MassRafTer posted:

Edit: They definitely need to cut down on the talking head segments. They generally add nothing other than 2 guys pick 1 fighter and the other picks the other. If they aired more features like the one they aired on Costa (before he got thrashed) they'd be better off. You can't do one for everyone though, maybe one or two more? With Bellator I never remember a thing about the fighters because every Russian and Brazilian gets the same translator and all the packages look the same.

Tezcatlipoca posted:

I wish they would use that time to talk about techniques and tactics instead of trying to emulate the talking heads of football broadcasts.

Bubba Smith posted:

Anyway TJ is basically a lock for Fighter of the Year, right? He's won 3 fights this year, won the belt from a gremlin, saved a card from cancellation unlike the coward Jon Jones who almost cancelled another card, and he set a record with two 5th round stoppages.

Sprecherscrow posted:

Welp, guess I won't get Fight Pass after all. (Seriously though, is it worth it?)

canada jezus posted:

Karate hottie, which is her nickname apparently. The gently caress did you get ninja ballerina from that.

Count Roland posted:

Rothwell's fight, victory dance and post-fight interview were all pretty amazing and progressively more hilarious. Especially because I was with a friend that kept calling him "The White Menace".

david carmichael posted:

overeem completely missed the glove touch at the start of the fight, which i think was a really good sign of things to come

Mr. Carlisle posted:

Weren't there guys coming in saying they were like 150-0 and stuff like that?

Or maybe I'm remembering fighters from some of the amateur leagues making claims like that which probably happens pretty often.

Mean Bean Machine posted:

Jack Slack: Conor McGregor Is the Future of Mixed Martial Arts

fatherdog posted:

For everyone that hates Greg Jackson - comfort yourself with the fact that he is tasked with being responsible for this man.

colonel_korn posted:

Good lord, Magny is fighting again in October against some Brazilian guy. He's going to fight five, possibly six times in 2014. He's like a boring Donald Cerrone.

Bubba Smith posted:

I'm thinking Joe Silva sees this as either Overeem loses again and there's no defensible way to keep him on the roster so he's gone, and Struve might not be able to fight much longer anyways so he could be gone too, so there isn't a whole lot for UFC to lose in this particular matchup. Cause otherwise yeah this doesn't make sense to put Struve in an even more dangerous fight in a higher profile bout. This will be co-main for sure and he will have to have the locker room cam on him as Mike Goldberg talks up Harley Davidson motorcycles.

Dangersim posted:

The reality of it really hit when I watched my friend get knocked out cold with a head kick in an amateur fight. It was "oh, these are really human beings, and one who is my friend just took serious head trauma."

A big part of me was still all THAT WAS COOL AS poo poo though.

It's fun though because if he ever pisses you off you can just threaten to kick him in the head and there's nothing he can really say.

MycroftXXX posted:

I don't think Struve hits hard enough to give overeem a funny KO ending.

Seltzer posted:

Looks like Hunt's camp thinks he might not be making weight. https://twitter.com/markhunt1974/status/512550994375229440

Yuriy posted:

Dangersim posted:

What a lovely day for Glenn Robinson.

Roy's FB page posted:

Thanks everyone for the support, just got caught. Thats what happens in the Hwy division. @lunarpages @Fearthefighter @dynamicfastner @alienwaremma ‪#‎stumble‬ next time

EvanSchenck posted:

It's kind of funny to read Roy Nelson explaining he "just got caught" considering his entire career has been based around just catching other guys.

Yuriy posted:

these are the posts youve made here, please dont make anymore

Dangersim posted:

Go outside

fatherdog posted:

Apparently his All Access show featured an amateur getting the poo poo beat out of them by a professional in a "sparring session" while people around the ring placed bets.

Require More Fire posted:

Now that Wandy is banned in Nevada, doesn't that mean he's effectively banned from fighting anywhere important in the US since most ACs like Cali and NJ respect each other's decisions?

masato tatanka posted:

it's cool that UFC embedded has devolved into watching the fighters watching the previous episode of UFC embedded

manyak posted:

Even though im a Nerd, Im gonna work out and get mad laid [sees girls fawn over guy with big biceps and chest] That guy probably isnt athletic at all.. he skips leg day, i work out for performance, its way different [realizes im bad at every sport and the Bicep guy is more athletic than me] Oh uhh.. actually I lift weight for the numbers. i lift heavy things and put them down, LOL! [sees a buff guy lifting more weight than me] hmm.. that guy's posture probably fuckin sucks. Bet he's gonna have.. shoulder girdle problems and poo poo. My posture is ridiculously off the chain

Bluedeanie posted:

When I first started posting in the MMA threads it was some drive-by rageposting about how I didn't like Anderson Silva following another big win of his and it probably read a lot like that guy's posts, so I just want to apologize to everyone because I am second-hand embarrassed for him and myself.

Bioshuffle posted:

The culture of elitism that exists within the MMA fan base is nothing short of baffling. I can think of three separate occasions when I almost came to trading blows with some drunk know-it-all who thinks his opinions have more value because he trains jiu-jitsu.

It's like they can't handle the concept of two people having different opinions. I may not "train" mixed martial arts, but I've seen enough matches and read enough articles and studied fight footage to know what I'm talking about.