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| Stipe Miocic |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMk2eTqPLWk Welcome, fellow travelers on the path to spiritual enlightenment. Our journeys all begin with a single step, some from such far-off wastelands as Wrestlehut. And though our destinations ma all be different, we are all on the same path, in the end: to Cleveland, Ohio for the UFC 203 GDT, 10 p.m. ET Saturday, Sept. 10, only on PPV. Remember, those who post or ask for streams will never find them. Though we may follow great leaders, even they are travelers on their own paths to self discovery and oneness with body and spirit. Let us explore their journeys, so that we too may better understand our own.  For the Heavyweight Title  Stipe Miocic (c) vs.  Alistair Overeem It is said that all great journeys begin with a single step. For Cleveland, Ohio, that journey took 56 years. For firefighter and paramedic Stipe Miocic, that journey to realizing his self-truth as UFC champion was a much shorter five years after entering the UFC. But no journey worth embarking upon is without setbacks, trials and difficulties. Stipe discovered first what it was to lose to Stefan Struve, in the very same fight that Struve first discovered what it was to use his 17,000-inch reach advantage. From there Stipe toiled with the mass of Roy Nelson and the body hair of Gabriel Gonzaga before taking another sharp turn, losing a fight of the night to former champion Junior dos Santos. But Stipe finally guided Cleveland out of the dark championship-less era on the backs of two TKOs over Mark Hunt and Andrei Arlovski, before finally defeating Fabricio Werdum to achieve true enlightenment. His gold paved the way for the Cleveland Cavaliers, showing he is truly a great leader of pilgrims through a deserted land. Allow me to tell you the tale of our fellow pilgrim Alistair Overeem, who has traveled long, and tried many paths to enlightenment. First he tried the Way of the Street Gang as a youth, earning a facial scar to forever remind him of the turmoil of his troubled past. From there he tried the Way of the Kickbox from the young age of 17, momentarily abandoning this path as he was beleaguered with losses and found more profit in the Way of the Mixed Martial Arts. And yet the fists of his enemies continued to dog his tired and weary chin, so he sought the Way of the Needle for respite. This brought him to Japan, and while it brought him much success and a very pantastic body, it did not achieve the status he so desperately sought, as he found he could not loony tunes tiptoe away from the destruction this way brought. So he tried the Way of the Open Contract, earning the Dream title and then bouncing back and forth between Strikeforce and K1, where he earned gold as far as the eye can see and the adoration of millions. However, this was not to last, for when he finally came to the UFC to defeat the great and mighty Brock Lesnar, the Way of the Needle besieged him once again. Now less chemically altered and free of the titles he once held dear, Overeem began to wander from gym to gym and camp to camp, getting owned viciously by Bigfoot Silva, and Travis Browne, and Ben Rothwell. Until he finally came to a lone, great teacher, standing tall and proud, his pube beard glistening with the desert sands of Albuquerque, who showed Overeem the Way of the Node — and at long last, he was enlightened. Heavyweight  Fabricio “Go Horse” Werdum vs.  Travis “Tiki-themed Turd Golem” Browne A long and forlorn traveler on the road to the championship, Fabricio Werdum struggled through a stint in PRIDE, his first UFC run and a Strikeforce tenure halted only by his inability to beg Overeem into punching him. He then returned to the UFC where he amassed an impressive six-fight win streak and finally earned a major championship with a submission victory over High Altitude Cain Velasquez. But for Werdum, the title was not the end of his journey, but merely the beginning. His choice of Senna’s victory theme proved to be a fateful choice at UFC 198, as he violently clashed into a wall at the hands of Miocic. Though his title was lost, Werdum was not. He picked himself back up, made his signature face and struck out on the road to his return. Like his former foe Alistair Overeem, Travis Browne was once a follower of the Way of the Node, until he became lost. He now struggles in his career as he follows the Way of the Dubious Bankruptcy Claim, enraptured by the spastic striking and bomb-rear end pussy he can find there. He now finds himself filling in for Ben Rothwell against a man who thoroughly embarrassed him while at a good camp. Many fall from the path to enlightenment, and we can only hope that as the great wheel turns, they find their way once again. Welterweight  CM “Phillip Brooks” Punk vs.  Mickey “Some Guy” Gall To understand CM Punk’s journey to the Octagon, we must first understand our own, for we are all as equally skilled as him or better. Our shared voyage to the ring began in Dec. 6, 2014, when CM Punk revealed to the world that he has left the WWE and would for some reason be a UFC fighter as a man in his late 30s with no real combat sports training. From there, he traveled a long voyage of over 45 minutes up north to Milwaukee, to seek the tutelage of the greatest trainer in the sport of mixed martial arts, Duke Rufous — and thanks to a documentary crew from FOX Sports, we traveled with him on a significant editing and tape delay. While there he saw great visions of things to come, as Sergio Pettis got kicked in the butthole and Anthony Pettis got severely owned and lost his belt within a few months of Punk joining the gym, all on the same card. But Punk persevered on his journey to be the world’s OKest UFC fighter, learning things like a punch, and another punch, and that’s it mostly. Once he learned his opponent could actually move quickly and knock people down en route to a submission, Punk traveled yet again to a surgeon to fix a problem that may or may not have existed in his back. And now, after two years and probably a lot fewer steps than you’d imagine based on the foot movement we can see in his documentary, CM Punk has completed his long journey to the UFC stage. And so do we all, for as unlikeable, unathletic fools who spend all day complaining on the internet, we are all CM Punk in this life or the next. Mickey Gall’s journey began under the tutelage of the Brothers Miller, Jim and Dan. But his story truly starts with the journey of others: Dana White, Matt Serra and Nick the Tooth. Sensing their greatest and most famous fighter would need an opponent of a special caliber, they embarked on their own journey of discovery. At first they found Sage Northcutt, but upon meditation discovered that the man who would go on to be subbed by Bryan Barbarena was too great a match for CM Punk and signed him outright. Then they found Mickey Gall and a sports journalist, and coaxed them to fight for our amusement and the chance to beat CM Punk. Though his striking is raw and he’s only 2-0 with wins over winningless cans, Gall has learned much over his brief journey in MMA, noting that he was so green he shouldn’t even be on the poster for the event. The greatest pilgrims on this journey of life know that they will never know all, so perhaps Gall will achieve enlightenment yet. Bantamweight  Urijah “The California Kid” Faber vs.  Jimmie Rivera Faber’s journey in the UFC has been as long as it is fruitless to the outside observer. Excluding his one WEC fight prior to the buyout, he has fought an astounding 25 times under Zuffa contract, losing just eight bouts to five people. But while the WEC featherweight champ never earned bantamweight UFC gold, he has earned true enlightenment from the greatest of MMA prophets, Tito Ortiz: “If you ain’t cheating, you ain’t trying.” May Francisco Rivera learn to see from his inner eye as well as he could from his outer ones before the Faber fight. While our journey is relentlessly long for some, it is incredibly (and perhaps detrimentally) short for others. Though on an 18-fight winning streak as a professional, Jimmie Rivera has had just three UFC fights (excluding his 2011 TKO loss to Dennis Bermudez in the elimination round of the Ultimate Fighter.) While even an aging Faber is a huge step up for the man who had a fight of the night decision with Iuri Alcantara, Jimmie Rivera believes he has arrived right on time, for time is a wheel that moves for only Jon Fitch. Strawweight  Jessica Andrade vs.  Joanne Calderwood Jessica Andrade’s journey began at Stonewall: she is one-half of the first fight between two openly gay fighters in the UFC, and though she lost that fight by TKO, she won our hearts. A dangerous submission expert, bantamweight proved difficult for Andrade, but in taking her own spiritual journey down two weight classes she TKOd respectable journeywoman and former contender Jessica Penne even faster than champion Joanna Jedrzejczyk. She now returns for her second bout at 115. Jojo Calderwood learned the hard way that you shouldn’t gently caress your coach, for following their nasty breakup she got brutally finished by Maryna Moroz in her first pro loss. But the journey afterward proved fruitful, as she returned to the cage to beat Cortney Casey in the fight of the night, and TKO the extremely durable former strawweight contender Valerie Letourneau via boobie kick in a flyweight bout. Let us hope we will all be enlightened by another cool performance from both of these fighters. OTHER poo poo TO WATCH Fox Sports 1 Prelims, 8 p.m. ET Women's Bantamweight Jessica Eye vs. Bethe Correia Lightweight Nik Lentz vs. Michael McBride Middleweight Caio Magalhães vs. Brad Tavares Fight Pass Prelims, 6:30 p.m. ET Welterweight Yancy Medeiros vs. Sean Spencer Light Heavyweight CB Dollaway vs. Francimar Barroso Lightweight Drew Dober vs. Jason Gonzalez Official MMA Snack Rating: Vegetarian Chickpea Tikka Masala via Yogajournal.com  INGREDIENTS 1 Tbs. vegetable oil ½ medium onion, diced 1 Tbs. garam masala 1 Tbs. tomato paste 2 tsp. grated fresh ginger 1 serrano chile, minced 2 15-oz. cans chickpeas, rinsed and drained 1 28-oz. can crushed tomatoes ½ cup low-fat Greek-style yogurt ¼ cup chopped cilantro DIRECTIONS Heat oil in skillet over medium heat. Add onion, and sauté 5 minutes, or until softened. Add garam masala, tomato paste, ginger, and serrano chile, and season with salt, if desired. Sauté 1 minute more. Stir in chickpeas and tomatoes. Bring to a boil, reduce heat to medium-low, and simmer 15 minutes. Remove from heat, and stir in yogurt and cilantro. Bluedeanie fucked around with this message at 15:54 on Sep 8, 2016 |
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This is the first time in a long time where I actively want to watch every single main event fight based on who's fighting. Great card. Thanks for doing these game day threads they are brilliant.
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Sep 8, 2016 02:46
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On one hand I'd be happy if Punk won his match, cause he has had to endure a shitload of criticism and mean things said about him since his decision to become a pro fighter 2 years ago. That being said he mostly brought it on himself, and Mickey Gall is probably a decent kid whose life will change forever if he wins while Punk's life will sorta stay the same win or lose so gently caress him. Go Gall.
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Sep 8, 2016 02:47
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I'm going to have to watch jimmie rivera's fights again, because he is somehow the favorite against faber and if i can't see a really compelling reason for that i'll be putting a fair amount of money on faber.
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Sep 8, 2016 02:52
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Marching Powder posted:I'm going to have to watch jimmie rivera's fights again, because he is somehow the favorite against faber and if i can't see a really compelling reason for that i'll be putting a fair amount of money on faber. hes a solid fighter but yeah i'd have faber as the favorite
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Sep 8, 2016 03:07
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thank you for this post, I am so informed now
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Sep 8, 2016 03:18
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i hope everyone else plans to watch this event in the center of a ring of restorative, chakra opening crystals. namaste.
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Sep 8, 2016 03:42
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maffew buildings posted:i hope everyone else plans to watch this event in the center of a ring of restorative, chakra opening crystals. namaste. I plan to watch it while doing DDP Yoga and listening to Matt Horwich post-fight interviews.
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Sep 8, 2016 03:45
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JoJo didn't get KO'd by Moroz, she got flying armbarred.
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Sep 8, 2016 03:47
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horse meat beats hoarse voice
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Sep 8, 2016 03:50
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Didn't even know Faber was fighting. This is a really solid card.
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Sep 8, 2016 04:06
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afatwhiteloaf posted:JoJo didn't get KO'd by Moroz, she got flying armbarred. If you expect me to look at Wikipedia when I write these things then that is crazy talk
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Sep 8, 2016 04:09
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Losing Rothwell and Taisumov took some of the life out of this card but it is still solid.
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Sep 8, 2016 04:34
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Even though I think Rothwell is a solid fighter and I love a new matchup in the heavyweight division part of me is happy that Rothwell versus Werdum isn't happening... yet. Rothwell just hit a brick wall against JDS and I feel like Werdum also could have completely shut down his game or even finished him. I'd rather see Rothwell get an easier match and then fight against a top 5 dude later.
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Sep 8, 2016 04:41
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go overeem! he's beaten six or seven former champs, one of which was a retiring of Brock The Human Horse Nut Lesnar, has only lost three times in ten years, has literally three times the MMA experience of the champ, is maybe the most decorated striker of all time while still being very respectably well-rounded everywhere else, and, of course, he will get knocked out by Stipe Miocic in the first round. gently caress tyron woodley.
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Sep 8, 2016 04:43
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHhe6ziuo3k
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Sep 8, 2016 04:45
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NotQuiteQuentin posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IM21-_KR0aw&t=1067s This is going to be the best loving show.
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Sep 8, 2016 04:47
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hell yeah
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Sep 8, 2016 05:12
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i'm kinda surprised Jessica Eye is ranked higher than Bethe Correia, she looked like absolute rear end in her last fight + is on a worse losing streak.
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Sep 8, 2016 05:19
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It's pretty unfair, in that Betche's last two losses are to the GOAT women's bantamweight, and Ronda Rousey, but Rousey did knock her out so hard and so fast that the best part of Correia's performance was the way she face-planted right onto some promotional advertising on the mat.
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Sep 8, 2016 05:41
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I hope Overeem wins the belt. Everyone else in the division has been champion already so it'd be really weird if he didn't have it too at some point.
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Sep 8, 2016 05:44
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Lid posted:This is going to be the best loving show. The first part in my post from the future about Punk is coming true.
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Sep 8, 2016 05:48
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This GDT is amazing. I love every single things about it.
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Sep 8, 2016 07:15
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The bodyshape of punk to come
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Sep 8, 2016 07:16
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Ray Borg got sick so uncle creepy doesn't have an opponent again
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Sep 8, 2016 07:33
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yea ok posted:Ray Borg got sick so uncle creepy doesn't have an opponent again uncle creepy - pro weight cutter
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Sep 8, 2016 07:36
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Marching Powder posted:uncle creepy - pro weight cutter Putting the smack in smackdown
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Sep 8, 2016 07:42
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yea ok posted:Ray Borg got sick so uncle creepy doesn't have an opponent again Goddamit Ian McCall is loving cursed.
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Sep 8, 2016 07:56
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stipe is pretty awesome but if you're not with overeem you can  i want the guy who took out all time great kickboxers on their own terms and then was knocked out by ben rothwell to be champ.
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Sep 8, 2016 10:37
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I do like Overeem but I don't want Travis Browne to have another win over a champ to claim. (He beat Barnett if you don't want to do the mental math)
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Sep 8, 2016 11:53
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I can't wait to watch CM Punk die. He's the only loser on the card using an alias lmao
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Sep 8, 2016 12:32
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Marching Powder posted:uncle creepy - pro weight cutter He should book a Cerrone-like schedule and get paid for all of the fights without ever even getting his fists taped.
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Sep 8, 2016 13:04
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They really could have done a better job on finding Phil Brooks an opponent. This kid is a tough up and comer and I just don't see how this doesn't end in a savage beating for CM. They should have found another mid 30's guy who was new to MMA, maybe coming in from a non-combat sport or something.
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Sep 8, 2016 13:28
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He can't fight himself and he's the only person dumb enough to fit that bill.
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Sep 8, 2016 13:31
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First PPV in a while where I'm really interested to see how the weigh in plays out. I have a hard time believing that Punk would really struggle with the weight cut because he looks like he's in good shape in the embedded show and Roufusport are pros who should know what they are doing, on the other hand every interview from Punk involving weight gets real weird.
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Sep 8, 2016 15:55
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It didn't even occur to me that the pro wrestler has probably never cut weight before, and now he's struggling and didn't even do a test cut prior.
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Sep 8, 2016 15:57
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Lid posted:This is going to be the best loving show. Ahahahahah
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Sep 8, 2016 16:00
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I am patiently waiting for CM Punk to lock in the Anaconda vice and become the greatest MMA fighter in the world.
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Sep 8, 2016 16:21
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I'm literally making that Chickpea Tikka Masala recipe for the show. Thanks OP
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Sep 8, 2016 17:28
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Kinda sad that the CM punk experiment will 99% likely be over after this event, its interesting and would be kinda cool if we had this little D-league inside the UFC where you could watch famous people try to learn how to fight in real time against guys they dig up for them. While typing that i realized thats what Sage Northcutt is for but still
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