US officials commandeered a public Brussels park for a private 250th-birthday party on a hot weekend, angering locals before Trump's FIFA call was even known. Then came the red card reversal. The combination has left European fans actively hostile to the American team — the opposite of the goodwill the home tournament was building.
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Scaramucci doesn't have personal knowledge of Infantino, but the evidence speaks clearly: the FIFA Peace Prize handed to Trump, the socialising with Commerce Secretary Lutnick at games, and now the bending of a sporting decision to presidential will. This is not corruption in the conventional sense, Scaramucci argues — it's the ancient human desire to be inside 'the circle of significance' around the most powerful person in the room. [1] — Anthony Scaramucci "Gianni Infantino gave Trump the FIFA Peace Prize, hung out with his cabinet, and then facilitated the reversal of a red card after a presid…" 17:17 Katty Kay adds texture: she reached out to Gary Lineker, who texted back that 'Sycophantino has gone into hiding deep inside the bowels of Trump'. An unnamed FIFA official appearing on The Rest Is Football's Netflix show said that if the US soccer association was directly involved in the decision, he would resign. Meanwhile, in Brussels, Americans had already angered locals by commandeering a public park for a private 250th-anniversary party on a hot weekend — and then the red card reversal landed on top. The damage to America's image in Belgium, the site of the next US game, was already done.
Gianni Infantino gave Trump the FIFA Peace Prize, hung out with his cabinet, and then facilitated the reversal of a red card after a presidential phone call. Scaramucci reads it simply: Infantino wants proximity to power and built a personal loyalty program with a client list of one.
Gianni Infantino awarded Donald Trump a FIFA Peace Prize, which Scaramucci described as a loyalty-program gesture to gain proximity to power.
Thomas's wife deferred her CrossFit career — she's in the global top 1% of athletes — to put him through law school debt-free. He wants her to chase the dream now; she wants the emergency fund and house down payment first. On a $200K lawyer income with no debt, the opportunity cost is just a few months of slower saving.
Underground calisthenics battles are exactly like UFC meets a rap battle — 150 people crowded around a circle, fighters walking out with masks and chains, nicknames like 'Extra Money' vs 'Calisthenics the Prince,' and people throwing money and betting. The battle set: 100 burpees, 50 muscle-ups, 75 dips, 75 squats with a 65-pound dumbbell. This is the next big spectator sport.
Rico Verhoeven controlled the undisputed heavyweight boxing champion for approximately 10 rounds — and had his appeal upheld when officials admitted the fight was stopped after the bell. The result was never overturned. Rogan calls it either incompetence or corruption, and argues the money behind Usyk made an upset politically inconvenient.
Rogan lays out a blunt case: boxing's 3-judge system is structurally broken, and the judges know who the promoter wants to win. Glory's 5-judge format is the right model. Corruption doesn't have to be conscious — just knowing Usyk is the cash cow is enough to tilt the scales.
With the Usyk-Wilder fight stalling and Fury-Joshua coming too late, the real fight the world wants is the rematch. Rico is a free agent. Usyk vacated his belts. The story is unfinished and both Rogan and Rico know it. His Excellency Turki Alasheikh already called for it ringside — the question is money.
Rico texted Jason Statham during the Canelo-Crawford fight. Statham showed Rico's highlight videos to promoters. Two days later, Rico was on a call about fighting Anthony Joshua. When Joshua pulled out, Rico pitched Usyk himself — Undisputed vs. Undisputed. Usyk said yes in two weeks. The whole thing started with one text.
Every heavyweight who faced Usyk tried to move to the right — straight into his power hand. Rico and Peter Fury identified the obvious solution: move left, away from the left hand, and smother him with size. It sounds simple. Nobody had done it. That one adjustment was the foundation of 10 dominant rounds.
MMA fans boo when fights go to the ground. They love stand-up. Kickboxing is pure stand-up. Yet it barely exists in America while boxing and MMA are enormous. Rogan's diagnosis: no promotion machine. If the UFC got behind kickboxing the way they've built MMA, it would explode. The talent is there — the storytelling machine is not.
A nation of 17 million people gave the world Ramon Deckers, Peter Aerts, Badr Hari, Melvin Manhoef, Rob Kamen, Ernesto Hoost, and Rico Verhoeven. Rico's theory: the country is so small that every gym shares knowledge freely. In the US, you need a flight. In Holland, you drive 40 minutes and spar the national champion.
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