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Skip My Posts
Aug 15, 2005

by FactsAreUseless
cool tony ftw

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FishBowlRobot
Mar 21, 2006



https://www.mmafighting.com/2018/2/...the-first-place

So it looks like what used to be guaranteed money for wearing ugly Reebok gear is now conditional and based on whether the UFC feels an athlete has met media obligations and followed their code of conduct.

TheTofuShop
Aug 28, 2009

How the hell fighters are still independent contractors baffles me to no end.

Lid
Feb 18, 2005

And the mercy seat is awaiting,
And I think my head is burning,
And in a way I'm yearning,
To be done with all this measuring of proof.
An eye for an eye
And a tooth for a tooth,
And anyway I told the truth,
And I'm not afraid to die.
Who would be the best 165 fighter in the world? RDA?

kimbo305
Jun 9, 2007

actually, yeah, I am a little mad

TheTofuShop posted:

How the hell fighters are still independent contractors baffles me to no end.

The state is not going to organize them for them. And they're clearly not able to do it themselves.

Memento
Aug 25, 2009


Bleak Gremlin

Lid posted:

Who would be the best 165 fighter in the world? RDA?

165 would be great for everyone, and either RDA or Khabib would be the answer to your question.

But I think the reason the talk about it is coming out now is that Conor and GSP are going to fight for the inaugural belt. It's the biggest money fight around right now and they get to crown their first ever triple-weight champion.

Then GSP big-brothers Conor all over the cage.

Of course I could be completely wrong but it's the dumbest thing they could do from a pure competition standpoint, so you know it's going to happen.

Gay Horney
Feb 10, 2013

by Reene
Is 10 the best season of TUF?

Chillanese
Mar 30, 2010

Gay Horney posted:

Is 10 the best season of TUF?

season 5 was pretty good

Gay Horney
Feb 10, 2013

by Reene
drat. Rampage is yelling "do whatcha gotta do abe" and Abe ain't doing it. He's in shock

He's not getting up Jesus Christ

Greg seems to have stopped shouting instructions entirely
Rampage is yelling submit him
This is somehow gruesome and boring at the same time

I was going to watch a season of TUF but this has turned me off entirely

Gay Horney fucked around with this message at 07:53 on Feb 27, 2018

Jerusalem
May 20, 2004

Would you be my new best friends?

FishBowlRobot posted:

https://www.mmafighting.com/2018/2/...the-first-place

So it looks like what used to be guaranteed money for wearing ugly Reebok gear is now conditional and based on whether the UFC feels an athlete has met media obligations and followed their code of conduct.

Well this is pretty loving evil

Gay Horney
Feb 10, 2013

by Reene
What if the reason Dana won't say Conor is stripped is because they're going to announce a 165lb division with a fight between Conor and Nate to determine the champion? Conor can theoretically beat nate this spring then fight the winner of Khabib and Tony in the fall.

Belgian Waffle
Jul 31, 2006

Gay Horney posted:

Is 10 the best season of TUF?

Heavyweights is my favorite season. There's a lot of interesting things that come out of it or are at least funny in retrospect.
I think you should keep at it unless you absolutely can't stand Rampage being an insane rear end in a top hat.

Big Bob Pataki
Jan 23, 2009

The Bob that Refreshes
Doesn't season 10 start with a cold open of Rashad telling Rampage he's gonna beat him because he's got a big rear end head?

CRISPYBABY
Dec 15, 2007

by Reene

Kilometers Davis posted:

Tony Ferguson rules because he’s like “I’m an intellectual you see, you want a hypothesis you got it, I’m a very cerebral guy, just look at my training techniques, no one thinks like this” *fights off drones with a sledgehammer while running on a yoga ball on top of a treadmill*

Don't give Minowaman any ideas.

Marching Powder
Mar 8, 2008



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

Lid posted:

Who would be the best 165 fighter in the world? RDA?

well, to hear conor tell it it was very nearly frankie edgar

Marching Powder
Mar 8, 2008



stop the fucking fight, cornerman, your dude is fucking done and is about to be killed.
i want to fookin fight in a division that doesn't exist against a guy who might be able to weigh 156 if we allow him to wear track pants and a shirt at the weigh ins

Snowman_McK
Jan 31, 2010
Ferguson's cool because an unlikeable dink has the best ratio of good fights/performances of anyone in the UFC.

SquirrelGrip
Jul 4, 2012

Lid posted:

Who would be the best 165 fighter in the world? RDA?

conor mcgregor if he isnt busy not fighting

El Roncho
Oct 15, 2006

I'm not necessarily proud of this but I'm gonna leave it here anyways.
"I gotta tell ya, Biff. This whole 'paying the fighters' thing really hurts our bottom line. What can we do about that?"

Skip My Posts
Aug 15, 2005

by FactsAreUseless
when does the reebok deal expire?

CommonShore
Jun 6, 2014

A true renaissance man


Skip My Posts posted:

when does the reebok deal expire?

2020 I think? It was a 6-year deal.

Triticum Guzzler
Jun 16, 2002
a good compromise on the reebok deal would be that they still get paid like dog poo poo and have to wear this stupid crap, but reebok print stuff on their asses so you have something to read if you're watching for example a tyron woodley fight

Bundt Cake
Aug 17, 2003
;(
everything since the reebok deal has been bad and weird

handsome only face
Apr 22, 2010

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

Cockroache's Anarchist


https://www.mmafighting.com/2018/2/27/17056306/jon-jones-california-state-athletic-commission-doping-hearing-live-stream

jon jones csac hearing

Triticum Guzzler
Jun 16, 2002
they rented out a room in the hilton to let two guys in bow ties ask jon about his dick

Lid
Feb 18, 2005

And the mercy seat is awaiting,
And I think my head is burning,
And in a way I'm yearning,
To be done with all this measuring of proof.
An eye for an eye
And a tooth for a tooth,
And anyway I told the truth,
And I'm not afraid to die.
the lead guy on the prosecution looks like a donald trump cosplay being assisted by a phallus

Triticum Guzzler
Jun 16, 2002
howard jacobs is the official lawyer of losing appeals, so i don't see this going well for jon

Lid
Feb 18, 2005

And the mercy seat is awaiting,
And I think my head is burning,
And in a way I'm yearning,
To be done with all this measuring of proof.
An eye for an eye
And a tooth for a tooth,
And anyway I told the truth,
And I'm not afraid to die.

Triticum Guzzler posted:

howard jacobs is the official lawyer of losing appeals, so i don't see this going well for jon

his defence so far amounts to "we throw my client at the mercy of the court"

oh wow a polygraph, the thing that is literally inadmissible in real court

Bluedeanie
Jul 20, 2008

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



Nice polo, Jon

Triticum Guzzler
Jun 16, 2002
maybe my stream skipped but did the doctor just spell his name "d a n i l"

Lid
Feb 18, 2005

And the mercy seat is awaiting,
And I think my head is burning,
And in a way I'm yearning,
To be done with all this measuring of proof.
An eye for an eye
And a tooth for a tooth,
And anyway I told the truth,
And I'm not afraid to die.
"developed in east germany" is never what you want to hear on a drug you test positive for

Lid
Feb 18, 2005

And the mercy seat is awaiting,
And I think my head is burning,
And in a way I'm yearning,
To be done with all this measuring of proof.
An eye for an eye
And a tooth for a tooth,
And anyway I told the truth,
And I'm not afraid to die.
well this doctor is saying that the "short metabolism" idea he ingested it in the last two days before the fight is nonsense and that its tests can be found weeks later, it varies from person to person

Triticum Guzzler
Jun 16, 2002
dr. scott sounds like a fuckin moron

Lid
Feb 18, 2005

And the mercy seat is awaiting,
And I think my head is burning,
And in a way I'm yearning,
To be done with all this measuring of proof.
An eye for an eye
And a tooth for a tooth,
And anyway I told the truth,
And I'm not afraid to die.

Triticum Guzzler posted:

dr. scott sounds like a fuckin moron

dr scott sounds like he was bribed and may in fact be donald trump's doctor

"my report, based on educated guesses, is that Jon Jones wasn't in the country when this test was administerred and was in fact his mexican exuivalent Juan Juanez."

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


now with professional animation
Donald Trump? That guy is bad!

Bluedeanie
Jul 20, 2008

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



Is his lawyer trying to get a doc to say it looks like Jones took a supplement on accident based on his blood work?

Lid
Feb 18, 2005

And the mercy seat is awaiting,
And I think my head is burning,
And in a way I'm yearning,
To be done with all this measuring of proof.
An eye for an eye
And a tooth for a tooth,
And anyway I told the truth,
And I'm not afraid to die.

Bluedeanie posted:

Is his lawyer trying to get a doc to say it looks like Jones took a supplement on accident based on his blood work?

Yes, they're trying to say the "amount" was too low to have been for actual performance enhancing so it can't have been "on purpose" as if he was "on purpose" doping the amount would be higher.

This doctor is not biting.

Soothing Vapors
Mar 26, 2006

Associate Justice Lena "Kegels" Dunham: An uncool thought to have: 'is that guy walking in the dark behind me a rapist? Never mind, he's Asian.
this doctor is a good witness

Triticum Guzzler
Jun 16, 2002
i'm sorry dr. scott. you seem reasonable.

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Lid
Feb 18, 2005

And the mercy seat is awaiting,
And I think my head is burning,
And in a way I'm yearning,
To be done with all this measuring of proof.
An eye for an eye
And a tooth for a tooth,
And anyway I told the truth,
And I'm not afraid to die.

Triticum Guzzler posted:

i'm sorry dr. scott. you seem reasonable.

he was reasonable enough to straight up admit "my final conclusion on the report is entirely predicated on my assumptions being correct, which are just assumptions" which he may be reasonable but admitting the report isn't really worth much

edit: also emntioning australian rugby, yeah drug testing here is bullshit so

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