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Bubba Smith posted:5) I believe Lesnar had his heart into his training, just not his heart into fighting. After the past two years with all of his medical problems, he likely decided that he doesn't need to risk it when he has a family to take care of. As of now he can earn about the same amount of money doing WWE that he did doing MMA, except he doesn't have to push himself nearly as hard.
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# ? Apr 10, 2012 15:55 |
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As I understand it he's just doing a couple appearances a month, so overall it'd be easier on his body than MMA.
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# ? Apr 10, 2012 16:49 |
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# ? Apr 10, 2012 17:37 |
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Grifter posted:I'm not a WWE guy, but isn't pro-wrestling incredibly difficult and hard on the body? I'm not sure Brock will push himself less there, I guess unless he doesn't really have to train or go on the road, he just appears at big events, collects a big paycheck and leaves. uh, if fake fighting was more difficult on the body than real fighting, then there would be no point to fake fighting
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# ? Apr 10, 2012 20:00 |
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Elemennop posted:uh, if fake fighting was more difficult on the body than real fighting, then there would be no point to fake fighting How about this: $$$$$$$
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# ? Apr 10, 2012 20:15 |
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kimbo305 posted:How about this: $$$$$$$ i mean, you could still stage the fights, but fundamentally getting punched in the face, being kicked in the liver, or having your arm snapped hurts a lot more than pretending to do those things; otherwise, there would be no point to pretending to be hurt.
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# ? Apr 10, 2012 20:24 |
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Elemennop posted:but fundamentally getting punched in the face, being kicked in the liver, or having your arm snapped hurts a lot more than pretending to do those things; otherwise, there would be no point to pretending to be hurt. I guess if that's all prowrestlers did, or if they had the same sparse schedule.
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# ? Apr 10, 2012 20:27 |
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kimbo305 posted:I guess if that's all prowrestlers did, or if they had the same sparse schedule. well what way do you want to measure it? because i'm pretty sure fighters have a higher year round injury rate than prowrestlers, but i don't follow prowrestling. so i very well may be ignorant.
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# ? Apr 10, 2012 20:32 |
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Elemennop posted:but i don't follow prowrestling Then don't talk about it
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# ? Apr 10, 2012 20:35 |
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When I think of prowrestling being hard on you, I think of this stuff: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLZhWLSjUuI
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# ? Apr 10, 2012 20:40 |
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Elemennop posted:well what way do you want to measure it? because i'm pretty sure fighters have a higher year round injury rate than prowrestlers, but i don't follow prowrestling. so i very well may be ignorant. Pro wrestlers have a really aggressive travel schedule and while I don't know exact figures I'd assume that a guy in WWE is getting injured just as often as a guy fighting 4 times a year in the UFC. Maybe moreso because there's no governing bodies in wrestling handing out suspensions for injuries.
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# ? Apr 10, 2012 20:41 |
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1st AD posted:Pro wrestlers have a really aggressive travel schedule and while I don't know exact figures I'd assume that a guy in WWE is getting injured just as often as a guy fighting 4 times a year in the UFC. Maybe moreso because there's no governing bodies in wrestling handing out suspensions for injuries. It seems not a lot of wrestlers talk about it, but Chris Jericho's book I got for the PSP secret santa mentioned a little bit about how rough the schedule could be. You'd be travelling from city to city in a matter of days, have to work out in between, plan matches then actually do them, sometimes taking rough bumps on the way. For the headline dudes who're always on it wouldn't be all that easy. I'm not saying harder or easier than fighting, just different but in no way a cakewalk. That said, Lesnar is probably going to be doing short spots and short matches most of the time until ppvs. I can't imagine him having an insane workload.
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# ? Apr 11, 2012 01:08 |
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henkman posted:Then don't talk about it actually everyone should talk about pro wrestling all of the imte
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# ? Apr 11, 2012 01:31 |
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Elemennop posted:well what way do you want to measure it? because i'm pretty sure fighters have a higher year round injury rate than prowrestlers, but i don't follow prowrestling. so i very well may be ignorant. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOa7uxWeBNY that man is a pro wrestler and he's dead, you dick
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# ? Apr 11, 2012 02:49 |
I have no idea how wrestling is more popular than MMA.
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# ? Apr 11, 2012 07:40 |
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Hours of weekly free shows + PPV events are not nearly as essential as UFC PPV's are.
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# ? Apr 11, 2012 07:53 |
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heeebrew posted:I have no idea how wrestling is more popular than MMA. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yc9FXJT8HE
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# ? Apr 11, 2012 09:13 |
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1st AD posted:PPV events are not nearly as essential as UFC PPV's are. They used to be back in the day. Maybe I'm looking at it through rose-colored glasses but I remember every PPV being a big deal during the attitude era. The bigger point is wrestling has been around for a long time. MMA has at least another decade to go before it catches up to where WWE is now, possibly more when you consider that few people followed MMA in the 90s.
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# ? Apr 11, 2012 09:49 |
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I asked this in the UFC thread but it got over looked. Not that I in any way shape for form would ever, but if I was say a UFC fighter, how would I use steroids, as in how do they know what dosage, how do they take it and how often?
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# ? Apr 11, 2012 10:25 |
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There's a thread in Ask/Tell all about it right now. From looking it over myself, it seems that there's not a ton of official research and just a lot of guys doing the same things and getting approximately similar results. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3467354
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# ? Apr 11, 2012 12:15 |
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maffew buildings posted:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yc9FXJT8HE 1: Serve the public trust 2: Protect the innocent 3: Uphold the law 4: Protect sting
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# ? Apr 12, 2012 01:22 |
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Watching the UFC event from Sweden on FuelTV now...are all the UFC Silvas related, like the WWE branch of Samoans?
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# ? Apr 15, 2012 06:18 |
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No, silva is a very common brazillian last name
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# ? Apr 15, 2012 07:04 |
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JPrime posted:Watching the UFC event from Sweden on FuelTV now...are all the UFC Silvas related, like the WWE branch of Samoans? silva is the smith of brazil.
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# ? Apr 15, 2012 15:52 |
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Quodio Stotes posted:silva is the smith of brazil. That's unfair because Smith isn't relatively that common in the US, a country with a huge diversity of surnames. Silva is way way more common than Smith is.
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# ? Apr 16, 2012 08:26 |
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kimbo305 posted:That's unfair because Smith isn't relatively that common in the US, a country with a huge diversity of surnames. Silva is way way more common than Smith is. Silva is to Brazil as Kim is to Korea. Better?
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# ? Apr 16, 2012 21:45 |
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Perhaps this was already asked, but gently caress it. I know the deal a *little bit*, but can anybody explain why Gilbert Melendez is stuck in Strikeforce? What I know is that Zuffa started signing away Strikeforce talent to come to the UFC, and because of this, when Zuffa acquired Strikeforce, there was an agreement that Strikeforce fighters would remain there, and that's why GM is stuck there. Am I right or is my head up my rear end?
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# ? Apr 19, 2012 21:56 |
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Ty1990 posted:Perhaps this was already asked, but gently caress it. As far as I know this is basically the truth. When the UFC bought strikeforce it promised to keep their hands off strikeforce affairs. This of course lasted about 5 minutes before the UFC started picking off the bigger name strikeforce fighters. I'm not sure exactly why the UFC hasn't picked up Gilbert yet, but it might have something to do with the lightweight division in the UFC being the least in need of high level talent.
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# ? Apr 19, 2012 22:01 |
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They immediately brought over Nick Diaz because GSP needed an opponent. They brought over Overeem and the heavyweights because the HW division always needs guys. LW is stacked at the moment, there's no shortage of contenders, and they dont want to bring him over just for the sake of bringing him over.
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# ? Apr 19, 2012 22:28 |
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Meat Recital posted:They immediately brought over Nick Diaz because GSP needed an opponent. They brought over Overeem and the heavyweights because the HW division always needs guys. LW is stacked at the moment, there's no shortage of contenders, and they dont want to bring him over just for the sake of bringing him over. Bringing him over now can only end badly. There's still the rematch they want to do, there's the Diaz or Miller eliminator for the next shot. I'm guessing but that's probably the calender year spoken for, for the LW title, if they bring Melendez across now they could potentially lose the ability to promote unifying the strikeforce and UFC belts, should Melendez get de-throned by someone like Maynard or Guida or Guillard.
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# ? Apr 20, 2012 00:10 |
Does Freddie Roach suffer from some form of dementia? I apologize if this is an offensive question but something seems off about his speech/head movements.
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# ? Apr 26, 2012 17:25 |
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heeebrew posted:Does Freddie Roach suffer from some form of dementia? I apologize if this is an offensive question but something seems off about his speech/head movements.
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# ? Apr 26, 2012 17:29 |
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When was the last time a UFC title was won by submission?
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# ? Apr 26, 2012 23:15 |
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Forceholy posted:When was the last time a UFC title was won by submission? If you mean the last time a title was won by someone who didn't already have it, I think it'd be Nog vs Sylvia for the interim title. If you include successful defenses, that'd be Jones/Machida.
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# ? Apr 26, 2012 23:24 |
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Yup, with bj choking out joe daddy a few weeks before
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# ? Apr 27, 2012 04:22 |
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heeebrew posted:Does Freddie Roach suffer from some form of dementia? I apologize if this is an offensive question but something seems off about his speech/head movements. If you're the least bit curious about the man, HBO's On Freddie Roach is pretty good. Not a lot of new ground for people familiar with him, but for someone completely new, it's comprehensive.
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# ? Apr 27, 2012 07:13 |
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How big of an upset was nick diaz over gomi considered?
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# ? May 11, 2012 22:09 |
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Ty1990 posted:How big of an upset was nick diaz over gomi considered? Diaz was around +300 (25% to win)
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# ? May 11, 2012 22:11 |
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2 fat 4 my lambo posted:Diaz was around +300 (25% to win) Thanks. Would have looked myself but the archives at bestfightodds didn't go back that far.
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# ? May 11, 2012 23:01 |
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Ty1990 posted:Thanks. Would have looked myself but the archives at bestfightodds didn't go back that far. i knew that one off hand (because i won money off it ) but tapology has a pretty decent history of fight odds
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