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Barao is the evolved form of Tibau.
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of course its an overstatement to say hed be poo poo but I was comparing him to tim sylvia and poo poo came to mind
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Jan 28, 2018 00:31
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I would say Barão was never that bad but his post bathtub career hasn’t proven otherwise. He’s a hardheaded dude who hits hard and is good on the counter and impossible to take down, which is probably good for top 15 at 145
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Jan 28, 2018 05:37
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Tezcatlipoca posted:This is a spectrum. Every dude around UFC level is going to have some type of athletic and skill advantage over average people. But McKenzie compared to the top 25 of whichever division he is giving blood for this time is at an extreme athletic disadvantage. Prime example is Mendes blasting a hole through his guts. Cody McKenzie: Marc Stevens is probably better than me too. Probably has better cardio. Probably hits harder. Better scrambles, better overhand right, better wrestling, better stall tactics. Nam Phan: OK, so all that said, what do you bring to the table? Cody McKenzie: I'm gonna win.
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Jan 28, 2018 07:21
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You can’t post that without the companion video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1M80HqjHvV0
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Jan 28, 2018 07:46
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Mr. Nice! posted:You can’t post that without the companion video. On the short list for the best in-cage TUF moment.
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Jan 28, 2018 15:34
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I am sad that Nam Phan was pretty crappy. He is a cool dude.
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Jan 30, 2018 01:09
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Fat Twitter Man posted:I would say Barão was never that bad but his post bathtub career hasn’t proven otherwise. He’s a hardheaded dude who hits hard and is good on the counter and impossible to take down, which is probably good for top 15 at 145 Barao was always really good at range with a jab, leg kicks and excellent take down defense. When someone could slip and get inside he'd get really wild - wouldnt roll his shoulders or reset his hands etc. Tj exploited the gently caress out of that. His downfall was kind of two fold in that he was struggling to stay at 135 and the cut was becoming dangerous and his chin started to go around the same time. He has good outside skills but when they would fail him in those few instances at the mid point of his career he could bite down and trade and come out ahead. When he lost the latter ability he started his backslide really quickly. Having said that his losses came against dillashaw, Stephens and sterling which is a pretty good group. The sterling one was a bit weird but he got the poo poo kicked out of him in the 2nd after sterling bumrushed him with punches, clipped him and landed a takedown.
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Jan 31, 2018 03:15
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I don't think I've ever seen someone use a cross guard with their lead hand above their rear hand before like Romero and I wonder if anyone here has and knows why he does that
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Feb 15, 2018 07:38
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vainman posted:I don't think I've ever seen someone use a cross guard with their lead hand above their rear hand before like Romero and I wonder if anyone here has and knows why he does that My guess is that it starts with his relatively narrow stance and lack of upper body movement on defense. Romero is committing to blocking the cross at the expense of missing some jabs. It's crazy to see him use strength to stop a full power cross by meeting it with his forearm. When Rockhold tripled up the jab, it slipped under the quadrant covered by Romero's right forearm. Romero's not great at answering back right away, so he doesn't suffer the drawback of using the lead arm to block and having it out of timing for an answer. Similarly, he's not taking care to set up any immediate counter crosses or uppercuts, so the low rear arm across the body isn't a detriment.
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Feb 15, 2018 17:02
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Probably a better place for this question, but I want to ditch cable but I still use it to watch fight night on fox sports 1. Does anybody use the fox sports app to watch fight night? Can you watch it live? Do you still need a Cable provider to use the app like HBO go?
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Feb 23, 2018 19:20
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I tried the fox sports app. When it functions as advertised, yes you can watch live events so long as a friend who subscribes to a participating cable package with fs1 is willing to let you mooch their info, but it was an extremely lovely and unreliable app to the point of being unusable the majority of the time.
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Feb 23, 2018 19:32
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The UFC should really just make most non main card PPV fights free, and live. The free facebook fights back in the day were a nice addition. Since the number of events went up my viewership has gone down. If I could watch poo poo free then at least I'd know when the next PPV was: right now I don't get any UFC advertising and honestly it kinda sucks.
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Feb 23, 2018 19:57
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Count Roland posted:The UFC should really just make most non main card PPV fights free, and live. That would go against the hundreds of millions of dollars they are going to get on their TV contract. Barely anyone watched the facebook fights, more people watch them on Fight Pass which is a pay service.
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Feb 23, 2018 20:19
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Adalaide Byrd: bought-and-paid-for, or just a tenured idiot?
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Mar 5, 2018 08:56
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i like to think that when an organization allows someone to obtain a literally unassailable position it induces a certain type of resentment and loathing because you cannot respect the fact that you cannot be fired. so out of morbid curiosity you keep pushing. and pushing. and pushing. but the more you get away with, the larger your loathing grows, until you are eventually given a few weeks paid holiday for turning in one of the most egregious cards in boxing history.
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Mar 5, 2018 09:13
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Memento posted:Adalaide Byrd: bought-and-paid-for, or just a tenured idiot? in mma, just an example of the incestuous nepotism, incompetence, and consistent wilful inaction of the nsac. in boxing, 100% on the take.
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Mar 5, 2018 11:35
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You could see her cageside on about half the fights this last weekend and she at least looked like she was paying attention.
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Has she been confirmed for the Canelo GGG rematch?
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Speaking of attributes, what’s the deal with heavyweights like Fedor who seemed to move impossibly fast for their size? Do you think that’s a trainable attribute or can it only be granted by the direct blessing of Zeus?
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Mar 21, 2018 04:17
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Fedor doesn’t move impossibly fast and never has. Brock lesnar moves impossibly fast for a man that size. The reason is steroids.
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Mar 21, 2018 06:22
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There's a wide spread of speed in MMA because there's so many ways to victory other than being faster than your opponent. I'm sure lots of people could be faster if they trained much more for it. On the other hand, there's undeniably a genetic factor to speed. None of the twigs who run 10ks and marathons in the Olympics will ever line up in a 100m heat, no matter how hard they train sprints.
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02-6611-0142-1 posted:Speaking of attributes, what’s the deal with heavyweights like Fedor who seemed to move impossibly fast for their size? Do you think that’s a trainable attribute or can it only be granted by the direct blessing of Zeus? Fedor was relatively fast for a HW because he wasn't that big. Guys of that weight are usually quicker than the guys who cut to 265 (like Lesnar). I can't think of many HWs known for their speed. Arlovski maybe? Randleman would fight at HW in pride and he was crazy fast, also due to steroids of course.
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Mar 21, 2018 19:04
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Fedor was a master of distance. He knew exactly when to jump in and throw his haymakers until someone died.
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Mar 21, 2018 23:56
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Fedor was a master of fighting cans in b league orgs and got destroyed the moment he started facing real heavyweights. This is a man that struggled to handle Brett the Tire Salesman Rogers.
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Mar 22, 2018 02:36
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Mr. Nice! posted:Fedor was a master of fighting cans in b league orgs and got destroyed the moment he started facing real heavyweights. This is a man that struggled to handle Brett the Tire Salesman Rogers. he was without a doubt the best hw in the world from 2002-2006 and probably could have had a good ufc run after that if not for his absurd contract demands. he had some bad habits and holes in his game even at his peak but it’s silly to act like he was always bad just because he was insanely overhyped while fighting mutants and tire salesmen for a few years. He was absolutely as good or better than guys like Mir or Couture.
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Mar 22, 2018 02:46
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fedor was too cowardly to fight josh barnett like 35 different times
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Mar 22, 2018 03:15
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LobsterMobster posted:fedor was too cowardly to fight josh barnett like 35 different times he agreed once, then Barnett failed a piss test and he ducked Vitor instead. I’m not saying Fedor didn’t piss away most of his legacy ducking everybody, just saying he wasn’t Always Bad. He was actually like Barão in a lot of ways. Extremely good at what he was good at, well-rounded, and able to avoid things he was bad at because of his exceptional physical attributes (also steroids, he was physically a completely different guy before and after his US run) But his attributes declined just a bit (also drug testing) and he got figured out and all of a sudden he went from being all time great to Always Bad
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Mar 22, 2018 03:52
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I would literally take prime Fedor in a bet over just about any other heavyweight in their prime. His ability to win fights was insane.
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Mar 22, 2018 04:25
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fedor was really good, his fights against nogueira showed his character well
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02-6611-0142-1 posted:Speaking of attributes, what’s the deal with heavyweights like Fedor who seemed to move impossibly fast for their size? Do you think that’s a trainable attribute or can it only be granted by the direct blessing of Zeus? it is a trainable attribute, put simply its the result of a lot of high intensity intervals, which are basically short explosive efforts done rapidly at an intensity that cant be maintained for more than a specific amount of time, 1 minute, 5 minutes, 15 minutes, even 45 etc. anyone can develop above average speed if they specifically focus on it, but if your work as an athlete doesnt require it either due to your style or your discipline within the sport you compete in then it doesnt make sense to devote a full program of training to it. fedor no doubt spent a lot of time on it since it suited him to do that
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I.N.R.I posted:it is a trainable attribute, put simply its the result of a lot of high intensity intervals, which are basically short explosive efforts done rapidly at an intensity that cant be maintained for more than a specific amount of time, 1 minute, 5 minutes, 15 minutes, even 45 etc. anyone can develop above average speed if they specifically focus on it, but if your work as an athlete doesnt require it either due to your style or your discipline within the sport you compete in then it doesnt make sense to devote a full program of training to it. fedor no doubt spent a lot of time on it since it suited him to do that Yeah, one of Fedor's coaches specifically trained to have explosive bursts for 10 or 30 seconds out of every minute (I forget which) and it served him well for the most part
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Captain Log posted:I would literally take prime Fedor in a bet over just about any other heavyweight in their prime. His ability to win fights was insane. I'd take Cain in a heartbeat.
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Mar 23, 2018 00:48
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It helped that Fedor was pretty tough, despite his tendency to bleed as soon as the wind hit him he had good recovery which helped against Crocop and others who were able to hurt him. Because of that he could come back quickly. Crocop was completely thrown out of rhythm after he got taken down. He could also catch them off guard with his bursts like with Rogers, Randleman and Arlovski. Fedor also knew how to fight cautiously against grapplers (except Werdum lol). The first Nog fight was an outlier for obvious reasons but it can be seen best in their third fight where he mostly nullified Nog's takedowns by sticking to the feet and threatening trips and throws of his own to finish exchanges. Even after the end of his relevance he was smart enough to not let even Jeff Monson get anywhere near him, so he circled around and threw leg kicks from way outside for the entire duration. Monson with his T-Rex arms had no chance of getting into grappling range at that distance.
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Mar 23, 2018 01:13
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MysteryNad posted:It helped that Fedor was pretty tough, despite his tendency to bleed as soon as the wind hit him he had good recovery which helped against Crocop and others who were able to hurt him. Because of that he could come back quickly. Crocop was completely thrown out of rhythm after he got taken down. He could also catch them off guard with his bursts like with Rogers, Randleman and Arlovski. I'd hope he'd be able to mostly nullify the takedowns of a guy who was in absolutely no condition to be fighting.
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Mar 23, 2018 04:19
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Prime Cain v Prime Fedor in the clinch would have been pretty amazing to watch imo.
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Mar 24, 2018 00:26
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I checked the tea leaves and old hindsight says Cain eats too many shots and prime Fedor was literally impossible to kill. The thought of that match gives me a chub.
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Mar 24, 2018 00:39
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Fedor would have been blown out of the water on pace alone.
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There are so many fights I would have loved to see Fedor in. I guess we’re getting Mir vs Fedor even if it is 15 years late. Couture and Barnett are the top of my wishlist for guys he should have fought but never did.
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