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Gay Horney
Feb 10, 2013

by Reene
It either shows that sage is a draw or it shows that people turned on his fight because the fights were on and turned it off in disgust because of what was happening :silent:

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BlindSite
Feb 8, 2009

Gay Horney posted:

That fight was perplexing and almost looked like gouti was not trying to win. He won a hell of a lot more than he lost in exchanges on the feet both in the pocket and at range and kept burying his head into sages abs for a long time

Yeah his corner if they didn't tell him to stand with him are really dumb. At least 3 times he cracked him and then shot for an ineffective take down.

threeagainstfour
Jun 27, 2005


Sage doesn’t move his head at all and seemed to get the worst of every exchange.

Lucasar
Jan 25, 2005

save a few for lefty too
Didn't the fight card follow the Daytona 500? Might have had more to do with that than Sage.

kimbo305
Jun 9, 2007

actually, yeah, I am a little mad

threeagainstfour posted:

Sage doesn’t move his head at all and seemed to get the worst of every exchange.

I think as TAM mold him, switching to a more conventional range is going to expose the lack of convectional defense until it really clicks, if it ever does.

InfiniteZero
Sep 11, 2004

PINK GUITAR FIRE ROBOT

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Gay Horney posted:

It either shows that sage is a draw or it shows that people turned on his fight because the fights were on and turned it off in disgust because of what was happening :silent:

Joke's on them because they missed The Black Beast sitting on a man's face and then telling his wife he's coming home to go deep on prime time. Oh yeah and Nate sparking up a huge reefer. MMA is the greatest sport.

InfiniteZero fucked around with this message at 15:39 on Feb 22, 2018

TheRationalRedditor
Jul 17, 2000

WHO ABUSED HIM. WHO ABUSED THE BOY.

Triticum Guzzler posted:

sage northcutt is like a feral child that was raised by the editorial staff of black belt magazine circa 1980. disregard anything about his accomplishments or background that didn't take place under mma rules because it exists in the parallel grey economy centered around trophy engraving shops.
The flawlessly accurate comedy biography

Dirt Road Junglist
Oct 8, 2010

We will be cruel
And through our cruelty
They will know who we are

Lucasar posted:

Didn't the fight card follow the Daytona 500? Might have had more to do with that than Sage.

The Daytona 500 posted significantly lower numbers than usual.

That said, the Olympics are on, too.

threeagainstfour
Jun 27, 2005


Conor noticed that people had stopped talking about him for 5 minutes

https://www.instagram.com/p/BfgvR31Hu1i/?taken-by=thenotoriousmma

TheCool69
Sep 23, 2011
Conor just posted this on his instagram


Double Champ posted:

“I am fighting again. Period. I am the best at this. I put my name forward to step in at UFC 222 to face Frankie Edgar when Max Holloway pulled out, but I was told there wasn’t enough time to generate the money that the UFC would need. I was excited about bouncing in last minute and taking out the final featherweight, without all the rest of the stuff that comes with this game. Please respect the insane amount of work outside the fight game that I have put in on top of the fighting. I am here. It is on them to come and get me. Because I am here. Yours sincerely, The Champ Champ™.” 

Skip My Posts
Aug 15, 2005

by FactsAreUseless
i'll respect it since he asked nicely

Josuke Higashikata
Mar 7, 2013


anyone want to buy this bridge?

Bluedeanie
Jul 20, 2008

It's no longer a blue world, Max. Where could we go?



hey it's me, Tim Kennedy, here to let you guys know that I actually found Hitler. I found him in Bogota, and was ready to take him out with a perfect .50 cal shot right through his spinal cord 300 yards down wind, but the History Channel radioed to say they needed him alive to do a Season 3. Thats just how it is in the tv world, folks, but I just thought you should all know that I found Adolf Hitler, alive and well in Latin America

Gay Horney
Feb 10, 2013

by Reene
"there wasn't enough time for the UFC to generate the money it would need" is the same old bullshit about Da Money Foight that everyone is sick of

Aye Doc
Jul 19, 2007



https://twitter.com/ufc/status/966145809338150913

i need this, UFC. i need the black beast up in this ho

JaySB
Nov 16, 2006



Aye Doc posted:

https://twitter.com/ufc/status/966145809338150913

i need this, UFC. i need the black beast up in this ho

That's actually two black beasts

Skip My Posts
Aug 15, 2005

by FactsAreUseless
wtf twitter banning me when the ufc specifically said ANY symbol

Skip My Posts
Aug 15, 2005

by FactsAreUseless
goatse is classic cool

mewse
May 2, 2006

Skip My Posts posted:

wtf twitter banning me when the ufc specifically said ANY symbol

lol

mewse
May 2, 2006

I guess they don't like national socialism

Snowman_McK
Jan 31, 2010

TheCool69 posted:

Conor just posted this on his instagram

Guys, guys, I totally volunteered to fight this guy on short notice, a guy I've avoided ever calling out before, I really did, but you can't meet him because he's from Jersey.

gently caress, even Sherdog didn't believe that one.

mewse posted:

I guess they don't like national socialism

At least its an ethos.

Wasn't there some announcement about them finally confirming that they will strip Conor?

Snowman_McK fucked around with this message at 23:13 on Feb 22, 2018

Skip My Posts
Aug 15, 2005

by FactsAreUseless
it might be true. who knows

mewse
May 2, 2006

Snowman_McK posted:

Wasn't there some announcement about them finally confirming that they will strip Conor?

per dwhite:

quote:

"I said in the last press conference that fight will be for the title," White told TMZ when asked about the matchup between current interim lightweight champion Tony Ferguson and Khabib Nurmagomedov. "It's not for the interim title. That fight is for the real title."

When further pressed, White said it was "right" that he would have to strip McGregor of the belt.

"Conor understands (about being stripped of the title). Listen, Conor made a lot of money and he wants some time off, but the division has to go on and the business has to go on," White said.

Memento
Aug 25, 2009


Bleak Gremlin
Apparently Conor has started referring to himself as "The Champ Champ™" because he wants to have that as a trademark he can use for merchandise, and is in a dispute with Champion sportswear over the use of the term.

Shout out to my boy Secret Moves MMA on twitter for wading into the sea of bullshit that is Conor McGregor doing anything that isn't fighting in the cage.

Marching Powder
Mar 8, 2008



stop the fucking fight, cornerman, your dude is fucking done and is about to be killed.
ah, conor mcgregor

handsome only face
Apr 22, 2010

Cockroach went out of the room in anger. And roach's go to empty room...

Cockroache's Anarchist


Conor fight Chan Sung Jung

Triticum Guzzler
Jun 16, 2002
Richard "The G Man" Goines: I am the Champ... Champ™

Memento
Aug 25, 2009


Bleak Gremlin

handsome only face posted:

Conor fight Shang Tsung

more likely imo

eric
Apr 27, 2004
Lipstick Apathy
Conor: "I'll fight Frankie at ufc 222 for 50 million."

UFC: "No"

Conor: "Well I tried."

I am Otis
Sep 22, 2003

Triticum Guzzler posted:

Richard "The G Man" Goines: I am the Champ... Champ™

Lol

Snowman_McK
Jan 31, 2010

Skip My Posts posted:

it might be true. who knows

I feel confident that I actually do. I feel pretty confident that the UFC didn't turn down a genuine offer from their most popular fighter to fight on a card that, as it stands, will do about three buys. I feel pretty confident that a guy who used to kill himself to get to 145 didn't suddenly, genuinely offer to do so on short notice more than two years after he last fought at that weight. Especially to fight someone that he has assiduously avoided calling out in the last five years, despite calling out literally everyone else.

Matt Lindland
Feb 10, 2018

SHUT THE FUCK UP KEVEN

ALSO GJ BUYING A NEW ACCOUNT LIKE A GODDAMN COWARD
YOU USELESS WHITE NOISE POSTER

YOU WILL NOT ESCAPE THE BOLF RAMSHIELD YOU SO RICHLY DESERVE


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Who da fook is dat guy?

Snowman_McK
Jan 31, 2010

Matt Lindland posted:

Who da fook is dat guy?

Some guy who used to fight.

Memento
Aug 25, 2009


Bleak Gremlin
Jacare vs. Kelvin Gastelum at UFC 224. That's actually a pretty intriguing fight. I could see Kelvin getting the better of Jacare.

Marching Powder
Mar 8, 2008



stop the fucking fight, cornerman, your dude is fucking done and is about to be killed.

Memento posted:

Jacare vs. Kelvin Gastelum at UFC 224. That's actually a pretty intriguing fight. I could see Kelvin getting the better of Jacare.

jacare won't get kelvin down and kelvin's hand speed and power will be way too much for him.

Tezcatlipoca
Sep 18, 2009

Marching Powder posted:

jacare won't get kelvin down

I want to see him try.

YOLOsubmarine
Oct 19, 2004

When asked which Pokemon he evolved into, Kamara pauses.

"Motherfucking, what's that big dragon shit? That orange motherfucker. Charizard."

Jacare is really old which puts him right in Kevin’s sweet spot, but he will probably still wins

CommonShore
Jun 6, 2014

A true renaissance man


hmm it's a cool fight but the top of that division is a bit of a mess. If Kelvin wins, he's 2 wins out from a lost to Weidman, who is one win out from three straight losses. Jacare is only one win out from a loss to the current champ. Rockhold just got busted up, as did Brunson. Bisping doesn't count. And now we're down to Brunson and David Branch. Who is in line to get a shot after Romero loses to Whittaker again?

Does Weidman-Rockhold 2 happen next? Or do they each get a chance to smash someone like Uriah Hall or Thiago Santos?

Marching Powder
Mar 8, 2008



stop the fucking fight, cornerman, your dude is fucking done and is about to be killed.
yeah kelvin's in a weird spot. he didn't just lose to weidman, he got bullied.

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Gay Horney
Feb 10, 2013

by Reene
I'm pretty sure Kelvin annihilated weidman at one point? Didn't he drop him hard at the end of round one

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