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TheRationalRedditor posted:prepare an alternate wishlist because with the way Rory MacDonald handled Woodley he's not going to have anything for Hendricks but a puncher's chance (which Hendricks also has) I would actually be pretty interested to see Rory fight Hendricks once his skull/face is in fewer pieces.
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Oct 2, 2015 02:23
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david carmichael posted:Rashad is worse than bader. Rashad could win every second of that fight, then win with a leaping 3 ninjas kick This is probably going to happen tbh
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Oct 2, 2015 14:19
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TheReverend posted:So the fight becomes "wrestle" versus "don't wrestle" and DC is a much better wrestler than Gus is. I mean, this is probably true, but if you look at their respective performances against Jones I don't think it's as big a slam dunk as people are assuming. quote:Also the size discrepancy in height makes it a lot easier for the smaller guy to wrestle the bigger guy (assuming the same weight class). Nope
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Oct 2, 2015 16:18
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Keven. Just. Keven posted:It's pretty telling that rashads only highlights in like 15 years are the head kick on Sean salmon and grabbing his dick after Forrest punched his arms a bunch.  
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Oct 2, 2015 16:27
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Le Saboteur posted:2 days to cut like 15 pounds. That is goddamn ridiculous. No, it isn't. Most dudes are cutting 20 in the last couple days.
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Oct 2, 2015 16:44
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Seltzer posted:Well you see he's now a big "whiner" because he has the audacity to get upset after being robbed of victories. He's doesn't take his losses in stride like Brazilian fan favorites who only lose because they had to fly in business class or BJ penn who tried to prove that noted cheat GSP was slathered in coco butter before their fight by bringing his mother to testify in front of the NSAC. Nog, Shogun, Penn, and Brazilians in general have been mocked far more and far longer for excuses on this board than Hendricks has.
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Oct 2, 2015 18:41
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-Atom- posted:really though someone who knows what's what re: weight cuts was this a case of Johny being a lazy fat poo poo with his diet or something else that he couldn't account for? There are a whole host of causes of both intestinal blockages and kidney stones. However, one of the possible causes for both of them is dehydration, and if Hendricks kept his weight down better he wouldn't have to dehydrate as much or as long. So you can't say definitively that this was because of his weight between camps, but it does seem likely that it wsa a factor.
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Oct 2, 2015 18:50
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CommonShore posted:Re: "the people walking around at 185-90 are fighting at 155" - didn't GSP claim that he walked around at 185 to fight at 170? According to Firas Zahabi, GSP was walking at 185 for most of his career but towards the end they put specific work in to putting on more muscle, and around the time he fought shields he was 195 or so. GSP is also probably way more assiduous than most fighters about working out and staying lean in between camps.
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Oct 2, 2015 22:45
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Lid posted:Quick someone try to work out why the Klitschko's can't draw a dime. Because they throw about the same number of strikes Ronda does but stretched out over 8-12 rounds. The Klitschko's are really, impressively good but seeing someone jab their outmatched opponent's face off for 7 rounds before deciding to maybe throw a right hand or two isn't as exciting as seeing someone take out their outmatched opponent in an animated gif timeframe.
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Oct 7, 2015 16:46
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Snowman_McK posted:The Hunt one was a perfect example of how people's memories can be weird. I missed that fight, but all I remember people talking about, even here, was how Hunt looked terrible and the ref screwed up. The narrative was never "Miocic looked good" it was "Hunt looked terrible." The narrative of the JDS fight was "man, JDS sure has lost a step" not "man, Miocic made JDS look like he'd lost a step." We're discussing why he doesn't pop up in people's heads when they talk about the current crop of Heavyweights, not a breakdown of his skillset (which is formidable) JDS in the Miocic fight looked pretty much like he usually did, Miocic did a good job. In the Hunt fight, Hunt gassed faster and harder than he did fighting Werdum on a week's notice at a mile altitude, which is why everyone was saying "Hunt looked terrible" - because that was unexpectedly bad regardless of what Miocic was doing.
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Oct 8, 2015 16:30
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MycroftXXX posted:Unless TJ left out a bunch of details (which he may have done), this isn't really like Team Takedown. IIRC Team Takedown paid guys to train, but when they fought a large part of their purse goes back to the team and when one guy took off the team would be solvent. It seems like Ludwig is outright paying Dillashaw to train there and Dillashaw gets to keep his entire purse when he fights. I think Ludwig is banking on the fact that people will flock to his gym to train with a champion and he will make money by charging them to train/selling them peanut butter. I don't have an MBA or nothin' fancy like that, but paying your biggest client to take your services doesn't seem like sound business. Ludwig isn't part of Team Elevation; Leister Bowling runs it. Ludwig is working with Dillashaw independently of the Team Elevation deal, and presumably is still getting paid by Dillashaw.
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Oct 8, 2015 17:20
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LeftistMuslimObama posted:Isn't this literally how sponsorships work everywhere else? You give free poo poo to big name people so everyone else wants to buy your poo poo. It's the same principle that results in celebrities having closets full of designer clothes they got for free, basketball players getting free shoes, etc. Elevation Fight Team is a private, fighters only gym. They don't have regular members.
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Oct 8, 2015 18:13
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iirc Elevation Training is heavily sponsored by MusclePharm
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Oct 9, 2015 17:37
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http://mmajunkie.com/2015/10/michael-bisping-willing-to-fight-unprofessional-ex-ufc-champ-rampage-jackson-at-any-weightfatherdog posted:Eventually there will be no one under contract to the UFC, regardless of weight class, that has not called out Bisping. Also, looks like Monte Cox may be taking a break from promoting/managing for a while - http://qctimes.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/article_1537c22e-b93f-5d8c-a026-8c0ff9ca730d.html
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Oct 10, 2015 07:40
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I've never watched a Let's Play, but since "Watching a dude and two puppets watch bad movies" was one of the most beloved comedies of the 90's I'm not sure why it's so unbelievable that "Watching people play video games" would be entertaining.
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Oct 10, 2015 18:20
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1st AD posted:I guess I don't understand why people are so incredulous that he would choose to goof off on air instead of getting 30/30 to train hard for 2 months and then get KO'd. No one's incredulous that Schaub would choose to goof off on air instead of fight, they're incredulous that people are apparently willing to pay him tens of thousands of dollars to do so. DumbWhiteGuy posted:I don't think he provided proof as much as just said that he makes like over 100k per fight in sponsors, did he? Also proving things to the satisfaction of Joe Rogan seems like an easy thing to do anyway. Question Everything
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Oct 14, 2015 02:32
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Charles Gnarwin posted:This is going to be awkward because the main job of the White House press corps is spinning poo poo. 
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Oct 14, 2015 16:55
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John Romero posted:does that guy who got really mad about yoel romero staying on the stool for too long still post here? henkman posted:I don't think anyone was mad. Bioshuffle posted:Big John should have stopped the fight and awarded the victory to Tim Kennedy. He had the authority to stop and he blew it. This will tarnish his reputation forever. He literally cost someone a victory! I can't think of a bigger way he could have messed up his return to Las Vegas. Maybe the nerves got to him? Bioshuffle posted:One of these is not like the other...  Bioshuffle posted:Just look at the number of trolls who came out of the woodwork to attack me because my opinion happens to be different from theirs. God forbid! Bioshuffle posted:Even if I disagree with you, I am mature enough to understand that people have different opinions. I don't have to resort to flaming to make myself feel better. fatherdog fucked around with this message at 15:35 on Oct 17, 2015 |
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origami posted:I think Swick had some allergy that hosed him up He had some sort of chronic acid reflux that he got treated with lasers or something iirc
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Oct 18, 2015 03:08
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wiffle ball bat posted:What's wrong with Tim Kennedy? fatherdog posted:Whined up a storm about every decision he lost up to and including the Jacare fight where he got beaten from pillar to post. Is the beneficiary of dumb FOR THE TROOPS bullshit while being a stereotypical douchebag, including shilling for a company that makes racist tshirts and spending the entire day of Nelson Mandela's death calling everyone on his timeline making a positive statement about Mandela an rear end in a top hat because he was a "commie terrorist".
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Oct 18, 2015 03:25
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Lid posted:He's 155 Vitor what
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Oct 19, 2015 18:25
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Bundt Cake posted:who was fighter of the year last year Bundt Cake posted:Who was fighter of the year 2 years ago HulkaMatt posted:Fighter of the Year
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Oct 19, 2015 18:32
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-Atom- posted:plus his latest string of injuries is kind of troubling. he's been out for a while. 
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Oct 19, 2015 19:20
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Lid posted:late career resurgent drug addict He's not "late career resurgent", he's a guy who's gotten steadily better over the course of his career and is only 30.
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Oct 19, 2015 21:42
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Even aside from the lovely political implications, is a map of ireland with "IRELAND UFC" the laziest imaginable t-shirt design? I could come up with something better than that poo poo and I'm the least fashionable person on earth.
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Oct 21, 2015 15:41
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Bubba Smith posted:lol arielhelwani posted:
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Oct 21, 2015 23:05
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david carmichael posted:Why would anyone notice? Because it's something Irish people, the ostensible main market for said shirt, get upset about so you'd think somebody would have at some point vetted this
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Oct 22, 2015 16:40
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david carmichael posted:somebody probably google image searched ireland, then traced it, then showed it to other people in the company and they said "whatever". why would anyone have any idea of what the country or island of ireland looked like from memory david carmichael posted:they absolutely do not david carmichael posted:reebok has been loving up everything and its really funny, but its also really funny to see the weird outrage over what is at the same time an obviously dumb mistake and a huge perceived slight against irish nationalism or whatever I'm not outraged, or upset, because I'm not Irish in any meaningful sense. But actual Irish people very clearly are upset. And you may consider it weird or silly for actual Irish people to be upset, which is fine, but it's still clearly A Thing Which Has Happened, which is why I (and most everyone else in this thread except you and Atom) are incredulous that Reebok were so stupid as to create a shirt which pisses off the majority of their target market for said shirt. Most multi-billion dollar companies have localization teams in order to prevent exactly this kind of thing from happening. Like, the whole concept of "fan death" is manifestly ridiculous but that doesn't change the fact that it would be very stupid to make a Korean Zombie t-shirt with a giant fan on it. And if Reebok did that I wouldn't be outraged, but I would be incredulous that they could be so goddamn dumb. Which is exactly the reactions going on in the thread currently. I'm not sure why this is difficult for you to understand.
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Oct 22, 2015 22:07
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david carmichael posted:its perfectly reasonable to understand i am just riffing on exaggerations of people calling it offensive for the sake of making joke posts. north filipino sea, yesterday being the anniversary of america giving munitions to IS, the 5/6s joke. i am just salty that all my best references went unnoticed In that case, I apologize for implicitly lumping you in with Atom.
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Oct 22, 2015 22:48
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Chuck/Wandy was one of the few "dream fights" that actually came close to living up to the anticipation, even though it took place when both guys were a bit past their prime.
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Oct 23, 2015 00:05
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Detroit_Dogg posted:It was also really good because it was Chuck starching him for 3 straight rounds My favorite part of that fight was someone ran into Wandy's manager in an airport afterwards and asked him why Wandy didn't blitz Chuck when he stunned him with a punch with his back against the fence, and his manager said that Liddell hit him at the same time and he was seeing three Chucks and couldn't figure out which one to charge at.
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Oct 23, 2015 00:09
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Seltzer posted:I just looked and there's not a card I'm interested in until UFC Fight Night: Henderson vs. Alves on November 28th.... gently caress mmajunkie posted:
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Oct 23, 2015 00:12
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david carmichael posted:if it happened a mere year ealier it would have been easily the biggest dream match that's ever happened. its still gotta be up there though. and it is just crazy how quickly both guys dropped off after that Neither guy had a style that screamed "longevity", but you're right that the dropoff after that match was sharp and sudden. In retrospect the most amazing thing is that Shogun has remained relevant this long.
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Oct 23, 2015 00:19
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Bubba Smith posted:Was Randy vs Nog a dream fight before it happened? You would think two of the most accomplished heavyweights in the sports history finally fighting would be a dream fight but I distinctly remember most promotional videos being about the dean of mean. Randy/Fedor was the dream fight; during the times Randy was the #1 UFC guy Nog was laboring on the undercard, so despite his obvious resume most people ignored him in favor of the #1/#1.
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Bundt Cake posted:wandy also I dunno. I dont think he showed up for anything as beast wanderlei after the
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Oct 23, 2015 02:57
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Charles Gnarwin posted:I don't think there has ever been a more complete fighter in MMA history. Every other dominant champ had or has a possible flaw to criticize them with. DJ's only flaw is that Americans hate munchkins. DJ actually does have a visible flaw which is that he doesn't move his head off-line at all as he comes in on people; it tends to be straight in the air and on the centerline without much tucking of the chin. That's what got him in trouble against Dodson in their first match. He's so fast that people aren't able to take advantage of it much, but it is an actual flaw, which is notable because as you say he has so few of them.
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I'm honestly kind of at a loss for why or how anyone could possibly care enough about Ryan Bader to hate him.
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