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Halloween Jack posted:Fair 'nuff. It's just an odd question because there are a number of fighters who come from poor violent backgrounds--Tito Ortiz, for example. There have been a few guys marketed as "street fighters" based on the idea that they had no formal training and learned to fight in bars or whatever, like Tank Abbott. I don't think any of them enjoyed more success than Tank. Does Krazy Horse train with anybody? I don't know anything about him beyond reading his Wikipedia entry and watching videos of him. Apparently his previous job before he became a fighter was dealing drugs, which he had to stop because he had a kid and didn't want to go to prison. If you were asking if he had any formal training, I don't know. My guess would be he probably trained some boxing when he was a drug dealer, which isn't that uncommon. These days I think he's with the Blackzilians, or something. I called him a street fighter mostly because his style is wild and sloppy and he probably got in literal street fights all the time, because he's a criminal and has serious personality disorders. If you're defining "street fighters" as having no formal training then I don't think there are any known fighters like that. There's probably huge numbers of guys with 0-1 records in unsanctioned local fights, who thought that being a hockey goon or a bouncer was adequate preparation and got their faces caved in by another anonymous guy who wrestled in high school.
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red19fire posted:Can someone explain who the Garv is? From what I can gather, I think he was a poster here that used SASMMA opinions and posts as articles on his website. It looks like he has a local NY/NJ MMA site. He's annoying, unfunny, and a homophobe.
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red19fire posted:Can someone explain who the Garv is? From what I can gather, I think he was a poster here that used SASMMA opinions and posts as articles on his website. It looks like he has a local NY/NJ MMA site. I believe he was on what is now mma.tv forums from it's early days (as a website to sell 'The Fighter's Notebook' instructional) long before SA. I guess anyone who was involved in grassroots MMA at the time was on there and he made enough contacts to be person known in that local scene.
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1st AD posted:He's annoying, unfunny, and a homophobe. This is the wrong sport to be a homophobic fan of.
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The best part of reading that thread is that even mobn was owning him.
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This is the best place to ask this I think. It is not so much about MMA as it is about we fans who post here. While I totally understand what a "Herb" is, I don't know the etymology. Where did the word come from?
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Bluedeanie posted:This is the best place to ask this I think. It is not so much about MMA as it is about we fans who post here. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=herb
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Oh no, it's not even a PSP thing. It's me, I'm the herb 
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Where's mobn anyway
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gimpsuitjones posted:Where's mobn anyway Banned, I think.
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Last I heard, he was seen galloping into the sunset with his hips firmly lodged above his head. Or something like that.
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Captain Log posted:Last I heard, he was seen galloping into the sunset with his hips firmly lodged above his head. Or something like that. Where in God's name did you get your avatar?
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Julio Cesar Fatass posted:Where in God's name did you get your avatar? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzGs-cdJskc
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Julio Cesar Fatass posted:Where in God's name did you get your avatar?
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Does anyone have any idea how much money was in fighting for K1 during the 1990s? Was Ernesto Hoost a millionaire at that time?
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This is from the b-league thread but it's a historical question about MMA so I am posting it here.-Atom- posted:Public voting worked out really well when the UFC let people decide on the Fight of the Night
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Grifter posted:This is from the b-league thread but it's a historical question about MMA so I am posting it here. UFC 124, and the fans voted for GSP/Koscheck because Canadians are programmed to mash the vote button when they see GSP's name.
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fatherdog posted:UFC 124, and the fans voted for GSP/Koscheck because Canadians are programmed to mash the vote button when they see GSP's name. 
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DannoMack posted:Does anyone have any idea how much money was in fighting for K1 during the 1990s? Was Ernesto Hoost a millionaire at that time? Ernesto definitely...I believe the WGP title was worth around $300.000 back then, no idea how much they got to show.
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what is the gaudiest/best belt in combat sportz
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John Cena posted:what is the gaudiest/best belt in combat sportz  
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I just realized that the Super Hluk belt says, "Super Man" on it. Nice touch.  Edit: This one is especially gaudy when you take into account what they spent on the belt versus what they spend on their offices. Atlas Hugged fucked around with this message at 16:46 on Oct 28, 2012 |
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Oct 28, 2012 11:45
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proper wamma display
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Just make sure you don't confuse Wamma with the equally illustrious Yamma
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It looks like some kid made that in their arts and crafts class.
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Super Joe posted:It looks like some kid made that in their arts and crafts class.  That's because that's literally what happened.
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That means I have good eyes, then. 
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The IFL snakeskin belt was the worst
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Who is Jamie Varner and why do the UFC monthly threads always include him in the champions as worthless or stupid or terrible?
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projecthalaxy posted:Who is Jamie Varner and why do the UFC monthly threads always include him in the champions as worthless or stupid or terrible? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUT8MPnAFrU Former WEC champion, makes the worst excuses when he gets submitted, got hit in the nuts a lot by Kamal Shalorous, yet only managed to draw with him.
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at this point its really more of a legacy thing from when he was relevant enough to annoy. In hundred years it will be part of our creed for reasons no one can remember.
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So I was watching Frankie-Gray III, and I noticed that Rosenthal kept warning Gray to keep his fingers out of Frankie's face. He kept doing that thing that a lot of wrestlers do (Jon Jones especially) where you keep the fingers on your lead hand open and then thrust them at your opponent's eyes when he tries to move forward to punch you. The ref must have warned him a dozen times in four rounds to stop, but he never did, nor did Rosenthal ever deduct a point. So, is that actually illegal, or was the ref just telling him to stop being a dick? If the ref warns you repeatedly not to do that, and you don't stop, would that be a DQ or just a no contest if you ended up stopping the fight by "accidentally" raking his eyes?
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EvanSchenck posted:So I was watching Frankie-Gray III, and I noticed that Rosenthal kept warning Gray to keep his fingers out of Frankie's face. He kept doing that thing that a lot of wrestlers do (Jon Jones especially) where you keep the fingers on your lead hand open and then thrust them at your opponent's eyes when he tries to move forward to punch you. The ref must have warned him a dozen times in four rounds to stop, but he never did, nor did Rosenthal ever deduct a point. Well it is illegal, but the chances of someone actually getting punished for it are pretty low. Jake shields purposely clawed at GSPs eyes with open hands for their whole fight and didnt get any punishment for it
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I imagine that if it becomes a thing they'll start calling it more in fights and Dana might put some behind the scenes pressure to cut that poo poo out. It may not be completely bad intentioned though, palming your opponents head is a legit tactic in wrestling, albeit it does sometimes turn into an eye gouge more than a push when dirtballs do it.
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Xguard86 posted:at this point its really more of a legacy thing from when he was relevant enough to annoy. In hundred years it will be part of our creed for reasons no one can remember. In some bright wonderful future, someone in an MMA thread is asking where the whole "Feed Door" meme came from and no one will know.
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Question about cutting for the GSP/Silva fight: If it's at 177.5 lbs catchweight, are they going to end up at the same relative weight for the fight? I'd imagine that GSP will put on some more muscle, and Silva will have to either cut more drastically (affecting his gas) or lose muscle/walking around weight. So it should be a larger GSP vs. a smaller/exhausted Silva, probably at around 190 lbs each when they rehydrate? Or would the strategy be different?
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red19fire posted:Question about cutting for the GSP/Silva fight: If it's at 177.5 lbs catchweight, are they going to end up at the same relative weight for the fight? I'd imagine that GSP will put on some more muscle, and Silva will have to either cut more drastically (affecting his gas) or lose muscle/walking around weight. Silva used to fight at 167 back in the day, but weight cutting gets harder with age. Silva's cutting ability is the main question mark here. (He needs to hire Dolce.)
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He's been as low as 182 in the last few years, so maybe he'd be able to hit 178 without much problem.
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1st AD posted:He's been as low as 182 in the last few years, so maybe he'd be able to hit 178 without much problem. I really think, after seeing Dolce Wizard's work, that he could get Anderson as low as he wants without hindering his performance.
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Have there been any notable suicides in MMA? The Jovan Belcher story has got a lot of people talking about the correlation between traumatic brain injury and mental health again, (I don't follow football so I don't know many specifics on that argument in relation to the NFL, but it made me think about my favorite sport in which people punch-kick one another's heads a lot.)
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