During the HDNet broadcast of today's Affliction: Day of Reckoning weigh-in, the retired MMA star turned announcer Bas Rutten had some choice words for M-1 Global executive Jerry Millen.After Millen introduced Fedor Emelianenko, the camera lingered on him, and Rutten (who may or may not have known that his microphone was on) could be heard saying, "That's the a**hole. Oh, did I just say this on TV?"
Rutten and Millen worked together in Pride and have a long history of animosity, with Rutten claiming, among other things, that Millen knows nothing about MMA. If there's any down time during Saturday night's show, I'd love to see Rutten and Millen step into the ring together.
UPDATE: Interestingly, when HDNet re-played the weigh-in on Saturday, Rutten's comment stayed on the broadcast and was not bleeped out.
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1-24-2009 @ 2:45AM
jack said...
Well, he's a mouthpiece like zuffa's boxercise instructor dana white. Neither of them know mma, and that's not their job.
Rutten's problems with Millen are legit, but the reason given is not.
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1-24-2009 @ 9:15AM
Scott said...
you said you want to see millen and bas step in the ring together.......it would be a torture chamber for millen.
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1-24-2009 @ 11:52PM
RIP R.L. Causton - YOU WILL ALWAYS BE MISSED (PSN johnnynumber5) said...
HD Net is a premium cable channel like HBO and they curse on there all the time. No need to bleep anything out.
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