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Who will be the champs come Sunday? This poll is closed. |
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| McGregor, Lawler |
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47 | 23.86% |
| McGregor, MacDonald |
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20 | 10.15% |
| Mendes, Lawler |
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83 | 42.13% |
| Mendes, MacDonald |
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27 | 13.71% |
| Aldo, Hendricks |
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20 | 10.15% |
| Total: | 197 votes | ||
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Nierbo posted:I much rather have the fight go on a bit too long tbh than have months of excuses. like Frank mir says 'let me take my beating for failingto be the better fighter' the absolute opposite of this
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Marching Powder posted:the absolute opposite of this This. Finishes like Smith/Sell or Trujillo/Varner only happen with bad fighters. Brain trauma is no small thing. I want my fighters to have a good career and retire to do further cool stuff, rather than see them become Micheal J Fox. By the way. Edson Barboza had the poo poo kicked out of him by Jamie Varner. I think I'll throw that in there just 'cuz.
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Jul 10, 2015 01:29
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http://i.imgur.com/aMKEbtW.gifv
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Jul 10, 2015 01:30
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in the op please
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Jul 10, 2015 01:35
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Marching Powder posted:in the op please Conor's picture for the rest of all time in any post referencing him. Nothing less will do.
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Jul 10, 2015 01:36
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this is cool but all I think about is how jon jones can't dunk a basketball and yet he has beat the poo poo out of everyone in the world. So i feel like the more you criticize Conor McGregor being unable to jump over a log he will proportionally do more cocaine and beat up more fathers in the octagon.
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Jul 10, 2015 01:44
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conor looks loving terrible in the press conference and i'm really curious to see him in the championship rounds. if he can function at full steam then doctors should be studying him.
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Jul 10, 2015 01:57
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I saw one of him at night at (I guess) the same place, and being able to do it.
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Jul 10, 2015 01:57
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 I will take a 1 month probation if Conor wins.I don't want a bet on this. I want all the Conor supporters around to rationalize after he gets embarrassed. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Jul 10, 2015 02:25
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BJJScout put up a video about 189, where he talks about footwork in the context of three of the main card fights being southpaw vs orthodox. Good stuff. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_deSjlHCVJw&hd=1 One thing he does neglect to note is that there's another way to react to having your lead foot beat, which is lead hooking inside their lead hook/jab - Ward did that to Dawson all night, and it lets you kind of throw yourself into the clinch (which is a good place to be when you're the bottom of the T, for the same reason takedowns are). It's riskier and more difficult than defending your way out of the weak plane, though.
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Jul 10, 2015 02:43
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Footwork is one of the most fascinating parts of fighting for me so this analysis is really drat cool - thanks for posting. e: And this right here makes me like Conor more than any non-fight thing I've seen him in. double negative fucked around with this message at 03:19 on Jul 10, 2015 |
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Jul 10, 2015 03:01
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Count Roland posted:I saw one of him at night at (I guess) the same place, and being able to do it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O73ZeK1Saco
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Jul 10, 2015 03:08
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Skip My Posts posted:is dan miragillota or whatever known as a good ref?
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Jul 10, 2015 03:17
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yo im excited to see this grappling advantage conor has, imparted from months of training with his moldovian coach
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Jul 10, 2015 03:40
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SquirrelGrip posted:yo im excited to see this grappling advantage conor has, imparted from months of training with his moldovian coach I know that there's been some fun making GBS threads on Conor's Eastern European wrestling coach, but take a moment to consider that Georgia, Estonia, and, Lithuania have a combined population of 7.9 million, and at the 2012 Olympics took home a combined 8 medals. Georgia on its own, with a population less than 4 million, had 6. The US had 4, and sent as many athletes as those three countries combined. So yeah, maybe an Eastern European wrestling coach isn't such a bad thing.
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Jul 10, 2015 03:53
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CommonShore posted:I know that there's been some fun making GBS threads on Conor's Eastern European wrestling coach, but take a moment to consider that Georgia, Estonia, and, Lithuania have a combined population of 7.9 million, and at the 2012 Olympics took home a combined 8 medals. Georgia on its own, with a population less than 4 million, had 6. Moldova isn't Georgia, Estonia or Lithuania, though. Moldovans have won a single medal in wrestling at the Olympics, bronze back in 1996
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Jul 10, 2015 03:59
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LobsterMobster posted:Moldova isn't Georgia, Estonia or Lithuania, though. Yeah, but they also only have a population of like 4 million, and only sent two wrestlers in 2012. I'm just saying that making fun of him for having a Moldovian wrestling coach is kind of dumb.
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Jul 10, 2015 04:02
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moldovian... apologist?
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Jul 10, 2015 04:04
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In related news a Moldovan just got steamrolled on Invicta.
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Jul 10, 2015 04:19
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CommonShore posted:Yeah, but they also only have a population of like 4 million, and only sent two wrestlers in 2012. im making fun of him for claiming his months of training with a moldovian gives him a grappling advantage over chad mendes... to the point of saying hes a better wrestler. replace moldovia with any other country or named athlete - doesn't make conor right
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Jul 10, 2015 04:21
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The female Conor McGregor just got completely dominated on the ground in Invicta so things are looking good for Ireland.
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Jul 10, 2015 05:07
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Marching Powder posted:the absolute opposite of this Yeah. If you look at the replay and decide it's really an early stoppage, you can do a rematch. If you wait too long and they eat a dozen unnecessary punches, you can't put their brain back together.
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Jul 10, 2015 05:09
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I think Conor McGregor will win however I will not be betting on him because -210 is alot.
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Jul 10, 2015 05:33
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BJ Penn did the pool jump better.
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Jul 10, 2015 07:05
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no he didnt
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Jul 10, 2015 07:17
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BJ jumped out of a pool then zoomed out into a hot tub with a bunch of bros
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Jul 10, 2015 07:26
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Skip My Posts posted:no he didnt Did Chad Mendes scream "THREEE FEET!"? No, so it was worse. He just did some spinning poo poo instead.
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Jul 10, 2015 08:42
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add sexy carlos to the card and make it clockwork orange themed, one off the ww ultraviolence gang
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Jul 10, 2015 09:40
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I put $100 canadian on chad money. Pain in the rear end learning how to navigate betting sites tho
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Jul 10, 2015 10:35
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i'd rather a stoppage be a little late than a little early, but i'd also much rather a stoppage be very early than very late
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Jul 10, 2015 10:39
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Conor is gonna get wrestled in the first but survive and then he's going to knock money out in the second.
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Jul 10, 2015 10:42
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What you can't tell from that video is that Chad Mendes can walk under the thing Conor is jumping on without ducking his head.
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Jul 10, 2015 12:49
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Mr. Nice! posted:Watching the end of that presser and Money and Conor both loving own. Made all the greater by having Rory for contrast.
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Jul 10, 2015 12:54
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mewse posted:I put $100 canadian on chad money. Pain in the rear end learning how to navigate betting sites tho Which site did you use? I've been looking at this one called sports interaction.
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Jul 10, 2015 13:27
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Le Saboteur posted:Which site did you use? I've been looking at this one called sports interaction. Placed the bet with pinnacle, transferred funds through instadebit
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Jul 10, 2015 13:30
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Le Saboteur posted:Which site did you use? I've been looking at this one called sports interaction. That's the one I've been using for years. It's Canadian as well.
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Kragger99 posted:That's the one I've been using for years. It's Canadian as well. Yeah I ended up using Sports Interaction as they had the TKO prop bet for Mendes I wanted to take.
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Jul 10, 2015 15:13
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fatherdog posted:BJJScout put up a video about 189, where he talks about footwork in the context of three of the main card fights being southpaw vs orthodox. Good stuff. This was cool and i like that they snuck in at the end what i have been telling everyone which is that conors grappling doesnt suck. The last time we saw conors top game was years ago and with an injured knee but he showed a more varied and advanced passing game than chad has ever shown If conor has the tools to slow things down on the ground and not get caught by something crazy in a scramble i yhink he will do fine on the ground. Big if though
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Jul 10, 2015 16:20
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manyak posted:This was cool and i like that they snuck in at the end what i have been telling everyone which is that conors grappling doesnt suck. The last time we saw conors top game was years ago and with an injured knee but he showed a more varied and advanced passing game than chad has ever shown I agree that Conor's a significantly better passer than Mendes, but that says nothing about whether he'll be able to do anything from the bottom if Mendes gets him down. If he got Mendes down Mendes would probably be in trouble, but if he gets Mendes down it'll probably be off knocking him down and at that point Mendes is in trouble anyway.
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Yeah, the thing that stood out to me there is that while it's true that Conor's passing is more varied, it's pretty obvious just from looking that the video that Chad's passing game is the way it is because he absolutely does not want to let up the top pressure at any time. He'd rather work more for the pass and avoid giving any opportunity for the opponent to get up than try strategies where he can't put his weight on the opponent as much. Conor being a better passer isn't going to be super relevant if he can't get out from under Mendes's top pressure.
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