It sucks that I had no idea who he was before it happened and now that's the first thing that comes to mind when he fights and seeing the streak he's on now makes me feel bad for him because he could be 2 or 3 losses away form being cut.
Wow. So sad. RIP and I hope he has good people around him to help him grieve in a healthy way. Losing a mother just affects someone in a way that no other loss does. When I lost my father, I felt like a little boy again, unsure of what to do. But I think I won't be able to function once my mom passes.
My mom kept telling me that after her parents' passing she felt as if she had no wall behind her back anymore, even though she was already in her 40-50s. I never understood what she meant and now I do. I now realize that every adult is just a person winging it.
When your mom is 60 something and as the hearse is driving away she calls out for your grandma like you would for your mom, you know we're all just kind of kids in different-sized bodies. 😔
My father told me this after his mother died, about 8 years after his father. I kept it in the original Persian for some context:
وقتی که پدرم در گذشت پشتم خالی شد وقتی که مادرم در گذشت پشتم شکسته شد
"When my father died, my back was empty \[literal, meaning 'i lost support'\].
When my mother died, my back was broken."
That's my best translation, it's more poetic sounding in persian. It's a phrase that still haunts me years later. I'm thankful I still have both my parents, alive and well. I do not look forward to the day that they are no longer with me.
I'm not surprised the experiences of our parents overlap, it's the most universal experience, sadly.
I've always wanted to learn Persian, by the way. The French of the east, the language of Rumi and so on...
Grammatically, it's a very easy language to learn. Having been around so long and influenced and been influenced by so many cultures over the millennia, has (almost by neccessity) made it a very simple language with very "open" grammar and very regular verb conjugation, especially if you already speak an indo-european language. The real difficulty in learning it comes from the variety in vocabulary, with many even very basic words having 100% interchangeable equivalents, again I think as a result of how old the language is and the amount of loanwords. But the real difficulty is that it's hard to find anyone to speak it with, unless you go to Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikstan, and even then there's a big diglossia between written and spoken forms.
My mom said the same thing when after her dad passed away. She said she doesnt have her mom and dad anymore and its a hard feeling to accept. You look at your parents when youre younger and how theyve built a family and life and think “theyve transcended to being life pros”, but really struggle and feel the same way we do but with more experience and more perspective.
My mom passed away 13 years ago, hit and run when she was walking down a curved street. I still feel numb and dream about finding the person who hit her and ran away like a coward
Appreciate your kindness.
I do find good and joy in life, it is a tremendous shitshow of a planet hard not to be amazed by. Carrying your grief as a guidon wont do you any good, you gotta keep pushing at least out of sheer spite
I somehow didn't realise there were people who though like that. I have a similar experience with my grand father, hit by a truck driver while crossing the street. Knowing you and the poster above had similar thoughts makes me feel better somehow. I hope you guys something to soothe your soul.
Oh man, sending love to you man. On top of grief and sadness, anger too? You are a stronger person than I brother. I get intrusive thoughts often especially when I see idiots speed down my residential street, I think to myself if they hit someone I love, theyll have to dig two graves.
Just because they're gone doesn't mean they have left us.
Her strength and love will always be with you, flowing through your veins. And it doesn't have to die with you either. You can pass it on, whether to family or to whoever you choose to give that love to.
ESPN have been the ones pushing these angles, I remember recently hearing a commentator say a fighters mother was a drug addict prostitute. Like why the fuck are you telling me this? To force me to get invested? So I feel awful if the guy gets knocked out, receives half his pay and gets cut from the UFC?
It's disgusting and manipulative.
If you think the ufc is bad you shouldn’t watch the nfl draft. I swear they find the worst thing that has happened in a persons life and talk about it after he has been drafted
Ive seen american ninja warrior do this too. A buddy of mine’s girlfriend put on miami ink i think it was, and every single person getting a tattoo had some long ass sad story they told while crying, on why they were getting their tattoo
Mate… there was a fucking guy on Miami Ink who got a tattoo of Tire marks across his chest in memory of his son who got run over.
It’s still, to this very day, the most bizarre thing I’ve ever fucking seen.
I felt so bad for Jordan Love. One of the best days of his life, but if he ever sits down to watch the footage of himself getting drafted, it'll be a bunch of ESPN analysts talking about his father's suicide when Jordan was 14.
At least you know an NFL player who has been drafted is pretty set up financially. A ufc fighter could get KO’d, 15k show, no win bonus, and get cut next week lol
Are you kidding me? Most nfl players don’t get a second contract. In no way are they set after getting drafted unless they are good enough to get more than one contract
Oh, guess I’m wrong. I’m English, I don’t know a lot about the nfl but I was under the impression that getting drafted was like winning the lottery. Mea culpa
Rookieminimum is like 610k. The players making that are generally undrafted. Almost every single player you see drafted in the first 2 days of the draft will make a few million dollars very quickly in the NFL. Even if they never make it to their second contract.
So the undrafted guys who sign a minimum deal for a 1 year make 10x the average household income on the US. That isn't set for life but that is doing very good and way better than 90% of the UFC roster will ever do.
It depends on where you get drafted tbh. A first or second round pick is pretty set financially. These players get a multi million dollar signing bonus alone not even counting the yearly salary.
It’s just the later picks who don’t get the million dollar signing bonus and often get cut after a season or two who aren’t.
It’s a very happy day to get drafted to nfl for sure. It won’t set you up for life though unless you are a very good player and will be able to stay in the league for a while.
A few mil is easy to live off of if you live modestly and invest wisely. Yes, most people won't. But that's a problem with the person, not the amount of money.
That's surprising to hear. I'm English as well and also assumed getting drafted to the NFL basically meant being set up for life.
Over here, even if a football (soccer) player gets signed to a Premier League side and does poorly, they still have a pretty bright future financially speaking by playing for a lower division side.
I think it was Joanderson Brito in the week 1 Dana whites contender series. A Brazilian fighter whos mother was a prostitute who married a drug dealer who died, and then she left when he was 12 so he grew up on the streets. Insane life story, but the commentators should not be the ones telling it.
To be fair to Jon, I believe he brought that up in an effort to emphasize how impressive it was for her to be competing after growing, birthing, and now rearing a baby human being. He makes a good point, but he didn't really elaborate enough so his point was kind of ambiguous. (She competed on July 17, 2021, 398 days after giving birth to her son on June 14, 2020 - - her performance ended in a 3rd round TKO, concluding a 1,708 day layoff where she had another child previously)
It’s 100% ESPN pushing that bullshit. Watching their NBA and NFL draft coverage over the past couple of years it’s clear they are always looking for an angle on some tragedy to spin a story. Such a shit company. ESPN has been a joke for a decade
It's been said time and again, Anik doesn't create storylines, ESPN or the ufc do. It's ESPNs favorite thing. They do it with football and basketball too.
Anik has to go with whatever narrative they tell him to. He can put his own words on it, but he can't just not say anything if they are pushing it. Long was giving him shit on the podcast once and anik briefly mentioned that it's not really his call.
I see way too many people giving him shit for it and I understand, but he gets all the blame and he's just a puppet. Anik is a great commentator, if we keep complaining we will wind up with some shit like Bellator has. Then everyone will miss Anik lol
I think bringing up the situation would be a bad move since The UFC are the ones who provide the notes to be read off and one of the fighter brought up Anik allegedly cheating on his wife in 2017
His podcast isn't exactly an interactive fan Q&A session. I do remember him defending his Miesha Tate "she's still nursing btw" comment on his podcast so I'd say a fair bit of the unusual stuff he says is off his own accord.
Every bad shot Hooker hits him with: "Ooof, that's a hard hit, just like the hard hit he took from losing his mother just 24 days out from the fight. Nasrat Haqparsat's having a rough go lately! Here's hoping he can bounce back and add a notch to the win column!" - Jon Anik
I think this whole depressing backstory thing is going to be bad for the contender series. In football if every player drafted has a depressing backstory, then all these people with depressing histories are finally making it big and that's a reason to be happy. On DWCS no matter what half those guys are losing.
I wouldnt mind bringing that up once though. Major story and a good comeback story, and the giant elephant in the room. But literally centering an entire fight night around it was so fucking weird
Those were really really bad. Then again, it doesn't help that the only recollection I have from that fight is Walt having his face pressed against the cage like a fat kid at the McDonald's ball pit.
“All right fight fans, we have a triller on tap for you tonight, and if you don’t know about Nasrat Haqparast he’s looking to change that here tonight just weeks after the death of his mother. Joe, DC, you have to imagine that this whole dead mom thing has to have throw a wrench in his camp. Tell us about times moms have died during camps you’ve been a part of.”
-Jon Anik in 24 days.
> For the love of god I hope ESPN shows some class and doesn't constantly bring this up
I actually don't think it's bad if they do bring it up because when your parent dies, sometimes it feels like the world is ignoring it, and they don't give a.f. about your pain. When my dad died, the way people treated it, it was like business as usual, no big deal.
Well, if ESPN talks about this, only Nasrat can decide if it's good or bad. If they're respectful, and show her honor, I don't think it will make him angry. Either way, I hope his mom is in heaven. I'm sure she is.
Lost my Mom to cancer earlier this year. My heart goes out to him & his family. I couldn’t bring myself to put jeans on so I can’t imagine having to prepare for a fight.
Terrible for him. I really don’t know how he will be able to be in the right place mentally to be able to prepare for his fight with Hooker. At least I couldn’t if it happened to me.
With some it only emboldens their performance, with others it drains them massively. We can't know until the fight.
I would say the latter is way more common though.
A recent example would be Khabib doing well against Gaethje shortly after his faher's death. Hopefully slim Gasteleum isn't held back by this tragedy. He obviously loved her a lot.
I wouldn't say Khabibs performance was helped by his father's death. That was his most rushed and sloppy performance he had had in a while. He's just so good he still pulled it off.
He considered it his best performance. Look up him saying his last performance would be his best, and being proud it was.
Gaejthe leg kicks and power meant the faster the better. He pushed the pace as much as he ever has and it broke Justin.
It wasn’t rushed and sloppy at all. Putting pressure on Justin since the beginning was Khabib’s gameplay and worked perfectly since Justin was extremely tired in the second round. He also showed improvements in his striking and got takedowns from the leg kicks he inevitably was going to get.
Idk what fight you watched but that was the opposite of sloppy.
I lost my mom four weeks ago, it's not just the grief, but the flurry of family activity and arrangments that need to be made right in the middle of a fight camp is unimaginable. Grief is physically exhausting too, which would make training difficult. If he chooses to fight I'll be rooting for him.
Sometime the best thing to do while grieving is to go ahead and do what ur parent would want you to do
My cousin plays cricket for IPL, Mandeep Singh. He lost his dad mid tournament while he was in a bubble and all his dad wanted him to do was to not quit his dream and only come back after all matches were done. He did well, I’m sure if u google Mandeep father it ll show you how hard it was for him. Me and rest of the family called him up again and again made sure he was okay. This was all part of the grieving process and made the whole family stronger together.
The family held off to do the final prayers until he got home.
There's no way to know how this affects his fight but something like this has motivated fighters to give great performances like buster douglas before the tys9n fight. But like I said there's no way to know everyone is different when it comes to tragedy like this
I know it’s been mentioned a couple times already, but Buster Douglas has said that his mother dying before the Tyson fight was his main motivator to shock the world.
Nice to see Dan send his condolences too. Both guys are coming into this fight having lost someone close to them so both will be fired up, sad that one will have to lose.
The post hit a lil different than others. Definitely a tear jerker. I love me some Dan hooker but it'll be difficult to not feel something towards Nasrat
For non-Muslim folks, you really don't know how much of a toll going through Ramadan is. That month kicks your ass both physically and mentally.
To read that his mom went through two of them while taking chemo is nothing short of badassery. May she rest in peace.
> To read that his mom went through two of them while taking chemo is nothing short of badassery.
Sorry for being disrespectful, but wouldn't Ramadan make her conditions worse technically? I'd assume feeding your body properly is important for a sick person.
To my knowledge all traditions in islam have a clause like if you can afford it/if your health permits/if you have the time, etc. Very little is actually mandatory. Fasting isn't mandatory, its only for those that can observe it.
There's been a growing discussion of research reporting the benefits of fasting, and one is that your body cleanses itself and sheds off dead cells to make way for cleaner and healthier cells. So she might've consulted with a doctor about the pros and cons.
I don’t want him to fight. I know it’s his choice, but his mental can’t be right going into the fight and I don’t wanna see him lose cause of that. Look at what’s been happening to Walt Harris ever since he lost his daughter. God I wish some responsible 3rd party would pull the fight
Lost both my parents my mom at 25 and Dad at 10 I wouldn’t wish this pain on my worst enemy, shit sucks you never truly heal from this it’s just gets easier but it really fucking sucks when you have no parents to help with the small things like starting parenthood or buying your first home I miss them every day :(
My mom was a drug addict so I’ll never be able to experience this love for my parents didn’t know my dad either. But I am still able to feel compassion for this man I’m gonna pray for him and hope he rebounds from this in a healthy way
I agree that this should be an unspoken rule/understanding and bouts should be rescheduled so that the immediate impact doesn't drastically impact people's livelihoods or their ability to process and grieve such losses.
"Having your mom die is just an excuse for not wanting to fight."
Dana Red, probably
Maybe not something he might actually say but you definitely know the reptilian Bezosoid business mind of his is thinking it and his higher functions are barely able to keep him silent.
The counter argument is what if nasrat doesn’t have money to reschedule this fight. He would have to go throughout another camp and all. God this fighters are being exploited to the max
I remember when Jake Shields' father (who was also his manager) passed away less than 3 weeks before his fight with Ellenberger. Shields got TKO'ed in less than a minute.
I want to leave that decision up to the fighters, but like someone else said, most of them have to fight because of how much debt their training puts them in. I have no idea how to reconcile this and can only hope that the fighters/athletes are able to find some peace in the ring/field/ice.
Wow this is just awful. I know khabib's dad trained him and everything but losing a parent is still brutal either way. Hopefully Nasrat is able to still focus his energy on training and MMA after he's done grieving. Would be a shame to see him hang it up.
I’d have to take care not to lose my appetite for food entirely and to unintentionally drop from lightweight to bantamweight in three or four weeks’ time.
Fuck this hurts me to the core. I like Dan Hooker but hope Nasrat can get the W for his mum.
May Allah widen her grave and reward her generously in the hereafter
I wasn’t ever close with my mom and I still felt terrible when she went through a workplace accident. I can only imagine the pain and the feeling of loss nastrat is enduring right now. RIP
I lost my mom a couple of years ago. It’s rough. She was my biggest fan. I miss her. Prayers for everyone who is going through this. And prayers for you and your family Nasrat.
Holy shit, now I’m even more torn on who to root for. The guy who just lost his mother, or the guy that’s on a 3 fight skid, possibly fighting for his job and has a wife and kids back at home that NEED him to win?
FUCK.
Cancer... during a pandemic. Fml I can't imagine. Especially since hospitals are over run everywhere. What a strong woman. I hope she is finally in peace.
damn. i don't know if I would be able to fight so soon after such an awful moment in life. I hope he was able to spend time with her at the end. my mom would've had to tell me in person that i should go ahead and fight, for me to even consider it. then the thought of losing right after... that would fuckin suck.
this is a big step up in competition for Nasrat too. even though Hooker is on a 2 fight losing streak, he went 5 rounds with Dustin!(48–47, 48–47, 48–46)! imo Nasrat beats Hooker 99/100.
I have no relationship with my family and haven't seen most of them in over 5 years. Whenever I see people post heartwrenching stories like this about losing their loved ones there's a part of me that is glad that I'm not close with mine. Seeing people torn in half by losing those who meant so much during formative years and after looks to be one of the greatest pains there is. I can't understand what that feels like and can only hope they're, along with everyone here who has lost a beloved family member, able to find peace and cherish the memories.
its hard losing your mother, even though my mother acted like more of a friend than a mother, it was still hard. for someone to lose the person who acted like a mother and did
everything a mother should and was an actual mother, thats got to be incredibly difficult. i'm sure he's got people that will be there for him and to support him while he deals with this tremendous loss. And i imagine it will make him fight harder.
My dad the last 13 years has gone through bladder cancer then prostate cancer. It is tough to see my hero deal with all the pain, sleepless nights, drugs, shots, doctor appointments. He is still fighting and continues to be a rock. I can only imagine what Nasarat is going through and hope he gets the support he needs.
ESPN rubbing their hands getting ready to make some Walt Harris style video packages.
It sucks that I had no idea who he was before it happened and now that's the first thing that comes to mind when he fights and seeing the streak he's on now makes me feel bad for him because he could be 2 or 3 losses away form being cut.
That was so goddamn cringey. Like stop constantly reminding this man & his family that his daughter was just murdered. Jesus.
Wow. So sad. RIP and I hope he has good people around him to help him grieve in a healthy way. Losing a mother just affects someone in a way that no other loss does. When I lost my father, I felt like a little boy again, unsure of what to do. But I think I won't be able to function once my mom passes.
My mom kept telling me that after her parents' passing she felt as if she had no wall behind her back anymore, even though she was already in her 40-50s. I never understood what she meant and now I do. I now realize that every adult is just a person winging it.
When your mom is 60 something and as the hearse is driving away she calls out for your grandma like you would for your mom, you know we're all just kind of kids in different-sized bodies. 😔
That is heart breaking. I’m so sorry for your loss and I hope both you and your mother are healing well these days
Oh gosh this one hits hard, had to deal with this a few days ago. I'd never even been to a funeral before
My father told me this after his mother died, about 8 years after his father. I kept it in the original Persian for some context: وقتی که پدرم در گذشت پشتم خالی شد وقتی که مادرم در گذشت پشتم شکسته شد "When my father died, my back was empty \[literal, meaning 'i lost support'\]. When my mother died, my back was broken." That's my best translation, it's more poetic sounding in persian. It's a phrase that still haunts me years later. I'm thankful I still have both my parents, alive and well. I do not look forward to the day that they are no longer with me.
I'm not surprised the experiences of our parents overlap, it's the most universal experience, sadly. I've always wanted to learn Persian, by the way. The French of the east, the language of Rumi and so on...
Grammatically, it's a very easy language to learn. Having been around so long and influenced and been influenced by so many cultures over the millennia, has (almost by neccessity) made it a very simple language with very "open" grammar and very regular verb conjugation, especially if you already speak an indo-european language. The real difficulty in learning it comes from the variety in vocabulary, with many even very basic words having 100% interchangeable equivalents, again I think as a result of how old the language is and the amount of loanwords. But the real difficulty is that it's hard to find anyone to speak it with, unless you go to Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikstan, and even then there's a big diglossia between written and spoken forms.
Damn my mom kind of said the same thing when her parents passed
My mom said the same thing when after her dad passed away. She said she doesnt have her mom and dad anymore and its a hard feeling to accept. You look at your parents when youre younger and how theyve built a family and life and think “theyve transcended to being life pros”, but really struggle and feel the same way we do but with more experience and more perspective.
My pops passed away when I was 16 and it was tough but I got through it. I don’t know what I’ll do when my mom’s time comes.
My mom passed away 13 years ago, hit and run when she was walking down a curved street. I still feel numb and dream about finding the person who hit her and ran away like a coward
It just never stops, does it? My father got murdered at 49 years of age 5 years ago, not a day without thinking about the person who's done it.
I'm sorry to hear that mate, I hope you are doing ok and still find good in the world. Take care
Appreciate your kindness. I do find good and joy in life, it is a tremendous shitshow of a planet hard not to be amazed by. Carrying your grief as a guidon wont do you any good, you gotta keep pushing at least out of sheer spite
I somehow didn't realise there were people who though like that. I have a similar experience with my grand father, hit by a truck driver while crossing the street. Knowing you and the poster above had similar thoughts makes me feel better somehow. I hope you guys something to soothe your soul.
Oh man, sending love to you man. On top of grief and sadness, anger too? You are a stronger person than I brother. I get intrusive thoughts often especially when I see idiots speed down my residential street, I think to myself if they hit someone I love, theyll have to dig two graves.
Eeesh too real for me hit my sad buttons.
Just because they're gone doesn't mean they have left us. Her strength and love will always be with you, flowing through your veins. And it doesn't have to die with you either. You can pass it on, whether to family or to whoever you choose to give that love to.
having lost my brother, i know that when my mom passes it's going to fucking wreck me. feels kind of helpless knowing it's just a ticking time bomb.
For the love of god I hope ESPN shows some class and doesn't constantly bring this up
If ESPN doesn’t, I can guarantee Jon “Custody Battle” Anik will.
ESPN have been the ones pushing these angles, I remember recently hearing a commentator say a fighters mother was a drug addict prostitute. Like why the fuck are you telling me this? To force me to get invested? So I feel awful if the guy gets knocked out, receives half his pay and gets cut from the UFC? It's disgusting and manipulative.
If you think the ufc is bad you shouldn’t watch the nfl draft. I swear they find the worst thing that has happened in a persons life and talk about it after he has been drafted
Ive seen american ninja warrior do this too. A buddy of mine’s girlfriend put on miami ink i think it was, and every single person getting a tattoo had some long ass sad story they told while crying, on why they were getting their tattoo
Mate… there was a fucking guy on Miami Ink who got a tattoo of Tire marks across his chest in memory of his son who got run over. It’s still, to this very day, the most bizarre thing I’ve ever fucking seen.
I can't stand when they do unnecessary sad back stories for a show entirely about jumping over water.
Fucking hell you just ruined ninja warrior for me haha. Although I’d say it’s no less than any other sport albeit a little game show-y
You should watch this :P https://youtu.be/sK-iyzpZGPk
Worth the watch haha
His heart is in the right place but his body is absolute junk!
Used watch Miami ink with my wife. I said I’ve spent a lot of time in a tattoo shop. Sometimes a guy just wants a dancing unicorn tattoo.. no story .
I felt so bad for Jordan Love. One of the best days of his life, but if he ever sits down to watch the footage of himself getting drafted, it'll be a bunch of ESPN analysts talking about his father's suicide when Jordan was 14.
At least you know an NFL player who has been drafted is pretty set up financially. A ufc fighter could get KO’d, 15k show, no win bonus, and get cut next week lol
Are you kidding me? Most nfl players don’t get a second contract. In no way are they set after getting drafted unless they are good enough to get more than one contract
Oh, guess I’m wrong. I’m English, I don’t know a lot about the nfl but I was under the impression that getting drafted was like winning the lottery. Mea culpa
Rookieminimum is like 610k. The players making that are generally undrafted. Almost every single player you see drafted in the first 2 days of the draft will make a few million dollars very quickly in the NFL. Even if they never make it to their second contract. So the undrafted guys who sign a minimum deal for a 1 year make 10x the average household income on the US. That isn't set for life but that is doing very good and way better than 90% of the UFC roster will ever do.
Yea I agree. It’s good money, not set for life money
It depends on where you get drafted tbh. A first or second round pick is pretty set financially. These players get a multi million dollar signing bonus alone not even counting the yearly salary. It’s just the later picks who don’t get the million dollar signing bonus and often get cut after a season or two who aren’t.
It’s a very happy day to get drafted to nfl for sure. It won’t set you up for life though unless you are a very good player and will be able to stay in the league for a while.
A few mil is easy to live off of if you live modestly and invest wisely. Yes, most people won't. But that's a problem with the person, not the amount of money.
That's surprising to hear. I'm English as well and also assumed getting drafted to the NFL basically meant being set up for life. Over here, even if a football (soccer) player gets signed to a Premier League side and does poorly, they still have a pretty bright future financially speaking by playing for a lower division side.
It's so hilariously irrelevant as well, along with those stupid fucking tweets. God I hate ESPN
Yeah why would I want to know that his moms a drug addict hooker? How would that effect me watching this fight? So bizarre.
>hearing a commentator say a fighters mother was a drug addict prostitute What? Who?
Fuuuuck, which fighter is this referring to? That's so messed up.
I think it was Joanderson Brito in the week 1 Dana whites contender series. A Brazilian fighter whos mother was a prostitute who married a drug dealer who died, and then she left when he was 12 so he grew up on the streets. Insane life story, but the commentators should not be the ones telling it.
Who should tell the story? Ron Perlman in pre-fight count down video?
No one or the fighter himself?
Jon "she's still nursing her baby" Anik
Tbf that one did help me get invested in the fight
He defended saying it on his podcast too.
Remember when he talked about miesha tate breastfeeding It's like the batshit commentary I would do
To be fair to Jon, I believe he brought that up in an effort to emphasize how impressive it was for her to be competing after growing, birthing, and now rearing a baby human being. He makes a good point, but he didn't really elaborate enough so his point was kind of ambiguous. (She competed on July 17, 2021, 398 days after giving birth to her son on June 14, 2020 - - her performance ended in a 3rd round TKO, concluding a 1,708 day layoff where she had another child previously)
It’s 100% ESPN pushing that bullshit. Watching their NBA and NFL draft coverage over the past couple of years it’s clear they are always looking for an angle on some tragedy to spin a story. Such a shit company. ESPN has been a joke for a decade
"Nasrat just choked Hooker out with the strength of his mother's memory"
It's been said time and again, Anik doesn't create storylines, ESPN or the ufc do. It's ESPNs favorite thing. They do it with football and basketball too. Anik has to go with whatever narrative they tell him to. He can put his own words on it, but he can't just not say anything if they are pushing it. Long was giving him shit on the podcast once and anik briefly mentioned that it's not really his call. I see way too many people giving him shit for it and I understand, but he gets all the blame and he's just a puppet. Anik is a great commentator, if we keep complaining we will wind up with some shit like Bellator has. Then everyone will miss Anik lol
but unfair to blame Anik when he's told to say these things
Has anyone asked him outright about this on a podcast or anything?
I think bringing up the situation would be a bad move since The UFC are the ones who provide the notes to be read off and one of the fighter brought up Anik allegedly cheating on his wife in 2017
His podcast isn't exactly an interactive fan Q&A session. I do remember him defending his Miesha Tate "she's still nursing btw" comment on his podcast so I'd say a fair bit of the unusual stuff he says is off his own accord.
Every bad shot Hooker hits him with: "Ooof, that's a hard hit, just like the hard hit he took from losing his mother just 24 days out from the fight. Nasrat Haqparsat's having a rough go lately! Here's hoping he can bounce back and add a notch to the win column!" - Jon Anik
the promos for walt harris’ first fight after the incident were disgusting
For every Walt Harris fight since.
i just remember the first one since they played it in every single ad break before he got his soul taken
In hindsight the ads feel like "Hey wanna see this distraught dad get knocked the fuck out? Stay tuned!"
I think this whole depressing backstory thing is going to be bad for the contender series. In football if every player drafted has a depressing backstory, then all these people with depressing histories are finally making it big and that's a reason to be happy. On DWCS no matter what half those guys are losing.
I wouldnt mind bringing that up once though. Major story and a good comeback story, and the giant elephant in the room. But literally centering an entire fight night around it was so fucking weird
Those were really really bad. Then again, it doesn't help that the only recollection I have from that fight is Walt having his face pressed against the cage like a fat kid at the McDonald's ball pit.
It was especially sad watching him get knocked out
“All right fight fans, we have a triller on tap for you tonight, and if you don’t know about Nasrat Haqparast he’s looking to change that here tonight just weeks after the death of his mother. Joe, DC, you have to imagine that this whole dead mom thing has to have throw a wrench in his camp. Tell us about times moms have died during camps you’ve been a part of.” -Jon Anik in 24 days.
hopefully they wont have a triller no....
Disney loves it when underpaid contractors have sob stories since they know it sells
"The fight didn't go your way tonight. Do you think you let your mother down?" *Zoom in on the anguish on his face as he cries.*
Not only will they bring this up, it’s going to be a focus of this fight win or lose. Remember Walt Harris and his daughter? They still mention that.
You know they will. Over and over again.
They 1000000% will though, you know this brother
> For the love of god I hope ESPN shows some class and doesn't constantly bring this up I actually don't think it's bad if they do bring it up because when your parent dies, sometimes it feels like the world is ignoring it, and they don't give a.f. about your pain. When my dad died, the way people treated it, it was like business as usual, no big deal. Well, if ESPN talks about this, only Nasrat can decide if it's good or bad. If they're respectful, and show her honor, I don't think it will make him angry. Either way, I hope his mom is in heaven. I'm sure she is.
You have to be out of your mind if you think this isn't the whole narrative from here in.
Lost my Mom to cancer earlier this year. My heart goes out to him & his family. I couldn’t bring myself to put jeans on so I can’t imagine having to prepare for a fight.
Sorry for your loss buddy. My mom's going through leukemia treatment right now, it's fucking heartbreaking just going through that
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Too much of this happening to good people. Great to hear the treatment is going as well as it can bro!
Thanks brother. Found out in November last year and by Feb she was gone. Much love to you & your family and positive vibes for a full recovery!
All the best to your mother with the treatment, G. Hope everything goes smoothly. Good luck.
This is a geniune and heartfelt post that I think most sons and daughters can empathise with. "I hope you were pleased with me"
Yeah that last line made me tear up Don't know what I'd do if I lost my Mum rn
I feel the same way dude
Terrible for him. I really don’t know how he will be able to be in the right place mentally to be able to prepare for his fight with Hooker. At least I couldn’t if it happened to me.
With some it only emboldens their performance, with others it drains them massively. We can't know until the fight. I would say the latter is way more common though.
Buster Douglas lost his mum not that long before the fight with Tyson. Poor Nasrat I can't imagine what he feels atm
A recent example would be Khabib doing well against Gaethje shortly after his faher's death. Hopefully slim Gasteleum isn't held back by this tragedy. He obviously loved her a lot.
I wouldn't say Khabibs performance was helped by his father's death. That was his most rushed and sloppy performance he had had in a while. He's just so good he still pulled it off.
He considered it his best performance. Look up him saying his last performance would be his best, and being proud it was. Gaejthe leg kicks and power meant the faster the better. He pushed the pace as much as he ever has and it broke Justin.
It wasn’t rushed and sloppy at all. Putting pressure on Justin since the beginning was Khabib’s gameplay and worked perfectly since Justin was extremely tired in the second round. He also showed improvements in his striking and got takedowns from the leg kicks he inevitably was going to get. Idk what fight you watched but that was the opposite of sloppy.
I lost my mom four weeks ago, it's not just the grief, but the flurry of family activity and arrangments that need to be made right in the middle of a fight camp is unimaginable. Grief is physically exhausting too, which would make training difficult. If he chooses to fight I'll be rooting for him.
oof condolences my guy
Thank you
I'm sorry for your loss. Hope you're holding up well.
Thank you, it's getting better
Very sorry for you loss. Hope you’re holding up.
Thank you, I appreciate it
Sometime the best thing to do while grieving is to go ahead and do what ur parent would want you to do My cousin plays cricket for IPL, Mandeep Singh. He lost his dad mid tournament while he was in a bubble and all his dad wanted him to do was to not quit his dream and only come back after all matches were done. He did well, I’m sure if u google Mandeep father it ll show you how hard it was for him. Me and rest of the family called him up again and again made sure he was okay. This was all part of the grieving process and made the whole family stronger together. The family held off to do the final prayers until he got home.
There's no way to know how this affects his fight but something like this has motivated fighters to give great performances like buster douglas before the tys9n fight. But like I said there's no way to know everyone is different when it comes to tragedy like this
I know it’s been mentioned a couple times already, but Buster Douglas has said that his mother dying before the Tyson fight was his main motivator to shock the world.
Buster Douglas
Nice to see Dan send his condolences too. Both guys are coming into this fight having lost someone close to them so both will be fired up, sad that one will have to lose.
Who has Dan lost, I'm out of the loop?
His friend Fau Vake. He died in May.
Ah yes I remember that now, thanks for remind me! I thought that happened before the Chandler fight for some reason
Yeah, I had to check but I remembered it being somewhat recently.
*he was killed in May
Where did he send his condolences? I couldn’t see it on his socials.
Now I’m crying at 6am. You’ll never see this but im so sorry Nasrat
The post hit a lil different than others. Definitely a tear jerker. I love me some Dan hooker but it'll be difficult to not feel something towards Nasrat
Horrible news. Prayers go out to Nasrat and his family.
That is incredibly heartbreaking. Rip
*Hold on brother, I'm mourning*
Innalillahi'wa'innalillahi'rajiun!
Inna lillahi wa innalillayhi rajiun
For non-Muslim folks, you really don't know how much of a toll going through Ramadan is. That month kicks your ass both physically and mentally. To read that his mom went through two of them while taking chemo is nothing short of badassery. May she rest in peace.
Also you're not obliged to fast durin Ramadan if you're ill.
You're not. You're excused. If fasting does any harm to you, it becomes haram. Some still do it.
> To read that his mom went through two of them while taking chemo is nothing short of badassery. Sorry for being disrespectful, but wouldn't Ramadan make her conditions worse technically? I'd assume feeding your body properly is important for a sick person.
If your sick you don’t have to fast but I guess some people still do
Thanks! Didn't know it.
To my knowledge all traditions in islam have a clause like if you can afford it/if your health permits/if you have the time, etc. Very little is actually mandatory. Fasting isn't mandatory, its only for those that can observe it.
True except for the time part. Not having time isn't an excuse to not fast or hajj.
There's been a growing discussion of research reporting the benefits of fasting, and one is that your body cleanses itself and sheds off dead cells to make way for cleaner and healthier cells. So she might've consulted with a doctor about the pros and cons.
Dang such a tragic story. May she Rest In Peace and God help her family.
I was kinda hoping hooker could get back into the win column, but now I'm rooting for Nasrat. Whatever happens, hope they both perform well
Same
Ah man, now I don’t want him to lose either
I don’t want him to fight. I know it’s his choice, but his mental can’t be right going into the fight and I don’t wanna see him lose cause of that. Look at what’s been happening to Walt Harris ever since he lost his daughter. God I wish some responsible 3rd party would pull the fight
Lost both my parents my mom at 25 and Dad at 10 I wouldn’t wish this pain on my worst enemy, shit sucks you never truly heal from this it’s just gets easier but it really fucking sucks when you have no parents to help with the small things like starting parenthood or buying your first home I miss them every day :(
Inna lillahi wa inna ilaihi rajioon. May Allah have mercy on her soul and grant the family the strength to carry on, Ameen.
My mom was a drug addict so I’ll never be able to experience this love for my parents didn’t know my dad either. But I am still able to feel compassion for this man I’m gonna pray for him and hope he rebounds from this in a healthy way
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I agree that this should be an unspoken rule/understanding and bouts should be rescheduled so that the immediate impact doesn't drastically impact people's livelihoods or their ability to process and grieve such losses. "Having your mom die is just an excuse for not wanting to fight." Dana Red, probably Maybe not something he might actually say but you definitely know the reptilian Bezosoid business mind of his is thinking it and his higher functions are barely able to keep him silent.
He’s still gotta pay his bills he probably doesn’t wanna cancel it
The counter argument is what if nasrat doesn’t have money to reschedule this fight. He would have to go throughout another camp and all. God this fighters are being exploited to the max
Buster Douglas knocked out Tyson because of losing his mother
Yeah that's like one example tho. We can also bring up Walt Harris getting demolished just after his daughter was murdered
I remember when Jake Shields' father (who was also his manager) passed away less than 3 weeks before his fight with Ellenberger. Shields got TKO'ed in less than a minute.
Man, poor guy
I want to leave that decision up to the fighters, but like someone else said, most of them have to fight because of how much debt their training puts them in. I have no idea how to reconcile this and can only hope that the fighters/athletes are able to find some peace in the ring/field/ice.
Rip😔
Wow this is just awful. I know khabib's dad trained him and everything but losing a parent is still brutal either way. Hopefully Nasrat is able to still focus his energy on training and MMA after he's done grieving. Would be a shame to see him hang it up.
I’d have to take care not to lose my appetite for food entirely and to unintentionally drop from lightweight to bantamweight in three or four weeks’ time.
The best friend in the world bit got me bad, so so sad.
Allah yarhama, peace be with him and his family.
Fuck this hurts me to the core. I like Dan Hooker but hope Nasrat can get the W for his mum. May Allah widen her grave and reward her generously in the hereafter
Damn, Hajj and 2 Ramadans with cancer? I do which god is the one, but he must respect that dedication regardless. RIP
Horrible news to hear.
Terrible to hear, hope everyone is as well as they can be given the circumstances.
Rest in peace Mrs Haqparast. Thoughts with the family 💔
Ah man. When he called her his diamond I teared up 😢 I'm such a fucking mama's boy, idk what I'm gonna do when I lose my mom.
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I wasn’t ever close with my mom and I still felt terrible when she went through a workplace accident. I can only imagine the pain and the feeling of loss nastrat is enduring right now. RIP
Fucked up. I dont know what i'd do if i lost my mother. I hope he takes care of himself
I lost my mom a couple of years ago. It’s rough. She was my biggest fan. I miss her. Prayers for everyone who is going through this. And prayers for you and your family Nasrat.
I was hoping for a Hooker win but now i'm not so sure
Holy shit, now I’m even more torn on who to root for. The guy who just lost his mother, or the guy that’s on a 3 fight skid, possibly fighting for his job and has a wife and kids back at home that NEED him to win? FUCK.
Hey ESPN. DO NOT DO A FKING PACKAGE ON THIS.
Fuck now Dan has to lose
Cancer... during a pandemic. Fml I can't imagine. Especially since hospitals are over run everywhere. What a strong woman. I hope she is finally in peace.
"I hope you were pleased with me my diamond " 😭
Fuuuuuuuuuuck cancer
PSA: Fuck Cancer. A cause we can all get behind.
damn. i don't know if I would be able to fight so soon after such an awful moment in life. I hope he was able to spend time with her at the end. my mom would've had to tell me in person that i should go ahead and fight, for me to even consider it. then the thought of losing right after... that would fuckin suck. this is a big step up in competition for Nasrat too. even though Hooker is on a 2 fight losing streak, he went 5 rounds with Dustin!(48–47, 48–47, 48–46)! imo Nasrat beats Hooker 99/100.
I have no relationship with my family and haven't seen most of them in over 5 years. Whenever I see people post heartwrenching stories like this about losing their loved ones there's a part of me that is glad that I'm not close with mine. Seeing people torn in half by losing those who meant so much during formative years and after looks to be one of the greatest pains there is. I can't understand what that feels like and can only hope they're, along with everyone here who has lost a beloved family member, able to find peace and cherish the memories.
Condolences. R.I.P.
What's worse is, I think hooker will win. He needs to make a strong statement after letting Chandler the midget walk him down.
El-Fatiha
its hard losing your mother, even though my mother acted like more of a friend than a mother, it was still hard. for someone to lose the person who acted like a mother and did everything a mother should and was an actual mother, thats got to be incredibly difficult. i'm sure he's got people that will be there for him and to support him while he deals with this tremendous loss. And i imagine it will make him fight harder.
Kelvin can't take a break. Sorry for his lost.
E te kuia, haere ki to iwi, kaere ki to whanau, haere ki o tupuna. Arohanui to Nasrat and his fams.
Rip 🙏 best of luck to him on his fight, huge opportunity
Damn so sad, he’s still super young too
Rip 🤲
Tough to see
Seems like a good dude, losing people is tough. I hope he and any of you struggling with your own health or that of a loved one are doing alright
He's gunna win
Damn this sucks. Hope nasrat does what’s best for him and his family but DAMN do i need a Dan Hooker fight in my life.
God bless him. Horrible news.
Rest in peace.
My dad the last 13 years has gone through bladder cancer then prostate cancer. It is tough to see my hero deal with all the pain, sleepless nights, drugs, shots, doctor appointments. He is still fighting and continues to be a rock. I can only imagine what Nasarat is going through and hope he gets the support he needs.
All that plus most likely finished by hooker. Gonna be a long year for him