought wasn't good for the sport after how it played out. "(Netflix) wants big spectacle events and they saw this as a big spectacle event. We're in the true MMA business on a meaningful, consistent basis. When we looked at this potential matchup, keep in mind there's a real art and skill to matchmaking....The answers (he & Ari Emanuel) got back (from Dana White & Hunter Campbell) were that fight will be over in 20 seconds. "I don't believe a fight like that, just the way it played out, is really good for MMA especially because it's Netflix and such an incredible global audience...that is going to sample, depending on what comes up on the front page, to go to that fight and think that's what MMA is, I don't believe is good for the sport long term. "We saw it that way and decided to pass on it," taking nothing away from Rousey, her win or the viewers the broadcast got.
Explain what this painting means and why it is good.
China literally has trees in Xi Jinping’s garden that are older than the United States! 🤣
In "The Shawshank Redemption" - there are only two female speaking roles, totaling about 10 seconds in a 2 hours and 22 minutes film
THE MANDALORIAN & GROGU is now tracking for Disney’s biggest opening weekend of 2026 to date. The new STAR WARS spinoff is heading for an $85M-$100M haul by Monday.
Advertised for RAW tonight: • Roman Reigns addresses Jacob Fatu • Oba Femi Open Challenge • Paige and Brie Bella vs. Judgment Day (Tag Titles) • El Grande Americano and Los Americanos vs. Original El Grande Americano and Los Americanos Hermanos
10 years later, Patton Oswalt still owes him an apology
Homer goes to college
Herb Dean addresses the controversial ending to Adriano Moraes x Phumi Nkuta and explains the technical submission call: “[I was] definitely sure that he went unconscious before the bell — like, a fraction of a second before the bell — and then I went and stopped the fight. He held on for a fraction of a second past the bell... I don’t think it was egregious enough for me to disqualify him. Each fight is the most important fight of your career, and you have seconds to lock something in. Who knows where his mind was at? He’s fighting for everything, for his whole career, and giving it everything he’s got. Sometimes it takes a second for someone to realize it’s over.”
The fact that he picked up the lightsaber again after 20 years and was moving so fast the director actually had to tell him to slow down is absolutely insane.
