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Who will champs be come Sunday morning? This poll is closed. |
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| Weidman/Aldo |
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79 | 53.02% |
| Weidman/McGregor |
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38 | 25.50% |
| Rockhold/Aldo |
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20 | 13.42% |
| Rockhold/McGregor |
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12 | 8.05% |
| Total: | 149 votes | ||
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I believe in conor mcgregor
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Dec 11, 2015 17:34
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He expended too much energy and got tired
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Le Saboteur posted:Conor is getting a little out there with this movement stuff. https://www.instagram.com/p/_H-nlxobR9/ It's his weight cut, he can't do anything too taxing.
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Dec 11, 2015 17:57
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I think Rockhold's limited boxing and questionable ability to deal with pressure will result in him eventually getting boxed up, taken down and pounded out towards the end of the fight, though not without Weidman eating a number of nasty kicks. I don't know what's gonna happen in the main but I think it may involve Aldo laying on Conor which would be cool.
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Dec 11, 2015 18:38
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1 more day fuckers. My mind is going to be anywhere but work this afternoon.
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Dec 11, 2015 18:43
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Ty1990 posted:1 more day fuckers. My mind is going to be anywhere but work this afternoon. Can't stop thinking about all the really good fights tonight either!
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Dec 11, 2015 18:50
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Dangersim posted:I believe in conor mcgregor i'm sort of waffling between who i think is gonna win but i have a probation bet riding on this so aldo better pull through, or he'll get a strongly worded letter from my attorney
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Dec 11, 2015 18:51
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I think Aldo will try to beat Conor on the feet at first since I have to believe McGregor is in his head at least a little bit and he'll want to beat Conor standing. If Aldo finds it too much trouble to win standing, or he starts taking a ton of damage, he'll bring Conor to the ground. Unless Conor has made some huge strides since the Mendes fight, or he hurts Aldo bad before Aldo takes him down, he'll be in a lot of trouble. Obviously Aldo has to be real careful of getting caught by that left hand. Fight is going to be incredible whatever happens.
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Dec 11, 2015 19:14
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Decades posted:I think Rockhold's limited boxing and questionable ability to deal with pressure I'm glad somebody else said it. I don't want to sound like a Weidman fanboy but steroid Vitor had Luke backing into the cage quite a bit and Machida was hitting him cleanly in their fight until Machida slipped (announcers said he got hit but I can't see it even rewatching the fight) and it went to the ground.
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Dec 11, 2015 19:15
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Ty1990 posted:I'm glad somebody else said it. I don't want to sound like a Weidman fanboy but steroid Vitor had Luke backing into the cage quite a bit and Machida was hitting him cleanly in their fight until Machida slipped (announcers said he got hit but I can't see it even rewatching the fight) and it went to the ground. iirc Machida got hit with a glancing shot behind his ear which he has been susceptible to in the past and was basically out of it from that point on
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Dec 11, 2015 19:17
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threeagainstfour posted:I have to believe McGregor is in his head at least a little bit Goons and fans in general have a roughly 0% track record in assessing or predicting this. As an aside, goons are also pretty bad at judging a person's visible emotional state in general ("Holly looks scared after Ronda got mad at the weigh-ins!" and "Dana White looks like he's about to cry in the cage now that VanZant lost!") but we are all pedantic autists so that's just a symptom.
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Dec 11, 2015 19:17
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Bluedeanie posted:Goons and fans in general have a roughly 0% track record in assessing or predicting this. I hope I'm wrong! I'm rooting for Aldo and want to see him fight smart and not get baited into making a bad move and eating a huge left hand on the chin.
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Dec 11, 2015 19:20
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manyak posted:iirc Machida got hit with a glancing shot behind his ear which he has been susceptible to in the past and was basically out of it from that point on hasn't he got caught with the exact same right hook in the same spot by a bunch of people? rockhold's only punch of note seems to be his right hook, but he's clipped a few people with it.
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Dec 11, 2015 19:21
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Bluedeanie posted:Goons and fans in general have a roughly 0% track record in assessing or predicting this. You have to extend that to fighters too since Chael has said that Aldo and McGregor are scared of each other and a few other fighters have chimed in on that as well, so between goons, fans, and fighters its probably easier to say that its hard for anyone to know someone elses mental state before a fight Theres also the possibility that people were right (i.e. Holly was scared) and it just didnt matter because you can be scared and still win a fight
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Dec 11, 2015 19:21
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frank mir just hangs out backstage crying and he wins all the time. nick diaz always talks about how scared he is before and during fights, and also, how his opponent is a bitch for being scared
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Dec 11, 2015 19:24
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david carmichael posted:hasn't he got caught with the exact same right hook in the same spot by a bunch of people? rockhold's only punch of note seems to be his right hook, but he's clipped a few people with it. Yeah its like he flinches and turns his head away a bit at the last second and it always catches him in the temple or behind the ear to drop him, its happened a handful of times ever since Shogun succeeded with it
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Dec 11, 2015 19:25
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threeagainstfour posted:I hope I'm wrong! McGregor is probably "in his head" or getting on Aldo's nerves at least a decent bit more than any other fighter he's faced in the UFC running up to the fight, and he may or may not stay there in the fight itself (although we have no real reason to assume this either way.) But regardless of his emotional state in this particular fight, Aldo is going to try to beat McGregor on the feet anyway because Aldo is first and foremost a striker in MMA and never really defaults to grappling unless he is forced to or presented a clear and glaring opportunity. manyak posted:You have to extend that to fighters too since Chael has said that Aldo and McGregor are scared of each other and a few other fighters have chimed in on that as well, so between goons, fans, and fighters its probably easier to say that its hard for anyone to know someone elses mental state before a fight This is also true. I remember a lot of fans saying Chael absolutely without a shadow of a doubt had to be in Anderson's head and that was going to mess him up in the fight, and then at the weigh-ins a number of people also arguing Chael seemed cripplingly terrified because he didn't make eye contact at the staredown or something and therefore Chael wouldn't do well in the fight. Then Chael proceeded to have probably the best performance of his career and not give Anderson an inch for 22 minutes, which has to legitimately be absolutely devastating to your self-esteem through a fight, and Chael himself said he thought Anderson was just giving up and was staring at Rosenthal begging him to stop at one point. And then Anderson instantly jumps on the first opportunity he has to win with a triangle anyway, so I think it's both virtually impossible to tell if someone is scared/upset/a headcase at all in most cases, and even if you can tell it is then virtually impossible to tell if this will actually make a difference.
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Dec 11, 2015 19:27
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Conor may or may not being in his head, but once the fight starts hes going to be talking poo poo in the ring and we'll see if it effects aldo
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Dec 11, 2015 19:36
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firas said that gsp was constantly a basket case before fights, and sometimes even during fights where he was flawlessly dominating. worried about every conceivable thing that could possibly go wrong and all the ways he could get severely hurt or beaten. "having emotions" isn't necessarily a sign of anything.
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Dec 11, 2015 19:40
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Dangersim posted:Conor may or may not being in his head, but once the fight starts hes going to be talking poo poo in the ring and we'll see if it effects aldo maybe if he talks to him in perfect Portuguese then it might, other wise, i dont think he will have any idea what he is saying.
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Dec 11, 2015 19:42
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I'm positive McGregor has learned a couple Portuguese phrases to poo poo talk for this fight. Didn't he say he was going to Kill Aldo in portuguese at some presser?
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Dec 11, 2015 19:43
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Sharzak posted:I'm positive McGregor has learned a couple Portuguese phrases to poo poo talk for this fight. Didn't he say he was going to Kill Aldo in portuguese at some presser? Yeah he did the vai morrer chant at him which I've been waiting for years for someone to do to a Brazilian fighter
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Dec 11, 2015 19:50
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EmmyOk posted:Hello my fellow McGregor/Weidman selectors Im picking aldo and weidman. but i wont be surprised at all if mcgregor wins, and id be happy if he did.
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Dec 11, 2015 20:06
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Sharzak posted:I'm positive McGregor has learned a couple Portuguese phrases to poo poo talk for this fight. Didn't he say he was going to Kill Aldo in portuguese at some presser? I figure by now everyone involved in MMA knows what uh vai morrer means, I don't expect Conor to actually sit down with a Portuguese phrase book just to talk poo poo in the cage. Sprecherscrow fucked around with this message at 20:45 on Dec 11, 2015 |
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Dec 11, 2015 20:40
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Heres my predictions fr this card: 1. Jose Aldo via DECISION 2. C. Wide Man via TKO 3. Yoel Romero via I LIKE HIS NAME BETTER 4. Damian Maia via DECISION 5. Max Hollow Way via CMON HAHA WHY'D THEY MAKE THIS Prelims Who Cares def I Care via Me Not Caring To Predict 50 loving Fights, Thanks.
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Dec 11, 2015 20:40
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Ty1990 posted:I'm glad somebody else said it. I don't want to sound like a Weidman fanboy but steroid Vitor had Luke backing into the cage quite a bit and Machida was hitting him cleanly in their fight until Machida slipped (announcers said he got hit but I can't see it even rewatching the fight) and it went to the ground. Rockhold reminds me a little bit of Jones in that he's a tremendously skilled fighter with awesome physical gifts and an extremely dangerous opponent for anyone who will never ever learn to box. I actually just rewatched the Machida fight purely to get myself hyped for Rockhold, and was actually kind of disappointed. He did drop machida. That one right hook is great as jack slack has been pointing out. But he came out on the losing end of a lot of striking exchanges before Machida was badly hurt, and I think it'll go similarly with Chris. It makes things hard to predict because regardless of who wins most exchanges, it'll probably come down to Rockhold either landing one huge strike that changes the course of the fight, or not.
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Dec 11, 2015 21:56
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Weidman and DJ picked Conor. Whatever about DJ Weidman clearly has a Brazilian Legend murder fetish
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Dec 11, 2015 22:15
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Weidman picking him doesn't surprise me. I feel like weidman has the same unbreakable confidence as conor, he's just much more quiet about it
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Dec 11, 2015 22:38
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Weigh-ins are live https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTUpgAVwrXE
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Dec 12, 2015 00:05
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Are these fully open like 189 weigh-ins were? Also this weigh-in guy is always a loving bellend
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Dec 12, 2015 00:18
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Man I underestimated how big Jacare is, he looked just as huge as Yoel Romero
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Dec 12, 2015 00:27
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Chris and Luke are having, like, a full conversation up there
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Dec 12, 2015 00:30
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conor looks like he's eaten potato stew for the last three years
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Dec 12, 2015 00:33
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i love how these top guys are always on weight.
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Dec 12, 2015 00:34
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Connor looks like an emaciated muscular skeleton. Somehow
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Dec 12, 2015 00:34
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They both look like heroin addicts tbh, that hat makes aldo look like a mother who has lost her kids to CPS.
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Dec 12, 2015 00:35
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Oof conor looks bad
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Dec 12, 2015 00:36
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Aldo with the McGregor pose
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Dec 12, 2015 00:36
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Jose making fun of Conor's pose lol.
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Dec 12, 2015 00:37
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Update: I am still extremely excited.
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Dec 12, 2015 00:38
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conor always looks like death incarnate. His biggest skill is even being able to be 145lbs
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Dec 12, 2015 00:38
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