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Sean McCorkle called me gay looking on Twitter.
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Jun 21, 2018 18:01
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Grandpa Simpson: Dear Mr. President. There are too many weight classes nowadays. Please eliminate three. I am -not- a crackpot.
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Jun 21, 2018 18:09
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Josh Barnett is negotiating his UFC release. Sad to see him go but eh it’s clearly over. I’m not sure where he would fit in the HW division at this point anyway. https://www.mmafighting.com/2018/6/...-usada-mistrust
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Jun 21, 2018 18:26
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Regarding buyrates, I've become very skeptical that anything other than the top 1-2 fights actually matters, and I think UFC feels the same way. Why put Cerrone in the 3rd or 4th fight of a card if it won't add more than a few thousand buys, when he can be a TV main event that fills an arena and draws a couple million viewers? Why try to load up a card to bolster a weak main event if that only increases the buyrate from 140k to 145k? Etc. Fans who make the biggest shows blockbusters ignore the small shows entirely, and thus burnout isn't really a factor. I do think that 8-10 PPVs a year would make a lot more sense, since the company just doesn't have enough people who draw 300k to warrant 12. Fewer PPVs, most with multiple title fights would make the company less vulnerable to having events sunk by single injuries.
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Jun 21, 2018 18:28
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I’ve basically stopped watching the full main cards now since I don’t recognize the names and there’s too many events
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Jun 21, 2018 19:09
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Skip My Posts posted:I think the top level is better than ever but there’s too many fights probably I think the skill of the top level of fighters is better than ever but also that the ufc has a hard time compelling good fighters to fight frequently or in compelling matchups.
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Jun 21, 2018 19:11
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Feels like Dana letting Conor do whatever set a snowball going that hosed up basically everything.
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Jun 21, 2018 19:16
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Seems clear now the interim title fights are a tool to control the champs and force them into the matchup the ufc wants
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Jun 21, 2018 19:36
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david carmichael posted:I think the skill of the top level of fighters is better than ever but also that the ufc has a hard time compelling good fighters to fight frequently or in compelling matchups. I agree and I think that’s a cause of the constant interim poo poo
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Jun 21, 2018 19:37
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Skip My Posts posted:Seems clear now the interim title fights are a tool to control the champs and force them into the matchup the ufc wants Even that’s not really working - Conor just kind of comes and goes as he pleases, losing his belts doesn’t matter. Or the utter failure of having Khabib/Tony happen. Or GSP stealing Michael Bisping’s heat and then running down to 155.
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Jun 21, 2018 20:17
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Fartbox posted:I want to love MMA as much as I did a few years ago but I just don't Max is a laser-fisted God of violence. Stipe dresses in hayseed clothes with his belly hanging out, then dominates men who look like they were grown in super-soldier vats. Cormier is the ultimate dad who loves his family and wrestlefucks dudes to death while knockout bombs bounce off his incredible skull. Khabib wrestles bears. I'm not sure what more you need. Edit: Conor's antics gave us "touch-bus in the parking lot." We're living in the golden age. Veni Vidi Ameche! fucked around with this message at 20:40 on Jun 21, 2018 |
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Jun 21, 2018 20:32
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david carmichael posted:I think the skill of the top level of fighters is better than ever but also that the ufc has a hard time compelling good fighters to fight frequently or in compelling matchups. it used to happen so regularly, someone posted a while back that the new owners don't have the same relationship with the fighters that joe silva and the fertittas did and i think that's true.
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Jun 21, 2018 20:32
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i started watching mma just before machida fought rashad and they had no problem booking that fight even though machida looked like the best fighter in history when he was on the rise.
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Jun 21, 2018 20:36
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I think also joe silva was very good at making interesting match ups based on styles, and not being like "stephen thompson knows all the karate kicks. He should main event cards" and so on
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david carmichael posted:I think also joe silva was very good at making interesting match ups based on styles, and not being like "stephen thompson knows all the karate kicks. He should main event cards" and so on He was also good at being a petty rear end in a top hat and booking indie darlings to get squashed by a wrestler, like when he booked Antonio McKee to debut against Jacob Volkmann. Joe Silva really loved the sport and the cards always felt more fun when he was around.
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Jun 21, 2018 20:52
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Another big obstacle to booking fun fights is signing too many bout agreements too far in advance. You create situations where good fighters who want to fight a lot cant get someone +/- 4 spots from them in the rankings, because everyone is booked for fight night: guam 9 months from now
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Jun 21, 2018 21:01
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david carmichael posted:I think also joe silva was very good at making interesting match ups based on styles, and not being like "stephen thompson knows all the karate kicks. He should main event cards" and so on They should use the Jon Fitch clause to expire wonderboy's contract
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Jun 21, 2018 21:02
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1st AD posted:Even that’s not really working - Conor just kind of comes and goes as he pleases, losing his belts doesn’t matter. Or the utter failure of having Khabib/Tony happen. Or GSP stealing Michael Bisping’s heat and then running down to 155. conor is gonna do whatever the gently caress he wants from now on so he doesnt even count lol
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Jun 21, 2018 21:37
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Guys I need you're honest opinions should I go with this:  Or with the black and white 
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Jun 21, 2018 22:20
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Matt Lindland posted:Guys I need you're honest opinions should I go with this: 2nd one makes you look much more respectable Matt Lindland the Ogre
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Jun 21, 2018 22:29
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second one all the way
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Jun 21, 2018 22:33
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look at how hard he's trying to look human in that fuckin picture
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Jun 21, 2018 22:33
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This december, Andersons leg break will have happened 5 years ago.... Da fuuck.
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Jun 21, 2018 22:34
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Black and White for sure
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Jun 21, 2018 22:35
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I'll probably go with the black and white cause I feel bad for whoever got it for me, I only had it for like four days.
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Jun 21, 2018 22:35
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1st AD posted:Even that’s not really working - Conor just kind of comes and goes as he pleases, losing his belts doesn’t matter. Or the utter failure of having Khabib/Tony happen. Or GSP stealing Michael Bisping’s heat and then running down to 155. It does work for most champions. If you are a PPV superstar then you dont need to care about the belt, youll get paid every time you fight. For everyone else, if they are not the champ, then its a big pay cut for them to lose the belt.
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Jun 21, 2018 22:50
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My name is Nyaaarrg and I am excited to be running for your governor. You know, many of today's youth can too easily kick their way out of the crude wooden and clay ovens employed by the landstriders, but with my infrastructure policies...
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Jun 22, 2018 00:13
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even when Matt wasn't bald, it looks like he was bald
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Jun 22, 2018 00:58
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Kilometers Davis posted:Josh Barnett is negotiating his UFC release. Sad to see him go but eh it’s clearly over. I’m not sure where he would fit in the HW division at this point anyway. followup on this, he's been let go.
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Josuke Higashikata posted:Feels like Dana letting Conor do whatever set a snowball going that hosed up basically everything. Called it, BOOSH. I think the many cards are fine as long as they have enough up and coming prospects to fill them, but it seems like attracting new talent (or building it up) is happening slower than it used to. I think the average quality fight is going up really quickly, but they're not telling people about it or getting people excited. I mean, when you've got a champion as awesome as Max Holloway and you're barely advertising a fight with someone as cool as Ortega...what the gently caress are you doing? 1st AD posted:He was also good at being a petty rear end in a top hat and booking indie darlings to get squashed by a wrestler, like when he booked Antonio McKee to debut against Jacob Volkmann. Joe Silva really loved the sport and the cards always felt more fun when he was around. His vindictiveness regarding Akiyama was something to behold. david carmichael posted:I think also joe silva was very good at making interesting match ups based on styles, and not being like "stephen thompson knows all the karate kicks. He should main event cards" and so on Joe Silva was a massive nerd and a really dedicated guy. The fact that he tracked Joanna down himself when she was on no one else's radar is a great example.
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Jun 22, 2018 01:18
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Silva was really, really good at his job.
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conor got bigger than the ufc and leveraged it. not a lot of other fighters are gonna have floyd mayweather on the other line
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It's definitely quantity over quality in fights right now and nobody I know locally has talked about MMA in months and it bums me out because this poo poo is fun to talk about with friends - but with the cards they're putting on and the shows they're making GBS threads out there just isn't anything to get hyped about. I mean you reading this and I both know that there are great fights out there but to the casual fan nothing exciting has been happening at all. Hoping to get some folks together for Stipe vs DC at least.
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I don't attribute my waning interest to any one thing. Joe Silva, the fertitas, all the fighters I used to think of as good are now gone or on their way out. The way we watch fights is different. The rules are changing. The scoring is changing. Herb Dean is now incompetent. The sport is now a real sport covered on normal people news sites. It's a different sport. Still a good one though.
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Jun 22, 2018 03:13
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In good news, apparently Greg Hardy still plays arena football and hosed up his knee http://www.espn.com/mma/story/_/id/23866129/former-nfler-turned-mma-fighter-greg-hardy-injures-knee-arena-football-game
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Marching Powder posted:The sport is now a real sport covered on normal people news sites. I saw a well-written, unbiased MMA article on the BBC of all places the other day. poo poo has indeed changed. woo apparently the forums are all sorts of loving broken but you can still edit old posts truly we live in a golden age of shitposting Memento fucked around with this message at 12:27 on Jun 22, 2018 |
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CommonShore posted:Fight on TUF was good.  Brad probably lost rds 2 and 3 if he didn't sink that RNC so it's good he did
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dARAN1z2KqY&t=2m48s Eminem referencing Anderson Silva's leg break, mma has truly become main stream.
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