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manyak posted:Just got to watch the Joanna/Penne fight and Joannas striking is so good... its so nice to watch. I love her distancing and how she mixes it up to the body and stuff and also how she picks her spots between the times when she flurries vs when she puts hands on Penne and waits for openings for elbows and stuff. Its really good and she gives the vibe that shes been there before. I really liked that combo where she had Penne on the back foot and threw an inside leg kick to Pennes rear leg as she tried to retreat. Its nice to have a reason to take back what I used to think about the lighter womens division (none of them have any concept of footwork or timing and none of them are capable of hurting each other) Also her speed. I get that they aren't knock out punches but they are very fast and accurate, impressive to watch
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EmmyOk posted:I just rewatched Aldo/Mendes II. Marc Goddard is normally a pretty good referee but it's pretty crazy he didn't dock Aldo points for the two strikes after the bell. Even the Alpha Male corner said they couldn't hear the bell. Goddard was timing it by staring at the clock across the octagon and I think he did a pretty good job considering. 
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manyak posted:Just got to watch the Joanna/Penne fight and Joannas striking is so good... its so nice to watch. I love her distancing and how she mixes it up to the body and stuff and also how she picks her spots between the times when she flurries vs when she puts hands on Penne and waits for openings for elbows and stuff. Its really good and she gives the vibe that shes been there before. I really liked that combo where she had Penne on the back foot and threw an inside leg kick to Pennes rear leg as she tried to retreat. Its nice to have a reason to take back what I used to think about the lighter womens division (none of them have any concept of footwork or timing and none of them are capable of hurting each other) Yeah, Joanna's distancing is one of her most impressive aspects, it seems like she's always throwing exactly the strike that she's at the perfect distance to land.
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The other thing I like is her finishing ability, there were a couple moments where Penne was hurt and Joanna started throwing a flurry of low power shots to try and coax a stoppage, and when Goddard wasn't having it she backed off and switched to throwing regular combinations.
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1st AD posted:The other thing I like is her finishing ability, there were a couple moments where Penne was hurt and Joanna started throwing a flurry of low power shots to try and coax a stoppage, and when Goddard wasn't having it she backed off and switched to throwing regular combinations. She could have dug into the body by the 3rd time that didn't work. Did she say her hurt hand was from those loose punches to Penne's guard?
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Jun 22, 2015 04:05
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Honestly I think goddard knew penne was outclassed and was just waiting for an excuse
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He expended too much energy and got tired
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eric posted:After Aldo wins an evil Brazilian will have derailed another person Dana is trying to make a huge star. I am no expert but I feel Aldo's last fight was a great fight to watch but not a great fight for a champ. I am expecting mcgregor to do his thing with Aldo. If I'm wrong that would be ok too.
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Dangersim posted:Honestly I think goddard knew penne was outclassed and was just waiting for an excuse Yeah her most effective offense were takedown attempts that went nowhere and was covering up most of the fight.
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eric posted:After Aldo wins an evil Brazilian will have derailed another person Dana is trying to make a huge star. The thing is Pettis and Cain did most of that to themselves. Cain and Pettis were so inactive from injuries over the years that crippled their popularity as much as Werdum and RDA beating them did. Remember when Conor was hurt after the Halloway fight? It killed his hype since he immediately was sidelined with an ACL injury and could only talk poo poo on social media to stay on everyone's radar. As soon as he did have some luck with injuries and knocked off 3 featherweights in a row from last summer to this January it catapulted him into being one of the top stars of the sport.
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Jun 22, 2015 04:46
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Let's not forget he got a title shot off beating old garbage man Dennis Siver.
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Le Saboteur posted:Let's not forget he got a title shot off beating old garbage man Dennis Siver. Stephen BOnnar got a title shot fighting anderson silva after beating kyle kingsbury. Frankie Edgar hasn't got a title shot since 2013. We don't live ina very just world.
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Meowbot posted:Stephen BOnnar got a title shot fighting anderson silva after beating kyle kingsbury. Frankie Edgar hasn't got a title shot since 2013. We don't live ina very just world. The Bonnar fight was at 205 and not a title shot but Frankie Edgar not being a five-division champion is indeed a travesty.
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Le Saboteur posted:Let's not forget he got a title shot off beating old garbage man Dennis Siver. That was the last fight sure but it's not even remotely why he got the shot. He beat Poirier in the previous fight and pretty much everyone considered that a bigger fight than Siver. Since then Poirier has 2 TKO wins in the same round Conor first said he'd KO him in and then did. doverhog fucked around with this message at 05:25 on Jun 22, 2015 |
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Chad Mendes got his second shot after wheezing furiously at Nick Lentz so lets not pretend that Conor's situation is unique.
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doverhog posted:Since then Poirier has 2 TKO wins in the same round Conor first said he'd KO him in and then did. In a different weight class.
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This is your regular reminder that Robbie Lawler is the UFC Welterweight Champion
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Dangersim posted:This is your regular reminder that Robbie Lawler is the UFC Welterweight Champion I love Robbie Lawler but as a Canadian I also want a Canadian champ again even if it is a robot.
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I've said before that I was talking once with an att guy about mcgregor. I asked him what poirier's (who he trains with) gameplan was. He shrugged and was like "I dunno but i assume it involved grappling, Conor got in his head though"
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Poirier is in love with his hands and it is going to get him knocked out again.
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Tezcatlipoca posted:Poirier is in love with his hands and it is going to get him knocked out again. He actually has really good power and solid stand up though Conor put him down in 90 seconds
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Seltzer posted:In a different weight class. Yeah, usually people say that to poo poo on someone for having moved down and found success. Poirier has moved up ten pounds and knocked two dudes out pretty decisively.
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Dangersim posted:He actually has really good power and solid stand up though He still gets hit way too often because doesn't move his head. It is part of his charm.
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CommonShore posted:Yeah, usually people say that to poo poo on someone for having moved down and found success. Poirier has moved up ten pounds and knocked two dudes out pretty decisively. I was just insinuating that maybe Poirier was cutting too much for featherweight and is actually better at lightweight (making connor's victory less impressive in retrospect). I don't think going down or going up is cause for making GBS threads on anyone if it pays off.
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Tezcatlipoca posted:He still gets hit way too often because doesn't move his head. It is part of his charm. Oh no doubt he has flaws, but the dude is going to hang around the top 10 of 2 weight classes, he's a solid fighter
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eric posted:After Aldo wins an evil Brazilian will have derailed another person Dana is trying to make a huge star. Nah, Anderson only really became a huge star when Chael Sonnen went full pro wrestling. Even if Aldo lights McGregor the gently caress up if it's a good fight it'll mean mega bucks for aldo in the future as some kind of fighting demi god and big money selling connor on his road back to a title shot. When a fight like this gets this much hype the only way the company can lose is if the fight is Krylov Palelei bad or it gets cancelled.
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Paleilei/krylov was actually an entertaining fight, it just also happened to be a hilarious gasfest. Dana admitted as much.
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beating Poirier was really impressive when Chan Sung Jung did it, then when Conor did it a year later some people were like "yeah whatever  "It's fine to criticize Conor not facing Mendes or Edgar yet but his run to the title isn't bad.
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Old news but since Chael Sonnen's name is on this page, Jordan Breen did a pod cast thing on drug testing and relayed a quote from Matt Lindland. When asked if he thinks TRT really helps that much he said "I've known Chael since middle school and he didn't get better a day in his life until he started taking testosterone, you tell me" ruthless
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Don't forget that these people "Don't move like I move" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrOuFSR_mJ4 Also I would definitely watch a buddy cop show of Amirkhani and Siver https://cdn2.streamable.com/video/5000d28018d511e58e3c3fc4496fb385.webm EmmyOk fucked around with this message at 15:28 on Jun 22, 2015 |
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What's it like to go see a UFC event live? Are the cheaper seats going to make it too difficult to see what's going on in the cage?
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The Watch posted:What's it like to go see a UFC event live? Are the cheaper seats going to make it too difficult to see what's going on in the cage? I found myself watching the screen during grappling exchanges in the nosebleeds but unless you're in someplace way bigger than the United Center you're never really far from the action and can see (and often even hear) the striking just fine. Overall it's v cool and I recommend, but ideal seats would probably be the front few rows of the middle mezzanine.
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The Watch posted:What's it like to go see a UFC event live? Are the cheaper seats going to make it too difficult to see what's going on in the cage? I went to a live event in orlando with two goons and it was awesome. We weren't in the nosebleeds but we didn't have crazy expensive seats either. We could clearly see the action, and we were within yelling distance of the cage. I can hear myself yelling "KNEE" or "ELBOW" on the replay for some of the fights.
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p sure you can hear me (and only me because i was the only person doing it) doing a ric flair woo ad nauseum at the Rory/Diaz fight that happened in seattle.
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Do you think if Max Holloway beats Charles Oliviera at FN 74 he should get another shot at Conor, champion or not? Holloway has been on quite a tear lately and I'd like to see that fight again as it seems he has improved a ton.
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Mr. Nice! posted:I went to a live event in orlando with two goons and it was awesome. We weren't in the nosebleeds but we didn't have crazy expensive seats either. We could clearly see the action, and we were within yelling distance of the cage. I can hear myself yelling "KNEE" or "ELBOW" on the replay for some of the fights.  Also, the Austin fight night I went to was rad. I was super close to the walkout area, so I got tons of post-fight high fives (Sup Doo Ho Choi)
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Le Saboteur posted:Do you think if Max Holloway beats Charles Oliviera at FN 74 he should get another shot at Conor, champion or not? Holloway has been on quite a tear lately and I'd like to see that fight again as it seems he has improved a ton. I already think he deserves it for styling on Cub.
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EmmyOk posted:He looks a lot better but I still expect Conor to blitz him Holloway is the only one in the UFC so far who has gone the distance with Conor so I'm not sure if we'd see a first round finish or anything. Seems he has a good chin.
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