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Pro card gets cooked
« on: October 23, 2006, 09:31:57 PM »
As we heard on the radio show tonight, Cook is leaving BBing for UFC fighting.

This makes me wonder- If his pro card was indeed a gift (as many have asserted it was), does this clearly show that giving pro cards to marketable guys who have "earned it", although they don't have the most impressive physique onstage, is a TERRIBLE IDEA?

Cook had looks, a Weider contract, and was crowned a pro when he might not have earned it.  And what happened?  He didn't succeed at all as a pro, and moved on.  This means a pro card that COULD have gone to a guy with potential to make a mark as a pro, did not.

Rewarding loyalty and basing pro card decisions on marketing potential - bad idea?
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Re: Pro card gets cooked
« Reply #1 on: October 23, 2006, 09:43:55 PM »
Richard Jones  :o
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Re: Pro card gets cooked
« Reply #2 on: October 23, 2006, 09:44:05 PM »
SHeavys 04 Nationals

1.Chris Cook- overall winner
2.Bill Wilmore
3.Marcus Haley
4.Jerome Ferguson
5.Omar Deckard
6.Rich Piana


Decent lineup, I wouldnt say it was a gift.. he may have looked like shite recently but he compared well against the above company.
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Re: Pro card gets cooked
« Reply #3 on: October 23, 2006, 09:51:49 PM »
Cooked? How?
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Re: Pro card gets cooked
« Reply #4 on: October 23, 2006, 09:52:56 PM »
Quote from: TheGoldenPrince on October 23, 2006, 09:51:49 PM
Cooked? How?

cooked as in, wasted.  his pro card could have gone to a superior athlete, and we'd have one more good pro today.
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Re: Pro card gets cooked
« Reply #5 on: October 23, 2006, 09:54:51 PM »
Quote from: 240 is Back on October 23, 2006, 09:52:56 PM
cooked as in, wasted.  his pro card could have gone to a superior athlete, and we'd have one more good pro today.

I dont think there is a shortage of good pros or pros period. If anything maybe there are too many pros :-\
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Re: Pro card gets cooked
« Reply #6 on: October 23, 2006, 11:17:08 PM »
Quote from: 240 is Back on October 23, 2006, 09:52:56 PM
cooked as in, wasted.  his pro card could have gone to a superior athlete, and we'd have one more good pro today.

Jerome Fergusson. The only guy on earth that can wear full body spandex yearound and not be questioned. Been around forever and deserved it 100 times more than genetically defficient Chris Cook.

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Re: Pro card gets cooked
« Reply #7 on: October 24, 2006, 12:18:17 AM »
the guy beat his competitors fair and square on that day...why would u think it was a gift?
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Re: Pro card gets cooked
« Reply #8 on: October 24, 2006, 12:21:06 AM »
Anyone got any recent pics of Cook?
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Re: Pro card gets cooked
« Reply #9 on: October 24, 2006, 01:31:44 AM »
Quote from: 240 is Back on October 23, 2006, 09:52:56 PM
his pro card could have gone to a superior athlete, and we'd have one more good pro today.

they're giving out pro cards to every class winner at the nationals, two cards at the USA, one at Team Universe, North American, Masters Nationals.    there's no shortage of amatuers turning pro
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Re: Pro card gets cooked
« Reply #10 on: October 24, 2006, 01:44:42 AM »
everybodies a cage fighter ::)
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Re: Pro card gets cooked
« Reply #11 on: October 24, 2006, 04:40:39 AM »
Quote from: 240 is Back on October 23, 2006, 09:52:56 PM
cooked as in, wasted.  his pro card could have gone to a superior athlete, and we'd have one more good pro today.

Ahh the travesty!
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Re: Pro card gets cooked
« Reply #12 on: October 24, 2006, 05:05:58 AM »
the first pic is from when he won his pro card.
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Re: Pro card gets cooked
« Reply #13 on: October 24, 2006, 05:20:20 AM »
Quote from: AmateurBB1985 on October 24, 2006, 12:21:06 AM
Anyone got any recent pics of Cook?

Check your avatar.
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Re: Pro card gets cooked
« Reply #14 on: October 24, 2006, 05:31:54 AM »
Quote from: 240 is Back on October 23, 2006, 09:31:57 PM
Rewarding loyalty and basing pro card decisions on marketing potential - bad idea?

I think the guy had marketing AND BBing potential. His physique speaks for itself. Reminds me of Cutler. He wasn't the best early on, and now look where he is.

Would be good to give a pro card to, say, the 2nd or 3rd guy at the Nationals or whatever, if they have that marketable look (e.g. Cutler, Cook, Draper, Arnold) with a decent body. However, that won't happen because obviously it's bias. BBing needs more guys with looks to be on the mags and become posterchildren.
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Re: Pro card gets cooked
« Reply #15 on: October 24, 2006, 05:47:27 AM »
I would like to see him get his ass kicked in the UFC,
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Re: Pro card gets cooked
« Reply #16 on: October 24, 2006, 05:48:46 AM »
so long for the great white hope
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Re: Pro card gets cooked
« Reply #17 on: October 24, 2006, 05:48:55 AM »
I know that normally I'm all about the marketing.  But hearing that last night, I just had to scratch my head and think about recent pros, many who have been given pro cards based upon loyalty. Who was the guy who got robbed recently (he was a mayhem sweetheart), then won his card the next go-round when many had him fifth?
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Re: Pro card gets cooked
« Reply #18 on: October 24, 2006, 06:36:21 AM »
Quote from: sevastase on October 24, 2006, 12:18:17 AM
the guy beat his competitors fair and square on that day...why would u think it was a gift?


you must of been at another show!
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Re: Pro card gets cooked
« Reply #19 on: October 24, 2006, 06:38:08 AM »
or...u don't know how to judge a phisique  ;)
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Re: Pro card gets cooked
« Reply #20 on: October 24, 2006, 06:45:30 AM »
240,

Cook beat those other guys fair and square. If they were any better than Cook and should have gotten their pro card at that show, would it really have made a difference? Look at the competition. It's more like a line at a movie theater: Wilmore, who got his pro card the following year; Haley, who got his card 2 years later, and Deckard, who got his card this year. None of whom will ever accomplish anything of significance in this game.

Regards,

240 Oops, I meant Speacial Ed
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Re: Pro card gets cooked
« Reply #21 on: October 24, 2006, 07:02:51 AM »
Cook had the gene's from the front,needed harder ham's and more complete back to be top placer,but is was very clear by his showing's that he didn't want to take it to the full limit on what is needed to be freaky in this game.
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Re: Pro card gets cooked
« Reply #22 on: October 24, 2006, 07:17:32 AM »
Smart guy, he can make more $$$$ in one MMA fight then most pro's will make in their careers.
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Re: Pro card gets cooked
« Reply #23 on: October 24, 2006, 07:59:35 AM »
Quote from: Special Ed on October 24, 2006, 06:45:30 AM
240,

Cook beat those other guys fair and square. If they were any better than Cook and should have gotten their pro card at that show, would it really have made a difference? Look at the competition. It's more like a line at a movie theater: Wilmore, who got his pro card the following year; Haley, who got his card 2 years later, and Deckard, who got his card this year. None of whom will ever accomplish anything of significance in this game.

Regards,

240 Oops, I meant Speacial Ed

hi 240
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Re: Pro card gets cooked
« Reply #24 on: October 24, 2006, 08:01:53 AM »
Quote from: 240 is Back on October 23, 2006, 09:52:56 PM
cooked as in, wasted.  his pro card could have gone to a superior athlete, and we'd have one more good pro today.

If the athlete really was superior he would have beaten Cook regardless.
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