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mewse posted:Selling people on the division.. Would you say Dana was trying to "hype" barao??? Yeah. Barao was hyped to being the best P4P guy in the world, and then he lost by one-sided beat down to a total underdog and then embarrassed himself by missing weight. Like Overeem was in less danger of losing his job this year than Barao was after loving up UFC 177. I don't even know how there's an argument.
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Overeem also spent the entire year prior losing in hilarious ways so no one really gave a poo poo and he rode a noticeably smaller wave of hype from the promotion itself.
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If a guys already riding a career decline it's hard to say he's the most overhyped and underperforming fighter. Barao went from #3 p4p to "can he make weight without smashing his head into a tile floor this time?"
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mewse posted:"can he make weight without smashing his head into a tile floor this time?" That was everyone of his fights. Also he was 31-1-1 with 3 title defenses before Dillashaw. Overeem was literally supposed to win every single one his fights that he lost in hilarious fashion, he was -400 or something close vs Rothwell.
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Actually I don't believe he missed weight for all of his fights
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the most overhyped fighters are: -chris weidman -frankie edgar -conor mcgregor
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mewse posted:Actually I don't believe he missed weight for all of his fights he looked like he was going to actually die at a lot of weigh ins
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I don't know if it's possible to overhype a man who gave us Edgar/Maynard 3
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mewse posted:Actually I don't believe he missed weight for all of his fights You said he went to "can he make weight". He was always like that. david carmichael posted:he looked like he was going to actually die at a lot of weigh ins Seltzer fucked around with this message at 21:55 on Oct 1, 2014 |
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Keven. Just. Keven posted:Lindland is a stupid person, and i don't mean like he's a big jock who doesn't like books or w/e, he seems like he can barely function day to day from everything you ever hear about him or see him in. And to think the guy was the republican nomination for the Oregon house of representatives. Makes it even funnier than it was at the time.
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Uriah Hall wants a rematch with Costa Phillipou before the year is over. http://www.mmafighting.com/2014/10/1/6879983/uriah-hall-hoping-for-december-fight-against-costas-philippou quote:
They go on to say Costa's manager had no comment and hasn't signed on for any fights.
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Seltzer posted:he was -400 or something close vs Rothwell. Barao is a -800 favorite at the MGM Garden Arena in Las Vegas this Saturday, May 24 going up against T.J. Dillashaw (+500).
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Barao finished Faber earlier this year, which is more impressive than anything Reem has ever done
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david carmichael posted:the most overhyped fighters are: 
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Seltzer posted:That was everyone of his fights. Also he was 31-1-1 with 3 title defenses before Dillashaw. Overeem was literally supposed to win every single one his fights that he lost in hilarious fashion, he was -400 or something close vs Rothwell. Had Rothwell not woke up to find a strange man beating him and his arm broken, Overeem woulda won that fight.
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Hahaa, getting to the end of the MMA Hour and they're playing Chael Sonnen's backstage interview after he beat Nate Marquardt. He makes a special mention of how he doesn't gently caress around with sports psychology and Tony Robbins poo poo like other people do hahahahhaa. Edit: In other news I love this Coleman quote about UFC 10 from that MMA fighting article on one night tourney's quote:Coleman: I can't speak for anybody else, but I remember after my first fight with Moti Horenstein, I remember coming back and it was one of the coolest things that I had ever done in my life. I just went in and I got an opportunity to beat somebody up without the police coming, and I got my arm raised, and people were applauding for something that normally would get me into a lot of trouble. For me, there was no emotional letdown. It was the complete opposite. I felt like a million bucks.
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I can't believe they "fired" Chael over his drug test failures. The amount of revenue lost will never equal the 43 nerds who wouldn't buy a PPV with him on it for moral reasons. 90% of the viewing audience doesn't give a poo poo either way. All of the champs should have to attend classes with Chael on how to sell a fight the right way. Even though I understand what Chael and Conor are doing, my lizard brain gets excited about the drama and spectacle that they are putting on and makes me a lot more apt to shell out real money to watch them fight.
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gently caress it just read this whole thing, so many fantastic quotes from a bunch of people. Bermudez, Miesha, Coleman, Sonnen, Shields, Tim Kennedy... http://www.mmafighting.com/2014/10/1/6876587/how-to-win-or-lose-a-one-night-mma-tournament-pride-fc-ufc-battlegrounds Intel&Sebastian fucked around with this message at 22:20 on Oct 1, 2014 |
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The barista is fighting Face Shoe on a Brazil card in December. 
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canoshiz posted:The barista is fighting Face Shoe on a Brazil card in December. Dana's disposing of the witnesses.
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he just got repeatedly got lucky against machida. a string of coincidences and nothing more.
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david carmichael posted:the most overhyped fighters are: mods
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Basically Weidman never really beat Anderson so I agree.
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Novum posted:Basically Weidman never really beat Anderson so I agree. You're right. Weidman broke Anderson.
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kensei posted:mods Fatherdog is going to impose the rare murderous permaban and we will have to chip in for his legal fees.
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i would like to point out that frankie only beat gray maynard via a notoriously early stoppage. gray maynard, who knocked himself out with a gentle takedown and has been knocked out by every actual person he's fought since. that's frankie's biggest win of his career
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david carmichael posted:i would like to point out that frankie only beat gray maynard via a notoriously early stoppage. gray maynard, who knocked himself out with a gentle takedown and has been knocked out by every actual person he's fought since. that's frankie's biggest win of his career Beating BJ Penn twice at lightweight (shredding the husk of a human doesn't count) is probably a bigger deal than knocking out Gray Maynard.
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david carmichael posted:i would like to point out that frankie only beat gray maynard via a notoriously early stoppage. gray maynard, who knocked himself out with a gentle takedown and has been knocked out by every actual person he's fought since. that's frankie's biggest win of his career While I am aware of your feelings about BJ, the biggest wins of his career are BJ.
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well then spencer fisher must also be an all time great, because he defeated the notorious caol uno, who is exactly as good as bj penn
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Ty1990 posted:Conor McGregor would be the best thing to ever happen to Jose Aldo. Who knows, maybe something really cool happens and he's the Sonnen to his Silva.
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frankie edgar is about as good as gleison tibau, tyson griffin, sam stout, etc. also he should have lost to lithuainian dave.
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Novum posted:Basically Weidman never really beat Anderson so I agree. My last roommate had this unironic opinion. They exist. In real life.
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david carmichael posted:well then spencer fisher must also be an all time great, because he defeated the notorious caol uno, who is exactly as good as bj penn I can't remember; didn't BJ kick the poo poo out of Gomi?
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I don't even know what's real anymore. This is the first time I've ever heard anyone call the end of Edgar/Maynard 3 an early stoppage much less a notorious one.
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Intel&Sebastian posted:I don't even know what's real anymore. This is the first time I've ever heard anyone call the end of Edgar/Maynard 3 an early stoppage much less a notorious one. He's not being serious, he just doesn't like Frankie "the best" Edgar
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Intel&Sebastian posted:Reportedly Griffin couldn't ice skate for his life. Seriously what does someone have to do to get screen time, whip out their genitals??
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mewse posted:Seriously what does someone have to do to get screen time, whip out their genitals?? Again, Poe's law in full effect in the UFC thread today but...Felice Herrig has had a ton of screentime and coincidentally pulled her undies off in the warm up room last episode for a laugh. And I don't mean hotpants, I mean she did this and then they had to blur out her crotch. Siiiiiiigh. And here I was not even a day before that defending her and her right to camwhore it up for promotion. Edit: Aisling Daly is also not featured like...at all so far. I recall her having one talking head segment about being picked last and then nothing. Maybe they're anti-accent? Intel&Sebastian fucked around with this message at 23:43 on Oct 1, 2014 |
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attackmole posted:Who knows, maybe something really cool happens and he's the Sonnen to his Silva. He would be the best striker he's fought.
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He expended too much energy and got tired